Continue reading »]]> This week we are examining a book, and not just any book as it’s written by Hugo winning author Greg Bear. We are both massive fans of his earlier works so surely we will both like a more recent book? There’s one tiny flaw, and that’s the fact that this book is a Halo tie in novel and we’re both not exactly massive fans of cash-in attempts on unsuitable IPs.

Can the book change our mind? Does a good author stand a chance of making a good piece of work based on an Xbox game? Does Greg Bear even know what a Halo is? Join us to find out.

Continue reading »]]> This week we are looking at what we’ve been playing recently. There’s lots we play, read and watch that doesn’t need a full show and so we’ve gone through a few of the the things that we’ve been up to.

The studio only fell down a little bit during the recording, so ignore any strange noises.

Continue reading »]]> This week we are examining a film that managed to get very different responses from both of us, Le Quattro Volte. Can an Italian film about a goat herder that contains no dialog or, in fact, much of anything happening at all be a good film? Or is it just so much pretentious bollocks that people are pretending to like just so they can look clever? Listen as we disagree over the film for half an hour.

Continue reading »]]> We start the new year with what we are calling the start of a new season of the podcast. This week, in a special longer episode (why not call our inability to stop talking a deliberate feature?) we run through all of the games that Jon played in 2011, starting with some mobile phone games and ending with some small Star Wars game that snuck in at the end of the year.

Continue reading »]]> This time we are looking at another film, Life In A Day. This documentary is made from YouTube footage and tells the story of a day on earth through the eyes of people who have uploaded snippets of their day onto the Internet.

It sounds like pretentious bollocks, but does the film actually manage to present something thought provoking, meaningful and worthwhile? How good can a bunch of clips from YouTube be anyway, surely it’s all cats doing slightly amusing things. Join us as we find out.

Continue reading »]]> This time we are looking back at the birth of a genre, with what is considered by many to be the first of the proper RTS games: Dune 2.

One of the often overlooked foundations of modern gaming, from these humble origins a whole genre would form, and without Westwood’s seminal early masterpiece, there would be no Command and Conquer, no Starcraft, no League of Legends and ultimately, no World of Warcraft. But how does it stand up today; perenial genius or cultural relic?

Continue reading »]]> This episode we are throwing away what little remains of our street cred and we broke out the Warhammer 40k starter set, Assault on Black Reach.

This starter set gives you a massive 46 models, a miniature rulebook, some templates and an utterly insufficient number of dice considering the number you will need to roll!

Does this boxed set give you a good introduction to the game? Listen to find out.

Continue reading »]]> This time we have left the safety of our nice warm studio and have ventured into the HTMT top secret test lab to play a game of Games Workshop’s Dreadfleet to see what all the fuss is (or isn’t) about. Join us as we play the game and generally get the rules utterly wrong at the most inconvenient moments…