Not A Game Podcast

This week Cara asks us all what our favourite game adaptations are, and for some reason this results in Pip going off on one about the Lycos dog for like ten minutes. Following that Cara and Tom talk about the Wild Rumpus, a night of untamed rumps, flying caravans and pooping letters. Then Pip regales […]

Welcome to the 24th episode of the Not a Game podcast, that’s a whole day of episodes! Why not listen to them back to back and invite your friends over for a 24 hour podcast party? This week, Tom has been escaping locked rooms and playing Google Maps: The Game (aka Ingress), while Pip and […]

This week we welcome back previous guest Jordan Erica Webber to join us in a good old natter about just how much Alien: Isolation terrified Cara (extremely) and whether it can fulfil its impressive promises. We also end up talking about The Sims a lot. Did you know procedurally generated Friends episodes are a thing […]

Welcome to the first podcast of the year of Bidoof! Tom and Pip are joined by Average Gamer’s Debbie Timmins to talk about what games we got over Christmas. Mostly what Tom got, since he just couldn’t control himself in the Steam sale. Topics discussed include how great a name Cook Serve Delicious is, what’s […]

Merry Podmas, one and all! For our last cast of 2013 Pip and Tom are joined by Phil Savage to talk about the year that was 2013 and the year that will be 2014, aka The Year of Bidoof. Tom waxes lyrical about the balls of Frozen Endzone, Phil introduces us IGF hopefuls Jazzpunk, Custard […]

Welcome to the Not a Game podcast: GOTY edition, featuring all four of our regular hosts” (Craig was originally pre-order DLC from Gamestop) This week we list the objectively best games of the year. Okay so basically just some games we liked this year and remembered in time for the podcast. Winners include: Slave of […]

This week Cara and Tom are joined by Rock Paper Shotgun’s Adam Smith and Patricia Hernandez of the Kotakus (all of them, especially the ones with the vagina cakes). Every game in the world is on sale right now, so we decided to recommend some of our favourite cheap ones. Adam tries his best to […]

It’s Monday November 25th, what’s your Drivatar doing right now? This week Tom, Craig and Pip are joined (ouzo) by Indie Haven’s Laura Dale for a podcast that (eel) literally reduced Tom to tears. Craig starts things off by (elongate) ranting about racing games whether we like it or not. Then Laura (queue) breaks our […]

Starship Not a Game podcast launches us into an epic five person cast as Tom, Pip and Cara joined by Rock Paper Shotgun’s Nathan Grayson and Mitu Khandaker. We set course by chatting about Mitu’s new game, Redshirt, the indie publishing and the benefits of randomness. Then suddenly we take a hard left into Blizzcon […]

This week Cara, Craig and Tom are joined by serial betrayer Edward Fenning in an uncharacteristic sausage fest of a podcast. In it Ed explains the bizarre metanarrative of Assassin’s Creed: Black Flag, Cara tells us how she ruined Terry Cavanagh’s career and Tom extolls the virtues of XCOM: Enemy Within’s battle fedora. Plus the […]

This week Tom, Craig and Pip are joined by Polygon’s Emily Gera to celebrate Pip’s transformation into a superstar indie game developer following her discovery of Puzzlescript. We chat a little about the various game making tools and their merits before Craig geeks out and talks programmer speak for a while. Thankfully we manage to […]

Cara, Pip and Tom all met up together in Nottingham this Saturday to record a special podcast all about the wonderful sights and sounds of Game City. Huddled together in the crowded basement of the Pit and Pendulum, still in recovery from the One Life Left Karaoke event, we chat with guests Anna Marsh, Elsa […]

In this week’s thrilling installment of the Not a Game podcast, we’re joined by a young up and coming journalist called Alec Meer. He runs a website called Rock Paper Shotgun. You’ve probably never heard of it. Alec tells us all about The Wolf Among Us, Tom fails to explain The Stanley Parable, Cara joygasms […]

This week Pip, Tom and Craig are joined by IGN UK Editor Keza MacDonald, who fulfills our bawdy Scotswoman quotient for the episode. We talk about The Stanley Parable demo, which is definitely about to start any minute now, just sit quietly for twenty minutes and we’ll get it ready. After that we move onto […]

Welcome to episode 11, our extra long tabletop special. We invited Paul Dean of Shut Up Show to join us in a discussion of the wonderful world of board games, card games and pen and paper RPGs (with a few video games thrown in for good measure). Innumerable games are discussed including Lady Blackbird, Apocalypse […]

It’s episode ten and we’re celebrating in style, by becoming seriously ill. Pip and Cara both have the Eurogamer flu, so we called on mysterious stranger Craig Lager to join us, you remember Craig, right? No, we don’t either. This episode is dedicated to the many, many cool indie games on show at the Eurogamer […]

This week Tom, Pip and Cara are joined by games journalist, Boobjam creator and voice of Super Hexagon Jenn Frank. We catch up on how Boobjam is going before moving on to to talking about the many bras of Dishonored and the strangeness of Bioshock Infinite’s bin searching murder fest. After that we extoll the […]

In our spooky horror game special, recorded on Friday the 13th, Cara and Craig are struck down by an evil curse so Pip and Tom are joined by Laura Rich and Ben Barrett to talk about Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs, Outlast, Asylum Jam and Dead Space. Then we top it all off with our […]

Cara can’t be with us this week but her disembodied spirit haunts the podcast nonetheless. Instead Pip, Tom and Craig are joined by USGamer’s Cassandra Khaw to talk about David Cage’s BAFTA presentation, the ethics of Kickstarter, the Dark Souls community and Tom’s weird fan fictiony Crusader Kings 2 game. Plus we finally get around […]

This is what the second take of a podcast sounds like. After our planned session on horror games with Laura Rich failed to record (we’ll try again in the future) Cara, Pip and Tom got together for a hastily recorded emergency backup podcast. In it we talk about gaming romances and Pip’s Fable 2 Town […]