The Crate and Crowbar

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The Crate and Crowbar episodes

September 21Episode 458: The Monkey Brain Desire To Be Covered In Salmon Roe
Jamie and Marsh convene to talk assorted bollocks about story structure post Jamie’s Roguelike Celebration appearance, Mario’s subbing in for Virgil, and with ineffable patience, Marsh tolerates Jamie not being able to shut up for one second about Splatoon Raiders.
Jamie’s Roguelike Celebration Talk
Blank Cheque Trailer
Thousand Hells: The Underworld Heists
Splatoon Raiders
Squid School is the softly voiced youtuber
Resonance: A Plague Tale Legacy
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The Crate and Crowbar is kindly funded by our Patreon backers. If you’d like to know more about supporting our podcast and its spinoffs, click here.
Our intro music is by The Mandibles from their track Clambake. Many of the band members now tour as Count Bobo And The Bullion.
1 hr 7 min
June 06Episode 457: There’s No Stick in This Lolly
Chris, Jamie and Marsh get tux’d up and shimmy into the pseudo-sandbox soirees of 007 First Light. Our predictions for the future of this game and its developers are then immediately chomped to mince by the pit of alligators that is the wider game industry.
Marsh has released Gold Teeth!
The trailer for Clutch, which Jamie worked on, has been revealed.
007 First Light
Within hours of recording this podcast, publisher Amazon announced that future 007 games would be developed internally, and IO fired all their fixed contract developers.
You can hang out with us and our community on our Discord channel. If you have a question for a future episode, send it to us via the Questions sub-channel on our Discord or email it to [email protected]. You can also listen to it on YouTube, and subscribe to our YouTube channel, if you like.
The Crate and Crowbar is kindly funded by our Patreon backers. If you’d like to know more about supporting our podcast and its spinoffs, click here.
Our intro music is by The Mandibles from their track Clambake. Many of the band members now tour as Count Bobo And The Bullion.
1 hr 33 min
April 13Episode 456: I Can’t Hold All These Shivs
Chris and Jamie are joined by Mike Cook to talk about his uneventful recent life as an academic specialising in AI. Then, Slay the Spire 2 summer begins at last and we pay tribute to Marathon’s weird little robo-goblin, the Rook.
It’s Mike Cook! And it’s Next Level, Mike Cook’s new book!
The book Chris mentions is More Everything Forever by Adam Becker.
Slay the Spire 2! You, a Crate and Crowbar listener, probably did not need this link.
Mike’s been known to enjoy a Jorbs from time to time.
Bungie’s Marathon, again.
You can hang out with us and our community on our Discord channel. If you have a question for a future episode, send it to us via the Questions sub-channel on our Discord or email it to [email protected]. You can also listen to this episode on YouTube, and subscribe to our YouTube channel, if you like.
The Crate and Crowbar is kindly funded by our Patreon backers. If you’d like to know more about supporting our podcast and its spinoffs, click here.
Our intro music is by The Mandibles from their track Clambake. Many of the band members now tour as Count Bobo And The Bullion.
1 hr 52 min
March 20Episode 455: Only Beefman
Jamie and Chris convene from the palatial purple of Quincy Jones’ recording studio to tell tales of indentational trauma, BP garage psychogeography and also some games!
Chris has been cutting people’s legs off in Halfsword and thinking fondly of Marsh Davies.
Jamie has been rejoicing in Andrew Lloyd Webber’s crystal meth extravaganza Mewgenics.
Chris has been playing Marathon and Likes It, Actually.
Jamie has been playing Resident Evil Requiem and also likes it, so there.
You can hang out with us and our community on our Discord channel. If you have a question for a future episode, send it to us via the Questions sub-channel on our Discord or email it to [email protected]. You can also listen to it on YouTube, and subscribe to our YouTube channel, if you like.
The Crate and Crowbar is kindly funded by our Patreon backers. If you’d like to know more about supporting our podcast and its spinoffs, click here.
Our intro music is by The Mandibles from their track Clambake. Many of the band members now tour as Count Bobo And The Bullion.
1 hr 41 min
January 30Episode 454: Meaty and Juicy
Marsh is joined by Graham to chat about Jank, a hot new website for cool people, the best games of the decade so far, deduction game TR-49, frenzied shmup Sektori and joyous platformer Big Hops.
Jank!!!!!!!!!!!!
Jank.cool!!!!
Visit Jank! Wow!
Read Jank’s list of the best games of the Decade so far!
TR-49
Sektori
Big Hops
You can hang out with us and our community on our Discord channel. If you have a question for a future episode, send it to us via the Questions sub-channel on our Discord or email it to [email protected]. You can also listen to it on YouTube, and subscribe to our YouTube channel, if you like.
The Crate and Crowbar is kindly funded by our Patreon backers. If you’d like to know more about supporting our podcast and its spinoffs, click here.
Our intro music is by The Mandibles from their track Clambake. Many of the band members now tour as Count Bobo And The Bullion.
1 hr 17 min
November 15, 2025Episode 453: A Formula One Car with Fists
Jamie and Marsh throw themselves into the depths of Ball X Pit, launch themselves into toilets in Bloodlines 2, and dive cinematically from exploding balconies in Battlefield 6.
Show notes:
Join Jamie in person on Saturday 29th November at Birmingham Comicon for a chat about getting into games.
Ball X Pit
Into the Breach
Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2
Battlefield 6
You can hang out with us and our community on our Discord channel. If you have a question for a future episode, send it to us via the Questions sub-channel on our Discord or email it to [email protected]. You can also listen to it on YouTube, and subscribe to our YouTube channel, if you like.
The Crate and Crowbar is kindly funded by our Patreon backers. If you’d like to know more about supporting our podcast and its spinoffs, click here.
Our intro music is by The Mandibles from their track Clambake. Many of the band members now tour as Count Bobo And The Bullion.
1 hr 8 min
October 10, 2025Episode 452: Bog-Muppet Territory
Chris, Jamie and Marsh discuss what the f Silent Hill f is about, get systemic in Sword Hero, jump ship in Jump Space, try to pronounce “photogrammetry” correctly while discussing Mind Diver AND take a cathartically large dump on Alien: Earth.
Silent Hill f
Big-time ambiguity intertext: Henry James’ Turn of the Screw
I’ve always wanted to make something with a rainy montage sequence in it, inspired by Ghost in the Shell’s. And Silent Hill f goes and does it out of the gate!
The Whale God: film in which a Japanese fishing village eats itself
Sword Hero: pocket-sized Skyrim-sim with loppable limbs and good meat
Skin Deep: pocket-sized imsim that we may come back to!
Jump Space, formerly Jump Ship
Iron Pineapple plays games on the internet telly
Chained Beasts
Sunderfolk: tactical turnbased Dungeons & Dragons stuff
Mind Diver
Alien Earth
Noah Hawley is Alien Earth’s showrunner
Fargo and Legion are other shows he’s worked on
Our Fargo/True Detective Lock-in
John Carpenter’s The Thing
Gale Ann Hurd: co-writer of Terminator and producer on Aliens, The Abyss and many other films
Possessor, directed by Brandon Cronenberg
Babou Ceesay, Adrian Edmondson and Sydney Chandler are all doing acting good
Severance is a TV show also guilty of sweeping problems into future seasons
You can hang out with us and our community on our Discord channel. If you have a question for a future episode, send it to us via the Questions sub-channel on our Discord or email it to [email protected]. You can also listen to it on YouTube, and subscribe to our YouTube channel, if you like.
The Crate and Crowbar is kindly funded by our Patreon backers. If you’d like to know more about supporting our podcast and its spinoffs, click here.
Our intro music is by The Mandibles from their track Clambake. Many of the band members now tour as Count Bobo And The Bullion.
2 hr 18 min
August 29, 2025Episode 451: Weston-super-Nightmare
Marsh and Jamie dishonour their families in the oddly quaint Mafia: The Old Country, soak sands in Sword of the Sea, and synergise to the max in Merge Maestro, Kill the Brickman and Raccoin.
Show notes:
Mafia: The Old Country
Sword of the Sea
Merge Maestro
Raccoin
Kill the Brickman
You can hang out with us and our community on our Discord channel. If you have a question for a future episode, send it to us via the Questions sub-channel on our Discord or email it to [email protected]. You can also listen to it on YouTube, and subscribe to our YouTube channel, if you like.
The Crate and Crowbar is kindly funded by our Patreon backers. If you’d like to know more about supporting our podcast and its spinoffs, click here.
Our intro music is by The Mandibles from their track Clambake. Many of the band members now tour as Count Bobo And The Bullion.
1 hr 13 min
August 08, 2025Episode 450: A Certain Number Of Flaps
Jamie and Marsh join together to talk sad boys, roguelike birds and frenzied bananas.
Birdigo
Donkey Kong: Bananza
Marsh is making Gold Teeth.
You can hang out with us and our community on our Discord channel. If you have a question for a future episode, send it to us via the Questions sub-channel on our Discord or email it to [email protected]. You can also listen to it on YouTube, and subscribe to our YouTube channel, if you like.
The Crate and Crowbar is kindly funded by our Patreon backers. If you’d like to know more about supporting our podcast and its spinoffs, click here.
Our intro music is by The Mandi
42 min
July 25, 2025Episode 449: The Helicopter in Your Trousers
Chris and Marsh are joined by Paul Canavan to talk about draining men (halleluja), the not-so-shy huluds and space-nun zoomies of Dune: Awakening. We do not talk about Donkey Kong Bananza.
Dune: Awakening
Paul is making Pale Tides.
Marsh is making Gold Teeth.
Chris is one of the most extraordinarily talented and versatile people I’ve worked with, and he’s currently available to hire for creative direction, narrative design, birthdays and bar mitvahs. You can also read his novels.
You can hang out with us and our community on our Discord channel. If you have a question for a future episode, send it to us via the Questions sub-channel on our Discord or email it to [email protected]. You can also listen to it on YouTube, and subscribe to our YouTube channel, if you like.
The Crate and Crowbar is kindly funded by our Patreon backers. If you’d like to know more about supporting our podcast and its spinoffs, click here.
Our intro music is by The Mandibles from their track Clambake. Many of the band members now tour as Count Bobo And The Bullion.
1 hr 11 min

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