Never Be Game Over

Video games! They allow us to make the impossible a reality. To throw us into worlds we could never previously have imagined. To make us experience things far outside the realm of our own lives. To allow us to distract ourselves from our job as a…forklift driver by…playing darts?

Happy birthday, Mario! Yes, as the title declares, superb Mario is now 64 years old, and much like Tom Cruise in a Mission: Impossible movie, he's still throwing himself around with the reckless abandon of a 20 year old. Join us as we discuss one of the most important video games of all time and prepare yourself for some truly preposterous scoring on the part of Sam, the new wildcard.

Let's face it - sometimes someone does something, says something, something so outrageous, so beyond the pale, so unnacceptable, that your only recourse is to give them a good hard public slap. Just so they know that that shit is not cricket.  So join us, as we ready up our strikin' palm, and let you know which game characters are most cruising for a very public bruising.

Goddamn, get ready to go on a journey with this one, dear listener. Two of the hosts of this podcast are sane, rational men willing to have normal responses to things they encounter. But only one is able to stake out the position of describing encountering a game that he has come to love dearly that he also considers to be almost unplayable. Join us - and reveal the maniac in our midst.

Endlessly trot back and forth for bullshit trinkets? Throw you into a battle that you've been given scant instructions for? Literally stab a baby? Let's be honest, games have made us all do some terrible things in our time, both inside of them...and sadly sometimes outside of them. So join us, dear listener, as we turn over the rock and peer into the abyss of wriggling, crawling indignities and as...

Suit up, me 'owd Tenno and get stuck into that fight - time to frag some Gringotts! Yes, dear listener, you're in for a wild ride this week as we dive into Warframe - the game that features the absolute biggest delta between the amount of time that we have spent on it and our almost complete lack of understanding of what is happening within it. Grab your gleep-glorp, engage the neutraxaliser and g...

*saxophone music begins*   Oh, heyyyy there. Be careful with this one, listeners. Let's be honest, people love the podcast, they say it's the best thing that's ever happened to them. But if we hear one thing again and again about the pod, it's that it's not quite SEXY enough! Now, it's pretty sexy. But is it SEXY enough? If even one person called it into question, we'd have to do something, and we...

Ah, the good old days! When men were men and CEOs tested their child's business acumen by throwing them off cliffs. When you could put on a fighting tournament and there were none of these snowflakes complaining about fairness, bleating about 'what do you mean I have to fight a robot man' or 'wait, that other robot man has a sword'. Join us, won't you, as we return to those halcyon days of the lat...

He's the hero we deserve, but not the hero we need. More immediately recognisable than Mickey Mouse. Alleged gorilla jailer. Eternal simp. Endless fountain of optimism and excitement…or is he? Simply put, when we peek behind his constant whooping and hollering, his somewhat fixed grin, his seemingly heroic desire to rid the world of evil, what do we find?     To be frank, is Mario happy?

Oho - shit's getting serious now! After 'SpideyMans PS4' made such an impact on our scores last time, we're not making things any easier for ourselves by diving into a game that, rumour has it, did quite well upon its release a hard-to-fathom five years ago. This episode has it all, Nintendo devotees, Nintendo sceptics, and one man's quest to deal with the terror of lifting up a rock and finding a...

Want to learn more about who the hell we are? How do we know each other? Why are we doing this? What year is it? Find the answer to possibly some of these questions as we begin our first Be Over mini episode, where we break format from our usual ranking and have a more general or hypothetical gaming discussion. This time - if we had a gun to our heads (harpoon or otherwise), what console would we...

Have you heard of the Marvel comics character 'The Spidey Man'? IF NOT, do not fear, as this episode of Never Be Game Over will be extremely clear about just what kind of activities this 'Spiding Man' is involved in whilst also plunging into the disturbing multiverse of madness that is Sam's view of female game characters.   Marvel as we swing incredibly close to the sun on this one. Will our webs...

Zombehs! And other such things. Yes, we're jetting back to 1996 on this occasion to look back at the original and most mansion set-Resident Evil game, 'Resident Evil'. Who will inherit the mansion? Will Colonel Plum do himself a murder with a candlestick? Does Jill become The Master of Unlocking our hearts?   Find out the answer to none of these questions and more - as we get into the timecopter a...

For our first episode, we simply HAD to look back at the PS1 classic 'Metal Gear Solid' (1998) - but please remember, this is a sneaking mission.