Caspius and SiliconNooB end the current Bravely Default playthrough and announce the next game so featured, and they prepare for the opening of Gamescom 2025 with a review of the conference schedule—and a discussion of how the 'internet' worked in 1990.Continue reading

Caspius and SiliconNooB review the latest My Mario announcements, including a wooden block set that doubles as Amiibo, before looking forward to the selection of unreleased titles reported to be playable at Gamescom 2025—and a future Nintendo Direct.Continue reading

Caspius and SiliconNooB review the announcements from the latest Nintendo Direct Partner Showcase, speculate about Nintendo's participation at GamesCom, and consider the failure of games with systems that are either too complex or too spartan.Continue reading

Caspius and SiliconNooB await an increasingly inevitable Nintendo Direct, extending the Bravely Default playthrough and giving them time to discuss Atari, the changing industry roles of Sony and Microsoft, and Hajime Tabata's flight from certain doom.Continue reading

Caspius and SiliconNooB discuss the biggest Switch release of the month--Donkey Kong Bananza--at least, before the forthcoming Nintendo Pokemon Showcase and the long-expected but hitherto still unconfirmed Nintendo Direct for the second half of 2025.Continue reading

Caspius and SiliconNooB put on their best Rumplestiltzkin act, spinning straw into news, with talk of Nintendo's game vouchers, a remake of School Days, games new and old from IntiCreates, and the very best titles skimmed from the Top of the Plops.Continue reading

Caspius and SiliconNooB compare cricket fortunes before turning their attention to the complexity of international labour: Microsoft is in the news again, this time sacking thousands more workers and closing game studios to become 'stronger than ever'.Continue reading

Caspius is reduced to playing games whilst wearing pince-nez, only to find himself further aggravated by SiliconNooB refusing to take the mandatory Starlight Megaphone supplemental training: a Nintendo Switch 'listening and connexion-building game'.Continue reading

Caspius and SiliconNooB set aside their praise of Bravely Default and good cheer about the Switch 2 before turning down the podcast dial labelled 'NICE' in order to deliver the Starlight Megaphone's speciality: a thorough, vigorous Square-Enix beatdown.Continue reading

Caspius and SiliconNooB enthuse about the Nintendo Switch 2, tempering their positivity with a few critiques of some of the system's minor shortcomings, before moving on to the latest announcements in what promises to be a banner year for JRPG fans.Continue reading