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  • Tanked Up 163 – Ribena and Podcasts

    10/05/2019
    Heads up, we discuss mental health. This week Adam Thomas joins us to chat podcasts, more specifically mental health podcasts. We also get into some science and how the brain organises visual information using Pokemon. Adam kicks us off with his drink of choice, Ribena. Aadil starts with ‘Riding...

  • Tanked Up 162 – Baller beers and eldritch horrors

    03/05/2019
    Aadil is back! He joins Ben and Lucy to discuss that Sonic trailer, two games from the recent Ludum Dare 44 game jam Dear Substance of Kin and Seaway to finish on the Backbone Prologue over some tasty beers. These are Dig Brew Co’s ‘Maleficarum’ and Left Handed Giant’s...

  • Tanked Up 161 – Aerial Diminished

    26/04/2019
    Lucy and Ben get together to discuss the games they’ve been playing including Antenna Dilemma, Project Warlock and Dangerous Driving. They have a beer each with Lucy drinking Magic Rock’s Grower Owned and Ben having the Wylam X Other Half collab Is There Music In Your Dreams?...

  • Tanked Up 160 – Twisted Topics

    19/04/2019
    We are joined by Carl Marshall, @ThaBearded1, of Twisted Barrel Ales to chat all things video games and beer. Carl chats the games he enjoys like Nippon Marathon and not having the time for bigger experiences. He then posses the question, what are the similarities between video games and...

  • Tanked Up 159 – The Awesome Adventures of Accessibility

    12/04/2019
    Ben and Lucy are joined by fellow OOL’er Alex Waite who’s been playing The Awesome Adventures of Captain Spirit and The Sims 4. Lucy wants to discuss game difficulty and accessibility and Ben asks “Can EA fuck up Star Wars?”. Alex brings three beers from the ‘Citizens of Everywhere’...

  • Tanked Up 158 – So much beer, so little politics

    05/04/2019
    A slightly bigger beer week this episode as we all drink 3 beers each. We also discuss some more Division 2 and Ubisoft’s issues with political narratives, Lucy’s been playing Photographs and tells us how harrowing it can be and we finish on a little word about the Taps...

  • Tanked Up 157 – Baba is Beer

    29/03/2019
    In a week where Lucy doesn’t drink Ben and Aadil start with two big beers. Ben drinks the ‘Maiden 2017’ Barley Wine from Siren Craft Brew whilst Aadil has Northern Monks ‘Honour’, a West Coast IPA. With these beers come some games. Lucy has played and chats Kuso, Yorkshire...

  • Tanked Up 156 – It’s not about Politics

    22/03/2019
    We’ve all played games! Whooo! Lucy kicks off the discussion with Tick Tock: A tale for two, a co-op synchronous puzzle game then briefly touches on Engare. Ben and Aadil have been playing The Division 2 and try to focus this week on the positives of the game. Politics...

  • Tanked Up 155 – Cracking down on the Occupation

    15/03/2019
    This week the gang get together to discuss Lucy’s time with The Occupation, the major bugs in Anthem, Slime Rancher and the curation on the Epic store. They then finish discussing Crackdown 3 and Days Gone being solid games but not groundbreaking. They all sink two beers each this...