Episode 241: The First Ever Metacritic Game

With 750 Metacritic ‘points’ each, who can pick the best 10 games based on their critical averages?

August 15, 2025

XL Episode 41: One Giant Man Cranks the Playdate (and Some Other Chatter About Niche Handhelds)

Matthew has played around 40 games in the catalogue of the Playdate console – but are his hands just too big for the tiny handheld?

August 11, 2025
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Episode 240: Three Games Court Episodes In One Year? In This Economy?

More pre-owned game purchases go on trial in Judge Castle’s Games Court. It’s a fun one!

August 8, 2025
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Episode 239: Ghostbusters Games and gamesTM Memories (with Dave Scarborough)

45 minutes of magazine memories, 80 minutes on the history of Ghostbusters in games (many of them are rubbish).

August 1, 2025
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XXL Episode 38: Our Favourite Movies of the 21st Century So Far

Two top 10 lists, inspired by the New York Times’ recent top 100 and reader top 100. A jolly episode, as you’ll discover.

July 28, 2025
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Episode 238: Two Giant Men Play Donkey Kong Bananza (which * has * to be better than Astro Bot)

The main event of the Switch 2’s post-launch period is here. But does it have the juice, the sauce or the gravy?

July 25, 2025

Episode 237: gamesTM vs Edge (with Matthew Handrahan)

Former gamesTM features editor Matthew Handrahan is our guest this week.

July 18, 2025

XL Episode 40: The Shuttered Studios Draft

The Two Giant Men compete to pick the best 10 games made by sadly departed studios – call this a tribute to their finest work.

July 13, 2025

Episode 236: The Art of Video Game Character Customisation (with Jen Simpkins)

A delightfully unusual episode with a guest we like a lot. Matthew Castle lore fans are in for a treat.

July 11, 2025

Episode 235: What We've Been Playing (Death Stranding 2, Rematch, Date Everything, MindsEye)

Matthew is fetching koalas while Samuel is having year 11 lunchtime PTSD.

July 4, 2025