The Cane and Rinse videogame podcast

“Now you’ve really crossed the line.” The Resident Evil follow-up that metamorphosed into its own IP during development, Hideki Kamiya’s Devil May Cry arrived on […] The post Devil May Cry 3: Dante’s Awakening Special Edition – Cane and Rinse No.63 appeared first on Cane and Rinse .

“Heh… you like me that much?” A developer whose hallmark is technical wizardry, Yu Suzuki’s AM2 were responsible for eye-popping innovation throughout the 80s and 90s with […] The post Shenmue – Cane and Rinse No.62 appeared first on Cane and Rinse .

During its relatively short existence, Clover Studio produced a triumvirate of significant and memorable titles; Viewtiful Joe, God Hand (each a candidate for a  future Issue of this podcast), and in between those two, their theological folk tale of the wolf deity Amaterasu and her ‘poncle’ - a diminutive humanoid artist familiar named Issun, cleansing Nippon of demons with an array of celestial p...

“Prepare for unforseen consequences.” In the last of our Half-Life series of podcasts, we review both Half-Life 2: Episode One and Episode Two. Beyond this […] The post Half-Life 2: Episode One and Episode Two – Cane and Rinse No.60 appeared first on Cane and Rinse .

I've got Speedy on my tail, and I know it's either him or me. So I'm heading out the back door and in the other side; Gonna eat the cherries up and take them all for a ride. Leon, Josh, Karl and Joystiq's Sinan Kubba successfully avoid all reference to Marcus Brigstocke's infamous Pac-Man gag as they trawl through the lengthy and patchy history of the most successful coin-op of all time, arriving...

“Am I the only one who understands the meaning of the word “covert?”” Thick-necked, wise-cracking future soldiers shooting the crap out of robots with big guns. […] The post Binary Domain – Cane and Rinse No.58 appeared first on Cane and Rinse .

Doukutsu Monogatari The late 1990s: Inspired by a host of classic Japanese titles, printer operating systems programmer, Daisuke Amaya, has a dorm-mate teach him how to code […] The post Cave Story – Cane and Rinse No.57 appeared first on Cane and Rinse .

“Rise and shine, Mr. Freeman. Rise and shine.” Some twenty years after defeating the Nihilanth on Xen, Dr. Gordon Freeman is brought out of stasis […] The post Half-Life 2 – Cane and Rinse No.56 appeared first on Cane and Rinse .

They will vie for the minds of a populace helpless to escape their grasp. The dystopia imagined by Starbreeze earlier this year in Syndicate bears more than a passing resemblance to that imagined by Peter Molyneux's Bullfrog in 1993. In the more modern dystopia, however, isometric view has been supplanted by a first-person perspective and tactical strategy has been switched out in favour of shoote...

“Hurry! Before Mizrabel uses her powers of illusion to make herself look like Minnie, and make Minnie look evil like her.” Leon, Tony, Darren Gargette […] The post Mickey and Donald’s Mega Drive trilogy – Cane and Rinse No.54 appeared first on Cane and Rinse .

“Stop praying. This is pathetic.” Asura’s Wrath doesn’t so much defy description as demand a lengthy one: The game, produced by CyberConnect2 (best known for […] The post Asura’s Wrath – Cane and Rinse No.53 appeared first on Cane and Rinse .

“Fascinating! I never suspected such things could be.” In 1996 Gabe Newell and Mike Harrington founded Valve Corporation. Employing a team plucked from the cream […] The post Half-Life – Cane and Rinse No.52 appeared first on Cane and Rinse .

It’s still alive, and cannot apologise: Mirror’s Edge We mantle into Volume Two by reflecting on the strange time of 2008, when Electronic Arts were […] The post Mirror’s Edge – Cane and Rinse No.51 appeared first on Cane and Rinse .

In this five-man mega-panel final Issue of Volume One Leon Cox, James Carter, Darren Forman, Darren Gargette and special guest James Batchelor of industry journal MCV and Cane & Rinse friends GameBurst all teleport back down to Pandora (just off Prometheus - no, not that one) in time to try to uncover why Borderlands is so amazing/terrible before the sequel hits (which, handily, industry insider J...

In the epic conclusion to our six part Metal Gear 25th Anniversary series Leon, Tony and Jay review 2008’s spectacular but polarising Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots. A prematurely ageing Snake is sent by the UN to the war-torn Middle East in pursuit of Liquid who still plans to enslave the world. Cameos, Easter eggs, fan-service and inordinately long cut-scenes abound in what to some is...

Melding the comic book stylings of Joe Madureira with Hebrew mythology while lifting structure and mechanics wholesale from other popular franchises, Vigil’s assured 2010 debut Darksiders caught reviewers and gamers by surprise as the sleeper hit of the year. Going on to sell North of a million copies, sequels would follow with Darksiders’ lead character War supplanted in each by one of his equest...

Superbrothers: Sword & Sworcery EP is a collaboration between designer Craig Adams, developer Capybara and musician Jim Guthrie. A ‘none more indie’, multiple high-concept piece which questions certain conventions of game design while paying homage to others. Released first in 2011 for iOS devices, this oblique title intrigues and charms many, but alienates others. Leon, Tony, James and Joshua dis...

“I don’t know about angels, but it’s fear that gives men wings.” Leon, Tony, James and Karl slo-mo dive – sideways – into their recording […] The post Max Payne / The Fall of Max Payne – Cane and Rinse No.46 appeared first on Cane and Rinse .

“Don’t get your hopes up… Not all humans… look as good as me!” Leon, Tony, Darren Gargette and Josh review Nintendo Software Planning and Development’s […] The post Rhythm Heaven series – Cane and Rinse No.45 appeared first on Cane and Rinse .

“We abandoned our countries. Nothing more.” In the penultimate of our six Metal Gear 25th anniversary specials, Leon, Tony, James and Paul Rooney of Ready-Up […] The post Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker – Cane and Rinse No.44 appeared first on Cane and Rinse .

Leon, Tony, Darren Gargette and James get cute with Kirby's Epic Yarn. HAL Laboratories’ pink blob without attitude (unless you regard some of the US box art as canon) Kirby has starred in some twenty Nintendo games over the past two decades. 2010’s Epic Yarn (2011 in Europe, much to our chagrin) was developed by Good-Feel for HAL/Nintendo - a team previously best known for their educational title...

“Ha ha! I died again!” Leon, Tony, James and Josh discuss Capcom’s unusual afterlife puzzle adventure – Ghost Trick: Phantom Detective – from Shu Takumi, […] The post Ghost Trick: Phantom Detective – Cane and Rinse No.42 appeared first on Cane and Rinse .

“If I become number one, will you do it with me?” Leon, Darren Forman, Josh and Sinan Kubba discuss the tenth game by Goichi Suda’s […] The post No More Heroes – Cane and Rinse No.41 appeared first on Cane and Rinse .

This week we discuss LostWinds and it’s sequel. Frontier Developments’ 2008 WiiWare launch title LostWinds remains one of the highest profile releases for that service, […] The post LostWinds / LostWinds: Winter of the Melodias – Cane and Rinse No.40 appeared first on Cane and Rinse .

“So this is the legendary Boss? We meet at last.” In the fourth of our six Metal Gear 25th anniversary series specials Leon, Tony, Darren […] The post Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater – Cane and Rinse No.39 appeared first on Cane and Rinse .