Not a Game podcast episode 51 – Spooky Harry Potter

07/29/14 • 59 min

Episode fifty one sees Pip still in recovery from The International, so Tom is instead joined by Laura Dale, Lucy Morris and Hannah Bunce. Lucy tells us about playing DayZ wiuth broken legs while Hannah tells us why Wolf Among Us is grittier than The Walking Dead. Laura has been exploring Itch.io and finding a bunch of strange, small indie games and Tom has been gaming like it’s 1999 with King of Dragon Pass. Also included: our favourite tutorials, rampant speculation about the new Bioware game and interactive fiction wordplay puzzler Counterfeit Monkey. The show notes, as ever, are inside....

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Not a Game podcast episode 50 – #quitegate

Welcome to the fiftieth episode of the Not a Game podcast! Which is also our one year anniversary! To celebrate this auspicious occasion we’ve got both Craig and Cara back, re-uniting all four original podders. This week Craig brings us the topical observation that Final Fantasy VII is pretty good, Cara tells us the secrets of David Bowie’s groin and Pip and Cara embark on a marathon twenty minute discussion of the themes of Kim Kardashian: Hollywood. We also bring back the silly question intro, answer some reader tweets and accidentally spark an international grammar incident. Show notes are inside....

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Not a Game podcast episode 52 – Showered with limbs

This week Tom and Pip are joined by Richard Cobbett. Tom’s been playing LA Cops, which just released with a short but sweet early access build. This spurs us to talk about Sunless Sea and the two’s different approaches to story driven early access games. Pip has been having a survival horror week, building arm effigies in The Forest and getting non metaphorical cold feet in The Long Dark. Meanwhile Richard has been beating Phileas Fogg’s record in Around the World in 80 74 days. Also we can’t stop talking about Kim Kardashian and are not sorry. Show notes inside....

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