Living La Vita Loca

Hi podfans! ​Welcome to our Assassin’s Creed(-ance Clearwater) Revival episode. It has been a whopping 110 episodes since we last visited the AC universe. Thankfully, we're joined by our regular special guest Fiona who will help us carry all of the tired puns and dead bodies. ​While our last AC podding effort lay squarely in the handheld domain (Bloodlines, Liberation), today we are dragging our k...

Hi podfans, ​As we approach the holiday season, we like to draft in friends of the podcast who we can really trust. You know, the type of people who would never shoot us in the back whilst performing a Helldive for no reason whatsoever... Oh wait, that might have been me, actually. ​What?!? My finger slipped. ​Luckily, @scottmassey83 soon got over it (after a brief period of VENGEANCE) and happily...

Welcome to another edition of #FreeplayFortnightly where we both pick a video game that we want to play and keep it secret from our co-host. We then review each game on the podcast and ask our co-host to score the game out of 10 based on our review. Simple? You bet we are! The games we've picked out for random review this week are: • Uchusen: Ultimate Ploid Battle (2019, Evercade) • Untitled Goose...

David Deckham... Hitler... Gary Wobbly Neville... Who are they and what do they all have in common? Thats right, they all make an appearance in this FIFA World Cup 2026 special from Living La Vita Loca podcast. Why? Well, Rich tries to play a single match in nearly every football-centric video game ever made. His review of this experience really is a spectacle befitting of the biggest sporting eve...

"Hell, I lived through the fall, no problem. But gettin' back to shore, well, let's just say I'm no Michael Phelps" Welcome to another edition of #FreeplayFortnightly where we both pick a video game that we want to play and keep it secret from our co-host. We then review each game on the podcast and ask our co-host to score the game out of 10 based on our review. Simple? You bet we are! The games...

Elliot Carver: "Mr. Jones, are we ready to release our new PODCAST?" Mr Jones: "Yes, sir. As requested, it's full of bugs, which means people will be forced to LISTEN for years." Elliot Carver: "Outstanding." It's James Bond week on Living La Vita Loca podcast! As most gamers eagerly await the first home console 007 video game in 14 years, we're taking the opportunity to cycle through Bond's back...

"Needs more tongue" Welcome to another edition of #FreeplayFortnightly where we both pick a video game that we want to play and keep it secret from our co-host. We then review each game on the podcast and ask our co-host to score the game out of 10 based on our review. Simple? You bet we are! The games we've picked out for random review this week are: • Child of Light (2014, PS Vita) • Oink! (1983...

Everybody loves Master Chief. He's a video game icon. Don't get us wrong, we love him dearly too but it's okay to 'play the field' a little sometimes and see what else is on offer... Back in 2009, it was clear that Bungie were feeling the same way. Contractually obligated to release two further games for Microsoft after Halo 3, they could have easily gone back to the 'John-117 well' but they made...

"Don't f*%k with a witch!" Welcome to another edition of #FreeplayFortnightly where we both pick a video game that we want to play and keep it secret from our co-host. We then review each game on the podcast and ask our co-host to score the game out of 10 based on our review. Simple? You bet we are! The games we've picked out for random review this week are: • Doom: The Dark Ages (2025, PC) • Bayo...

A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away... No keep going... keeeeeeeeeeeeep going... Right, we're here... All the way back on Ep.9 of this here podcast, a bold promise was made by one cohost to NEVER play Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic (2003, Xbox). Fazz has inevitably broken your trust and done the exact opposite by playing KOTOR... Sort of. The results? A well overdue therapy session...

"Posse, Posse, I need you, I need you, I need you on the floor" Scooter, 2001 Welcome to another edition of #FreeplayFortnightly where we both pick a video game that we want to play and keep it secret from our co-host. We then review each game on the podcast and ask our co-host to score the game out of 10 based on our review. Simple? You bet we are! The games we've picked out for random review thi...

Comic books, cartoons, movies, Broadway, video games... Is there anywhere Spider-Man hasn't managed to spread his white sticky goo?! Perhaps we should have done a better job with the feather duster because he's managed to scurry his way into our podcast studio this week as well? No, there are several reasons he's the most popular superhero on planet Earth which, is surprising, considering he'd be...

Fazz is on holiday this week so what better way is there to spend his time off than enjoying a round of golf before the best sporting event of the year, The Masters at Augusta. As we received zero complaints about doing a vodcast last time, we've gone for it again with our Meta Quest 3S and given you a quick tour of Golf+ , one of the best golf sim games you can play in your own home. Jump in...

"Not all those who wander are lost." Tolkein, 1954 "Where the hell am I? What the hell is going on?!" Living La Vita Loca Podcast, 2026 This week, we're off on a first-person ramble through perplexing lands & strange places. For your Easter weekend main course, we're delighted to welcome back our regular special guest Fiona who is ready to regale us with tales of her journey through Blue Prince (2...

Do you enjoy light hearted chat about tight baseball pants and Nazi dominatrices? You do?!? Ahh brilliant, this is the episode for you... Welcome to another edition of #FreeplayFortnightly where we both pick a video game that we want to play and keep it secret from our co-host. We then review each game on the podcast and ask our co-host to score the game out of 10 based on our review. Simple? You...

Welcome to our 3rd birthday extravaganza episode. You know what that means... it's spreadsheet time! Or at least, infographics time...This week, we're using @tomcyberfire's work (shown in our thumbnail) as a framework for your usual auditing enjoyment. We take the top 10 (okay... 12ish) selling games consoles of all time and analyse their top 10 selling video game companions. We work as a team (or...

"Johnny Thundercop is back and he is chill as balls" Welcome to another edition of #FreeplayFortnightly where we both pick a video game that we want to play and keep it secret from our co-host. We then review each game on the podcast and ask our co-host to score the game out of 10 based on our review. Simple? You bet we are! The games we've picked out for random review this week are: • WWF No Merc...

Ghoul-d evening folks! We find ourselves in the company of evil spirits and foul beasts this week. No, we're not referring to each other (although we do occasionally like to play 'Devil's Advocate' with some of our reviews). We are, of course, speaking about several video games we've picked out for judgement... First up, Rich takes on the role of 'Pinball Wizard' in Dragon's Fury (1992, Sega Mega...

"Let's have a look at what you could have won..." Welcome to another edition of #FreeplayFortnightly where we both pick a video game that we want to play and keep it secret from our co-host. We then review each game on the podcast and ask our co-host to score the game out of 10 based on our review. Simple? You bet we are! The games we've picked out for random review this week are: • Spyro Reignite...

A 150th anniversary is known as a sesquicentennial. I'm not sure anyone will be bothered about using a posh word like that around here to celebrate our 150th episode...Yes, we know, we didnt expect to STILL be here churning out poorly constructed opinions about video games either but we've grown rather fond of our podcasting time together which is what matters the most. Perhaps today's...

Feel the rhythm. Feel the rhyme. Get on up, its podcast time... Hi guys! Which discipline are you enjoying the most at the 2026 Winter Olympics so far? Is it Rich travelling around recreating the Little Chef 'Olympic Breakfast' in a roadside layby OR is it Fazz pressing his unprotected face against a well used ice track to sup cheap flavoured vodka? If the answer is any of the above then the first...

Welcome to episode 5 of Dryve January (which has now leaked in February)! We're putting the pedal to the metal this month to provide you with reviews of popular racing/driving video games from throughout the years. 'Micro' is defined as 'one millionth the size of something' which, in reality, is pretty bloody tiny. Perhaps 'Centi Machines' might have been more accurate when it comes to the popular...

Welcome to episode 4 of Dryve January! We're putting the pedal to the (twisted) metal this month to provide you with reviews of popular racing/driving video games from throughout the years. "You know, I have one simple request, and that is to have sharks with frickin' laser beams attached to their heads" We're sure this is what Rich will have been muttering under his breath when the laser on his P...

Welcome to episode 3 of #DryveJanuary! We're putting the pedal to the metal this month to provide you with reviews of popular racing/driving video games from throughout the years. Which phrase is it that Rocky famously espouses in 'Rocky Balboa'? "It's not about how hard you hit, its about how hard you can get hit and keep moving forward. That's how winning is done." We think this phrase perfectly...

Welcome to episode 2 of #DryveJanuary! We're putting the pedal to the metal this month to provide you with reviews of popular racing/driving video games from throughout the years. This week, we're taking a view on a couple of early 2000's heavy hitters. Oddly enough, one entry has gone on to be an integral part of the biggest video game franchise ever witnessed whilst the other series hasn't had a...