A water butt or No Rest For The Wicked?

A fun format this: people submit their least favourite bits of game design and we - with the insight of an actual designer (the wonderful Jamie Smith) - decide whether to banish the idea for good. Much more nutritional value than me guessing at the worth of pre-owned games.

Moon Doors R Us...

Tune in if you'd like to hear our takes on common game design sins. It was a great chat and the lads were on top form as always.

Superman III

The @backpagepod.bsky.social is one of the few podcasts I subscribe to, that is instantly downloaded and consumed within hours of release.

Combining insightful guests with contemporary critique across various episode formats is the secret sauce.

Many congrats, lads. Next threshold (Warhammer) 40k!

You might be able to get a couple of My Hero Academia sew-on patches for that

Yeah, Vanguard was rapid too. Was a privilege and a challenge!

I was on Vanguard, so it was shortly after the founders had left - but many of the folks that remained were from Visceral (Dead Space was one of my other favourite franchises).

This was exceptional, thoroughly recommended watching.

It speaks to a time when I first joined the industry and was playing Call of Duty as a hardcore fan. That was before getting the opportunity to work on the franchise and hearing some of these anecdotes first hand from SHG.

Happy birthday my good man, 21 again?!

Mailbag – April 3rd Game Design Crimes (with Jamie Smith) – April 10th XL Episode: PlayStation Top 50 Part 1 – April 13th What We've Been Playing (Returnal, Pragmata, Crimson Desert, Raccoin, Marathon) – April 17th The PSN, XBLA, DSiWare and WiiWare Draft – April 24th XXL Episode: Film Swap – Time Travel Special: Looper (2012) and Timecrimes (2007) – April 27th

April 2026 podcast schedule!

Reminds me of State of Emergency, looks pretty interesting

Have you seen Fear Street, Liz?

Mortal Kombat 3 logo featuring a large black/granite number 3 with the MK dragon logo inside of it, silver in color with an orange background. In the back behind the 3, there are skeletons bathed in an overcast purple, reddish hue.

MORTAL KOMBAT 3 released in Arcades 31 years ago

I remember seeing the Arcade Cabinet in a local fun park for the first time. "They're on EARTH?! There's a GIRL GORO?! Wait... WHERE IS SCORPION?!?"

All while Shao Khan's voice is BOOMING from the speakers. "FINISH HIM!"

*sigh* It was awesome

I'm a huge N64 head! Would love to be included please

Imagine the amount of foil if it was the OG ones, would be like stealing railway wiring

Now that we've shipped the first big update to The Killing Stone in Early Access, I may have some time to put together my notes and make a proper talk or article about the card battle AI. In the meantime, here's a taste! Figuring this stuff out has been one of the highlights of my career.

Yakuza Side Stories: The Game

Post a non-religious picture you think of as holy.

MLB Power Pros 2008 screenshot

MLB Power Pros 2008

🏢 Konami
📅 2008
🖥 NDS, PS2, Wii

Ha I will - Sporty and Buttercup, are there any other choices?!

Solid choices!

Pokemon Fire Red Version, GameBoy Advance
GameFreak, 2004

Projectiles, Parasites, Persistence

a man in a suit and tie is holding a drink and saying now you have my attention . ALT: a man in a suit and tie is holding a drink and saying now you have my attention .

I loved the previous series, low key one of my favourites on BBC

Keep me posted, happy to help!

Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds

...better than Mario Kart World