Jody and Lee review Thief. The reboot of the original first-person stealth game has large shoes to fill. The boys discuss whether or not it lives up to its heritage. (PC/PS3/360/XB1/PS4) Candi reviews Plants Vs. Zombies: Garden Warfare. This third-person multiplayer shooter is nothing like the game that inspired it, but is that necessarily a [...]

We are joined in the studio by Jeff Van Dyck, the BAFTA award winning composer and sound designer of the Total War series, Need For Speed, FIFA, Skitchin’, Assault Android Cactus and many more. In this interview, Jeff talks about his career highlights, the shift from 16-bit to CD quality audio, the process of creating [...]

Razor chats with David and Drew of IRL Shooter, creators of Patient 0: a live-action zombie apocalypse simulation. We chat about “pain belts”, the best reactions they’ve had from players, and launching the most ambitious crowd funding project in Australia history. Check out the Pozible campaign here: http://www.pozible.com/project/176333 We hear an interview with Jakub Szamalek of CD [...]

Last week’s Titanfall beta generated a titanic amount of hype for the upcoming XB1/PC/360 game. Lee and Alanah suit up to provide their impressions. Alanah swings into action to deliver previews of  Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze (Wii U) & Castlevania: Lords of Shadow 2 (360/PS3/PC). Plus: Lee cuts through 25 years of continuity to tell us how [...]

Lee and Razor dissect Flappy Bird and attempt to unravel the controversy surrounding it. Razor checks out OlliOlli (PS Vita), a hyper-addictive 2D skateboarding game. Lee lets us know exactly what he thinks about the redesigned characters of Sonic Boom. In studio: Razor & Lee. Aired 12 February 2014. Zed Games Podcast – Episode 206 [...]

Dom and Chris of Ghostbox drop in to talk about their latest game, Dragon Season (Android/iOS). We discuss the unlikely origins of the game and talk about how some of the key features were conceptualised. Jody and Candi review Freedom Fall, a “platform game set in a wickedly dark fairy tale”. In studio: Razor, Jody Macgregor [...]

Meg and Anthony of Screwtape Studios join us live in the studio to talk about Verby, a social word game for iOS and Android. The pair share their experience creating the game and provide some great advice for aspiring developers.  Lee reviews Broken Age: Part 1 (PC/Mac), a retro adventure game from Tim Schafer & Double Fine. Aired [...]

We chat with James “Peanuts” Schultz (community manager) and Matt Knight (designer/artist/voice artist) of Halfbrick Studios (Fruit Ninja, Jetpack Joyride, Fish Out Of Water).  In this candid interview we discuss Colossatron: Massive World Threat and Band Stars, find out what it’s really like in the games testing department at Halfbrick, and we poke Matt repeatedly until he does his [...]

We chat with Sanatana Mishra, designer of Assault Android Cactus, a twin-stick shooter for the PC (coming to PS4/PS Vita later this year). We discuss the game creation process, the definition of “bullet-hell” and hear the story of how a 3-person studio gained the support of Sony. Jody gives us some first impressions of the [...]

  “The Games That Defined a Console Generation” The crew discuss, as objectively as possible, the games that made a real mark on the last console generation. For better or for worse, these are the games that had impact, spawned clones, influenced the industry, sold systems (and peripherals) and shaped the gaming landscape. For the [...]