Episode 144: The Nintendo DS Draft

Matthew and Samuel compete to pick the 15 best Nintendo DS games – after an extremely long preamble.

September 8, 2023

Episode 143: What We've Been Playing (Sea of Stars, Armored Core 6, My House, Dredge)

Matthew has played 10 hours of Sea of Stars, so we discuss that, the Doom mod My House, Armored Core 6, Paranormasight and Dredge.

September 1, 2023

XXL Episode 17: The 'Matthew Castle Productions and Big Sammy Holdings Launch Rival Streaming Services' Draft

Our first ever draft episode behind the paywall is a truly chaotic affair – see what you make of this 2.5-hour epic.

August 29, 2023

Episode 142: The Dreaded Mailbag

It’s fun for the first hour, it sags in the second, but gets it back just at the end. A 6/10 episode.

August 25, 2023

Episode 141: The Best Games of 2016

We count down the best games of 2016, a year that brought good news for everyone! Except Microsoft. And Nintendo.

August 18, 2023

XL Episode 17: The Best Video Game Levels Vol. 2

The sequel to last year’s XL pod on the best video game levels is here, covering 25 different categories.

August 14, 2023

Episode 140: Old RPGs and Baldur's Gate 3 (with Jeremy Peel)

With Baldur’s Gate 3 taking over the world, genre expert Jeremy Peel returns to discuss how RPGs have evolved since the days of the Infinity Engine games.

August 11, 2023

Episode 139: What We've Been Playing (Exoprimal, Pikmin 4, The Expanse: A Telltale Series)

A simple but cheerful ‘what we’ve been playing’ joint this week, featuring Exoprimal, Telltale’s comeback game The Expanse, 1998’s Parasite Eve and Pikmin 4.

August 4, 2023

XXL Episode 16: Mission: Impossible Pod Rankening

After about 8 episodes of promotion, our ranking of the Mission: Impossible movies is finally here!

July 31, 2023

Episode 138: Edge in the '00s

Former Edge editor Margaret Robertson joins us to discuss working on the magazine from 2003-2007 and her career in game development. It’s a good one.

July 28, 2023