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Writing on GamesCast Ep.56 - Hambo and the FleshBag Jul 28, 2017

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Your favourite morning radio duo is back to talk all the newest and hottest happenings in video games, such as 80s post-punk bands. Pyre, No Man's Sky, Splatoon 2 and Final Fantasy XV may also come up.

Writing on GamesCast Ep.55 - Phantom Thieves Reunited (Ft. Devin Hall) Jul 20, 2017

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This week we're delighted to welcome back Very Good Writer For Hire/Persona expert Devin Hall (hire him) for three hours of chat about games and what it's like to write about them. Did I mention you should get him to write for you? Good. Because you should.

4:10 - I'm kinda flabergasted at the level of support I've received in the last 24 hours and I want to genuinely thank you for it.

16:04 - Bioshock or do I mean BioSHLOCK no I mean Bioshock

26:22 - Nico FINALLY started playing Final Fantasy XV

1:02:16 - Playerunknown's Battlegrounds is a game you might have heard of and also we talk about some ban news and also team killing is really fun and I make myself sound like a psychopath

1:35:14 - Telltale is messing with us but hey, new season of Wolf Among Us so it's fine

1:51:54 - The Unity Discourse continues and will consume us all

2:09:27 - Talking about the stress of the Freelance Grind

2:21:52 - Checkin' in on Nico's Teeth and genuine progress on videos

2:25:57 - How YouTubers can absolutely fuck it and how weird a thing Patreon is

2:43:56 - EVO 2017 announcements and the show as a whole

3:06:57 - Atari is crowdfunding a new console I guess?

3:12:12 - Casey Hudson returns to Bioware

Follow Devin on Twitter and ask him about Persona 5/hire him to write for you: http://twitter.com/bboymaestro

Also, feel free to leave a review for the podcast on iTunes—it helps us a lot. Thanks for listening!

Writing on GamesCast Ep.54 - The Angry Scotsman Has Logged On Jul 14, 2017

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Despite Nico's continuing tooth woes and heat delirium, I think this may be our longest podcast yet. BUCKLE UP AND LET'S HAVE A WORD.

WHAT WE PLAYED

0:09:36 - Wrapping up Wolfenstein: The New Order and why sympathising with Nazis is a fucking bad look

0:43:10 - Tony Hawk's Pro Skater HD is one of the worst games we've ever played, but we also go on a REAL lengthy tangent about 90s New York noise rock, Jello Biafra and Wesley Willis

1:35:28 - Nico gives us his Final Fantasy XIV update, including Triple Triad being damn near incomprehensible

NEWS

2:01:56 - I guess we gotta talk about that Dunkey thing, huh?

2:25:25 - TEKKEN BOWL IS BACK BAYBEE!

2:37:32 - An analyst (ie. a Professional Guesser) says the next PlayStation will be out in 2019

2:49:08 - Mafia 3 continues to be a Bad Game

2:50:33 - PlayStation Home is back except not really at all!

2:56:17 - Playerunknown's Battlegrounds' full launch is being delayed

2:59:42 - Oculus is coming out with a standalone headset for $200 which seems like something they should have done a long time ago

3:04:18 - ARK Survival Evolved continues to be shady as hell by more than doubling its price

QUESTIONS

3:09:44 - What's the weirdest thing you saw/experienced at E3?

3:21:02 - Best/worst depiction of mental health in games?

3:36:04 - Favourite films of the year so far?

If you want your question answered, send them to @hamboblack or @nicobleackley on Twitter, or e-mail hamish@writingongames.co.uk!

Also, feel free to leave a review for the podcast on iTunes—it helps us a lot. Thanks for listening, and thanks for believing in me over the last two years. You're the best.

Writing on GamesCast Ep.53 - Saving Toys From Pornstar's Babies Jul 06, 2017

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Hamish is back into the delightful stress of having to write a whole bunch of things, Nico's got several root canals on the way, I'd say that's as good an excuse as any to talk about daft shite for three hours.

10:00 - Tekken Hybrid and why the Tekken movies are dumb

21:32 - Crash Bandicoot N.Sane Trilogy looks like a fucking Dreamworks movie but plays like Crash which I guess is... OK?

40:19 - Hamish beat Wolfenstein: The New Order which, in a word, is... dreamlike?

1:10:28 - Fallout 3 is not the game you remember it being

1:13:46 - Hamish played about 40 minutes of Final Fantasy XIV while Nico described it as one of his favourite games ever now

1:22:34 - As usual, we played some Tekken 7 because goddamn that game is good

1:24:21 - NEWS

1:25:30 - Overwatch has a new character and we're dreading the fan art

1:31:38 - PS Now adds a bunch of PS4 games that you'd be better off just buying outright

1:36:41 - I CAN'T BELIEVE SONY HAS PULLED BELOVED CLASSIC ***** 1000 TOP RATED FROM ITS STORE

1:40:21 - Shenmue 3 gets an updated logo and I update you on the fact that it's still going to be a bad video game

1:45:16 - We talk about the Jackass game... yet again? Who knows. Who even cares at this point.

1:51:17 - Just some... bad things happen. You don't want to know.

2:00:27 - Mass Effect Andromeda won't be getting single player DLC as if that surprises anyone

2:03:18 - Cuphead is coming to PC and Xbox One only, and the nature of Xbox exclusives

2:08:54 - Super Mario Odyssey doesn't have game over screens, apparently

2:11:06 - oh yeah Nico played Arms and apparently it's as forgettable as the way we slipped it in sounds

2:12:24 - QUESTIONS

2:12:52 - Are we starting now?

2:13:06 - Are bees a good pizza topping?

2:13:22 - What was your most disappointing release this year and why?

2:19:43 - If your channel gets more subscribers, could YouTube turn into a career for you?

2:27:53 - (misread the question) How did you find your critical voice?

2:30:16 - (read the question correctly) How did you find you literal voice?

2:34:50 - What did you buy in the Steam sale?

If you want your question answered, send them to @hamboblack or @nicobleackley on Twitter, or e-mail hamish@writingongames.co.uk!

Also, feel free to leave a review for the podcast on iTunes—it helps us a lot. Thanks for listening, and thanks for believing in me over the last two years. You're the best.

Writing on GamesCast Ep.52 - Writing on Games' Second Birthday, Baybee Jun 29, 2017

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Alternate title for this one was Viggo Mortensen Horse Movie. As the famous Thin Lizzy song goes, One Boy is Back in Town and One Boy Stayed in His Town. That is to say, things are beginning to resemble normalcy. Let's TALK.

GAMES

1:30 - Nico's teeth, Hamish's airport adventures and E3 recaps

47:20 - Wolfenstein: The New Order knows how to make killing nazis feel really, really good (also American voice actors putting on Scottish accents are baaad)

1:24:10 - Final Fantasy XIV and also every Final Fantasy game I guess

1:45:06 - hot new release for the GameBoy Colour, Metal Gear Solid: Ghost Babel

NEWS

2:00:00 - IO Interactive now get all the money from Hitman so WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR

2:05:55 - SHOCK AND SURPRISE that weird Project Rap Rabbit game didn't meet its wildly expensive Kickstarter target

2:12:30 - Star Citizen continues to be the weirdest fucking thing that you probably shouldn't pay for

2:18:12 - you can play DOOM II on the original floppy disks oh wait you can't even if you wanted to

2:22:59 - Nico reviews every game on the SNES Classic Mini

2:37:48 - you can now drive your car off-road in Final Fantasy XV even though you get a car that can literally fly at the end of that game

2:44:33 - GTAV mods are back if you care about that (I actually kinda do)

QUESTIONS

2:49:06 - Is being hyped for games healthy?

3:01:22 - Did you get any romantic attention because of your Scottish accent?

3:07:56 - Jackass: The Game and outro

If you want your question answered, send them to @hamboblack or @nicobleackley on Twitter, or e-mail hamish@writingongames.co.uk!

Also, feel free to leave a review for the podcast on iTunes—it helps us a lot. Thanks for listening, and thanks for believing in me over the last two years. You're the best.

Writing on GamesCast Ep.51 - We Have No E3 and We Must Scream Jun 17, 2017

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So our first E3 is done and it's been one hell of a week. Exhausting, infuriating, compelling, rewarding and everything in-between. Even with the bad (and there was quite a lot of bad) it's still been one of the best experiences ever and we have a lot of stories to tell you about everything, including the rage-inducing stuff. On top of that, it's fucking SO HOT in Nico's apartment which leads to some delirium and a whole bunch of hilarity. So sit back and prepare for three hours of PURE CONVENTION CHAT.

PRESS CONFERENCE DISCUSSION:

4:05 - PC Gaming Show

16:43 - EA

25:45 - Microsoft

43:30 - Bethesda

51:35 - Ubisoft

1:03:18 - Sony

1:14:58 - Nintnedo

OUR EXPERIENCE AT E3

1:23:40 - Press conference wrap-up/DAY ONE and GAMES

2:06:20 - DAY TWO and FREE FOOD AND BEER

2:32:10 - DAY THREE and THE GOOD DAY

Seriously, thank you so much to everyone who has listened to our podcast over the last year. You have kept us going and it's been an amazing ride so far. I also couldn't have covered this show without Nico helping me navigate LA and filming stuff for me. He is the fucking best dude ever.

Also, apologies for the dip in audio quality the past couple of weeks - we've been working with what we've got. Normal quality will resume next week!

Writing on GamesCast Ep.50 - We're in LA and Slightly Buzzed From 40s Jun 08, 2017

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(Twitch VODs of this podcast below, yeah we livestreamed it)

First off, apologies for the dip in audio quality. The audio is ripped from the livestream we did and edited very lightly - we had to move a lot of stuff around and experiment. Donkey Konga bongos were involved. This is because we're in THE SAME ROOM TOGETHER BECAUSE HAMISH IS IN LA. THE BIG BOY MADE IT. LET US REJOICE.

Hamish and Nico's escapades in LA so far with many, many big burgers
Drinking/getting buzzed off of 40s
Why Tekken 7 is the best in the main series since 3 and why the story is so dumb
Trackmania 2 Lagoon and going fast against the president again
E3 news I guess
Everything is now a movie and is being awarded as such
More E3 stuff
I apologise if there are any bits in the audio version that you don't get because they were jokes made in the video version

We'll figure this stuff out. Feels like a throwback to when we started the podcast about a year ago. Thanks for listening!

If you want to watch the VOD from this podcast, check out both parts here:

https://www.twitch.tv/videos/150258154

https://www.twitch.tv/videos/150278254

Writing on GamesCast Ep.49 - Hi I'm Nico Bleackley and Welcome to Writing Off Games Jun 01, 2017

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It's the last podcast before Hamish heads to the States! Let's celebrate by chatting shit about games for a while.

The Music Minute: Drunk Shaun Ryder and Why Post Rock Sucks
Nico finally beat Breath of the Wild
Hamish played Vanquish and has a lot to say about how context affects meaning
Half Life 2 Deathmatch is still early 2000's internet in a bottle
Playing American Truck Simulator like Burnout
That fucking woeful Far Cry 5 petition
E3 talk because it's fucking E3 in a couple of weeks
Kerbal Space Program is now going to be a GTA game
Square Enix are dumbos

If you want your question answered, send them to @hamboblack or @nicobleackley on Twitter, or e-mail hamish@writingongames.co.uk!

Also, feel free to leave a review for the podcast on iTunes—it helps us a lot. Thanks for listening!

Writing on GamesCast Ep.48 - Naruto: Shippuden (Glesga Edition) May 24, 2017

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It's the penultimate podcast before Hamish flies over to the States. He's also ad very little sleep. Let's chat.

TrackMania 2: Lagoon is fucking dope, because of course it's fucking dope
Yet more PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds talk, and things get dark when Hamish decides teammates are surplus to requirements
Nico legitimately can't beat Prey because it's broken
Overwatch skins I guess
Yeah, we're still real bummed about Hitman news
Far Cry 5 but the "sinner" actually says "dinner" and they're cannibals
Playstation Now hits 70 MILLION USERS! Except not really because headlines are bad
You won't play Red Dead Redemption 2 this year but if you expected to you're silly
Why Metal Gear Solid 2 is the best one and Nico is wrong

If you want your question answered, send them to @hamboblack or @nicobleackley on Twitter, or e-mail hamish@writingongames.co.uk!

Also, feel free to leave a review for the podcast on iTunes—it helps us a lot. Thanks for listening!

Writing on GamesCast Ep.47 - Far(ris) Cry's Day Off May 19, 2017

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Hamish is ill and not coping with it well. Nico is tired. Time for three-and-a-half hours of speaking.

Hamish's PC woes and how it resulted in him playing The Surge
Recapping the Metallica/Swizz Beats collaboration that you ABSOLUTELY MUST check out
Playerunknown's Battlegrounds recalibrates the way we view violence in games
Nico played Injustice 2 and Prey and he liked Injustice 2 and doesn't like Prey
E3 plans, baybee
The rocky future of Hitman, as well as too many new release announcements to possibly care about
More... Trackmania 2?
Exploring the relationship between developers and critics, or art and artist

If you want your question answered, send them to @hamboblack or @nicobleackley on Twitter, or e-mail hamish@writingongames.co.uk!

Also, feel free to leave a review for the podcast on iTunes—it helps us a lot. Thanks for listening!

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