Player 2's Podcasts

It has been and gone, the epic weekend of games, pop culture, tabletops and... well, beer. That's right, PAX AUS has once again passed us for another year. Fret not, dear listener, because the Editorial team of Matt, Jess, and Paul (minus Stephen because apparently trekking around Japan is more important than games) get together in a small apartment near the scene to talk about all the things they...

Somehow, some way, we managed to record a fairly short episode! What discipline! What focus! We jest, of course. It’s short because we had a whole bunch of life stuff making it difficult to record at all, and so we eschewed the usual back-end topic in favor of just a quick chat about stuff that we’ve been playing recently. ‘We’ in this case being Rob, Tim and Sarah. Again! Madness! This is a bit o...

Nice! There, we made the joke. In fact, we made it just before recording started in earnest. Is it a bad look? Maybe. That would be unfortunate, though, considering that this episode is somewhat superficially about things that look nice. Specifically, which consoles do we feel look good say there beside or below the TV... or wherever you happen to keep them. We compile a top 10 (or was it 11?) lis...

We did it, we managed to make a nice, svelte podcast that comes in at (just) under an hour! All it took was to, err… strip things down to a two man show. Those two being mainstays Hewso and Tim (or Hewso & Hendo, if we’re going for a commercial FM breakfast radio tone), and they take advantage of their specific preferences and circumstances to focus this one around the current state of PC gami...

Jet lag is one hell of a thing. It can do shit like let you fall asleep the moment you go to bed, but then wake up three hours later and find yourself unable to get back to sleep for the rest of the night. With that in mind, welcome to the sleepy PixelCast! Tim is back from Europe, where he mostly ate cheese and drank beer in place of sticking his nose in Gamescom, which is maybe a mite inconvenie...

This year just keeps on trucking along. A whole new console launched, and we are starting to look forward towards an absolute deluge of, honestly, mostly excellent-looking games. We may need them, though, as that there new console didn't really come out with very much new that it can truly call its own. This kind of brings us to this episode's topic - the first game we bought for each of our respe...

Listener, be warned! This here is a spoiler cast! With 2025 now having comfortable entered its latter half, we're looking back at a real frontrunner for GotY from the earlier end of the year: Clair Obscur: Expedition 33. With several months having now passed since its release, we figured that it was now safe enough to have a full-throated, in-depth conversation about the entire game. Who is we, ex...

Remember what hope feels like? Yeah, it seems pretty distant to us, too. Frankly, maybe some of you were only just born the last time we truly felt it. But, believe it or not, there was a time when videogames as an industry (yes, even the then fresh-faced XBox brand) felt exciting and bubbly with potential! When we were sliding further into 3D game design, each year brought new landmarks, and expe...

This year just keeps on powering on. Assassin's Creed, Blue Prince, Avowed, Doom, Expedition 33... all of that is now on the rear-view mirror as we somehow rocket towards the second half of 2025. Despite this episode being recorded a full week ahead of the typical schedule, we're still able to bring you hands-on talk of Death Stranding 2 and Borderlands 4! Keeping things new and shiny, we take the...

Somewhere on the wind there is a whisper that a new Nintendo is out in the wild now. You'd barely guess it, though, which feels extra strange considering that it's setting new sales records already. Availability, we guess. Anyway, that's a long way of saying that the Switch 2 is out, but we don't really spend a whole lot of time talking about it. Instead, we talk about... some games on other platf...

Holy hell how are we at this point in the year already. Not only is this episode dropping on the same day as a whole new generation console release, but the focus of topic is Summer Game Fest, probably better known as Keigh3 to those old enough to forget what carrying a sandwich around in a lunchbox most days of the week was like. Gurargh! Will we anticipate things correctly? Tune in next time to...

Oh, how the sets of ten keep on rolling by. With no surprise travel happening this time, we recorded this one on a normal timeframe and hasn't (knock on wood) missed any stories about XBoxes suddenly costing 20% more or some nonsense. Rather, we're looking back at the wow factor that shifting generations can bring. Or, at least, used to bring. It doesn't happen a whole lot these days. But just thi...

Recorded early so that Tim could go traipsing halfway around the world, it only made sense that we focus in on the rise and rise of portable gaming. Afterall, how much big news could possibly drop if we put a show in the can a couple of weeks earlier than usual? Quite a bit, apparently, but caught in the time vortex as well it's not like Hewso knows any better. Dude's just chillin' in the corner p...

Money-money-money, money-money-money... moooneeeey! Y'all hear that? That's the sound of everything being too damn expensive! Seriously, it's getting to the point where Tim is contemplating sending eggs to the U.S. for profit to fix what buying a PS5 Pro did to his savings. Never mind that those consoles have just gone up in price in Australia. Tim isn't in charge this time around, though. In this...

Ahoy! What's this? A new Nintendo console, you say? Everybody knows about it and is already talking about it, you say? Well... would it really hurt to let an additional four people into your eardrums to reflect on the floodgates of Switch 2 opening up and rambling on about what the near future for this console may bring. Unsurprisingly, this is a bit of a long one. The four people in question? Tim...

Ah! Those were the days! Nothing sucked then: games worked out of the box, everybody got along and shovelware wasn’t a thing. Or… maybe not? Surprisingly, resident retro-head Rob Caporetto heads up an episode of the PixelCast that is largely about pondering just how much rose tint we’ve all had applied to our glasses. He’s joined by Renee and Tim as they waver back and forth, occasionally falling...

Recorded fresh on Mar10 day, the 155th Player 2 PixelCast is all about trying to whittle down a list of Switch games. Specifically, the ten games we feel that are the most quintessential to Nintendo's mega-success story. Does the crew include the games you most think should be there? Probably. Do they include every game you want to be put there? Almost certainly not. Blame Tim, then. We put him in...

So many things have happened this year, at once shocking and not-at-all surprising. Planes landing upside down? Yeah, that just about checks out at this point. It's a handy time to be helming a site that's primary purpose is reporting on and writing about videogames.  But even that is a quagmire when it comes to predicting things. Nonetheless, Matt, Tim and Shaun spend this episode giving it a red...

There has been a lot of talk over the past year or so that this current console generation (and era in gaming in general) has been somewhat disappointing. While it's true that there have been some stellar games post-pandemic, and even some all-timers (Elden Ring, Tears of the Kingdom, Baldur's Gate 3), it's hard to feel that the cadence of quality has dropped. Is it largely in out rose-coloured im...

By a small act of mercy, our first episode for 2025 squeaked out mere hours before Nintendo caved and dropped a svelte video showing off (what we mostly already knew about) the Switch 2 at long last. It would have landed earlier, and Matt now has a second arsehole as punishment. We did mention in that episode that the leaks were very clearly legit, and that held up nicely... and has allowed the Pi...

Excuse me. What's that. Look... my clock is obfuscated by a half empty bottle of rum that I stole from Hewso when he wasn't at home. No, he doesn't know how I got in. No, he didn't even know that I was there. Yes, mentioning it here where he can see it is probably a mistake. No, I don't know what the date or time. Did you not hear me about the clock! Well... yup... it sure is 2025. Great start to...

Sleigh bells ring, carolers sing and the village is festive and bright But deep in our heart, we know that won’t last and we are all due for a fright When the season arrives, it comes with surprise, and not a welcome one at that The old cranky bastard storms through our lives while wearing that bloody red hat He has shown up tonight, to put up a fight and end our Christmas cheer He is not here for...

And so another year draws to a close and the PixelCast crew huddles together around their… microphones… that are plugged into computers in different cities and even countries. And, honestly, only Tim is somewhere that could be described as cold right now. He’s not alone, of course – Rob and Hewso are also present to bring the heat. Or possibly be attacked by it. Good ‘ol Aussie Christmas, hey? In...

Ever set yourself up for a BBQ only to realise that your meat isn't really all that well seasoned and... wait... I'm being told that this is, in fact, not what this episode. No, this one is about that time I was led to believe that Grand Theft Auto 3 was a revolutionary gaming experience in a truly immersive world when what it actually delivered was garbage combat that made the already uninteresti...

Ever liked a game that the whole rest of the world just seemed to turn its back on? Well, not to worry – we’ve got your back. Well, unless the game was Loadstar: The Legend of Tully Bodine. That game just plain sucks. But in all seriousness, this episode is about celebrating the games that we loved despite not having managed to uphold the greatest reputation in the wider world. Hewso is in charge...