Does Titanfall 2’s Single Player Campaign Hold Up 10 Years Later? After a decade of telling people Titanfall 2’s campaign is an underrated gem, I revisit the game to see if that’s still true…

Does Titanfall 2’s Single Player Campaign Hold Up 10 Years Later? - Opinion from Kyle Barratt

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Son of Dathomir Feels Like a Trial Run for Maul: Shadow Lord (And Inspired Rise of Skywalker?) The comic based on unproduced Clone Wars episodes not only influenced Maul: Shadow Lord but has some shocking direct connections to The Rise of Skywalker too

Son of Dathomir Feels Like a Trial Run for Maul: Shadow Lord (And Inspired Rise of Skywalker?) - Opinion from Kyle Barratt

www.outoflives.net/2026/04/07/s...

Legacy of Lana (Tanked Up 462) Lucy and Ben join forces to review two new games. Lucy brings Planet of Lana 2: Children of the Leaf, and Ben discusses Legacy of Kain: Defiance Remastered, with the pair getting into the . There a…

Legacy of Lana - Tanked Up 462

Lucy and Ben discuss Planet of Lana 2 from @planetoflana.bsky.social and Legacy of Kain: Defiance Remastered.

Ben drinks Stones & Ruins from Burnt Mill Brewery

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Batman: Resurrection is a Fun but Misguided Prose Sequel to Tim Burton’s Poetic Batman John Jackson Miller’s novel is a direct sequel to 1989’s Batman, and while it is a fun ‘what if?’ story, the new format struggles to capture what made Burton’s movie s…

Batman: Resurrection is a Fun but Misguided Prose Sequel to Tim Burton’s Poetic Batman - Opinion from Kyle Barratt

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Ranking All 9 Shorts From Star Wars: Visions Season 3 The third season of animated shorts might be the most varied yet, with sequels to first season classics as well as perhaps the most abstract piece of Star Wars storytelling ever

Ranking All 9 Shorts From Star Wars: Visions Season 3 - Opinion from Kyle Barratt

www.outoflives.net/2026/03/24/r...

Not The Best Use Of Our Neurons (Tanked Up 461) Ben and Aadil hit the weekend hard by sinking some beers and chatting about video games. Ben has been playing Packing Life, a relaxing puzzle game, to calm himself down from all of the Marathon he …

Not The Best Use Of Our Neurons - Tanked Up 461

Chatting DLSS5, @marathonthegame.bungie.net and Packing Life from @arokogamestudio.bsky.social

With beers from @brasscastlebeer.bsky.social, and Wiper and True.

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Out of Rupees - Episode 32

Join Lucy and Francis as they talk about the end of 2025 for the Switch 2, and look ahead to 2026 with games such as Pokémon Pokopia. They discuss the games they've been playing and which were their favourites in 2025.

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Should Fans Prepare for Disappointment with A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms Season 2? Will the TV show be able to improve the weakest of the three novellas?

Should Fans Prepare for Disappointment with A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms Season 2? - Opinion from Kyle Barratt

www.outoflives.net/2026/03/10/s...

Phantom of the Opera (1943) Pioneered The Bad Horror Remake The Claude Rains remake fails in comparison to the 1925 version, and pioneers the issues found in so many modern horror remakes

Phantom of the Opera (1943) Pioneered The Bad Horror Remake - Opinion from Kyle Barratt

www.outoflives.net/2026/03/17/p...

The Pellicle Podcast Ep86 — In Simpatico with Manchester’s Blackjack Brew Co. — Pellicle Manchester in the mid-2010s was an electric period in the city’s brewing history, with several modern brewing trailblazers—including Track and Cloudwater —exploding onto the scene. Before either of...

Matthew has crafted a new podcast featuring the Manchester brewery Blackjack Brew Co and In Sympatico, their Italian Pilsner.

"...the crisp, structured body of a pilsner, and a hefty dose of aromatic Enigma hops...somewhere between a lager and a pale ale." ♣️

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A Narrative Marathon (Tanked Up 460) The team are back together to chat about what they’ve been playing. Lucy reviews T49 from Inkle, and everyone agrees that Inkle are great. Ben thinks the same of his first few days of Maratho…

A Narrative Marathon - Tanked Up 460

Discussing TR49 from @inkle.co and the first few days of @marathonthegame.bungie.net

And drinking Fauna from @twicebrewedbrewco.bsky.social and Double Dripp from Salt Beer Factory

www.outoflives.net/2026/03/12/a...

Planet of Lana 2: Children of the Leaf PC Hands-On A quick opinion piece of Planet of Lana 2: Children of the Leaf, played on PC via Steam

Planet of Lana 2: Children of the Leaf Hands-On - Review from Lee Chesnalavage

www.outoflives.net/2026/03/11/p...

‘Son of Pennywise’, and Other Hopes for IT: Welcome to Derry Season 2 How to keep the prequel interesting by embracing the season’s 1935 setting and continuing the parent/child theme in a shocking way…

‘Son of Pennywise’, and Other Hopes for IT: Welcome to Derry Season 2 - Opinion from Kyle Barratt

www.outoflives.net/2026/02/24/s...

Retiring on a hover bike (Tanked Up 459) Aadil and Ben reconvene after a few weeks to shoot the breeze about the latest gaming news from Microsoft and some choice Next Fest demos. Ben’s played a few demos, but highlights Greenhearth…

Retiring on a hover bike - Tanked Up 459

We chat the Xbox leadership change, and some Steam Next Fest demos including a big chat on @airframeultra.bsky.social

The beers are from @cloudwaterbrew.bsky.social and Wiper and True.

www.outoflives.net/2026/03/05/r...

The Best and Worst of Millennium Season 1 The influential sister show of The X-Files stands alone as a dark and disturbing series that succeeds once it leaves behind its comfortable procedural formula

The Best and Worst of Millennium Season 1 - Opinion from Kyle Barratt

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Climbing the Cosa Nostra (Tanked Up 458) Ben and Aadil get together to discuss a few of the games Ben has been playing. Discussion starts with Football Manager 26 Mobile and how it doesn’t feel play is in real time. Ben discusses hi…

Climbing the Cosa Nostra - Tanked Up 458

Chatting Mafia: The Old Country from Hanger 13, and Cairn from @thegamebakers.com, over some excellent #craftbeers.

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Is The Unfinished Utapau Arc of Star Wars: The Clone Wars Worth Watching? The unfinished episodes of The Clone Wars might have janky animation but tell a story the series desperately needed in its sixth season

Is The Unfinished Utapau Arc of Star Wars: The Clone Wars Worth Watching? - Opinion from Kyle Barratt

www.outoflives.net/2026/01/20/i...

Reviewing and Ranking Star Wars: Tales of the Jedi Ahsoka and Dooku’s stories thematically connect but one set of shorts is much stronger than the other…

Reviewing and Ranking Star Wars: Tales of the Jedi - Opinion from Kyle Barratt

www.outoflives.net/2026/02/03/r...

When Hellraiser Went To The Past, Future, And Space All In One Messy Movie Hellraiser: Bloodline is a bonkers mess of a movie, bursting with ideas and butchered in post production

When Hellraiser Went To The Past, Future, And Space All In One Messy Movie - Opinion from Kyle Barratt

www.outoflives.net/2026/01/27/w...

Penguins Got Big Hops (Tanked Up 457) We lean into 2026 as standard, with Lucy bringing the games. She discusses Big Hops and The Drifter. We somehow meander into talking about Batman Returns. Aadil drinks Twice Brewed’s collab w…

Penguins Got Big Hops - Tanked Up 457

Chatting Big Hops from @luckshotgames.com and The Drifter from Powerhoof ( @dave.powerhoof.com )

The beers drunk come from Twice Brewed and Atom Beers

www.outoflives.net/2026/01/29/p...

showing a trailer at the Game Awards costs anywhere from $450,000 to a cool $1 million.. here's my old-ass Tiny Tires trailer for free ❤️ #indiegames

The Final Standalone Episode of The Clone Wars has a Huge Star Wars Legacy From the guest stars, character debuts, and locations, a random standalone episode of The Clone Wars has had massive influence over the franchise in recent years

The Final Standalone Episode of The Clone Wars has a Huge Star Wars Legacy - Opinion from Kyle Barratt

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2025 End of Year Blow Out (Tanked Up 455) Well, we’ve done it again. We’ve got through another year of ups and downs in the gaming and craft beer worlds. For this year’s end of year show, we change things up and chat abou…

2025 End of Year Blow Out - Tanked Up 455

It's our end of year blow out, chatting gaming highlights from the year and drinking a slew of choice #craftbeer

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Black Christmas (1974) is a Cosy Christmas Classic (with Murder and C-Bombs) Bob Clark’s 1974 slasher is not only a classic horror film but a classic Christmas film too, with a real sense of festive cosiness amid the killings and obscene phone calls

Black Christmas (1974) is a Cosy Christmas Classic (with Murder and C-Bombs) - Opinion from Kyle Barratt

www.outoflives.net/2025/12/23/b...

A screenshot of the fundraiser on our latest video having just passed $30,000 in donations.

$30K!

We'll be making our donation as soon as our next set of Patreon funding comes through at the start of Jan.

Every time we write a story about a CEO / studio head / developer defending generative AI, we get shit for amplifying those views.

I'd hope those following me get it, but once again: informing is not the same as endorsing. Our job is to report what was said, then you make up your own mind.

Revisiting Star Wars: The Force Awakens on its 10th Anniversary A decade after the film’s release, I rewatch The Force Awakens to see if the Star Wars magic that captivated me ten years ago remains…

Revisiting Star Wars: The Force Awakens on its 10th Anniversary - Opinion from Kyle Barratt

www.outoflives.net/2025/12/16/r...

Awards Heaven (Tanked Up 454) The Game Awards have been, and quickly gone, but discussion needs to be had. Lucy and Ben dissect the show and give their thoughts on the industry at large in its current state. Ben brings some gam…

Awards Heaven - Tanked Up 454

The Game Awards came and went, and Lucy wants to chat about them. Ben reviews #DeathHowl from @11bitstudios.bsky.social, and talks more Stalker 2.

Ben drinks Heaven from @northernmonk.bsky.social

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Spilling the Tea (Tanked Up 453) Lucy joins Ben to run through the games they’ve been playing this last week. Ben has been playing games from solo devs, and starts with a short review of A Pizza Delivery from Eric Osuna. Luc…

Spilling the Tea - Tanked Up 453

Talking about our time with A Pizza Delivery, Black Ops 7, Voron: Raven's Story, and PowerWash Sim 2.

All over a beer from Tempest Brewing Co.

www.outoflives.net/2025/12/10/s...