Grumpy Gamers

Leaks a plenty today from Microsoft... let's discuss. Plus 3 presentations last week for us to talk about; Nintendo Direct, Sony State of Play and CD Projekt's Cyberpunk 2.0 show. It feels like E3!

What We've Been Playing:
Starfield
F Zero 99

More Switch 2 rumours... not quite news, or big news? You decide. Eddy and Pete give their first opinions on Starfield and we discuss how the hell we're going to fit the remaining games we want to play into this year!

What We've Been Playing:
Starfield

Dony guests this week as our feature is a loooong discussion on our first impressions of Starfield. Even Kirk has played it! In other news, PlayStation did a price increase and set a release date for their Portal device.

What We've Been Playing:
Farworld Pioneers
Starfield

Starfield and Xbox dominate the news, but we are mere days away from release! At least there's Armored Core 6 to keep people busy in the meantime! Our feature recaps last week's Gamescom Opening Night.

What We've Been Playing:
Armored Core 6
Railway Empire
Dead Space Remake

We talk about a lot of people getting angry about a lot of things in the news... the internet is the problem! But don't worry, the new releases are stacked this week. We've played more Baldur's Gate 3. Can it survive the cull with all the big games coming out? Our feature discusses DLCs and compares that to games which get annual new releases.

What We've Been Playing:
Baldur's Gate 3
Escape From Tarkov
Exoprimal

Shock, horror, Forza Motorsport doesn't have split screen?! We talk about it. Red Dead Redemption is getting a direct port, so it must be cheap, right? Right?! Oh, and there's potentially a new PS5 model... 2 of us have played Baldur's Gate 3, does it live up to the hype? Our feature asks what makes a great RPG?

What We've Been Playing:
Baldur's Gate 3
Escape From Tarkov

Pete's away so Eddy, Kirk and Ben have no leash on the conversational path... musicals anyone? We're entering big game season and our feature looks at the games we're most looking forward to across August-October!

What We've Been Playing:
Remnant 2
Exoprimal
Total War: Warhammer 1
Dead Space

Full house for the episode, a rarity these days! We discuss the Ratchet and Clank SSD controversy, more gaming industry lay offs and Final Fantasy 14 finally coming to Xbox. We've played Remnant 2 and it inspired our feature discussing the most underrated gaming franchises.

What We've Been Playing:
Remnant 2
Going Medieval
The Wandering Village
Transport Fever 2

Loads of PlayStation hardware rumours/leaks this week to go through, plus weighing up the Final Fantasy XVI sales numbers. We've finished Oxenfree 2, played more Exoprimal and Eddy gets into a 2022 GOTY contender in Vampire Survivors. Our feature taps into our gaming regrets. We buy a lot of games, which ones do we regret the most?!

What We've Been Playing:
Oxenfree 2
Exoprimal
Diablo 4
Vampire Survivors

We discuss the latest Microsoft/Activision/Blizzard deal progress in and amongst a more varied week of news! A good week of news releases is capped off by discussing Oxenfree 2 and Exoprimal from last week. Also, has Kirk finally played Dead Space? Our feature discusses the Activision/Blizzard games/franchises that we are looking forward to with the deal.

What We've Been Playing:
Oxenfree 2: Lost Signals
Exoprimal
Fifa 23
Dead Space