Episode 136 – Way to go Jerry

It's the best we could hope you'd achieve

For a special treat we pushed record on this episode so you could listen to it and share in our musings.  The video game awards brought more than a few surprises as did the Sony Experience. Ben plays Dragon Age: Inquisition, James gets into Plants vs Zombies: Garden Warfare and Paul has just been photographing volleyball.

Cheapskate’s Game Club: Wonderputt
Net Week: InkQuest

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Interview – Ron Gilbert and Gary Winnick on Thimbleweed Park

Old is old again!

Ron Gilbert is back and this time he’s brought along his old friend and collaborator Gary Winnick to talk about their currently crowd funding adventure game “Thimbleweed Park”. Only 60% of the episode is off topic. A new record!

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Top 5 – Games With Punching

The Power was inside you all along

What a punchy list.

Next Week: Top 5 Games that make you Gamy McGame (Yeah we don’t get it either)

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Episode 135 – We Lost the Episode

Oops

Well this is embarrassing. In today’s episode we talked about a bunch of great subjects. If only we had recorded it properly.

Cheapskate’s Game Club: Digital: A Love Story

Next Week: Wonderputt

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Top 5 – Ways We’d Give Popular Games a Kick in the Pants

 Disparaging the boot is a bootable offense!

Good things are good but could good things be better?

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Can You Dig It? In Praise of Shovel Knight

Shovel-Knight

Shovel Knight owes a great deal to the early Mega Man games on the Nintendo Entertainment System, yet it’s ironic that while my experiences to date with those Mega Man games were about as much fun as undergoing dental surgery performed by Pennywise the clown, Shovel Knight is a game I adore. Why is this? Well, seeing as you asked, I’ll tell you.

The debut title – thanks to a successful Kickstarter campaign – from developer and publisher Yacht Club Games, Shovel Knight is a 2D side-scrolling platform game available for PC, 3DS and Wii U, and it’s the Wii U version I’ll be discussing in this feature.

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Episode 134 – Things We Cooked Up In The Lab

Goo In this episode we discuss the hot new video games Jurassic World and Star Wars: The Force awakens.  We go off topic with some Tales from the Borderlands, Jackbox Party Pack, Strafe and Warframe for a while but then we get right back to blood donation. Cheapskates Games Club: Warframe Next Week: Digital: A Love Story Crowd Funding Picks James: Shooter’s Den Ben: Yes, Your Grace Paul: Blood Sport Grab the episode here or subscribe to us on iTunes. Show notes after the jump. Continue reading

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Top 5 – Games We Wish Were Mobile

So portable!

They’re the video games you love but in your pocket! Or at least it’d be nice if they were in your pocket.  Like James! He fits in some pockets.

Next Week: Top 5 ways we’d give popular games a kick in the pants

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