2024  65

November  4

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

October  5

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

September  6

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

August  7

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

July  6

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

June  6

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

May  7

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

April  6

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

March  6

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

February  6

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

January  6

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

2023  75

December  3

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

November  6

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

October  6

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

September  7

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

August  6

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

July  6

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

June  7

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

May  7

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

April  5

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

March  8

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

February  7

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

January  7

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

2022  71

December  7

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

November  7

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

October  6

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

September  7

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

August  6

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

July  7

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

June  6

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

May  6

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

April  7

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

March  4

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

February  4

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

January  4

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

2021  52

December  5

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

November  4

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

October  5

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

September  4

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

August  4

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

July  5

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

June  4

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

May  4

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

April  5

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

March  4

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

February  4

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

January  4

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

2020  6

December  5

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

November  1

Episode 1: PS5 vs Xbox Series X

November 27, 2020