Episode 244: What We've Been Playing (Mafia: The Old Country, Shinobi: Art of Vengeance, Kirby on Switch 2, Hollow Knight, MGS Delta: Snake Eater, Shuten Order)
The stack of games we’ve been chewing through lately.
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Episode 243: The All-Star Japanese Game Developer Draft (with Ashley Day and Dave Scarborough)
The Two Giant Men are joined by two further giant men as we compete to pick the best games from our favourite Japanese game developers.
XXL Episode 39: Film Club – Galaxy Quest (1999) and Tropic Thunder (2008)
Galaxy Quest and Tropic Thunder were our selections this month: slightly over-the-hill actor characters in life-or-death situations.
Episode 242: Two Giant Men Play Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas
The Back Page’s road to GTA 6 – a borderline-unviable series of playthroughs of older GTA games – continues!
Episode 241: The First Ever Metacritic Game
With 750 Metacritic ‘points’ each, who can pick the best 10 games based on their critical averages?
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?
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!
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).
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.
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?