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Ben and Tao get jiggy with gravity in colour coded cubic confounder, Manifold Garden. As they get lost explaining its abstract infinity and implausible geometry, they find a lack of boundaries just as thorny in the manifold garden as in Tao’s vegetable patch, they weed out bugs (and I’m not talking ladybirds), deconstruct the ratio of time played to problems solved, and ponder how the sandbox has revolutionised creativity: specifically, whether computational technology has suppressed as much cultural innovation as it may have spawned. No spoilers (for once!)

Content Warning: PEGI 13.

Clarifications:

* The original music for Manifold Garden is composed by Laryssa Okada

* Here’s the explainer Ben watched on Non-Euclidean Geometry by YouTuber, CodeParade:

* Christopher Nolan’s short early film was called ‘Doodlebug’ not just ‘Bug’. You can watch it here:

* Incidentally, if you’re an affectionate critic of Nolan (which is to say, you like his films but think they all suffer from expositional incontinence), you might enjoy comedian Michael Spicer’s take:

* Here’s the Reddit thread where they confirm the yellow tree cube bug Ben laments: https://www.reddit.com/r/ManifoldGarden/comments/ifydmf/missing_cube_on_a_yellow_tree_bug/ (note the thread is 2 years old!!)

* Here’s the developer explaining how to load older save versions of the same save file:

* Game Maker’s Toolkit is presented by Mark Brown on YouTube. Coincidentally, the magnet concept Tao mentions is actually implemented in Qube, the 2011 puzzler from Toxic Games.

* Antichamber - a hugely similar game to this one - is a first-person puzzle-platform game created by Australian developer Alexander "Demruth" Bruce and released in 2013.

Audio extracts:

* The Shining (1980)

* The Mighty Boosh

* Jesus Walks by Kanye West

* The Lord of the Rings - The Two Towers (2002)

* The Other Guys (2010)

* The Witness challenge music

* Return of the Obra Dinn OST by Lukas Pope

* Urban Species - I Wonder

* Coherence (2013)

* Qube

* Antichamber

* Doodlebug by Christopher Nolan (1997)

* BBC Sherlock feat. Benedict Cumberbatch (2010)

* Austin Powers (1997) feat. Mike Myers

* Portal 2 feat. Stephen Merchant as Wheatley

* Blade Runner (1982) - Vangelis - Tears in Rain

* Halt and Catch Fire theme by Trentemøller

* The Rite of Spring - Ballet by Igor Stravinsky

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Always Rebels at heart, Ben and Tao finally join the Alliance, drop some sweet lightsaber sweeps, get feely with the Force and kick some Empire ass while reviving the Fallen Jedi Order in Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order, colon included. Ben alienates Star Wars fans with a hybrid cow-horse metaphor mashup and a broad critique of recent incarnations of the franchise; Tao settles into his psychology sofa to talk trauma’s role in the storyline and the Dark Side more generally, and the pair discuss how this Souls-like Star Wars experience compares to the original FromSoftware formats. We get into spoilers around two thirds of the way through the pod.

Content Warning: PEGI 15. Swearing and stuff. Ben tempts you to the dark side. Oh, and autosave is enabled on this podcast - don’t turn off while it’s saving.

Clarifications:

* The music for Fallen Order is by Stephen Barton and Gordy Haab

* BD-1, Chewbacca and Wall-E are all voiced by Ben Burtt (not Brad or Bret, Tao! He only shares a name with your co-host…)

* Andy Serkis did not win an Oscar / Academy Award for his performance as Gollum. Indeed, he has never won an Oscar. However, according to Wikipedia, for his role in The Lord of the Rings film series, he won the Empire Award for Best British Actor, Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actor, and Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture, which he obviously shared with the rest of the cast.

* The difficulty levels are: Story, Jedi Knight, Jedi Master, and Jedi Grandmaster (which means if Tao did play it on Jedi Knight, Ben completed it a superior level. In your face, Tao!)

* Our episode on Subnautica is here:

* Our episode on Sekiro is here:

* Our episode on Immortals Fenyx Rising is here:

* Oh, and Lara Croft doesn’t really ‘wall run’ in Tomb Raider, she kinda wall scrambles.

Audio extracts:

* Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace (1999), theme and audio clips

* Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope - Cantina (1977)

* 5 live bulletins remix from 10 Jun 2022 - apologies to my former colleagues, it’s just a bit of fun!

* Only Fools and Horses theme

* Star Wars Pod Racer N64

* The Mandalorian

* The Book of Boba Fett

* Obi Wan Kenobi

* 24 - Season 2 - actor Carlos Bernard as Tony Almeida

* Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back (1980) - Luke Lands On Dagobah

* WALL-E (2008)

* Beverly Hill Cop 3 (1994)

* The Taming of Smeagol from The Two Towers OST by Howard Shore

* The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002) feat. Andy Serkis as Gollum

* Dark Souls OST by Motoi Sakuraba

* Immortals Fenyx Rising OST by Gareth Coker

* Spaced, Season 1: Chaos feat. Simon Pegg

* Imperial March (From "Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back")

* The Prince of Egypt (1998) - Parting the Red Sea Scene

* Subnautica OST by Simon Chylinski

* The Mighty Boosh - Howard Moon (Julian Barratt)

* The Martian - feat. Matt Damon

* Game of Thrones Season 7 - Ed Sheeran

* Austin Powers

* Sekiro OST by Yuka Kitamura

* Family Guy - ‘Join The Empire!’ spoof

* Samuel Jackson asks George Lucas for a purple lightsaber

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Danger lurks as Ben and Tao figure out not just how to get away with murder, but how to do it with aplomb, in Inkle’s inverted murder mystery whodunit - (we did!) - Overboard! As well as discussing the various solutions and outcomes of the tricksy puzzler, the pair discuss the innovative use of time, repetition as both an obstacle and invitation to discovery, player knowledge to supplement character knowledge and whether there’s method to Inkle’s madness. Plus, Pixel Vision make a special announcement…  Spoilers upon spoilers. This game would be nearly impossible to discuss without game critical reveals. If you like the sound of it from the intro, it’s recommended you play before listening.

Content Warning: PEGI 12. Seduction and saucy behaviour, but nothing graphic (in the game, Tao and Ben are platonic as ever). Delightfully sociopathic murders depicted through comedic text snippets (also in the game. Ben and Tao are alive and well. At the time of writing).

Clarifications:

* You may hear us refer to the main character, Veronica Villensey, as Villensley, with an L. This is an error. Ben regrets this error. Tao says “it might as well be the same name”.

* Much of the music is performed by the US Army Band, US Army Blues, US Army Strings and The Dixieland Band of the US Army Band's Jazz Ambassador and includes:

* Flight of the Bumblebee

* Coventry Carol

* Souvenir De Florence Mvt 1

* Main Stem

* Kelli's Number

* Stardust

* Bugablue

* Bayou Farewell

* The a cappella group Ben references is not The Inkspots, it’s ​Birmingham Jubilee Singers, singing Pharaoh's Army Got Drowned

* Ben mentions the love poems and at the time of recording hadn’t figured out their usage. They are relevant to a playthrough achievement dubbed ‘The Leap of Faith’.

* Despite many endings and achievements discussed here, there are many more!

* The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold is a novel by Evelyn Waugh (1957)

* Here’s evidence of Ben’s fastidious note-taking:

Audio extracts:

* Knives Out! (String Quartet in G Minor) by Nathan Johnson

* Death on the Nile (ITV’s Poirot)

* Deathloop Theme by Tom Salta

* Palm Springs (2020)

* The Simpsons - Marge joins the Springfield Police

* Bright Young Things (2003)

* Heaven’s Vault OST - Before the Fall by Laurence Chapman

* 80 Days OST by Laurence Chapman

* Former British PM, Gordon Brown, calling a lady a ‘bigoted woman’ in 2010

* Leon Bridges - If It Feels Good (Then It Must Be)

* Gomez - Meet Me In The City

* Rounders (1998) feat. John Malkovich

* The Godfather (1972)

* Louis Prima - Sing, Sing, Sing (With a Swing)

* Dixieland One-Step by Sidney Bechet

* Django Reinhardt - Sweet Georgia Brown

* Open a Breach from the Into The Breach OST by Ben Prunty

* Dexter - Blood Theme by Daniel Licht

* Main Stem by Duke Ellington & His Famous Orchestra

* Psycho (1960)

* Beethoven - Moonlight Sonata 

* Handbags and Gladrags arr. by Big George from The Office (UK) (2000)

* Star Wars - Imperial March (Apashe Remix)

* I Love You, Man (2009) - ‘Ridonculous’

* Rachmaninoff plays Prelude in C Sharp Minor

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Among the streets and sewers of Racoon City, Ben and Tao flee the relentless Nemesis, hunt an elusive vaccine, stop an unstoppable sociopath, and split up to look for survivors in Capcom’s riveting zombie horror remake, Resident Evil 3. They discuss the gimmick of the invulnerable enemy, the controversial redesign of classic characters for new generations and modern sensibilities, the role of partially locked map design to mitigate backtracking, the fine line between B-movie hyperbole and cult success, and how even originality of script and narrative can play second fiddle to good fun and near-flawless execution. Story spoilers abound. Seriously, don’t listen to this if you’re worried about spoilers, play the game first. Otherwise, come get some!

Content Warning: PEGI 15. A subtle blend of lateral thinking and extreme violence. (No, not like ‘It’s a Knockout!’)

Clarifications:

* The original soundtrack to Resident Evil 3 is by multiple composers, including Masami Ueda, Azusa Kato, Ryo Koike, Takumi Saito, Kota Suzuki, Takayasu Sodeoka, Saori Maeda, Jeff Broadbent, Zhenlan Kang. It’s available on Steam

* As Tao suspected, there is an accompanying series of novels. Wikipedia says the first Resident Evil novel was Hiroyuki Ariga's novella Biohazard: The Beginning, published in 1997 as a portion of the book The True Story of Biohazard. The story serves as a prelude to the original Resident Evil, in which Chris investigates the disappearance of his missing friend, Billy Rabbitson.

* Ben says this is a continuation of the events of Resident Evil 2. It would be more accurate to say they happen in an overlapping time frame. Parts of Resident Evil 3 even take place before Resident Evil 2, though this concludes later in time. The YouTuber Gamer’s Little Playground does an admirable job of piecing the cutscenes together chronologically:

* Ben reviewed Alien Isolation here:

* The character of Jill Valentine also appears in Resident Evil 1 & 5 as well as some non-numbered Resident Evil games.

* Here’s the episode where we discussed achievements in Desperados 3:

Audio extracts:

* Channel 4’s Spaced. Series 1 Episode 3. Watch the whole series here for a slice of fried gold: https://www.channel4.com/programmes/spaced 

* I MONSTER - The Blue Wrath

* Night of the Living Dead (1968) OST - Driveway to the Cemetery

* Simon Pegg in Mission:Impossible (who knows which one of them…)

* Resident Evil 2 - The Beginning of Story Music

* The Simpsons - McBain

* Resident Evil 2 Remake OST - Mr.X

* Love is in the Air by John Paul Young

* Alien Isolation theme by Joe Henson and Alexis Smith

* Zombieland feat. Jesse Eisenberg

* Puffin de herb - Human Traffic

* Bob Marley interview 

* Falling Down (1993) - ‘take some shooting lessons’

* Ratchet and Clank PS5

* The Room (2003) - ‘Oh, hi Mark’

* Scooby Doo - ‘We should split up’

* Ivan Ave - Circle

* The Forest theme by Gabe Castro

* The Flight of the Bumble Bee from the Overboard! Trailer:

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Ben and Tao notch their bows, load their trebuchets, unsheath their swords (thankfully not a euphemism) and lay siege to their enemies in Microsoft’s docuseries revival of historical RTS, Age of Empires IV. The duo flashback to memories of Age of Empires 2 and the role of games in education, query the environmental ramifications of forced epic downloads (that’s epic, not Epic), and debate whether the RTS genre is dead on its feet. They also explore at what point real world historical violence becomes acceptable for monetisation and entertainment in video games. Bur first, Tao decides, unilaterally, to make an apology. Story spoilers in all good history books and Wikipedia - not many here!

Content Warning: PEGI 13. Lessons on historic warfare and violent conquest. Culture wars, old and new.

Clarifications:

* The original soundtrack to Age of Empires IV was composed by various musicians including Tilman Sillescu, Alex Röder, Henning Nugel, Armin Haas & Mikolai Stroinski

* This is the BBC The Inquiry episode, ‘Are Video Games A Waste Of Time?’ which Ben produced: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/w3csv1bv 

* Nathan Brown wrote a persuasive piece on balancing AI in gaming in his Substack, Hit Points. Pixel Vision recommends:

* The controversy over Manchester Cathedral in Resistance Fall of Man: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/manchester/6736809.stm

Audio extracts:

* Age of Empires 2: Age of Kings theme and intro

* Age of Empires 2 various sound effects

* Age of Empires 2: Conquerors

* Noah Visits from The Village OST by James Newton Howard

* Whiplash feat. JK Simmons

* The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers

* Tracy Chapman - Baby Can I Hold You

* Age of Empires IV Main Theme and soundtrack

* The Jungle Book (1967)

* Age of Mythology Soundtrack - A Cat Named Mittens

* Peter and the Wolf - Sergei Prokofiev

* Teenage Dirtbag - Wheatus

* The Motorcycle Diaries - Sendero - by Gustavo Santaolalla

* Tiger King feat. Joe Exotic

* BBC The Inquiry - Are Video Games A Waste Of Time?

* The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring

* Star Craft 2 soundtrack, by composers Derek Duke, Glenn Stafford, Neal Acree, Russell Brower, Sascha Dikiciyan and Cris Velasco

* A Knight's Tale OST by Carter Burwell

* Rome Total War OST by Jeff van Dyck

* Build A Wall by East Park Reggae Collective

* Your Highness (2011)

* Bill Bailey - Chaucer’s pub joke

* Hitman 3 OST by Niels Bye Nielsen

* Channel 4’s Spaced feat. Simon Pegg

* Diablo 3 OST by Russell Brower

* The Mighty Boosh

* The Postal Service - Such Great Heights

* Sky News

* Fawlty Towers feat. John Cleese

* Resistance Fall of Man

* Spec Ops: The Line OST - Truth Revealed by Elia Cmíral

* Fable 3

* Resident Evil 3 main theme by Kōta Suzuki

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Baggy trousers, hanging shirts, tentacles and Furry flirts! Ben and Tao reminisce about school days gone by after trying to get laid in supernatural dating sim, Monster Prom. The innuendo filled discussion bounces from hentai to bestiality, UK vs UK cultural touchstones to what constitutes critical acclaim, and a voiceless new contributor joins in from the wings: Tao’s mysteriously anonymous vampire girlfriend (or so he says). Both hosts profess to(o) much ignorance of online pornographic kinks, Ben finds dating every bit as tough as he remembers, and Tao surprises no-one revealing a Furry fetish. Sort of. No story spoilers.
 
Content Warning: PEGI 13. An explicit, hypersexual discussion including many taboos and tone-deaf singing. Keep your pets locked up!
 
Clarifications:

• The original soundtrack to Monster Prom was composed by Claudi Martinez


• Weebl’s Stuff was a 2002 era flash website. It still exists as a shadow of its former self.


• Here’s Polygon writers Jeff Ramos and Allegra Frank offering the flipside of our discussion: https://www.polygon.com/2018/5/2/17304752/monster-prom

Audio extracts:

• Baggy Trousers by Madness


• Byker Grove theme tune


• The Inbetweeners theme (instrumental)


• Press Gang theme


• Nelson from The Simpsons


• Dr Hakim from It Takes Two


• Christopher Walken SNL ‘gotta have more cowbell’


• Just the two of us by Bill Withers


• Mass Effect (Tali)


• Monsters University


• Monsters Inc


• Holding Out For A Hero by Bonnie Tyler


• Mona The Vampire opening titles


• Monster Prom’s kickstarter


• Friday Night Lights


• Badger Badger - Weebl’s Stuff


• Alexandre Desplat’s theme to The Shape of Water


• Yamete meme


• Jurassic Park (1993)


• Arrested Development Mr F


• An American Werewolf in London by Elmer Bernstein


• The Animals of Farthing Wood theme (1993-1995)


• Paradise Killer OST - The Lemegeton Bop


• Back to the Future


• Superbad - Michael Cera sings ‘These Eyes’


• Blind Date with Cilla Black


• Age of Empires 2 theme

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The cybernetic pixel kids and their anarchic mate, Keanu, are dickin’ about in the hood, implants upgraded and optics on point to hack the system and collapse the corps, in CD Projekt RED’s Night City brain dance RPG, Cyberpunk 2077. Dissecting what might be the most sexually explicit and graphic game covered by Pixel Vision to date, Ben and Tao discuss if raunchy RPGs are made for men, if Cyberpunk’s infamous launch controversy has left any bugs crawling the system, how even Tao can be impressed by graphics, and why in-game Keanu works better than Norman Reedus did in Death Stranding (clue: charisma is everything). Story spoilers heavily forecast and only about the early game. This was recorded pre Patch 1.5 update.

Content Warning: PEGI 16. Like drugs, sex, rock and roll and hacking? We got you covered.

Clarifications:

• All Cyberpunk 2077 music is composed by Marcin Przybyłowicz, P.T. Adamczyk, and Paul Leonard-Morgan


• The Night City song is by REL and Artemis Delta


• Death Stranding’s actor is Norman Reedus.


• The show Ben can’t remember is Altered Carbon on Netflix.


• The GPT3 AI Ben references is Generative Pre-trained Transformer 3, an autoregressive language model that uses deep learning to produce human-like text.


• Tao’s gripe about the phone automatically answering has been fixed in the latest patch, post-record, pre-broadcast. At least they agreed it shouldn’t have happened!


• The ‘wheelie thing’ Ben is on about is a Segway


• CD Projekt RED’s game engine is called the RED Engine.

Audio extracts:

• The Matrix (1999)


• Monty Python - The Penis Song


• Animal Crossing OST


• Sex and the City theme


• ITVs Love Island theme


• Mario Kart 64 Rainbow Road theme


• Snatch (2000)


• Rage Against The Machine - Wake Up


• Kelis - Milkshake


• The Mask (1994)


• Dr Syntax - Subcultures


• Seth Sentry - My Scene


• Jungle - The Heat


• Altered Carbon


• Watch Dogs theme


• Watch Dogs 2


• Urban Species - I wonder


• Goldfinger


• Goldeneye


• Tina Turner - Goldeneye theme


• The Sex Pistols - Anarchy in the UK


• Fosters - Good Call advert


• The Simpsons duff beer ad


• PLEBS


• The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt


• West World HBO


• Travis Eliot yoga instructor


• Oblivion OST


• The Pixies - Where is my mind?


• BBC Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy theme


• BBC Line of Duty theme


• Observer OST

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The boys are back for their first episode of 2022, armour donned and dropping feet first into a guns blazing, heady and impassioned round of Team Doubles in Halo Infinite: Multiplayer. Except there are no Team Doubles in Halo Infinite’s multiplayer - but don’t worry, they cover that; that and everything from TTK to the Freemium Model, to the Mangler, Step Jump, Curb Slide and the competitive scene gets a look in. Nostalgia versus modernity - was it worth the wait? Story spoilers. Just joking… This is a Pixel Vision first - a multiplayer exclusive. Stay tuned for the Campaign follow up later in the year.
 
Content Warning: PEGI 12. Happy days, the duo drop a few F bombs, but nothing even a rookie Halo player couldn’t repulse.
 
Clarifications:

• Observations are accurate as of the time of recording. Eg. No anti-cheat at the time of recording.


• A couple of the medals Ben references are actually Mythic medals, which is the tier above Legendary.


• 343 Industries first Halo game was Halo 4, before that it was Bungie


• Sprint was introduced in Halo: Reach back in 2010, Clamber was introduced in Halo 5 (along with Thrust)

Audio extracts:

• Halo Combat Evolved, 2, 3, ODST, Reach, 4, 5 and Infinite OSTs featuring original scores by Martin O'Donnell, Michael Salvatori, Neil Davidge, Kazuma Jinnouchi, Alex Bhore, Gareth Coker, Curtis Schweitzer, and Joel Corelitz.


• N64’s Goldeneye


• Quake


• Marathon


• The Office - David Brent meets Steve Carrell


• Halo 2 Mjolnir Mix


• Robot Wars “Activate”


• Ace v Pistola Halo 4 Global Championships


• Grange Hill


• Apex Legends - Main Theme


• Battlefield 4


• Shyway


• Lucid Style Points (HCS Raleigh) OG v Sentinels


• Superbad


• V for Vendetta


• Just Cause 3


• Good Kill


• Spider-Man 1967 theme


• Star Wars Episode 1 Phantom Menace Gungan Battle


• Titanfall 2 OST


• Donkey Kong


• Halo player ‘Frosty’ gets a ninja in scrims


• Monty Python and the Holy Grail


• Captain America: The First Avenger


• Fast Five


• Backstreet Boys - I Want It That Way


• Lucid - HOLD THIS montage


• Inception


• Tell Me Why - The Beatles


• The Specials - Why?


• Taylor Swift - Tell Me Why


• Neil Young - Tell Me Why


• The Kid Laroi - Tell Me Why


• Supermoder - Tell Me Why


• Ghost of Tsushima - The Way of the Ghost


• The Big Lebowski


• The Social Network - Trent Rexnor


• Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure


• Splitgate theme by Christopher Tin


• HCS Raleigh 2022 feat. Onset

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In this special, early Christmas Day release, Ben and Tao upload themselves into neural noir, cyber arthouse, psychological horror, Observer. As they detangle the convoluted murder mystery, Ben finds his inner Luddite, Tao imagines cyber-limbed, animal-spliced, Super Tao, and discussion veers into dangerous political territory, sordid subject matters, and extensive deliberation over dystopian futurism. Story spoilers late in the pod, but it’s a short game, so either play it first or don’t complain!
 
Content Warning: PEGI 17. This is seriously dark and very explicit. Sorry. Also, Tao’s cat miaows offensively in the background.
 
Clarifications:

• Observer music is by composer Arkadiusz Reikowski


• The main character is called Daniel Lazarski


• The upcoming ‘cyber renaissance’ game from Greedfall devs, Spiders, is called Steelrising (apparently at Spiders, titles either rise or fall…)


• The film Ben references on the theme of uploading consciousness is Transcendence, a 2014 American science fiction thriller directed by Wally Pfister and written by Jack Paglen.


• Anon is a 2018 British-American science fiction thriller film written and directed by Andrew Niccol starring Clive Owen

Audio extracts:

• 'Figment' by Simon Park (from Dawn of the Dead)


• Multiple tracks from Observer OST by composer Arkadiusz Reikowski


• Love Actually (2003) feat. Hugh Grant


• Iron Harvest OST


• The Coup - Pork and Beef


• Saw (2004) - and its soundtrack by Charlie Clouser


• So You Wanna Be A Boxer(Bugsy Malone Soundtrack) by Paul Williams (1976)


• ANON (2018) feat. Clive Owen


• Soylent Green (1973)


• The Herbaliser - Very Mercenary


• The Simpsons - ‘tis a fine barn


• Fitter Happier by Radiohead


• Paranoid Android by Radiohead


• Elysium


• A Touch of Frost by Ray Russell


• Harrison Ford has lost his family (My Wife! My Family! Compilation) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4-vjbuodBEU


• Alien Isolation OST by Christian Henson


• Toccata and Fugue in D Minor by Johann Sebastian Bach


• Steelrising trailer by Spiders


• David Fincher’s Se7en (1995)


• Transcendence (2014)


• The Matrix (1999)


• Halo 2 Mjolnir Mix by Marty O'Donnell feat. Steve Vai


• HCS Raleigh 2021


• Slade - Merry Christmas Everybody

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Good morning, Blackreef! Captains Ben and Tao rack their brains, reignite their memories, and mow down endless Eternalists in Arkane Studios' cocksure first person shooter, Deathloop. The team talk character development, playing detective, stealth, Twitter, Tao’s reluctance to play scary games, oh, and a spot of incest. Story spoilers abound I’m afraid, it’s just one of those games, but as ever, they’re generously forecast.

Content Warning: PEGI 15. Effin and jeffin. Tarantino blood spatter. Graphic innuendo.

Clarifications:

• All Deathloop instrumental music was composed by Tom Salta & Ross Tregenza‎


• Colt’s first word is not ‘F*k’ (although we’re surely forgiven that it could have been)


• Ramblin Frank’s tunes were written and Performed by Erich Talaba


• Duskers is a strategy video game by independent developer Misfits Attic. It was released on May 18, 2016.


• There are three Dishonored games to date. Tao’s out of the (Death)loop.


• Bulletstorm is a 2011 FPS from Gearbox, it was rereleased as the Full Clip Edition in 2017.


• The time bending FPS Singularity was released in 2010, not 2011.a


• The ‘Unknown Man’ in the boathouse is not just a tantalising tease, his secret is very much discoverable

Audio extracts:

• W.G. Snuffy Walden’s score to Aaron Sorkin’s ABC series, Sports Night.


• Land of the Giants - The Drop


• Duskers OST


• The West Wing Weekly podcast theme


• Lost Unanswered Questions by College Humor


• Deadpool ft. Ryan Reynolds


• Reservoir Dogs


• Dishonored main theme by Daniel Licht


• Fallout 4 main theme


• The Outer Wilds main theme


• Bulletstorm main theme by Piotr Musiał, Michał Cielecki and Krzysztof Wierzynkiewicz


• Left 4 Dead


• Prey


• Superbad feat Jonah Hill


• Outlast OST by Samuel Laflamme


• Robert Kilroy Silk - Shafteda

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