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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Mark is joined by Nick and Chazzee to discuss some now comically outdated news, Chazzee’s fear of mascots, back pain, the World Series, and all of the games they’ve been playing over the past month.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.
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276 – Out Of Date
Join Mark, Nick, and Chazzee for an episode recorded two weeks ago as they talk about now very old news, argue about Blue Prince, wonder whether we needed an Oblivion remake, and talk about a bunch of other games.
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275 – LGR Hall of Fame episode 6 – Dishonored 2
It’s time to induct another game into the LGR Hall of Fame, so join Mark, Nick, and Chazzee as they embrace The Outsider, pull on their masks, and descend into the murky whalepunk world of Dishonored 2.
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274 – Shenwho?
Mark is joined by Nick, Chazzee, and Andy to discuss some video game news, including a lengthy discussion about the Switch 2 Nintendo Direct, what looks good about it, and how the game price might end up costing Nintendo, before running down all the games they’ve been playing recently.
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273 – Lara Croft: Tomb Raider 1 & 2
It’s time to look at another terrible video game movie adaptation, and in this episode we’re covering two for twice the misery. So join Mark, Nick, and Andy as they delve into the incredibly dated early 2000’s action schlock that is the Angelina Jolie Tomb Raider movies.
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272.5 – Monster Hunter Wilds Extrasode
Rather than bore you and everyone else on the team with an hour of rambling about the new Monster Hunter game, Mark and Chazzee recorded a bonus episode so you can skip it if you don’t care.
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272 – Wilhelm Scream
Sorry this one is so late, life got in the way. In this episode Mark is joined by Nick and Chazzee to discuss the finer details of flat pack furniture, talk about yet more layoffs and studio closures in the industry, and chat about all the games they’ve playing over the past few weeks.
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LGR Presents: Backlog Busting – Episode 1
In the first proper episode of Backlog Busting, Adam talks about all the weird and wonderful, books, tv shows, and of course video games, that he has been enjoying over the past month or so.
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271 – Bottleneck
Mark is joined by Nick and Chazzee to run down some video game news, discuss how live service games have rotted gamer brains, and complain about poorly optimised modern PC games, before running down all the games they’ve been playing over the last few weeks.
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270 – Great American Food
Severely delayed by technical issues, in this episode Mark is joined by Nick, Chazzee, and not Andy to discuss the Xbox Developer Direct, the Switch 2 reveal, spend a few brief moments eulogising the much maligned WiiU, and run down all the games they’ve been playing over the past month or so.
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269 – 2025 Preview
It’s time for the traditional new year preview episode, so join Mark, Nick, Chazzee, and Andy as they talk about all the games they are looking forward to in 2025, plus a little bit of chat about new hardware, potential industry upheaval, and some predictions for the year ahead. Note: this episode was recorded before…
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LGR Presents: Backlog Busting – Episode 0
It’s a new year and Adam is feeling guilty about his backlog, so to help him clear it (and because getting on regular podcast recordings is difficult) he’s going to catalog his quasi year of shame with a new solo show: Backlog Busting. In this special Episode 0 Adam explains the concept and the rules…
