“Coo coo. (I hear you’ve been busy, Mario.)” Create or Play? That is the big question asked of anyone who starts a game in the Super Mario Maker series. Join Michiel, Brian, Darren and Ryan […]
Vol. 9
Missile Command – Cane and Rinse No.425
“The End” It’s been fully four decades since Dave Theurer turned his apocalyptic nightmares into an arcade game. Missile Command told a darker story than most games of the time, and thanks to its compelling, […]
Shovel Knight DLC – Cane and Rinse No.424
“You don’t need a potion to win me over! You already have!” Steel thy shovel….. again! We’ve discussed Yacht Club Games’s Shovel Knight before, but there’s much more to this pixelated platformer than the original […]
Batman: Arkham Knight – Cane and Rinse No.423
“How many more bones would you crush? How many lives will you destroy in pursuit of what you call justice?” Concluding our Batman: Arkham series coverage (which stretches back many years) we arrive at – […]
Bloodstained: Curse of the Moon / Ritual of the Night – Cane and Rinse No.422
“Through recondite arts, the Alchemists had created Shardbinders.” The fruits of substantial crowdfunding and the labour of a supergroup of game devs were harvested in 2019 with the release of Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night. […]
Uncharted: The Lost Legacy – Cane and Rinse No.421
“Well, would you look at that?” Wrapping up our Uncharted coverage, for now at least, we end up at standalone adjunct, Uncharted: The Lost Legacy. Leon, Brian, Jay and Josh find themselves in an India […]
Scramble and the Gradius series – Cane and Rinse No.420
“Shoot The Core!” The venerable side-scrolling space shoot ’em up series Gradius celebrates its 35th anniversary in 2020. Leon, Michiel, Ben Cartlidge and Dan Clark run the treacherous caverns of 1981’s Scramble through to the interstellar […]
Detroit: Become Human – Cane and Rinse No.419
“All that matters now is what we do next” What does it take to truly be a person? Is it how you were created? What makes up your physical form? How you react to the […]
Beat Saber – Cane and Rinse No.418
“We’re playin’… We’re playin’… We’re playin’…” Whether it’s Guitar Hero by way of Fruit Ninja or a chance to live out the Star Wars Kid fantasy, there’s no denying the wild success of Beat Saber […]
Marvel’s Spider-Man – Cane and Rinse No.417
“Nice entrance. Solid eight out of ten… Nine out of ten.” Welcome to “Just the Facts” with J. Jonah Jameson. Alerting you to the threats you don’t even know about. I’ve heard reports of Spider-Man […]
Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze – Cane and Rinse No.416
“The invading Snowmads have locked Donkey Kong Island in a deep freeze, and it’s up to the Kongs to thaw things out!” Our run of podcasts on the games of Donkey Kong and his kin […]
Days Gone – Cane and Rinse No.415
“We make the world what it is by what we do. All of us.” Bikers vs Zombies may sound like a late night made-for-TV movie, but when it’s a premise that gets paired with a […]