Eight and a Half Bit

Military Men in karts, Mario in Karts, monkeys in kart, more things in karts! I CAN'T STOP KARTING! Well I can stop for a while to discuss Battlefield Hardline and our first instalment of Cheapskate Gamers Club with "You Have To Win the Game".

Crowd Funding Picks

Simone: Together: Amna & Saif

James: Tomb of Tyrants

Ben: Tic Toc: Time is Your Sandbox

Paul: Dark Deception

Next Cheapskate's Games Club: Card Hunter

What's new is old is new again in this fresh but familiar episode.Next week: Top 5 Villains in Video Games

Kirby sucks a glorious amount in this most wondrous of episodes.  Sadness has returned and it's as confusing as ever. While we're talking about confusing things how about PadDefender? Is it like a Frog Fractions thing? Is life as we know it just an elaborate Frog Fractions publicity stunt? Bugs. We're all very confused. Icarus Proudbottom saves the day though and we get to tap a chicken.Crowd Funding Pick: Icarus Proudbottom: Starship Captain (Four way tie)Cheapskate's Game Club: You have to win the game

On today's show we make a lot of enemies.

Next Week: Top 5 - Retro Throwbacks

What treasures lay within the friendship mine? Soulcalibur: Lost Swords, Scram Kitty and His Buddy on Rail, Kinectless Xbone and some amazing crowd funding projects just for starters.  Also Friends. The mine is full of happy friends.

Crowd Funding Picks:

Ben: Witchmarsh

Simone: Perish

James: Witchmarsh

Paul: Superhot

Sometimes you get a thing and it comes with another thing! Here's a list of times that such a situation has occurred with a videogame. THRILLING DESCRIPTION!

Next Week: Top 5 - Things we hate about the video game industry

Do you want to kiss? Do you want to Joust? DO YOU WANT TO BE HIT IN THE HEAD WITH A LEAD PIPE?! Tex Murphy, Lococyle, Sportsfriends, Realistic Kissing Simulator, Don't Starve, Sunset overdrive, disability in gaming and yes even some crowd funding! James is late though.  Late as in the late James Bowling? It's a sort of threat you see. I've never been terribly good at them myself but I'm told they can be terribly effective.

Crowd Funding Picks

James: The Way

Simone: Buck

Ben: Mr Fiskers

Paul: Kingdom

Oh, give me land, lots of land under starry skies above.Don't invisible wall me in.

Next week: Top 5 - Included Game Bonuses

Paul is a little hung over but he still loves him some Child of Light. Simone is deep in debt to Tom Nook in Animal Crossing: New Leaf and James loves yelling in Space Team.  New Call of Duty, TV on XBone, a bunch of crowd funding and a little headless puppet to cap the whole bundle off.

Crowd Funding Picks:

James: Dieselstormers

Simone: Axethrower: The Great Axe

Ben: The Old City

Paul: Pann the game

If you ever do something wrong, just say it’s a parody and no one will judge you. In our family we never used the word accident. I was always my parent’s little parody.

Next Week: Top 5 – Open World Games