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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.
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285 – Side Quest: Best Launch Lineup
We heard the internet loves tier lists, so we decided to get in on the action. Join Nick, Chazzee and Mark as they build a tier list of the best console launch lineups while doing a lot of reminiscing.
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284 – Checkpoint: Showdown
Worlds collide as Doug and Nick appear on an episode together! Join them and Mark as they talk a little about some very old news, Nick tortures the boys with a quiz, and they run down all the games they’ve been playing over the past month or so.
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283 – Side Quest: Video Game Music
Mark is joined by Nick and Chazzee for an extra special episode where they listen to, and talk about, some of their favourite pieces of video game music.
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282 – Checkpoint: Skunk
Nick is on holiday so Doug makes his annual appearance, joining Mark and Chazzee to discuss the fallout from the mass layoffs at Microsoft, how utterly useless Copilot is, some video game movie adaptation news, a brief review of the Switch 2, and of course all the games they’ve been playing recently.
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281 – Checkpoint: Wet Hot Gamer Summer
Mark is joined by Nick and Chazzee to talk about yet more layoffs in the video game industry, how hot weather just hits different in the UK, midge protection, and to run down all the video games they’ve been playing over the last month or so.
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280 – Checkpoint: Summer Game Fest 2025
Mark is joined by Chazzee and Nick to talk about all the games that were shown at the 2025 edition of Geoff Keighley’s video games circle jerk, plus the Playstation and Xbox showcases and some of the smaller ones.
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The Uneasy Comfort of Empty Houses
Exploring a haunting subgenre of narrative games where eerie empty houses, immersive sound design, and quiet tension tell unforgettable stories. Featuring Gone Home, Blue Prince, and more.
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279 – Checkpoint: In This Economy?!
Nick is joined by Chazzee and Andy to discuss the cancellation of the Black Panther game and further job losses at EA, critical reception of Elden Ring: Nightreign, and the rumoured Cyberpunk 2077 sequel, before running down all the games they’ve played recently.
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278 – Side Quest: Movie Tie-In Games
Mark, Nick, Chazzee, and Andy explore the world of video games released to coincide with movie releases – their history from the the 80’s through the golden age of the 90’s and into the doldrums of the 2000’s, why they aren’t made any more, and discuss our favourites.
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277 – Poly Gone
In this episode Mark and Chazzee sit down for a chat about the latest turmoil in the world of video game journalism, talk about Arc Raiders and the state of the extraction shooter genre as a whole, and discuss the surprise smash hit of the year – Clair Obscur: Expedition 33.
