Jamie and Chris convene from the palatial purple of Quincy Jones’ recording studio to tell tales of indentational trauma, BP garage psychogeography and also some games! * Chris has been cutting people’s legs off in Halfsword and thinking fondly of Marsh Davies.* Jamie has been rejoicing in Andrew Lloyd Webber’s crystal meth extravaganza Mewgenics.* Chris has been playing Marathon and Likes It, Actually.* Jamie has been playing Resident Evil Requiem and also likes it, so there. You can hang out with us and our community on our Discord channel. If you have a question for a future episode, send it to us via the Questions sub-channel on our Discord or email it to [email protected]. You can also listen to it on YouTube, and subscribe to our YouTube channel, if you like. The Crate and Crowbar is kindly funded by our Patreon backers. If you’d like to know more about supporting our podcast and its spinoffs, click here. Our intro music is by The Mandibles from their track Clambake. Many of the band members now tour as Count Bobo And The Bullion.

Marsh is joined by Graham to chat about Jank, a hot new website for cool people, the best games of the decade so far, deduction game TR-49, frenzied shmup Sektori and joyous platformer Big Hops. * Jank!!!!!!!!!!!! * Jank.cool!!!! * Visit Jank! Wow! * Read Jank’s list of the best games of the Decade so far! * TR-49 * Sektori * Big Hops You can hang out with us and our community on our Discord channel. If you have a question for a future episode, send it to us via the Questions sub-channel on our Discord or email it to [email protected]. You can also listen to it on YouTube, and subscribe to our YouTube channel, if you like. The Crate and Crowbar is kindly funded by our Patreon backers. If you’d like to know more about supporting our podcast and its spinoffs, click here. Our intro music is by The Mandibles from their track Clambake. Many of the band members now tour as Count Bobo And The Bullion.

Jamie and Marsh throw themselves into the depths of Ball X Pit, launch themselves into toilets in Bloodlines 2, and dive cinematically from exploding balconies in Battlefield 6. Show notes: * Join Jamie in person on Saturday 29th November at Birmingham Comicon for a chat about getting into games. * Ball X Pit * Into the Breach * Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2 * Battlefield 6 You can hang out with us and our community on our Discord channel. If you have a question for a future episode, send it to us via the Questions sub-channel on our Discord or email it to [email protected]. You can also listen to it on YouTube, and subscribe to our YouTube channel, if you like. The Crate and Crowbar is kindly funded by our Patreon backers. If you’d like to know more about supporting our podcast and its spinoffs, click here. Our intro music is by The Mandibles from their track Clambake. Many of the band members now tour as Count Bobo And The Bullion.

Chris, Jamie and Marsh discuss what the f Silent Hill f is about, get systemic in Sword Hero, jump ship in Jump Space, try to pronounce “photogrammetry” correctly while discussing Mind Diver AND take a cathartically large dump on Alien: Earth. * Silent Hill f * Big-time ambiguity intertext: Henry James’ Turn of the Screw * I’ve always wanted to make something with a rainy montage sequence in it, inspired by Ghost in the Shell’s. And Silent Hill f goes and does it out of the gate! * The Whale God: film in which a Japanese fishing village eats itself * Sword Hero: pocket-sized Skyrim-sim with loppable limbs and good meat * Skin Deep: pocket-sized imsim that we may come back to! * Jump Space, formerly Jump Ship * Iron Pineapple plays games on the internet telly * Chained Beasts * Sunderfolk: tactical turnbased Dungeons & Dragons stuff * Mind Diver * Alien Earth * Noah Hawley is Alien Earth’s showrunner * Fargo and Legion are other shows he’s worked on * Our Fargo/True Detective Lock-in * John Carpenter’s The Thing * Gale Ann Hurd: co-writer of Terminator and producer on Aliens, The Abyss and many other films * Possessor, directed by Brandon Cronenberg * Babou Ceesay, Adrian Edmondson and Sydney Chandler are all doing acting good * Severance is a TV show also guilty of sweeping problems into future seasons You can hang out with us and our community on our Discord channel. If you have a question for a future episode, send it to us via the Questions sub-channel on our Discord or email it to [email protected]. You can also listen to it on YouTube, and subscribe to our YouTube channel, if you like. The Crate and Crowbar is kindly funded by our Patreon backers. If you’d like to know more about supporting our podcast and its spinoffs, click here. Our intro music is by The Mandibles from their track Clambake. Many of the band members now tour as Count Bobo And The Bullion.

Marsh and Jamie dishonour their families in the oddly quaint Mafia: The Old Country, soak sands in Sword of the Sea, and synergise to the max in Merge Maestro, Kill the Brickman and Raccoin. Show notes: * Mafia: The Old Country * Sword of the Sea * Merge Maestro * Raccoin * Kill the Brickman You can hang out with us and our community on our Discord channel. If you have a question for a future episode, send it to us via the Questions sub-channel on our Discord or email it to [email protected]. You can also listen to it on YouTube, and subscribe to our YouTube channel, if you like. The Crate and Crowbar is kindly funded by our Patreon backers. If you’d like to know more about supporting our podcast and its spinoffs, click here. Our intro music is by The Mandibles from their track Clambake. Many of the band members now tour as Count Bobo And The Bullion.

Jamie and Marsh join together to talk sad boys, roguelike birds and frenzied bananas. * Birdigo * Donkey Kong: Bananza* Marsh is making Gold Teeth. You can hang out with us and our community on our Discord channel. If you have a question for a future episode, send it to us via the Questions sub-channel on our Discord or email it to [email protected]. You can also listen to it on YouTube, and subscribe to our YouTube channel, if you like. The Crate and Crowbar is kindly funded by our Patreon backers. If you’d like to know more about supporting our podcast and its spinoffs, click here. Our intro music is by The Mandi

Chris and Marsh are joined by Paul Canavan to talk about draining men (halleluja), the not-so-shy huluds and space-nun zoomies of Dune: Awakening. We do not talk about Donkey Kong Bananza. * Dune: Awakening * Paul is making Pale Tides. * Marsh is making Gold Teeth. * Chris is one of the most extraordinarily talented and versatile people I’ve worked with, and he’s currently available to hire for creative direction, narrative design, birthdays and bar mitvahs. You can also read his novels. You can hang out with us and our community on our Discord channel. If you have a question for a future episode, send it to us via the Questions sub-channel on our Discord or email it to [email protected]. You can also listen to it on YouTube, and subscribe to our YouTube channel, if you like. The Crate and Crowbar is kindly funded by our Patreon backers. If you’d like to know more about supporting our podcast and its spinoffs, click here. Our intro music is by The Mandibles from their track Clambake. Many of the band members now tour as Count Bobo And The Bullion.

Jamie and Marsh get pumped, pepped and revved up for the summer games marketing onslaught, and then enjoy the more tangible pleasures of demos in the Steam Next Fest, including: Ball X Pit, Morsels, Bits & Bops, Consume Me, Dispatch and Baby Steps. * In this episode, I, Marsh, misremember Peggle’s mascot as Bookworm Adventures’ mascot, which is a bookworm, despite the fact that only one of these titles has “bookworm” in the name. This is an error for which I do not deserve, and will never earn, your forgiveness—but I acknowledge it now to prepare you for the boiling rage my failure will induce. * Lies of P and The Last Berserker – the best off-brand Soulslikes? * Shout out to Ollie * The games of Summer Game Fest: * Mortal Shell 2 * Death Stranding 2: On the Beach * Chronicles: Medieval * End of Abyss * Mouse: P.I. for Hire * Game of Thrones: War for Westeros * Atomic Heart 2 & The Cube * Felt That: Boxing * Out of Words * Mafia: The Old Country * Resident Evil Requiem * LEGO Voyagers (LEGO Builders, from the same team, and LEGO 2K Drive, by not the same team, suggest that the LEGO brand has a stable of solid talent at their disposal.) * Deadpool VR. So much great work going on in VR. This isn’t it. (Ghost Town, a VR puzzle game by Fireproof Games, developers of The Room series, might be brilliant, though.) * Dying Light: The Beast * Mixtape (the studio’s previous game was The Artful Escape) * Acts of Blood * MindsEye * ILL * Splitgate 2 * Games not from Summer Game Fest: * Bloodstained: The Scarlet Engagement * Lumines Arise (by the developers of people-herding puzzle game Humanity) * Silent Hill F * Militsioner * Sleep Awake * Mewgenics (the Other One Who Isn’t Edmund McMillen is in fact called Tommy Refenes, and is making Super Meatboy 3D) * Games from Steam Next Fest: * Ball X Pit * Morsels * Dispatch * Bits & Bops * Consume Me * Baby Steps * Mina The Hollower * All Living Things * Ninja Gaiden: Ragebound * Absolum (the Streets Of Rage 4 people doing fantasy) * Jupiter Hell Classic You can hang out with us and our community on our Discord channel. If you have a question for a future episode, send it to us via the Questions sub-channel on our Discord or email it to [email protected]. You can also listen to it on YouTube, and subscribe to our YouTube channel, if you like. The Crate and Crowbar is kindly funded by our Patreon backers. If you’d like to know more about supporting our podcast and its spinoffs, click here. Our intro music is by The Mandibles from their track Clambake. Many of the band members now tour as Count Bobo And The Bullion.

Jamie and Marsh whoosh blueily through Doom: The Dark Ages, find real big fish in South of Midnight, experience the fraying bonds of marriage in It Takes Two, and feed children to a giant worm in Nidhogg. * Doom: The Dark Ages * South of Midnight * It Takes Two * Nidhogg * Kirby’s Air Ride * Rhythm Heaven Fever * “You go, big guy!” * Counterfeit Monkey * Hadean Lands * Enter the Matrix * Type Help * Sorcery You can hang out with us and our community on our Discord channel. If you have a question for a future episode, send it to us via the Questions sub-channel on our Discord or email it to [email protected]. You can also listen to it on YouTube, and subscribe to our YouTube channel, if you like. The Crate and Crowbar is kindly funded by our Patreon backers. If you’d like to know more about supporting our podcast and its spinoffs, click here. Our intro music is by The Mandibles from their track Clambake. Many of the band members now tour as Count Bobo And The Bullion.

Click ‘Use’, then click ‘Pod’. Success! You have unlocked access to an episode of adventure game discussion from the steamy podding lairs of Jamie and Tom! First we turn our attentions to the fine timeline-twisting futuristic adventure game, Old Skies. We’re enjoying it greatly, along with Unavowed and the rest of Wadjet Eye Games collection. Also Tom brought along a rough top five adventure games list (that he wishes he’d put Last Express on, or Siberia, or a dozen others). With the addition of Jamie’s suggestions we embark on a bit of time travel ourselves, remembering why these games captured our imaginations in spite of some abslutely honking puzzles. Games discussed! * The Monkey Island series* The Dig* Day of the Tentacle* Full Throttle* Grim Fandandgo* Dune (1992)* Lost Eden* Rama* I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream* Beneath A Steel Sky* Blade Runner* Kentucky Route Zero* Monkey Island 2* Thimbleweed Park* Ben There, Dan That* Time Gentlemen, Please!* Simon The Sorcerer 2* And More Grim Fandango why not You can hang out with us and our community on our Discord channel. If you have a question for a future episode, send it to us via the Questions sub-channel on our Discord or email it to [email protected]. You can also listen to it on YouTube, and subscribe to our YouTube channel, if you like. The Crate and Crowbar is kindly funded by our Patreon backers. If you’d like to know more about supporting our podcast and its spinoffs, click here. Our intro music is by The Mandibles from their track Clambake. Many of the band members now tour as Count Bobo And The Bullion.