The #NOTplaying Podcast

With the next generation of videogame consoles imminent, we thought we'd take some time to reflect on some of the more notable events of the past 7ish years. The highs, the lows and the outright weird. In other news, Rob remembered that Star Wars Squadrons is the game he's been waiting for forever... Contact us on Email at: notplayingpodcast@gmail.com Follow us on Twitter: @notplayingpod You can f...

Sorry for our tardiness this month, but we were dearly holding on for some more information on the next gen console launches before we recorded and Sony weren't that forthcoming until last week! On this episode we're finally talking prices, release dates and which platform might have the brightest future. Last minute plot-twists ahoy! Also Will & Rob have been dabbling in a bit of Wasteland 3, Mar...

We've been holding this one back a bit to give everyone a proper chance to play it, because naughty dog's long awaited follow up isn't exactly something you can marathon through. It's relentlessly bleak, torturously long-winded, but also probably the best game anyone will play this year, or decade even. So here's Will & Rob spoiling the absolute shit out of it for Marcus, who kindly volunteered to...

There weren't any dancing pandas at this year's Ubisoft 'Forward' online event the other week, but they made up for it with some 'actual' gameplay (finally) of the imminent Assassin's Creed Valhalla and the surprise reveal of a new Far Cry game! And since we've all been stuck at home for the most part, both Rob & Will have been charging through Suckerpunch's Ghost of Tsushima, so have much to shar...

The Summer of Games keeps on swinging in lieu of there being any proper E3 this year and on this edition of the #NOTe3 show we're taking our first look at the Playstation 5, as well as the first batch of games that will be available for the system, a new X-Wing game (Finally!) in EA's Star Wars Squadrons and a load more juicy details on the eternally and torturously delayed Cyberpunk 2077. And as...

So E3 is definitely cancelled this year, but all that news has got to go somewhere and it looks like Geoff Keighley is on the right track, beginning what looks likely to be a regular drip feed of announcements over the entire summer to begin preparing us for the new console generation kicking off at the end of the year. So on this week's show, we spend most of our time picking over the various mor...

We're still in lockdown, but Marcus finally got his hands on the game he's been anticipating for over a decade, Rob's finally sunk his fangs into Assassin's Creed Odyssey with a dabbling of Disco Elysium on the side and some co-op fun in Divinity Original Sin 2 and well, poor old Will is in a bit of a gaming funk. So much so that he's even given the new Fallout 76 Wastelanders expansion (?) a spin...

It's been a while since we last posted an episode and to be honest we weren't expecting to be back with you so soon, but then a mutant plague got inflicted upon the world and we're all holed up in our various hobbit holes with not very much to do. There's always gaming though and oh how very much we've fallen back on our erstwhile hobby of choice. We've been subscribing to various online services,...

Happy 200 episodes to us! And what better time to chime in on all those 'End of Decade' lists that have been filling up every corner of the internet over the past couple of months? Well, better late than never. We were originally gonna just hit the highlights since the podcast started in 2013, but 10 years is a nicer, rounder number. Enjoy! Contact us on Email at: notplayingpodcast@gmail.com Follo...

Happy New 2020! On this suitably festive episode Marcus and Rob are quizzed by Will (literally), we run through some of the games we've recently been playing and then choose our favourite games of 2019. Contact us on Email at: notplayingpodcast@gmail.com Follow us on Twitter: @notplayingpod You can find the show notes for this show at www.notlistening.co.uk If you're listening on iTunes, please gi...

This month's episode is possibly the most legit recording we've done in a while, with each of us having played at least one game from 2019! Rob's even bought a Switch (finally!). Before that though, we discuss EA's triumphant apology to Star Wars fans, Jedi: Fallen Order, Obsidian's successful but slight The Outer Worlds and the latest entry in the Devil May Cry series released earlier this year....

This month we've been smashing through our backlogs once more! Rob's been sadistically losing the will to live in Metro Exodus, Will has been using his commute to finish up the remastered-for-switch Final Fantasy XII & Marcus has mostly been hunting monsters in Monster Hunter World. All this and much much more on a pile o' shame focussed #NOTplaying Podcast! Contact us on Email at: notplayingpodca...

So this episode was originally supposed to be with you a little sooner, but we've had some illness and family issues to deal with and then Sony & Microsoft decided to run their online announcement streams on the night we were going to record so you're getting the september episode right at the end of the month rather than somewhere in the middle of it. If there's any upside to all of this it's tha...

Nostalgia is a funny old thing. It can turn even the sanest minds into dribbling wrecks at the mere whiff of childhood happiness. And don't those publishers know it. Why spend hundreds of man-hours coming up with original content when there are all those new platforms to have things ported to and why indeed make a new Final Fantasy game, when you can just mine an existing one? And so it was that t...

Google announced more details about it's 'Stadia' streaming platfrom prior to E3 and so it's shadow loomed large over the conference. Ubisoft seem to be embracing it, as do Bethesda & Electronic Arts, but where will this leave the first party publishers? Will consoles become a thing of the past as local processing becomes more and more irrelevant? On this episode, we attempt to answer these questi...

This being a videogames podcast, what else could this month's episode possibly be about? Yes. It's that time of year again where we go through all the announcements at this year's E3 event in Los Angeles, the mecca of all that is gaming. The annual event that sets the agenda for what we'll be interacting with for the next 12 months and while this year certainly had it's fair share of pulled punche...

It's been about a week or so since the last post-apocalyptic shooter came out and I'm not even talking about Rage 2 - which kicks of this month's episode, with Will having given it a good once over. Rob's found himself getting sucked into the actual real-life sport that is Formula 1 after picking up Codemasters' F1 2018 for a song and Marcus probably leads the charge with some of the wackiest E3 p...

After a few lacklustre episodes (we just hadn't had time to play much of anything new - sorry!) we're making it up to you this month with an absolutely packed show. First up we have to address some recent sequel announcements of the vampiric and borderlands variety, as well as the reveal of Google's new games streaming service, Stadia. Will's been on post apocalyptic shooter duty with Far Cry New...

There's been a fair amount of news and controversy surrounding the Star Wars franchise and it's current usage in videogames recently, not least of which is the apparent level of de-satisfaction being levelled at EA's channelling of it. There's even been rumblings of Disney's own 'Lucasarts' trademark being resurrected from the ashes (though this episode was recorded a while before that). So here's...

It's only February and already we have some games that might be in the conversation for Game of the Year 2019: Apex Legends, Metro: Exodus, Slay the Spire, Tetris 99, Resident Evil 2... We've also had Kingdom Hearts 3, Anthem, Far Cry: New Dawn & Crackdown 3. Good or bad, one thing you can be sure of is that at time of recording, we've #NOT played any of them. We might not be on the bleeding edge...

It's the start of a new year so what better time for us to once again cast our beady eyes into the future and run through some of the games coming out in 2019 that we're most enthused about. Contact us on Email at: notplayingpodcast@gmail.com Follow us on Twitter: @notplayingpod You can find the show notes for this show at www.notlistening.co.uk If you're listening on iTunes, please give us a revi...

It's that time again, but we've gone for a slightly different approach in discussing our games of the year this time. Well, we've pretty much wholesale thieved Polygon's 'The Besties' 'Battle Royale' format - where we arbitrarily seed our shortlist of games by a number of different criteria and then let them face off against one another until there is one victor. That was the intention anyway. Lis...

Rockstar's latest magnum opus is upon us amidst a sea of controversy over working conditions and old-school design decisions and yet we still can't tear ourselves away from it. On this month's show we're looking at the Good, the Bad & The Ugliness of Red Dead Redemption 2. Contact us on Email at: notplayingpodcast@gmail.com Follow us on Twitter: @notplayingpod You can find the show notes for this...

It's just Rob & Iain this month and both are still quite entrenched in Spider-man. They did manage to get to some other things though, namely the latest (& concluding) installment of Tomb Raider, Survios' boxing movie tie-in, Creed: Rise to Glory & Overkill's take on the relentless Walking Dead franchise. Contact us on Email at: notplayingpodcast@gmail.com Follow us on Twitter: @notplayingpod You...

Spider-man! Spider-man! If there's a game to lead with this month this one can! You heard it right. Both Rob and Iain have been playing Sony & Insomniac's Arkham-level treatment of Marvel's most beloved and iconic superhero, while Will has been wrestling with South Park: The Fractured But Whole & Wolfenstein 2: The New Colossus and Marcus has been up to more Zeldaing in Hyrule Warriors on the WiiU...