❤️ VIDEOVERSE is now available on Nintendo Switch! ❤️ 👉 www.nintendo.com/de-de/Spiele...

💙 VIDEOVERSE is now available on PlayStation! 💙 👉 store.playstation.com/en-us/concep...

New episode! How do you create an oral history feature about a game like Final Fantasy VII or Street Fighter 2? Former Polygon editor @mattleone.bsky.social joins us to discuss this, and his new site, @designroom.bsky.social. Listen wherever you get podcasts: open.spotify.com/episode/0dAo...

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Who's playing Post Toad, though?

I've never had that deep relationship with Lumines that so many peers have written about brilliantly - but Arise definitely feels like an amazing environment to learn to love it. Another stunning Hydelic score, too. Almost feels wrong playing something this funky in my drab living room.

A Matthew Castle modern classic (that he hasn't finished yet)!

Let's pretend we planned this deliberately, eh?

Now on Patreon! Two Giant Men Play Super Mario Galaxy 2. The set is complete! Sign up here if you'd like to hear it, then listen on the platform of your choice: www.patreon.com/posts/143217...

Spoiler alert: still one of the greatest games of all time.

1 WEEK UNTIL VIDEOVERSE IS ON CONSOLES!! :O

New episode! Two Giant Men Play Super Mario Galaxy. About 40 minutes of background on the game, then 1 hour 20 of *takes*. Listen wherever you get podcasts: open.spotify.com/episode/298u...

Coming tomorrow! Two Giant Men Play Super Mario Galaxy. A comprehensive episode on an all-time classic. But can Matthew and Samuel's friendship survive the comparisons to Astro Bot? Here's a preview:

*adds 'Two Giant Men Play GTA 5' and 'Two Giant Men Play Red Dead Redemption 2' to the podcast schedule*

Ah yes, the four greatest games of all time.

The Seven Mysteries of Honjo?

How lucky we are to have Cas and the team throwing everything at every issue of APWOT. An honour to be asked to contribute - so many great writers I can't wait to dig into. Its annual arrival is a highlight of my gaming year. Treat yourself to a copy and you won't be disappointed.

That’s so cool! Seeing that Kodaka was gonna be featured made me double sure to back the issue, and now seeing Matthew’s involved has made me triple glad I did, looking forward to it!

Finally reading his Shu Takumi interview from Issue 3 - great stuff!

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Recorded a lovely Mario Galaxy chat last night - a whole two hours on this most sacred of gaming texts. Now blasting through Galaxy 2 for a Patreon episode. Easiest homework I've ever had.

And what does Switch 2 have that those other consoles didn't? Welcome Tour.

Tomorrow. 💫

If you live in or around Wakefield, UK and you're interested in the history of games, I'm giving a talk on the history of Worms and Team17 at Wakefield Museum on Saturday 22nd November. Tickets are super limited; reserve one here: experiencewakefield.co.uk/event/30-yea...

Well, there's a new record holder for 'longest episode plan of The Back Page ever' – this Friday's Super Mario Galaxy episode. 👀

VIDEOVERSE is now available to wishlist on the PlayStation Store! 🥳 store.playstation.com/en-us/concep...

Recommendations for small children are always tough, but for a 5-year-old, I'd recommend Bakeru. Simple to understand, bright colors, and the right amount of level and gameplay variety. Resistible lengthy for a platformer, too. Also has racing, shoot-em-up, and (giant robot) fighting mini-games.

November pods!

Came to office party as Danny from The Shining and they all think I'm fuckin' Mario. 🥲

So many great games, so little time to play them (because I lost myself in Blake Manor). Fun trying to pin down what makes this particular detective game tick - not sure I quite nailed it here, but I love how diverse and strange the genre is. No wrong answers.

Art from Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Art Director Nicholas Maxson-Francombe and FF7R Creative Director Tetsuya Nomura

New episode! What we've been playing, featuring Dispatch, The Seance of Blake Manor, Absolum, Ninja Gaiden 4 and Hell Is Us. Plus: Samuel absolutely butchers a Zelda quiz. Has to be heard to be believed. Listen wherever you get podcasts: open.spotify.com/episode/4gd7...

Spilled Mushrooms, Fulcrum Defender, Tiny Turnip and Otto's Galactic Groove were among the ones Matthew liked!

The highest compliment I can give this game is that in sniffing around the manor's lonely corridors, poking my nose into rooms and the lives that play out in them, Blake Manor has that Hotel Dusk secret sauce. Impeccable vibes. And a much more sophisticated detective game driving it all. Superb!

New Patreon episode! We saw more than 10 movies at the London and Bath film festivals, then made a podcast about them. These include Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery and Park Chan-wook's No Other Choice. Support the podcast, get two extra episodes a month: www.patreon.com/posts/142126...

For @ign.com: An inside look at how Sony secured GTA as a PS2 exclusive and how it helped the console 'win' that generation. With new details on the exclusivity deal, how Sony nearly missed out on exclusivity in the US, and how Xbox could've derailed it. www.ign.com/articles/how...

Thank you, @backpagepod.bsky.social, for checking out and talking about the BIRDCAGE Demo!

Kind words considering Samuel's total failure to grasp the game's story.

Used this episode to dig into some lesser known (to me, at least) things to be excited about. Chat about Seance of Blake Manor, Opus: Prism Peak, No More Work For Ito and The Remake of the End of the Greatest RPG of All Time, amongst others. Hopefully some stuff for your wishlist in there.

New episode! We each played 10 or so new games during Steam Next Fest. Some were great, some were nonsense. Listen wherever you get podcasts: open.spotify.com/episode/2Lja...

Games shouldn't cost $100. Games should in fact cost £2, come on a cassette tape, only run on a 20kg computer that you could only buy in Britain in the 1980s, and be made over the course of six months by two 19 year-olds known only as "The Whizzy Brothers".

We made an error with this month's schedule: turns out there's a 31st October (rude!). So, the next few weeks now look like this: - What We've Been Playing + some mailbag Qs - Oct 31 - Two Giant Men Play Super Mario Galaxy - Nov 7 - (XL episode) Two Giant Men Play Super Mario Galaxy 2 - Nov 10

Coming Friday! 10 (or so) demos we enjoyed from Steam Next Fest. Games like Cairn, The Séance of Blake Manor and Birdcage are discussed. Then, there are some duds. These include Bubsy. Here's a preview:

Another successful episode of not being cancelled.

Good Portland Retro Gaming Expo weekend. I didn't take photos of the pinball tables, fall leaves or good food so here's a photo of James Patterson Women's Murder Club Game of Passion for Nintendo DS instead

Love this podcast anyway but it was particularly fun to hear @mrbasilpesto.bsky.social & @samuelwroberts.bsky.social talk about their routes to/through Japanese pop culture. Kore-eda, Ozu and Ghibli? Demon Slayer and anime blockbuster chat? Now we're talking.

New episode! The 'games set in Japan' hall of fame, plus our impressions of Absolum and Ball X Pit. Will a Persona or Yakuza game get mentioned? Perhaps! The stakes have never been lower. Listen wherever you get podcasts: open.spotify.com/episode/6jvy...

Coming tomorrow! A 10-game Hall of Fame made up exclusively of games set in Japan. Plus! Absolum and Ball X Pit chatter. Plus! Some nonsense awards at the end. Here's a preview of those:

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