On the Level Podcast

Can you hear it? Or smell it? Yes! It's Christmas already, practically. The Silly Season starts in earnest once we break into the middle of September and, wouldn't you know it, here we are! Lara's back, FIFA's back, Call of Duty is BACK, Fallout is kinda back and Battlefield might as well have not bothered. Also that GTA thing with horses.

Some are AMAZING! Some are even SPECTACULAR! But most are not. This week to celebrate the launch of Spider-man on the PS4 we go through Superhero games and find out why there are so many Spider-man games (we Purge if we don't get them), where did all the movie tie-ins go, why there isn't a SINGLE Wonder Woman game and what the future holds.

Also Harry get's VERY confused by Batman.

Another month, another gaming conference...

Starlink surprises, Sekiro continues to impress, Close To The Sun brings the Bioshhock, Lovecraft gets short changed, Man of Medan intrigues and we didn't see Cyberpunk, then we did - but did we like it?

Time to pull on your lederhosen DLC: it's Gamescom 2018!

As Gamescom wasn't quite finished and Harry was away for his Hols we thought we'd play catch up on all the news that we missed over the last week or so.

Twitch, Emus, Jason Statham, the final moments of Miyamoto, terrifying Sonics, abnormally tall men - we cover ALL the big news storys.

Epic are going very much all in with their Fortnite tourney (to the tune of $100 million), so just how big can it get and will it be the event to properly break into the mainstream? Not just a big eSports event, but to the World a sporting event that we all want to watch (and therefore all the big boys will want to advertise at).

Also Harry gets to talk about DOTA, which is nice.

2 years ago we had a look at where we thought eSports might be heading so we thought we'd check up to see what the Hell was going on.

Turns out we're both pretty disappointed - the content is there, we're just not getting alerted to it! So, who's to blame?

An extraordinary amount of useless information is imparted this week along with our thoughts on the most surprising threequel in living memory.

Did Tom Hanks really want to play Mario? Did Scorsese direct a Skylanders advert? Where are all those other Yakuza games? And why can't Miyamoto ride a bicycle? It's all a surprise...

SDCC has blustered through town like a nerd-culture tornado, leaving trailers and news strewn about like so much rubble and twisted metal.

How the DC subscription service might work, why Dwayne Johnson should just kiss a dude, what exactly is happening with the MGS movie and a bunch of those trailer reviews that are all the rage.

No Helllboy though. Dammit.

We've decided to look back over the last 6 months because why the Hell not. And, my goodness, it was an interesting 6 months; surprises, scandals, great games and Nintendo not showing us Metroid Prime 4.

Amazingly, after well over a 100 episodes, Harry has finally decided on a review barometer and so, from now on, everything is now measured out in one to a possible seven 'Harrys'.

This week we're taking our hats off to those game developers who braved the path alone in creating. Amazing games created by just one person and, in some cases, changing the video game landscape forever in the process!

Bonus confusions for this week include Harry and hats and Simon's terrible memory for other people named Simon.