Rapid Reviews Radio

In this week's episode of the podcast, Kiley and Pete discuss the news from the last few weeks, despite most of the news stories actually being huge ones from the previous week, as well as getting to grips with new microphone set ups. Why is the episode called this? We explain in the intro, and explain why there wasn't a show last week. News stories covered in this week's episode: CD Projekt in ho...

In this, the first episode of 2021, Kiley and Pete, joined by a previous guest Nana Marfo @Nana__Marfo to discuss the annual award show, The Game Awards, which happened in December 2020. We run through almost everything that the award show had to offer, from the announcements shown, the format of the show, the viewing figures it generated and of course, the winners and losers of the show itself. D...

In this chilled festive chat, Kiley and Pete chew the fat for around 30 mins to close the year out. There are no topics, no news. Just nonsense drunken chat about the year plans for next year and some diversions along the way. We hope you enjoy this episode. Please like, comment and share this podcast, and give us a rating on Apple Podcasts. Follow us on Twitter @RRRadioPod @RapidReviewsUK @KileyT...

In this episode of the podcast, Kiley and Pete are joined by Brent @APOPHIS1989 and Bryan @Rho_Toda1898 to help us discuss, nominate and find a winner for the game the 8th Generation (PC, Xbox One, Playstation 4, Wii U, and Switch) The games nominated are: Kiley’s Choices The Last of Us Remastered Goat Simulator Red Dead Redemption 2 God of War Bryan’s Choices Animal Crossing New Horizons Overwatc...

In this episode, Kiley and Pete, along with Brent @APOPHIS1989 and Millie @msblife_ discuss the 8 games that Rapid Reviews Radio nominated this year. Each person was tasked with nominating 2 games that they considered to be the best of the year, and they will get pitted against each other in an 8 game tournament elimination. The games nominated this time were: Final Fantasy 7 Remake Fall Guys Cybe...

In this week's episode of the podcast, our last news roundup before 2020 comes to a close, we discuss 5 news stories that were considered discussion-worthy by us, including: PS5 Pro rumours ramp up during the week after T3 article is released https://www.t3.com/us/news/ps5-pro-with-two-graphics-cards-is-the-death-blow-xbox-series-x-didnt-prepare-for Retailer CeX is in hot water with customers and...

WARNING. POTENTIAL SPOILERS AHEAD FOR RESIDENT EVIL VILLAGE STARTING FROM 59:50. PLEASE PROCEED WITH CAUTION. In this extra-long episode of the podcast, Kiley and Pete decide to discuss the leaks of Capcom, which have been ongoing and evolving over the last 3 to 4 weeks, and go over nearly everything that was apparently revealed, in regards to their release schedule between now and the end of 2024...

In this Roundtable discussion about the new consoles being released this week, we are joined by Brent @APOPHIS1989, one of the new writers on Rapid Reviews UK, and everybody's favourite antagonist @Resobaso from the Caffeinated Bantercast to help us discuss which system truly wins, and how each console fairs in the current landscape of gaming, with Kiley as your host and Pete as one of the panelli...

Pete has a new microphone so the audio will sound different to normal. In this episode of the podcast, Kiley and Pete discuss what was a very crazy, bonkers week for the news, based on the launches of the Xbox Series consoles and PS5 in the US, and the various issues that people have encountered when in terms of hardware errors. Plus the unusual news stories: Video's doing the rounds on Twitter sh...

In this week’s episode, Kiley and Pete go a bit mad as it was an unusual recording time. However, the news needed to be covered and there was a lot of news this week, including the following: The Medium delayed to January 2021 https://twitter.com/TheMediumGame/status/1324752337206915074?s=19 Company specialising in plates for PS5 shut down and rebranded https://twitter.com/customizeplates/status/1...

In this week’s episode, we are joined by @Colddeath of the @CaffeinatedBC podcast, to help us discuss this week’s topic surrounding the troubled development cycle of Cyberpunk 2077, after announcing another 3-week delay to the game, and Halo: Infinite’s director leaving the project. In addition to this, we discuss the following news stories from the past week: Bugsnax and Destruction All-Stars bot...

In this week's podcast, Kiley and Pete take a relaxed approach again, after a busy month of charity planning, celebrations, and huge shows including crossovers, and cover the biggest news stories from the past week, including: Hideo Kojima announces a new project in the works https://twitter.com/KojiPro2015_EN/status/1319201597117718528?s=20 PS5 review units now being sent to Western journalists a...

WARNING, EXPLICIT CONTENT In this episode, we have some things happening. We are joined by all the co-hosts of the @CaffeinatedBC podcast @Resobaso @Colddeath and @Lady_Sugarcube who have invaded our airwaves, and as a result, we did a very different show. Those familiar with the Caffeinated Bantercast will get the format. Those unfamiliar with the format, we shoot the breeze for about 2 hours, di...

EXPLICIT CONTENT, LISTENER DISCRETION IS ADVISED Apologises about the sound quality, it was recorded live. In this celebratory episode, to commemorate 50 episodes of the podcast, and 2 years of Rapid Reviews UK's inception, we decided to do a massive episode that was streamed live on Twitch.tv/RRRadioPod. In the episode, we had a tonne of guests come on and discuss various different topics: Sectio...

In this roundtable light discussion, Kiley and Pete are joined by friends of the show @DarylBaxter and @Lewis_D_White to discuss all things Playstation 5 vs Xbox Series X/S, from the prices, release date and the very recent acquisition of Zenimax by Microsoft and how Sony could potentially counter this purchase of one of the largest publisher's in the industry. We hope you enjoy this episode. Plea...

In this episode of the podcast, Kiley and Pete are joined by expert derailer of podcasts Lewis White @Lewis_D_White to help us discuss the latest news from the week and some impromptu Jim Ryan based stories that Lewis included: Nintendo Mini Partner Showcase 17/9/20 PS5 Showcase 16/9/20 Michel Ansel leaves the games industry Cyberpunk 2077 PC specs revealed We hope you enjoy this episode. Please l...

In this bonus episode of the podcast, Pete is joined by @Squashpickle fellow Rapid Reviews UK writer, to discuss the recent all digital convention EGX & PAX 2020. After the pandemic struck, EGX and PAX, including PAX Australia, joined forces to put on a 9 day all digital event, that had lots of talks, panels, tournaments et all, with all events taking place at different times throughout the day (a...

In this episode of the podcast, Kiley and Pete discuss more news stories, as the news just doesn't seem to be letting up at all. Pete gets overly excited about a recent announcement at Ubisoft Play and Kiley discusses consumer theories about the Xbox Series X/S. This week's news stories are: Nintendo announces Hyrule Warriors sequel Xbox Series S announced with prices and release date Sony announc...

In this week's episode, a later recording than usual, Kiley and Pete cover more news topics. We once complained that the news was slow, now we can't find enough stories to cover. The news stories we cover this week are: Pokemon Masters EX unfortunate hashtag trends Tom Clancy's Elite Squad controversy Daily Dot article about sex toys and Fall Guys Kotaku UK to shut down Super Mario 35th Anniversar...

In this, another story-heavy week, Kiley and Pete discuss lots of news, including a big breakdown of all the games shown during Gamescom 2020 Opening Night Livestream with Geoff Keighley. This takes up a fair amount of the podcast, but we also discuss 2 further topics (with lots of tangents of course): Nintendo Direct Mini Partner Showcase 26/8/20 Joseph Stanton returns to Halo Franchise We also t...

In this episode of the podcast, Kiley and Pete manage to go off on multiple different tangents, somewhat struggling to cover the news topics for this week: Apple and Epic Games dispute over Fortnite continues Nintendo's Indie World Showcase from 18th August 2020 Zelda Skyward Sword seemingly leaked by Amazon UK DC Fandome event from 22nd August 2020. We also talk about mental health struggles in o...

In this very relaxed episode, Kiley and Pete discuss lots of news from this week, including the following: Fortnite removed from iOS and Play Store after breach of contract Xbox Series S seemingly confirmed Xbox Series X officially confirmed for November release window Yoshinori Ono leaves Capcom after 30 years Halo Infinite delayed until 2021 We also talk about mental health struggles in our We'v...

In this relaxed fit episode, Kiley and Pete discuss the news stories from the previous 2 weeks, which just so works out to only be one story from 2 weeks ago being relevant. Here are the stories we discuss: Pikmin 3 Deluxe announced Rocksteady announces Suicide Squad game Nintendo Direct Mini Partner Showcase 20/7/20 Playstation State of Play 6/8/20 PS4 controllers unable to work on PS5? Street Fi...

In this episode of the podcast, a Roundtable Discussion, Kiley and Pete, along with special guests Shaun Hughes @reviewsbyhughes, Lewis White @lewis_d_white and James Fraser-Murison @Fraseresports to discuss the recent Xbox Games Showcase from 23rd July 2020 and some of the games that were shown during the event Did we all like it? Did we hate it? Listen and find out.... We hope you enjoy this epi...

In this very special bonus episode of the podcast, Kiley and Pete go over the predictions for the Xbox Showcase from them both, as well as Kurt Lindsey and Shaun Hughes, 2 writer's for Rapid Reviews UK, who will be on the future roundtable discussion (coming Sunday 26th July). Then listen along as we live react to the event, with all the raw, unedited reactions, the ups, the downs, the huhs and th...