The #NOTplaying Podcast

We've already talked about Fallout 4 on this show at some length, but that time was it was just Rob trying to convince Iain & Adam of it's virtues. This show was recorded a few weeks later, this time with Matt & Patrick, who have also played the game. There's still no convincing Iain though, despite our best efforts. Anyway, this episode should offer a more rounded conversation of the pros and con...

2015 will no doubt go down in history as the year of the Open World Videogame. It's fitting then, that Avalanche would squeeze a second sandbox adventure out right at the end of an already jam-packed holiday line-up. The Just Cause series certainly has it's audience though, as our Iain would attest, having already been quite enamoured not just with the previous game in the series, but also Avalanc...

If you were thinking of treating yourself to one of those mysterious Steam Boxes for Christmas, then chances are you've already bitten the Black Friday/Cyber Monday bullet, so sorry we couldn't get this episode up any sooner. Now might be a good time to look at the current state of Valve's hardware eco-system though - Patrick's been using the Steam Controller for a few week's now so we thought it...

It doesn't happen too often, but on this week's show we're talking about a game we have ALL been playing together! Fatshark's take on the co-op Left 4 Dead type genre has been on our radar since PC Gamer gave it their Game of the Show award at PAX a few months back, so we've been meeting up on a weekly basis to put it through it's paces. Meanwhile Iain's also been playing Rocket League which it se...

The arrival of any Bethesda RPG carries with it a certain weight, but in a year jam-packed with giant open world games, Fallout 4 might be considered nothing more than the cherry on top. Todd Howard & Co are never ones to sit on their laurels though, having added a whole bunch of refinements and an almost unnecessarily deep crafting system to what is just as much a sequel to Skyrim as it is the la...

Consider this something of a best of the rest episode of the #NOTplaying Podcast, as Rob discovers how to get his FPS groove back with the latest Unreal Engine 4 powered and crowd developed version of Unreal Tournament, Iain finally gets to weigh on Mad Max and our final thoughts on the tragically botched PC version of Batman: Arkham Knight... Unreal Tournament https://www.unrealtournament.com/ Ma...

On this week's #NOTplaying Podcast Patrick takes us into the murky underwater horrors of SOMA, Frictional Games' spiritual follow up to Amnesia: The Dark Descent. Fear not, for he was good enough to not spoil anything for the rest of us who have yet to play it. Consider this something of a belated Halloween present if you like... SOMA http://store.steampowered.com/app/282140 Contact us on Email at...

On this week's show we're talking about our first impressions of Star Wars Battlefront during the recent Open Beta. Were we charmed by it's almost photographically realistic depiction of this most beloved of franchises or did we find it merely a lick of paint on a well worn genre? You'll just have to listen to this week's #NOTplaying Podcast to find out! Star Wars Battlefront http://starwars.ea.co...

And so we finally reach it - our one hundredth episode. We had a few different ideas about what to do for this. We thought we might share with you our origins: how we all met and how we came to be doing this show. We thought about talking about our favourite games of all time. We scrapped that too. Why? Because the past is boring. It already happened and we spend far more time looking into the fut...

This week's show kicks off with some crowd-funding stories of varying scope and success, including the cancellation of Allison Road's kickstarter campaign (albeit for a very good reason), Giants: Citizen Kabuto successor, First Wonder (the campaign for which has been cancelled since going to press) and of course, the golden goose of controversy that is Star Citizen. We also have some new games and...

On this week's show we revisit The Astronauts' stunning The Vanishing of Ethan Carter, which was recently 'reduxed' for PC after it's port to PS4. And while we're on something of a retro tip, we also check back in on the Mass Effect Trilogy, which some of truly can never tire of. We also been playing football in cars in Rocket League, which many are calling a true contender for Game of the Year! A...

It's another VR focussed show this week, as Patrick recounts his hands-on experience with Steam and HTC's Vive headset. There's also news of Sony's newly rebranded Playstation VR & much much more.... Project Morpheus renamed 'Playstation VR' at TGS http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2015-09-15-project-morpheus-renamed-playstation-vr Aperture VR Demo http://uk.engadget.com/2015/07/19/valve-aperture-...

To say we aren't fans of pre-order culture is something of an understatement, so we were overjoyed with Square Enix's kickstarter-inspired 'Augment Your Pre-Order' Promotion for Deus Ex: Mankind Divided. Not since the Evolve fiasco have consumers been so mercilessly exploited. We also have the latest on Star Citizen, X-COM 2 and a whole lot more on another news-packed #NOTplaying Podcast! Deus Ex...

On this week's (slightly late) show we talk about Avalanche's critically (and arguably unfairly) panned Mad Max game, as well as some highlights from the recent PAX Prime event in Seattle, including the Skaven-infested Warhammer: End Times - Vermintide. All this & more on another game-stuffed #NOTplaying Podcast! Mad Max http://www.madmaxgame.com/en/ Warhammer vermintide is PC gamers game of pax e...

It's time again to talk about what we've been playing and that means some more Witcher 3 talk on account of it being so goddamn massive. Some of us are still committed to finishing it though no matter how much content CD Projekt Red insist on spoiling us with. Meanwhile Patrick's been playing the PS4 version of Batman: Arkham Knight, because... it works? And finally Iain's been going back to the H...

It's a sign of the times when you make the cover of Time Magazine and Oculus have most definitely had their moment in the sun for good or ill - as prestigious as it might be, the internet memes following in it's wake reminded everyone to remain cautiously optimistic about the future of VR. Nevertheless, it's hard to underestimate it when so many major players are willing to dip their toes in the w...

Gamescom took up the Lion's share of last month's gaming news coverage, but there was still plenty more to get into, including more information on the portable Steam Machine, the Smach Zero, the first proper gameplay footage of Total War: Warhammer & the announcement of a new kickstarter campaign for Divinity: Original Sin 2! All this & much much more on another news-stuffed #NOTplaying Podcast! L...

On this week's show we go over the recent goings on at this year's Gamescom in Cologne a few weeks back, including EA and Microsoft's big conferences and the games they were showing off at each - queue much discussion about Star Wars Battlefront, Mirror's Edge: Catalyst, Quantum Break and Crackdown 3, whether or not we still have enough interest for Elite: Dangerous to try out the planetary landin...

We're deep into the summer gaming drought now, but it's not like we're short of things to play. The Witcher 3 and GTA V are both gifts that keep on giving, while indie steam/mobile FMV mystery, Her Story, pushes the boundaries of what videogames can be. It's all about what we haven't #NOT been playing again on this week's #NOTplaying Podcast! The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt http://www.thewitcher.com/ GTA...

On this week's show: Who won the Steam Summer Sale? When will the Star Citizen FPS module come out? How much awesome Star Wars stuff is coming out and how much of that will be in VR? All this and more on another news-packed #NOTplaying Podcast! Steam Sale 'Results' (?) - Ark wins big http://www.polygon.com/2015/6/25/8847597/steam-summer-sale-data-steamspy-2015 Star citizen FPS module delayed indef...

If you've been listening to the show for a while then you'll know that Patrick and Iain have actually been dipping their toes in the world of game development for the past few months and with their first release finally seeing the light of day this month, we thought it would be a good time to have a chat about what it is they've been up to exactly... it's all about the game's we've been actually m...

After the highs of E3 it was a shame to come crashing back down to earth with the sad reality of Rocksteady's latest Batman release. It's been in the headlines so much lately we thought it was worth devoting an entire episode to the game as well as the controversy surrounding it's broken PC release, because while some might be enjoying what is essentially a pretty solid title, the rest of us simpl...

With E3 well and truly behind us, we take some time this week to talk about some of the games we've actually been playing, starting with Steam Summer Sale Early Access Hit, ARK: Survival Evolved, which Iain has sunk several hours into. Meanwhile, Patrick's had some time with the final release of Project CARS, Adam's been hunting werewolves in the French-Canadian indie curiosity, Sang Froid and Rob...

In our final E3 2015 show we take a look at some of the hardware news that didn't involve Virtual Reality, including Microsoft's demonstration of their Hololens technology with their recently acquired Minecraft, the latest in a new line of AMD Video Cards and the fact that Steam Machines will very soon be a reality. Finally! All this and more on another tech-focussed #NOTplaying Podcast! Minecraft...

Last week we focussed on the VR highlights from E3, this week it's all about the games. Bethesda kicked things off with one hell of a showcase for Fallout 4, including the announcement of a release date only a few months away, while Sony delivered all our Christmases at once with the return of The Last Guardian, a kickstarter for Shenmue 3 and a remake of Final Fantasy VII. All this and more on an...