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  • Tanked Up 152 – A Philosophical Ca(t)meo(w)

    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...
  • Tanked Up 138 – Missing the Red Dead Party

    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...
  • Tanked Up 137 – Obra Dinn and board games

    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...
  • Tanked Up 136 – A Beautiful Environment

    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...
  • Tanked Up 135 – Aadil’s Birthday Magic

    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...
  • Tanked Up 133 – The Spidered Man

    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,...
  • Tanked Up 132 – Behind Every Great Hospital

    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...
  • Tanked Up 127 – Open Worlds and 80s Procedurals

    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...
  • Tanked Up 125 – White Knights

    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...