Saturday (tomorrow, or in the past depending on when you read this) We will have been at this podcasting lark for four years, and it’s time for a change. Quite early on we joined Virgin Worlds and when that died we found ourselves looking for a new home that would fit what we do, but …
This week we are looking at the game that was for a while the official sequel to TRON. Achieving the official “Has Bruce Boxleitner in it” seal of approval the game sees you returning into the computer in order to throw Frisbees, drive lightcycles and generally TRON it up.
What happens if you reboot a reboot for a film series? Do you get something that corrects the mistakes of the past and is great, or do you keep making the same mistakes? This week we’re looking at Rise of the Planet of the Apes. Is it better than the Tim Burton remake? Can intelligent …
We’re back with another show covering what we’ve been playing, so join us for some Star Trek Online, Guildwars, Saints Row 3 and some board games involving trains and random fantasy races. Not at the same time of course, that would be silly.
This week we are examining a book, and not just any book as it’s written by Hugo winning author Greg Bear. We are both massive fans of his earlier works so surely we will both like a more recent book? There’s one tiny flaw, and that’s the fact that this book is a Halo tie …
Jan 10 2012
We start the new year with what we are calling the start of a new season of the podcast. This week, in a special longer episode (why not call our inability to stop talking a deliberate feature?) we run through all of the games that Jon played in 2011, starting with some mobile phone games …
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Jan 07 2012
New only to myself is World of Warcraft’s Random Dungeon Finder tool, which I’ve been having a bit of an education in over recent weeks. It seems one of those ideas which is great on paper, but sure enough after an initially unnoteworthy first few goes, I ended up in a group with The Statistician. …
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Jan 06 2012
I cracked and had a play of that SWTOR thing that everybody is on about and I’ve struggled to write down my thoughts so far, but I think I can sum it up with the following: It has the great graphics, good combat and great polish. Probably best in class for all of them in …
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Dec 16 2011
After a week long break from playing any games at all (more on that later) I decided to jump back in and give a couple a go last night. This was mostly caused by Egosoft releasing the latest X expansion, which bridges X3 to the new game that is due out next year and so …
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Dec 08 2011
As predicted, it took about four sessions to hit the World of Warcraft Starter Edition level cap of 20, and already I’m settling into a bizarre kind of pseudo-endgame mindset where levels, xp and cash no longer matter. I spend my time exploring, fishing, dabbling in trade skills and often just doing quests for the …
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Dec 07 2011
Who says I’m obsessed with games, I’ve only played three in the last week. What’s more two of those are on PC, which is a little unusual for me but it just reminds me that my PC is on its last legs and needs replacing. Star Trek Online Season 5 for STO launched and I …
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Dec 05 2011
This time we are looking at another film, Life In A Day. This documentary is made from YouTube footage and tells the story of a day on earth through the eyes of people who have uploaded snippets of their day onto the Internet. It sounds like pretentious bollocks, but does the film actually manage to …
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Dec 01 2011
Because there’s nothing I enjoy more than the prospect of giant anthropomorphic martial arts pandas, I’m now back in World of Warcraft, bringing to an end in one moment of mild ennui, the abstinence of five years. At first I was full of self-loathing about falling off the wagon and abandoning my long held principles, …
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Nov 29 2011
This time we are looking back at the birth of a genre, with what is considered by many to be the first of the proper RTS games: Dune 2. One of the often overlooked foundations of modern gaming, from these humble origins a whole genre would form, and without Westwood’s seminal early masterpiece, there would …
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Nov 28 2011
A slow week this time with only a few hours spent playing games. So slow in fact I even tidied up the studio instead of playing, and that’s saying something. Assassin’s Creed: Revelations It turns out I was only two hours from the end of this so I pushed through and completed it, then I …
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