Swapping Joysticks

RIP Stadia, we barely knew ya!

Ep 57: Our podcast is recorded mere hours after the death knoll for Stadia is rung (if it wasn't DOA), so Ed & Ben give their opinion on that. We also chat about our trip last week to EGX and the games we've been playing, including Sonic Frontiers, The Last Of Us Part 1, Trombone Champ, and all the latest gaming news.
00:00 Intro
04:20 Interview with Yoshi-P
09:25 EGX 2022 including Sonic Frontiers and Unstoppable
26:00 Brewmaster: Beer Brewing Simulator
30:22 Splatfest
34:17 The Last Of Us Part 1
41:05 Mario + Rabbids: Kingdom Battle
44:25 Trombone Champ
47:22 What's everyone playing?
55:55 Stadia is shutting down!
59:14 Netflix creates a first-party studio
1:00:43 Wild Hearts announced
1:03:42 Sackboy announced for PC
1:05:40 Chef Kawasaki’s Microbikini Karuta shut down
1:07:32 Outro
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Dear Ed Nightingale

Ep 56: It's a theatre special as we discuss our trip to see Dear Evan Hansen on the West End before it closes as well as our opinions on pretty much every musical out there! Games?
Oh, we played Horizon Forbidden West, Splatoon 3 and a bunch of Switch demos, as well as discussed all the latest Twitch news.
 
00:00 Intro
01:51 Queen Elizabeth II's funeral
08:22 Dear Evan Hansen & theatre talk! 
55:00 Tales Of Arise
56:52 Horizon Forbidden West
1:06:17 Splatoon 3
1:16:19 VALKYRIE ELYSIUM, DioField Chronicles & Harvestella
1:24:51 What have you been playing?
1:31:56 GTA VI leaks
1:36:45 TheRealInsider unmasked!
1:38:51 Twitch gambling 'ban'
1:44:37 Twitch introduces 50/50 cap on payouts over $100k
1:53:07 Twitch has a problem with predators
1:58:51 Trombone Champ goes viral
2:02:24 Outro

A Taste Of Japan

Ep 55: We took a week off after The Queen passed away 30 minutes before last week's podcast but we're back with more to talk about than ever before! Ed's spent the day at the Square Enix Plays event in London and Ben's been knees-deep into Disney Dreamlight Valley!
00:00 Intro
01:15 Queen Elizabeth II's death
09:03 Square Enix Plays 
10:13 Final Fantasy 7 Crisis Core tease
15:33 VALKYRIE ELYSIUM
18:34 Harvestella, Star Ocean: The Divine Force, Dragon Quest Treasures & more (including Japanese food!)
41:49 Ed's finished some games!
51:55 Donut County
56:27 Disney Dreamlight Valley
1:07:15 What everyone's been playing
1:12:10 This week's Nintendo Direct
1:29:33 Playstation State Of Play
1:40:13 Outro
 
 

The Final Farthest Frontier

Ep 54: This week, Ben's played Farthest Frontier while Ed's suffering some JRPG burnout. Plus what's next in Assassin's Creed and will there be a Zelda Nintendo Direct this month?
00:00 - Intro
03:12 - Ed hates northern music
13:33 - Gaming burnout
25:55 - Cult Of The Lamb
27:48 - Cuphead
31:10 - Farthest Frontier
38:40 - Episodic games, movies and bingeing
47:20 - Xenoblade Chronicles 3 and obscure game mechanics
50:57 - New Assassin's Creed Mirage leaked!
54:23 - Pride in Fortnite & music ramble
1:05:20 - New Pokemon announced
1:07:11 - Call Of Duty on GamePass
1:09:00 - New Playstation Plus games
1:12:29 - Tokyo Game Show, Square Enix
1:13:35 - Transphobic rant in patch notes of DOMINA game.
1:15:41 - Switch ports of Wind Waker and Twilight Princess?
1:12:10 - What have the community been playing? (Atomicrops, FFXIV 6.2, Horizon Zero Dawn, Graveyard Keeper, Bloons TD, Immortality, Bear & Breakfast
1:31:40 - Outro

The Price Is Not OFK

Ep 53: Ed and Ben discuss the news of Sony increasing the PlayStation 5 cost, as well as F1 Manager 2022 and LGBT+ music game We Are OFK.
 
00:00 - Intro (Ed's birthday week)13:50 - Final Fantasy XII16:49 - F1 Manager 202227:06 - We Are OFK35:23 - What have you been playing? (Hearthstone, Cult Of The Lamb, Destiny 2)51:55 - PS5 price-hike1:10:41 - GamesCom Opening Night Show1:19:07 - Offensive comments by developer of Black Myth: Wukong1:22:23 - Monster Hunter Rise selling 11 million copies1:24:30 - Outro

Back To College

Ep 52: We chat about Two Point Campus, the new Mario Kart tracks, Final Fantasy XII and all the latest gaming news with an LGBTQIA+ twist! 

Bunch of Prix

Ep 51: Ben & Ed chat about Two Point Campus and their time at the London e-Prix.

Cats and Cars

Ep 50: Join Ben and Ed as they do their best to talk about everything but video games.

Let’s talk about Twitch Con Amsterdam

Ep 49: Ben & Ed are back from TwitchCon Amsterdam and it's time for the debrief! Find out what went on and what we thought of the panels and events we went to, as well as some very stern words for certain Minecrafters.

It’s TwinkCon Eve!

Ep 48: It's TwitchCon Eve! Ben and Ed chat about their plans for the weekend, what they've been playing and all the important gaming news!