XXL Episode 30: Bleak Film Club – Speak No Evil (2022) / Threads (1984)
November 24, 2024
The Back Page Starter Pack on Bluesky
November 23, 2024
Episode 203: The Death and Life of Games Magazines (with Caspian Whistler)
November 22, 2024
Episode 202: What We’ve Been Playing (Dragon Age: The Veilguard, COD BLOPS 6, Batman: Arkham Shadow, Mario & Luigi: Brothership)
November 15, 2024
XL Episode 32: Two Giant Men Play Metal Gear Solid
November 10, 2024
Episode 201: Backlogeddon (with Jay Baylis)
November 8, 2024
Episode 200: Behind The Back Page
November 1, 2024
XL Episode 31: Back Page Episode 200 Q&A
October 28, 2024
Episode 199: From Games Journalism to Blumhouse (with Louise Blain)
October 18, 2024
XL Episode 30: Two Giant Men Build Video Game Theme Parks
October 14, 2024
Episode 198: What We’ve Been Playing (Metaphor: ReFantazio, Silent Hill 2, The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom)
October 11, 2024
Episode 197: The PS4 Draft (with Dave Scarborough)
October 3, 2024
XXL Episode 29: Film Club Dad Edition – Gladiator (2000) / Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (2003)
September 29, 2024
Episode 196: What We’ve Been Playing (UFO 50, Astro Bot with spoilers, Tactical Breach Wizards)
September 27, 2024
Episode 195: PC Gaming Draft 2010-2019 (with Jeremy Peel)
September 20, 2024
XL Episode 29: Top 50 Third-Party Nintendo Games
September 15, 2024
Episode 194: What We’ve Been Playing (Astro Bot, Space Marine 2, Star Wars: Outlaws, Emio – The Smiling Man: Famicom Detective Club)
September 13, 2024
Episode 193: Why Japanese Games Have Thrived Since the Xbox 360 Era (with Jay Baylis)
September 7, 2024
Episode 192: Star Wars Outlaws First Impressions, Gamescom 2024 and Emergency Mailbag
August 30, 2024
XXL Episode 28: Two Giant Men Rank the Alien Movies
August 24, 2024
Episode 191: Writing the Book on Alien: Isolation (with Andy Kelly)
August 23, 2024
Episode 190: What We’ve Been Playing (Anger Foot, Ace Attorney Investigations, Thank Goodness You’re Here, Nobody Wants To Die)
August 16, 2024
XL Episode 28: Two Giant Men Play Perfect Dark
August 12, 2024
Episode 189: Nintendo Top 50 Part 3 – The Final Countdown
August 9, 2024
Episode 188: Nintendo Top 50 Part 2 – Assembling the Longlist
August 2, 2024
XXL Episode 27: The Movies and TV Shows We’ve Been Watching in 2024 (So Far)
July 29, 2024
Episode 187: Nintendo Top 50 Part 1 – The Art of List Making and ONM’s Final Top 100
July 26, 2024
Episode 186: Mailbag (July 2024)
July 19, 2024
Episode 185: From The Miller Report to Wrestling (with Simon Miller)
July 12, 2024
XL Episode 27: The Limited Run Competitor Draft
July 8, 2024
Episode 184: The Back Page Election
July 5, 2024
Episode 183: What We’ve Been Playing (Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door, Still Wakes The Deep, Mullet Madjack)
June 28, 2024
XXL Episode 26: Back Page Film Club Space Edition (The Right Stuff/Ad Astra)
June 24, 2024
Episode 182: Games Court – Big Sammy European Extreme Edition
June 21, 2024
Episode 181: Top 10 Most Anticipated Games
June 14, 2024
XL Episode 26: Two Giant Men Play Beyond Good and Evil
June 10, 2024
Episode 180: The PSP Draft
June 6, 2024
Episode 179: From EGM to BitSummit (with James Mielke)
May 31, 2024
XXL Episode 25: Two Immortan Joes Watch the Mad Max Movies
May 27, 2024
Episode 178: The ’00s Games Magazine Quiz and Mailbag
May 24, 2024
Episode 177: The Game Soundtracks Draft
May 17, 2024
XL Episode 25: Dreamcast Roulette
May 13, 2024
Episode 176: What We’ve Been Playing (Stellar Blade, Animal Well, Pepper Grinder, Dark Forces Remaster)
May 9, 2024
Episode 175: From Mysteries To Metroidvanias (with Stuart Turton)
May 3, 2024
XXL Episode 24: Two Giant Anjin Watch Shogun
April 29, 2024
Episode 174: From OPM to Rolling Stone to IGN (with Rachel Weber)
April 26, 2024
Episode 173: Games Court 2024
April 19, 2024
XL Episode 24: GOTY Lists Revisited
April 15, 2024
Episode 172: The Best Games of 2003
April 11, 2024
Episode 171: What We’ve Been Playing (Dragon’s Dogma 2, Rise of the Ronin, Helldivers 2)
April 5, 2024
Episode 170: The Time Samuel Wronged A Freelancer (with Steven Messner)
March 29, 2024
XXL Episode 23: Two Baron Harkonnens Watch Dune Parts 1 and 2
March 24, 2024
Episode 169: Two Giant Men Play Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth
March 15, 2024
XL Episode 23: Two Giant Men Play Hitman: Blood Money
March 11, 2024
Episode 168: We Collected Another Edge Editor (with Alex Wiltshire)
March 8, 2024
Episode 167: What We’ve Been Playing (FF7 Rebirth, FF7 Remake, Balatro)
March 1, 2024
XXL Episode 22: Back Page Film Club – Dazed and Confused + 21 Jump Street
February 26, 2024
Episode 166: The PlayStation Draft
February 23, 2024
Episode 165: The Cursed February Mailbag
February 16, 2024
XL Episode 22: The Best and Worst Hangs in Video Games
February 12, 2024
Episode 164: How To Write A Feature About Games (with Jeremy Peel)
February 9, 2024
Episode 163: The Best Games of 2002
February 2, 2024
Episode 162: Top 10 Sega Games (with Ashley Day)
January 26, 2024
XXL Episode 21: The Best TV Shows of 2023
January 22, 2024
Episode 161: What We’ve Been Playing (Suicide Squad, TLOU2 Remastered, Marvel’s Midnight Suns)
January 19, 2024
Episode 160: Dubious Mailbag
January 12, 2024
XL Episode 21: Samuel Bangs On About His Trip To Japan – Apologies In Advance
January 7, 2024
Episode 159: 24 Gaming Predictions About 2024
January 5, 2024
Episode 158: The Best Games of 2023
December 30, 2023
Episode 157: The Back Page Holiday Special 2023
December 22, 2023
Episode 156: Two Giant Men Play Final Fantasy 7 (Disc 1)
December 1, 2023
XXL Episode 20: David Fincher Movies Ranked
November 27, 2023
Episode 155: The Licensed Games Draft
November 24, 2023
Episode 154: What We’ve Been Playing (Alan Wake 2, Super Mario Wonder, PS Portal, Oculus Quest 3)
November 17, 2023
XL Episode 20: Best and Worst Console Launches
November 13, 2023
Episode 153: From Jak & Daxter to Eurogamer (with Ellie Gibson)
November 10, 2023
Episode 152: Three Giant Men Play Spider-Man 2 (with Dave Scarborough)
November 3, 2023
XXL Episode 19: Top 10 Martin Scorsese Movies
October 30, 2023
Episode 151: Alan Wake 2 and the Games of Remedy (with Simon Cardy)
October 27, 2023
Episode 150: The Art of PlayStation List Making (with Rob Pearson)
October 20, 2023
Episode 149: The Best Games of 2001
October 13, 2023
XL Episode 19: The Best Resident Evil Moments
October 10, 2023
Episode 148: What We’ve Been Playing (Cyberpunk 2077: Phantom Liberty, Assassin’s Creed Mirage, Resi 4: Separate Ways, Cocoon)
October 6, 2023
Episode 147: Things You Only Realise When You Make Games
September 29, 2023
XXL Episode 18: Matthew Is Back On His Asian Crime Fiction Bullshit
September 25, 2023
Episode 146: Two Giant Men Play Starfield
September 22, 2023
Episode 145: Dear God, More Games Court
September 15, 2023
XL Episode 18: Two Giant Men Solve an Escape Room – and the Best Gaming Prisons
September 11, 2023
Episode 144: The Nintendo DS Draft
September 8, 2023
Episode 143: What We’ve Been Playing (Sea of Stars, Armored Core 6, My House, Dredge)
September 1, 2023
XXL Episode 17: The ‘Matthew Castle Productions and Big Sammy Holdings Launch Rival Streaming Services’ Draft
August 29, 2023
Episode 142: The Dreaded Mailbag
August 25, 2023
Episode 141: The Best Games of 2016
August 18, 2023
XL Episode 17: The Best Video Game Levels Vol. 2
August 14, 2023
Episode 140: Old RPGs and Baldur’s Gate 3 (with Jeremy Peel)
August 11, 2023
Episode 139: What We’ve Been Playing (Exoprimal, Pikmin 4, The Expanse: A Telltale Series)
August 4, 2023
XXL Episode 16: Mission: Impossible Pod Rankening
July 31, 2023
Episode 138: Edge in the ’00s
July 28, 2023
Episode 137: The PS3 Draft
July 21, 2023
Episode 136: What We’ve Been Playing (Final Fantasy 16, Trepang2, Baldur’s Gate 3)
July 14, 2023
XL Episode 16: 20 Games That Deserve a Remake
July 10, 2023
Episode 135: Nintendo in the ’00s (with Wes Fenlon)
July 7, 2023
Episode 134: Two Giant Men Replay Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater
June 30, 2023
XXL Episode 15: The Indiana Jones Rankings
June 26, 2023
Episode 133: Top 5 Final Fantasy Games
June 23, 2023
Episode 132: Our 10 Most Anticipated Games From Not-E3 2023
June 16, 2023
XL Episode 15: The Best Video Game Boss Battles Volume 2: The Surprise Second Health Bar
June 12, 2023
Episode 131: The Edge 10 Episode (with Chris Schilling)
June 9, 2023
Episode 130: The Xbox 360 Draft
June 2, 2023
XXL Episode 14: Our Favourite TV Episodes
May 29, 2023
Episode 129: Regrettably, More Games Court
May 26, 2023
Episode 128: Two Giant Men Play The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom
May 19, 2023
Episode 127: What We’ve Been Playing (Jedi Survivor, Redfall, Xenoblade Chronicles 3 DLC)
May 12, 2023
XL Episode 14: 50 Things In Games That Make Us Go ‘Oh No’
May 8, 2023
Episode 126: How To Make A Video Game (with Jay Baylis)
May 5, 2023
PC Gaming Classics Episode 6: Quake vs Half-Life
May 1, 2023
Episode 125: The Shinji Mikami Hall of Fame (with Rich Stanton)
April 28, 2023
XXL Episode 13: Guilty Pleasure Movies
April 24, 2023
Episode 124: The Best Games of 2015
April 21, 2023
Episode 123: The Best Star Wars Games
April 14, 2023
XL Episode 13: The Best Mario Moments Vol. 1
April 7, 2023
Episode 122: What We’ve Been Playing (Diablo 4, PSVR2, Tchia)
March 31, 2023
XXL Episode 12: Christopher Nolan Movies Ranked
March 27, 2023
Episode 121: Two El Gigantes Play Resident Evil 4 Remake
March 24, 2023
PC Gaming Classics Episode 5: Jurassic Park: Trespasser
March 20, 2023
Episode 120: From PC Zone to Writing Games (with Will Porter)
March 17, 2023
XL Episode 12: 20 SNES and Mega Drive Games That Shaped Our Gaming Tastes
March 13, 2023
Episode 119: The Capcom Games Draft
March 10, 2023
Episode 118: 3DS and Wii U Games Worth Grabbing Before The eShop Closes
March 3, 2023
XXL Episode 11: Matthew’s Korean Cinema Deep Dive
February 27, 2023
Episode 117: The Wii U Hall of Fame (with Ashley Day)
February 24, 2023
PC Gaming Classics Episode 4: X-Com: UFO Defense
February 20, 2023
Episode 116: The Last of Us Revisited – and our Verdict on the TV Show
February 17, 2023
XL Episode 11: 50 Things That Make Us Go ‘Ooh Yeah!’ in Video Games
February 13, 2023
Episode 115: The Wii and DS Years of Official Nintendo Magazine (with Neil Long)
February 10, 2023
Episode 114: What We’ve Been Playing (February 2023)
February 3, 2023
XXL Episode 10: 30 Comic Books That Are Worth Reading
January 30, 2023
Episode 113: The Best Games of 2014
January 27, 2023
PC Gaming Classics Episode 3: Fallout
January 23, 2023
Episode 112: Games Court 2023
January 20, 2023
XL Episode 10: Rockstar Open World Games Ranked
January 16, 2023
Episode 111: 23 Wild Gaming Predictions About 2023
January 13, 2023
Episode 110: New Year Mailbag
January 6, 2023
XXL Episode 9: Best TV Shows of 2022
December 30, 2022
Episode 109: The Best Games of 2022
December 23, 2022
PC Gaming Classics Episode 2: Blade Runner
December 19, 2022
Episode 108: The RPG Companions Draft
December 16, 2022
XL Episode 9: Best Videogame Levels Vol. 1
December 12, 2022
Episode 107: Leaving Games Media (with Andy Kelly)
December 9, 2022
Episode 106: 2022 Gaming Predictions Revisited
December 2, 2022
XXL Episode 8: James Bond Movies Ranked
November 28, 2022
Episode 105: Two Giant Men Play God of War Ragnarök
November 25, 2022
PC Gaming Classics Episode 1: System Shock 2
November 21, 2022
Episode 104: Cyberpunk 2077 Revisited
November 18, 2022
XL Episode 8: PS5 vs Xbox Series X Revisited
November 14, 2022
Episode 103: What We’ve Been Playing (November 2022)
November 11, 2022
Episode 102: God of War Games Ranknarök
November 4, 2022
XXL Episode 7: 20 Horror Movies We’d Recommend To Anyone
October 30, 2022
Episode 101: Bayonetta 3 and Platinum
October 28, 2022
Episode 100: Clip Show
October 21, 2022
XL Episode 7: Top Zelda Moments (with Katharine Castle)
October 17, 2022
Episode 99: Best Visual Novels (with Lucy Blundell)
October 14, 2022
Episode 98: From MinnMax to Game Informer (with Ben Hanson)
October 7, 2022
Episode 97: Games Court – Judge Sammy’s Garbage Barge
September 30, 2022
XXL Episode 6: Star Wars Movies Ranked (or, Star Wars: Good or Bad?)
September 26, 2022
Episode 96: GTA Clones on Trial
September 23, 2022
Episode 95: The Lucasarts Adventure Games Hall of Fame (with Ashley Day)
September 16, 2022
XL Episode 6: Best 7/10 Games
September 12, 2022
Episode 94: Splatoon 3 + Nintendo’s Newer Series Explained
September 9, 2022
Episode 93: What We’ve Been Playing (September 2022)
September 2, 2022
XXL Episode 5: 20 Thriller Movies We’d Recommend To Anyone
August 29, 2022
Episode 92: The 2000-2005 PC Gaming Draft
August 26, 2022
Episode 91: From Edge to Hit Points (with Nathan Brown)
August 19, 2022
Episode 90: The ’90s Games Mag Quiz and Mailbag
August 12, 2022
XL Episode 5: The Hitman Re-Ranking
August 8, 2022
Episode 89: Steam Deck Special
August 5, 2022
Episode 88: Xenoblade Chronicles Special
July 30, 2022
XXL Episode 4: Best TV Shows of the Century (Part 2)
July 25, 2022
Episode 87: The Best Games of 2013
July 22, 2022
Episode 86: The Nintendo Switch Games Hall of Fame Vol. 1
July 15, 2022
XL Episode 4: Top 25 Metal Gear Solid Moments (with Rich Stanton)
July 11, 2022
Episode 85: What We’ve Been Playing (July 2022)
July 8, 2022
Episode 84: Games Court 4 – A Few Pre-Owned Games More
July 1, 2022
XXL Episode 3: Best TV Shows of the Century
June 27, 2022
Episode 83: Why Destiny is Good (with Phil Savage)
June 24, 2022
Episode 82: Top 10 Most Anticipated Games
June 17, 2022
XL Episode 3: Best and Worst E3 Moments
June 13, 2022
Episode 81: The ’90s PC Games Draft
June 10, 2022
Episode 80: Top 5 Dreamcast Games (with Andy Kelly)
June 2, 2022
Episode 79: What We’ve Been Playing (May 2022)
May 27, 2022
XXL Episode 2: Marvel Cinematic Universe movies ranked
May 23, 2022
Episode 78: From OPSM2 to PC Gamer (with Tim Clark)
May 20, 2022
Episode 77: Best Star Wars Guilty Pleasure Games
May 13, 2022
XL Episode 2: 20 Xbox Backwards Compatible Games Worth Revisiting
May 9, 2022
Episode 76: From Edge to Media Molecule (with Jen Simpkins)
May 6, 2022
Episode 75: Oh No, Another Mailbag (And Matthew Finishes Horizon Forbidden West)
April 29, 2022
XXL Episode 1: Japanese Crime Fiction – A 101
April 25, 2022
Episode 74: Max Payne 1-3 Revisited
April 22, 2022
Episode 73: The Indie Games Hall of Fame Vol. 2 (with Joe Skrebels)
April 15, 2022
Episode 72: The Best Games of 2012
April 8, 2022
XL Episode 1: Best Boss Battles
April 3, 2022
Episode 71: The Best Kirby Games
April 1, 2022
Episode 70: Ghostwire: Tokyo, New Kirby, Tunic and More Games We’ve Been Playing
March 25, 2022
Episode 69: The PS Vita Draft
March 18, 2022
Episode 68: Bad eBay Games Court 2022
March 11, 2022
Episode 67: Two Giant Men Play Elden Ring
March 4, 2022
Episode 66: Uncharted Games (and the Mediocre Movie)
February 25, 2022
Episode 65: Xbox Through The Years (with Jon Hicks)
February 18, 2022
Episode 64: The Game Pass Competitor Draft
February 11, 2022
Episode 63: What We’ve Been Playing (February 2022)
February 4, 2022
Episode 62: Pokémon Games (with Jay Baylis)
January 28, 2022
Episode 61: 2022 Mailbag
January 21, 2022
Episode 60: The Nintendo Wii Draft
January 14, 2022
Episode 59: 22 Bold Gaming Predictions About 2022
January 7, 2022
Episode 58: The Best Games of 2021
December 31, 2021
Episode 57: LOTR Games Revisited As Fellowship Turns 20
December 24, 2021
Episode 56: 2021 Gaming Predictions Revisited
December 17, 2021
Episode 55: Games We’ve Been Playing In 2021 (From Previous Years)
December 10, 2021
Episode 54: The Best Halo Games
December 3, 2021
Episode 53: The Xbox vs GameCube Draft
November 26, 2021
Episode 52: The Best Games of 2011 (except Dark Souls)
November 19, 2021
Episode 51: Metal Gear Solid 2 Turns 20 (with Rich Stanton)
November 12, 2021
Episode 50: How Games Magazines Get Made
November 5, 2021
Episode 49: 15 Horror Games We Love (with Louise Blain)
October 29, 2021
Episode 48: Grand Theft Auto 3 Turns 20 (with Steve Burns)
October 22, 2021
Episode 47: What Would Batman Do? (with Tamoor Hussain)
October 15, 2021
Episode 46: Bad eBay Games Court – Listener Edition
October 8, 2021
Episode 45: From GBA Reviews to The New Yorker (with Simon Parkin)
October 1, 2021
Episode 44: The N64 Mini Draft
September 24, 2021
Episode 43: Deathloop and Immersive Sims (with Jeremy Peel)
September 17, 2021
Episode 42: The Best Games of 2010
September 10, 2021
Episode 41: Bad eBay Games Court – The Retrial
September 3, 2021
Episode 40: The Indie Games Hall of Fame Vol 1 (with Katharine Castle)
August 27, 2021
Episode 39: Games Magazine Rivalries (with Dan Dawkins)
August 20, 2021
Episode 38: The PS2 Mini Draft
August 13, 2021
Episode 37: Games We’ve Been Playing in 2021
August 6, 2021
Episode 36: The Best Ace Attorney Games
July 30, 2021
Episode 35: Steam Deck and Creating the Perfect Handheld
July 23, 2021
Episode 34: The Best Zelda Games
July 16, 2021
Episode 33: The Best Games of 2009
July 9, 2021
Episode 32: Games Previews…From Hell!
July 2, 2021
Episode 31: The Best Sonic Games (with Jay Baylis)
June 25, 2021
Episode 30: Let’s Turn E3 2021 into a Games Magazine
June 18, 2021
Episode 29: Does E3 Still Matter? (with Keza MacDonald)
June 11, 2021
Episode 28: Mailbag Vol. 2
June 4, 2021
Episode 27: The Game Developer Draft
May 28, 2021
Episode 26: The Best Detective Games (with Andy Kelly)
May 21, 2021
Episode 25: The Mass Effect Trilogy and the Best Companions
May 14, 2021
Episode 24: Resident Evil Village and the best Resi games
May 7, 2021
Episode 23: The Best Games of 2008
April 30, 2021
Episode 22: Game Review Scores We Got Right
April 22, 2021
Episode 21: The Best Yakuza Games (with Phil Savage)
April 16, 2021
Episode 20: Games Magazine Covers…From Heaven!
April 9, 2021
Episode 19: PS3 and PS Vita Games Worth Saving From Oblivion
April 2, 2021
Episode 18: Mailbag
March 26, 2021
Episode 17: The Best Nintendo 3DS Games (with Joe Skrebels)
March 19, 2021
Episode 16: Game Developer Interviews…From Hell!
March 12, 2021
Episode 15: Bad eBay Games Court
March 5, 2021
Episode 14: The Best Games of 2007
February 26, 2021
Episode 13: The big Nintendo Switch games of 2021
February 19, 2021
Episode 12: Super Mario 3D World – the best 3D Mario game? (with Katharine Castle)
February 12, 2021
Episode 11: Best Games of the Console Generation - Part 2
February 5, 2021
Episode 10: Best Games of the Console Generation - Part 1
January 29, 2021
Episode 9: Hitman 3 and the 10 best Hitman levels
January 22, 2021
Episode 8: Games Magazine Covers…From Hell!
January 15, 2021
Episode 7: 21 wild gaming predictions about 2021
January 8, 2021
Episode 6: The Best Games of 2020
December 31, 2020
Episode 5: Cyberpunk 2077 and How To Review Big Games
December 25, 2020
Episode 4: The Best Games of 2006
December 18, 2020
Episode 3: James Bond games, from GoldenEye to IO Interactive
December 11, 2020
Episode 2: Game Review Scores We Got Wrong
December 4, 2020
Episode 1: PS5 vs Xbox Series X
November 27, 2020