Notes for Episode 18: Leaving the Vault

This week sees Ross feeling sorry for himself that he can't play Tomb Raider as well as Fallout. Everyone but Matt has begun their journey into the Commonwealth and we discuss our first impressions.

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Links to stuff we spoke about:

Fallout 4 (PC Metacritic)

N7 Day (video)

Pepakura

Cloud comes to Smash Bros

Sony Playstation SNES found

Rise of The Tomb Raider (Metacritic)

Xbox One Backwards Compatibility game list

Lifeline

007 Spectre (IMDB)

Mr Robot (IMDB)

Notes for Episode 17: Kinda Niche

We discuss the "greatest" PR stunts in videogame history, and Alice expresses her distaste for Benicio Del Toro.

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Stuff we spoke about:

Bulletstorm meat

Splinter Cell: Conviction almost gets someone shot
Dante's Inferno fake protest
Resident Evil 6 human butcher shop
Homefront: 10,000 balloons
Paying street racing fines for Burnout 2
Mercenaries 2: free petrol up to £40
God of War 2 goat sacrifice
Alien megastructures

Notes for Episode 16: Inevitable Elf Romance

The guys discuss the game they would want to make if money was no object, and Alice reveals that a complimentary elf gets her support every time.

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Links to things we spoke about:

Peter Molyneux: what Fable should have been.

Crash Team Racing

Diddy Kong Racing

Sonic & Sega All-Stars Racing

GARY!

Puppet Man

The 2D game I thought Matt would like, but I couldn't remember the name of, was Undertale.

Deus Ex: Mankind Divided 'augment your order' cancelled.

Final Fantasy XV's all-male cast makes the game more approachable.

ALL the Cids, and then Cid 'Boobs' Mcgee...

Mirror's Edge soundtrack

Hotline Miama soundtrack

New Portal song

Mass Effect theme park ride

Call of Duty's twitter stunt

Orson Welles' War of the Worlds radio broadcast.

Life is Feudal adds female characters in the creepiest way.

Voice actors strike has been authorised.

Gideon Emery's voice is glorious, don't judge me.

Wildstar: Reloaded, now free to play!

Mad Max game

Matt's Mad Max screenshots

The Amazing Spider-Man 2

Netflix's Daredevil

 - This hallway fight scene was shot in one take.

The Martian and Andy Weir's research.

Macbeth

American Horror Story: Hotel

Flowing water on Mars

Peeple

Facebook 'shadow profiles'

Notes for Episode 15: Was Basil Brush Bushy?

We discuss the BBC's latest attempt at educating people about games, and the moment we realised we were hooked on videogames.

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Links to things we spoke about:

Fable 2
Brothers
Nolan North
Troy Baker
Jennifer Hale
Ellie from The Last Of Us
Discworld point and click

Bob and Betty Newbie- then and now

The swishy boy hair (yes, that is Wade from Strangerhood)

CHAD?! (video)
Rollercoaster Tycoon
It's actually called Screamride (my bad)
The Splat
BEARZERKERS
John West fisherman advert
Konami won't be making any more AAA games
Naughty Dog want to make Half Life 3 (video) (that video also has info about Valve licensing out their IP)
Beyond: Two Souls
New Nintendo President

Pokemon Go (video) (Also contains info about the origins of the game from the April Fools joke)
Nintendo teamed up with mobile developer
(We think Slender Mario may have been a bug? We can't find any info)
Chuckie Egg
Pinball Construction set
Life Well Wasted
Sims school mod
The Gamechangers
Hot Coffee mod (kinda NSFW)
Rockstar Table Tennis

BBC Coding season
Live action Jungle Book (video)

Notes for Episode 14: Sassy Consumers

The gang discuss the new Star Wars Battlefront Beta, pre-order schemes and being a "savvy consumer". Ross might be playing too much Metal Gear, and Matt thinks Mad Max is pretty.

Links to audio:

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iTunes (rate us!)

Links to stuff we spoke about:

Battlefront beta
Reaction to matchmaking (video)
Amy Hennig
Nolan North
1313 ish
Machinima Xbox One advertising
New laws in UK about Vloggers
Deus Ex augment your pre-order (video) (and check out that like-to-dislike ratio...)
Fantastic Four movie embargo

Reed Richards

Seems to be a Gamestop pre-order bonus

No more Pip Boys
Mad Max game
Until Dawn (video)
Don't Starve (video)
The Escapists (video)
Metal Gear Solid V

Kojima goodbye video
Metal Gear Puppy
Metal Gear microtransactions
Wes Craven
Freddy Krueger
Event Horizon

Notes for Episode 13 - "Mr Dodo Is Your Friend"

Sophia confesses her Mass Effect sins, Alice tells us stories of life in ARK, we share stories of video game romances, and we discuss why we even play these games in the first place.

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Links to stuff we spoke about:

Thane
Anders
Zevran

Liara
Garrus
Succubus
Desire Demons
Miranda Mass Effect

Gone Home
Tales From The Borderlands

Skyrim Drinking Game Quest
F-Zero
Day Z
Sea Of Thieves Trailer (video)
ARK: Survival Evolved
Rooster Teeth Immersion Video Game Food (video)
Elite: Dangerous

Cobra ship in Elite

Interdiction
FTL
Fallout Shelter
Arkham Knight

Darth Vader PS4 vs R2D2 Xbox 360
Star Wars Disney Infinity (video)
Lego Dimensions
Dr Who Lego Dimensions (video)
Portal Lego Dimensions (video)

Shadows Of The Empire
Star Wars: The Old Republic
Lego Star Wars
The Force Unleashed
Knights Of The Old Republic
D23
Rogue One
Star Wars Timeline
Star Wars Theme Parks
Not allowed to go to Disneyland in costume
Chatroulette First Person Shooter
Twitch Plays Pokemon
Twitch VS Dark Souls
Fish Plays Pokemon

Notes from Episode 12: Kepler Schmepler

Sophia isn't impressed at the discovery of a potential Earth 2, but we are all excited about the announcements and trailers from Gamescom 2015.

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Links to stuff we spoke about:

New exoplanet: "Earth's Older Cousin"
There may be more Earth-like planets than grains of sand on all our beaches
How Many Earths?
Hot Jupiters
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Golgafrincham
Nessie-like fossil discovered

People STILL think Steven Spielberg killed a dinosaur (and some people think it's a rhino...) (video)
Open Space Agency
DIY telescope (ish)

Phone "hologram" (video)
Pepper's ghost
Hellblade Trailer (video)
Boudica
Star Wars Battlefront: Fighter Squadron (video)

Metal Gear Gamescom Phantom Pain demo
ARK: Survival Evolved coming to Xbox One
Direwolves in ARK
No level cap for Fallout 4
(OP = over powered)
Skyrim Hearthfire DLC (video)
Skyrim Lydia
Someone made a mod to make Lydia get out of your bedroom hahahahahaha
Fallout 3 as a baby

Skyrim bookcases/tables
Fallout: Ron the Narrator
New DLC for Dragon Age: Inquisition
Konami staff treatment
Star Citizen has raised over $86 million, so far

Notes for Episode 11: Going Pro

We share our thoughts on eSports and YouTube gaming, as well as discussing the passing of Nintendo CEO Satoru Iwata. There's also a quick round-up of San Diego Comic Con 2015.

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Links to stuff we spoke about:

French scrabble guy who isn't French
Evo Championship
Top 5 fight sticks

The broken fight stick
Gamesmaster
Oculus Rift Rollercoaster "prank" (video)

Elders react to Oculus Rift (video) - this is seriously great
Elders play GTA V

Nintendo magazine prank

THE parry (video)
Frankie on PC
The Creatures
The ARK poop incident (video)
Cryaotic
Sips
Funhaus
Demo Disk (video)
Counter-Strike
Paul Soares Jr Minecraft tutorials (video)
Frankie War Stories playlist
Why ESPN is wrong about eSports (video)
Colin Cowherd vs video games
eSports prize pools

Smite
Phil Fish on YouTubers

HAL Laboratory
Yamauchi's final words to Iwata

“On my business card, I am a corporate president. In my mind, I am a game developer. But in my heart, I am a gamer.”

- Satoru Iwata

Miyamoto
Fallout Anthology
Achievement Hunter VS Mile High Club
Goldeneye Train Level
Total War Rome II
Journey on PS4
Thatgamecompany

Lifeline (I believe it is also on Android)
Star Wars at Comic Con
Star Wars BTS
Kevin Smith at Comic Con
Yoga Hosers
Suicide Squad Trailer

Suicide Squad leaks

Batman v Superman trailer
Kryptonite Ring

Notes from Episode 10: Internet Histories

Reminiscing about early 2000s internet, getting phished for the first time, internet boyfriends, and video games. These are all topics we discuss in our 10th episode :)

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Stuff we spoke about:

Neopets

Habbo Hotel

Coca Cola Habbo
Falling Furni
Bobba

I guess it was a Mountain Dew pool on some versions of Habbo

The Talk To FRANK bus

Habbo Club

Puzzle Pirates (Also available through Steam)

Alice and her Giant Crab

Runescape
Lumbridge (one of the starter towns)
Bionicle game

Bebo is now a messaging app
Very typical MySpace hair (I didn't want to put the picture directly into the blog...)
SmarterChild
A.L.I.C.E.
Text to talk gorilla thing?

Left over Minecon capes
Long Live The Queen game
Splatoon

Yoshi's Woolly World
Bethesda learnt from Skyrim's bugs
Fallout 4 houses
Moira Brown
Known Vaults in Fallout (an interesting read)
Chris Avellone leaves Obsidian
Quiet cosplay challenge
Squishable boob doll
Sniper Wolf

Sexy Sniper Wolf

Bikini girl on cardboard box (video)
Sliding down the hill in the box (video)
COD:BO3 fridge

The big Splatoon heist

SO CUTE

Pixel Mario Amiibo
Mirror's Edge collector's edition

The Gwent website got taken down
Elder Scrolls Legends
Khajiit village

Episode 9: E3 2015 Impressions

Episode 9 is a venture from our usual format as we react to E3 2015. We discuss our favourite moments, and generally get excited about video games that will be coming our way soon.

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Trailers for the games we spoke about:

Yoshi's Woolly World Trailer

Samus Yoshi!

Mario Maker Trailer
Acamiibo Animal Crossing
Fire Emblem: Fates
Star Fox Zero

Shenmue 3
Final Fantasy VII
Metal Gear Solid V
Batman Arkham Knight
Horizon Zero Dawn
Uncharted 4

Halo 5
Recore
Minecraft with the Microsoft Hololens
Sea Of Thieves
Cuphead
Rise of the Tomb Raider

South Park: The Fractured but Whole
Tom Clancy's The Division
Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege
Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Wildlands

Star Wars Battlefront
Mirrors Edge Catalyst
Unravel

Fallout 4 (Gameplay Demo)
Fallout Shelter
Dishonoured 2

Notes for Episode 8: Mad Matt's Home Arcade

We are down to 3 people for episode 8, but we deliver all the chat you'd expect about what we've been playing and watching at the cinema; with some Mad Max and Avengers discussion. We also discover that Matt's racing game set-up is better than most arcades.

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Stuff we spoke about:

Project Cars
Logitech G25 steering wheel
Sony embarrassed by DriveClub Launch
CD Projekt Red responds to comments about graphics downgrades
Baldur's Gate
The Story of CD Projekt Red
Cities: Skylines (is the SimCity we all wanted)
gog
Smite

Splatoon
60fps games on WiiU
The Scarlett Pimpernel
Rayman Legends

Susan Strong

Uplay
Valiant Hearts
Avengers: Age Of Ultron
Jeremy Renner still thinks Black Widow is a slut (what a prick, right?)
There's actually a whole blog about the lack of Black Widow merch
Marvel's toy line just erased Black Widow from her own scene in 'Age of Ultron'
Mark Ruffalo tweeted about the lack of Black Widow merch, too
Since recording, Marvel/Disney noticed the lack of merch, and they're doing something about it!
Stan Lee cameos (video)
Mad Max: Fury Road
Rosie Huntington-Whiteley

Steven Seagal

Notes for Episode 7

Matt murders a joke, but don't worry. His Illuminati connections will protect him.

Links to audio:

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iTunes

Stuff we spoke about:

Star Wars Battlefront trailer (video)

The comparison between BF2 and the new BF. Take this with a pinch of salt, as it was made by an angry internet nerd (and the game isn't even out yet...)

Speeder bike

Titanfall
Rainbow Six: Siege trailer (video)
Gears of War remastered leaks
Team Fortress 2
*preparing for people to yell at me for calling TF2 a MOBA*
Witcher 3 has been received VERY well
It took 16 hours to RECORD the sex scenes
Minecraft- Far Lands or Bust
P.T.
Hideo Kojima
Guillermo del Toro
Norman Reedus
Harold Ramis
Slender game (it's free btw!)
The Metal Gear boss that reads your memory card and makes you plug your controller into the other slot
Metal Gear boss that can die of old age
Resetti
Costume Quest (Consider this a recommendation from Sophia. Costume Quest is great!)
Inquisition War Table
Mario Kart 8 DLC

The Nintendo Universe (video)
Icelandic Elf Sex (video, sort of NSFW?)
David Icke
Illuminati
Freemasons
What We Do In The Shadows
Moon Landing Conspiracies
Buzz Aldrin punch
Phil Collins
Space Program
Penny4NASA
North Korea landed a man on the sun
Aluminium spelling differences

Punisher in Captain America 2
Thor cameo in The Incredible Hulk- apparently. (video)
A113
Pixar Universe Theory
Frozen's King and Queen are Tarzan's parents
Rapunzel at Elsa's Coronation (and some other stuff)