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Early Access Review – Car Park Capital
Everyone loves cars. Or, at least, they will once they have no choice. Once you bulldoze all the inner-city apartments and force people out into the suburbs and if they even want to get groceries they need to drive 20km. I'm talking about Car Park Capital, by the way. Don't actually do this.
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Demo Dive – Half Grip
What are you doing with your hand right now? No. Stop it. You need to put that hand on the demo of Half Grip. Hear me out: you drive a car using your mouse for everything your arms would do. So, you have to steer, shift gears, and shoot at other drivers with nothing but your mouse pointer. Effectively, you…
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Currently Playing – 29 – Return of the Obra Dinn with Euan
Returning guest Euan from the Spin-Off Doctors Spin-Off Podcast stops by Currently Playing this month to talk about the games Pillars of Eternity 2: Deadfire and Return of the Obra Dinn. While we briefly touch on the isometric role playing game Pillars of Eternity, the bulk of the show is spent with the Obra Dinn and it’s monochromatic mystery. Later…
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Maximum Utcast – 33 – Spurgles 2: The Spurgles Cum Back
This week the Utcast invents the hottest new IP that will sweep the nation in the summer of 2027, so run, don’t walk, to your nearest theater and demand a ticket to Spurgles 2: The Spurgles Cum Back. Later we talk at length about Castlevania, both with regards to the new one and more broadly about what makes a Castlevania…
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Review – Odd Town
I’ve said before that I’m a sucker for big open worlds, but I should probably just say that I love all open worlds. Bigger isn’t always better, so something like Chulip’s fragmented small town is fab in my books. Sometimes the setting is a character in itself, and getting intimate with it is gratifying. Odd Town is an impressive little…
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Talking to My Boy About Videogames – 28 – Homemade Creations
Jonathan and Ryan are back talking about Pokemon and Minecraft like usual, but this month they make stops in the Katamari world, Transformers land, and Melon Sandbox dimension. What will Ryan do with the rest of his life? And what happens when you have a heart on your pants? Who is responsible for all of the world’s pollution? All of…
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The X-Files: ‘First Person Shooter’ (with guest Marcy) – Spin-Offs Classic
Incoming X-level data burst… CIA L33T gaming confirmed… the bloodlust is unquenchable. What if you could go into your computer and when you die in your computer, you die for real? What if the X-Files, at the height of their powers, did basically a beat by beat pastiche of the Matrix almost a year after the Matrix had been out?…
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Maximum Utcast – 32 – Loving Castlevania, Loathing Minefields, and Learning About Pinblast Neon
With the new Castlevania game (Belmont’s Curse) right around the corner, what does Jonathan think of the demo? Can he scream about it with his working mouth or will he just politely chat? And how much overlap is there in the interests of our hosts? We go in depth on Castlevania discussions before hopping around to the Legend of Zelda:…
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Computer Chess – The Spin-Off Doctors Spin-Off (with actor Patrick Riester)
In a world where nerds aren’t cool…where computers play chess and their technicians debug them…can this ragtag group of superstar programmers defeat the secret Russian plot to overthrow the world while simultaneously avoid triggering the AI Singularity? Can an algorithm predict which hotel room you’ll sleep in days in the future? What happens if swingers want to fuck? Will a…
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Currently Playing – 28 – BlazBlue Entropy Effect X with Elsa
This month, Elsa Returns. We’re talking hot dogs and anime titties on Currently Playing where Elsa points out some of the absurd character designs and recounts some of the lore of the BlazBlue series where she’s been focusing on the latest spin-off in the franchse, BlazBlue Entropy Effect X. From its humble beginnings as a roguelite action phone game to…
