This week we are looking at what we’ve been playing recently. There’s lots we play, read and watch that doesn’t need a full show and so we’ve gone through a few of the the things that we’ve been up to. The studio only fell down a little bit during the recording, so ignore any strange …
This week we are examining a film that managed to get very different responses from both of us, Le Quattro Volte. Can an Italian film about a goat herder that contains no dialog or, in fact, much of anything happening at all be a good film? Or is it just so much pretentious bollocks that people are …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Jan
23
2012
Fascinating academia here, complete with Diagrams! Raph Koster: Narrative in a game is not a mechanic In which the learned designer thouroughly dismantles what to me had always been a rather opaque medium and lays out the nuts and bolts for all to see. The big coloured shapes help and I think the gist of …
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Jan
23
2012
This week we are looking at what we’ve been playing recently. There’s lots we play, read and watch that doesn’t need a full show and so we’ve gone through a few of the the things that we’ve been up to. The studio only fell down a little bit during the recording, so ignore any strange …
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Jan
16
2012
This week we are examining a film that managed to get very different responses from both of us, Le Quattro Volte. Can an Italian film about a goat herder that contains no dialog or, in fact, much of anything happening at all be a good film? Or is it just so much pretentious bollocks that people are …
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Jan
13
2012
I’m very much an MMO tourist. I’ve usually been playing at least two of the things at any given point in the last decade or so and the explorer in me enjoys seeing entirely new games for their own sake. I’m looking forward to Star Trek Online’s upcoming F2P quite a bit, mostly for the …
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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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