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Episode 208: The Best Games of 2024

Two top 10 lists of our favourite games from 2024.

December 27, 2024

Episode 207: The Alternative GOTY Awards 2024

Silly awards from silly men, ahead of the real GOTY pod next week.

December 20, 2024

Episode 206: The Sub-80 Metacritic Games Draft

Each host must pick the best 10 games that have a score of 79 or less on Metacritic!

December 13, 2024

Episode 205: Christmas Games Mag Quiz + Mailbag

The quiz part goes on for far too long. The mailbag bit has some low energy answers. But it sure is an episode of this podcast.

December 6, 2024

Episode 204: PlayStation 30th Anniversary – Our Favourite First and Third Party Games on Every PlayStation Console

Well, the very long title says it all really.

November 29, 2024

The Back Page Starter Pack on Bluesky

Matthew, where could people find you on social media?

November 23, 2024

Episode 203: The Death and Life of Games Magazines (with Caspian Whistler)

What it’s like to work on a games magazine when it’s closing down and the rise of prestige games mags with A Profound Waste of Time founder 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)

Beefy games chat this week on all of the above – plus The Rise of the Golden Idol, FF7 Rebirth and Apex Legends.

November 15, 2024

Episode 201: Backlogeddon (with Jay Baylis)

We all have too many games to play. Jay Baylis joins us to discuss how we all gathered massive backlogs – and what can be done to cure it.

November 8, 2024

Episode 200: Behind The Back Page

Only Jeremy Peel can save us now.

November 1, 2024