Episode 250: 10 Games We Enjoyed During Steam Next Fest – Plus a Handful of Duds
A deep dive on the demos we tried during Steam Next Fest, hopefully giving you a few things for your wishlist consideration.Samuel's games: Reanimal, Birdcage, Lumines Arise, The Killing Stone, Evil Egg, Skate Story, Ambrosia Sky, Cairn.Matthew's games: CiniCross, No More Work For Ito, Opus: Prism Peak, The Remake of the End of the Greatest RPG of All Time, The Seance of Blake Manor.We won't list the duds, but one was Bubsy 4D. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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The 'Games Set in Japan' Hall of Fame (plus Absolum and Ball X Pit)
Following our moderately good episode about games set in Britain earlier this year, we assemble a list of the 10 key games set in Japan. Did we get it wrong? Probably. Plus: a mini 'What We've Been Playing' episode about two recent download games we've been digging!This week's music is from the Persona 4 soundtrack by Shoji Meguro. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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What We've Been Playing (Ghost of Yotei, Silent Hill f, Baby Steps, Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Revisited)
Matthew has Covid! Poor chap. At least he got through all six seasons of Justified while recovering. Here are the games discussed this week: Silent Hill f, Ghost of Yotei, Baby Steps, No, I am not a human, Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 and the latest Golden Idol DLC. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Reassuringly Finite (with Jon Denton)
Music podcaster and former games journalist Jon Denton is our guest this week! Hear about Jon's journey from gamesTM to being pals with The Weeknd.This week's music is from the Super Mario World soundtrack by Koji Kondo. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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The Best Games of 2017
A massive year for games, a bleak year for at least one giant man. One of our oldest and most popular podcast formats is back, more than two years after our 2016 episode!This week's music is from the Yakuza 0 soundtrack by Kensuke Inage and Yoshihiro Arai. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Games media writers Matthew Castle (NGamer, Rock Paper Shotgun) and Samuel Roberts (PC Gamer, gamesTM, TechRadar) talk about video games and their years covering them professionally. Our logo is by John Strike, and our theme tune is by Barry 'Epoch' Topping (@nostoppingepoch on Twitter). Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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