Episode 246: The Best Games of 2017

A massive year for games; a bleak year for at least one giant man.

September 26, 2025

Episode 245: Mailbag (Now Featuring Trace Amounts of Nutritional Value)

It’s a bloody mailbag! Please save your shrugs for the end.

September 19, 2025

XL Episode 42: Two Giant Men Play Some Old Atari Games

A fascinating (if sometimes cursed) deep dive into where things went wrong for the company that popularised home video game consoles.

September 14, 2025
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Episode 244: What We've Been Playing (Mafia: The Old Country, Shinobi: Art of Vengeance, Kirby on Switch 2, Hollow Knight, MGS Delta: Snake Eater, Shuten Order)

The stack of games we’ve been chewing through lately.

September 5, 2025
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Episode 243: The All-Star Japanese Game Developer Draft (with Ashley Day and Dave Scarborough)

The Two Giant Men are joined by two further giant men as we compete to pick the best games from our favourite Japanese game developers.

August 28, 2025

XXL Episode 39: Film Club – Galaxy Quest (1999) and Tropic Thunder (2008)

Galaxy Quest and Tropic Thunder were our selections this month: slightly over-the-hill actor characters in life-or-death situations.

August 25, 2025

Episode 242: Two Giant Men Play Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas

The Back Page’s road to GTA 6 – a borderline-unviable series of playthroughs of older GTA games – continues!

August 21, 2025

Episode 241: The First Ever Metacritic Game

With 750 Metacritic ‘points’ each, who can pick the best 10 games based on their critical averages?

August 15, 2025

XL Episode 41: One Giant Man Cranks the Playdate (and Some Other Chatter About Niche Handhelds)

Matthew has played around 40 games in the catalogue of the Playdate console – but are his hands just too big for the tiny handheld?

August 11, 2025
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Episode 240: Three Games Court Episodes In One Year? In This Economy?

More pre-owned game purchases go on trial in Judge Castle’s Games Court. It’s a fun one!

August 8, 2025