It's that time of year again, when we set our mice and controllers down and have all our disposable downtime taken up with trailers and interviews and gameplay demonstrations of games we won't get to play for month or even years. That's right! It's E3 2018!!! The giant videogame conference that there's absolutely no need to attend in person unless you're one of those lucky people that get's to see Cyberpunk 2077 gameplay behind closed doors... (grumble grumble :( ) Not that we're jealous at all, since we still got to see an awful lot of exciting new stuff across the various conference streams and youTube clips appearing in our feeds all last week.

As the message at the top of the show will inform you, we did go on quite a bit. So long in fact that we've decided to split this into two shows. This first part catches the hype-surf with all the things we're most excited about, while in the second part we get a bit more critical and explore some of the weirder & wilder parts of the show. So look out for that in a few weeks time. Until then, enjoy part 1 of our extensive E3 coverage! :D

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This month we're talking about the reinvention of Sony's murderfest franchise, God of War, there's also a bit of VR news after the announcement of the stand-alone Oculus Go and we also cast our predictions for next month's E3 conference.

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On this month's show we're still in Ubisoft-land, albeit this time of the more far and crying persuasion, as Will does his best to convince us that's it's worth going back to the series for a fifth time. Meanwhile, Rob and Marcus have some stories to share from the recent EGX Rezzed show at London's Tobacco Dock. All this and more than you can throw a Switch at, on this latest #NOTplaying Podcast!

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Nothing much new this episode, but Rob did get a free copy of Ghost Recon: Wildlands with his shiny new microphone (which he utterly failed at recording this month's particular shambles of an episode with) and Iain's been playing it too, so we go on at some length about that. Also: Marcus played something called Gang Beasts and Rob managed to get through the entirery of Alien: Isolation - which is something of an achievement given how long that game has been in his Steam Library...

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On this week's show we finally get into some games we've actually been playing after all the round ups and previews at the turn of the year. Rob & Will have been cracking into the controversial Kingdom Come: Deliverance to a greater or lesser extent, Marcus has been playing some boardgames, Will is still very happy with his Nintendo Switch and Rob managed to make some serious headway with his pile of shame over Xmas. All this & more on a long overdue #playing focussed #NOTplaying Podcast!

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On this month's show we're going through some of the games we're looking forward to playing in 2018. Assuming any of them come out of course...

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It's been a slow year for us on the #NOTplaying Podcast. We dropped our episode schedule down to monthly and that's reflected in the number of games we've been able to play. We've also been leaning on some old favourites too, so even with so many great games coming out over the past 12 months, 2017 has felt like a bit of a snooze. There have been some highlights though, which we would like to share with you on our last show of the year. Merry Christmas & a very Happy new year to all of you who have stuck with us!

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We haven't covered news on this show for a while now, but there were a couple of developments over the past few weeks that we couldn't ignore. First being the incredibly sad and frustrating closure of Visceral Games and the cancellation of Amy Hennig's Star Wars game. Thankfully Sony's Paris Games Week presentation was there to assure the world that traditional single player videogames are far from extinct. We spend the rest of the episode suggesting some sequels we wouldn't mind happening...

EA Shuts down Visceral https://kotaku.com/ea-shuts-down-visceral-games-1819623990

Paris Games Week https://www.playstation.com/en-gb/news-and-social/paris-games-week

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On our October show Rob's been hacking up Orcs in Shadow of War, Marcus got himself a WiiU just as the Nintendo Switch begins to come into it's own & Iain finally caved on an Oculus Rift at it's new reduced and entirely more reasonable price-point. All this & more on this month's #NOTplaying Podcast!

Shadow of War https://www.shadowofwar.com/

WiiU/Mario Kart 8 https://www.nintendo.co.uk/Games/Wii-U/Mario-Kart-8-765384.html

The Order 1886 https://www.playstation.com/en-gb/games/the-order-1886-ps4/

Little Nightmares http://www.little-nightmares.com/en/

The Witcher 3 - Hearts of Stone http://store.steampowered.com/app/378649/The_Witcher_3_Wild_Hunt__Hearts_of_Stone/

Star Wars - Battlefront 2 Beta https://www.ea.com/games/starwars/battlefront/battlefront-2

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On this September edition of the #NOTplaying Podcast we're looking at what the Uncharted series has to offer beyond Nathan Drake (a lot it turns out), how Friday 13th's troubled launch is holding up, the final actual release of Ark: Survival evolved and lots more besides!

Uncharted: The Lost Legacy https://www.unchartedthegame.com/en-us/games/uncharted-the-lost-legacy/

Ark: Survival Evolved http://store.steampowered.com/app/346110/ARK_Survival_Evolved/

Wolfenstein: The New Order http://store.steampowered.com/agecheck/app/201810/

Friday 13th http://store.steampowered.com/agecheck/app/438740/

Sonic Mania http://www.sonicthehedgehog.com/sonic-mania

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