“Hi. Why are you here?” Our Tony’s nomination for the 14th year of podcasts is 2007’s first-person survival horror, S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chornobyl. Leon, Jon and […]
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Tunic – Cane and Rinse No.655
“Dear Player. You’ve come a long way, haven’t you?” Lead developer Andrew Shouldice stuffed every single corner of Tunic’s world with secrets and mysteries, and […]
Segare Ijiri – Cane and Rinse No.654
“It’s big.” Presented explicitly as the world’s first “stupid game” or “baka game”, Segare Ijiri is a pretty well known cultural touchstone in Japan, but […]
Paperboy – Cane and Rinse No.653
“Now you have a friend in the paper business.” A vintage game about an anachronistic job delivering a dying medium. Atari’s arcade hit Paperboy is 40! […]
Oikospiel Book I – Cane and Rinse no.652
“It is the year 1999, and our game development House, Koch Games, has been hired by The Oikospielen Opera to adapt the novel Tristram Shandy, […]
Panzer Dragoon – Cane and Rinse No.651
Back for a fourteenth year of deep-dive videogame review podcasts, and the first subject for 2025 is SEGA’s Panzer Dragoon. Leon, Chris O’Regan, Chris Worthington […]
Baldur’s Gate 3 – Cane and Rinse No.650
“Shouldn’t have wished to live in more interesting times.” We conclude our thirteenth year of podcasts by covering the all-conquering, 2023 game of the year […]
Syberia – Cane and Rinse No.649
“Automatons do not have bugs, Kate Walker. They simply display functional idiosyncracies.” In the aftermath of the golden age of graphic adventure games, the early 2000s […]
The Story of Thor (Beyond Oasis) – Cane and Rinse No.648
“The powers of the Gold Armlet are now yours to wield.” Team Ancient turned its attention from the urban grime of Streets of Rage 2 […]
Luigi’s Mansion 3 – Cane and Rinse No.647
“That old coot had me locked up tight in his lab… But guess what? I GOT OUT!” This week’s destination is the Last Resort hotel. […]
Star Wars: Rogue Squadron trilogy – Cane and Rinse No.646
“We might make a name for ourselves after all…” In a pre-prequel, pre-Disney’s Star Wars world, almost any game featuring George Lucas’ galaxy-spanning space opera […]
Marble Madness – Cane and Rinse No.645
“EVERYTHING YOU KNOW IS WRONG” Mark Cerny’s first full project as a prodigious teen game creator (after coding a ‘mushroom growing algorithm’ for Millipede) was Atari’s […]