Rapid Reviews Radio

On this episode of the podcast, co-hosts Kiley Wilde and Pete Beckett are joined by a very special guest, Paul Helman the co-developer of the action platformer Horace. We discuss, at length, the development of Horace, from concept to release, their experience of working with publisher 505 Games and the several ports to other consoles. We then talk about Paul’s past with game development and how he...

On this episode of the podcast, co-hosts Kiley Wilde and Pete Beckett are joined by 2 guests, “friend of the show” Miketendo64 and owner of NintyBuzz Leon Fletcher to help us do our first impressions of The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom. We talk first impressions, performance on the Switch, our likes and dislikes, as well as our opinions on some of the new characters featured. We hope you...

On this episode of the podcast, co-hosts Kiley Wilde and Pete Beckett are joined by regular contributor and current “chat chad” Brent to discuss the recent state of things over at Microsoft and Xbox. We discuss the critical reception to Redfall, including it’s Metacritic score, whether the calls for Phil Spencer to be fired are justified and what the panel feels Xbox needs to do to ensure that the...

On this episode of the podcast, co-hosts Kiley Wilde and Pete Beckett discuss the biggest and most interesting news stories that came across our feeds in the last 2 weeks, including: Kotaku journalist posts on Twitter that the site have been blocked from Tear of the Kingdom previews by Nintendo https://twitter.com/ethangach/status/1651226560286818306?t=ILIBU9kI3e2aUOu0lC9vow&s=19   Teaser trai...

WARNING, SPOILERS AHEAD On this episode of the podcast, co-hosts Kiley Wilde and Pete Beckett are joined once again by “friend of the show” Miketendo 64, to discuss (in full detail) the Super Mario Bros Movie. We discuss our initial thoughts of the movie, the early controversy in terms of the casting of the actors, thoughts after the first trailer, before delving head first into the plot of the mo...

On this episode of the podcast, co-hosts Kiley Wilde and Pete Beckett delve into a back catalogue of news that's been building for the last couple of weeks, including: An April Fools joke that turned out to be real, the Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog was announced and released April 1st https://www.videogameschronicle.com/news/sega-has-released-a-surprise-sonic-murder-mystery-game-for-free/ but...

On this episode of the podcast, co-hosts Kiley Wilde and Pete Beckett are joined by regular contributor and “friend of the show” Miketendo64 to discuss our recent visit to W.A.S.D. To those who aren’t in the know, W.A.S.D is a gaming convention in London UK with a heavy focus on showcasing games from various independent studios. Mike and Pete recently visited for their 2nd year. What did we think...

On this episode of the podcast, co-hosts Kiley Wilde and Pete Beckett dissect and discuss some of the news stories that caught our eye from the past week, including: A video game based on the TMNT comic mini series The Last Ronin is currently in development https://www.videogameschronicle.com/news/a-darker-more-mature-teenage-mutant-ninja-turtles-game-is-in-development/   Lance Reddick will featur...

In this episode, co-hosts Kiley Wilde and Pete Beckettare joined by previous guest and friend of the show Richard Atkinson @nintenmau5 to do a full and Frank discussion surrounding the Last Of Us Season 1. We discuss the highs, the lows, the emotional moments, and everything in between We hope you enjoy the show. Thank you again to Richard for joining us, you can following him on Twitter https://t...

In this episode, co-hosts Kiley Wilde and Pete Beckett talk spoilers with Episode 7 and 8 of The Last of Us TV show, before we discuss the timeline of events and the fallout from Microsoft’s attempted acquisition of Activision Blizzard. We discuss the early stages of the deal, including the breaking of the news on various large news outlets like BBC News, to the fighting between Microsoft and Sony...

In this episode, co-hosts Kiley Wilde and Pete Beckett talk spoilers with Episode 6 of The Last of Us TV show, before firing in to the biggest and most discussion worthy news stories from the past week in Video Games: Nintendo confirm they are skipping E3 https://www.videogameschronicle.com/news/nintendo-confirms-it-will-not-attend-e3-2023/ Suicide Squad: Kill The Justice League confirmed to be al...

In this episode of the podcast, hosts Kiley Wilde and Pete Beckett are joined by Resobaso and ColdDeath from the Turn Based Cynics podcast to have a discussion around controllers from various generations. Based solely on the previous week where Kiley stated the Gamecube controller was bad, we discuss some personal favourites, a few bad ones and some controversial opinions about some well regarded...

In this episode of the podcast, hosts Kiley Wilde and Pete Beckett start by discussing Episodes 4 and 5 of The Last of Us TV show, including likes, dislikes and fears for the future of the show, as well as a short We’ve Got This mental health section. After, we discuss the recent Nintendo Direct that took place on the 8th February 2023, where we breakdown (in order) all that was shown, our general...

In this episode of the podcast, hosts Kiley Wilde and Pete Beckett start by discussing Episodes 2 and 3 of The Last of Us TV shows, including likes, dislikes and fears for the future of the show, as well as a short We’ve Got This mental health section. After, we discuss the biggest and hardest news stories of the week, including: Several live service games are due to be culled in the coming months...

In this episode of the podcast, co-hosts Kiley Wilde and Pete Beckett talk about the recent first episode of The Last of Us tv show. We talk at length about it, from first impressions to the set design, character portrayals by the actors and where we think the show will go. We finish the episode by comparing the show to previous TV based adaptations of video games properties We hope you enjoy the...

In this episode of the podcast, co-hosts Kiley Wilde and Pete Beckett talk again for the first time in the new year and discuss the upcoming games in the first half of the year. We only talk about some games that interest us, or requires a small amount of discussion and only those games that have confirmed release dates We hope you enjoy the show. Please leave us a comment, share the podcast on so...

In this episode of the podcast, co-hosts Kiley Wilde and Pete Beckett are joined by previous contributors to the podcast TheFinalTilt and Brent to help us with the big show, Game of the Year 2022. We go over the selections made, discuss each game and why they were nominated for the GOTY show and pit them together in a 16 game bracket and whittle them down to just one, the Rapid Reviews Radio Game...

In this episode of the podcast, host Pete Beckett is joined by regular contributor to the podcast Nana Marfo, to help discuss the recent Geoff Keighley awards, also known as The Game Awards. We discussed all of the winners and losers of the event, the games and people who took away trophies on the night, what announcements were made and Bill Clinton! A big thanks to Nana for stepping in and fillin...

In this episode of the podcast, hosts Kiley Wilde and Pete Beckett discuss the biggest news stories of the week, including: Halo Infinite's Multiplayer Director has now quit 343 Industries https://www.videogameschronicle.com/news/halo-infinites-multiplayer-director-has-quit-343/?fbclid=IwAR2v9U-hF-JMTMsZzzYt9IdMIFemsPyQRr5hp8tw0KiDurSb9cwGJmLWJMs 2nd trailer released for the HBO's The Last of Us T...

In this episode of the podcast, hosts Kiley Wilde and Pete Beckett are joined by our special guest, James Alexander, who is an up and coming voice actor with various credits across video games, movies and TV. We discuss James’ career thus far, asking how he got started within the industry, some of the early roles and auditions he had to do, as well as some stories from some of the projects that he...

In this episode of the podcast, hosts Kiley Wilde and Pete Beckett discuss the biggest and most thought provoking news stories this week, including: Yuji Naka has been arrested for insider trading https://www.videogameschronicle.com/news/yuji-naka-has-reportedly-been-arrested-as-part-of-the-square-enix-insider-trading-investigation/ Volition will soon become a part of Gearbox https://www.videogame...

In this episode of the podcast, hosts Kiley Wilde and Pete Beckett are joined by composers Daniel Lindholm and TJ Martin to help us discuss the recent post that was released by Mick Gordon, composer of DOOM (2016) and DOOM Eternal soundtracks and OST's, who has refuted director Marty Stratton's claims that were posted on Reddit in 2020. The TLDR: Marty Stratton of id Software accused Mick Gordon o...

In this episode of the podcast, hosts Kiley Wilde and Pete Beckett are joined by Jonathan Ober to discuss and speculate on the recent news that EA and Marvel have made a partnership for 3 EA developed games. https://news.ea.com/press-releases/press-releases-details/2022/EA-and-Marvel-Entertainment-Announce-a-Multi-Title-Collaboration-to-Make-Action-Adventure-Games/default.aspx We also talk briefly...

In this episode of the podcast, hosts Kiley Wilde and Pete Beckett discuss the biggest, baddest and most thought-provoking news stories from this week in gaming, including: God of War Ragnarok has a variety of different graphical and performance modes including a 120FPS mode https://www.videogameschronicle.com/news/god-of-war-ragnaroks-graphics-settings-have-been-confirmed/ UK Regulators are askin...

In this episode of the podcast, hosts Kiley Wilde and Pete Beckett discuss the biggest, baddest and most thought-provoking news stories from this week in gaming, including: Callisto Protocol had been cancelled in Japan https://www.videogameschronicle.com/news/callisto-protocol-cancelled-in-japan-after-developer-decides-against-cuts/ COD:MW2's release on Friday reveals the data on the disk is just...