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305 – Checkpoint: Press X to Doug
Mark and Chazzee are joined by the delightful Doug to talk about more upsetting Xbox news, Playstation trying to end physical media, the delights of camper vans, and all the games they’ve been playing recently.
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304 – Checkpoint: Option Paralysis
Mark is joined by Nick and Chazzee to talk about the shockwaves going though the video game world following the news of massive cutbacks at Xbox, and whether the gaming industry is entering another crash. Plus lots of talk about what they’ve been playing, including lots of Steam Next Fest demos.
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303 – Checkpoint: Summer Game Fest 2026
Mark is joined by Chazzee and Nick to discuss the all the games we saw at Summer Game Fest, Xbox Showcase, PC Gaming Show, and Nintendo Direct during the annual Jeff Fest.
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302 – Checkpoint: Scotland Forever
Mark is joined by Nick, Chazzee, and Andy to sift through everything we saw at the big Playstation State of Play, before digging into 007 First Light and everything else they’ve been playing recently.
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301 – Checkpoint: Bungo
Mark is joined by Nick, Chazzee, and Andy to discuss the end of Destiny 2 development and what it might mean for the future of Bungie, Ubisoft making horrible AI noises, more Warhammer stuff, and of course all the games they’ve been playing over the past few weeks.
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300 – Side Quest: GOTGOTY
It’s episode 300! Join Mark, Nick, Chazzee, and Andy as they mark the occassion by talking about the last decade in gaming, before pitting every GOTY winner from the last 10 years of LGR against each other. There can be only one.
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299 – Side Quest: A Minecraft Movie
Mark, Nick and Andy get together again to watch another terrible video game movie, and this time its the 2025 box office behemoth A Minecraft Movie.
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298 – Checkpoint: 21st Century Digital Boy
For the first time this year Andy joins Mark, Nick, and Chazzee, and he has new gaming hardware to talk about! The boys also discuss Easter traditions, Tim Sweeney still being a bellend, games that are announced too early, PvP market struggles, and of course all the games they’ve been playing.
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297.5 – Checkpoint: Italian Genesis Evangelion
Nick is back and joins Mark and Chazzee to talk about defunct music venues, the recent Xbox partner showcase, Epic Games layoffs, some other old news, and all the games they’ve been enjoying recently.
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297 – Checkpoint: Emergency Doug
Mark and Chazzee are joined by our friend and yours Doug to discuss Xbox’s “Project Helix”, layoffs at Battlefield Studios, Jeff Kaplan’s tell-all podcast appearance, and of course all the games we’ve been playing recently.
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296 – Side Quest: The Legend of Zelda Tier List
It’s the 40th anniversary of the Legend of Zelda franchise, and seeming as Nintendo are doing nothing to celebrate that milestone we decided to. So join Nick, Chazzee, and Mark as they go through the entire franchise and rank the games on a tier list.
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295.5 – Checkpoint: Tin Cup
Mark is joined by Nick and Chazzee to discuss regional chip shop cuisine, Upcoming Nintendo releases, more bad news about hardware shortages, and of course all the games they’ve been playing over the last month or so.
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295 – Checkpoint: Whelmed
Mark is joined by Nick and Chazzee to talk about some video game news, rant again about how much Tim Sweeney sucks, discuss the Xbox Developer Direct, and all the games they’ve played over the last month or so.
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294 – Checkpoint: Two Tomb Raiders, Jeremy?
Mark is joined by Nick and Chazzee to look back on our 2025 predictions, make some new ones for 2026, and preview all the games we’re looking forward to this year.
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Nick’s Top 10 Games Played in 2025
2025 was a rocky year for the games industry. Major publishers and studios continued to shrink or restructure, and layoffs rippled through both small and large development teams. At the same time, Generative AI has emerged from being a novelty chatbot, and has now become a central talking point pretty much everywhere. This has already…
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Mark’s Top 10 Games Played in 2025
The last few years the video game industry has been in somewhat of a crisis – mass layoffs, studio closures, cancelled games – and that continued this past year with yet more layoffs, union busting, and generative AI in game development. If that wasn’t enough then one of the biggest publishers in the industry is…
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293 – Side Quest: Games of the Year, Part 2
It’s time to conclude the annual LGR “best games we played this year that might have come out this year but not necessarily because we have jobs and lives and kids and can’t keep up with all the newest games extravaganza 2025”. In this episode the boys run down their honourable and dishonourable mentions, before…
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292 – Side Quest: Games of the Year, Part 1
The boys are here for their annual “best games we played this year that didn’t necessarily come out this year but most of them did except for Andy who doesn’t play games newer than 2005 extravaganza part 1”. In this first part we run down our 5th, 4th, and 3rd favourite games that we played…
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291 – Checkpoint: Brass Monkey
Mark is joined by Nick and Chazzee to talk about Tim Sweeney’s latest crashout, the weird story around Horses being blocked from Steam, JRPG 3.0, Battlefield sales figures, and of course all the games they’ve been playing recently.
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290 – Side Quest: WW2 Video Games
To mark 80 years since the end of the end of World War 2, Mark is joined by Nick, Chazzee, and Andy to talk about the history of its depiction in video games.
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289.5 – Checkpoint: The Game Awards Predictions
In this bonus extrasode Mark and Nick get together to talk about the nominations for all the categories in this year’s Game Awards, pick their preferred winners, and predict who will win.
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289 – Checkpoint: Masklophobia
Mark is joined by Nick and Chazzee to discuss some now comically outdated news, Chazzee’s fear of mascots, back pain, the World Series, and all of the games they’ve been playing over the past month.
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288 – Checkpoint: All My Homies Hate Quantic Dream
Quiet one this week, Mark and Chazzee get together to further discuss the EA buyout and union pushback against it, the latest David Cage bowel movement, a whole bunch of other news, and all the games they’ve been playing recently.
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287 – Checkpoint: The Customer Is Always F*cked
Nick is joined by Andy and Chazzee to talk about EA being bought by the worst people on the planet and the implications for their IP, the Game Pass price increases and the future of Xbox, all the new game releases, and run down all the games they’ve been playing recently.
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286 – Checkpoint: Pit Beef
Mark is joined by Nick and Chazzee to laugh at Randy Pitchford, moan about the state of video game optimisation, ruminate on the nature of mosh pits, talk about upcoming Nintendo releases, and run down all the games they’ve been playing over the last few weeks.
