It's Matthew's first time through the original Final Fantasy 7. Ahead of the release of Rebirth in 2024, he explains what the hell is going on in disc one of this 26 year-old RPG, right up to the death of Aerith (and to a lesser extent, Cait Sith).

This is our last new podcast for three weeks! Thanks for listening all year – we'll be back soon. Free feed listeners can look forward to a couple of Patreon samplers.

This week's music is from the Final Fantasy 7 soundtrack by Nobuo Uematsu.

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Samuel and Matthew compete to pick the best selection of 10 licensed games, and discuss the wildly inconsistent history of games based on movies, TV shows, books and more. Matthew won this draft.

This week's music is from the Blade Runner game soundtrack by Vangelis and Frank Klepacki.

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The latest on what we've been playing, featuring Alan Wake 2, Chants of Senaar, Super Mario Wonder, The Talos Principle 2, the PlayStation Portal and the Oculus Quest 3. Plus: the last mailbag of the year! Who knows how this one ended up being so bloody long.

This week's music is from the Chants of Senaar soundtrack by Thomas Brunet.

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This week's guest is comedian, writer and streaming superstar Ellie Gibson, who talks us through her career at Eurogamer during the heyday of the PS3 and 360 era of games media.

This week's music is from the Sky Odyssey soundtrack by Kow Otani.

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A deep dive on the year's biggest PlayStation game with Dave Scarborough, sometime features editor of gamesTM.

This week's music is by John Paesano from the Marvel's Spider-Man 2 soundtrack.

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Rob Pearson of PlayStation Access is our guest this week. Hear about Rob's unusual journey to YouTube fame via print media, and how Charlie Brooker and Jon Blyth inspired his hugely popular top 7 features.

This week's music is from the Final Fantasy IX soundtrack by Nobuo Uematsu.

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From GTA 3 to Silent Hill 2, 2001 was one of the best years in the history of games. In this episode, we each construct top 10s while sharing pointless details of our mixed fortunes as teenagers.

This week's music is from the Silent Hill 2 soundtrack by Akira Yamaoka.

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We've firmly entered silly season, and Matthew has finished Cyberpunk 2077: Phantom Liberty. Does it change his take on the CD Projekt RED FPS/RPG? Find out in this episode, along with his early thoughts on Assassin's Creed Mirage, Samuel's thoughts on Resi 4's Separate Ways DLC, and both our thoughts on indie sensation Cocoon.

This week's music is from the Assassin's Creed Mirage soundtrack by Brendan Angelides.

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People Can Fly's Jamie Smith tells us about his career and things you only realise about games when you actually make them for a living. Then, in the last section, Jamie poses a series of impossible game design questions to both of us – see how we fare as backseat game designers!

This week's music is from the Call of Duty: Vanguard soundtrack by Bear McCreary.

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