Tom F and Marsh rescue a marriage with magnets in It Takes Two, accurately identify horrible verbs in The Case of the Golden Idol, fail to impress girls with our animal handling in I Was a Teenage Exocolonist, and get nostalgic about gibs in Cultic.

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Our intro music is by The Mandibles from their track Clambake. Many of the band members now tour as Count Bobo And The Bullion.

Chris and Marsh galavant gleefully through the ponds of low-key collect-em-up Paradise Marsh, plunge their wounded hands into the sticky holes of firstperson horror-puzzler Scorn, and pop poxwalkers in co-op shooter Darktide.

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Our intro music is by The Mandibles from their track Clambake. Many of the band members now tour as Count Bobo And The Bullion.

Jamie and Marsh summon nightmarish first person arena shmup Hyper Demon, wreck noobs in hellish children’s maths game Numbots, rip and tear demons in throwback shooter Prodeus and discover exactly as much of The Evil Within 2 as their souls can bear.

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Our intro music is by The Mandibles from their track Clambake. Many of the band members now tour as Count Bobo And The Bullion.

Jamie and Marsh strike from the shadows in retro stealth game Gloomwood, mount horrible dogs in No Man’s Sky, flip pixel puzzles in Taiji, enjoy courtly nudity in Crusader Kings 3 and question creepy nudity in Immortality.

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Our intro music is by The Mandibles from their track Clambake. Many of the band members now tour as Count Bobo And The Bullion.

In which Tom Senior and Jamie Brittain convene to report back on their recent exploits in Multiversus, chat in an entirely spoiler free way about Immortality, jabber about, and then speculate on what divine revelations might be about to occur to Tom Senior, Cyborg Boy after his recent appointment with one of them high Bath pavements.

Sorry for the slight audio issues on this ep, Jamie was broadcasting from a very rainy conservatory, and to be honest it’s a flippin’ miracle he sounds as good as he does.

• Multiversus, the free to play sensation sweeping the nation, an unexpected gem.
• Immortality, the latest Sam Barlow video em up.
• Marvel’s Spider-Man Remastered, now on Steam, full of big hearted web slinging delights and surprises.
• Tom breaking his shoulder on one of them high Bath pavements isn’t a game, but it is very funny, though of course we are mostly just relieved he is okay and back to men paintin’. Content warning though, Tom breaking his shoulder, and tripping balls in hospital.

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Our intro music is by The Mandibles from their track Clambake. Many of the band members now tour as Count Bobo And The Bullion.

Marsh and Chris bestow their tepid devotions upon Last Call BBS, Cult of the Lamb, and Hard West 2. Plus: the momentary return of questions, emanating – as they ever have – from questions.

• Quiverin’ Marsh has been tinkering with Zachtronics’ Last Call BBS.
• …which leads us to speculate coquettishly about Alex and his MiSTer. If you’d like to tug upon your own, you can find instructions here.
• Chris has collided with a fog barrier in Cult of the Lamb, a game he otherwise esteems!
• Marsh has pooled his action points that he might root and toot all over Hard West 2.
• We’d play videogame adaptations of Russian Doll and Gentleman Jack.

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Our intro music is by The Mandibles from their track Clambake. Many of the band members now tour as Count Bobo And The Bullion.

Marsh, Tom F and Graham study the evidence for and against true crime dramas and documentaries. Join us in the accusing parlour as we interrogate The Staircase (both documentary and drama), Sophie: A Murder In West Cork, The Unsolved Murder Of Beverly Lynn Smith, The Investigation and The Murders At Starved Rock. We consider the ethics of making and watching stories about real tragedies, discuss whether it’s OK to draw conclusions from true crime media, and solve justice once and for all. Spoilers throughout.

• The first season of the podcast Serial feels like the progenitor of a modern wave of true crime.
• Making A Murderer popularised true crime on Netflix, though we have issues with it.
• Errol Morris’s 1988 film The Thin Blue Line is a true crime documentary that served to exonerate an innocent man.
• The Staircase is a French-produced documentary, originally released in 2004 and updated with new episodes in 2013 and 2018, about the trial of Michael Peterson for the murder of his wife, Kathleen Peterson. It’s now available to stream on Netflix US and UK.
• The Staircase is also the name of a 2022 HBO miniseries about the same events, starring Colin Firth and Toni Collette. It’s streaming on HBO Max and Sky Atlantic.
• Sophie: A Murder In West Cork is a 2021 Netflix documentary about the murder of Sophie Toscan du Plantier.
• The Unsolved Murder Of Beverly Lynn Smith is an Amazon Prime documentary about a 1974 murder and the Mr. Big police sting used 40 years later as part of a cold case investigation.
• The Investigation is a 2020 Danish drama about the murder of Kim Wall, currently streaming on HBO Max.
• The Murders At Starved Rock is an HBO documentary about the 1961 murder of three women, the conviction of Chester Weger, and the unanswered questions which remain.

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Our intro music is by The Mandibles from their track Clambake. Many of the band members now tour as Count Bobo And The Bullion.

In this Accidental Annapurna Special, Alex and Chris discuss the joy of driving big boats in FAR: Changing Tides, and the wanton nature of animal games, as reflected by the latest big animal game, Stray. You know, the cat game!

Also! News on Pip’s new game she’s doing called Flock, and Alex tells the unhappy tale of how his dog came to steal his pitta bread.

• Alex might be going gently mad without his family, but at least he has his dog-friend Roddy.
• Pip’s done a new game! It’s called Flock and it’s being developed by Hollow Ponds and published by Annapurna Interactive. Hey, watch the trailer, even if it has no Pip-words.
• And while you’re at it, why not check all the Hollow Ponds games, which are all very different but share Big Charm.
• Alex has been playing Okomotive’s latest take on the “go from left to right” genre, FAR: Changing Tides. Drive an big boat! Hoist an sail! Fire an engine!
• Both Chris and Alex have been playing the cat game, Stray. But is it really a cat game?
• We can all celebrate the spectacular nature of Kowloon Walled City.
• Untitled Goose Game remains both untitled and the pinnacle of animal games.
• But Outer Wilds remains the pinnacle of high-ambition, high-concept indie games.
• Could it be true? That we’re sitting at the end of a decade of animal games? Nearly! Goat Simulator was first released in April 2014.
• Ghost of Tsushima is a pretty and smoooooth game that is ripe for grazing.
• Weird how a cat brings focus to the emerging nature of games on subscription programmes like PlayStation Plus Mega But Not Ultimate and Xbox Game Pass!!!
• Because in contrast with Stray, Injustice 2 probs isn’t an ideal subscription game, unless you covet Batman gloves???
• Come and burn a beef rendang in sympathy with Alex. It’s delicious, when not burned!

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Our intro music is by The Mandibles from their track Clambake. Many of the band members now tour as Count Bobo And The Bullion.

Join Jamie Brittain and Alex Wiltshire on the muggy spectrum, where we discuss the shrinking spaces of Elden Ring, the very Xbox 360 thrills of Geometry Wars and Halo 3, and briefly touch on the ludicrous joys of Dmc.

Also! We find out what the guy over Jamie’s back gate is up to, discover how many times Alex’s daughter has completed Breath Of The Wild, and learn why 2007 was a terrible year for Jamie’s mental health, but an excellent year for Grolsch, Lambert & Butler and overlooked sports games.

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Our intro music is by The Mandibles from their track Clambake. Many of the band members now tour as Count Bobo And The Bullion.

Storied dungeon master Jim Rossignol joins Marsh to talk about the joy of pretending to be scoundrels, goblins and doomed spacemen, and why you should venture beyond the vast borders of Dungeons & Dragons to do so. Discussed: Blades in the Dark, Agon, Mothership, Symbaroum, Numenera, DIE & more!

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Our intro music is by The Mandibles from their track Clambake. Many of the band members now tour as Count Bobo And The Bullion.