The Bonus Points

After surviving a plane crash during an escape from a zombie ridden LA (known as Hell-A) you are left to fend for yourself alone, or with 2 friends in co-op. The journey takes you through famous LA locations and you team up with lots of characters who are there for a good time, not a long time. This game surprised us with its witty writing and up-beat attitude, as well as being a technical showcase. Good stuff!

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Natsu-mon is a vacation simulator that puts you in the shoes of 10 year old Satoru, as he ventures to the countryside as part of a travelling circus with his family. From your basecamp at the holiday home, Satoru goes out each day and finds something new to do, gamifying things a kid might do in August, 1999. A very sweet idea with a fantastic art style too!

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F.E.A.R. is a 2005 first person shooter from the unfortunately recently shuttered studio Monolith Productions. The game blends horror and fps gameplay to create a 'playable action movie'. A lot of attention was paid to the AI in game using a system known as GOAP, Goal Oriented Action Planning, and this system is still used today. With dynamic lighting and real-time physics, the game was no slouch in its presentation either.

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This week we are talking about Dragon Quest Heroes Rocket Slime on the Nintendo DS. This game has charm, fun and great ideas in buckets and was a great first DS game for the show. A very different vibe to the previous couple of episodes for sure!

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We have recently crossed paths with Andy Robertson, a games journalist writing for Forbes, the BBC and previously the Guardian and Wired.

Andy is on his way to creating a new app called Ludocene, which has its foundations built on the Family Gaming Database. Ludocene is a video game discoverability app that hopes to cut through the thousands of games made available each day using human tags and recommendations, not with AI.

The Family Gaming Database is a HUGE database that not only shows parents what content is in a game beyond its PEGI rating, but also goes through accessibility for a lot of its titles, which is something everyone can benefit from.

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In Alpha Protocol, players take on the role of Micheal Thorton, a weird geezer who can't have a regular conversation. Or aim his gun straight. Or move quietly. Or do anything his job requires of him with any degree of consistency or success... Come on this globe trotting mis-adventure with us in a classic "we played it so you don't have to" episode!

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World of Goo is a 2008 indie game in which you build structures using squishy, springy goo balls and strands. It is considered one of the first widely successful indie games ever, and found its success as gaming really hit the mainstream with the birth of smartphones and the Nintendo Wii. Chances are a lot of you played it when you were younger, and this will be a nostalgia blast for an hour!

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1000xResist is a narrative adventure game set in a future where humanity has been wiped out and replaced with a small society of clones, these clones are all strands of a single teenage girl but over 100s of years built their own religious beliefs, systems and governments, while under the constant threat of a larger entity.

If this at all sounds interesting to you we can recommend you play the game first, then come back and check this episode out as it's impossible not to spoil. However we kept the list section spoiler free, if you'd like to see where it lands. (skip to 1:20:30)

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This week we spread managed democracy as rookie shock troopers in Helldivers II! This game was our Community voted Game of the Year so we figured we should probably find out what that mucky lot have been up to, and get familiar with Super Earth. Helldivers II is a cooperative third person shooter that took the gaming world by storm last year, selling 12 million copies in 3 months.

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We run down our top games of the year, a TBP 'official' Game of the Year and our community picks! Thanks for all your support in 2024 and for watching along, we will see you in the new year!

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