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Another Willsmithisode this week but this time it’s Lucy and Ben. Lucy returned to Toem for those tasty MS rewards points. The industry returned to Gamescom so Lucy and Ben discuss what was shown and anything they are looking forward to. Ben’s been playing Somerville before it’s PlayStation release...
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On this Willsmithisode Aadil and Ben discover that access to games isn’t easy. Ben had been playing Borderlands 3 but it was removed from the PS Plus Extra tier so he isn’t anymore. Aadil was playing with the PS Vita some more but ended up in the past and...
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Returning from their summer break, Lucy, Aadil and Ben get together to discuss video games over some cold beers. Ben chats about Viewfinder and gives his lite review of the game. Lucy has dabbled in a couple of games including Blossom Tales 2. We round out with Aadil recounting...
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Oh! Hi there! It’s been a while. We recorded this episode way back towards the start of July before the summer kicked into full gear and became super crazy. Enjoy a historic look back at F.I.S.T and Rogue Legacy 2. Old beers were drunk including Honey Isle from Crossover...
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The team return, beers in hand, to run down a week in gaming. Lucy scrounges through the Game Pass dirt, just for achievements and played My Friend Peppa Pig. Ben brings Dordogne, which Lucy has also played, and they have a much nicer conversation about that. The team briefly...
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The team returns after a busy and boozy few weeks to discuss two things. The Bristol Craft Beer Festival and Not E3 2023. They chat apps, best beers, the weather, notable game reveals and themed control pads. To drink Ben has the ‘Rocket Lolly’ from Northern Monk and Aadil...
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This week the whole team is here! Whoo! It’s a week of new releases too. Lucy gives her review of both Planet of Lana, and The Shape of Things. And Ben gives his thoughts on the initial few hours of After Us. Aadil decides he really should start The...
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Lucy and Ben return to share some beers and chat about games, but of course, they start on a tangent and discuss The Simpsons and onion rings. Both have new games to talk about! Lucy shares her initial thoughts on The Legend of Zelda Tears of the Kingdom and...
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Lucy’s been playing The Spider of Lanka DLC for The Case of the Golden Idol, which has some excellent screenshots. Ben has been playing Demos but instead talks about Life is Strange: True Colours. This brings on a discussion of shedding nostalgia and embracing sentimentality with a chat about...
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Ben and Lucy bring one game and one beer each this week to drink and discuss. Ben chats the first hour or so of Jett: The Far Shore, whilst Lucy has spent a little more time with the recent early access release of Shadows of Doubt. For their beer...
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Aadil joins Ben for a beer and to chat about hot news and big game demos. Ben leads with thoughts on the incredibly polished Viewfinder demo and rolls into discussing a campaign and a baby mode for Street Fighter 6. Aadil brings the news of Microsoft’s failed ActiBlizzKing acquisition....
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Ben and Lucy tread familiar ground this week with talks of sequels and hardware revisions. Lucy gives her thoughts on both Hook 2 and Coffee Talk EP 2: Hibiscus & Butterfly. With no games to speak of Ben brings up to rumoured Q-Lite, the possible new PlayStation handheld, Wii-U...
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Ben and Lucy return to share their week in video games over a beer. Ben says he hasn’t played anything but is lying and Lucy asks him about The Last of Us Remastered. Lucy has put a little, but impactful time into Storyteller, a short game from Daniel Benmergui....
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Ben and Lucy get together this week to share a beer and chat video games! Ben gives an in-depth breakdown of The Last Worker, Lucy has looked at the Playdate and its new store update, and madness ensues with various off-topic discussions and plenty of name-dropped games. For the...
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Lucy’s back, and with her come a few videogames to review and discuss. It’s been a mix of fishing and boxing for her as she and Ben spend some time discussing Dredge and finish the episode chatting Deck ‘Em. Ben gives some first impressions on the mobile version of...
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Welcome friends to Tanked Up, the almost weekly podcast. We’ve had a week or two off but we’re back with gaming chat and beers. Ben has been playing the mobile version of Delete After Reading, a new release from Patrones & Escondites, more Crisis Core on the PS4 and...
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Hey! This episode is up a little late but at least it’s here! The team discuss a bunch of games including Tomb Raider Reloaded, Valiant Hearts: Coming Home, Hazza Chazza and the 40ft wazza, Scars Above, Beyond Shadowgate, and Loretta. And for the beers, Lucy drinks “Mind Expansion Pack”...
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This week Ben is joined by Aadil and between them, they’ve played a mobile game, but have all the intention of playing a different mobile game. Ben discussed Marvel Snap some more and updated Aadil on the game several months on. They discuss Vita emulation to Android devices and...
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Ben and Lucy return and this time with fresh, alcoholic beers! Lucy drinks ‘Indecision Time A.I.M.S’, a pale ale from Burning Sky, and Ben dives into the big DIPA January release ‘Putty’ from Verdant. They’ve both been busy with games too. Lucy gives her final thoughts on Iron Lung...
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Ben and Lucy return to talk games and drink AF beers. Ben gives his impressions on the Steamworld Build demo, Lucy chats Below the Ocean and they discuss the new remake, rerelease, or remaster of Goldeneye and its lack of online multiplayer on certain platforms. Lucy drinks Northern Monk’s...
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Ben and Lucy get together to continue their dry January and find joy in video games. To start, their beers elicit a conversation, who is alcohol-free beer actually for? Then the games. Ben’s put more time into both Crisis Core – Final Fantasy VII Reunion and Elden Ring, singing...
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We start the episode with some sober reminscing about drinking and hangovers. Ben Played has dabbled in Elden Ring. But he mostly played FF7 Reunion: Crisis Core.Lucy earns her title as the indie queen playing Melatonin, Letterbox, and Potion Shop. We also touched on the Vampire Survivors DLC. Then...
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Somehow we’re already at the end of 2022, so it’s time for our top picks. But first we open with a brief discussion/description of cat wanking, and then move on to our honourable mentions. And then on to the Top 10s, with the usual TUP tomfoolery and tangents. Strap...
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The team gets together to discuss a few games and share a few beers. Ben discusses the early hours of Ixion, a newly released, space-based city(ish) builder. Lucy gives brief thoughts on Stacklands, and a more in-depth review on A Little to the Left. To drink, Lucy has the...
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Ben has jumped back into OlliOlli World with the Finding the Flowzone DLC and bludgeoned his way into Bloody Ties, the new story DLC for Dying Light 2. ...
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Aadil has returned to the land of the internetted… He managed to squeeze a dozen or so games of Marvel SNAP, after hearing the discussion last week. The crew goes on a deep dive from their respective perspectives. Lucy finished “The Case of the Golden Idol”, and everyone agreed...
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This week Ben and Lucy both drink collaboration stouts. Lucy has the Attic Brew Co X Protokoll, Empty Cans and Ben drinks Coffee from Brew York X Siren. For the games, Ben chats a little Marvel Snap whilst Lucy is still on a point-and-click binge. She discusses The Plague...
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Stouts are drank, games are discussed and 'it's not-a-me' Mario appears...
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With her now internet more stable than the pound, Lucy catches us up on all the games she’s been playing over the past few weeks. Lucy played As Dusk Falls, Norco, Immortality, Tinykin, The Artful Escape, Lost Words Beyond the Page, Love 3, and Return to Monkey Island. She...
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The Summer hiatus is over and we all played some games. Aadil goes on a deep-dive on TMNT: The Cowabunga Collection. Ben has gone back to Killzone: Shadow Fall, as the beginning of his new approach to gaming, taking advantage of PS++, and Lucy… played some games. Aadil had...
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Lucy played 12 minutes, and things devolved into a spoiler-free discussion likening it to “The Room” of video games. Lucy and Ben have finished Stray, but graciously are waiting for Aadil to cap it off for next week’s episode. Ben has been playing Multiversus, and things naturally veer towards...
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The whole crew is together for one longer episode this week. It may be the height of summer, but free-time is in short supply. Aadil, ever the timely host, interrupts the game talk for some steam deck news. Ben updates us on his PS5 queueing. We talk about spiderman,...
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It’s Ben and Lucy this week. Ben has been previewing Scathe, a twitchy bloody FPS. We dip back into Powerwash Simulator and Lucy has continued playing the updated Into the Breach.. It wouldn’t be Lucy and Ben if Tony Hawk wasn’t brought up, this time it was mostly about...
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TUP 339 – Catting about in a cyberdystopia and other Stray details. The whole crew is together and through the somehow busy summer we’ve all only played one game. But its the much anticipated, and talked about all over the internet, play-as-a-cat-game: Stray. Ben has finished the game, and...
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Lucy finished “Endling: Extinction is Forever”, and discussed her overall opinions on the whole experience. She also played “Lord Winklebottom Investigates”, a 1920s based murder mystery point and click adventure with a giraffe protagonist. We round the episode off with a chat about what games are on our radars,...
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Ben catches us up on the start of Dading round 2. He then treated us to an in depth chat about Rollerdrome, an upcoming third-person action shooter that is also a rollerskating game by the same team who brought us OlliOlli World. Ben had the Super Visions Hazy IPA...
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Just Aadil and Lucy this week, so naturally we take some time out to talk about the nonsense meme of caring too much about pineapple on pizzas. It’s been a minute and Lucy has played a few games. We talk about her time with “Escape Academy”, as well as...
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Ben talks Planet Zoo and his life now as an animal husbander, rather than a park designer. He also played some Guardians of the Galaxy. We also touched on “Starbucks pricing” models and PS+. As usual the convo involves things like Gamespass, the Steam Deck, as well as an...
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Lucy and Aadil talk about the games they’ve been playing. Lucy throws away a dagger card to take us on a deep dive on Neon White. Aadil also played a game with cards, but this one is a turn-based strategy RPG: Gordian Quest. Lucy had the Island in the...
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The whole crew is together to chat the games they have been playing. We spoke about Bugsnax, Cookie Cranker, Kids, the Steam demo festival, Anger Foot, Streets of Rage 4. And then Lucy and Aadil do a deep dive on TMNT: Shredder’s revenge, expect nostalgia. Ben had the Iron...
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We touch on beer subscriptions and what can make them special versus stale. This week’s tupic was e3/not e3. We talk trailers vs gameplay and interviews, and all the deadspaces. Inevitably, without Lucy around there was a lot of Final Fantasy 7 talk. Ben gave his highlights from all...
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We talk at length about our time at the Bristol Craft Beer Festival, and beer festivals in general before getting into the annual “Why e3 exist?” conversation. Oh also an argument about the optimal way to get your microsoft rewards points happened. Lucy, Ben, and Aadil had the Brave...
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Ben has played a lot of Planet Zoo, and its still a lot deeper than the Jurassic World Evolution series. We chat about Netflix gaming and the byzantine approach to accessing their games. Lucy played Poinpy which is a joy. We also chatted about Diablo Immortal, She also played...
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Lucy tells us of her time with APICO, a beekeeping simulator with minecraft-like survival elements. Ben touches on his first impressions of Diablo Immortal. We then spend the rest of the episode talking about the open letter from CAMRA chairman Nik Antona to the Minister for Small Business lobbying...
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We start with a chat about Aadil’s PC problems, windows 11, and the scourge of computing that DUST is. Aadil takes a deep dive on the first-person photography game Umurangi Generation, now on GamesPass. Some nerding out on photography in general. We chat at length about the mechanics, UI,...
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Aadil continues his chat with Chad and Curtis of Bit Rot Games. We chat about the narrative focus of Recursive Ruin, demo design and testing, and the procedural techniques from music to visuals. We also chatted about how to make the perfect martini, the perils and pros of machine...
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Aadil is solo-hosting but is joined by the return of Chad and Curtis from Bit Rot Games. We talk the development, features, and balance of designing a narrative puzzle game that is Recursive Ruin. With only Aadil at the helm we touch on Micro-brewing vs. Craft brewing (vs. Femto-brewing),...
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Ben played FIFA 22, courtesy of PS+. It devolved into a general discussion of FIFA, football games and the (lack of) iteration over the years in sporting games. Ben had Arbor’s Space Hardware NEIPA, Lucy Cloudwater’s West Coast IPA, and Aadil had Arbor’s Texas Sunday Morning Hazy India Pale...
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Lucy makes us all jealous with her first impressions of the Play Date, and “Playtris”. That is until the Steam Deck arrived. She played Strange Horticulture, ElecHead, the Apeture Desk Job, Ynglet, Swallow the Sea and Raven’s Hike. We also chat briefly about Stadia and the steam platform. ...
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Ben talks about his initial impression of the beautiful Trek to Yomi, along with a review roundup of (minor?) complaints. Aadil played the sometimes body-horror ‘family’ game Bugsnax! Ben has the Maple Pancake Pale Ale from Fierce, also from his recent trip to Sainsbury’s. Aadil has Arbor’s Date...
Another Willsmithisode this week but this time it’s Lucy and Ben. Lucy returned to Toem for those tasty MS rewards points. The industry returned to Gamescom so Lucy and Ben discuss what was shown and anything they are looking forward to. Ben’s been playing Somerville before it’s PlayStation release...
On this Willsmithisode Aadil and Ben discover that access to games isn’t easy. Ben had been playing Borderlands 3 but it was removed from the PS Plus Extra tier so he isn’t anymore. Aadil was playing with the PS Vita some more but ended up in the past and...
