Rapid Reviews Radio

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: Gotham Knights confirmed to run at 30 FPS on Xbox Series X|S and PS5 https://www.videogameschronicle.com/news/gotham-knights-wont-have-performance-options-on-consoles-and-runs-at-30-fps/ Activision Blizzard promises double XP w...

In this episode of the podcast, hosts Kiley Wilde and Pete Beckett are joined by Resobaso and Cold Death from the Turn Based Cynics podcast, to help us discuss and possibly answer the question that was posed: What the hell has happened to Sony. Sources used in the episode: "We believe in generations" https://www.gamesindustry.biz/sonys-jim-ryan-its-time-to-give-fans-something-that-can-only-be-enjo...

In this episode of the podcast, hosts Kiley Wilde and Pete Beckett discuss some of the biggest stories that caught our attentions this week, including: Roughly 70 videos have leaked online, showing GTA 6 in an early development phase. Rockstar Games have responded and UK police have arrested a 17 year old for both the hacks on Rockstar and Uber https://www.videogameschronicle.com/news/gta-6-hack-u...

In this episode of the podcast, hosts Kiley Wilde and Pete Beckett discuss some of the biggest stories that caught our attentions this week, including: Game pass family plan officially unveiled as Xbox game pass friends and family plan https://www.videogameschronicle.com/news/the-xbox-game-pass-friends-family-plan-has-been-officially-announced/ 343 have announced a delay to the road map for Halo I...

In this episode of the podcast, hosts Kiley Wilde and Pete Beckett are joined by Kirk, the owner and designer of Frame-A-Game Frame-A-Game is a service that Kirk offers to have your games mounted in an incredibly nice frame, to preserve all those favourite games you have, as well as giving you a piece to stick on your wall to show your love of a particular franchise. We discuss how Frame-A-Game al...

In this episode of the podcast, hosts Kiley Wilde and Pete Beckett discuss the biggest and most thought provoking stories from the past week, including: Koch Media has decided to rebrand https://www.videogameschronicle.com/news/koch-media-has-been-renamed-plaion/ Microsoft are trying out their Xbox Gamepass Ultimate Family Plan https://www.videogameschronicle.com/news/xbox-game-pass-family-plan-2/...

In this episode of the podcast, hosts Kiley Wilde and Pete Beckett discuss the biggest and most thought provoking stories from the past week, including: The Last of Us Part 1 gameplay footage revealed by Sony and Naughty Dog, after "hurtful leaks" https://www.videogameschronicle.com/news/naughty-dog-releases-official-last-of-us-remake-gameplay-after-hurtful-leaks/ New update has been added for No...

In this episode of the podcast, hosts Kiley Wilde and Pete Beckett are joined by 2 previous guests, Jonathan Ober @jonathanober and friend of the show Miketendo @miketendo64 to help us discuss the all-digital future. This comes off the back of the news story where it was stated that Assassin’s Creed Liberation HD was being removed from the Steam storefront on 1st September and, prior to the update...

In this episode of the podcast, hosts Kiley Wilde and Pete Beckett discuss the 2 recent stories involving game developers and members of a studio receiving harassment from sub-sections of the gaming community. The news stories we covered in this episode, with links included are: Ron Gilbert story - https://www.videogameschronicle.com/news/ron-gilbert-will-no-longer-post-about-monkey-island-due-to-...

In this episode of the podcast, hosts Kiley Wilde and Pete Beckett discuss the biggest and most rage inducing news stories (especially Pete) from the past week or so. The news stories we covered in this episode, with links included are: Bernie Stoller, the ex SEGA of America present and SCEA founder has passed away at the age of 75 https://www.videogameschronicle.com/news/bernie-stolar-former-sega...

In this episode of the podcast, hosts Kiley Wilde and Pete Beckett are discussing the final 3 larger showcases of the “E3” Season, where we will be covering Capcom. Square-Enix and Devolver Digital showcases. We talk about the announcements across both shows that we enjoyed, the big hitting surprises and some of the stuff that we necessarily didn’t enjoy. We hope you enjoy the episode. Please leav...

In this episode of the podcast, hosts Kiley Wilde and Pete Beckett are once again joined by recurring co-host Ciaran McGinn to discuss Summer Games Fest and the Xbox/Bethesda showcases. We talk about the announcements across both shows that we enjoyed, the big hitting surprises and some of the stuff that we necessarily didn’t enjoy. We hope you enjoy the episode. Please follow Ciaran on Twitter @t...

In this episode of the podcast, hosts Kiley Wilde and Pete Beckett are once again joined by recurring co-host Ciaran McGinn to discuss Sony’s recent State of Play that aired on 2nd June 2022. We discuss the reveals that were made during the presentation, some of the highlights, low moments, and listen to Ciaran and Pete discuss at length both The Callisto Protocol and Street Fighter 6. Additionall...

In this episode of the podcast, hosts Kiley Wilde and Pete Beckettare joined by Daniel Lindholm @dropkickmonk3y, a Swedish musical composer who has also done work on arrangements for various different games including Resident Evil 6, Yakuza Dead Souls, Lollipop Chainsaw and Street Fighter 5, starting on Season 2. We discuss his body of work, including his early days, the big break into Triple A mu...

In this episode of the podcast, hosts Kiley Wilde and Pete Beckett discuss some of the recent video game news that had peaked our interest this week, including: Fall Guys developer Mediatonic reveals the game is going free to play on June 21st, as well as revealing the Switch and Xbox versions https://www.videogameschronicle.com/news/fall-guys-is-going-free-to-play-alongside-its-switch-and-xbox-re...

In this episode of the podcast, hosts Kiley Wilde and Pete Beckett are joined by 3 guests, Michelle Franklin @MrsDenAsaan, Lauren Clare @LoreWitchy and Luis Alonso @SpaceBoatGame, the team at Recombobulator Games who are developing the game Space Boat. We discuss the recent article and court case surrounding the issue with Balan Wonderworld and the removal of the director Yuji Naka mid project, an...

In this episode of the podcast, hosts Kiley Wilde and Pete Beckett discuss the biggest and what we considered the most interesting and discussion worthy news stories for the past week or two, including: Activision Blizzard's shareholders vote in favour of Microsoft acquisition https://www.videogameschronicle.com/news/activision-blizzard-stockholders-overwhelmingly-vote-in-favour-of-microsoft-acqui...

In this episode of the podcast, hosts Kiley Wilde and Pete Beckett are joined by regular contributor Ciaran Mcginn, as well as special guest TheFinalTilt, the owner of the UK based eSports team Vulpine eSports. In this episode we discuss the journey that he has taken to start the team, as well as their beginnings, before going into the main discussion points, which was surrounding eSports league o...

In this episode of the podcast, hosts Kiley Wilde and Pete Beckett are joined by friend of the show and first time guest Mike from the video game website Miketendo 64, where we cover the video game expo W.A.S.D What is W.A.S.D? Does it have any ties to EGX Rezzed? Where was it held? And most importantly, what games were available to try at the event. Well we cover it all and more in a large amount...

In this episode of the podcast, hosts Kiley Wilde and Pete Beckett are joined by regular contributor and returning for the first time in a while Ciaran Mcginn @theemcginn to discuss the biggest and most controversial news stories from the week including: Playstation announces new changes to PS Plus subscription, merging PS Now into a 3 tiered subscription model https://www.videogameschronicle.com/...

In this episode of the podcast, hosts Kiley Wilde and Pete Beckett cover the topic relating to recent copyright strikes that have been leveraged by some bad faith actors against content creators in the Destiny community, including Bungie themselves! Link to Bungie’s blog This Week at Bungie https://www.bungie.net/en/Explore/Detail/News/51193 We hope you enjoy the episode. Please leave us a comment...

In this episode of the podcast, hosts Kiley Wilde and Pete Beckett cover some of the biggest news stories from the previous week, including: Sony State of Play aired, focusing solely on Hogwarts Legacy, reveals gameplay, release window of late 2022 and showed game coming natively to Switch https://www.videogameschronicle.com/news/hogwarts-legacy-has-received-a-holiday-2022-release-window/ Supermas...

In this episode of the podcast, hosts Kiley Wilde and Pete Beckett are joined by Jonathan Ober @jonathanober to discuss the recent 5th anniversary of the Nintendo Switch being on the market. We discuss our thoughts and impressions on the strong first year, some highlights of games that have left a lasting impression, as well as the sales numbers, comparing it to the downward trajectory of the Wii...

In this episode of the podcast, hosts Kiley Wilde and Pete Beckett are joined once again by regular contributor to the show Ciaran Mcginn @theemcginn to help us discuss some of the weirdest, strangest, and some even downright racist examples of PR marketing in the gaming industry. This topic came up after the recent discussions online regarding the Street Fighter 6 reveal, DICE and EA blaming Halo...

In this episode of the podcast, hosts Kiley Wilde and Pete Beckett discuss the biggest news stories of the week, including: Halo TV show will show Master Chief's face https://www.ign.com/articles/halo-tv-show-will-reveal-master-chief-face The Last of Us TV show not likely to air in 2022 https://www.videogameschronicle.com/news/hbo-says-the-last-of-us-show-wont-air-in-2022/ Paramount confirm Sonic...