The Crate and Crowbar

By The Crate and Crowbar

A group of friends who work in the games industry meet up once a week to talk about PC games over a drink. “Off-the-cuff” is a polite way to say “unprofessional”, right?... more

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Number 1: Episode 214: The End of Reliable Horse Delivery
Tom, Chris and Alex have medium takes on Call of Duty: World War II, Assassin’s Creed: Origins, Dota 2 Turbo, and the industry’s latest travails. Plus: getting the better of Satan, hopes for a hairy new Hitman, co-op jobs, Tuesday, impressing kids with chicken, bud motivation, and more. Chris talks a bit about Dota 2 in this episode! If you’re one of the people who hate it when this happens, skip from 1:21:20 to 1:34:50. There are also spoilers for quite old PlayStation game Shadow of the Colossus from 1:50:25 to 1:51:20. Alex has been playing Call of Duty: World War II, an omnidirectional box of shoot war. Here’s that article about algorithmically-generated distrubing children’s YouTube cartoons. Tom is living his best life in Assassin’s Creed: Orangina. Oh boy you better believe that Chris is back on his Dota 2. You can also find Pip’s article about Dota 2 Turbo here. Listener Rahul emailed about rat maps, linking to this PC Gamer one: video here, file here. Here is Patrick Lenton’s Twitter thread about trying to do right by a dog in Skyrim. 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 at [email protected] or tweet us @crateandcrowbar. This episode is on YouTube here, and you can 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. You can also follow us on Twitter dot com: Chris Thursten Alex Wiltshire Tom Francis Our intro music is by The Mandibles from their track Clambake. Many of the band members now tour as Count Bobo And The Bullion.
November 10, 20172h 3min
Number 2: Episode 052: Humanities Graduates Validated By Subterranean Horror
In which we watch wizards get rich and wonder: how? And why? And was it even fun? Plus: Marsh and Tom F slip into the bushes during multiplayer stealth game Of Guards And Thieves while Tom S sets sail upon a Sunless Sea.
July 25, 20142h 2min
Number 3: Episode 051: The Pros And Cons Of Crates
Marsh, Tom F, Tom S and returning guest Rich Stanton gather to discuss gaming crates good and bad. Tom F's been throwing them around in Divinity: Original Sin, Rich has been opening them in Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, and we've all been pushing, pulling and poking them in virtual worlds everywhere as gaming's love affair with boxes comes to an enthusiastic middle.
July 18, 20142h 18min
Number 4: Episode 050: #UnFrockTheFun
Happy birthday to us! The entire gang gather to celebrate the 50th episode and our almost-one-year anniversary. We mark the occasion by discussing some of our most beloved games: Tom S joins a Company of Heroes, Marsh posits a Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory, Graham measures his Half-Life, Chris lives a full life in Star Wars: Galaxies and Tom F goes on a Little Big Adventure. Also discussed: the announcements of Blue Stream and Bloodborn and the re-reveal of Fortnite; the future of VR, journalism and crotch-gazing; how online gaming has broadened our and your horizons; the grossest nudity; our proudest videogame creations; and more. Apologies for the various creaking noises at certain points throughout this week’s pod. Also introducing: the pod dog, the pod bird, and rain. * Project Blue Streak, by Cliffy “Dude Huge” B’s new company Boss Key, doesn’t seem to have its own website yet. At least it’s not a MOBA. * Unlike Battleborn, which is Gearbox’s hobby-grade co-op meta-growth competitive esport Battleborn Heroes. Here’s the tweet by Randy Pitchford‘s that we unpick, just to make clear that it’s real. * Epic Games’ Fortnite is a cartoony, free-to-play Orcs Must Die-with-crafting game. It looks alright? * The dumb Warface magazine Graham couldn’t remember the name of was Gameface. * You can play Wings of Saint Nazaire, the purple, sprite-based, Wing Commander-inspired space shooter, right now. * The VR Game Jam Tom F was talking about. Cockpits are our virtual reality future. * The future of journalism includes virtual reality. This is the project Tom S mentioned, mention the beautiful, first-person, journalistic Somewhere. * Here’s the clip of There Will Be Blood – from early in the film – with a gaze-tracking overlay showing where 11 viewers looked in any given moment. * Page 257 of this eye-tracking study reveals that men are always looking at dongs. * Chris tells the story of his life and final moments inside dearly departed MMO Star Wars: Galaxies. He wrote about the same, with screenshots of some of the final events he references, over at PCGamer.com. * Little Big Adventure’s amazing soundtrack can be heard on YouTube. And yes, it’s on GOG. * Former podcast guest Pip Warr asked on Twitter for people’s favourite videogame weather. Here’s the forum thread to discuss or respond to anything in this episode. Our intro music is by <a href="http://themandibles.bandcamp.
July 11, 20142h 9min
Number 5: Episode 049: Historically, That’s The Past
In which sausages are honked. Chris evangelises animal husbandry in Divinity: Original Sin, Tom F twiddles Brothers’ sticks and Marsh gets a dog to work his organ in Valiant Hearts. Plus! Special guest Eskil Steenberg tells us of his new game, EXO.
July 04, 20141h 43min