Well hello there 2021 fans! Episode 44 is here to blow away those January blues. Or provide more of them.

In this episode, deKay, Kendrick, Luffer and Toby have some Big Talks about the general lack of consoles on store shelves, Steve Jackson’s (no, not that one) plans for new old games, and probably the most important console release of 2020 (and actually available to buy), the Evercade. A lot about the Evercade. In fact, if you don’t want to hear about the Evercade then boy is this episode not for you. But there is other stuff, like the Analogue Mega Sg, and All These Games:

• Yakuza Kiwami
• Yakuza Like a Dragon
• Among Us
• Picross Luna 2
• Pixel Puzzle
• Destiny 2
• Half Life Alyx
• Monster Hunter Rise
• Deadly Premonition 2
• Animal Crossing
• Shantae and the Seven Sirens
• Syberia

Deviations come in the form of general Wayforward chat, whether China still has an emperor or not, and how to fix your broken sticks of RAM in an oven. No, really. Oh, and the lady who did the singings on River City Girls was very talented Megan McDuffee – deKay forgot it in the moment.

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Music attribution: Intro is Rise and Shine Shantae – listen to the whole (very good!) album on Spotify.

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As it’s Actual Christmas, we decided to give you a special Christmas episode of the podcast. We’re so very, very sorry.

In Episode 43, deKay, Kendrick, Luffer and James not only talk about some recent gaming news like CD Projekt Red and the 32Blit handheld, but they also play An Actual Game in the form of a quiz devised by Luffer which we’re definitely not calling Luffer’s Bluffers. It’s an utter shambles, rather like that time your dad forgot to turn the oven on and the turkey didn’t get eaten until 3am on Boxing Day. As well as that aural horrorshow, we delight you with Game Chat about these things:

• Yakuza Like A Dragon
• Garou Mark of the Wolves
• Horace
• Trails of Mana
• Puyo Puyo Tetris 2
• Astro’s Playroom

And deKay goes into far too much detail about the PS5 controller and not-reviews the console itself. Just in case Christmas wasn’t ruined enough already. Please tell your friends about us. We’ve been good this year.

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Music attribution: Happy Happy Game Show Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 Licensehttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

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Don’t let the title of this episode fool you – we’re all about the New Exciting Gaming Devices. All three of them! Yes, three. Count them if you don’t believe us.

In Episode 42, deKay, Zo, Kendrick and Niaz completely fail to discuss Life, the Universe and Everything despite all being massive nerds, but instead talk all about the Xbox Series X and PlayStation 5 – the hardware, the news, the difficulty in finding one, and oh yeah, the games and why playing Geometry Wars and Sonic Adventure is The Thing To Do on the world’s most powerful games console. There’s some other bits of news too but honestly, it’s mostly that. They did talk games though! These ones:

• Yakuza Like a Dragon
• Panzer Dragoon
• Animal Crossing
• HYRULE WARRIORS: Age of Calamity
• Astro’s Playroom
• Assassin’s Creed Valhalla
• FIFA 21
• The Walking Dead (S1-3)
• Tetris Effect
• Geometry Wars
• Marvel Spider-Man Miles Morales
• Ghost of Tsushima
• Need for Speed Payback
• Bugsnax

All bolstered with devations and asides and questions. So much, in fact, there’s a change from the 90 minute run time advertised in some listings.

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With more than three years of episodes in the bag, you’d have thought we’d have said all of the words about games by now, but apparently not as here is Episode 41 to prove it.

This time round, deKay (who is suffering from Man Flu or something, so please excuse his unusual voice), Jaimie, Toby and Luffer throw words about on subjects like the PS5 teardown and digital game transfers, Oculus and Facebook and how Bad Things Happen should you try to separate the two, and The State of Stadia. And some games, because that’s the point of the podcast, I suppose:

• Star Wars TM Squadrons EA TM
• Among Us
• Animal Crossing
• Super Mario Sunshine
• Super Mario Galaxy
• Spider Solitaire
• Genshin Impact
• Beat Saber
• Divinity Original Sin 2

Plus some other things as we get sidetracked as usual. And Listener Questions, of course. It’s a good episode, Brent.

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Or Phoebe Waller-Bridge for that matter. But what this episode does have, is Graham Goring from off of making games and the long-missed Pig Ignorant Indie Gamers podcast. Since they never reached Episode 40, we thought he could share ours. It’s up to you to decide if that was wise.

This episode, deKay, Graham, and semi-regulars Toby, Kendrick and Luffer chat about recent PlayStation 5 reveal news, Microsoft tipping their pennies on the table at yet another load of game developers, Amazon’s attempt to better Google Stadia, the woes of pre-ordering hardware, actually pre-ordering hardware, pre-ordering new Nvidia 3000-series graphics cards, Apple’s App Store Rules, Harry Potter and the Boycott of His Game, and Yakuza. Yakuza the film, rather than the game though. Although probably the game too. Also! These games!

• Animal Crossing
• Lego DC Super-Villains
• Lego The Incredibles
• Super Mario 64
• Super Mario Sunshine
• Shadow of War
• Spelunky 2
• RPG maker MV
• Trials of Mana
• PC Engine Mini
• Retron HD (those two aren’t games! Ed.)
• Hitman
• Hitman 2: Hitman Harder
• Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice VR

Plus all the standard deviations and world beating waffle. Why not listen, eh? You might like it.

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