The Boss Wave Podcast

This week the day that nobody wanted has finally arrived as Rob is hosting in the absence of Chris. Joining Rob and Nattrass (who develops an interesting drinking problem mid-show), to make up for the missing Chris, are Robin "Bongo the Sane" Tate and Mike "Chinny" Chinn from The Overseas Connection podcast and The Veteran Gamers podcast respectively... and then Chris also showed up later on anyway. >:(

Games played and discussed this week include Star Wars Battlefront, Valiant Hearts, Sleeping Dogs, Minecraft Story Mode and Super Meat Boy.

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Tales from the Borderlands

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This week Chris, Rob and Nattrass are joined by Boss Wave's long lost leader Seth McNitt and bolstered by this they endeavour to solve all of the video games industry's current issues. These issues include DLC, pre-orders, broken games and weird offshoot sequels. Don't worry people, there's no need to thank us, just send us cash. 

Games played and discussed this week include Super Mario 3D Land, Shantae Risky's Revenge, The Beginners Guide and Streets of Rage 2 3D for Chris, Super Meat Boy, Metal Gear Solid V and Star Wars Battlefront for Rob, Valiant Hearts, Legend of the Brofist and Metal Gear Solid V for Nattrass and Watch Dogs for Seth.

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Armello

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This week Chris, Rob and Nattrass join up with the Veteran Gamers (Stu Fowler and Mike Chinn) and Kyle Adams under the watchful eye of host Robin Tate (from the Overseas Connection) in a hotel bar in Birmingham to discuss all things EGX. Gaming highlights and lowlights are discussed as well as Stu's penchant for harassing young boys.

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This week Chris, Rob and Nattrass discuss all of the many goings on over the prior two weeks due to them being slack and missing the previous week's show. Topics include Rob gloating about predicting the Assassin's Creed DLC content, id helping Bethesda with Fallout 4 gunplay, PlayStation VR, game news from TGS, the Mighty No. 9 demo getting delayed, video game voice actors going on strike and Hitman delays.

Games played and discussed this week include Metal Gear Solid V, Gatling Gears, Skyshine's Bedlam, Shovel Knight and Xeodrifter for Chris, Persona 4 Golden and Metal Gear Solid V for Rob and Gears of War: Ultimate Edition, Mad Max, House of the Dead: Overkill and Metal Gear Solid V for Nattrass.

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Skyshine's Bedlam

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This week Chris, Rob and Nattrass discuss developments in Rob's extravagant and indulgent lifestyle and somehow also manage to find time to talk about games. All the big new releases (Forza 6) are discussed along with game breaking bugs and missing scenes in Metal Gear Solid V, Lets Plays, Japanese games to TV shows, how not to spoil games, Nolandroid taking over from Dinklebot in Destiny, Apple's new announcements and Uncharted 4 getting a release date.

Games played and discussed this week include Metal Gear Solid V  and Sentinal 4 for Chris, Persona 4 Golden, Pure Hold'em and Rocket League for Rob and Wolfenstein the New Order, I am Bread, Stick Man Golf 2, Metal Gear Solid V for Nattrass as well as getting his nerd on with some Dungeons & Dragons.

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Everybody's Gone to the Rapture

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This week Chris and Rob actually managed to retain a co-host and are once again joined by Richard Nattrass. All the big new releases are discussed along with YouTubers being caught out, Batman: Arkham Knight on the PC being accidentally fixed, Elite: Dangerous on Xbox One, more rubbish video game movie adaptations being  announced, the sad passing of Wes Craven and Deus Ex: Mankind Divided DLC shenanigans.

Games played and discussed this week include Everybody's Gone to the Rapture, Gone Home, Three Body Problem, Mega Man and MGSV for Chris, Persona 4 Golden and Pure Poker for Rob and Lego Jurassic World, Assassin's Creed Chronicles China, Wolfenstein the New Order, some mobile guff and MGSV for Nattrass.

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Tearaway

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This week Chris and Rob are joined by Richard Nattrass and they discuss all the big new releases, Konami being Konami and all of the other big news stories in gaming that they happened to notice. Also weaseling their way into this week's conversation are rubbish video game movies, Nattrass' cat, Rob's aversion to responsibility and Chris' narcolepsy.

Games played and discussed this week include Batman:Arkham Knight, Lego Jurassic World, Wolfenstein the New Order and The Witcher 3 for Nattrass, MGSV: Ground Zeroes, Persona 4 Golden and Diablo 3 for Rob and Everybody's Gone to the Rapture, Super Mario 3D World, House of the Dead: Overkill and Mega Man 2 for Chris.

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Dying Light

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Finally there is an answer to the age-old question of what happens when five grown man reconvene to a cheap hotel room in Birmingham, they record a gaming podcast. This week Chris and Rob are joined in person in their pokey hotel room by Mike Chinn from the Veteran Gamers podcast, Jon Wilson and, all the way from America via Germany and Paris, Seth McNitt.

In honour of the visiting Veteran Gamer the guys start by avoiding talking about games all together and just discuss what they did during their day out. They do however eventually get on to what Seth got up to and saw at Gamescom and what everyone has been playing recently.

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Nothing this week although Chris does hum a couple of seconds of several different songs badly during the episode.

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This week Mark is pulling a sickie so Chris and Rob have roped in backup extraordinaire and burgeoning game dev impresario Stepjay who regales us with tales of his first forays into the gaming industry and reminds us that our jobs are rubbish.

Chris and Stepjay talk about attending the recent F1 race at Silverstone and once Rob has woken from the coma that this induced he talks at length about Batman: Arkham Knight (no spoilers). Chris has been playing Ratchet and Clank, Portal Stories: Mel and Cloudberry Kingdom and Stepjay is trapped in The Golf Club.

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Final Fantasy Mystic Quest
Leisure Suit Larry

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This week Chris, Rob and Mark celebrate The Boss Wave Podcast reaching its 100th episode by inviting on a load of people from other (lesser) podcasts. Guesting this week are Robin Tate from the Overseas Connection, Mike Chinn and Stuart Fowler from the Veteran Gamers, Fraser Moores from the GamePunchers (among others) and Seth McNitt from nothing after abandoning his previous podcast (we're not bitter).

Topics for discussion this week include the various gaming controversies of the week, some final wrapping up of E3 (because we don't seem able to get away from it) and Seth manages to drag out a 5 minute description of what he played at E3 to about half an hour by being constantly interupted.

The fact that this episode worked and wasn't an incomprehensible mess surprised everyone.

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The closing game music shall return next week as we have now run out of reasons to not put it in.

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