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  • Tanked Up 178 – What can we do to make beer more approachable?

    06/09/2019
    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 176 – A Mixed Bag

    23/08/2019
    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 173 – A Defiant Misinformer

    26/07/2019
    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 161 – Aerial Diminished

    26/04/2019
    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?...

  • Tanked Up 156 – It’s not about Politics

    22/03/2019
    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...

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

    21/02/2019
    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

    02/11/2018
    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

    27/10/2018
    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

    19/10/2018
    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...