In which Chris, Graham and Tom S try to unravel the sorcery behind the Dota 2 Compendium’s spectacular success, appreciate the joy of hyperspace in Elite Dangerous and discuss important matters of etiquette when duelling internet opponents in Blade Symphony.
Also discussed: the thorny issue of repurposing historical events for schlock entertainment in Wolfenstein: The New Order, the game about gun-toting Romantic poets that nobody will ever make, and a few things that scare us deeply. No, it’s not Nigel Farage in a mech suit.
- All hail Dota 2’s amazing magic book.
- The International is coming. Here’s Chris’ piece on last year’s event.
- A Dota 2 player recently promised/threatened to eat their own shoes if the Compendium hit a huge sum, triggering this PSA from concerned community members.
- The Crate & Crowbar TI4 fantasy league.
- Elite Dangerous is making lots of people really fucking excited.
- Probably because of this hyperspace jump video, among other things.
- Can Star Citizen deliver on its many promises?
- Star Citizen’s dogfighting module was delayed after this wobbly live dogfighting demo at PAX.
- Rich Stanton’s first look at Project Legion on RPS.
- Wolfenstein: The New Order is a good shooter with tricky tone issues.
- Blade Symphony is the duelling game Chris has always wanted.
- It’s difficult to talk about duelling culture in online games without linking to the best thing that’s been written about it so far.
- Three expert fencers take on 50 in this excellent video.
- If you like the words of Richard Cobbett as much as we do, consider backing his Patreon.
- The BBC drama about TV in the ’50s that Graham mentions is probably The Hour.
- The Encyclopedia of Fantastic Victoriana
- The works of Lord Dunsany and The Great God Pan by Arthur Machen.
- Firefly. Joss Whedon’s best work?
- The Home Alone game that fucked Chris up.
- As always, you can tweet us on Twitter, or individually. Here’s Chris, Graham, and Tom.
Our intro music is by The Mandibles from their track Clambake. Many of the band members now tour as Count Bobo And The Bullion.
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