Player 2's Podcasts

The core crew is back together. Hewso is back from a fantastic, food-fueled trip to Ken (who is also present)'s homeland, and Tim is sneaking his voice is before, ironically, buggering off to Australia for a week and change. It's the sort of disorder that used to be defined as normal, and as such, it's kind of cozy and comforting to be back on this metaphorical couch. Speaking of couches - this ep...

PAX is done, and it appears that we all survived! The same can't be said for all of our internet connections, however, and so our ninety-fifth has become a two-person adventure. Time is joined by Cat for the first time in, probably, pre-plague times? And yes, we know that plague does not equal virus, but to make this awkward word selection work, Tim has been digging into a certain game that is cho...

It’s PAX time baby! That’s right the P2 crew invaded PAX Australian en masse and in the process took over the Audio Technica Booth (thanks guys!) to record this very podcast. There was a common theme here, just like an episode of South Park the message isn’t about the games, but the friendships renewed along the way. Join Hewso, Sarah, Jess, Shaun and Matto as they dive into the PAX floor, some th...

We've been flipped around! upside down! inside out! Back to front! Odds in and evens out! Or, in much simpler terms, Tim is hosting two episodes in a row. The reason for this clear break of structure and protocol? We'll be bringing you our next episode from the floor of PAX Australia, which he won't be around for thanks to... oceans... and things. Since we're shaking up the norm for this episode,...

What a strange year for new releases this one continues to be. One episode we’re swamped and have to hack and trim when deciding what the cover, the next we’re looking between the dust bunnies on the floor. Well, there was that Lego fighting game, but Hewso seemed a bit traumatised by the experience and didn’t really want to talk about it post publishing obligations… It’s Tim who dragged him on to...

The classic crew is back: Hewso, Ken and Tim headline this one. Unsurprisingly, it's all about that there Gamescom thing that's been happening over in Germany. Spoiler, of sorts: we thought that they actually did a pretty good job this year. Not that any of us were actually there, mind. Tim attended once, back when it was still held in Leipzig, and says that covering it in person is something of a...

Back to normal! We have three members (Tim, Steve and Rob) and three fairly up-to-date games to talk about. We say fairly because, well, a couple of weeks has become a long time in video games. Shit's crazy now - when we were still floppy-haired youngsters, news cycles were monthly and things like news and reviews were printed on this strange substance called paper. We also mostly had bugger-all t...

It would be nice if the potholes in the road were to start to fill in soon. Player 2 members are just falling like (very handsome and/or beautiful, obviously) flies at the moment! As such, we've ended up with another two man show. At least we had Hewso's veteran leadership to get us through, although his regular microphone also decided that the night of recording would be a fantastic time to die,...

A bit of an odd one, this fortnight. A mix of Tim forgetting about an encroaching holiday season and everyone (both at Player 2 and, seemingly, the rest of the entire world) being sick, we ended up recording early with a skeleton crew. That is to say, Ken showed up to save all of our hides. This basically gave Ken an excuse to talk about how good that new Top Gun movie is instead of a videogame (s...

Food. Seriously, how good is it? This week's host Matt is all about food. Cooking, preparing, eating. Food is life. So with Matt in charge and really wanting to talk about food after spending the day cooking an American 4th of July feast, that is what the team did. Although being a gaming podcast we do link the two together to talk about all things food and video games. There is a strong history o...

It was a bit bumpy and all-over-the place, but this year's E3-only-not-really-E3 was, if anything, perhaps better than expected. Nobody covering it seems to have gotten doxed, either, so that's an added bonus. While following everything was a little draining, many folk at Player 2 did their darndest.  Of course, those who did their absolute best probably need some more sleep as a result of the abs...

E3 is dead! Long live E3! Surely enough, E3 is insisting that it is in fact not dead, but as stubborn as those cries are, the voice behind them is weak and we're pretty sure also coming from an UCU room. The season, however, is looking to live on. Sony has bestowed a State of Play video on us already, and our crew give their initial impressions of this, as well as taking few stabs at what the othe...

As Australia emerges from nearly a decade of darkness, bleary eyed, tepidly tip-toing into the sunlight; cautiously checking for landmines lest the suddenly greener grass turn out to be a mirage, Player 2's PixelCast has turned eight-four, and so we've taken a hard right and steered directly into games that paint a future of chaos, destruction or utter dispiriting bleakness. Or possibly a mix of t...

Gaming is getting strange. So strange, in fact, that editor-man himself, Matt Hewson, has had to come back down to Earth from whatever satellites he's been bouncing around to try and make heads and/or tails of it all. Whoever thought that you might offload such respectable IP as Deus Ex and Tomb Raider so that you could blow all of it on a bunch of scammy JPEGs? Somebody at Square Enix, apparently...

We're all about the silver and bronze medals this episode, pouring one out for the also rans that did pretty well but have managed to get left out of much of the retro love the envelopes the YouTubes, magazines and websites of the current era. Be warned, however, as Tim has a new enabler: Nick Getley has joined the crew and brough a whole munch of Sega kid vibes along with him. Fortunately for eve...

Full fat once again, this episode ditches the skim milk and returns to your ears with Ken hosting and Tim and Steve following in tow. They've been sitting on the sofa (or, erm, at a desk) and playing videogames over the past couple of weeks, or at least they were when gaming news bombs weren't dropping all around them. Seriously - what a wild couple of news weeks! Rarely do we get so much outside...

We’re coming in slim ‘n light, here. After a few episodes got a bit away from us in terms of length, we’re really reigning things in again here. It’s probably just a one-off product of circumstance, mind. Tim and Ken found themselves alone, mics set nice and low and uncomfortably romantic mood lighting surrounding them. So they just decided to talk a bit about what they’ve been playing. Well, okay...

The games, they are suddenly a-coming, and we’re all struggling to keep our lives in order and under control. Time is now meaningless, everyone has somehow logged 900 hours into Elden Ring and we let Steve run the first half of the episode for almost a full hour because we honestly couldn’t tell if it was already midnight, or just three minutes past when we started. Ken and Tim sit in on the spare...

We're still in the first quarter, and already 2022 has stared some pretty shitty years right in the eye and, without blinking, shrugged and given a wholly earnest "hold my beer". As such, when thrust back into the host chair, Tim decided it may be time to look back rather than forwards. This episode, then, is dedicated to the year 1991. But also kind of 1990 and 1992, because international release...

Hewso is back! Maybe. At the very least, he's back for this episode to talk about playing games before his wrist is slashed open and all of his tendons knitted together into a slippery, wet skipping rope. Or possibly just more mundane surgery. One or the other. Appropriately, though, he won't be doing the procedure on himself at home, and so it's fitting that Ken leads him and Tim through a trip d...

Welcome! Welcome, one and all, to the trash fire that is 2022. It’s only February and already everything is completely nuts. A mix of a raging pandemic, busted online infastructure and the domino effects of both of these have resulted in us returning a couple of weeks later than planned, but we fully intend to power forward with out regular schedule for the rest of the year now that we’ve gotten o...

It is time to ring the bell on another year from hell It’s time to finally slow down, sleep and lay   But don’t relax just yet, you see I have a bet That 2021 still has a curveball to send your way   Just as you were feeling kind of sappy, overall, just all-round happy A demon in disguise comes to make you pay   You see Jolly Old Saint Nick has been replaced by a giant prick And he is here to once...

And just like that, the year is almost over. It’s been a wild ride, at once too fast, yet also far too long. For our last (regular) episode of the PixelCast for 2021, then, Ken has decided that we should take a look back at what has been the sequel to 2020: a year at once more hopeful, but then, somehow, probably even worse? A pretty bad sequel by any standards, even considering what it was coming...

The air is getting colder. Or, err… warmer. Depends on where you live, I suppose. The point, then, is that the year is coming to a close and (at least for those who have taken appropriate precautions) the world is starting to open up a bit. Tim could even theoretically go home for Christmas. It would cost at least double what it did in the past, and probably get him a worse flight. But he could th...

When the cat’s away, the mice will play. Or something like that, only more watered-down. Hewso is out stuck in the middle of nowhere, a place where the trees are nice, but the internet still uses a phone line, and as such Stephen has sneaked in and stolen the hosting chair for our seventy-second episode. Somehow, the show got by without turning into a full blown celebration of cardboard. Maybe it’...