In which flesh-cubes are fondly recalled. Plus: the No Man’s Sky hype-rocket achieves escape velocity, Marsh is perplexed by CounterStrike’s workshop, Tom S takes a tumble in Tomb Raider and Tom F rifles through Costume Quest’s wardrobe.
And not only that! We revisit our favourite tech demos, talk about supernatural family-fixing game The Novelist, and slur our way through an extended discussion of Charlie Brooker’s excellent TV programme, How Videogames Changed The World.
Show notes
- Marvel at the trailer for No Man’s Sky. Top space wow.
- Graham’s two excellent No Man’s Sky articles for RPS: a first look and an interview.
- Peculiar and wonderful space-cartography puzzler, MirrorMoon EP.
- Counter-Strike: Global Offensive workshop tutorial.
- A gun that you can vote on, right now, should you wish to. Oh go on. Please. I love you.
- The Division’s engine trailer.
- Our favourite tech demos from days of yore: Half-Life 2, Unreal Engine 3, Crysis (albeit unofficial).
- Bill Gates giving a conference keynote from within Doom.
- Mars-set shooter with smashy buildings, Red Faction Guerrilla.
- The only game Tom’s logged into Steam to upvote, Luminesca.
- Witless pain-funnel, Tomb Raider.
- The Wachowski siblings’ latest: Jupiter Ascending trailer.
- Costume Quest, and Nika Harper’s videos thereupon.
- The Novelist. “Like Gone Home, except you play as the ghost.”
- Custom PC retailers, CyberPower, PC Specialist and ChillBlast.
- How Videogames Changed The World.
- Charlie Brooker’s ancillary interview with befuddled news anchor, John Snow.
Our intro music is from the track Clambake by The Mandibles. Many of the band members now tour as Count Bobo And The Bullion.
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