The #NOTplaying Podcast

On this week's show we discuss some of the developments coming out of the recent Quakecon, including more details on how Fallout 76 will work and how crazy the next Doom game will be. Rob's also finally finished God of War, so has a few final thoughts on that and Iain's been playing Sniper Elite 4. All this and more on another jam-packed #NOTplaying Podcast! Contact us on Email at: notplayingpodca...

Yeah. It does feel like a while ago now, especially now the World Cup is over, but we decided to hold back some of our E3 coverage to help nurse the summer drought. So here it is: Our guide to some of the weirder, wackier and outright painful moments of E3 2018! Contact us on Email at: notplayingpodcast@gmail.com Follow us on Twitter: @notplayingpod You can find the show notes for this show at www...

It's that time of year again, when we set our mice and controllers down and have all our disposable downtime taken up with trailers and interviews and gameplay demonstrations of games we won't get to play for month or even years. That's right! It's E3 2018!!! The giant videogame conference that there's absolutely no need to attend in person unless you're one of those lucky people that get's to see...

This month we're talking about the reinvention of Sony's murderfest franchise, God of War, there's also a bit of VR news after the announcement of the stand-alone Oculus Go and we also cast our predictions for next month's E3 conference. 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 yo...

On this month's show we're still in Ubisoft-land, albeit this time of the more far and crying persuasion, as Will does his best to convince us that's it's worth going back to the series for a fifth time. Meanwhile, Rob and Marcus have some stories to share from the recent EGX Rezzed show at London's Tobacco Dock. All this and more than you can throw a Switch at, on this latest #NOTplaying Podcast!...

Nothing much new this episode, but Rob did get a free copy of Ghost Recon: Wildlands with his shiny new microphone (which he utterly failed at recording this month's particular shambles of an episode with) and Iain's been playing it too, so we go on at some length about that. Also: Marcus played something called Gang Beasts and Rob managed to get through the entirery of Alien: Isolation - which is...

On this week's show we finally get into some games we've actually been playing after all the round ups and previews at the turn of the year. Rob & Will have been cracking into the controversial Kingdom Come: Deliverance to a greater or lesser extent, Marcus has been playing some boardgames, Will is still very happy with his Nintendo Switch and Rob managed to make some serious headway with his pile...

On this month's show we're going through some of the games we're looking forward to playing in 2018. Assuming any of them come out of course... 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 review! Music kindly provided by Miracle of Sound h...

It's been a slow year for us on the #NOTplaying Podcast. We dropped our episode schedule down to monthly and that's reflected in the number of games we've been able to play. We've also been leaning on some old favourites too, so even with so many great games coming out over the past 12 months, 2017 has felt like a bit of a snooze. There have been some highlights though, which we would like to shar...

We haven't covered news on this show for a while now, but there were a couple of developments over the past few weeks that we couldn't ignore. First being the incredibly sad and frustrating closure of Visceral Games and the cancellation of Amy Hennig's Star Wars game. Thankfully Sony's Paris Games Week presentation was there to assure the world that traditional single player videogames are far fro...

On our October show Rob's been hacking up Orcs in Shadow of War, Marcus got himself a WiiU just as the Nintendo Switch begins to come into it's own & Iain finally caved on an Oculus Rift at it's new reduced and entirely more reasonable price-point. All this & more on this month's #NOTplaying Podcast! Shadow of War https://www.shadowofwar.com/ WiiU/Mario Kart 8 https://www.nintendo.co.uk/Games/Wii-...

On this September edition of the #NOTplaying Podcast we're looking at what the Uncharted series has to offer beyond Nathan Drake (a lot it turns out), how Friday 13th's troubled launch is holding up, the final actual release of Ark: Survival evolved and lots more besides! Uncharted: The Lost Legacy https://www.unchartedthegame.com/en-us/games/uncharted-the-lost-legacy/ Ark: Survival Evolved http:/...

July was a rough month for videogames, with barely a single release worth discussing. The floodgates are beginning to open though, with the release of Supergiant Games' latest, Pyre - a strange hybrid of RPG and Basketball. We've also gone back to The Division, Marcus is still plugging away at Final Fantasy XV and both Rob and Will have finished Horizon Zero Dawn. We also discuss the tepid launch...

It's turning into quite the long hot summer this year and since we've almost been completely starved of new games for the past couple of months we're just rambling on about bollocks again in this second part of our 'What is an RPG?' discussion. This time we had Iain around to throw his thoughts on the pile. Thankfully it looks like there are a few new games coming out in the next couple of weeks s...

Since we kidnapped Will again for this E3 bonanza, the #NOTlistening crew decided to put together their own 'Idiot's Guide' to last week's proceedings. If however you're looking for something a little more... concise(?), then look no further. After consuming a Netflix season's worth of trailers, interviews & conference stunts from last week's conference in Los Angeles we're here to discuss the man...

It's been a while, but Iain is finally back for the first time in months to talk about what he's been playing this week, including walking sim of the moment, What Remains of Edith Finch and the incredibly badly named but exquisitely well-designed early access multiplayer sensation that is PLAYERUNKNOWN'S BATTLEGROUNDS (Yes - it's so bad we refuse to put it in the show headline). Meanwhile Rob's be...

You may have noticed the frequency of episodes has slowed down somewhat this year, but we've decided to make it count after our announcement of a new monthly schedule for the show going forward. We've got the big guns this week - Will from our flagship #NOTlistening Podcast decided to get involved in our rambling discussion of all things RPG. In this show, we talk about some of our favourites and...

On this week's show Rob recounts his recent annual pilgrimage to Eurogamer's Spring-time Extravaganza @ London's Tobacco Dock, as well as his time spent with Torment: Tides of Numenera for lack of any decent AAA RPGs to play right now - if you discount Zelda of course. And the less said about Mass Effect the better... (suffice it say, short of Adam making an appearance at some point, there won't b...

On this week's show we're mostly talking about Horizon Zero Dawn and whether or not this is the game that justifies getting a PS4 over an Xbox One. There's also the news of a sequel to Rob's 2014 GOTY, Shadow of Mordor, PSVR sells a shitload and more! Horizon Zero Dawn https://www.playstation.com/en-gb/games/horizon-zero-dawn-ps4/ Shadow of Mordor sequel, Shadow of War out August 22nd http://www.e...

It's another half-arsed episode this week unfortunately. Just Rob on his tod again with a quick update of what's going on game-wise for him ATM. Actually, let's just stop this third person pretense and allow me to indulge myself with some games I've been playing since we last recorded. Spoiler: there's not a lot new, except that I finally cut my teeth on a From Software game and failed spectacular...

This week's show is almost completely dominated by Japan, which is kind of appropriate given the land of the Rising Sun seems to be owning the beginning of 2017. Nintendo are about to release a new innovative console, Square Enix have multiple Final Fantasies being remade and have more than established a foothold in the conventional western videogame space with their recent reinvention of the Hitm...

This week we're casting our beady eyes over 2017 and talking about some of the games we're looking forward to this year. Right off the bat, it's clear that not a great many big games actually have release dates yet, possibly due to Nintendo dropping their new console in Q1 or maybe because of the insane Christmas Gold-rush we experienced at the tail end of 2016... 2017 in Videogames https://en.wik...

On this week's show we're going through our favourite videogames of 2016. Rob's put together his list with the usual level of scientific and objective accuracy, whilst Iain has simply opted to include his personal favourites of the year, in no particular order. Suffice it to say, most bases are covered, especially given that Rob was able to become a console slummer before the year was out. Include...

On this week's show most of us have been enjoying Titanfall 2's single player campaign, Iain's been co-oping Helldivers, Rob's been grappling with the long-awaited The Last Guardian and Marcus has been chipping away at the latest instalment of Final Fantasy. Titanfall 2 https://www.titanfall.com/en_gb/ Helldivers http://arrowheadgamestudios.com/games/helldivers/ Ripcoil https://www.oculus.com/expe...

Bit of a last minute one this week, because we were just about to upload this week's episode when we realised we hadn't recorded it yet. So here's Rob talking about the Oculus Touch launch and all the cool games and experiences he's so far been able to try! Bullet Train https://www.unrealengine.com/blog/introducing-bullet-train-new-vr-experience Dead & Buried https://www.vrfocus.com/2016/11/dead-a...