This week we talk to Andy and Dan from Relief LAN, a charity that turns the humble LAN party into a force for good, and with David establishing a homestead in the inhospitable north we bring in Starly and Chris to talk about growing up geek in regional Victoria. We cover our recent purchases from the Steam Sale and why you should refuse free tickets to see Titanic. It’s spiders, gnomes and more! On Episode 25 of the Semi-Cast. As usual, if you have any questions or comments please send them to: [email protected]

Are you sick of hearing about E3 related shenanigans? Well, you’re in luck because we forgo the hype and instead, focus our attention on the romantic highs and lows of recording a podcast in an inner-city AirB&B, the best way to set up a movie cinema arcade to make money off fighting games, ruthless Let it Die strategies bound to incur a retaliation and Noah potentially screwing up god’s grand genocide plans. As usual, if you have any questions or comments please send them to: [email protected]

With Dave off to parts unknown we welcome Chris to the podcast to talk to us about moving house, the correct way to save the world and why Anthony must apologize for Everquest. This week we take a sneak peek at an in-progress E3, talk about some really old games and mourn the death of City of Heroes. All this and more on the Semi-Cast!

This week on the Semi-Cast, even though we know better, we jump right in and talk about a series of games Tell Tale will probably never make, a very different interpretation of Marvel vs Capcom, the extremely vague hitbox detection a Maplethorpe game would require and a cautionary tale in the form of Couter-Strike. As usual, if you have any questions or comments please send them to: [email protected]

This week we crawl out from behind our pile of boxes to plumb the depths of our relative physical music collections to see what really lurks in the shadows, lament the inevitable arrival of the Deerclops, experience the difficulty in impersonating Eddie Murphy’s laugh and mourn the simultaneous starvation of millions of virtual bunnies. As usual, if you have any questions or comments please send them to [email protected]

We’re screaming through the gate, late and on fire with this one but we’re still here to wax lyrical about determining the sex of iron chairs, the reason it’s inadvisable to sleep on a plane in crash position, how Nether Realms needs to up its root-kit game if it’s going to compete with Street Fighter and how many 3D Marks your car stereo can get. As usual, if you have any questions or comments please send them to [email protected]

For all we know, this week’s episode of the Semi-Cast could have been a fever dream where we talked about the relative strengths of vicious coffees straight up murdering people, finding food in games where no food should be found, the times when having 400 arrows is still not enough arrows and facial capture on a face that already looks like a 3D model. As usual, if you have any questions or comments please send them to [email protected]

This week we spend some quality time together attempting to get to the bottom of David Boreanaz’s tea habits, 12-year-olds in Playerunkown’s Battlegrounds with no mental capacity for intellectual swearing, the globally recognised romantic comedy naming formula and the deep, dark hankering only Elite Dangerous can fix. As usual, if you have any questions or comments please send them to [email protected]

Anthony is back from his jaunt out East and we get straight to business talking about the appropriate games to be included in a bootleg NES Mini, Japanese Tekken developers under-selling the strength of kangaroos, the democracy of car travel playlists and the history of herding whales with other whales. As usual, if you have any questions or comments please send them to [email protected]

In this special edition of the Semi-Cast we take listener questions as well as turning our hands to helping the citizens of the internet as a whole. As usual, if you have any questions or comments please send them to [email protected]