Not A Game Podcast

This week’s Not a Game podcast is a little bit different, because it’s also last week’s Category Video Games. That’s right, we’re doing a crisis crossover as Pip and Tom join our perennial guest Laura Kate Dale along with Patrick Dane, Andre Miller and Jose San Mateo for a massive two and a half hour […]

Most of you won’t listen to this podcast because you’ll be making snarky comments about E3 instead, but just in case Tom, Pip and Jordan Erica Webber gathered together to bring you both our realistic E3 predictions and our wildest hopes and dreams. Also Pip has been enjoying her first big MMO launch with Wildstar […]

This week we’re joined by freelance writer, NPC simulator and webcomic author Chris Livingston. Chris tells us all about Watch Dogs, and how multiplayer hacking is brilliant, but the story is spoiled by dull grizzlyman Aiden Pearce, iconic twat. Then Tom talks about the fantastic narration of Bastion and introduces us to Dominions 4, a […]

This week Pip and Tom are manning the poddesk all by their lonesome but they soldier on regardless to bring you the topical observation that Knights of the Old Republic 2 is well written but kinda buggy, more news as it breaks. Also discussed is Pip’s valiant attempt to start a book club in DayZ […]

This week Tom and Pip are joined by freelance podcast guest extraordinaire Laura Rich. We’re talking about Laura’s co-op adventures in Dark Souls 2 and why playing Netrunner in person feels so different to playing Hearthstone online. Also discussed is Pip’s visit to a League of Legends tournament, the strange ambiguity of Cloud Chamber and […]

It’s the big Four Oh for the podcast, and we’re celebrating with a Eurovision edition! By which I mean one of our guests is joining us from Stockholm and everything else is pretty much the same. Pip and Craig can’t be here this week, so Tom’s holding the fort with the aid of Paul Dean […]

After taking the last week off to conquer the void of Dark Souls 2 Craig returns to us wracked and hollow, babbling about architecture and symbolism. What follows is a 45 minute discussion between Craig and Pip about the hidden meanings and mysterious appeal of the Dark Souls games, complete with convoluted conspiracies and missing […]

This week’s podcast is a bit of a lane pushing special. Pip and guest Richard Cobbett have both been playing Heroes of the Storm and have a long involved chat about it, Dotalikes and e-sports in general. Afterwards Tom tries and fails to explain exactly why he was running around London hacking things with his […]

We often deal with hard hitting questions here on the Not a Game podcast, but this week is special. This week, with the help of Emily Richardson, we bring you the answers to some of the biggest unanswered questions in gaming, questions like: “What is the best depiction of an egg in gaming?” “How is […]

This week we’re joined by Laura Kate Dale to chat about the charming let challenging A Good Snowman is Hard to Build, the malevolent yet disappointing Evilquest and the ever dependable Kerbal Space Program. Plus we talk about Luftrausers: both the recent controversy and why Tom feels strangely disappointed by it. Also we accidentally manage […]

Welcome to the not a game podcast, a podcast about games and not about dolls house furniture, despite what this episode might have you believe. We’re joined by new Kotaku UK editor Keza MacDonald to talk about a friendlier approach to Dark Souls and why we don’t want to listen to you when we’re playing […]

Welcome to Rezzed! Birmingham’s indie game show is where we originally came up with the idea for the podcast, so we’re super excited to be back, even if that means recording in an echoey hallway. Pip and Tom are joined by Five out of Ten’s Alan Williamson to talk about all the brand new indie […]

We’ve got something a little bit different for you this week readers. Craig and Pip are the only ones who can make it, so they’ve decided to hold a little podversation as they simultaneously try and interview each other about their formative games. Craig explains why Commandos and Outcast made him fall in love with […]

In this week’s podcast Tom and Pip are joined by The Average Gamer’s Debbie Timmins. Tonight we’re regaling you with the adventures of douchebag in South Park: The Stick of Truth, the adventures of Just Offscreen Man in Titanfall and the adventures of a scantily clad Egyptian goddess in Smite. We also have a high […]

Tom was the only one of our regulars to make this podcast, but thankfully he’s backed up by perennial guests Ben Barrett and Jordan Erica Webber. Together they talk about Broken Age and Double Fine’s Amnesia Fortnight, including the spectacular dong doodler Dear Leader. Also discussed are the new Grim Fandango’s new point and click […]

In our latest podcast Pip and Tom are joined by Simon Parkin and Keza MacDonald to answer pressing questions like: “Is ghosts an emotion?” and “Are Twitch playing God?” This week we discuss comedy in games and the unintentional slapstick genius of David Cage. Meanwhile Simon has been playing the new Thief reboot, and Keza […]

TITANFALL! Tom loves it, Craig hates it! It has robots, men, women, shooting wall running and a hacking knife! Pour our debate directly into you ears today! We also talk about the classic party game Werewolf, a game about eating people and mob justice, fun for all the family. Then Cara tells us about the […]

Welcome to the Not a Game podcast, a spin off from the wildly successful steam tag, which categorises some of the most inventive and moving games of recent years. This year Craig and Tom were almost stuck together on Valentines Day, but thankfully Laura Dale was on hand to join us for a lovely (get […]

Welcome to the very 27th episode of the Not a Game podcast, a podcast that is supposedly about games but this week is also largely about accents and Jaffa Cakes. We do not apologise for this development. This week we’re joined by Richard Cobbett and Alice Liang for a twitter question medley,so you only have […]

Episode 26 sees our quadramind united again. Tom and Cara have been playing Kickstarter standard bearer Broken Age, which is utterly lovely. Craig’s Kicksperience has been less pleasant, due to investing in the awful Takedown: Red Sabre. Pip has been thoroughly disappointed by undercover cephalod simulator Octodad, while Craig attempts to lure her to the […]