The #NOTplaying Podcast

Marcus has got so into chasing down those fantastical beasts he's ended up buying a 2DS to play the latest installment of the epic franchise, Rob's persevering with Adr1ft and it seems to be paying off, No Man's Sky launched a new update and we have a couple of quite significant announcements that will change the show forever more. All this & more on a really quite momentous #NOTplaying Podcast! P...

Iain's not been on for a little while so this week's show is all about what he's been playing recently, which has mostly been Skyrim: Special Edition. As ever though, there's been plenty of multiplayer too, including Rainbow Six Siege, Killing Floor 2 and the beta of Ubisoft's imminent snow-sim, Steep. All this & more on another game-packed #NOTplaying Podcast! Skyrim - Special Edition http://stor...

So Rob finally pulled the trigger on Playstation 4 Pro so has spent his conveniently timed week off getting intimate with Sony's supercharged console. Obviously, the first port of call was Naughty Dog's magnificent Uncharted 4, but Dishonored 2 came bundled with the machine so some time has been spent with that too. And then there's the machine itself, which it turns out really is a serious piece...

It's Marcus & Rob again this week, this time talking about some games they've been playing. Or in some cases, actually not playing at all. They have both been playing Ubisoft's VR bird sim Eagle Flight though - across both Oculus Rift & Playstation VR. Marcus has also been getting to grips with Forza Horizon 3, while Rob has mostly been reacquainting himself with the land of Skyrim whilst also dip...

Bit of a different show this week, with just Rob & Marcus holding the fort. Nevertheless there's been quite a bit going on in the world of videogames, including the reveal of Nintendo's next console, the handheld hybrid Switch, the first trailer for Red Dead Redemption 2 and some more controversial occurrences from Bethesda and UK retailer GAME. It's a proper news catch-up on this week's #NOTplayi...

It's with a heavy heart that we wave goodbye to long-time co-host, Patrick Kay, on what will most likely be his last contribution to the show for some time. Suffice it to say he has his reasons, which he explains herein. As well as that though we have - as ever - some substantial game chat, including our thoughts on the walking simulator of the moment, Virginia, the recently discounted military sh...

On this week's show we're delving into the news bag once again with all the exciting developments out of Oculus Connect 3, the teasing of a new Red Dead Redemption game and more! Oculus Connect https://youtu.be/8fGg70OKh1s Santa Cruz Prototype (all in 1 VR) https://youtu.be/LIUYDUlGJzM Robo Recall https://youtu.be/wq8EXq4elis Arktika.1 https://youtu.be/ht4Fh2bK2Y0 Lone Echo https://youtu.be/9_PLFk...

After our EA love-in the other week's here's another publisher fawnfest, albeit one probably slightly more deserved, for it is the turn of Blizzard to receive our attention this week. Adam's still playing Overwatch and has news of it's new(ish) competitive mode. Meanwhile, Rob recently changed up his deck in Hearthstone and is now experimenting with Dragons. All this & more in an especially blizzt...

Paid DLC for an Early Access game? That might sound a bit dodgy, but it hasn't stopped Iain enjoying the recent expansion for Ark: Survival Evolved. He's also had enough time to check out the community-generated mod for Red Orchestra, Heroes of the West. Meanwhile, Rob had some final thoughts on Deus Ex: Mankind Divided after finishing it mere minutes before we came to record... Ark: Scorched Eart...

On this week's show we're giving EA some love as Iain delves into the beta for the latest iteration of the Battlefield series and Adam dips into last year's Star Wars variant with his Son. How does the new version stack up and how does Battlefront hold up almost a year after release? It's all about the BATTLE on this week's #NOTplaying Podcast! Battlefield 1 Beta https://www.battlefield.com/en-gb...

On this week's show we're talking about the recent hardware reveals from Sony & Apple, rumours of a price and release date for the eagerly awaited Oculus Touch controllers the lack of Mod Support for Skyrim & Fallout 4 on Playstation and much much more. It's another massive news dump on this week's #NOTplaying Podcast! iPhone 7 http://www.apple.com/uk/iphone-7/ Mario on iPhone http://www.telegraph...

....aaaand the rest. This week's show is about a whole lot of games we've been playing, including Patrick's continuing adventures with Raw Data and Battle Dome, Rob's daliance with the brief, but beautiful ABZÛ & Iain's excessive amount of time off catching up on Rise of the Tomb Raider and a whole bunch of older things that were worth revisiting. All this & more on another game-stuffed NOTplaying...

When the original Deus Ex came out in 2000 it blew the doors off player choice and expression in first person video-games. The series stumbled somewhat in the follow-up, Invisible War, but was redeemed with Eidos Montreal's Human Revolution in 2011. 5 years later, the inevitable fourth instalment, Mankind Divided arrives after some much maligned pre-order incentives and a sea of controversy over m...

It's been a typically quiet couple of months on the news front this summer, recently though, we had Gamescom in Germany, where both Elite: Dangerous and Star Citizen had a comprehensive presence. Then there was Quakecon in Texas where gameplay footage of both Quake Champions and Prey was revealed. Sony made the announcement of Playstation Now coming to PC and there was no way we were ever gonna #N...

After a couple of week's of VR indulgence, it's Rob's turn to talk about some 'meatspace' games from earlier in the year. First up we have Everybody's Gone to the Rapture from the Chinese Room, which debuted last year on PS4, but arrived on PC back in April to very little fanfare at all. We then have Coldwood Interactive's curious emo-platformer, Unravel, which if nothing else certainly benefitted...

We talked about it a few months back when it was first demoed at this year's VR packed GDC, but now ILMxLAB's Star Wars: Trials on Tatooine demo is available to download on Steam for FREE! Like a lot of VR stuff, it turned out to be a somewhat slight experience, but it's no less impressive than any of the other things Patrick and Iain have tried out lately. It's another trip into the Vive-powered...

It's a bit of a multiplayer focussed one this week. Iain decided to give Evolve a go since it had recently relaunched as Free to Play and Patrick's been indulging in a spot of Battledome and the very slick looking Raw Data. It's all about the online competition on this week's #NOTplaying Podcast! Evolve Stage 2 http://store.steampowered.com/app/273350/ Battle Dome http://store.steampowered.com/app...

On this week's show we're talking about Playdead's follow-up to Limbo, Inside. It's a truly striking game with some incredibly dramatic turns which we'll be going into spoilerific detail on towards the end of the episode. So if you haven't finished or even started playing this masterpiece yet then why are you reading this? Go to Steam or your digital storefront of choice, download the game. Finish...

With Pokemon pretty much sucking all the oxygen out of the Summer it's been fairly light on the news front recently. We have nevertheless scrapped a few bits out of news barrel. First up, there's the System Shock reboot - we're always suckers for a decent crowd-funding campaign, but when the pitch comes with an actual demo you can play it's hard not to be completely won over. There have also been...

To make up for last week's pitiful solo effort we've drafted in Marcus from the #NOTwatching Podcast to share his recent experiences with a certain mobile game that's taking the world by storm right now. How much traffic did he dodge? How many corpses did he trip over? All will be revealed in this week's #NOTpikachu Podcast! Pokemon Go http://www.pokemon.com/uk/pokemon-video-games/pokemon-go/ Cont...

This week's show is a bit of a shambles quite honestly, but our schedules made it come down to a case of either brutally editing our last recording into more episodes than was really appropriate or yours truly briefly recording something for the sake of not missing a week. Suffice it to say, we went for the latter option - but only because I thought of something that might honestly be worth docume...

There's no sign of the VR hype train losing momentum if Patrick's 'Recently Played' steam list is anything to go by... on the slate this week is the Steam Chart-topping social experiment that is Pool Nation VR, the barmy tower defence of Out of Ammo and lots more! It's all about the HTC Vive on this week's #NOTplaying Podcast! Minecrift https://minecraft-vr.com/ Zen Blade http://store.steampowered...

Adam's been in something of a gaming malaise for the past few months and Iain's been so busy with work that he's not been able to join us on the show for ages either. So it was jolly nice to hear them so enthused about Blizzard's latest genre-crusher, Overwatch. So nice in fact that we thought they should have an episode all of their own to talk about it.... It's all about the LOLs on this week's...

With Rob's Oculus finally arriving and the dust settling on whole host of VR announcements which took centre stage at E3, we thought it might be a good time to chat about where things are at with the two platforms currently in existence right now, as well as describe what Oculus's eco-system has to offer for early adopters. It's a post E3 2016 VR discussion on this week's #NOTplaying Podcast! Ocul...

On this week's show we're recounting the highlights from last week's E3 event in Los Angeles. As usual, none of us were actually there in person, but much of the coverage was difficult to avoid, especially since one of us took the week off with the intention of watching all the conferences as they actually happened. Check out our twitter account (@notplayingpod) if you care to relive the experienc...