Chris, Euan and Pawel are back once again (for the renegade master) with more gaming chat! This week's tabletop section involves a long chat about their day playing Fantasy Flight's epic World of Warcraft: The Board Game, the game of grinding, experience, loot, dungeons, and lots of lovely different coloured dice. In the video games section, Chris talks about DinoSystem, the bloody difficult survival game set in a world of dinosaurs which is currently in early access, Euan talks about PSVR platform game Windlands, and the lads finish up with VR horror/shooter game The Brookhaven Experiment.

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In this week's episode, fantasy dungeon-crawling game Exanima with its "realistic" combat takes centre stage in the video games section, followed by a return to video/board game Armello and an update on Chris and Euan's journey through the Shenmue series. In the tabletop section, Chris and Pawel have an in-depth chat about the new Arkham Horror Card Game by Fantasy Flight, Chris quickly talks about another play of Star Wars: Rebellion, and Pawel tells us about Swedish tabletop RPG Symbaroum!

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Chris, Euan and Pawel are here in this bonus episode to talk about Playstation VR! Includes a good chat about VR itself as an experience, and also specific games, such as VR Worlds, Job Simulator, Sports Bar VR, Windlands, Until Dawn: Rush of Blood and Harmonix Music VR.

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In this week's episode Chris and Euan begin with a shorter tabletop section, talking about Terraforming Mars, the most hyped board game from Essen this year. The video games section sees the podcast return to Don't Starve, with Euan deciding to give this mad survival game a go. Chris then chats about the surprisingly good Transformers Devastation, and gives a quick overview of the quirky fantasy farming simulator Slime Rancher.

Next week: Bonus Playstation VR episode!

Headquarters has officially moved, but the Unnecessary lads have still managed to squeeze in some epic-level gaming! A shorter video game segment has Pawel talking about cyberpunk/RPG game Dex which was released on consoles earlier this year, and Chris talks about the brutal online survival game Hurtworld in which the human players are the real monsters. Then a much, much longer tabletop section has the real meat of the episode: Twilight Imperium Third Edition, the epic sci-fi board game. Borg-like people save trading space cats from annihilation, barbarian lava-people take their vengeance on arrogant, intelligent aliens, politics close down the wormholes, full-on space battles take place over ancient worlds, and the meta-game rules all. Listen in to hear about Chris, Euan and Pawel's experience with this heavy-but-amazingly-fun game!

The lads are back! In this episode we begin with a tabletop segment in which Chris and Euan chat about their experience with Fantasy Flight's Battlelore and some comparisons to the other Commands & Colors systems, in particular Ancients. Chris then gives Pawel some existential dread by talking about the life-sim board game The Pursuit of Happiness by Artipia Games, in which the aim is to die happy.

The video games section contains Pawel talking about the recent release of Rise of the Tomb Raider on PS4, which also involves him steering wildly into chatting about a dozen other game franchises while Chris tries to keep him on course. Chris then talks about Halcyon 6: Starbase Commander and its weird-but-brilliant mixture of 4x space strategy and JRPG combat, and the show wraps up with a lengthy chat about the early access release of Endless Space 2 and how it compares to the other Endless strategy games.

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Chris, Euan and Pawel are back after a small (and unexpected) hiatus to bring you more chat about the world of gaming! This episode contains Chris talking about drunkenly playing the board/party games Codenames and Deception: Murder in Hong Kong, Euan kicks off a good chat about the Avalon Hill game Betrayal at House on the Hill, and there's an update on the Time Stories campaign that you probably thought we'd forgotten about.

The video games section brings us Pawel's thoughts (and a healthy debate) about Deus Ex: Mankind Divided, Chris talks about the weird and wonderful driving simulator Jalopy, Pawel tells us about the For Honor alpha and Euan adds to Chris's thoughts from last episode about the Tetris-with-physics multiplayer game Tricky Towers.

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Chris and Euan are back to officially kick off Year Two of the podcast! The video games section begins with the lads filling your ears with chat about Deus Ex: Mankind Divided, adventure mystery game Gone Home, and Tetris-like multiplayer puzzle game Tricky Towers. The tabletop section is mostly given over to civilisation-building strategy board game Mare Nostrum: Empires, and finishes with a fun one: Robo Rally, the chaotic board game of programming racing robots. Enjoy!

Also known as the Big Bumper Birthday Box-Social Bonanza, or the Unnecessaboutaversibash, this bonus episode celebrates one year of chatting nonsense about gaming! In this episode, Chris, Euan and Pawel have a long and relaxed chat about how the podcast started, how we got into board, video and roleplaying gaming, and how you can do the same. Enjoy!

A healthy chat about No Man's Sky takes up a good chunk of the video games section this week, with the Unnecessary crew debating what it is and isn't. Meanwhile, Pawel talks about Inside, the successor to Limbo, Euan tells us about sinister roguelike The Binding of Isaac, and Chris talks about programming in the excitingly-titled Human Resource Machine. Beer-making Euro board game Brew Crafters takes centre stage in the tabletop section, which also includes a rant about Kickstarter backers' faces, and Chris and Euan talk about the finale of their Imperial Assault campaign.

Also includes Tim Curry and public domain jazz, for some reason.

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