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Concluding our annual “Top Games We Played This Year That Didn’t Necessarily Come Out This Year Extravaganza”, we run down our top 2 favourite games of the year year, plus talk about our honourable mentions and the worst games we played.

It’s time for the annual “Top Games We Played This Year That Didn’t Necessarily Come Out This Year Extravaganza”, in part 1 we run down our 5th, 4th, and 3rd favourite games that we played this year.

Mark, Chazzee, and Nick dive into the quasi-noir world of Detective Pikachu to discuss misplaced Seinfeld jokes, flappy flesh scarves, licking, and pretend immolation.

Mark is back and joins Nick and Chazzee to talk about fancy desks, unreliable couriers, inter-podcast beef, a rant about a horrible video game, plus lots of chat about good video games.

Mark is away this week and has left the pod in the hands of Nick and Chazzee. Will the children behave while mummy is away? Well you’ll have to listen to find out.

Mark and Nick are here to chat about moving house, new kitchens, tea vs coffee, what we’ve been listening to, how to pronounce “dune”, and the usual roundup of what video games we’ve been playing.

The boys are back in town after a wee break to discuss weddings, holidays, the X-Files, monasteries, and vikings. Somwhere along the way they make time to talk about some video games too, including Deathloop, Far Cry New Dawn, Fire Emblem: Three Houses, Alan Wake Remastered, weird obscure vita games, and how to not make…

He’s back! Mark and Chazzee are joined by Adam for the first time in months to discuss a multitude of games including Sable, Arcsmith, Deathloop, eFootball 2022, Artful Escape, and much much more.

Once more with feeling, Andy drags Mark and Nick through the final instalment of the The Lord of the Rings trilogy. It’s been a long road, but we finally got there. Promise we’ll talk about video game movies again next.

Mark is joined by Nick and Chazzee to discuss Taylor Swift’s oeuvre, how to fool a foreman, hot 90’s arcade racers, old man troubles, and lots of video game chat.

Mark and Nick are joined by the lovely Ger (and his snoozing dog) from the Geekachu podcast to discuss more F1 shenanigans, Sleeping Dogs, Art of Rally, Destiny 2, Ring Fit Adventure, and much much more.

Mark is joined by Nick and Andy to talk about the Blizzard debacle, F1 2021 shenanigans, teaching your kid to love arcade racers, sucking at tabletop games, and much much more.

In a new show format, Dungeon Master extraordinaire Chazzee will be taking each member of the LGR team through a thrilling choose-your-own-adventure book. In this inaugural episode, Mark steps into the unknown in search of the Warlock of Firetop Mountain.

Mark is joined by Nick and Chazzee to discuss the recent Steam Next Fest and the ID@Xbox Summer Game Fest and report back on the demos they played for all the exciting upcoming indie titles.

Nick is joined by Mark, Adam, and Chazzee to discuss the highs and many many lows of a weird E3 2021.

The boys are back for the middle chapter of their journey through the Lord of the Rings films. Strap in, it’s another long one.

Mark is joined by a freshly defrosted Adam, back in from an extended break, to talk about rodent murder, appliance malfunctions, and completing a 25 year old game.

Certified Tolkien nerds Mark and Andy are joined by Nick, our very own fool of a Took, to talk about Peter Jackson’s JRR Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring: The Extended Edition. Did you know it’s 20 years old this year?

Mark and Andy are massive Tolkien nerds, they’ve read all the books, watched all the films, and like to geek out about the lore of Middle Earth. Nick, however, fell asleep several times in the first film and doesn’t know his Orcs from his Uruk-hai. So we’re making him watch all three films. The extended…

In this thrilling episode of Lapsed Gamer Radio, Mark, Chazzee and Andy discuss reptile poop, car accidents, a shared-world looter shooter that ISN’T Destiny, and flaws of logic in fantasy games. Oh, and a new Monster Hunter game.

Andy has had a lot of bad ideas over the years, but this might be the worst one. He roped in Mark and Nick to do a blind commentary track on the 2018 movie Rampage, loosely based on the Midway arcade classic. Spoiler alert: it was bad. And bad news for you, dear listener, you’ll…

Mark, Nick, and Andy get together to discuss the latest Winklevoss nonsense, good WW2 games, being too dumb for The Witness, and why Mark has an attraction to games featuring childhood trauma.

In the latest pod, Mark, Nick, and Andy discuss warranty claims, youtube rabbit holes, crushing defeat, and also some video games.

In the latest episode Mark, Nick, and Chazzee discuss weird collectibles, the arcane mysteries of pc gaming, terrible children, and a bunch of video games.

In the latest episode Nick is joined by Mark and Chazzee to discuss escaping the underworld, the motivational qualities of fermented cabbage, and the importance of wet-weather tyres.

Mark and Andy are joined by the lovely Justin Smith from Last Save Loaded for a discussion about the finer details of city planning, things to do in 10th Century England, and how we learned to stop worrying and love the grind.

Having caught and survived Covid-19, Mark is back with Chazzee to talk about all the games they played over the Christmas break, including Wargroove, American Truck Simulator, Until Dawn, and Assassin’s Creed: Valhalla.

2020 has gone, 2021 is here, and it’s still a bit sh*t. Oh well, never mind, here’s a new podcast. The team gather together once again to run down their honourable mentions, biggest disappointments, and their top 2 games played in 2020.

As the hellscape that is 2020 draws to a close, the whole LGR crew gather round to discuss the best games they played this year. As with previous years, this is not a list of the best games of 2020, but rather the best games that we played this year, be they brand new or…

Oh boy, what a mess. Mark, Adam, and Chazzee sit down to talk about the complete clusterf*ck that is the current state of Cyberpunk 2077, and discuss whether there are any redeeming features buried under the mountain of bugs.