As a wise man once sang, it’s Christmas! Nearly! So with the spirit of the season at the forefront of our minds, we decided to play a low-impact after-dinner party game. You decide whether this was the worst decision of 2018 or not. Apologies to Nicholas Parsons.

Join deKay, Zo, Luffer, Kendrick and Choobs as they also rummage through some gaming news, chat about That Sonic The Hedgehog Poster, Soulja Boy, and a bit of these here games:

• Phantasy Star
• Xenoblade Chronicles 2
• House of the Dead Scarlet Dawn
• FIFA 19
• Super Smash Bros
• Spider Hyphen Man
• Outer Worlds

And also answer some of your actual questions. Or at least try to, anyway.

(Direct link here)

As a tribute to Zo and his favourite band, this episode is brought to you through the cold November rain. Which doesn’t mean Episode 17 is a bit soggy.

This time round, Toby once more is the only one interested in VR, Kendrick is the only one interested in obscure Japanese RPGs, deKay is the only one playing a game for children, and Zo is the only one playing an actual properly new modern game. It’s a wonder we have anything common, frankly.

We also talk about Xbox voice control, the fallout from Fallout 76, the death of the Steam Link, tariffs on US cars (no, really), the ZX Vega+ (hurrah!) and all these games:

• SuperHot VR
• Yoku’s Island Express
• Red Dead Redemption 2
• FIFA 19
• Doshin the Giant
• Save Me Mr Tako
• Pokémon Let’s Go, Eevee!
• Culdcept Revolt
• Kromaia Omega
• Crazy Taxi

And very much more, including some listener questions, Brexit (Kendrick’s fault, sorry, he’s fired), Holly Valance and other nonsense. I mean, enlightened intelligent conversation.

(Direct link here)

It’s time once more to cuddle up with a loved one, dim the lights, and listen to the latest episode of your favourite podcast! And when you’ve done that, listen to episode 16 of ours. Please.

In this episode, Choobs does one of the Big Swears and deKay couldn’t find it in the edit so if you have young ears in the room we apologise. Choobs is a trained grownup so please don’t try it at home, kids. Choobs is also, in his own words, a “pansy foo-foo”, Kendrick is playing the inferior version of a game because reasons, Zo is glad winter is over and deKay is fed up with game bugs now.

We also talk about the end of Telltale, happenings at Rockstar, Sean Actual Bean, and all these games:

• Etrian Odyssey Nexus
• Trails of Cold Steel
• Omega Vampire
• Elite Dangerous
• No Man’s Sky
• Pan-Pan
• Donut County
• Yakuza 3
• LittleBigPlanet
• Asura’s Wrath
• Forza Horizon 4
• Shenmue 1&2
• Life is Strange 2
• Monster Hunter Generations Ultimate
• Garage
• Octopath Traveller

And! If that wasn’t enough we have some listener questions including one about Brexit so sorry, so very very sorry. That might also be where the Choobs Big Swear is too. Sorry. We’re really sorry.

(Direct link here)

Links to things we mentioned:

Games4EU

GameSX

A special episode recorded at EGX 2018. deKay, Zo, Luffer, Toby, Jaimie and Jon sit around a microphone in what turned out not to be the quietest part of the Birmingham NEC to chat about All The Games at EGX.

No big list of games or listener questions this episode – just lots of chat about everything we saw and played! Please note that as this was recorded in the NEC concourse, there’s plenty of “ambience” normally absent from our episodes.

(Direct link here)

Thanks to Zo for recording on the day and twiddling some knobs to get it listen-to-able.

Just in time to finish recording immediately before the Nintendo Direct so we couldn’t cover it, here’s Episode 14. Like the secret of comedy, it’s all about timing. Note: there may be no comedy.

In this episode, deKay finds some sailors, Choobs is waiting for a leopard, Luffer is suffering from animal magnetism, and Kendrick talks a lot about some game nobody else has heard of or cares about.

Despite missing the Direct, there’s some predictions and early announcement chat, we mention the Game Maker’s Toolkit Jam, news about the Neo Geo Mini and reimagined Atari VCS, Persona 3 and 5 spinoffs, and all of these games:

• Judge Eyes/Project Judge
• Diablo III
• Civilisation VI
• Atelier Arland
• Yakuza Kiwami 2
• Fist of the North Star: Lost Paradise
• Shenmue
• No Man’s Sky
• Hollow Knight
• Two Point Hospital
• Turing Test
• Golf Story
• Disc Drivin’ 2
• Monster Hunter Generations Ultimate
• Divinity: Original Sin II

And wouldn’t you know, some listener questions too. Lovely.

(Direct link here)

Links to things we mentioned:

Game Jam (and the other games from the same jam)

Encased

GameSX