Not A Game Podcast

The regular gang is back this week, as is Pip’s famous cold voice. We’re still on a bit of a GameCity warm down, with Tom and Erica taking the chance to talk Titan Souls and Pushmi Pullyu from the final party. Meanwhile Pip has been playing Schein and Destiny and Erica has been trying her […]

Photo provided by GameCity under creative commons license. Welcome to episode 64, not episode 63 as Tom mistakenly says at the start of the episode. Tom is joined by GameCity veteran Esla Bartley and GameCity dilettante Paul Dean to bid a fond farewell to a weak of digital art and cool games. Discussed are Tap […]

This week Pip returns from Korea, bringing with her a huge discussion about the appeal of e-sports in comparison to ‘meatsports’. Meanwhile Jordan has been wielding the flaming compensator in Sunset Overdrive and Tom has been admiring puzzles and falling down pits in Legend of Grimrock 2. Plus a chat about terrible videogame movies. How […]

Tom and Erica are joined by Kate Gray and Joe Skrebels of the sadly now deceased Official Nintendo Magazine. We pour one out for our fallen dead tree comrade and chat a little about Spelunky on Vita, Chariot and the Sportsfriends games. We also cover Bayonetta 2 on the Wii U and answer some increasingly […]

This week’s podcast is mostly, but not entirely about Orcs. Pip has been playing Orcs Must Die: Unchained, a game in which Orcs must die while pushing lanes in a suspiciously Dotalike fashion. Tom tells us about his long running rivalry with Uskar the Humiliator in Shadows of Mordor(c). Finally Erica has been spinning gently […]

Pip, Tom and Erica return from a trip to Eurogamer Expo in London. We mostly hung around in the indie section, because we’re cool and alternative like that. We bring you news of our favourite games from the show. Tom has been exploring 30 flights of David Lynch in Virginia, popping pills in Big Pharma […]

We’re guestless for Episode 59, but Tom, Jordan and Pip are here to talk about Dota, Fashion Week and Videobrains, three topics that go together better than you’d think. Pip has been trying to play Destiny, but keeps being stopped by Impalas and Figs, while Tom has been dabbling in interactive fiction with Save the […]

This week Tom and Jordan are joined by 10 Second Ninja creator and head of the #Nindies campaign Dan Pearce. Dan tells us about Luftrausers and how a developer’s state of mind affects a game, and also why Dark Souls is like coding. Jordan tells us about match three roguelike child labour sim The Road […]

This week we’re joined by the smooth DJ tones of Alice O’Connor of Rock Paper Shotgun, who tells us about the shocking twist ending of Hypnospace Enforcer, and gives us her own peculiar take on the demo for Fifa 15. Meanwhile Pip has been betraying her native Dota 2 for the friendly embrace of League […]

After last week’s disastrous lost podcast Pip, Tom and Jordan unite for episode 56, take two. The Sims 4 is out and we’re all either playing it, watching it or starring in it, so we have a big long chat where Jordan tells us exactly what has changed since last game. Meanwhile Pip has ghost […]

It’s an exciting time for the Not a Game podcast as we induct a new(ish) member. Yes Jordan is now joining us full time (throws confetti in the air). This week she’s even brought Alan Williamson with her, who tells us how hard old Nintendo games are and plugs his charity booksale. Meanwhile Tom has […]

This week perennial guest Laura Kate Dale returns to talk us through the highs, lows and generic mediums of the Gamescom press conferences. We liked Wild, Shadow Realms and Sony’s streaming plans, we did not enjoy the continued abuse of the word ‘exclusive’. After that Laura tells us about windmilling furiously in Mount Your Friends, […]

For Episode 53 we’re live at Nine Worlds. Tom and Cara are joined by Dan Nye Griffiths and Louise James to talk about the convention and our panels. Cara has been talking about sex in videogames which gets us onto about 80 Days, ethical sex in Mass Effect and de-virginising Dragon Age’s Alistair. Louise has […]

This week Tom and Pip are joined by Richard Cobbett. Tom’s been playing LA Cops, which just released with a short but sweet early access build. This spurs us to talk about Sunless Sea and the two’s different approaches to story driven early access games. Pip has been having a survival horror week, building arm […]

Episode fifty one sees Pip still in recovery from The International, so Tom is instead joined by Laura Dale, Lucy Morris and Hannah Bunce. Lucy tells us about playing DayZ with broken legs while Hannah tells us why Wolf Among Us is grittier than The Walking Dead. Laura has been exploring Itch.io and finding a […]

Welcome to the fiftieth episode of the Not a Game podcast! Which is also our one year anniversary! To celebrate this auspicious occasion we’ve got both Craig and Cara back, re-uniting all four original podders. This week Craig brings us the topical observation that Final Fantasy VII is pretty good, Cara tells us the secrets […]

For episode 49 we’re joined by Kate Gray of Official Nintendo Magazine, who tells us all about just how sweary Towerfall makes her, leading Tom to bring up the splendidly named Timmy Bibble’s Friendship Club. Meanwhile Tom has also been playing first person open world botany ‘em up Miasmata and Pip has been doing science […]

We’re back with a two person cast today, recording on a lazy Saturday afternoon. Tom has been going sailing mad, exploring the eloquent ocean of Sunless Sea, collecting tales of terror and Sly Navigators, while simultaneously singing sea shanties in Assassin’s Creed: Black Flag which has awesome boats and a bunch of bullshit. Meanwhile Pip […]

After a fortnight of crossovers and on location podcasts, normal service finally resumes this week, along with our regular guest Jordan Erica Webber. Pip tells us a little about esports and meatsports, while Tom catches us up on the last day of Radius, including his thoughts on LA Cops, Mimic and The Marvellous Miss Take. […]

Tom and Pip went to Radius Festival this weekend, where they’re joined by Keith “I work for the Guardian” Stuart, who helped organise the event, and Gemma Thompson, who was demoing her game Mimic. We talk about the excellent games on show including Mucho Party, Tap Happy Sabotage, In Space We Brawl, Timmy Bibble’s Friendship […]