The Crate and Crowbar

Jamie and Marsh convene to talk assorted bollocks about story structure post Jamie’s Roguelike Celebration appearance, Mario’s subbing in for Virgil, and with ineffable patience, Marsh tolerates Jamie not being able to shut up for one second about Splatoon Raiders. Jamie’s Roguelike Celebration Talk Blank Cheque TrailerThousand Hells: The Underworld HeistsSplatoon RaidersSquid School is the [...]

Chris, Jamie and Marsh get tux’d up and shimmy into the pseudo-sandbox soirees of 007 First Light. Our predictions for the future of this game and its developers are then immediately chomped to mince by the pit of alligators that is the wider game industry. Marsh has released Gold Teeth! The trailer for Clutch, which [...]

Chris and Jamie are joined by Mike Cook to talk about his uneventful recent life as an academic specialising in AI. Then, Slay the Spire 2 summer begins at last and we pay tribute to Marathon’s weird little robo-goblin, the Rook. It’s Mike Cook! And it’s Next Level, Mike Cook’s new book!The book Chris mentions [...]

Jamie and Chris convene from the palatial purple of Quincy Jones’ recording studio to tell tales of indentational trauma, BP garage psychogeography and also some games! Chris has been cutting people’s legs off in Halfsword and thinking fondly of Marsh Davies.Jamie has been rejoicing in Andrew Lloyd Webber’s crystal meth extravaganza Mewgenics.Chris has been playing [...]

Marsh is joined by Graham to chat about Jank, a hot new website for cool people, the best games of the decade so far, deduction game TR-49, frenzied shmup Sektori and joyous platformer Big Hops. Jank!!!!!!!!!!!! Jank.cool!!!! Visit Jank! Wow! Read Jank’s list of the best games of the Decade so far! TR-49 Sektori Big [...]