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In the latest of the console war series we discuss the first console that took the leap into the third dimension! how Sony took a gamble, grabbed the ball and ran with it, Sega completely dropping the ball with the release of the "Saturn" and Nintendo developing arguably the greatest platformer of all time!
Who came out on top through sales and all together in our opinion? two very different consoles with two very different libraries of games! 

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We're back!
And this week its time for something different a gaming quiz! Jake and Andy go head to head in a battle of gaming wits to decide who the winner is and who gets to be quiz master next time!
Question spanning all of gaming history how many would you get right?

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In this weeks episode we have a special guest, Andy's friend and housemate Aaron! and we discuss the genre of first person shooters, from its beginnings, its current state and what the future might hold in the genre, from battle royals to inventing our own genre, we discuss our favourite games of the genre and the impact it has had on gaming today.

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Its time for our unedited monthly roundup of news, this includes Sony's acquisition of Bungie, Nintendo's digital store closing down for the Wii U and 3DS and many other things that we wanted to include  but never got to as we were too busy having domestics.

*This Episode Contains Strong Language*

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In this weeks episode we join Dan & Andy as they discuss the world of Game pass, Ps now and many other games on demand subscriptions, will game pass continue to dominate or will a new contender come forward or is there already one? Is this the way gaming is going? are we about to say goodbye to buying games and only playing them through these subscriptions? 
We also answer how developers make money from putting their game on these platforms, all this and many more points on this weeks episode!  

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In the first of a new episode series, we look back at the biggest news and games from January, from the small news of Microsoft acquiring Activision  to the big news of Banjo Kazooie coming home to Nintendo.
In what should be a short digestible bonus episode a month turned into a full blown episode from debates on remakes and remasters to many other rants in this weeks episode! 

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In this weeks episode we try a new format! We put Andy in charge of setting up a tournament with seeded brackets with the top rated Xbox 360 and PS3 games as well as a few wild cards.
GTA 5, Mass Effect 2, The Last Of Us, Halo and many others will be pitted against each other and its up to each of us to vote on who goes through, will your favourite game win? only way to find out is to listen to this weeks episode!

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With 2021 now in the rear view mirror and we look forward to an exciting gaming year in 2022 we look back at the best games of 2021 including what the game awards had to say, from the controversies such as Rockstar's ill fated GTA trilogy remaster to our own disappointments with gaming this year, we also look forward to what this new year may bring with the upcoming stacked roster of games to the new era of the "Metaverse" surely it cant be that bad this year right?

This is our longest episode to date and the first completely unedited episode!

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In this episode we discuss some of the most famous gaming controversies, going all the way back to blood being in "Mortal Kombat" to the long discussed debated "do video games cause violence?" 
Aswell as shady practices some big companies try to get away with, can you guess what game caused the most downvoted reddit post of all time? 
Join Dan, Jake and Andy to find out.