The Crate and Crowbar

Chris, Jamie and Marsh get tux’d up and shimmy into the pseudo-sandbox soirees of 007 First Light. Our predictions for the future of this game and its developers are then immediately chomped to mince by the pit of alligators that is the wider game industry. Marsh has released Gold Teeth! The trailer for Clutch, which [...]

Chris and Jamie are joined by Mike Cook to talk about his uneventful recent life as an academic specialising in AI. Then, Slay the Spire 2 summer begins at last and we pay tribute to Marathon’s weird little robo-goblin, the Rook. It’s Mike Cook! And it’s Next Level, Mike Cook’s new book! The book Chris mentions [...]

Jamie and Chris convene from the palatial purple of Quincy Jones’ recording studio to tell tales of indentational trauma, BP garage psychogeography and also some games! Chris has been cutting people’s legs off in Halfsword and thinking fondly of Marsh Davies. Jamie has been rejoicing in Andrew Lloyd Webber’s crystal meth extravaganza Mewgenics. Chris has been playing [...]

Marsh is joined by Graham to chat about Jank, a hot new website for cool people, the best games of the decade so far, deduction game TR-49, frenzied shmup Sektori and joyous platformer Big Hops. Jank!!!!!!!!!!!! Jank.cool!!!! Visit Jank! Wow! Read Jank’s list of the best games of the Decade so far! TR-49 Sektori Big [...]

Jamie and Marsh throw themselves into the depths of Ball X Pit, launch themselves into toilets in Bloodlines 2, and dive cinematically from exploding balconies in Battlefield 6. Show notes: Join Jamie in person on Saturday 29th November at Birmingham Comicon for a chat about getting into games. Ball X Pit Into the Breach Vampire: [...]

Chris, Jamie and Marsh discuss what the f Silent Hill f is about, get systemic in Sword Hero, jump ship in Jump Space, try to pronounce “photogrammetry” correctly while discussing Mind Diver AND take a cathartically large dump on Alien: Earth. Silent Hill f Big-time ambiguity intertext: Henry James’ Turn of the Screw I’ve always [...]

Marsh and Jamie dishonour their families in the oddly quaint Mafia: The Old Country, soak sands in Sword of the Sea, and synergise to the max in Merge Maestro, Kill the Brickman and Raccoin. Show notes: Mafia: The Old Country Sword of the Sea Merge Maestro Raccoin Kill the Brickman You can hang out with [...]

Jamie and Marsh join together to talk sad boys, roguelike birds and frenzied bananas. Birdigo Donkey Kong: BananzaMarsh is making Gold Teeth. You can hang out with us and our community on our Discord channel. If you have a question for a future episode, send it to us via the Questions sub-channel on our Discord [...]

Chris and Marsh are joined by Paul Canavan to talk about draining men (halleluja), the not-so-shy huluds and space-nun zoomies of Dune: Awakening. We do not talk about Donkey Kong Bananza. Dune: Awakening Paul is making Pale Tides. Marsh is making Gold Teeth. Chris is one of the most extraordinarily talented and versatile people I’ve [...]

Jamie and Marsh get pumped, pepped and revved up for the summer games marketing onslaught, and then enjoy the more tangible pleasures of demos in the Steam Next Fest, including: Ball X Pit, Morsels, Bits & Bops, Consume Me, Dispatch and Baby Steps. In this episode, I, Marsh, misremember Peggle’s mascot as Bookworm Adventures’ mascot, [...]