Rapid Reviews Radio

On this episode of the podcast, co-hosts Kiley Wilde and Pete Beckett are joined by returning guest ColdDeath from the Turn Based Cynics podcast, where we talk about the games we have been playing including: Street Fighter 6, Forza Horizon 4, Death Road to Canada, Doki Doki Literature Club, Fallen Aces, Diablo 4, PC Tycoon & City Game Studio. We then discuss the news stories that peaked our cu...

On this episode of the podcast, co-hosts Kiley Wilde and Pete Beckett spend some time talking about the games we played this week, including: Street Fighter 6, Super Smash Bros Ultimate, Remnant 2, Doki Doki Literature Club and a big discussion on Thank Goodness You’re Here. We then discuss the news stories that peaked our curiosity this week, including: Sonic Generations being de-listed (kinda) h...

On this episode of the podcast, co-hosts Kiley Wilde and Pete Beckett discuss the news stories that peaked our curiosity this week, including: Avowed delayed to 2025 https://www.videogameschronicle.com/news/avowed-has-been-delayed-until-early-2025/   Game Informer magazine closes after 33 years of publication https://www.videogameschronicle.com/news/game-informer-magazine-to-close-after-33-years/...

On this episode of the podcast, co-hosts Kiley Wilde and Pete Beckett discuss the news stories that peaked our curiosity this week, including: Xbox Game Pass price hike and new “Standard Tier” https://www.videogameschronicle.com/news/xbox-game-pass-is-getting-price-increases-and-a-standard-tier-with-no-day-one-releases/ FTC claims the price hike is “consumer harm” https://www.videogameschronicle.c...

On this episode of the podcast, co-hosts Kiley Wilde and Pete Beckett are joined by friend of the show and returning guest Middle Aged Gamer Guy UK (MAGGs) to discuss their trip to TwitchCon in Rotterdam at the end of June, as well as a discussion about the upcoming Timeless Gaming Convention in August. We hope you enjoy the show. We want to thank Maggs for joining us, you can find him over on Twi...

On this episode of the podcast, co-hosts Kiley Wilde and Pete Beckett are joined by friend of the show and returning guest Jonathan Ober to discuss the Faux E3 season, covering the conferences from Summer Game Fest, Xbox Showcase and Ubisoft Forward. We hope you enjoy the show. We want to thank Jonathan for joining us, you can follow him on Twitter and his writing on Rapid Reviews UK and Miketendo...

WARNING, EXPLICIT CONTENT, contains language that is NFSW On this episode of the podcast, co-hosts Kiley Wilde and Pete Beckett discuss the news stories from the following week (or so), including:  Atari acquires Intellivision https://www.videogameschronicle.com/news/atari-has-acquired-the-intellivision-brand-ending-the-first-ever-console-war/ - Slope’s tweet https://twitter.com/SlopesGameRoom/sta...

WARNING, EXPLICIT CONTENT, contains language that is NFSW!! On this episode of the podcast, co-hosts Kiley Wilde and Pete Beckett celebrate our 200th episode of the podcast by discussing the news stories from the following week (or so), including:  New assassins creed game revealed, long rumoured Japanese adventure called Shadows, which is required to need an online connection to install from the...

On this episode of the podcast, co-hosts Kiley Wilde and Pete Beckett are joined by Tim Triangleface from the Retro Gaming Revival Youtube channel, and a brief appearance by Maggs to discuss the recent news of Xbox’s studio closures. We discuss the studio’s that have been shuttered including Tango Gameworks, Alphadog, Roundhouse and Arkane Austin, the implications it has on Xbox as a whole in term...

WARNING: CONTENT WARNING, NSFW LANGUAGE USED On this episode of the podcast, co-hosts Kiley Wilde and Pete Beckett discuss the games we have been playing this week, and talking about the recent news stories including:  Helldivers 2 will require a PSN account login to play on PC https://www.videogameschronicle.com/news/helldivers-2-will-soon-require-all-steam-players-to-sign-in-with-a-playstation-n...

CONTENT WARNING: Some NSFW language used during the live recordings On this episode of the podcast, co-host Pete Beckett takes you through his and Kiley’s recent trip to the London based gaming convention WASD. In a diary format, he discusses the events, which will be interspersed with discussions with Kiley and a slew of friends we managed to drag in along the way, where we talk about the event a...

On this episode of the podcast, co-hosts Kiley Wilde and Pete Beckett are joined by “best friend of the show” Miketendo64 to discuss the recent release of the Fallout TV series on Amazon Prime. We discuss the plot (non-spoiler to start), key themes, characters and the storylines and the general thoughts, as well as a megaton of lore. We hope you enjoy the show. Please check out Timeless Gaming, wh...

On this episode of the podcast, co-hosts Kiley Wilde and Pete Beckett talk about the games we've been playing this week, as well as discuss the news stories that crossed our paths this week including: Saber founder says everyone likes to “pick on” embracer https://www.videogameschronicle.com/news/saber-interactive-founder-says-everyone-seems-to-like-to-pick-on-embracer/ First apparent news on...

On this episode of the podcast, co-hosts Kiley Wilde and Pete Beckett discuss the news stories that crossed our paths this week including: New all white digital only series x reportedly leaked https://www.videogameschronicle.com/news/images-of-a-white-all-digital-xbox-series-x-console-have-seemingly-leaked/   Job losses happening with sega partner studios https://www.videogameschronicle.com/news/s...

On this episode of the podcast, co-hosts Kiley Wilde and Pete Beckett discuss the news stories that crossed our paths this week including: Mutsumi Inomata has passed away https://www.videogameschronicle.com/news/tales-series-character-designer-mutsumi-inomata-has-died-aged-63/ Toys for Bob reportedly partnering with Microsoft for their next game https://www.videogameschronicle.com/news/spyro-and-c...

On this episode of the podcast, co-hosts Kiley Wilde and Pete Beckett are joined by friend of the show MIketendo64 to discuss the news stories that crossed our paths this week including: 5 mins of Timesplitters Next shared online after studio closure https://www.videogameschronicle.com/news/5-minutes-of-cancelled-timesplitters-game-footage-shared-online/   Akira Toriyama has passed away https://ww...

On this episode of the podcast, co-hosts Kiley Wilde and Pete Beckett discuss the news stories that crossed our paths this week including: Nintendo have filed a lawsuit against the makers of emulator Yuzu https://www.videogameschronicle.com/news/nintendo-says-latest-zelda-was-pirated-1-million-times-pre-release-as-it-sues-yuzu-emulator-creator/   More job cuts announced at Deck 9 https://twitter.c...

On this episode of the podcast, co-hosts Kiley Wilde and Pete Beckett discuss the news stories that crossed our paths this week including: Nintendo Direct Partner Showcase on Wednesday 21st https://www.eurogamer.net/everything-announced-in-the-Nintendo-Direct-Partner-showcase   WB state that Suicide Squad falls below expectations https://www.videogameschronicle.com/news/warner-says-suicide-squad-k...

On this episode of the podcast, co-hosts Kiley Wilde and Pete Beckett discuss the news stories that crossed our paths this week, including the update on last week’s episode talking about Xbox’s state of business update. Tomb Raider collection comes with trigger warning at the beginning of the game from Crystal Dynamics https://www.videogameschronicle.com/news/tomb-raider-1-3-remastered-has-a-warni...

On this episode of the podcast, co-hosts Kiley Wilde and Pete Beckett discuss the recent rumours of Xbox going multi platform and several 1st party games potentially going to PS% and Switch in the future.  We hope you enjoy the show. Sources used for the show: https://www.ign.com/articles/xbox-exclusive-hi-fi-rush-rumored-for-nintendo-switch , https://twitter.com/NateTheHate2/status/17542619998343...

On this episode of the podcast, co-hosts Kiley Wilde and Pete Beckett discuss Kiley’s recent trip to the Debug Awards on 2nd Feb, as well as the Sony State of Play that aired on 31st January. Debug Awards - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-RomSWbAPF0&ab_channel=Debug   Sony State of Play: https://www.eurogamer.net/everything-announced-in-sonys-playstation-state-of-play-2   We hope you enjoy th...

On this episode of the podcast, co-hosts Kiley Wilde and Pete Beckett discuss the biggest news stories that came across our desks this week, including: More industry layoffs have been announced by several publishers/developers including People can Fly, Black Forest Games, Reikon Games and Microsoft https://www.videogameschronicle.com/news/people-can-fly-reportedly-cuts-30-devs-as-scope-of-square-e...

On this episode of the podcast, co-hosts Kiley Wilde and Pete Beckett are joined by guests Daniel Crocker and Andrew Dickinson from Debug Magazine who join us to discuss the newest issue of Debug Magazine as well as their upcoming awards show Debug Awards. We cover how the magazine first got started, the origins of the awards show and how they came to deciding the categories and plans for the futu...

On this episode of the podcast, co-hosts Kiley Wilde and Pete Beckett discuss the recent Insomniac Games hack, where we talk about everything that was revealed, and well as discuss the implications of hacking, and once again ethics in video games journalism. Link to the Reddit showing all the leaked documents: https://www.reddit.com/r/GamingLeaksAndRumours/comments/18lvqor/insomniac_leaks_compilat...

On this special bonus episode of the podcast, host Pete Beckett is joined by friend of the show Miketendo64, previous guests FrontPageRob, Resobaso and Pete's co-host from The Never Watchers Kurt Lewin to discuss the recent release of Super Mario RPG on Nintendo Switch. We delve into various different topics including the definition of Remake and Remaster, and which category this game falls un...