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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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…

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…

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 2024”. In this episode Andy, Chazzee, Mark, and Nick run down their honourable and…

The boys are here for their annual “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 2024 part 1”. In this episode we are joined by Adam in person for…

It’s our last regular episode of the year before GOTY deliberations, so join Mark, Chazzee, and Nick as they discuss the legacy of the Game Awards and predict who they think will win the big categories, before running down all the games they’ve been playing over the last few weeks, and laughing at some losers…

In the latest episode Nick is joined by Mark and Chazzee to talk about sick kids, video game worker unionisation, culture war bullsh*t, PS5 Pro sales, and of course all the games they’ve been playing over the last few weeks, plus Nick has a fiendish quiz.

After finally breaking free from editing limbo, the latest episode finds Nick, Chazzee, and Mark as they discuss residential fireworks displays, Halloween costume angst, preferential parking, a whole host of now very outdated news, and of course all the games they’ve been playing over the last month or so.

Nick is joined by Chazzee and Mark to discuss kerbside car maintenance, Nintendo’s very belated legal action against Palworld, the PS5 Pro announcement, chaos at Annapurna, and a bumper list of games that we’ve been playing over the last few weeks.

Nick is joined by Andy, Chazzee, and Mark to discuss the short and miserable life of Concord, more layoffs in the game industry, the end of Brat Summer, unlikely football results, Andy finally joining the current gen (sort of), and of course all the usual chat about what we’ve been playing over the last few…

In this severely delayed episode, Mark is joined by Nick and Chazzee to discuss everything we saw at Gamescom 2024, laugh at how bad the Borderlands movie has gone down, tell Pete Parsons to go f**k himself, and of course run down all the games they’ve been playing over the last few weeks, included an…

It’s taken us a long time, but the boys finally sit down to talk about the movie that started it all, the first video game adaptation to hit the big screen – 1993’s Super Mario Bros. So join Mark, Nick, and Andy as they delve into a film so bad the lead actors spent the…

In the latest episode Mark is joined by Nick and Chazzee to talk about backpacks, water bottles, Scottish roads, the video game voice actors strike, Blizzard devs unionising, and all the games they’ve been playing over the last few weeks.

Mark is back from holiday and is joined by Chazzee and returning guest Doug to discuss ice hockey, football, elections, Game Pass, and much much more, as well as all the games we’ve been enjoying over the last few weeks.

In the latest episode Nick is joined by Chazzee and Andy to get unreasonably excited about the upcoming new Assetto Corsa, to talk about the latest in a long line of Dr Disrespect controversies, complain about yet more pointless remasters, and of course to run down all the games they’ve been playing recently.

Mark, Nick, and Chazzee are here to run down all the games they saw at the various not-E3 press conferences, and the great and good of upcoming indie titles showcased in the Steam Next Fest, plus Nick lets us know what mystery game he’s been playing and Mark reveals if the final Destiny expansion is…

Mark and Nick are joined by our good friend Doug to talk about season 1 of the Amazon Prime Video adaptation of the Fallout games, dig into the franchise in general, and talk about other potential prestige adaptations, and rag on Todd Howard a bit.

Mark is joined by Nick and Andy to talk about TV presenter meltdowns, shitty British summers, rooms only posh people have in their houses, and of course the latest depressing round of video game layoffs. As always the boys run down all the games they’ve been playing over the last few weeks, plus there’s some…