Bomb Squad

With The Girls Asleep, Mum Can Play!

Welcome to the official Bomb Squad garage. We have everything you could ever need: prams, Pimm’s fantasy novels , GameBoy colours and anime discussion.

But is it anime? Andrew talks us through a very suspect episode of an ‘anime’ that he has watched recently. We also discuss the state of cheap British snacks, HBO’s The Last of Us, our first impressions of PSVR2 and Robin Hobb’s excellent books.

SIDENOTE:

Hey, Chris here. I’m editing this podcast about 4 days after we recorded it and just felt like I needed to apologise for the first 23 minutes or so.

He's the Tom Jones of Japan!

Bonjour!

This time on Bomb Squad we discuss a range of odd topics (as usual).

Our main focus is on new smash hit M3gan, the excellent black comedy/social satire Triangle of Sadness (later nominated for best picture at the Oscars after recording!) and the charmingly hilarious anime Kaguya Sama: Love is War!

Oh Chris also brings up WWE for a fair bit. Sorry about that one.

Oh and then he also brings up Starship Troopers and the ethics of adapting books.

I Been Itching All Over, No Cap

Strap in everyone!

There is quite a large tangent here about nose bleeds that takes up the first five minutes of the podcast.

In fact, the whole podcast seems to be one large tangent at the moment!

However, we do manage to talk about the 2022 Video Game Awards and some of the amazing announcements made there. Positive vibes only.

Topics include: Hades 2, Ken Levine’s Judas, Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League, Star Wars Jedi Survivor, Earthblade, Death Stranding 2, Baldur’s Gate 3, Diablo 4, Horizon Forbidden West Expansion, Banishers: Ghosts of New Eden, Cyberpunk 2077 Phantom Liberty, Armored Core VI Fires of Rubicon and, inevitably, Final Fantasy XVI.

No cap.

Baba Ganoush

Welcome to episode 50 of Bomb Squad!

For this special episode, we invited a few of our best friends to come and recommend some of their favourite things to you.

Recommendations include: FLCL, Colt Express, Don Broco, Railbound, Boss Monsters, Band of Brothers, The Realm of the Elderlings, Dogtooth, Soju, Tainted Grail: Fall of Avalon, Dragon Age: Origins, couples massages, Inscription, Aubergines and The Cosmere by Brandon Sanderson.

Thanks so much to any of you out there listening, it means so much to us.

Chris and Mugs <3

Spooky Season

Boo!

Sorry if that scared you, but it is the season to be spooked after all!

This time on Bomb Squad we have a number of high profile game announcements including Resident Evil 4 and approximately 53 Silent Hill games! Scary indeed!

We also discuss some of our favourite horror movies and franchises including: The Mummy, Paranormal Activity and ASMR youtube videos.

Oh, Chris also has a big moan about Gotham Knights.

Our anime suggestion this week is the marvellous Made In Abyss.

One-Winged Angel

This time on Bomb Squad, we get musical. Thank you for the music, the songs we’re singing. Let’s get musical, musical.

We went to the incredible Royal Albert Hall to see Distant Worlds perform some of the most incredible pieces of Final Fantasy music from years past.

We discuss some of our favourite musical moments in gaming as well as the tragic news of the death of Stadia.

Better Call the Rings of the Dragon

SPOILER WARNING!

In this episode we discuss episodes 1-5 of BOTH Amazon’s The Rings of Power as well as Game of Thrones prequel House of the Dragon.

PODCAST SPOILER WARNING!

We do not like one of those shows. At all. Not one bit.

FURTHER SPOILER WARNING!

It’s The Rings of Power. We don’t like it. Sorry.

We also discuss the phenomenal Breaking Bad prequel: Better Call Saul but with NO SPOILERS!

Much love.

Leaks and Shenanigans

Grand Theft Auto 6 has been leaked!

Well, sort of. We discuss what we know, our views on the leak and what our experience is with previous GTA games.

There was also a big Playstation State of Play in which we saw Team Ninja’s new title as well as a huge God of War Ragnarok trailer.

Have you ever been bemused by anime titles? We play a short game with some of anime’s weirdest names!

Hey, Remember Starfield?

Summer Games Fest has come and gone leaving us…actually pretty excited for games again!

Just, not for PlayStation games.

The Xbox event knocked it out of the park and we talk in detail about two major titles including Diablo 4 and Bethesda’s long-awaited space RPG Starfield!

There was also the little matter of Final Fantasy 7’s 25th anniversary event where we finally got a glimpse of Remake Part 2: Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth.

We promise we will cool it with the Final Fantasy chat for a while now…

The Party System

Back again so soon!

This time it is an all out PlayStation State of Play discussion with games including: Resident Evil 4 Remake, No Man’s Sky (AGAIN), The Callisto Protocol, Stray and a massive deep dive into the new Final Fantasy 16 info.

We also discuss what the best method of flushing a toilet is.