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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...
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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...
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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...
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Its a beer and ben-less episode this week as Aadil and Lucy prep for the Bristol crew heading to Birmingham for some Lucy-curated beerbauchery. We manage to start with a conversation about youth drinking and the growing craft gin movement. We talk Prey and the latest Niantic augmented reality...
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Ben and Aadil had a little trip out last night so this weeks episode has some beer chat but doesn’t feature any drinking, boo, hiss, we know. Ben and Aadil went to The Good Measure for a tap take over from The Kernel and tell Lucy all about the...
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Ben, Lucy and Aadil discuss Draugen and walking sims, Super Mario Maker 2, various Konami collections, Cadence of Hyrule and what insane game TV shows we’d like to see following the FF14 announcement. We drink beers from Magic Rock, Pressure Drop, Townsquare brewing, Cloudwater and Adnams....
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As Aadil’s still in Canada we discuss the take over of Wild Rose Brewery by the larger Candian brewer Sleeman Breweries (Sapporo), Lucy dives into Void Bastards and Ben has played a load of games including Tabletop Gods, Devlover Bootleg, Gato Roboto and Observation. Aadil has also been enjoying...
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Aadil, Lucy and Ben return to run down their favourite bits from the Bethesda conference....
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Lucy, Ben and Aadil chat through the things they enjoyed the most and least from Microsoft’s Xbox E3 briefing....
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Aadil, Ben and Lucy discuss American Fugitive, Steamworld Quest, the Castlevania collection, A Link Between Worlds and Astrologaster. There is also a note here about E3 Strands but we’ve no idea what that means. Ben drinks ‘New Best Friend’ from Left Handed Giant and the North Brewing and Other...
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With Aadil in Canada for another week… wait, he’s in this episode? Aadil makes an early afternoon appearance to join Ben and long-time listener, first-time guest Callum Orr. They discuss what Callum’s been up to now he’s a fully fledged member of the craft beer industry, Instagram vs face...
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With Aadil on the road again we’re joined by Adam Thomas to discuss GOG Galaxy 2.0 and his want for Total War: Romance of the Three Kingdoms. Lucy and Ben have been busy playing a ton of games and bring discussions on Bastion, Totally Accurate Battle Simulator, Glass masquerade,...
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We kick off with a discussion on the Microsoft and Sony announcement and what Nintendo is doing with Mario maker 2. Ben’s played A Plague Tale: Innocence, Lucy’s played Alt-Frequencies and Aadil has played Florence. The beers this week are ‘Massive Azzac’ from Arbor Ales, ‘Maz’ from Omnipollo, The...
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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...
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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...
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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?...
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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...
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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’...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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We chat about a lot in this episode, too much to explain here. Ben and Aadil kick off the episode and Lucy joins the fray about an hour in. There’s also a little appearance from a birthday girl. Whilst it’s just Aadil and Ben they drink Cloudwater’s IPA dedicated...
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Ben, Aadil and Lucy get together to discuss the games they’ve been playing; Metro Exodus, Ape Out, Super Type, Mini Metro and Pikuniku. They also chat about the potential of Game Pass coming to everything and a forward thinking Microsoft. The beers this week are a mixed bad of...
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Lucy returns to join Ben and Aadil as we get heavy from the off, discussing philosophy and video games. Talk moves to pub trips, Weatherspoons and the ageing demographic of pub goers. We finish on some puzzle games including the New York Times Crossword, Golf Peaks and G30 rounding...
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Ben and Aadil get together to discuss two topics this week. What have games relied upon for too long and our time playing the Division 2 private beta; all whilst drinking some beers. Aadil continues his Korean beer experience with a Blackcurrant Milkshake IPA from The Booth Brewing and...
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As it’s a special number we wanted to do something special. Ben and Aadil left the comfort of their safe spaces to venture forth into the city. They visit three bars and drink some delicious beers from Marble, Bristol Beer Factory, Wiper & True and Good Chemistry among others....
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This week the crew moan about technology. It’s both stupid yet brilliant all at the same time. Ben’s played some Call of Duty Blackout and they touch on the chronicles of Aadil’s 49″ TV. Lucy and Aadil drink the same beers this week as they dive into the Korea...
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This week Aadil, Ben and Lucy roughly stick to the new format of coming in with a segment each, huzzah. Ben brings the myth of the January slump. Lucy has games to discuss and chats Spider-Man’s DLC and Below. Aadil ends us on a big discussion around the 40...
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Lucy returns to join Aadil and Ben for a bit of a change for 2019. We’ll each be bringing a topic to discuss. This can be from beer or gaming news to what we’re playing. We’re getting even more conversational. To start this week we crack some beers. Aadil...
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In the first episode of 2019 Ben and Aadil discuss their most anticipated games of the coming year. Some of these games have firm release dates, others don’t so hopefully their not repeated this time next year. Games touched upon include Control, Metro Exodus, Anthem, Doom Eternal, In the...
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It’s that time of the year when everyone thrusts their favourite games down your throat. We’re no different except it’s accompanied by several beers to ease it down. Lucy, Ben and Aadil start off with a few honourable mentions then launch into their top ten games. We’ve no rules...
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Aadil, Ben and Lucy discuss a fair few games on this weeks episode plus talk about the Epic Games Store as a rival to Steam. Aadil actually found time for a game and played a little more Magic The Gathering Arena, he also had some time to listen to...
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Who knows this week as we’re all over the place. We start with Hitman Sniper and move to Deconstructeam’s Eternal Home Floristry which both Lucy and Ben have played. Ben gives his first thoughts on Mutant Year Zero and this somehow leads to discussions on Max Payne, Massive Chalice,...
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OK, only Lucy has been a frog detective this week but Ben and Aadil are waiting, ready to take up the mantle. We kick off discussing The Haunted Island, A Frog Detective Game. This moves into Hollow Knight which Ben has started playing and Lucy could talk about for...
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Lucy kicks off this week by bringing the idea of Strip Fortnite to the table. Apparently it’s the newest, stupid craze kids are doing. Who knows really. We quickly move into the Red Dead 2 corner as Ben updates everyone on climbing a mountain and Aadil gets excited about...
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Aadil and Ben get together to discuss their favourite Marvel games in memory of the illustrious Stan Lee. These include Marvel licensed games through the years like The Incredible Hulk, Ultimate Alliance and Marvel Vs Capcom. Before this they discuss Alphabear 2 which Ben’s had a couple of days...
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Everyone’s here for this episode retreading recent games. We all further discuss Red Dead Redemption 2 and somehow slide in Ori, Origins and Overwatch. We have a little discussion around two of Rockstar’s other games, Red Dead Redemption and The Warriors. Talk briefly lands on socks before we revisit...
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This week Ben and Lucy get stuck into a discussion on Red Dead Redemption 2 but before that they’ve found some time to play a few other games appropriate for this time of year. Kicking off this week Ben gives his initial impressions of party murder simulator ‘Party Hard...
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This week Lucy is the only one who has played a video game so we delve into the realms of board games once again. Aadil kicks off the episode chatting about ‘Coup’ and ‘Codewords’. Lucy then gets into ‘Return of the Obra Dinn’ basically telling Ben and Aadil that...
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Ben’s beautiful garage recording space gets invaded. Aadil joins him in the garage for a few beers whilst Lucy comes through via the internet. They discuss the mobile puzzler ELOH and chat the beautiful Far: Lone Sails. In full flow a second invasion occurs and Kim appears for the...
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Aadil has returned to join Ben and Lucy on his Birthday! We kick off with a further discussion on supermarket beers, how they’ve expanded and what that means for quality. Aadil’s been investigating the Magic: The Gathering Arena open beta and talk turns to digital collections, libraries and digital...
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Ben and Lucy get together to discuss their recent outings to Taps Beer Festival, Bristol Craft Beer festival and to EGX. They chat the idea of the attendance of brewers / game developers, big queues, big beers, local beers and what they enjoyed from these events. Lucy played some...
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Once again Ben and Lucy have played the same game and discuss last weeks big release of Marvel’s Spider-Man in a packed episode. Whilst talking about their time with it they touch on Mafia 3, The Batman Arkham series, God of War, Nintendo and attachment rates, For Honor, Marvel,...
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For another week Lucy and Ben have played the same game and start the episode chatting about ‘Behind Every Great One’ from Deconstructeam. Lucy talks about the much looked forward to ‘The Messenger’ and Ben gets into ‘Two Point Hospital’. Game talk takes a break with an intervention from...
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Not only have we all managed to get together, but we’ve all played the same game and discuss, at length, Donut County. We move into a discussion about expensive beer following an article in the Sun and a rebuttal by Tiny Rebel Brewing. As Ben has only played Donut...
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Ben and Lucy have something positive to say about Brewdog (positive at least for them) to start the show off with this week. Talk quickly moves away from bar revenues to video games and starts with Reigns: Game of Thrones announcement. We move to Lucy who starts with her...
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Ben and Lucy share a few lunch time beers today and discuss what they’ve been playing. Lucy continues her run of games on the Switch whilst Ben has been a super casual and played a few mobile games. The games discussed are Hidden My Game By Mom 3, Flipping...
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Lucy is back, hooray! But because of an injured arm is off the beer this week. She does make up for it in a ton of games to talk about. Aadil’s also been playing games and both of them have enough to make up for Ben’s lack of game...
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Ben and Aadil get into a lot this week. Starting with an update on Picross Luna they move quickly into open world discussions talking The Witcher 3, Red Dead Redemption, Wildlands, The Division and The Crew 2. Ben chats around the feel of The Awesome Adventures of Captain Spirit...
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...
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...
