• Tanked Up 220 – Bad Practices and Taking a Stand Against Them

    Some companies have been naughty and it’s time for us to talk about them. First, we crack open some beers. Ben has already got one on the go and finishes Shelby from Thornbridge in the first few minutes, Aadil drinks Hugs & Kisses from Brouwerij De Molen, Lucy has...
  • The Last of Us Part II Spoilercast

    Join Lucy and Ben as they discuss the first half of the Last of Us Part II. They go into detail on their thoughts on gameplay, story and characters. It’s full of spoilers for the entire game as they discuss Ellie, Joel and the inhabitants of Seattle. They’ll be...
  • Tanked Up 219 – Is It Safe To Drink Out Yet?

    We are joined this week by returning guest Stephen Carter, aka Points of Brew to discuss a few beery issues. Stephen starts by drinking a new beer from Salt Steel Brewing Co, Aadil has one beer this week and cracks The Little Earth Project Stupid Sexy Suffolk Blend III...
  • Tanked Up 218 – The Almost Gone, Where There’s Always More Beer

    This week we’ve 6 beers and 5 games to chat through. Aadil starts off the drinking with Hopstravaganza from The White Hag, Lucy has World King Fist from Burning Soul Brewery and Ben drinks Deya’s Something Good 5. Both Aadil and Lucy have been playing The Almost Gone, a...
  • Tanked Up 217 – Small Screen, Big Hands

    Hot, hot gaming and beer chat this week. Lucy drinks Tartu Pilsner from Puhaste, Ben has a Session pale from North Brewing Co and Aadil sups Buxton Brewery’s Lupulus X Simcoe IPA. Lucy has been playing Little Orpheus from The Chinese Room and it sparks a conversation about Apple...
  • Tanked Up 216 – Pill Buggin

    It’s a show of two halves (sort of). In the first Ben drinks Steam Machine’s Odins Jam Jar and asks has a demo or beta put you off a full title. Lucy drinks Merrytiller from Kinnegar Brewing and discusses Signs of the Sojourner and Aadil has the Yeastie Boys...
  • Tanked Up 215 – Buy The Bundle for Racial Justice and Equality!

    This week Aadil, Ben and Lucy have all picked up the Bundle for racial justice and equality from Itch.io and Lucy has actually played some of them, discussing A Snakes Tail and Spring Falls. She drinks Flying Dogma from Dogma Brewery X Flying Dog Brewery. Aadil drinks Mikkeller’s Pepper...
  • Tanked Up 214 – Driving a truck to the PS5 reveal event

    Lucy, Aadil and Ben get together to discuss video games whilst all drinking some tasty beers. Lucy starts with Tasty Juice from Lervig, Aadil has Wild Card Brewery’s Unite Tribute and Ben drinks Verdants I Will Nee Your Signature. Aadil gives everyone an Animal Crossing update and delves into...
  • Tanked Up 213 – A New Life & Minecraft Dungeons

    This week Ben and Aadil kick off with the same beer, drinking The Daphne Touch from Pollys Brew Co. Lucy starts the gaming chat with her thoughts on Minecraft Dungeons which has many a tangent including current-gen vs new-gen releases. Aadil and Ben then crack more beers with Aadil...
  • Tanked Up 212 – All Together, Now

    Whilst Lucy has a week off the beer, Ben and Aadil delve into the All Together collaboration hosted by Other Half to support local hospitality professionals. They chose the same two beers to drink which come from Pipeline Brewing Co and Mondo Brewing. There’s also plenty of gaming chat...
  • Tanked Up 211 – Tony Hawk Delivers the Moon

    There are games and beers galore this week (like every week). Ben kicks off the drinking with Sensei from Deep Creek, Aadil drinks Free Verse from Virginia Beer co and Lucy has Verdants Some Fifty. Initial thoughts on John Wick Hex and Deliver Us The Moon are shared and...
  • Tanked Up 210 – Rage Collectors

    Lucy, Aadil and Ben get together to discuss their weeks in videogames and sink a few choice beers. They start with some beers, Lucy has Millionaire by Wild Beer Co, Aadil drinks Full Circle Bre Co’s Lake of Stars and Ben has the Amundsen X Finback collab Fade to...
  • Tanked Up 209 – Cyberpunk Hard Seltzer in the time of Corona

    We kick off with a chat on hard seltzers and what the point of them is as Lucy drinks Wild Basin from Oscar Blues, alongside this Aadil cracks open Pollys White Noise and ben drinks Brew Yorks Big Eagle 2020. We then chat online board games, monopoly and dropped...
  • Tanked Up 208 – Tom Nook The Dirty Crook

    The gang get together to discuss more Final Fantasy 7, touch on Call of Duty Warzone and PUBG, dive into Animal Crossing New Horizons and chat a bunch of smaller release like SiNKR, Half past fate, Edgar: Bokbok in Boulzac, Monument Valley 2 and Possessions. Ben and Aadil are...
  • Tanked Up 207 – With Added Points of Brew

    We are joined by Stephen Carter, AKA Points of Brew to discuss his new beer and gaming podcast of the same name. We discuss Final Fantasy 7, both original and remake, Sea of Thieves and Scrapers on Apple Arcade. With four of us, this is a big 8 beer...
  • Tanked Up 206 – Small Islands In Other Waters

    Still in Lockdown Aadil has taken to tending a small virtual island in Animal Crossing New Horizons, Lucy has revisited a vibrant island full of puzzles in The Witness and both she and Aadil have spent time in the sea playing In Other Waters. As we record on a...
  • Tanked Up 205 – Ori Eternal

    This week the team get into game delays and Final Fantasy 7 Remake actually releasing in the UK a whole week early. This leads to discussing the working culture of game devs and strangely John Wick. Aadil is annoyed at the Epic Games Store whilst Ben has been playing...
  • Tanked Up 204 – Free beer for the NHS and Games to keep us sane

    The first week of a proper lockdown and we’re keeping sane with Jackbox Party games and Disney +. We discuss some of the good initiatives coming out of this global pandemic firstly chatting Brewgooder and their one on us programme of buying a pack to gift to an NHS...
  • Tanked Up 203 – A 9 Beer Meltdown

    It’s the end of the world as we know it and we’re all drinking. Aadil, Ben and Lucy get together to discuss a plethora of topics whilst supping 9 beers between them. Discussed are the adaptation beer brewers, bottle shops and taprooms are having to take at this time...
  • Tanked Up 202 – What A Grummy Week

    With the world resembling that of The Division we’re all in need of a beer. Lucy chats about Hidden Through Time, Ibb & Obb, Death and Taxes and touches a little on House Flipper. Everyone has played the preview version of Filament an upcoming puzzle game and Aadil has...
  • Tanked Up 201 – Carl’s back for his Final Fantasy

    Ben and Aadil are joined by returning guest Carl Marshall, now of Salopian Brewery. They have a big discussion on the recent ruling by the Portman Group on Lost and Grounded’s label art, then switch into chat on the new Final Fantasy 7 Remake demo. The beers are from...
  • Tanked Up 200 – Bristol Pub Crawl, Are any games fun Lucy?

    Its episode 200! Lucy came down to Bristol and we went on a bit of a pub crawl. First stop was the Left-Handed Giant brewpub. We had Kriek (Boon), Kriek Boon, All On Green (Burnt Mill & Other Half), Wide Awake (Verdant & LHG), Time Will Tell (LHG), Making...
  • Tanked Up 199 – Dreaming of Blizzard TV

    This week we delve into Sushi Time, Lucy actually playing the Witcher 3, Dreams and Project Spark, Setting up a new PC, Microwaving CDs, PC games from school and the news that Blizzard has some TV shows coming. The beers are from Weird Beard, Deya, Utopian, Burning Soul and...
  • Tanked Up 198 – A Humble Bundle of Beers

    It is a packed episode this week as we’re all drinking and have games to discuss. We chat Wide Ocean Big Jacket (again), Pax Nova, Scourge Bringer, changes to Humble Bundle, Luna The Shadow Dust, Ministry of Broadcast, 7th Sector, Kunai and Life is Strange 2. Lucy drinks beers...
  • Tanked Up 197 – What Should Aadil Play?

    Ben, Lucy and Aadil discuss Ben’s time with both Death Stranding (again) and Still There, All the games Lucy has played, Call of Duty Modern Warfare, Kentucky Route Zero and Wide Ocean Big Jacket and finish on the question what should Aadil play? Aadil drinks beers from Lost &...
  • Tanked Up 196 – A Pedestrian Coffee Cult

    This week Ben and Lucy chat what they’ve been playing and get snarky on the weekly gaming goings-on. Lucy discusses Coffee Talk and The Pedestrian whilst Ben chats The Shrouded Isle. Ben is drinking and has Brewdog Overworks Cosmic Crush Raspberry Sour and Bad Co Off-Tempo Milkshake IPA....
  • Tanked Up 195 – Norman Reedus and the Invisible Wizard

    Ben and Lucy get together to discuss more game delays, Frog Detective 2: The case of the invisible wizard, LA Noire and Rockstar, the top ten selling games of 2019 and Death Stranding. Ben drinks American Pale from Gloucester Brewery and Big Cat Stout from Stroud Brewery....
  • Tanked Up 194 – Super Crush KO and game delays

    The gang return to chat Lucy’s time with Super Crush KO, game preservation, Ben’s time with Jedi Fallen Order and the recent delay to Final Fantasy 7 remake. Yes, we recorded before the Cyberpunk 2077 delay but we do predict it. Ben and Aadil are drinking this week with...
  • Tanked Up 193 – Most anticipated of 2020 with Lauren Aitken

    Aadil and Ben are joined by former OutofLiveser Lauren Aitken now of VG24/7 for beers, our most anticipated games of 2020 and what we’d like to see change in the industry moving forward. Lauren drinks We’ll Always Have Paris from Sori brewing then kicks to a splash of gin....
  • Tanked Up 192 – Our Favourite Games of the Decade 2010-2019

    As a continuation from episode 191 the gang kept drinking and moved on to discuss their favourite games and genres of the decade. The drinking continued too with Aadil having beers from Unity and Good Chemistry, Lucy sinking back North Brewing Co and a Whiplash X Pig’s Ear collab...
  • Tanked Up 191 – Our Favourite Games of 2019

    Aadil, Ben and Lucy got together for a big episode, so big it’s been split into two shows. For this episode, they run down their top 10 video games of 2019. Aadil’s beers come from Whiplash and Cloudwater. Lucy has a Brew By Numbers and a beer from Track....
  • Tanked Up 190 – 25 years of PlayStation

    It’s a very rare episode this week as Ben is all alone. He chats about growing up with PlayStation and what he’d like to see from the upcoming PS5 on the PlayStation’s 25th anniversary. Of course, he has a beer and drinks Geeked Up from Gamma Brewing Co....
  • Tanked Up 189 – Apple Arcade is in Control

    This week ben and Lucy delve into the games that they’ve been playing. Lucy has spent time with some smaller experiences, playing My Brother Rabbit and the Apple Arcade games Assemble With Care and Tangle Tower. She has also started Control which Ben is deep into. Should it be...
  • Tanked Up 188 – Gooigi’s Beer Factory

    Ben, Aadil and ghost Lucy get together to run down some of the weeks’ big news and discuss the games they’ve been playing. Aadil doesn’t talk about Blacksad but does bring up Pokemon Sword and Shield shutting down other tech, inevitably Google Stadia is then brought up. Ben has...
  • Tanked Up 187 – The Three S’s, Sparklite, Star Wars and Stadia

    It’s a duo cast again this week as Ben and Aadil discuss Ben’s time with Sparklite, fomo around Death Stranding and Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order and a big rundown of Google Stadia’s launch line up. They drink the craft lager from Toast, Velocity from Saltaire Brewery, Beardo IPA...
  • Tanked Up 186 – Blowing Off Steam

    Ben and Aadil are joined this week by technical issues, a slight future echo from Aadil’s audio. They chat about an update on the Blizzard situation, Telltale’s The Walking Dead Final Season and Steam’s new library layout. Aadil’s beers are Origin from Northern Monk and Jule Maelk from To...
  • Tanked Up 185 – Juicy Squirrel’s and Pretty Paintings

    This week Aadil does a live on-air unpackaging for The Outer Wilds, a game he hasn’t played yet. We all chat LoZ Link’s Awakening and Breath of the Wild, converse about the state of Breakpoint and Ubisoft and chat around having a unified account for all platforms. Ben loves...
  • Tanked Up 184 – Blizzard’s Causing A Storm

    This week Lucy has more Apple Arcade games to discuss focusing on Stela. Ben briefly mentions Concrete Genie and how much he likes it and to finish Aadil brings up everyone’s topic of the week Blizzard’s response to political messages about Hong Kong and China. The beers drank by...
  • Tanked Up 183 – Apple Arcades in a Cyberpunk Future

    There’s a lot packed in this week. Ben chats around his review for Neo Cab but has mostly been playing Nintendo’s new mobile offering Mario Kart Tour. Lucy finished Gears of War 5 and has been enjoying the new offerings included in the Apple Arcade subscription including Sayonara Wild...
  • Tanked Up 182 – Finger licking good

    Ben and Aadil get together to discuss the visual novel recently released by KFC, ‘I Love You, Colonel Sanders! A Finger Lickin’ Good Dating Simulator’. This spurs on a conversation around Visual novels, games such as Hatoful Boyfriend, and the developer’s other titles. Ben then brings up Arkham Knight...
  • Tanked Up 181 – Bad Goose!

    This week its a bad goose week as Ben, Lucy and Aadil discuss the Untitled Goose Game dominating everyone’s playtime this week. Lucy has also played a little of Gears of War 5 and finished both Link’s Awakening and Wilmot’s Warehouse. Aadil finishes out the episode with a discussion...
  • Tanked Up 180 – The Sojourn

    Ben and Lucy get together for a quick episode this week to chat about Ben’s time with The Sojourn, a new first-person puzzle game. The beers this week are ‘Just A Glimmer’ from Deya for Lucy and Polly’s Brew Co ‘It Takes A Little Time’ for Ben....
  • Tanked Up 179 – The Church of Remote Play Island

    This week Aadil’s been playing The Church in the Darkness, Ben cries about Remote Play and the future of streaming and Lucy chats Puzzle Agent and Yoshi’s Island. Beers this week for Ben were from Verdant Brewing Co and a North Brewing Co X Brouwerij Kees collaboration whilst Lucy...
  • Tanked Up 178 – What can we do to make beer more approachable?

    This week our heroes return to the question, what could you do to make beer more approachable. Ben’s annoyed at the rain in Batman Arkham Knight, Lucy kicks off the Mobile games corner talking Agent A, Cosmic Express and Inbento and finally Aadil the Nintendo Direct and Overwatch coming...
  • Tanked Up 177 – Bird of Lies

    This week we discuss Bird of Passage and the excellence of itch.io, mention Celeste and Inside which have just become free on the Epic Games Store and go in-depth on Telling Lies the new FMV game from Sam Barlow. Both Ben and Aadil have a couple of beers this...
  • Tanked Up 176 – A Mixed Bag

    This week we cover games like Etherborn, what genre mash-ups we’d like following the announcement of Disintegration at Gamescom and the Apex Legends vitriol towards a developer’s comments. We drink beers from Dry & Bitter, Deya, Hofbrau kaltenhausen, Cloudwater and Boundary...
  • Tanked Up 175 – Something Something Solo Hike

    No, It’s not a Star Wars week. Things have just worked this way for a catchy title. Ben and Lucy get together to discuss the games they’ve been playing over the last week (or two for Lucy). These include Bully, A Short Hike, Moonlighter: Between Dimensions and Solo: Islands...
  • Tanked Up 174 – Internet Outrage and Viennese Beers

    Ben and Aadil are joined by Issac Kean a co-founder of This Next Act, the comedy podcast on the out of lives network. We dig deep to talk about how awful the internet is after the Ooblets developers Glumberland’s exclusivity announcement. Ben chats a few of the games he...
  • Tanked Up 173 – A Defiant Misinformer

    This week Lucy’s played Blazing Chrome, Ben laments the closure of Defiant Development and Aadil thinks about the responsibility of games and journalism with the announcement of Misinformer. We drink beers from Collective Arts, Brew By Numbers, Dry & Bitter, and two collabs, one from Cloudwater x Modern Times...
  • Tanked Up 172 – A Stirchley Takeover (Remaster)

    This week our heroes recount their weekend in Birmingham visiting the Stirchley Beer Mile and hit a big food tangent. Lucy’s been playing The Eternal Castle (Remaster), Aadil wants to talk Hop Stuff Brewery and takeovers and Ben chats a break from gaming (albeit a short one). The beers...