Your favourite weekly podcast is back! Some of the most anticipated games have come out in the close to four months (!) we've been on break, but instead of getting right to Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom or Resident Evil 4 remake, we make sure to spend a whole bunch of time waxing philosophical about Armoured Core and remembering that Forspo…

This is it. The second and final day of our Game of the Year deliberations. What game was most momentary? Disappointing? Oldest? Most remade and/or remastered and/or re-released and/or updated? Game of the Year-est?! All this and more answered in a measly... almost seven hours, rounding out to twelve hours total across the two days. Phew. Once agai…

IT'S HERE. The start of our annual Game of the Year deliberations—twelve hours across two days, deciding between us which were the best and worst games of 2022. Today it's the spookiest, the most musical, the worst, the biggest surprise and, of course, the most strand-type game. Oh, also, there's old Bitbusters to be answered... and new ones to be …

If you want to know if we're back or not, search "every Joey's World Tour I'm back" on YouTube and watch the first video that comes up. That is to say, we're back. Playing grindcore festivals in the Czech Republic. Rewatching Breaking Bad/Better Call Saul. The Cyberpunk anime is really good, surprisingly (and Cyberpunk 2077 was always good). Immort…

It's been a while, but honestly it's been a while for the last four or five years. You know the drill. Hamish watched Twin Peaks: The Return. Nico watched Batman. Post-game thoughts on Elden Ring, and returning to Dark Souls. Teardown is the best heist game since Quadrilateral Cowboy. Disco Elysium is one of the best novels you can ever play (also …

We're back and we're spending the first ten to fifteen minutes communicating entirely in Henry Rollins clips from Get in the Van. The show has come full circle. Oh, we also dive into the most talked about game of the moment... Gran Turismo 7, the best Wikipedia article simulator ever created. I guess we spend a long time discussing Elden Ring as we…

It's been a couple of months but we're back and ready to talk about... well, films and soundboard bullshit again mainly. The new Jackass film is so unbelievably good. The new Matrix is just... bad. The Sopranos is good but the film is bad. Hamish has played through Horizon Forbidden West and it's very good. He's also played Sifu which is really goo…

Well, here it is. Day One was a resounding success I imagine, and here's Day Two to round it out, presented by Gold Bono. Almost six hours of deliberations taking us through the Golden Moments, the Golden Disappointments, the Golden Oldies, the Golden Remakes/Remasters/Re-releases/Updates and finally, the one you've all been waiting for... The Leas…

Quick everyone! Gather round the wireless! It's here! It's finally here! Time to be bombarded by loud soundboard clips as the Writing on GamesCast, for the sixth time, spends hours deliberating our picks for the best and worst games of the year! Day One is almost five hours of Scares, Songs and Strands, as well as being Sad for bad games. Things ge…

We're back after a month of Nico's life basically exploding! Hamish has been subjecting himself to the live action Cowboy Bebop and it is rough. Joe Pera Talks With You is the most earnest show on TV. Limp Bizkit Still Sucks. Shin Megami Tensei V seems to be very good at what it does even though the Switch can't handle it. Forza Horizon 5 is exactl…

It's been a while since the last podcast and there are a ton of games we should probably be discussing, so of course we spend the equivalent of a feature-length film talking about, well... feature-length films and TV shows we've watched. Why Nico was so disappointed by The Many Saints of Newark (as well as Hamish's first full foray into The Soprano…

The Ol' Gamin' Geezers are back to talk about... wait, actually, we do talk about games this time! Hamish beat Lost Judgment, so we have finally got an episode out on time to talk about something pre-release! Nico talks about WarioWare: Get it Together!, has finally started playing Bloodborne properly, as well as "some game made by some guy," Rift …

There's a new Evangelion movie out, and Hamish has been collecting Japanese gangster blu-rays. Somehow in all the Takehsi Kitano talk we manage to narrowly avoid another hour-long segment dedicated to Fast and Furious, but only just. Twelve Minutes is so stupid that trying to explain it gives Hamish hiccups (spoiler warning from 1:15:30 to 1:42:30 …

Apologies for the shorter episode today—we were both delirious with the heat and the fact that we started late because we were laughing about stuff off mic. Oh, also we don't talk much about games at all this episode. Why do you listen to us again? Instead we discuss seagull infestation, our pal you don't know, Nico watching all the Fast and Furiou…

The soundboard was messing up Hamish's audio, so Nico has to pick up the chaotic slack—don't worry, it's still a mess. After an hour talking about the Fast and Furious films, awful Marvel TV shows and IGN reviews of old Simpsons games (let's just say the wellbeing of developers is a *remarkably* recent consideration in the public eye), we actually …

You read that right, we've somehow been doing this podcast for half a decade, and to celebrate, not only are we doing our traditional E3 roundup (breaking down all the big reveals from Microsoft and Bethesda, Nintendo, Square Enix and... Intellivision?!) but we also have a wealth of special guests—including Patrick Stewart, Peter Griffin, Homer Sim…

We're both just... so sorry. Some new games came out! Resident Evil Village, Pokemon Snap, Nier Replicant Ver.1.22474487139... (with spoiler talk at 1:32:34), Returnal, Mass Effect Legendary Edition, and discussion about Hitman 3! We do discuss these things, we promise. It's just on you to do some digging to find it in amongst the complete and utte…

You know the drill by now—nothing new released, so we talk for a frankly weird amount of time about Shaun Ryder's various projects, including one with an ocarina player and questionable album cover. Nico has played nothing and Hamish has been streaming! He dives deep into all things Oddworld, which has put Soulstorm in a new light. He also got a bu…

Daft politicians are on Cameo now and it turned Nico into the Joker. Video games! The spirit of OG Prince of Persia is alive and well in Oddworld Soulstorm, Genesis Noir is a fantastic animated movie that they shouldn't have slapped a bad game on top of, Narita Boy is a game that looks better than it plays but goddamn it looks good, Nico finally fi…

Welcome to the podcast s̶u̶p̶p̶o̶s̶i̶t̶o̶r̶y DEPOSITORY! As is seemingly going to be the case for a chunk of 2021, basically nothing new released so we start off with a lengthy discussion of 90s grunge, why "The Beatles is a terrible band" is such a tired take, and the golden rule of shreds videos—if you ain't on screen, you ain't making sound. Tha…

We've got a Big Rig to get to the Big Gig! Your favourite video game podcast is back to talk all things Gene Simmons—his Twitter presence, that time he was meant to play with The Melvins but Spinal Tap happened instead, his weird... vault thing, everything you're here for, right? Oh OK, we also discuss, well, a lot of stuff, including Persona 5 Str…

New releases are something of a barren wasteland right now, so after of course referencing the Gamestonks drama of the week (which was already old by the time we recorded this) we spend the first huge chunk talking about music again, and mercifully only about a quarter of that is Henry Rollins focused. Hardcore documentaries, Fugazi, the music Nico…

Happy New Year! It's all solved! Oh wait. Nothing is coming out, so obviously we talk about Henry Rollins for the first forty minutes (including some fun quotes from Get in the Van). We get to games eventually though! Hitman 3's launch has been awful, The Witcher is a janky masterpiece (and of course we have to be The Defenders of Cyberpunk as alwa…

Well, this is it. We round out our bumper Game of the Year podcasts by picking our, well, game of the year. Will Bugsnax take it? Not likely. Unless... We both just want to thank you all for listening. This year has been unbelievably tough in so many ways and the holidays are always bad for many, but hopefully this whole thing can give you just a l…

Well, it's finally here. Our fifth time into the breach. This year may have been unbearably awful in so many ways but... at least the games were interesting? Either way, here's day one of our insanely long deliberations over the best and worst of 2020, to find out who will be VICTORIOUS. Enjoy and stick around for Day Two coming tomorrow! Categorie…

Take a look around you. If things look different, consider that it might be because we're in the NEXT GENERATION, BABY. Sony sent Hamish a PS5, so he goes over his experiences with the hardware (the DualSense and SSD), Demon's Souls, Astro's Playroom and Spider-Man Miles Morales. He also finished Yakuza: Like a Dragon. and has some... mixed thought…

We thank System of a Down for their service in what happened this week. Hamish has played through a whole bunch of Yakuza: Like a Dragon and it completely rules. Nico gives us his D&D Minute, and he also finished Mafia: Definitive Edition so we talk about that game at length for the third or fourth time in a row. Watch Dogs Legion is inadvertently …

Wawaweewa! There's a new Borat film out and one half of the cast has seen it because what the heck else is there to do in 2020! We also discuss why D&D is fun! Mobster accents in Mafia: Definitive Edition now that Nico has played it! Could Amnesia: Rebirth be in with a chance to win the prestigious Golden Pumpkin award? The conclusion to the Tomato…

The COVID Gamers are back to report on Big League Politics! No one's wearing masks! People are throwing fireworks at each other! But more importantly, just what the hell is Genshin Impact and why is it anime Breath of the Wild?! Also discussed: Mafia Definitive Edition is some of the best crime fiction games have to offer. Nico is predictably in lo…

We had way too many games left from last week that we forgot to talk about, so we needed to get at you again with another episode that thankfully didn't take four months to release. We talk Lynchian awkwardness before getting into the PS5 reveal/Bethesda Microsoft stuff. Online people are anti-art weirdos who remind us of Tipper Gore. We spend a go…

So, um, hey! We're back after perhaps the lengthiest break we've ever had—hooray for protracted moves between apartments and enduring mental trauma! After a brief look back at the last few months (and of course the obligatory hour of JoJo's Bizarre Adventure talk), we chill out a little bit to get back into the swing of things. Holy moly, a lot of …

You Can (Not) Redo. We recorded an episode a couple of weeks ago but the files got all funky so we had to ditch it, meaning that it's been two months since we recorded a podcast. But who knows what time even is anymore, right? In that spirit we spend a while talking about the state of things in this wild new world, then take an hour and a half to d…

Well, it's a very weird time right now for everyone. We tried to make this a chill-ass podcast to counter all of that, but we couldn't help chatting a bit about it at the start. Somehow it always comes back to Henry Rollins though. With all that out the way, we get to discuss why Dreams can be a nightmare, why Nioh 2 can be a nightmare (even though…

We're back after a couple of months off! We've been real busy questioning the humanity of DMV drones and kicking people. In amongst that, though, we have found some time to play some games here and there! To that end, we've got thoughts on the Final Fantasy VII remake demo, Street Fighter V Championship Edition, Kentucky Route Zero, World of Horror…

Happy new year! We're back for a whole new decade of chatting shite. After a little while of figuring out how exactly to podcast again, we realise we've barely played anything since Game of the Year. Nico got back into Dark Souls 2 for some strange reason and, predictably, has hated every minute of it. Some thoughts on Thronebreaker, finally. Nico …

Time to wrap this up. Our deliberations into the best, worst and... oldest of 2019 concludes with almost five hours of goofs, gaffs, guests and games. Will Death Stranding make top 10? You decide! No wait, we decide! Our guests decide! A massive thank you to to all of you for sticking with us over another year of inconsistent release schedules. We …

Well, we're here. Time to subject ourselves to this endurance test once more. Here is over four-and-a-half hours of us talking about the best and worst we played this year. For an idea of how this goes, this is, by some margin, the longest/most heated Best Looking discussion we've ever had (it's all in good fun though). Enjoy, and stick around for …

It's finally here—the StrandCast! That's right, we needed a month away just to deal with the momentous release of Death Stranding—a game that Nico inexplicably loves and Hamish gets exhausted even thinking about at this stage. We also talk Nico's venture to Vegas, how Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order is... fine, why Pokemon might be bad now, as well as…

This is the third episode in a row (I think) where we talk for half an hour about a game we haven't played yet (Death Stranding). After a debrief on Nico's first viewing of the entire John Wick franchise and a discussion on how Henry Rollins might not be that great, we talk about how Modern Warfare's campaign might be as dumb as The Quiet Man. The …

People are playing Death Stranding now. We're not, but that won't stop us talking about it. Nico goes to Galaxy's Edge and has a measured opinion on new Star Wars. Everything John Wick Hex does is understandable, but that doesn't make it fun to play. Introducing Nico's second new feature in as many weeks, Goin' Postal. This means he has to play Pos…

Join us as one host recovers from illness while the other develops it. Question whether anyone that says either "Joker is an irresponsible movie" or "Joker is a modern classic" has ever seen the film/any film before. Untitled Goose Game is a funny little experience, but we'd probably choose Goat Simulator over it. Ghost Recon Breakpoint is maybe th…

How ya doin' Instagram, it's the Writing on GamesCast here to talk about the legitimately weird announcements from that Nintendo Direct (including... Deadly Premonition 2?!), why Control ain't doing it for us, how Ghost Recon Breakpoint surprised us, we answer your questions, and get some life advice from a man smoking a cigar. Take it eas'. --- Su…

Jackson Dingle and Ryan Nosecondname are talking Gamescom and have a lot to say about what was played/seen both on the show floor and behind closed doors—Avengers, Cyberpunk, Final Fantasy VII Remake, Dragonball Z Kakarot, and more. We also talk about how our opinion on Wolfenstein Youngblood somehow worsened from when we last called it "the most d…

In which we get paid millions by Microsoft to take the podcast to Mixer. Well, we don't actually, but we do go into how Metal Gear Solid 4 makes more sense in 2019 (because it doesn't make sense), why Wolfenstein: Youngblood might be the most disappointing game we've played since Mafia 3, and why Goat Simulator is still (and has always been) great.…

This one is a few days late thanks to some internet/audio hiccups (as well as some literal hiccups later on). Join the EVAGNs (that's meant to be a riff on AVGN but it totally doesn't work written down) to talk weird Japan-only Evangelion games, Nico getting to grips with Judgment, and Hamish's first (very brief) dip into Kingdom Hearts... for some…

There are so many games to talk about we genuinely lost track, so let's talk about Evangelion, press events in Paris and bad delivery drivers instead. OK, I guess we can also talk about Judgment, Hamish's new Super Mario Maker 2 level in a new feature called Mario Make Yourself, as well as Bloodstained and Crash Team Racing, I guess. Diff Rent Stro…

To mark the momentus occasion of hitting 100 episodes just a few days out from the third anniversary of starting the show, we thought we'd go back to where it all started—an E3 recap. That means we're talking all the hottest reveals: King Crimson on Spotify, Gundam and Kevin Smith. We also discuss all the press conferences, as well as the weird spo…

You wanted weekly? Well how about two in a week (we recorded this only a day after the last one was posted, which itself was recorded about a week before then... it's a whole thing). Your favourite Video Game Boys are back to talk more Mortal Kombat 11, that Sonic trailer, Dangerous Driving, a dramatic reading of the Pumpkin Hill theme, seeing Sunn…

Back to weekly! Oh wait. Also, this is being posted a few days after it was recorded because Hamish had videos to edit. That said, we're back to talk about the hottest gaming headlines: getting into punk music, shreds videos and the wonderful world of legacy bands marketing tour dates through stolen memes. We might also mention Mortal Kombat 11, Ac…

The hot new From Soft game has come out and is one of the more divisive games we've played on the podcast, so of course we're burying Sekiro under an hour and a half of discussion of the first Mass Effect, Star Citizen, Shroud of the Avatar and the winner of multiple Best Phantasmagoria 2: A Puzzle of Flesh awards, Phantasmagoria 2: A Puzzle of Fle…