The Codec Call

This week the Prof and Brian HAVE THE POWER!  They’re reviewing He-Man: The Most Powerful Game in the Universe.

The Prof and Brian have been prospecting for Gold, Silver and Bronze in the new, old west.  This week’s Cost of a Coffee comes courtesy of Trials Frontier on iOS and Android.

The Prof and Brian are back once again for this week’s ‘Cost of a Coffee’, where they seek out games that cost the same as your daily cappuccino.  This week’s ‘Cost of a Coffee’ game is Table Tennis Touch.

In this week’s ‘Cost of a Coffee’ the Prof and Brian are investigating a Fiasco!  No, it’s not another one of Brian’s failed experiments, it’s a new game from Blinking Pixels that is available on iOS from 01-May.

The Codec Call this week has the team get together to discuss the upcoming release of WATCH_DOGS from Ubisoft Montreal.  In the podcast we discuss:

• What we know about the story;

If you want to wade in on our WATCH_DOGS discussion, if we missed things or got a few things wrong then you can hit us up on Twitter, Facebook and Google+, or rant at us in the comments below!

Hitman Go is the latest, very stylish entry in the Hitman series of games and has been developed by Square Enix Montreal.  They were originally in charge of developing Hitman 6, the sequel to Hitman Absolution, before restructuring at IO Interactive meant they took charge of the next iteration of the main series and left Square Enix Montreal holding the mobile baby; but with the satisfyingly simple use of ambient sounds and sporadic use of music, and a colour palette dominated by sumptuous reds, whites and blacks, what a beautiful baby it is! 

This week we’ve been lucky enough to interview the fantastic Richard Boeser (@richardboeser) from the two man development studio Sparpweed.  Richard, along with Roland IJzermans, works on games that focus on original gameplay and atmosphere, and is partly responsible for destroying your hand-eye coordination in ibb & obb on the PlayStation 3.  Currently working on promoting ibb and obb around the world and developing an insane looking new couch-competitive racing game, called Chalo Chalo.

Richard took the time to talk to Andy (@clinicalandy) about developing ibb & obb, working with Sony, Chalo Chalo and Super Game Jam.

Have a listen to the interview and then head out and buy ibb & obb to challenge your brain and thumbs!

This week the Professor and Brian are back and have been asked to peer review ‘The Fourth Dimension‘, an interactive physics lesson available on iOS that will explain 4D to us poor, backwards three-dimensional creatures (and no, I checked, you won’t need to upgrade to a 4D TV).

What’s a tesseract? I hear you cry! A tesseract is a four-dimensional shape which is impossible to view properly in our antiquated three-dimensional universe. It’s a bit like a cube on steroids… when viewed with the aid of mind bending psychotropics. However, we can indirectly view a tesseract by unfolding it into three dimensions, or projecting a shadow of the four-dimensional object onto a three-dimensional space. The app even features stereoscopic 3D that will either give you a unique understanding of what the three-dimensional shadow of a tesseract might look like, or a migraine…