Video Game Reviews, Articles
The second part of our Episode VIII deep dive continues with full spoilers – turn back all ye who have not watched the film yet! We continue our dissection of the Last Jedi story, focusing on the two central master/apprentice…
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We leave the wretched hive of scum and villainy that is the gaming world behind for a brief (!) interlude and fix our geeky gaze on one of our other passions: cinema. With the world and it’s mother embroiled in…
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After an extended absence, the Closet crew return to discuss what games have been preoccupying their time. Alan gives us the low down on the ongoing shambles that is Battlefront II and his new Xbox One X, Paco comes clean…
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Paco, Alan and Lee return to the videogaming fray after a long absence with a back-to-basics ‘what we’ve been playing’ episode. No sound FX, no clever editing, just some good old fashioned gushing over games. We also talk some Nintendo…
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This episode will be published in 2018 but was actually recorded in 2017, so, to clear up any confusion, there will be a lot of out of date news stuff as well as Alan’s thought on the then just released…
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The Metal Gear crazy train continues off the rails at speed as we enter hour 5 of our increasingly rambling retelling of the PS2 classic storyline. In this episode, the leader of the terrorists who seized Big Shell is finally…
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As the year of our Lord 2017 wanes, Paco, Alan and Lee ask what gaming offerings remain in their immediate futures. We also catch up with Destiny 2 progress as it enters it’s fourth week, pour over some news items,…
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Podcast Destiny experts Paco and Alan are finally unleashed on the full retail version of Bungie’s sequel to their flawed but popular MMORPG. Is this the game that fans were promised 3 years ago? Have the problems from the first…
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*SOME AUDIO ISSUES* Our Kojima video game odyssey continues as we delve deep into PS2 classic Sons of Liberty. This episode, Metal Gear authority Paco Rodriguez tells us how Raiden and Snake were inspired by King Kong and Godzilla, what…
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Hour 3 of Paco’s grand retelling of the PS2 game story picks up where we left off last time: with the introduction of the members of Dead Cell. As we push past the veneer of military thriller normality that Kojima’s…
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Our resident Destiny experts, Paco and Alan, discuss their time with Bungie’s limited beta version of the yet to be released MMORPG. The two talk our resident Destiny hater, Lee, through the campaign content and PvP sections, elaborating on gameplay,…
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Paco continues to flesh out the story of the second game in the MGS series, revealing more of the behind-the-scenes decisions and influences that shaped it in the process. Picking up after the events of the PS2 game’s tanker prologue,…
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Resuming our journey through the video game representations of Hideo Kojima’s psychoses, we invite die-hard Metal Gear fan Paco to talk us through the story of the sequel to 1998’s Metal Gear Solid. The lovable Spaniard gives us behind-the-scenes nuggets…
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The second in our rundown of the games revealed in this year’s E3. This episode we talk about the Bethesda, Nintendo, Ubisoft, and EA conferences, intermixed with lessons on Tingle, adventures in Paco’s nudity and our games of the show.
Every year, E3 is THE place for publishers and developers alike to unveil their latest wares and this year was no exception. In the first part of our E3 dissection, we focus on the console heavy hitters, Microsoft and Sony….
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