I’m rather enjoying the recent downloadable Strider title that’s been put together by Double Helix in association with Capcom. It’s a slick, briskly-paced dash’n’slash ‘metroidvania’ […]
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The Binding of Isaac – Cane and Rinse No.116
“Isaac and his Mother lived alone in a small house, on a hill…” In our second podcast covering an Edmund McMillen designed videogame, James Carter, […]
Music Monday: The Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds
Put together with Nintendo by Monolith Soft, The Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds feels like a fan remake in the best possible way; […]
Castlevania: Lords of Shadow – Cane and Rinse No.115
“Am I not beautiful?” Starting with the Nintendo 64 and working our way through Dreamcast and PS2 we trace the murky history of 3D Castlevania […]
Music Monday: Castlevania: Lords of Shadow
In the run-up to recording issue 115 of the Cane and Rinse podcast I’ve been playing a lot of Castlevania: Lords of Shadow. There is […]
The Last Story – Cane and Rinse No.114
“It’s like looking after a bunch of misbehaving kids…” Hironobu Sakaguchi’s Mistwalker attempted to ring in some changes to the traditional JRPG template for Wii […]
Super Mario World – Cane and Rinse No.113
“Thank you for rescuing me. My name is Yoshi. On my way to rescue my friends!” In the second of our ‘core’ Super Mario Bros. […]
Music Monday: NyxQuest: Kindred Spirits
I love this. Steven Gutheinz‘s 20 minute soundtrack for inventive Spanish platform-puzzler NyxQuest: Kindred Spirits (formerly Icarian: Kindred Spirits) has haunted me – in the […]
Cave shoot ’em ups – Cane and Rinse No.112
Danmaku fuss about it but we’re covering a whole load of games in this issue instead of the usual one. This time out we turn […]
Music Monday: Shatter
New Zealand artist Module’s soundtrack for Sidhe Interactive’s spangly Breakout/Arkanoid variant Shatter cunningly and curiously managed to sound simultaneously retro, contemporary and futuristic. Such devilry. […]
Josh and Darren G guest on the Joybin Resistrinse 2013 podcast
Joybin Resistrinse 2013: An epic seven hour end-of-year podcast featuring a cast of several including our very own Joshua Garrity and Darren Gargette, is available […]
Gargette Vs … Nidhogg
In a regular series of videos, Darren Gargette (the Orange Dude) will play random and not-so random people from the internet at a best of […]