Skill Check

Welcome to Episode 53 of Skill Check. A podcast about Gaming and Wellbeing from YMCA Exeter. Gaming wise, Andy enters the madness of Day of The Tentacle, and Zac dives into Far Cry 6.

We talk the New Switch OLED,  Doctor Who being delayed for the switch, and we ask can Tetris help PTSD? (Click here for more details on that)

Come say hello to us at either [email protected] or @YmcaExeter on Instagram, Twitter, or Facebook.

Welcome to Episode 52 of Skill Check... Not 51...  A podcast about Gaming and Wellbeing from YMCA Exeter. Gaming wise, Andy explores the world of Skyrim (for the third time), and Zac keeps going with Spiderman Remastered while looking forward to Far Cry 6.

We talk Kingdom Hearts coming to Nintendo Switch, and game streaming coming to the XBox... does this mean your old console can play new console games? 

And... well... theres a matter of a Twitch leak to discuss...

Come say hello to us at either [email protected] or @YmcaExeter on Instagram, Twitter, or Facebook.

Welcome to Episode 51 of Skill Check. A podcast about Gaming and Wellbeing from YMCA Exeter. Gamingwise... well. The main ones we talk about are Spiderman and Twelve Minutes.

Andy also complains about Doctor Who: The Edge of Reality getting delayed.

We also talk xCloud and Netflix bringing cloud gaming to move people, and the Super Mario movie!

Come say hello to us at either [email protected] or @YmcaExeter on Instagram, Twitter, or Facebook.

Welcome to Miniepisode of Skill Check. A podcast about Gaming and Wellbeing from YMCA Exeter. 

This week, Zac's ill - so its just me (Andy) I share what I'm looking forward to trying out - Sable. Chat a little about what Sable looks like, and news wise - There are rumours of a new Nintendo Switch controller.

Does this mean that Switch Controller Drift is about to be fixed? That would be nice...

Come say hello to us at either [email protected] or @YmcaExeter on Instagram, Twitter, or Facebook.

Welcome to Episode 49 of Skill Check. A podcast about Gaming and Wellbeing from YMCA Exeter. Gamingwise... well. The main ones we talk about are Tales of Arise, Psychonaughts2, and Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous. 

But. Playstation have announced A LOAD of titles so we also talk... Wolverine, God of War, Forspoken, Hogwarts Legacy, and Star Wars.

Oh and Andy gets tired, and grumpy over what he's read about Sonic Colours Ultimate on The Switch.

Come say hello to us at either [email protected] or @YmcaExeter on Instagram, Twitter, or Facebook.

Welcome to Episode 48 of Skill Check. A podcast about Gaming and Wellbeing from YMCA Exeter. Game wise we talk Pathfinder - Wrath of Righteous, and playing Watchdogs Legion on GeForceNow (https://play.geforcenow.com/ )

News wise, we talk work / life balance over at Naughty Dog, and ponder playing video games at the Dentist.

Welcome to Episode 47 of Skill Check. A podcast about Gaming and Wellbeing from YMCA Exeter. Game wise we talk King's Bounty 2, Midnight Sons, and Mario Kart.

After the the idea that video games will be the next global health emergency, there are reports that China is putting limits on how much video game time young people can have.  We also talk Game Boy games on the Switch.

Welcome to Episode 46 of Skill Check. Its a little different this week, as for a while we've been wanting to arrange a place here in Exeter for people to come together, and talk all things video gaming with other people.

The other week we had a look around a potential location for such a group, here is a collection of our on-location thoughts we had after our visit.

Welcome to Episode 45 of Skill Check. A podcast about Gaming and Wellbeing from YMCA Exeter. Game wise we talk Art of Rally, Peggle 2, and Doctor Who The Lonely Assassins 

Yes - Someone has wondered if video games are going to be the next global health emergency. We also talk game pass on the Switch...

We're also trying something a little different with this episode. We're recording this in person!

Welcome to Episode 44 of Skill Check. A podcast about Gaming and Wellbeing from YMCA Exeter. Game wise we talk try playing Cyberpunk again, and Andy tries out the cloud gaming platform Geforce Now.

We're also sorry. This is too long, which considering at one point we talk about it running under... well we disappear down some tangents, which include. 

Mario Rabbids on the switch - and looking forward to its sequel. 

Pokemon Legends: Arceus - sounds like Zelda BOTW meet Pokemon

Plus what are the top selling Switch games?

And is the light shining a little less bright on the Switch Lite?