Xenoblade Chronicles - on my third attempt to play this. I played around 15/20 hours on the Wii original and the same again on the Switch remaster last year. Just came back to my save and decided to start again. I really want to like this game but I just find it so confusing and complicated. It thr...

As a young child, before we had a computer of our own in the house, I'd eagerly lap up any gaming action I could get round friends houses. Yie Ar Kung-Fu was possibly the single game that made me badger and hound my parents in to buying us a gaming machine. I remember being so excited playing it at ...

JAN - Strider (Arcade on Evercade) JAN - Strider (Megadrive on Switch) JAN - God Of War (PS5) JAN - Universal Paperclips (Android) FEB - Alwa's Awakening (Evercade) FEB - Little Inferno (Android) FEB - Spider-Man 2 (PS5) FEB - Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (Arcade on Switch) FEB - Teenage Mutant Nin...

I'll preface this by saying I loved Elden Ring. It was the first game I bought day one and the first game I bought full price in several years. I have probably played about 100 hours of it and feel like I am still ages away from the end. And herein lies my only criticism of the game. I think it suff...

Didn't really have enough to say to include on the pod, but my only memory of this game is a vague recollection of playing it at my cousin's house as a kid. My memories are more around the house, actually. They lived in this big country house that seemed like a mansion to us with seven bedrooms, mas...

JAN - Strider (Arcade on Evercade) JAN - Strider (Megadrive on Switch) JAN - God Of War (PS5) JAN - Universal Paperclips (Android) FEB - Alwa's Awakening (Evercade) FEB - Little Inferno (Android) FEB - Spider-Man 2 (PS5) FEB - Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (Arcade on Switch) FEB - Teenage Mutant Nin...

We all love video games, that's why we're here. And most of us remember fondly the games we played when we were younger, or are excited to play games from the past we might not have done before, and that's why retro collections are such big business. I have loads of these collections from the Sega M...

JAN - Strider (Arcade on Evercade) JAN - Strider (Megadrive on Switch) JAN - God Of War (PS5) JAN - Universal Paperclips (Android) FEB - Alwa's Awakening (Evercade) FEB - Little Inferno (Android) FEB - Spider-Man 2 (PS5) FEB - Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (Arcade on Switch) FEB - Teenage Mutant Nin...

I hate to say something as cliche as Pentiment is one of the best games I've played in the past five years and you absolutely should all buy it if you haven't played it on Xbox, but Pentiment is one of the best games I've played in the past five years and if you absolutely should all buy it if you ...

JAN - Strider (Arcade on Evercade) JAN - Strider (Megadrive on Switch) JAN - God Of War (PS5) JAN - Universal Paperclips (Android) FEB - Alwa's Awakening (Evercade) FEB - Little Inferno (Android) FEB - Spider-Man 2 (PS5) FEB - Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (Arcade on Switch) After watching TMNT: Mut...

I first heard of Vampire Survivors on the IGN podcast when Joe Skrebels spoke about it for several weeks in a row. I was intrigued, but didn't have a PC to play it on. When it finally came to Xbox I downloaded it straight away and got stuck in. I love the way the game looks, as if the sprites have b...

JAN - Strider (Arcade on Evercade) JAN - Strider (Megadrive on Switch) JAN - God Of War (PS5) JAN - Universal Paperclips (Android) FEB - Alwa's Awakening (Evercade) FEB - Little Inferno (Android) FEB - Spider-Man 2 (PS5) The epitome of a triple A blockbuster. I really enjoyed this. Great in all the...

What about the biggest news of the day?

WORLD OF GOO 2!!

No idea this was even being made so what a great surprise!

I've read loads of books over the last few weeks. Ducks: Two Years In The Oil Sands is Kate Beaton's autobiographical story about her time working in the Canadian oil sands. She experiences all the horrors you can imagine a young woman might face in a heavily male dominated, ultra masculine work set...

Obvs.

JAN - Strider (Arcade on Evercade) JAN - Strider (Megadrive on Switch) JAN - God Of War (PS5) JAN - Universal Paperclips (Android) FEB - Alwa's Awakening (Evercade) FEB - Little Inferno (Android) Had a slow run through of this over the last few weeks again. It's a fun game, and the burning stuff is...

Little Inferno.

I'd be well up for Sea Of Thieves on Switch. Seems like it'd be a perfect fit for 30 minute sessions running short quests.

Playing Spider-Man 2 and just did the bit where...

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...you play as Venom/Harry to escape the Oscorp building leading to a fight with Kraven.

Wowsers, that was one of the biggest spectacles in gaming I've played in a while. What a great ten minutes!

I picked up the first Duke Nukem cart for Evercade, and much to my surprise I am really enjoying the first game. The cartridge features remasters of the first two Duke games (the 2D side scrolling platform shoot 'em ups) and they look like total ass, but are just such fun to play! I really wasn't in...