• Halloween III: Season of the Witch is the Weirdest James Bond Film

    16/04/2024
    The oddity of the Halloween franchise casts aside Michael Myers and slasher sensibilities and instead is inspired by James Bond?...

  • Call *Knocks on Wood* (Tanked Up 403)

    15/04/2024
    The whole crew is present, but in an inversion Aadil has played most of the games. We start with a discussion about the Kotaku resignation, prompted by managements push away from news and opinions towards 50 game guides a week. Aadil and Lucy talk a bunch about Balatro while...

  • The Best and Worst of The X-Files Season 3

    09/04/2024
    A phenomenal season of television, the third season of The X-Files features the best episodes the show has to offer, but perhaps the worst too...

  • What Does the Lost Footage Add to David Lynch’s Blue Velvet?

    02/04/2024
    51 minutes of lost footage were found for David Lynch's Blue Velvet. Will these fabled deleted scenes change my perspective on one of my favourite films?...

  • Bit More Beery (Tanked Up 402)

    01/04/2024
    Lucy is freshly back from Manchester and talks to Ben about her time there visiting a bunch of different bars and breweries. She’s also played some Geometry Survivor and a little more Modern Warfare 3. Ben breaks out a big boy and drinks Puttty from Verdant whilst Lucy remembered...
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    One Last Breath Review (Xbox X/S)

    28/03/2024
    In this 2.5D puzzle platformer, Nature takes on a humanoid form in a last-ditch attempt to restore balance to Earth. In the guise of Gaia – a feminine figure made of roots and leaves – you must reverse the apocalyptic renderings of Mankind. Story In One Last Breath, Earth...

  • Cloud Saving (Tanked Up 401)

    26/03/2024
    A shorter affair following our 400th episode, Ben and Aadil get together for a beer and some gaming chat. They discuss Warner Brothers doubling down on the live service model following the release of Suicide Squad Kill The Justice League. There are puzzle games as Ben previews Preserve, whilst...

  • Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein at 30: A Melodrama with a Monster Problem

    26/03/2024
    Kenneth Branagh's Frankenstein adaptation celebrates its 30th anniversary but the more faithful film suffers from melodrama and monster mismanagement ...
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    Mediterranea Inferno Review (Xbox X/S)

    26/03/2024
    Set in Italy post COVID-19, Mediterranea Inferno is a psychedelic visual novel about three Gen Z’s readjusting to reality after the pandemic. Before the viral outbreak, our three protagonists were known as the Sun Guys (which sounds so much more poetic in Italian) and were revered by their peers...
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    Rebel Transmute Hands-On (Xbox X/S)

    26/03/2024
    Rebel Transmute is another Metroidvania that doesn’t break the mould: Moon Mikono crashlands on an unforgiving planet full of aliens and environmental hazards – “but if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it” as the old adage goes. Rebel Transmute feels very much like Metroid and Axiom Verge, which should...