Ep 23 is here! The Dead Rise (ing), Stardew Valleys and then the Factors io (kind of ran away from me there). Plus Anthem is maybe preserved, Runescape astonishingly continues and INCREDIBLE GTA VI SECRETS ARE REVEALED! They can't even sue us for this.

New year, new episode! Ep 22 is here with a rubbish terf game, a cool cowboy game, and an unexpectedly sensual Metroid game. Plus, some sad news, and some less sad news: the downfall of Xbox. 2026 is the year of the revolution! But, in like, games. ⬇️ Links!

Ep 21 and it's time to award the most important trophy possible: Most Ideologically Correct Game of the Year 2025! Also we talk about the far less important and far more reactionary Keighleygasm Game Awards. ⬇️

Where's the podcast? Since we're taking Xmas off (sorry) we've delayed the pod to next Monday so that we can span the gap a bit better. Also we can talk about the Game Awards. Also we can issue our own awards! Also, we have Sara from @nogamesforgenocide.com! It'll be a big one!

It's ep 20, and the 1-year anniversary of the podcast! To celebrate we went all-out and had a Friendslop special episode with the incredible @littlebear.bsky.social! We friend! We slop! And we even do the news as usual. Onwards to year two! Links! ⏬

Sofie returns! For episode 19! And talks about vampires! And Alex finished Silksong! And Ed's played Stray! And we have solidarity with @gameworkers.co.uk's members being strikebroken at Rockstar! And even more news! Right now!

Sofie's still out due to the plague but Ed and Alex manage a banger episode anyway! The eighteenth one! Ed revives a controversial ending with Mass Effect 3 and Alex roams feudal Japan again with Ghost of Yōtei. Plus news!

It's episode 17 baby! Ed gets obscure with Dark Souls, Alex faces choice paralysis with UFO 50 and Sofie gets a lot off her chest with The Sims. Meanwhile we talk EA getting snagged by the Saudis. Tokyo Game Show, and actually good news about the whole ZA/UM thing?? It's true!

A super-special episode because 1) Sofie's back (thank god) and 2) we've all played Silksong! It's a Silkstravaganza! And after we're all silked out, it's onto the news, with Nintendo chat, loud-shirted knobheads, and some nonsense going on in America. They call it: Episode 16

You join us live from Danny Dyer’s birthday drinks.

We're back, but not all of us! Unfortunately Sofie is off swanning in South Africa, so we've got a duo episode with just Alex and Ed. But when the cat's away, the mice will play - and so we've got a full Nintendo episode about Majora's Mask and DK Bananza! Plus news!

The deep state defeated! Fresh from hospital, the gang are back to discuss Expedition 33, Dave the Diver and to Unleash the Force on us all. PLUS! Another Keighleygasm, and less fun news about censorship and opposition to genocide. The grave failed to claim us!

Where's the new episode? Unfortunately, the deep state rose again and whisked Alex into A&E and trapped him in hospital for a week. He's fine, but also too lazy to record and edit a podcast from a hospital bed. So, a class traitor. Next episode (🤞hopefully!) on 25 Aug as usual!

We're back! Again! And with a dark portent: the 13th episode. In a rebuke to fate itself, we carry on as normal. Ed reminisces about God of War (2005), Sofie talks Animal Crossing and Alex talks for far, far too long about Death Stranding 2, for all you Kojima heads. Links!⬇️

A few days late (due to illness and the insane heat), but episode 12 is here! And it's a big one - we're doing a full Mouthwashing spoilercast! Come hang out with Alex, Ed and Sofie, along with Daisuke, Swansea and Anya (not the other two)! Also the news!

Episode 11 is live! And (some audio issues aside), it's a great one. We have Switch 2 and Summer Game Fest blowouts from Alex, Ed fiancés it up with Split Fiction and Sofie raises her brow as high as it gets with Kentucky Route Zero. We can't be stopped!

🚨 BREAKING 🚨 We're pleased to reveal the lineup poster for Games Transformed 2025! We’ll be joined by Meg Jayanth, Chris Bratt, Gareth Damian Martin, Clapton CFC, Innuendo Studios & many more! Join us on Saturday 12 July for Games Transformed 2025. TICKETS: www.tickettailor.com/events/games...

We're back! And with a banger of tenth episode: we're joined by the colossus of YouTube (and Nebula), @tomnicholas.bsky.social! Ahead of his appearance at next month's @gamestransformed.bsky.social festival, he joins us to prove his gamer cred. Turns out he's got loads!

🚨 TICKETS ARE LIVE! 🚨 How do we kick the fash out of gaming? Join devs, players & organisers (and @chrisbratt.bsky.social!) July 11–12 at Pelican House , London to find out. Tickets on sale now → buytickets.at/gamestransfo... #SmashTheFash #GamesTransformedFestival

Ep 9 is here! After a BRAND NEW mystery segment, Alex unlocks the many mysteries of Blue Prince, and Ed takes aim at the clergy in Cult of the Lamb. News: we talk about the implosion of games media, prices going up as well as GTA 6 and finish up laughing at billionaires as usual.

Ep 8 - this time we're recording remotely, and the sound quality actually worked out! Ed plunges into the soulsborne genre with Demon Souls, Alex finishes up Assassins' Creed Shadows, and Sofie ascends into the unknown in Outer Wilds. Also the news!

Games Transformed THOROUGHLY ENDORSES Billionaires and Guillotines, the new game from @maxhaiven.bsky.social & @plutopress.bsky.social! We were forced to introduce a house rule to legalise the copious amounts of cheating at our table and Max has promised it will make it into the game at release 😎

Ep 7 is upon us, and of course we're talking about the big reveal of the Switch 2 - oh and the financial collapse too, can't forget about that. But before that, we discuss Ed's Survival of Vampires, Sofie talks REPO, and Alex revives the discourse of 2013 with Bioshock Infinite!

Ep 6! This time, Alex hits up Assassin's Creed, wedding bells ring for Ed in It Takes Two, and Sofie submits to the allures of colonialism in Monster Hunter Wilds. Also! Saudi Arabia, Unions and more ZA/UMageddon! Don't forget we're also on Soundcloud and Amazon now! vvvvvvvv

And more! We're also now on Amazon Music & Audible! music.amazon.com/podcasts/65c...

We're now on Soundcloud! Give us a follow on there, and check out all of our episodes! soundcloud.com/red-barrels-...

We're back! Due to deep-state malfeasance, we had a brief hiatus, but now we return with Sofie finishing up Pentiment, Alex uncovering shocking secrets about the Yakuza series, and Ed enters the cyberrealm with Death Horizon: Reloaded.

happy 50th to gamesmaster anthony

For episode 1 of This Must Be The Place @claraish.bsky.social and @jackwitek.bsky.social spoke to writer and organiser @alvagotby.bsky.social about moving away from the private home, collective living & how vital care is in life and organising Feeling At Home is out now on @versobooks.bsky.social.

🚨🚨🚨WELCOME TO THIS MUST BE THE PLACE!!!!!!! 🚨🚨🚨 We am thrilled to share this wee project @claraish.bsky.social and @jackwitek.bsky.social have been working on for AGES!!!!! Here is episode 0 to kick things off!! soundcloud.com/tmbtp-podcas...

In defiance of all reason and good taste, episode 4 is here! We chat about Fallout 2, 1000x Resist, and Pentiment. PLUS! Our brand-new continuing segment: Who Would Marx Main??

Lotta people came over here and started doing what I’m calling Libbin’ Out. Using the word leftist in scare quotes? You might be libbin’ out.

y'all ever see a take so bad you are forced to immediately go to sleep?

Ep 3! It's here! We talk games - Indiana Jones, American Truck Sim and of course, Baldur's Gate 1. And then get into the news, including our first deep dive into Disco Elysium ZA/UM drama.

The left-wing political parties ‘that are quick to point at the Other. The outsider. The unwanted. Be they migrants, Muslims, LGBTQ+ people or Jews’. Such as? Can we get a name? Any help? Who? Who? Which left-wing parties? Which ones? Which ones, BBC? Who? Name one. Name a single one. One. Name one.

True crypto has never been tried

Juliet and Tom will be recording the first episode of a brand new season of Pro Revolution Soccer very soon. You can keep track of all developments on here, and contribute to keeping the project going via our Patreon: www.patreon.com/ProRevolutio...

May have just found the best gaming sticker #discoelysium

The best way to gain a big political following is still to just go "fuck the Tories!" and "more like FARTage!" coz, ultimately, people don't want to contemplate actual change. They just want to feel comfortable hating the right team. If you criticise Labour you're not helping them feel cosy.

Coming out of games journalist retirement for exactly five seconds and having enough time to do a better job than that New York Times article

probably not

An Open Letter From America’s CEOs: This is Supposed to Happen to Schoolchildren, Not Us hard-drive.net/hd/video-gam...

Seven years ago I wrote a holiday-themed version of “Killing In The Name Of” that RATM could release as a Christmas single. They haven’t recorded it yet but I haven’t given up hope that someday they will

Ep 2 of the Red Barrels Podcast is up! Starring Alex, Ed and Sofie, we announce the Red Barrels Podcast's First Annual Most Ideologically Correct Game of the Year award, and then discuss the capitalist behemoth that is the less ideologically correct Game Awards.

Ah ok so if you're wondering why The Game Awards are launching 'Game Changers' it's because they killed Future Class after the fallout from them completely ignoring most Future Class members (and thousands of others) asking for action on Palestine. www.gamedeveloper.com/business/why...

Tifa snubbed

Whoa! We hit 1k! How about that! Thank you so much, Fellow Workers!