The Codec Moments Podcast

This week the Prof and Brian have been discussing woodland wetwork and cartoon critters with the controversial (according to Apple)  Kawaii Killer .

In this edition of The Codec Call Andy, Matt and Cev get together to discuss their thoughts about what will happen in Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain based on the 2013 Red Band and 2014 E3 trailers.  The suggestion came from @BrandonKirzeder, so you know who to thank for the idea of making these crazy theories public… WARNING:  May contain mild traces of spoil for  Metal Gear Solid V: Ground...

In this week’s Cost of a Coffee, the Prof and Brian have been playing Fast Rummy by Webgarden LLC.

This week Brian and the Professor are reviewing the brilliant Powerpuff Girls: Defenders of Townsville, from  Radiangames … and the enthusiasm for this game is coming from a somewhat unexpected place…

Have you ever wanted to take out a ninja with a one fingered punch?  This week’s ‘Cost of a Coffee’ game is Gesture Ninja.

Half the Codec Moments team get together to discuss their initial thoughts on the open-world, hack and crash game from Ubisoft, WATCH_DOGS.  In the podcast we discuss: Aiden Pearce Gameplay styles Hacking Driving (or plowing through pedestrians screaming “I’m so sorry, it can’t be avoided!”) Side quests Water cooler moments If you want to wade in on our WATCH_DOGS discussion, if we missed somethin...

This week the Prof and Brian HAVE THE POWER!  They’re reviewing  He-Man: The Most Powerful Game in the Universe .

The Prof and Brian have been prospecting for Gold, Silver and Bronze in the new, old west.  This week’s Cost of a Coffee comes courtesy of Trials Frontier on iOS and Android.

The Prof and Brian are back once again for this week’s ‘Cost of a Coffee’, where they seek out games that cost the same as your daily cappuccino.  This week’s ‘Cost of a Coffee’ game is  Table Tennis Touch .

In this week’s ‘Cost of a Coffee’ the Prof and Brian are investigating a  Fiasco!   No, it’s not another one of Brian’s failed experiments, it’s a new game from Blinking Pixels that is  available on iOS  from 01-May.

The Codec Call this week has the team get together to discuss the upcoming release of WATCH_DOGS from Ubisoft Montreal.  In the podcast we discuss: What we know about the story; What intrigues us the most; What we’re most looking forward to; What we think of the cross-generational aspect; What our main worries are; and our poor knowledge of Chicago (and how to pronounce it like a native). If you w...

Hitman Go is the latest, very stylish entry in the Hitman series of games and has been developed by Square Enix Montreal.  They were originally in charge of developing Hitman 6, the sequel to Hitman Absolution, before restructuring at IO Interactive meant they took charge of the next iteration of the main series and left Square Enix Montreal holding the mobile baby; but with the satisfyingly simpl...

This week we’ve been lucky enough to interview the fantastic Richard Boeser (@richardboeser) from the two man development studio  Sparpweed .  Richard, along with Roland IJzermans, works on games that focus on original gameplay and atmosphere, and is partly responsible for destroying your hand-eye coordination in  ibb & obb  on the PlayStation 3.  Currently working on promoting ibb and obb around...

This week the Professor and Brian are back and have been asked to peer review ‘ The Fourth Dimension ‘, an interactive physics lesson available on iOS that will explain 4D to us poor, backwards three-dimensional creatures (and no, I checked, you won’t need to upgrade to a 4D TV). What’s a tesseract? I hear you cry! A tesseract is a four-dimensional shape which is impossible to view properly in our...

Games often use situations of unanticipated peril for the protagonist as the basis for the action about to unfold; but how realistic is that?  If you were thrust into an emergency situation with little or no warning, let alone preparation, would you be able to survive on your wits alone?  More importantly, have the games you’ve played taught you anything about survival? On this episode of the Code...

Air Tycoon 3 is not Pocket Planes and it’s not for the faint of heart. It’s as complex as say interpreting NMR spectra or… running your own airline. You don’t just buy your plane, unlock a few airports and take to the skies. When buying an aeroplane, amongst other things you need to specify how many seats it will have, how much legroom and the proportion of business class and working class seats....

At the moment Professor Kelvin Harris in away at an international conference, so for this week’s ‘Cost of a Coffee’ we asked him to pre-record something that we could use in his absence.  Sadly, this is what we were greeted with when we opened the files he sent us:  “Hello my name is Brian and I work for Professor Kelvin Harris.  I mostly put the little bottles in the round thing on top of that ma...

For the inaugural Codec Call we invited @lordbritish and @hodgepodge42, aka Dexter Jaekel and Richard Hodges of the Tech Fixation, to join us for a Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes Spoilercast. Please be warned:  This is a spoilercast and as such, may contain traces of spoil for Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes! Discussed in this show: The look and feel of MGS V: GZ (spinning in circles and star...

Ridiculous Fishing: A Tale of Redemption, to honour it with its’ full title, is a marvellous medley of minigames wrapped up in one delightful package.  You are Billy the fisherman, who is on a quest to drop his tackle deeper and faster into the fishy depths than any man before him.  You cast your line and the first part of the game’s triple threat has you using the tilt controls to avoid fish, cru...

Surgeon Simulator is to Surgery, like Pilot Wings is to flying an Airbus A380.  It’s fair to say that it’s not an accurate representation of how complicated surgery should be performed.  You play as a surgeon whom I suspect is called Nigel, going through his basic training, which consists of a game of operation where you smash the ribs with a hammer and rip out some organs.  Once this extensive in...

The premise is simple, you are a cyclist who must negotiate a series of dynamic levels, of increasing complexity… tackle out.  Yes that’s right, a naked cyclist.  The last time that I tried to ride a bike in the buff I wound up on a register and suffering from exposure.  Dennis, our modern day Laddie Godiva, returns in this sequel to the flash game, Icycle.  This time he’s on a quest to find love...

This week’s Cost of a Coffee game is Kane & Lynch 2: Dog Days, which was universally panned upon release.  However seeing it for £2.99 at our local GAME store, we purchased it in lieu of our usual caffeinated pick-me-up.  It’s the game that everyone thought IO Interactive shouldn’t have wasted their time developing.  When I heard this was getting development time rather than a new Hitman game, I w...

Every day in the United Kingdom, we spend approximately 2.5 million pounds on coffee.  I, like many others, think nothing of walking into a high street coffee shop and spending three pounds on my Massimo, Double Shot, Skinny Gingerbread Latte; so why do people baulk at the idea of paying that for a mobile game?  I’m Professor Kelvin Harris, Codec Moments’ resident scientist.  I am on a mission to...

After playing Sirvo LLC’s other game Threes! last week, I was so impressed that I decided to try out their other iOS title,  Puzzlejuice . Puzzlejuice is quite possibly the simplest, most complicated game you will ever play.  Please be warned, as you launch the tutorial it proudly exclaims that “Puzzlejuice is a game that will punch your brain in the face.”  It’s not joking.  Imagine if Tetris and...

As another week lurches into view, it’s time for Codec Moments to tell you about an exciting game you can buy for the Cost of a Coffee!  This week we’re looking at Threes! on iOS. Threes! is a puzzle game from Sirvo LLC which you can learn in seconds, but play all day without blinking; to say that it’s as addictive as the caffeine we’ve substituted it for is, an understatement.  The premise is sim...