Once again Ben and Aadil discuss the absurdity of misogyny, this time from the beery side of the coin, relating to a South African brewery’s branding strategy. They’ve also been playing some games, coincidentally both playing puzzle games. Aadil talks Picross Luna and Ben gives his first impressions of...

Aadil has returned from the frozen north to jump on the soap box with Ben and scream at people for a couple of hours. We discuss the Portman Groups ruling over the use of words on beer labelling, the big issue with twitter interactions in the gaming sphere and...

Thinking they’d just do a quick episode after the football Ben and Lucy kick off with a quiz. They manage to hit their stride to discuss Lucy’s recent beer adventures and Ben’s bender of a Stag weekend. Then after several own goals and both pre-recording beers and the first...

Ben and Lucy get together for a short episode today just to chat two games, Hollow Knight and Doom. Of course this spirals into other topics but as only Ben is drinking it’s a pretty tight show. Ben drinks, from To Øl, the ‘Nul’ a Zero IBU India Pale...

Ben and Lucy return to discuss their highs of E3 and the games they’ve been finding time for at this super busy time of year. Lucy has a few games to chat through in Hollow Knight, Shape of the World and Yoku’s Island Express. Ben’s only found time for...

Aadil, Lucy and Ben take on the Cannonball Run. Three big beers from Magic Rock, Human Cannonball DIPA, Neo-Human Cannonball NE DIPA and the Un-Human Cannonball Triple IPA, are drank and spoken about at length. But that’s not all. We have a huge E3 show, where predictions and wants...

We have a big discussion around the new short, narrative experience from Bithell Studio, ‘Quarantine Circular’. It then does well at creeping its way into almost everything else we discuss this week. Lucy also chats Shift Quantum, Bloodstained: Curse of the Moon and Castlevania whilst Ben’s been battling against...

The internet is all up in arms about the inclusion of a woman, a woman! in the new World War 2 set Battlefield V. We dig out the internet for it’s absurdity. We’ve also got games. Ben’s played ‘What Remains of Edith Finch’, Aadil’s played ‘Knights of Pen and...

This week our heroes continued to record their nonsense after episode 118, they all just wanted one more beer. Ben and Aadil drink an ‘Illicium’ Imperial Milkshake IPA from Wander Beyond whilst Lucy has a ‘Green Eyed Monster’ Northern Monk Patrons 6.05 which is gluten free. We talk Willem...

Ben, Aadil and Lucy start this episode half cut, Lucy’s been to a Siren craft beer tap takeover whilst Ben and Aadil have been drinking and playing the Nintendo Switch. They continue on their quest, through the episode, to drink as much as they can. There are plenty of...

Ben and Lucy are back to drink and chat about video games. Lucy isn’t feeling great so she hasn’t got a beer tonight and sticks to the water. Ben however makes up for it and smashes back a Kokomo Weekday IPA from our friends at Good Chemistry Brewing. We...

Ben and Lucy get into God of War to give their thoughts after both smashing through it. They discuss what they liked, what they didn’t and what they think may be in store for future instalments. We drink, of course. Ben starts with a ‘DOPA’ from Unbarred Brewery and...

Aadil’s back and we have guests for a big episode. Joining Ben and Aadil are Sean Walton and David Towsey from Pillbug Interactive makers of Cycle 28 (which you’ve heard Ben rant about before). We take a deep dive into the game and what went into making it. We...

Once again Ben and Lucy delve into the world of video games whilst supping some excellent beers. We start with some beer chat, tax breaks and the price of a pint. Ben’s played the first add-on for Assassin’s Creed Origins ‘The Hidden One’s’. Lucy has sunk some time into...

We’ve a couple of smaller titles to talk about today. Ben’s played the mobile puzzle game ‘Umiro’ and Lucy’s playing something similar called ‘Sally’s Law’. We finish the episode with a discussion on our favourite games from the year so far. Lucy drinks two stouts to reflect her mood...

Ben and Lucy are here to drink and discuss their love for the new release Minit, where you die every 60 seconds. There’s chat of the co-op game A Way Out too and it’s Lucy who’s been playing it! We finish on the news of Spider-man getting a date...

There’s talk of beers and talk of videogames as Ben and Lucy delve into an advertising faux pas, Florence (again), Shadow of the Colossus (again), Telltale Batman (again) and finish on something new in Octahedron. Go here if you haven’t seen the advert: https://news.sky.com/story/heineken-advert-branded-terribly-racist-over-lighter-is-better-tagline-11307349 Ben drinks a Lost and Found...

It’s a Ben and Lucy WillSmithisode so they have a chat about Wolfenstein 2, one of Lucy’s favourite games from 2017 and the one Ben’s been putting his time into. Lucy’s played a really long game on Switch (probably whilst she was on the toilet) called Never Stop Sneaking,...

We’ve all played Games, the funk has been kicked. Aadil has finally jumped into ‘Mario Odyssey’ which leads to a brief discussion on cheat codes. Lucy’s been getting a puzzle kick in ‘Q.U.B.E 2’. The game to help Ben kick the funk is the arcade space shooter ‘Cycle 28’....

Aadil returns to join Ben and Lucy in a full on roast of Brewdog, a chat about Tacoma, some extra thoughts on Zenge and a thorough discussion on violence and video games. Ben drinks the ‘Huddle’ Pale Ale from Verdent and ‘Glory’ Triple IPA from Northern Monk. Aadil has...

Ben and Lucy have some beers on this cold and frigid night and discuss what they’ve been playing. Ben’s played two games which are almost the opposite of each other in ‘Getting Over It with Bennett Foddy’ and ‘Rime’. Lucy got back into her episodic sleuth persona and played...

Lucy, Aadil and Ben are casual gamers. It’s true, don’t try to defend them. Ben hates games and only likes casual educational experiences like the Assassin’s Creed: Origins Discovery mode. Aadil hasn’t touched a game in months but has been poking Zenge a mobile game, a mobile game! Uhh...

Ben and Lucy grab some beers and chat about the games they’ve been playing over the last week. Lucy kicks off with Celeste, A 2D platformer with a story, and Ben counters with Bloodborne, the Gothic inspired boss battler. Lucy comes back with dystopian set, narrative driven The Red...

Ben and Aadil went on a little day trip to the Wiper and True tap room to sample some of their and some of Partizan Brewing’s beers. This included the collaboration ‘Smoking Jacket’ Porter and the beer Ben drinks during the episode the ‘Phantasmagoria’ IPA from Wiper and True....

This week features all three of us, huzzah! But we chat the darker side of gaming from Epic Games closing down Paragon after only 2 years to the arcade mode in Star Wars Battlefront 2 being tied to the mulitplayer for progression which has been designed around loot boxes...

We recorded an excellent episode and then it all exploded. So Lucy and Ben decided to get together again to drink more and discuss Genital Jousting. It’s just come out of early access with a story mode. Ben drinks the Icelandic White Ale from Einstok Olgerd and Lucy has...

Aadil’s lost in the frozen north so Ben and Lucy get together to toast his memory. Actually they talk about what they’ve been playing and discuss the games they are looking forward to in 2018. They also discuss a 2017 article from Boak and Bailey on ‘The Seven Ages...

2017 was a crazy year for games so we chat about our favourites. Lucy’s got a top ten and several honourable mentions whilst Aadil and Ben have top fives. We really get into it but of course stray along the way. What do we drink? We start with the...

One episode from the grand 100 and Lucy visits Bristol. We capture her, forever. Our chat takes us from Peak Beer to Dishonoured 2 and boss fights. From criminal intent to Mother Russia Bleeds and the brilliance of Devolver Digital. Finally South Park to comedy writing. We drank a...

The chat starts with the new sequel/expansion of the swipey-monarch game: Reigns – Her Majesty. We talk about Metroid: Samus Returns, the wonder/pain of 3D, the best mario, Doki Doki Literature Club, Marvel’s Netflix series, Emperor Doom. Aadil and Ben start off with the “Wylam” session IPA ‘Swipe Right....

We talk about the new Play link game “Knowledge is Power”, “Dishonored 2”, “Hellblade”, the latest fundraising for “Star Citizen”, how Cloudwater is facing eviction from their current location, tax breaks, inheriting virtual libraries and some other stuff besides. Ben and Aadil start off with the ‘Pale 31’ pale...

Everyone does the Macarena. We drink three different pairings from the recent Beer 52 x Anders Elements project. We chat different ingredient changes, yeast, malts and hops and how this effects the taste of a beer. Lots of beer chat ensues then onto gamez. Ben’s got a PS4 and...

This week is a very special episode we sit down with Alan and Zoe from Brewgooder, the craft brewery that donates 100% of their profits to clean water projects. Their goal is to provide clean water to 1,000,000 people and they have done it for over 40,000 people already....

This week Aadil does a mini-roundup of mobile games, courtesy of hours of travel. We chat “A Good Snowman is Hard to Build”, “Concrete Jungle”, “Dropsy” along with a couple smaller games like “Wolfenstein II” and “Super Mario Odyssey”. Lucy drinks the ‘Body Riddle’ pale ale from “Whiplash”. Aadil...

Well we tried. This is two pods mashed together. The first is a beer each and a discussion on Spec Ops: The Line between Ben, Lucy and Aadil. This then runs into a second podcast recorded the week before. In it Ben had to leave because of a screaming...

Part 2 of the greatest collaboration of the year. We’ve another very beer filled two hours for you. Don’t worry it doesn’t affect our ability to be eloquent, concise and stay on topic at all.  But we drink more, more than we’ve ever drank before on the show. We...

That’s right, Ben is joined by Sam of Good Chemistry brewing and Steve, Dickie and Kit from Chance & Counters, a Bristol based board game cafe, and this is only part 1. It’s the biggest collaboration of the year! We chat all things Chance & Counters, who they are...

Aadil, Ben and Lucy get together to discuss all the games. Well all the games that Lucy has been playing anyway as Ben and Aadil haven’t played much. Lucy reels off games from her list but really gets into Splatoon 2, Night in the Woods, Thimbleweed Park and SteamWorld...

We talk Child of Light, drunken couch co-op after the Bristol Craft Beer Festival. Aadil talks a little about BoJack Horseman and its emotional realism, and Hexcells: Infinite. But don’t worry Ben played some games: “Total War – Warhammer”, the Chaos Warrior race DLC, “Subsurface Circular” and its very...

We’ve got a real special episode this week. Aadil is on the tail-end of his trip in Canada, and met up with one of the brewers over at Wild Rose Brewery in Calgary, Mark Kerrigan. We start out with the usual challenge of gaming/life balance, then Mark’s partialness to...

This week we start off with a geography lesson, and then straight on to burglary. Weddings and chauffeuring (along with the astonishing reveal about Ben and perogies). We wax intellectual, read: gripe, about time passing and being old and not recognising places we used to live/go to. We then...

Ben, Lucy and Aadil get together to discuss Sonic Mania, Call of Duty WW2 beta, Linelight and Framed 2 as well as the nostalgic ‘SEGA’ intro, SEGA the publisher, Battlefield (of course) and a couple of point and click games were mentioned. The beers this week are Oskar Blues...

We talk changing difficulty levels and going through old games, and new ones with the new ‘Story-mode’ in Horizon. We then talk about dream jobs tasting beers, and testing video games. It’s Gluten-free week here at Tanked Up. All beers this week are gluten-free for all you celiacs out...

We’re back, after a brief summer hiatus and we are talking “Hellblade”, gaming droughts and the room 1 & 2 before moving on to this week’s topic. Loot boxes, pay-to-win and children gambling. Also Aadil gets a little yelly at the end… for biological reasons. Its a special beer...

This week we talk ‘Splatoon 2’, the ‘Destiny 2’ beta, ‘Yonder: the cloud chronicles’ and ‘The Final Station’ before moving on to our topic. A Czech brewery “Aurosa” has emerged releasing the ‘first beer for her’® a pink-bottled number, discussion ensues. Lego may be mentioned. Aadil starts things off...

As always, we talk the games we’ve been playing, “Yonder: the cloud catcher chronicles”, “Duelyst” & Aadil couldn’t resist talking some more “Superhot” as it is out on PSN now, with its VR counterpart as well. Our topic this week is all about “craft” vs independent beer, and how...

This week is quite a special one, as we opened up the 13-hour livestream for “Gamers United Against Demnetia”. We talk memory games, times our memory has failed us in games, games as part of dementia/memory research, games as both preventative and palliative brain care, and a whole lot...

We talk “Submerged”, the beautiful more exploration than narrative NEWS game, killing and surviving in “Dead by Daylight”. Our topic this week is Sales! Particularly the big sales events of the year, e.g. steam summer, and seemingly never-ending sales in games that tease our pocketbooks constantly. Aadil rabbits on...

Ben and Aadil are rejoined by the on-the-mend Lucy talking some more e3, with “Spider-man” causing a diatribe from Aadil about Quick-Time Events and character powers in them. We touch on “Tacoma”, “Cup-Head”, “Life is Strange Season 2”, the “Devolver Digital” conference, and the XXXBone. We move on to...

This week its Ben and Aadil chatting about their top highlights from e3, the latest offering from the studio that brought us the burnout series, ‘Danger Zone’, and a full-on tangent on Collectible Card Games; “Duelyst”, “Gwent, etc. Ben has the ‘Saison d’Avon’ from “Lost & Grounded”, and ‘Above...