Game Warp

Kim and Elwood look at the adventure game Keeper from Doublefine Productions in which you play a lighthouse brought to life and whose light might be the only way to defeat the parasitic scourge known as the Wither as you journey towards the mountains with your bird companion twig.

Kim and Elwood run down their highlights from this years Summer Games Fest conferences from the indie gems to mainstream hits

Kim and Elwood look at the breakout hit from Beethoven & Dinosaur Mixtape aswell as looking at the fallout which has equally made it one of the more divisive titles of the year. Set in the fictional Northern California town of Blue Moon Lagoon were recent high school graduate Stacey is set to conquer the world as she pursues her dream of becoming a music supervisor. Now the night before she’s...

Kim and Elwood look at the Indie platformer The Artful Escape in which you play Francis Vendetti a teenage guitar prodigy who sets out on a psychedelic and interstellar journey to inspire his stage persona and confront the legacy of his uncle and folk music legend Johnson Vendetti .

Kim and Elwood look at Lost Records: Bloom & Rage a two part narrative adventure from Life Is Strange developer Don't Nod. Switching between the present and the summer of 1995 as reunion between friends leads them to look back at the summer they met, the bonds they formed and what they found in the woods.

Elwood and Kim look at the independent adventure game Sea of Solitude were you play as Kay a young woman whose inner turmoil has turned her into a monster, while she explores a flooded world trying to discover the reasons she turned into a monster while being forced to face feeling which have now manifested themselves as giant monsters she will have to face along her journey. 

Kim and Elwood take on the time manipulation puzzles of The Garden Between developed by the Australian studio The Voxel Agents as a sleepover in their treehouse sees Arina and Frendt transported to a fantastical world based around the memories they've made together.

Elwood and Kim check out the 2019 indie platformer Katana Zero in which you play a the katana welding assassin Zero who can both slow down time and predict the future while at the same time suffering from amnesia as he attempts to unravel the mystery of his past while carrying out assassination contracts.

Elwood and Kim check out the indie game "Orwell" were you get to play Big Brother...no not the kind who gets to task Z list celebs with pointless challanges for toilet roll, but a state operative monitoring a series of subjects as you attempt to uncover a terror plot by digging through thier internet activity looking for clues.

Elwood and Kim share thier favourite video game costumes while looking at who makes a costume, the character wearing them or does the design help make a character iconic. 

Kim and Elwood check out the quirky indie title Doughnut County by Ben Esposito in which you play a hole which grows bigger the more it consumes while you attempt to consume everything on the map. We also share some of our favourite quirky titles

"The Professor" Stephen Palmer ( Asian Cinema Film Club ) joins Elwood to explain his love for the the Yakuza series. But can he convince Elwood there is more to the game than mini games and quirky humour?

Kim and Elwood look at The Gunk an action-adventure game from Image and Form as you play the mechanical handed scavenger Rani and who along with her partner Becks must clean up the slime like substance known as The Gunk which is corrupting the planet surface.

Elwood and Kim return from thier recent break with a brand new episode in which they reveal thier favourite horror games from classics like Resident Evil and Silent Hill through to Indie gems like Oxenfree and Little Nightmare even uncovering a few forgotten gems aswell.

Kim and Elwood look at the plant identification puzzler Strange Horticulture in which you inherit your uncle's plant shop in the town of Undermere. A town were it constantly rains and a dark mystery awaits for you to unravel as you help the residents locate the plants they require while hunting down new specimens to add to your collection

Kim and Elwood review the second season of Twisted Metal as the show shifts gears and finally gives us the tournament we've been waiting to see. We look at the new introductions to the cast, the joy of practical car stunts and try and spot all the references to the games. *Audio corrected - 25/9

We venture to the pale city were a mysterious signal has enslaved it's inhabitants in this return to the twisted world of Little Nightmares, as this time you play Mono who along with or our original heroine Six must venture to the city working together to uncover the secret of the signal while avoiding the twisted inhabitants of this world.  On this episode we review the game, highlighting many of...

Kim and Elwood set sail to the spirit world with Spiritfarer an indie management sim and sandbox action game developed and published by Canadian studio Thunder Lotus Games in which you play Stella, a Spiritfarer, charged with ferrying the deceased to the Everdoor aboard your ever changing ship. 

Kim and Elwood look at their favourite video game soundtracks as they discuss the importance of music in gaming aswell as  how soundtracks have created some of gamings most iconic moments and more!!

Elwood and Kim check out the adventure game "Concrete Genie" as the bullied teen Ash attempts to bring colour back to his seaside town with the help of his magic paintbrush and the creatures he paints. A unique concept which made a big splash when it was shown at E3 but does it live up to the hype? Opening Theme - Dream a Dream provided by mobygratis.

Having already given us a game of the year with "Oxenfree" we were understandably excited to see what Night School Studios brought to the table with thier follow up "Afterparty" which sees you playing as two college students attempting to escape from hell by winning a drinking contest with the devil. Does it match up to the high standard set by thier first game? We find out as...

Kim and Elwood look at two chilled games revolving around organisation and sorting as they look at "A Little To The Left" were players must attempt to bring order to their lives as they sort everything from books and a planner through to pasta shapes while battling interference from the cat. Unpacking meanwhile has you unpacking boxes and setting up rooms as the player works through key...

Kim and Elwood look at the Puzzle platformer Shady Part of Me the debut game from Douze Dixiemes as a young girl called Alice must team up with her shadow to escape a world of surreal dreamscapes.

Kim and Elwood look at Road 96 a first person adventure game set in mid-to-late 1996 within the fictional nation of Petria, an authoritarian country ruled by a dictatorship undergoing a potentially transformative election season. As the player you control several teenagers as they attempt to flee the country through Petria's northern border via Road 96 but getting to the border is anything but...

Kim and Elwood put down their controllers to check out season one of Twisted Metal to see how the vehicular carnage of the games translates to the screen. Set in a dystopian future were the population live in walled cities while gangs, psychos and warlords roam the wasteland with it falling to the Milkmen to run supplies between the cities. But when John Doe (Anthony Mackie) a milkman with amnesia...