Player 2's Podcasts

There are moments in games where you just want to stand up and applaud the developers. They might be a technical achievement, a graphical flourish or a story beat that hits home, but it really doesn’t take long to find something that makes you sit there and appreciate the ability and artistry of what you just witnessed. It is exactly these moments that the team are talking about in this ep of the...

Notice that fade out music playing a few minutes before you may have anticipated it being due this episode? Yeah, technical hiccups happen, especially in a world still largely splintered by a pandemic. Perhaps it’s appropriate that the last ten-ish minutes of our file vanished for an episode reflecting on an E3 where any publisher showing up with anything at all was an effort in and of itself. Nev...

Ever thought that something just wouldn’t be for you, only to eventually relent and find that it was actually very much your cup of tea? Conversely, ever thought something would be absolutely, one hundred and ten percent be your jam, only to find that perhaps you’d be better off with just peanut butter on your toast instead? Yeah? Cool! That’s what this episode is about, only with video games inst...

Can you smell that? Taste it? No? Actually, you can – what you are experiencing is a paucity of sweaty armpits and unwashed bodies as events such as E3 continue to take place online in spite of the U.S. having gotten its vaccination shit together in a way that… we clearly haven’t. While a potentially life-saving, socially responsible jab in the arm may be at the top of our wish-lists, a chance to...

Welcome to the newly-crowned greatest podcast in the known Universe and beyond! With the former holder of that title put to rest (although, seriously, the Giant Beastcast was great and we hope those guys all end up in equally great places), you must now venture to our corner of the web for all of your greatest-podcast-in-gaming-nay-anything-at-all needs! Being the greatest is something of a theme...

It’s possible that most of the P2 crew hasn’t been playing the games that they expected they may be playing – and hence not discussing the games they expected they might be discussing – over the course of these last few podcasts. The reason? Well, generational transitions are always a bit rocky, but it’s hard to overlook the impact that Covid has had on video games, both in terms of how developmen...

Summer is fading, Winter is coming, and if you try and watch it all in a condensed period of time, Game of Thrones is really long. Not as long as the wait between the books, however, and to tide one over a (wo)man may just decide to sink countless hours into one or two favourite videogames. Tim, Hewso and Shaun are present this week, and this one is all about the big, the epic and the time sinks....

Remember the first time you tried Carlton Draught and it was really bad? Then, thirty minutes later you gave your pint another sip, only to find out that it had somehow gotten even worse. This episode, we’re talking about that, only in reverse, and with games instead of shitty beer. You know, titles like Final Fantasy 14 and No Man’s Sky – games that started out as Carlton Draught but somehow tran...

With new technology comes new expectations. Gamers want their shiny new toy to wow them in ways previously thought impossible. Graphics, sound and gameplay innovation all come at the start of a new generation of gaming hardware and that is what we are looking at in this episode of the Player 2 PixelCast. Join Tim, Sarah, Shaun and Matt as they look back at past generations to talk about moments th...

Genres come and go. They fade into and out of the trend of the moment on a regular occurrence, only to be replaced by another new or reoccurring trend. In this episode of the Player 2 PixelCast, Ken leads Tim and Matt through the conversation around these genres and trends, what they like, what the don’t and what they want to come back into fashion. The bonus is they do their very best to not soun...

Launch windows are often odd beasts. They generally host a range of titles from pretty but shallow games, to cult hits to the rarest of rare, an absolute banger. With this in mind, the P2 Pixelcast team have decided to have a think about launch windows, which games were fantastic in those windows and why Project Gotham Racing is one of them.  Join Tim, Jess and Ken as they dive into their back cat...

2021 really has the hopes of humanity resting on it. But thankfully, all it needs to do is be considered better than 2020 to be considered a good year, a pretty low bar right? Well in the world of video games, 2020 was surprisingly strong so it is going to be a bit tougher for 2021 to eclipse the previous year. Join Matt, Tim, Ken and Jess as they look forward into 2021 to see what is coming and w...

New year, new you. That’s how the saying goes right? Well, what does that mean when it comes to gaming? That is the idea that the crew is exploring in the first episode of the Player 2 PixelCast for 2021. Join host Tim and his cohorts Ken and Paul as they solemnly swear to follow up on their New Year’s Gaming Resolutions and will not forget about them next week. Games:  Cyberpunk 2077,  Immortals:...

It’s Christmas time in town but it is still hard to hide the frown because 2020 is about to get even worse You see, Jolly old saint nick has been replaced by a giant pick, one who wants to put the world under his curse He takes the happiness he sees and throws it to the breeze as he crushes all the joy and spirit in the joint You see those presents under the tree are not what the appear to be, the...