April 21, 2026
“Lucas wanted to cry” Released in 2006 for the Game Boy Advance, Mother 3 brought Shigesato Itoi’s eccentric RPG trilogy to a close. After a […]
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April 14, 2026
“REVENGE!” With a quick turnaround, Factor 5 rapidly doubled down on their Turrican mission statement with a souped-up take on the same material with Turrican […]
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April 7, 2026
“Along the way, stuff your belly and nap awhile.” It had been far too long since we checked in with the permanently ravenous pink orb, so we […]
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March 31, 2026
“PLEASE RETRY!” The Super Mario Land trilogy ends and the Wario saga begins. In our latest podcast on Nintendo’s garlic-loving antihero we set sail for […]
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March 24, 2026
“You may not believe it’s true, but I only ever loved all of you …” It’s time for a show! Join Brian, Chris, Darren and Leah […]
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March 17, 2026
“Prepare to cower before the true shape of Dracula!” We debated whether or not to dig into Castlevania’s three-dimensional escapades. In the end the ayes […]
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March 10, 2026
“Race!!!” In Rollcage and Rollcage Stage II, Players drive an indestructible vehicle where the concept of up and down doesn’t really matter and physics are […]
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March 3, 2026
“IMMORTALS” Julian ‘Jaz’ Rignall joins us as special guest for this 45th anniversary celebration of Williams’ Defender, and its sequel, Stargate (both 1981). Leon, Chris […]
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February 24, 2026
“But nothing could stop them, because they were in love” Are videogames art? It’s a stupid, pointless question that we have never felt the need […]
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February 17, 2026
“Dance, baby, dance. Dance to the “death”!” The Cane and Rinse videogame podcast returns for its fifteen year with its first ever lightgun game coverage. […]
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January 27, 2026
“What took you so long? Constipation?” Concluding our 2025 roster with a 25+ million seller because, well, why not? Leon, Jay and Tony (the original […]
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January 21, 2026
“AND REMEMBER… SHOOT OR DIE!” Buttery-smooth 8-way scrolling and 1300 screens of run and gun platform shoot-’em up action on 8 or 16-bit. That was the […]
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January 13, 2026
“Always believe in yourself and keep striving on!” Whether you consider it to be an on-rails shooter or a 3D run and gun with auto-scrolling, […]
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January 6, 2026
“And don’t call them V-Wings – that’s not correct terminology.” One of the very first games out of Lucasfilm’s freshly-formed games studio, Rescue on Fractalus! […]
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December 30, 2025
“Okay, Eggman! Bring it on!” Our Sonic series of podcasts continues with Blue Blur’s 3D debut (proper), Sonic Adventure. Leon, Darren, Leah, Tony and a glut of […]
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December 23, 2025
“You should share some of that hatred with Sora. He’s far too nice for his own good.” Who says thay a boy, a duck, and a […]
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December 16, 2025
“The Dark Genie’s power surges—stand or be erased.” In 2000, Sony needed an RPG for its new powerhouse console, the PlayStation 2. Perhaps surprisingly, it […]
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December 9, 2025
“It’s Yagami. Take a good look.” Kamurocho? is overflowing with yakuza. The police are swamped and the legal system is on its knees. Who can […]
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December 2, 2025
“Down here, in the dark, it’s not just the monster you have to fear — it’s yourself.” Originally intended as DLC for Amnesia: Rebirth, Amnesia: […]
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November 25, 2025
“There are as many legends in the world that deserve retelling as there are stars in the night sky.” Literally one person requested this podcast, […]
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November 18, 2025
“Pick up the moon? Are you nuts?” By the year 2000 the popularity of the traditional point and click adventure was waning. However, Lucasfilm felt there […]
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November 4, 2025
“N&B” Wario’s debut! That’s perhaps the most significant element of this 1992 handheld entry into the Mario canon, but there’s plenty more to talk about as […]
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October 28, 2025
“We can find our way through the darkness. We will break through the surface and crash into the light.” Sit with us as we recount […]
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October 21, 2025
“I will not live like this. I am trapped. I will die here. We are already dying.” After handing over development duties on the previous […]
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October 14, 2025
“Another challenger… it has been ages.” You find some GPS coordinates that lead to a buried trove of floppy disks. What could go wrong? Brian, […]
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October 7, 2025
“You’ve been naughty.” Latterly emerging from PlatinumGames’ cauldron, Bayonetta 3 conjured a multiverse of magic onto Nintendo Switch in 2022. Leon, Brian, Leah, community contributors […]
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September 30, 2025
“Contender eliminated.” Celebrating 30 years of high-speed anti-gravity racing and combat with our Wipeout series podcast. Leon, Darren, Karl and Ryan – along with the […]
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September 23, 2025
“TIME TAKEN: TOO LONG” Our latest Sonic series show sees us arrive in 1996, and the azure Erinaceidae’s final outing on the Mega Drive/Genesis – Sonic 3D Blast […]
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September 16, 2025
“You must exterminate the Metroids once and for all!” Our third podcast on the second Metroid game, sort of. On this occasion, it’s MercurySteam’s official 2017 remake, […]
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September 9, 2025
“DON’T SCREW THIS ONE UP!” Our latest Contra (or Probotector) series show is here, and this time we’re all-in on the SEGA Mega Drive (or […]
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September 2, 2025
“Everyone’s here! Yes, even that guy!” Joy, creativity, and PlayStation memories abound in Team Asobi’s post-Playroom tour de force. Join Tom, Chris O’Regan and Karl […]
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August 26, 2025
“It will only cost you your life, and you got that for free!” A notable cult classic, an idiosyncratic game, a commercial failure and a […]
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August 19, 2025
“Someone shot the food!” Your life force is running out! So quickly, join us for a deep-delve into the darkest dungeons of the original Gauntlet […]
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August 12, 2025
I’ll kick yer sorry arse so hard you’ll kiss the moons! Time jumping, legendary dragons, and an arsenal of playable characters. Join Brian, Chris Worthington, […]
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August 5, 2025
“What friendly little guys!” Pikmin skipped a full generation as Miyamoto and co. bided their time before unleashing the third instalment on the Wii U […]
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July 29, 2025
“Not really the kind of person you wanna hang out with, right?” Caprine capers with Sybil in rittzler’s love-letter to the fifth generation of games […]
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July 23, 2025
“Drop it!” So how could a 40-year-old film about a dystopia in which capitalism has run amok and the overreach and militarisation of the police […]
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July 15, 2025
“Put away your irons and wedges.” Put away your irons and wedges. Ryan, Chris O’Regan, James and Jesse talk Mighty Coconut’s Walkabout Mini Golf, both […]
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July 8, 2025
“Primary Objective: Exterminate all Metroid organisms on Planet SR388.” Hot on the space boots of our – oh – 2021 podcast on the original (and […]
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July 1, 2025
“BATTLE…OVER. NOW…SLEEP…” Our Darren rightfully and righteously nominated the venerable Bomberman (also known by several other names) series for inclusion in our 2025 roster. Blasting […]
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June 24, 2025
“Didactically speaking, seminal evidence seems to explicate the fact that your repudiation of entropy supports my theory of space-time synthesis. Of this, I am irrefutably […]
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June 17, 2025
“We got a letter from Mr. Owsaki. He asks “How do I get rid of these nasty roaches?” Easy, just burn your house down.” Perhaps […]
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June 10, 2025
“Weak minds don’t stop them from conquering the galaxy.” Somehow Cane and Rinse returned. We draw our blasters and lightsabers as we venture once more […]
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June 3, 2025
“Dedicated to the last generation who has to watch the world die.” Somewhere between the Australian bushfires of 2019 and the Covid breakout, Umurangi Generation […]
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May 27, 2025
“We can tell the difference between god and the devil; finding god is pretty easy. He’s 109.8FM.” If you ever felt like playing along with […]
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May 20, 2025
“It was really a very beautiful journey. Now it is time to say ‘farewell’.” Syberia and Syberia II were originally planned as a single release […]
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May 13, 2025
“The greatest racing game of all time is coming.” From simple beginnings as one of around 100 pitches to Sony seniors, turning into a flagship […]
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May 6, 2025
“Where’s everyone going? Bingo?” We realised there haven’t been enough Cane and Rinse podcasts dedicated to Resident Evil 4, so here we are. Leon, Brian, […]
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April 29, 2025
“Proceed north to big gun area.” Behold the Bitterman, in id Software’s archetypal ‘boomer shooter’ sequel, Quake II. Strogg-blasting vets Leon, Chris O’Regan, Darren and […]
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April 22, 2025
“Cut off their limbs.” Perhaps not the most pressing candidate for the remake treatment, nevertheless, EA Motive found itself remaking 2008’s sci-fi horror shooter Dead […]
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April 15, 2025
“This could be interesting.” Star Wars + DOOM = awesome success. A simple enough equation for mid-90s LucasArts, but is there more to Dark Forces […]
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April 8, 2025
“Good luck! You’ll need it!” The twin-stick shooter never fully caught on in the arcade’s golden age, and yet, some years after the beloved Robotron […]
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April 1, 2025
“Wake up little one. The corruption has emerged… The Unchosen is back!“ In this issue of Cane and Rinse, Chris, Jon, Leah and Sean discuss […]
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March 25, 2025
“We just gotta get to the vault, get the weapon, kick the Combine off Earth — super easy — and they’re — and there’s sandwiches, […]
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March 18, 2025
“Hi. Why are you here?” Our Tony’s nomination for the 14th year of podcasts is 2007’s first-person survival horror, S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chornobyl. Leon, Jon and […]
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March 11, 2025
“Dear Player. You’ve come a long way, haven’t you?” Lead developer Andrew Shouldice stuffed every single corner of Tunic’s world with secrets and mysteries, and […]
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March 4, 2025
“It’s big.” Presented explicitly as the world’s first “stupid game” or “baka game”, Segare Ijiri is a pretty well known cultural touchstone in Japan, but […]
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February 25, 2025
“Now you have a friend in the paper business.” A vintage game about an anachronistic job delivering a dying medium. Atari’s arcade hit Paperboy is 40! […]
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February 18, 2025
“It is the year 1999, and our game development House, Koch Games, has been hired by The Oikospielen Opera to adapt the novel Tristram Shandy, […]
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February 13, 2025
Back for a fourteenth year of deep-dive videogame review podcasts, and the first subject for 2025 is SEGA’s Panzer Dragoon. Leon, Chris O’Regan, Chris Worthington […]
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January 21, 2025
“Shouldn’t have wished to live in more interesting times.” We conclude our thirteenth year of podcasts by covering the all-conquering, 2023 game of the year […]
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January 14, 2025
“Automatons do not have bugs, Kate Walker. They simply display functional idiosyncracies.” In the aftermath of the golden age of graphic adventure games, the early 2000s […]
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January 7, 2025
“The powers of the Gold Armlet are now yours to wield.” Team Ancient turned its attention from the urban grime of Streets of Rage 2 […]
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December 31, 2024
“That old coot had me locked up tight in his lab… But guess what? I GOT OUT!” This week’s destination is the Last Resort hotel. […]
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December 24, 2024
“We might make a name for ourselves after all…” In a pre-prequel, pre-Disney’s Star Wars world, almost any game featuring George Lucas’ galaxy-spanning space opera […]
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December 17, 2024
“EVERYTHING YOU KNOW IS WRONG” Mark Cerny’s first full project as a prodigious teen game creator (after coding a ‘mushroom growing algorithm’ for Millipede) was Atari’s […]
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December 10, 2024
“The evil hand of BASHTAR has seized the lovely MIHO.” Representing the tiny overlap in the Venn diagram of at least two niche subgenres (prehistoric […]
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December 3, 2024
“…” Installation artist, juggler, balloon artist and first-time game developer William Chyr told himself it would take three months to design a Portal-sized puzzle game. […]
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November 26, 2024
“If you make like you’re a DeathMatch hotshot you should be able to bluff your way into the party.” After a tumultuous few years of company […]
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November 24, 2024
“If you love a character, you give them pain, ruin their lives, make them suffer.” Just ahead of the release of the fourth instalment in […]
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November 13, 2024
“Throw me back.” What better way to spend time in the ocean than to fish while trying not to succumb to ancient malices from the deep? […]
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November 5, 2024
“Good speech. Blast him.” Marvel’s relatively obscure comic book sci-fi misfits received a huge boost in recognition with their first MCU movie in 2014. Following a […]
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October 29, 2024
“TWO YOUNG VAMPIRE HUNTERS SET OUT TO FULFILL THEIR DESTINY….” New protagonists for a new era. Initially, officially, considered to be a gaiden, Konami’s second […]
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October 22, 2024
“Go! Go! Go! Go-go!” It could have been Sonic 3D, but the tech wasn’t ready. In fact, the game itself wasn’t entirely ready when it […]
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October 15, 2024
“Thank you Poe, but the vampire is in another coffin.” Vampire Survivors started off as a solo developer effort that turned into a huge indie […]
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October 8, 2024
“HOT FIGHTING HISTORY” Yie Ar Kung-Fu marked the first appearance of many core one-on-one fighting game tenets that remain in use fully 40 years later. […]
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October 1, 2024
“Guess what. This house has an illusion wall.” This week, we put the “cane” back in Cane and Rinse with our discussion of DuckTales on […]
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September 24, 2024
“Good morning.” Covering all the main games from thirty years of Iron Fisting, we relive the mad, bad Mishima saga and recall its many combatants. […]
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September 17, 2024
“Why not pay the tavern a visit first?” From oaks to acorns. The Fable series began life as O.G. Xbox exclusive, released under the weight […]
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September 10, 2024
“Oh no!” All-but abandoned after just two critically successful entries, Capcom’s Power Stone is a series that – until a recent announcement – lived on […]
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September 3, 2024
“Honk!” Terror most fowl or anserine champion? James, Brian and Leah are going to find out if House House’s goose is cooked or whether they […]
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August 27, 2024
“Any objections, Lady?” The infamous odd-one out. Nintendo SPD collaborated with Tecmo’s Team Ninja for the Wii-exclusive follow-up to the Prime trilogy, with results that […]
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August 20, 2024
“The fighting in this area is ferocious.” Two shoot ’em ups with two names each, from Capcom’s arcade heyday of the late 80s/early 90s. Leon, Chris […]
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August 13, 2024
“You were my friend, the very best I could have asked for.” That game with the cat. Actually – as we briefly discuss in this […]
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August 6, 2024
“BUT THE PEACE DID NOT CAME.” A trio of games, but not a trilogy, make up our The Ninja Warriors series podcast. Leon, Chris Worthington, […]
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July 30, 2024
“We still have a long way to go yet, we can talk, if you’d like?” We return to Hideo Kojima’s back catalogue in the 1994 […]
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July 23, 2024
“Alas, this twilit world is too full of pain and contradiction, too full of broken dreams.” It’s the newest game we’ve ever covered on Cane […]
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July 16, 2024
“YOU CREATED A TWO MILE CRATER” A double game ‘twofer’ show, as we look back at the start of the so-called ‘Golden Age’ of arcade games […]
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July 9, 2024
“Are you quite finished?” It’s Elden Ring. In the lead-up to the long-awaited Shadow of the Erdtree DLC, Leon, Brian, Jay and Thomas summon collaborators […]
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July 2, 2024
“Having power makes the ones you love vulnerable.” Rich, James and Jon are joined by Sean Bell of The Computer Game Show as they come […]
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June 25, 2024
“Well, this looks inviting.” For our second look at a Ghostbusters videogame (there are plenty of others that didn’t make the cut), we look at […]
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June 18, 2024
“GALACTIC COOK” “Ahead of its time” is a barely adequate phrase with which to describe Star Raiders. Doug Neubauer’s 1979 space combat simulator was a sensation […]
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June 11, 2024
“When the tongue slips, grab it, and yank out the truth.” A visual novel about ten hours in Shibuya, Tokyo. Not much could possibly happen, right? Spike […]
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June 4, 2024
“MAYOR AWARDS YOU $2000 FOR AVERTING MARSHMALLOW CATASTROPHE.” The summer of 1984 and Activision lights a fire under Davd Crane’s butt, giving him and his team […]
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May 28, 2024
“This reckless defiance is intolerable.” Lucasfilm Games teamed up with Infocom’s visionary creative Brian Moriarty in 1990 for the fifth of the studio’s SCUMM-based point and […]
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May 21, 2024
“Ready for another day of toiling for the profit of your company?” Somehow, nearly six years has passed since we covered the original Pikmin back […]
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May 14, 2024
“I won’t ask again. Where is your son?” A lovable set of siblings, a journey of hope, and a billion rats. Brian, James, Jon and […]
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May 7, 2024
“To our dreams. For they alone keep us sane.” With the game having been released for over three years, and actually finished for a few months […]
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April 30, 2024
“A bridge to nowhere, mon frère. Au revoir!” James, Karl, Leah, and Tony go on an intrepid adventure through the Angolan jungle and Canadian Rockies […]
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April 26, 2024
Chris O’Regan interviews Mariona Valls and Jordi Garcia of Mango Protocol about the design and development of CLeM, a comedy horror adventure game. http://media.blubrry.com/caneandrinse/caneandrinse.com/sausage/TSF_Episode490.mp3 Music […]
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April 23, 2024
“OH! DAISY DAISY” Four years since we covered Super Mario Odyssey, and 35 years after its release, it’s time for Super Mario Land to get […]
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April 16, 2024
“I’m Sure All Of Us Here Are A Little Crazy” From the Dragon of Dojima to the Hero of Yokohama, what was old is new […]
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April 9, 2024
“These things happen the second time around.” “Version Upgrade” NieR Replicant ver.1.22474487139… arrived just over a decade after the original(s), promising a slicker experience and […]
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April 2, 2024
“When you finally reach the wizard keep away from the fireballs streaming from his eyes.” More than a decade after his untimely death, Datasoft released […]
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March 26, 2024
“Driven by madness, they made a pact with the devil…” Leaping back over the drawbridge of doom and into the castle of mystery, we dance […]
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March 19, 2024
“Suit diagnostic complete: All systems functional.” We round off our coverage of Retro Studios’ Phazon trilogy with our Metroid Prime 3: Corruption deep-dive review. Leon, […]
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March 12, 2024
“Stupid costumes? Take that back! You… You little turd!” In the late 1990s, a swashbuckling and experimental Square released a Zelda-like action RPG based on […]
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March 5, 2024
“The katamari. The Prince. Where the first rolls the second follows. Roll, roll, roll.” Cane and Rinse is on a roll this week as Ryan, […]
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February 27, 2024
“Do you have ANY idea how difficult it is to make something people actually want to buy?” A relatively up-to-date title for our latest podcast, […]
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February 20, 2024
“Ain’t no Mess we Can’t Address!!” The first team-curated selection of the year goes to Double Fine’s Stacking. Leon, Brian (who chose this one for […]
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February 13, 2024
“THEY CAME FROM THE THIRD MOON WITH ANCIENT MONSTERS.” We’re back, yet again, for our thirteenth year of podcasts, and we kick off 2024 with a look […]
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January 23, 2024
“Let strength be granted, so the world might be mended.” Wrapping up another year of Cane and Rinse podcasts, we revisit Demon’s Souls, this time […]
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January 16, 2024
“Retrieving Compliment: ‘Jolly good show!’” When we covered Subset’s previous game, FTL back in… wait, what? Apparently we didn’t. Perhaps in the future then. Anyway, here […]
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January 9, 2024
“At least… confront the first boss…” Seattle didn’t invent grunge or coffee shops, but it certainly popularised them. Seattle’s Mega Crit didn’t invent roguelike deck […]
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January 2, 2024
“I will bury all of you” Is this really the end of Kiryu’s journey? Well, we know it’s not, but at the time of release, […]
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December 26, 2023
“Know it’s not what happened but it’s what I wanted.” It’s the near future. The town of Norco has been driven to the brink of […]
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December 19, 2023
“It did appear that they might be onto something but not so.” After almost thirty years of (more than) annual releases, EA Sports’ FIFA series […]
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December 12, 2023
“Shiny World” SEGA AM2 doubled down on an icon in 2003 when it finally released OutRun 2 into the arcades. Updates, expansions and follow-ups came – […]
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December 5, 2023
“It’s enough.” It’s been a while since we covered Halo 5 (check out that and our other Halo podcasts in the archive), but now it’s […]
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November 28, 2023
“May the Light of Aether shine upon you!” Our last adventure with Samus for this year as we travel back to 2004 for the GameCube sequel, […]
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November 21, 2023
“You got boost power!” When we scheduled this show, it had been over 18 years since the most recent release of a new F-Zero game. […]
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November 14, 2023
“Cheers to your mustaches!” We all know that Mario and Luigi have been on RPG adventures before, but in their first adventure on the GBA, […]
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November 7, 2023
“By the Spires you made it!” Few would pick a game, based on a theme park experience based on a movie, to be a standout […]
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October 31, 2023
“DRACULA HAS REVIVED MANY TIMES.” Back on board the spooky train with the beloved action platform series, as we arrive in the 16-bit era and […]
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October 24, 2023
“Are you all set?” From the arcades of 1993, through the console generations, we drift through every single iteration of Ridge Racer. OK, we haven’t […]
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October 17, 2023
“When you hit the ground, tell ’em Nathan Zachary sent you!” A riveting tale of aerial derring-do is our focus in this podcast, as we […]
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October 10, 2023
He who makes a beast of himself removes himself from the pain of being human.” The Chinese Room had a difficult path ahead of them […]
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October 3, 2023
“Toot-Toot Sonic Warrior deep in space and time, Toot-Toot Sonic Warrior forever in your mind” Our third Sonic the Hedgehog show comes on a shiny […]
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September 26, 2023
“There are no free lessons here.” Fore! Ryan, Jon, Sean and Jesse tee up for a bunker-chipping, birdie-flopping, caddyshacking conversation about Australian indie darling Golf […]
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September 19, 2023
“Questions about whose hands might one day hold my Myst Book are unsettling to me.” After 30 years, we release Chris, James, Jesse and Jon […]
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September 12, 2023
“PULL IT OUT OF THE SKY!” Star Wars: The Force Unleashed was marketed as an opportunity for players to live out their ultimate (Dark) Jedi […]
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September 5, 2023
“Goodest idea, underqualified gun man!” Colt and Juliana go head to head, life or death, day after and day and for what? Leon, Tom, Tony […]
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August 29, 2023
“The Zodiac Brave Story” Following two delays (one long, one short), we can finally bring you our in-depth discussion of Final Fantasy Tactics (and The […]
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August 22, 2023
“SOMETIMES HE HIDES IN MUD.” Our fourth Shinobi series podcast sees Joe Musashi come to the end of his 16-bit era with – after a […]
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August 15, 2023
“People like you are the reason why we have middle fingers” Should we fear death or should we embrace it? Join Brian, Jon, Rich and […]
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August 8, 2023
“The Belmont family has a long history of Vampire Hunters.” In our latest Castlevania show we land At Konami’s second attempt at bringing the full-fat horror […]
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August 1, 2023
“Once upon a time… in a wild, wild world… there were two wolf brothers…” For brothers Sean and Daniel Diaz, the bond they share might […]
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July 25, 2023
“BRAVE FOR ENTER BOSOM” Treasure’s 10th release was also its first out-and-out shmup, and what an impact it made. A niche title made in small […]
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July 18, 2023
“You found a shiny medallion!” Flicky, Agony, Alfred Chicken, Dynamite Dux, Untitled Goose Game. These are just some of the titles we think of when we […]
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July 11, 2023
“Shall we find something to kill to cheer ourselves up?” Star Wars plus BioWare RPG sounded like manna from heaven to many of us when […]
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July 4, 2023
“You have died from dysentery.” Well, not really, but one of your party members probably did. In this installment we cover the edutainment game The Oregon […]
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June 27, 2023
“IT SEEMED AS IF THE WORLD HAD RETURNED TO PEACE…” The Cane and Rinse ninjas shimmy their way across Japan and the USA taking down […]
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June 20, 2023
“Lead on, adventurer. Your quest awaits!” Forty years ago our eyes were blown from their sockets as they witnessed what appeared to be Disney cartoon […]
The post Dragon’s Lair and Space Ace – Cane and Rinse No.569 appeared first on Cane and Rinse.
June 13, 2023
“The fire still burns. Hope still burns.” Not such a long time after the sequel hit stores, we got the crew together to review Respawn’s […]
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June 6, 2023
“Why, if it isn’t my old pal Luigi! Or is it Baby Luigi? I can’t tell the difference.” This week, the Cane and Rinse podcast […]
The post Luigi’s Mansion: Dark Moon – Cane and Rinse No.567 appeared first on Cane and Rinse.
May 30, 2023
“Could I survive long enough to escape?“ The Game Boy Advance game library featured many renowned Super Nintendo titles released on a handheld device for […]
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May 23, 2023
“The constant fighting between prisoners seems to be getting worse.” The game that gave its name to an industry-changing engine (or was it the engine […]
The post Unreal – Cane and Rinse No.565 appeared first on Cane and Rinse.
May 16, 2023
“Better run home to mama now.” Another long standing ‘wrong’ righted, as the Cane and Rinse podcast finally covers a SEGA made Fighting game. Leon, […]
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May 9, 2023
“We’re here to kill chaos.” Square Enix’s beloved Final Fantasy series collides with hardcore action gameplay from Team Ninja, the studio famous for Dead or […]
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May 2, 2023
“The Force will be with you. Always.” For the first time in its 11 plus year history, Cane and Rinse covers a game based upon […]
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April 25, 2023
Our Michiel’s pick for this year’s Volume of shows is Konami’s series of cute, comedy shmup capers, Parodius. Leon, Chris Worthington, Michiel (obviously), Ryan and […]
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April 18, 2023
“Life is like a trampoline. The lower you fall, the higher you go.” Six down, two to go! The most epic Ryu ga Gotoku game […]
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April 11, 2023
“Oh my… Who do we have here?” Another case of, “This game is how old already!?” as Guacamelee! turns 10 (ten). Leon, Brian, Leah, new […]
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April 4, 2023
“Filthy lucre!” Not before time, a Vanillaware game finds itself under the Cane and Rinse microscope. Leon, Brian, Leah and Michiel party up in order […]
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March 28, 2023
“Your time has come at last, dear reader.” In this podcast we explore the world of Moss and its anthropomorphic inhabitants. Delving into the world […]
The post Moss and Moss: Book II – Cane and Rinse No.557 appeared first on Cane and Rinse.
March 21, 2023
“But we don’t do things because they are easy, hm? We do them because they are profitable!” Nearly 10 years on from our previous Animal […]
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March 14, 2023
“That’s me, Ethan Thomas… Drunk, tired and pissed off.” Time to tackle your fears and crack some skulls in Condemned 2: Bloodshot. Join Brian, Jon, […]
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March 7, 2023
“SHOOT ALL NINJAS!” Continuing our coverage of SEGA’s side-scrolling ninja series, Shinobi, we arrive at the second instalment – Shadow Dancer. This time he’s brought […]
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February 28, 2023
“No-one cares about your love life, Marker Boy.” More than 11 years since we covered the original Dead Space and its first sequel, a different […]
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February 21, 2023
“You should not go outside without a hat on a cold day like this” In which we explore Simogo’s 2013 metatextual point and click adventure, […]
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February 14, 2023
“Someone once told me learning is like a spiral staircase. The higher you go, the more you come around to the same challenges. But you’re […]
The post Off-Peak, The Norwood Suite, Tales from Off-Peak City Vol. 1 – Cane and Rinse No.551 appeared first on Cane and Rinse.
January 23, 2023
“You’re gonna have a great time this summer!” So we arrive at the conclusion of yet another mighty Volume of the Cane and Rinse videogames discussion […]
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January 16, 2023
Just another day at the end of the world, chatting up demons, eating magic worms, and exploring labyrinths… so many labyrinths. Join Leah, Brian, Josh […]
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January 9, 2023
“The Belmont family has a long history of fighting evil.” Whether it’s the third, fifth, sixth or even seventh instalment in the series, Castlevania III: […]
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January 2, 2023
“I Have To Finish What They Started.” A shiny, new Spider-Man for a shiny, new console. Two years after his mentor thwipped onto the scene, […]
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December 26, 2022
“I am Astro Bot.” From Playroom to the PS5, it’s time to talk about Astro Bot. Join Brian, Jesse and Karl as they navigate virtual […]
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December 19, 2022
“Welcome to Nintendo Land!” The park is open! Ryan, Michiel and Jesse have their tickets to Nintendo Land, the Wii U’s bundled-in launch title, and […]
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December 15, 2022
“Welcome to the Real World” The 32-bit SEGA Saturn is the subject of our latest single platform special. Leon, Chris, Karl, Michiel and community correspondents […]
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December 12, 2022
“Then, someone found a cure.” Metroid 4. Or Metroid IV. Coming off the back of Wario Land 4, Nintendo R&D 1’s crack team set about […]
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December 5, 2022
“Well, have you fallen for me yet?” The team tackles Lost Odyssey, the 2007 JRPG from the mind of Hironobu Sakaguchi, the creator of the […]
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November 28, 2022
“A dragon ought to know it is unwise to rile a cat.” As you’ll hear in this podcast, the history of this one goes way […]
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November 21, 2022
“Don’t just sit there and waste your precious time.” Sonic the Hedgehog 2 is 30 (thirty). Leon, Karl, Tony, guest Jamie Smith (Principal Game Designer […]
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November 14, 2022
“DESTROY THE ENEMY NINJA GROUP” Heavily inspired by Namco’s Rolling Thunder, SEGA launched its cool, ninja-based response 35 years ago, in 1987. Leon, Michiel, Rich […]
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November 7, 2022
“Here, another chapter of that history will be written.” As well as excitement, there was palpable trepidation when Nintendo announced that Metroid was going not […]
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October 31, 2022
“Tell me what’s out there!” Josh is your host for this issue, accompanied by Brian and Leah as they discuss Capcom’s 2021 release to their […]
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October 24, 2022
“REST” The fourth stop on our Castlevania series retrospective is the (generally maligned) first handheld incarnation, Castlevania: The Adventure. Leon, Brian, Jon, Michiel and community […]
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October 18, 2022
“Time bonus!” Looking back a bit further than we did in our previous SEGA arcade racer podcasts on Daytona USA and SEGA Rally, we take […]
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October 10, 2022
“Release The Hypno Drones“ Tom, James, Ryan and Jesse (who happens to be a former colleague of the game’s creator) take a break from furiously […]
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October 3, 2022
“Don’t be a tuna head!” The creepy comedy tale of Maniac Mansion comprises the origin stories of point and click graphic adventures, cut-scenes in videogames […]
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September 26, 2022
A great slam and then some! Perfectly tuned or punishingly difficult? Join Brian, James and Ryan as they dodge, dash, and dive their way through […]
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September 19, 2022
“The Olympians have all grown soft… would you not agree?” There is no escape for James, Leah, and Rich, but with Hermes’ help they can […]
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September 12, 2022
“Give a guy a gun, he thinks he’s Superman. Give him two and he thinks he’s God.” Here comes the medium-jumping sequel that was 15 […]
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September 5, 2022
“Everyone go do their own thing, and we’ll reconvene here.” We’re up to the fifth show in our mainline Yakuza series of podcasts, which, therefore, […]
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August 29, 2022
“Prime core fully seated.” Our second PlatinumGames joint of the year, comes in the form of 2019 Switch exclusive Astral Chain. In a sense – […]
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August 22, 2022
“Where’d you learn how to make pancakes?” A long-awaited podcast sequel for a long-awaited game sequel, in the year 2022 we re-enter Tim Schafer’s mind […]
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August 15, 2022
“This is no place for a horse.” Almost a decade after we covered the original Darksiders, the Cane and Rinse panel reconvenes to review the […]
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August 8, 2022
“None of us were there when it happened.” With some delay, we bring you our podcast about the Hungarian/Japanese developed shoot ’em up, Sine Mora. […]
The post Sine Mora – Cane and Rinse No.526 appeared first on Cane and Rinse.
August 1, 2022
“WINNER!” Welcome to the Blunderdome! Fall Guys: Ultimate Knockout brought candy-coloured fun into millions of homes during the darkest hours of the COVID pandemic, and […]
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July 25, 2022
“By the Scribes, we gather in their names. To face the Nightwings here before the flames.” In 2017 Supergiant games returned with the launch of […]
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July 18, 2022
“YOUR UNENDING THIRST WILL BE YOUR ULTIMATE DOWNFALL.” Deceptively wholesome dating sim by way of visual novel, Cane and Rinse covers some less well trodden […]
The post Dream Daddy: A Dad Dating Simulator – Cane and Rinse No.523 appeared first on Cane and Rinse.
July 11, 2022
“What kind of family finishes building a cemetery before starting the house?” An interactive rumination on what death means to the living, is one way […]
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July 4, 2022
“GOAL IN!” Although Taito ultimately followed up the original with some more formulaic, direct type sequels, Rainbow Islands tells the real and true Story of […]
The post Rainbow Islands: The Story of Bubble Bobble 2 – Cane and Rinse No.521 appeared first on Cane and Rinse.
June 27, 2022
“You better go now or you won’t have to run with your head as your third leg.” Psychokinetic superhero Jesse Faden investigates the FBC’s X-Files […]
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June 20, 2022
“It’s good to be back.” The World of Assassination Trilogy redefined Hitman for a new generation. It also redefined the position of IO Interactive in […]
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June 13, 2022
“You don’t have to be perfect for anyone to care about you.” Chicory is not the dog. Find out what (or whom) Chicory actually is […]
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June 6, 2022
“Oh, you smell nice. Like mock-apples.” Our Tony’s pick for the year’s podcasts is The Outer Worlds. Not to be confused with Outer Wilds (Issue […]
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May 30, 2022
“Start your engines!” Getting on for five years since our first Super Mario Kart podcast (and five years on from the release of Mario Kart […]
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May 23, 2022
“Who are you calling sweaty!?” Why settle for controlling just a single solitary hero when you can wrangle a supergroup of 100? The Wonderful 101 […]
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May 16, 2022
“But hope wears all kinds of faces” Chris, James, Jesse and Jon discuss Innerspace VR’s Maskmaker, in which you play as a maskmaker’s apprentice, learning […]
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May 9, 2022
“Attention. Hull failure imminent. All personnel abandon ship. Launch in 3…2…1…“ For this week’s issue, Tom, Ryan, Brian and Jon tackle Unknown Worlds Entertainment’s open […]
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May 2, 2022
“What about a person? Can a person be haunted?” This week, Ryan, Leah, Jon and James take the long journey home through the twilight roads and […]
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April 25, 2022
“Not so cocky anymore, are ya? Huh? Huh!?” Buy One Get One Free co-op only multi-genre adventure It Takes Two is the subject of our latest […]
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April 18, 2022
“You could think of things in your mind and then make them happen.” In honour of the legendary British coder’s 60th birthday, we bring you […]
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April 17, 2022
“Born to Play” In recognition of its 20th birthday, we recall the life, library and legacy of Nintendo’s noisy baby, the GameCube. Leon, Brian, Darren, Michiel […]
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April 11, 2022
“ONE PLAYER ONLY” In the third of our current run of Castlevania series podcasts, we arrive at the 1988 arcade game, Haunted Castle. Although the […]
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April 4, 2022
“If I were to move from this spot, then the four that precede me would no longer precede me.” This week, Ryan, Jesse, and Jon […]
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March 29, 2022
Leon talks to returning guest, author David L. Craddock, about his forthcoming work Long Live Mortal Kombat: Round 1 – The Fatalities and Fandom of […]
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March 28, 2022
“I’ve been having these weird thoughts lately…. like, is any of this for real or not?” From Destiny Islands to The End of the World, […]
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March 21, 2022
“THE LAST METROID IS IN CAPTIVITY. THE GALAXY IS AT PEACE…” All back to Zebes for the third instalment of our Metroid series of podcasts. […]
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March 14, 2022
*sigh* Bafanada! No mind to think, no will to break, no voice to cry suffering, born of God and Void… James, Jon, Josh and Tom […]
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March 7, 2022
“Clean up your acts.” Dad-mode Kiryu comes to the fore in our fourth Ryu ga Gotoku podcast. Leon, Brian, Leah, Michiel and community correspondents head […]
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February 28, 2022
“Let’s attack aggressively.” Five years ago we covered the first two distinct entries in Konami’s Contra series of run and gun shmups. Now, on the […]
The post Contra Spirits (Contra III: The Alien Wars) – Cane and Rinse No.503 appeared first on Cane and Rinse.
February 21, 2022
“This must be where the hospital stores its huge fires” In this record-breaking issue, Ryan Leah, Tony and James strap in to discuss almost 20 […]
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February 14, 2022
“I’ll give you a TKO from Tokyo!” Join Brian, Michiel, Ryan and guest Ben Cartlidge as they look back over the journey of Little Mac […]
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January 24, 2022
“Oh, you launched! That’s great. Great job, you.” For our milestone 500th podcast we investigate 2019’s multi award-winning critical darling, Outer Wilds – an ambitious […]
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January 17, 2022
“RUN PROJECT 23” In the penultimate podcast of our tenth year, we mark the 30th anniversary of Eric Chahi’s Another World. Leon, Chris, Karl, Tony […]
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January 10, 2022
“Here comes the Meat Train” Leah, Josh, Brian and Ryan discuss Austin Jorgensen’s post-apocalyptic role-playing videogame LISA: The Painful. http://media.blubrry.com/caneandrinse/caneandrinse.com/podcast/cane_and_rinse_issue_498.mp3 Music featured in this […]
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January 3, 2022
“If we don’t all come together again, humanity will not survive.” In a genre-defying podcast, we bend at the knees and keep our backs straight […]
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December 27, 2021
“WHAT A HORRIBLE NIGHT TO HAVE A CURSE.” The ‘difficult second album’ middle child of the NES Castlevania trilogy. Leon, Josh, Leah, Michiel and community […]
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December 20, 2021
“Too many have suffered in these dark times. The smallest among us the most.” Moon Studios’ magical Metroidvania sequel demands our attention in this follow […]
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December 13, 2021
“Is it our destiny to defy destiny? It’s an interesting question.” When a beloved game is remade, there’s always the question: what will it be […]
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December 6, 2021
“It doesn’t sound like civil disobedience. It’s too quiet.” Regrettably late for Halloween and the game’s 15th anniversary (as well as the fifth anniversary of […]
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November 29, 2021
“Come on, let’s go. Body’s rottin’ as we speak.” Tony’s the host this week aided and abetted by Karl, Jon and Darren as they switch […]
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November 22, 2021
“Wait! We’re talking about the artifact here?” 25 years have passed since a fresh, if flat-face Lara Croft made her first graceful bow. Leon, Jon, […]
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November 15, 2021
“So the Galactic Federation called it’s members to an urgent conference to find a way to overcome this menace. They quickly came to one conclusion, […]
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November 11, 2021
“IT ONLY DOES EVERYTHING.” In our latest single platform, one console podcast we cast our minds back to the mid-2000s and Sony’s entry into the […]
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November 8, 2021
“Oh, yeah! Mario, wahoo!” Our seventh and penultimate – at least until they make a new game – Mario Kart podcast sees us arrive at […]
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November 1, 2021
“YOU PLAYED THE GREATEST ROLE IN THIS STORY.” Recording on the day of the 35th anniversary of the game’s launch in Japan, we embark upon […]
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October 25, 2021
“So we have this hostility to the external world because of the superstition, the myth, the absolutely unfounded theory that you, yourself, exist only inside […]
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October 18, 2021
“It’s rough and coarse and it gets everywhere.” Artyom’s search for the truth about the world outside Moscow picks up steam in the third of […]
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October 11, 2021
“In the beginning, the Earth was without form, and void.” While MicroProse didn’t exactly break the mould with the original Civ, they certainly kept hold […]
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October 4, 2021
“NOW, YOU FOUND THE IMPORTANT MAGIC IN THE WORLD” So simple on the surface, Taito’s cutesy single screen puzzle platformer, Bubble Bobble, hides abyss-like depths. […]
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September 27, 2021
“PAGE TEXT REMOVED DUE TO VIOLATION OF HYPNOSPACE LAW” Put on your Beefbrain Shield Pro. We’re going back to 1999 to rediscover (2019’s) bizarre retro […]
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September 20, 2021
“Stop Street Fighting!” It’s time for SNK’s team battle-focused fighter to shine in our The King of Fighters series podcast. Leon Cox is joined by […]
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September 13, 2021
“Eating grub, sleeping, laughing, crying. Sometimes arguing. Sounds all right!” Sometimes we cover a game that lasts barely the length of one of our podcasts, […]
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September 6, 2021
“EMERGENCY ORDER” To mark the fearless space hunter Samus Aran’s 35th anniversary we embark upon what will be another long-running series of podcasts covering the […]
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August 30, 2021
“Comedy? There’s no place for comedy in a Yakuza story…” Our third Yakuza series podcast brings us up to the second title in the original […]
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August 23, 2021
“A storm is coming” On its one year anniversary, it is time to revisit the isle of Tsushima. Brian, Leah and Ryan wax poetic about […]
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August 16, 2021
“Very long, easy left, maybe.” Over jumping out of SEGA’s arcade heyday comes the mighty SEGA Rally Championship. Leon, Karl, Michiel and community correspondence buckle […]
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August 9, 2021
“You can’t stop this.” One year on from its release, we take on Naughty Dog’s dark and divisive sequel. Leon, Josh, Karl, Thomas and a […]
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August 2, 2021
“YOU ARE THE MASTER NOW” We couldn’t let the 25th birthday of id Software’s phenomenally influential fps Quake go uncelebrated. Leon, Darren, Karl, Jesse and […]
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July 28, 2021
“Change the System” In our latest single platform special we remember the awesome power of the Nintendo 64 during its brief but bright spell in […]
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July 26, 2021
“How hard could it be for thieves like you to get us out of a place like this?” Of the many (many!) JRPGs on the […]
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July 19, 2021
“SEGA” The very deserving recipient of an anniversary podcast, Sonic the Hedgehog turns 30 years old in 2021. Leon, Darren, Leah and guest John Linneman […]
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July 12, 2021
“Take a bite of Duke’s special pain cake!” What do you get when you take Duke Nukem 3D, add a dash of Half-Life, smother it […]
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July 5, 2021
“Enviromental hazard detected” Part of Ubisoft and Red Storm Entertainment’s initial foray into the VR market, Star Trek: Bridge Crew recreated one of pop culture’s […]
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June 28, 2021
“Wait a minute! We are not going back to Misty Island! Are we?” In the years between the Crash Bandicoot trilogy and Uncharted, Naughty Dog […]
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June 21, 2021
“Never accept the world as it appears to be. Dare to see it for what it could be.” Join Josh, Brian, Jesse and Rich as […]
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June 14, 2021
“You are extreme, all-engulfing madness. A volatile simian nervous system, ominously new to the planet” A mystery is afoot. Ryan converses with the voices in […]
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June 7, 2021
“Of course, there’s the problem of causality…” For the first time in the ten-year history of the Cane and Rinse videogame podcast, we deep-dive into […]
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May 31, 2021
“Bring it on!” Eight years on from our original Streets of Rage trilogy podcast, we are finally able to bring you the sequel. Daring revivalist […]
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May 24, 2021
“Go, go, go, go!” The biggest selling racing game of all time (at the time of recording), and the sixth mainline entry in Nintendo’s character […]
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May 17, 2021
“What are you thinking!?” Between an early showing and its release, transforming powerboats became personal watercraft (i.e. jet skis) and Nintendo had itself a massively upgraded […]
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May 13, 2021
Just as the videogame industry began to implode in North America, Milton Bradley set out to try and grab a piece of the pie by […]
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May 10, 2021
“There is corruption here. It beckons you. Promises riches and power. So much temptation.” Join Josh, Brian, James and Tom as they slink through blood-soaked […]
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May 3, 2021
“We were born of nightmares…” Back to the island of slumber and seashells as we return to the island of Koholint for Grezzo’s Switch remakening […]
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April 26, 2021
“Won’t you be my rotting corpse, Miss Tosaka?” Go to class, join the track team, date a pigeon. The average life of a high school […]
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April 19, 2021
“Welcome home, great Slayer.” As the red dust continues to settle after Doomguy’s latest landing, Cane and Rinse keeps pace with the mythical space marine. Leon, […]
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April 12, 2021
“Cowabunga!” A duo of cartoon capers in this show with Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1989) and The Simpsons (1991). Leon, Brian, Michiel and returning guest […]
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April 5, 2021
“You’ve been here before, haven’t you?” 2011: Crunch time for BioWare as EA’s corporate wyvern demands a prompt sequel to the successful Dragon Age: Origins, […]
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March 29, 2021
“The sooner we come to terms with our mortality, the more time we can spend really living in the here-and-now.” The fecund soil of Stardew […]
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March 22, 2021
“This world is inhabited by creatures called Pokémon! For some people, Pokémon are pets. Others use them for fights. Myself… I study Pokémon as a […]
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March 15, 2021
“Hey, what do you know about that monster?” In which we do our best to keep pace with Capcom’s ever-expanding Biohazard series by reviewing its […]
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March 10, 2021
In this interview extra podcast, author David L. Craddock returns to talk to Leon about his latest book, Monsters in the Dark: The Making of X-COM: […]
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March 8, 2021
“It’s hard to believe that it’s over, isn’t it? Funny, how we get attached to the struggle.” Join Josh, Brian, Rich and Tony as they […]
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March 1, 2021
“Your face. Your ass. What’s the difference?” 90s throwback 80s throwback Duke Nukem is the subject of our latest podcast, as the big lunk’s first […]
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February 22, 2021
“Gather ’round people, we have much to discuss” A decade after the release of Monster Hunter, Capcom set out to bring the fifth mainline game […]
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February 15, 2021
“Do what you do best, man!” On the eve of the completion of the World Of Assassination trilogy, join James, Jon, Josh and Ryan as […]
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January 26, 2021
“Live In Your World, Play In Ours.” At the time of recording, 20 years after its launch, the PlayStation 2 remains the best-selling videogame console […]
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January 25, 2021
“I wanna be a heroControl my life’s eventsI’ll use my song to prove them wrongAnd make a difference” To conclude our ninth year of shows […]
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January 18, 2021
“Goodness! Look at the size of that thing!” Friendly and fun family frolics in our penultimate podcast of our ninth year, as we catch up […]
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January 11, 2021
“Rest in peace, little chicken. It’s been a bash.” Join Josh, James and Leah as we reunite with the Sparda family to remove a overgrown […]
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January 4, 2021
“Running… isn’t… the answer…” In our second show on SEGA’s multi-generational crime saga, we take a look at Yakuza Kiwami as well as look back at […]
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December 28, 2020
“RIDE FAST, EXPLORE MORE.” Join Karl, Rich and Charlotte as they venture to the Alps to tackle Ubisoft’s latest take on open world game’s design […]
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December 21, 2020
“Here we go!” The beginning of the Nintendo Dual Screen’s heyday in 2005 saw the not insignificant release of a new, handheld Mario Kart. Mario Kart […]
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December 14, 2020
“You bastards may take… exactly what I give you!” Nine years ago the good ship Cane and Rinse set sail; 443 issues later it has […]
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December 7, 2020
“We’re all connected in this life.” Following on from our (at the time of recording) all-encompassing Tetris show (podcast issue 270), we catch up with […]
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November 30, 2020
“A spark of humanity somewhere. Always that wretched little spark.” Bleak, dystopian, depressing – and that’s just 2020. It’s not funny because it’s true. To […]
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November 23, 2020
“Don’t touch that dial now, we’re just getting started.” More than five years since the last Silent Hill issue, Ryan, Leah, Brian, and Jon trepidatiously […]
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November 16, 2020
“Across the level, you will meet the Tribals.” Knee deep in the “golden era” of the Nintendo 64’s lifespan, its most expert second party developer […]
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November 9, 2020
“Calm down.” Ready those hug buttons as Leon, Leah, Rich and Tony flick jellybeans in your general direction for our A Boy and His Blob podcast. 2D […]
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November 2, 2020
“Sometimes the face we show to the world needs to be one of strength, despite the chaos we harbor beneath” Join Josh, Jay, Karl and […]
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October 26, 2020
“All the princess’s hopes now rest on the brave youth she loves.” There’s much more to the story of the original Prince of Persia than […]
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October 22, 2020
“Jump In” In our latest free-for-all console special podcast we look at Microsoft’s Xbox 360. Leon, Jay, Tony, Jon and community contributors remember the flawed […]
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October 19, 2020
“Time to take a little magic trip to cupcake town“ Josh, James, Charlotte and Jon head to Edwards Island to join Alex and her crew […]
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October 12, 2020
“The other humans are approved for passage. Regretfully, you are not.” It’s been more than five years since we covered a Halo title, when we […]
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October 5, 2020
“We’re just another group of migrants.” Conceived after reading a 2015 article about the Syrian refugee experience, already several years into the country’s civil war, […]
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September 28, 2020
“No problem!” Less than a decade after the French studio was founded, Ubi Soft Entertainment (as it was then), released colourful and seemingly armless character […]
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September 21, 2020
Arina’s room The Gardens Between ponders the transient nature of friendships through the lens of the ability to time travel and pull memories together from […]
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September 14, 2020
You think this is a dream? Well then maybe it’s time to wake up? With a complex storyline that chronologically twists around its predecessor, Dennaton […]
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September 7, 2020
“Great, just great. You’re on an exciting adventure with Mario. Talk about unfair.” Scheduled for the game’s 20th birthday, in this podcast we look back […]
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August 31, 2020
“Gather round all of you who would listen.” Years prior to Sony San Diego becoming the MLB: The Show studio, the team made its debut […]
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August 24, 2020
“Only when we let strangers in can we find new ways to be ourselves.” If you want to be the last player standing in Shibuya’s […]
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August 17, 2020
“LeChuck is your schnoobums!?” Further piratical shenanigans abound as the dread ship Cane and Rinse returns to the Caribbean sea to break The Curse of […]
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August 10, 2020
“Coo coo. (I hear you’ve been busy, Mario.)” Create or Play? That is the big question asked of anyone who starts a game in the […]
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August 3, 2020
“The End” It’s been fully four decades since Dave Theurer turned his apocalyptic nightmares into an arcade game. Missile Command told a darker story than […]
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July 27, 2020
“You don’t need a potion to win me over! You already have!” Steel thy shovel….. again! We’ve discussed Yacht Club Games’s Shovel Knight before, but […]
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July 22, 2020
“Now you’re playing with power; SUPER POWER!” Everything about our latest single format special podcast is just super. Leon, Brian, Michiel and returning guest Ben […]
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July 20, 2020
“How many more bones would you crush? How many lives will you destroy in pursuit of what you call justice?” Concluding our Batman: Arkham series […]
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July 13, 2020
“Through recondite arts, the Alchemists had created Shardbinders.” The fruits of substantial crowdfunding and the labour of a supergroup of game devs were harvested in […]
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July 6, 2020
“Well, would you look at that?” Wrapping up our Uncharted coverage, for now at least, we end up at standalone adjunct, Uncharted: The Lost Legacy. […]
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June 29, 2020
“Shoot The Core!” The venerable side-scrolling space shoot ’em up series Gradius celebrates its 35th anniversary in 2020. Leon, Michiel, Ben Cartlidge and Dan Clark run […]
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June 22, 2020
“All that matters now is what we do next” What does it take to truly be a person? Is it how you were created? What […]
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June 15, 2020
“We’re playin’… We’re playin’… We’re playin’…” Whether it’s Guitar Hero by way of Fruit Ninja or a chance to live out the Star Wars Kid […]
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June 8, 2020
“Nice entrance. Solid eight out of ten… Nine out of ten.” Welcome to “Just the Facts” with J. Jonah Jameson. Alerting you to the threats […]
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June 1, 2020
“The invading Snowmads have locked Donkey Kong Island in a deep freeze, and it’s up to the Kongs to thaw things out!” Our run of […]
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May 25, 2020
“We make the world what it is by what we do. All of us.” Bikers vs Zombies may sound like a late night made-for-TV movie, […]
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May 18, 2020
“Life. Afterlife. Real. Virtual. Dream. Nightmare. It’s a thin line.” Before the deluge of Metroidvania type games came Axiom Verge. Thomas Happ’s intriguing alternate reality […]
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May 11, 2020
“Yeah, I know.” After his work on Monument Valley, Ken Wong scaled the heights of creating his own studio, Mountains. With the publishing expertise of […]
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May 4, 2020
“You come to us, like a snake in the grass, here… in a city of lies, you… are the biggest liar of all” Techland’s five […]
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April 29, 2020
“Come out and play” In our latest single format special, Leon, Chris, James and Leah review “The Walkman of the 21st Century”, Sony’s PlayStation Portable. […]
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April 27, 2020
“Hesitate and you lose, that is the way of war.” Can shadows die? Can they die twice? And what is a Loaded Spear actually useful […]
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April 20, 2020
“Let’s give DK our biggest Kong-gratulations!” In our latest show on Nintendo’s necktied primate, we swing back to the mid-2000s to go ape with Donkey […]
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April 13, 2020
“He’s a… whatchacallit. A fisting artist.” As recommended by fans of the series, we begin our Japanese organised crime odyssey at its chronological beginning – […]
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April 6, 2020
“I have the shiniest meat bicycle.” For this week’s podcast, Jesse Fuchs makes his Cane and Rinse hosting debut with a discussion focused on Telltale […]
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March 30, 2020
“A stranger you are… and strange looking at that!” Just before Square got into bed with Sony, their relationship with Nintendo seemed to be firing […]
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March 23, 2020
“Raise thy sword by the light, and head to the place where the sword’s light gathers.” The Cane and Rinse podcast returns to The Forbidden […]
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March 16, 2020
“Jungle Boogie!” Nintendo wanted in on the ‘BeMani’ action in the early-mid 2000s, and so roped in Taiko no Tatsujin producers Namco to reskin their […]
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March 9, 2020
“I serve no one, and I fight for everyone.” In this issue, Karl, Brian, Jay and Rich travel back to Ancient Egypt to the origin […]
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March 2, 2020
“Enough with this cat and mouse game.” After almost two decades of feverish speculation, Capcom finally brought us the remake of Resident Evil 2 that […]
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February 24, 2020
“Keep your expectations low boy, and you’ll never be disappointed.” A serious assessment of Sony Santa Monica’s soft reboot of the successful but stagnating God […]
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February 17, 2020
“This whole thing is pretty much done. We’re more ghosts than people.” Welcome home, pardners. The Cane and Rinse videogame podcast returns for its ninth […]
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January 14, 2020
“Up to 6 billion players” The latest of our single platform podcast specials focuses on SEGA’s final console, the Dreamcast. Leon, Karl and guests Ben […]
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December 30, 2019
“My hair does not look like a chocobo butt.” In this issue, Josh, Leah, Charlotte and Tom hop into a convertible and embark on an […]
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December 30, 2019
It’s the end of the year, and Cane and Rinse are celebrating another year in videogaming with not one but five 2019-in-review shows of epic […]
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December 29, 2019
It’s the end of the year, and Cane and Rinse are celebrating another year in videogaming with not one but five 2019-in-review shows of epic […]
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December 28, 2019
It’s the end of the year, and Cane and Rinse is celebrating another year in videogaming with not one but five 2019-in-review shows of epic […]
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December 27, 2019
It’s the end of the year, and Cane and Rinse is celebrating another year in videogaming with not one but five 2019-in-review shows of epic […]
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December 26, 2019
It’s the end of the year, and Cane and Rinse is celebrating another year in videogaming with not one but five 2019-in-review shows of epic […]
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December 23, 2019
“Get bananas back from the Tikis!” In our latest podcast on the bequiffed ape, we land late in the Wii era with Donkey Kong Country […]
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December 16, 2019
“Time is not your enemy, forever is.” A rare foray into the world of the Western CRPG for us, but 1999’s Planescape: Torment ticks a […]
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December 9, 2019
“1 COIN 1 PLAY” Marking its 40th birthday, we celebrate one of Atari’s most iconic, influential and successful arcade games from the so-called ‘golden age’: […]
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December 2, 2019
“Fear… radiates from you. It’s beautiful, but not yet finished.” Having sunken into a drunken stupor since the previous Tango Gameworks title, the lure of […]
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November 25, 2019
“Hey, Been a long time, Donkey-Dude!” After the rousing success of Diddy Kong Racing and Banjo-Kazooie, it was time for Rare to step up to […]
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November 18, 2019
“Eight long years to bounce back here, I’ll win this time and make you cheer!” Eekum Bokum! It’s another Banjo-Kazooie adventure but this time almost […]
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November 11, 2019
“Why are we still here? Just to suffer?” In very probably our last ever podcast on the venerable series, we finally give Metal Gear Solid […]
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November 4, 2019
“There’s no such thing as a Bat Man.” Join us as we go back before City, before Asylum, before the Joker, to when Batman was […]
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October 28, 2019
“If you only knew how satisfying that look on your face is.” Shinji Mikami brought back some of the survival and all of the horror […]
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October 21, 2019
“There is no hope. Not for l’Cie.” We’re closing in on the final entries in our Final Fantasy series, and as the first game released […]
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October 14, 2019
“You big ape! I could hear you coming from miles away!” There’s a rumble in the jungle as Ryan, Darren, Michiel, and Brian barrel their […]
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October 7, 2019
“MISSION: DESTROY ALIENS” October 1979 saw Namco’s brash, dynamic and eye-scorchingly colourful Space Invaders spiritual successor landed with a loud bang in arcades. Leon, Michiel […]
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October 6, 2019
“Only Amiga makes it possible” For the first time in our series of single format special podcasts, we reminisce about a computer, the 16, later […]
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September 30, 2019
Cane and Rinse embody their inner Daft Punk as we review 2009’s DJ Hero and 2010’s DJ Hero 2. Karl, Rich and returning guest Gary […]
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September 29, 2019
From 30th August 2019 through to 2nd September 2019 at the Washington State Convention Centre and Cane and Rinse hosts Ryan Hamann and Chris O’Regan […]
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September 23, 2019
“In a world without gold, we might have been heroes!” Back aboard Ubisoft’s titanic franchise for a return journey to the heady times when the […]
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September 16, 2019
“They want to live inside us, like a disease.” Trapped on a 1960s space station in 2035, surrounded by homicidal crockery and are victims of […]
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September 13, 2019
Leon speaks to David L. Craddock about his new book Arcade Perfect: How Pac-Man, Mortal Kombat, and Other Coin-Op Classics Invaded the Living Room. David […]
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September 9, 2019
“Promise you won’t launch superhot.exe again.” Time moves when you move. That might explain why James spent the first 20 minutes of this podcast recording […]
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September 7, 2019
In this Interview Extra episode, Charlotte chats to Benn Powell about the ins and outs of designing randomisers for REmake Remastered and the remake of […]
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September 2, 2019
“Kept you waiting, huh?” Almost seven years on from our last Metal Gear Solid podcast, Leon, Jay, Karl and new member Richard Davison pick up […]
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August 26, 2019
“At least we thought to bring entertainment.” The eleventh show in our 13 podcast series about the mainline (and non-MMO) Final Fantasy series is all […]
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August 19, 2019
“Quantum physics tells us that nothing that is observed is unaffected by the observer.” First person cyberpunk noir police procedural stealth survival horror walking simulator […]
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August 12, 2019
“You earned a perfect score!!” The Big N roped in simulation and silicon graphics specialists Paradigm to assist them with N64 launch title, Pilotwings 64. […]
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August 5, 2019
Dyad is one of those titles that defies easy genre-identification, but in essence it is a psychedelic racer/shooter – if that helps! Tony, Darren and […]
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July 29, 2019
As the dark, eerie follow-up to Playdead’s dark, eerie platformer LIMBO, 2016’s INSIDE was exactly what one might expect – or was it? For a […]
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July 22, 2019
“The world is full of stories, and from time to time they permit themselves to be told.” Before Duke Nukem Forever… in fact before Duke […]
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July 15, 2019
“That’s disgusting” Stop me if you’ve heard this one before. A crack team of specially trained operatives are sent to investigate the mysterious goings on […]
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July 9, 2019
“Life is short, play more” In the fourth of our single format console special podcasts, we look back at Microsoft’s big fat toe in the […]
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July 8, 2019
“HOW HIGH CAN YOU GET?” In the first of a series of podcasts about Nintendo’s iconic simian, Leon, Darren and Michiel find out who among […]
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July 1, 2019
“Pull yourself together. Get out of prison. Kill the Jailer.” Furiously fast, furiously precise, and a furiously thumping synthwave soundtrack, Jacob, Charlotte, Michiel, and James […]
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June 25, 2019
In this interview extra podcast, Charlotte Cutts interviews Metako, a speedrunner who regularly bashes through 80+ hour marathons of the Final Fantasy series JRPG speedruns […]
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June 24, 2019
“You’ll cry, you’re gonna cry, you always cry. See? You’re crying.” Final Fantasy X heralded the series’ much anticipated debut on the the ‘next gen’ […]
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June 18, 2019
Leon speaks to actor, writer, voice artist, musician and black belt karateka Tod Fennell (and his Siberian Husky, Havok) about his work in videogames and […]
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June 17, 2019
“Prepare to board Robo-Freighter Paradroid to eliminate all rogue robots.” Andrew Braybrook’s Paradroid garnered plaudits and captured imaginations upon its 1985 release, before going on […]
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June 10, 2019
“A woodchuck should chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood, as long as a woodchuck would chuck wood.” Having left Guybrush hanging for over three […]
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June 4, 2019
In this interview extra podcast, Charlotte Cutts interviews Edenal, chief organiser of the European Speedrunner Assembly The European Speedrunner Assembly has gone from strength to […]
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June 3, 2019
“It works. It actually works!” We revel in two decades of recapturing rampant primates by casting our net over the original Ape Escape (aka Saru! […]
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May 29, 2019
For our 200th Sound of Play, members of the Cane and Rinse team have assembled to share some of the tracks from all throughout videogame […]
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May 27, 2019
“A cave of wonders…” Separate licensing deals meant that both of the major 16-bit consoles received a bespoke game to tie-in with Disney’s 1992 animated […]
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May 20, 2019
“Let us start the game.” In this issue Josh, Leah, Charlotte and Cane and Rinse newcomer Jesse uncover the treasures and dark desires of the […]
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May 13, 2019
“None could stand before the horde but the Doom Slayer.” Three years on from the release of id Software’s sequel-cum-soft-reboot we ask just how DOOM […]
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May 6, 2019
“INSERT YOUR SOUL TO CONTINUE.” Obviously it’s a simple game about breeding and dressing up cute ponies. Or is it? In the spirit of the […]
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April 29, 2019
“Doesn’t it feel nice to let yourself go under the stars?” We conclude the PlayStation one era Final Fantasy triptych with our Final Fantasy IX […]
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April 22, 2019
“Do you ever dream of flying?” For the first of two podcasts on this lesser-known Nintendo IP, we swoop on Super Famicom showpiece title, Pilotwings. […]
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April 15, 2019
“In modern war… you will die like a dog for no good reason.” In which we are joined by War Child Gaming’s Wayne Emanuel, for […]
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April 8, 2019
“Come and f**king get me, you…white ass fascist Nazi pigs!“ It’s time for Nazi punks to GTFO as Tony, Jon, Karl, and Jacob discuss MachineGames’ […]
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April 2, 2019
“Now you’re playing with power; PORTABLE POWER!” In the third of our series of single format console special podcasts, Leon, James and Leah stock up […]
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April 1, 2019
“Ashen One, hearest thou my voice still?” In March 2016, FromSoftware released Dark Souls III, their fourth game in the space of little more than […]
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March 25, 2019
“Courage need not be remembered, for it is never forgotten.” Two years on from its release – and from the conclusion of our original epic […]
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March 23, 2019
With the community push behind Def Jam: Fight for NY growing ever stronger, Michiel (@MKStayOnTarget) speaks with one of the key, driving figures in the […]
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March 18, 2019
“TAKE A KEY FOR COMING IN!” After a few months’ respite we throw ourselves back into the maw of Capcom’s legendarily cruel series. Super Ghouls […]
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March 11, 2019
“Ready for adventure!” In 2014 Nintendo decided to spin off Super Mario 3D World’s jumpless puzzling minigame into it own, full-blown title, Captain Toad: Treasure […]
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March 4, 2019
“There is no good, there is no bad. Just perspective and opinion.” It is my great honour to congratulate Josh, Leah, Brian and Tom for […]
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February 25, 2019
“We are alive, after all. And being alive is pretty much a constant stream of embarrassment.” We turn our attention to one of 2017’s most […]
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February 19, 2019
To tie in with issue 355 of the podcast, Cane and Rinse’s own Michiel (@MKStayOnTarget) speaks with old school competitor, fighting game analyst, extra prolific […]
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February 18, 2019
“The weak lose and the strong win! Which of these fighters will prove the old axiom today?” Don’t call it a comeback. Nearly a decade […]
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February 11, 2019
“Sir, don’t sneak around like that, it makes you look suspicious.” Join Josh, Brian, Jon and James as they go undercover at IO Interactive. What […]
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February 4, 2019
“A red apple fell from the sky…” Getting used to a whole new town is tough for anyone – but when you also have gravity […]
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January 28, 2019
“Press A to begin journey” Join Karl, Jon, Jacob and James on an investigation into exactly what happened in Kingdom, Virginia in late summer 1992. […]
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January 21, 2019
“Between the switch, fade through the blitz, and the strongest quits, burn through the kiss.” Cane and Rinse returns for its eighth year with by […]
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January 7, 2019
“Do Not Underestimate The Power of PlayStation” Leon is joined by Jay, Karl and Tony for the second of our single format console special podcasts. […]
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December 31, 2018
“There ain’t no gettin’ offa this train we’re on, till we get to the end of the line.” Appropriately – for the earth-shattering conclusion to […]
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December 24, 2018
“Welcome to the family, son!” And so after a year’s worth of zombies, spooky mansions, scary laboratories, definitely not zombies, horrific scripts and shocking performances, we reach […]
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December 17, 2018
“Use power for the right things. At least for the things that you believe in.” We follow up Issue 322’s Zone of the Enders podcast […]
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December 14, 2018
In this interview extra, Darren Gargette (@dezm0nd) talks to the two brainboxes behind Gory Detail (@gorydetail). They discuss games past (Conker), present (Rusty Pup) and future […]
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December 10, 2018
“And that is how it ended.” In this issue, Josh, Jacob, Jay and Tony wake up in the middle of an ancient ruin and find […]
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December 3, 2018
“You’ve made it this far, haven’t you?” In our penultimate Resident Evil series show, Leon, Karl, Leah and a host of community contributors partake in […]
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November 26, 2018
“On top of the mazic power, Arthur obtaihed the Psycho Cannon from ST. Michael, then after a dreadful batlle, he finally defeater Lucifer.” Marking its […]
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November 19, 2018
“Play nice! Play nice!” Leon, Brian, Darren and Michiel pair up for a frantic session of the fourth game in Nintendo’s cartoon racer series, Mario […]
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November 12, 2018
“There’s so much to discover before the world ends.” An uncommonly recent (at the time of recording) ‘AAA’ title gets the Cane and Rinse treatment, […]
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November 5, 2018
“The world before the fall, Lovely is the light of dawn, Noble is the heart of man…” Josh, Leah, Jon and Maya Santandrea continue our […]
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October 29, 2018
“You’re merely postponing the inevitable!” For the eighth of our ten podcasts on the mainline Resident Evil games, we return to Kijuju for potentially the […]
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October 22, 2018
““Just check the guest list. I’m under the section for fellas that ain’t ugly freaks.”” In this issue, Josh, Sean, Michiel and Jacob take a […]
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October 15, 2018
“These militia, they come into our country, steal everything, and leave us nothing.” Darren and James buddy up to tackle the notoriously-hostile Far Cry 2. […]
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October 14, 2018
“Welcome To The Next Level” In the first of our extra-length single-platform specials, Leon (@ratsoalbion) is joined by Mega Drive enthusiast and expert Dan Clark […]
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October 8, 2018
“You cannot overcome suffering if you refuse to look at it.” Following up previous podcasts on Heavenly Sword, Enslaved: Odyssey to the West and DmC […]
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October 1, 2018
“That freight train that hit you? That was me!” Come and take a walk with Cane and Rinse, as Michiel, Tony, Karl and UFC judge […]
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September 24, 2018
“You don’t seriously think a conservative mind can chart a new course for the world, do you?” For the first time ever – as we […]
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September 17, 2018
“GO AHEAD DAUNTLESSLY! MAKE RAPID PROGRES!” Strawberry print boxers all round as Cane and Rinse makes its first journey to the Demon World Village of […]
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September 10, 2018
“Armageddon.” Veteran Finnish code aces Housemarque helped launch a new generation with their PS4 (then) exclusive, Resogun. Taking its cues from classics Defender, Drop Zone […]
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September 3, 2018
“Squad 7, move out!” Alright squad, listen up. The objective is to assist Josh, Michiel and Simon Cole in successfully evaluating Sega’s 2008 Tactics RPG, […]
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August 27, 2018
“Knights do it two-handed!” The Final Fantasy that was initially deemed too hardcore for the West. Leon, Josh, Jon and Leah have got the job […]
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August 20, 2018
“Blue, blue skies…” Just why is SEGA’s 25 year old coin-op racer still relatively easy to find in (what passes for) arcades in 2018? Leon, […]
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August 13, 2018
“It’s gonna be dangerous from here on in, why don’t we cooperate?” Perhaps appropriately, the last ‘classic’ style Resident Evil game (for a long while […]
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August 6, 2018
“Time flows like a river… and history repeats…” On a mid-90s roll, some of the team behind the Final Fantasy games broke off to create […]
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July 30, 2018
“Tim is off on a search to rescue the Princess. She has been snatched by a horrible and evil monster. This happened because Tim made […]
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July 23, 2018
“Here we go!” It’s the third of our sporadic but ongoing series on the Mario Kart franchise and so we arrive at 2001’s Mario Kart: […]
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July 16, 2018
“HARNESSING A GREAT WELLSPRING, A PERFECT IMMORTAL CELL WAS CRAFTED TO BE IMBUED WITHIN ALL SENTIENT LIFE A NOBLE GOAL, THOUGH SUCH A POWER TERRIFIED […]
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July 13, 2018
In this interview extra, Leon Cox (@ratsoalbion) talks to Gary Kirby and Ogulcan “Ojo” Gunel about their Rapture Gaming Festival http://media.blubrry.com/caneandrinse/caneandrinse.com/podcast/rapture_gaming_festival.mp3 Edited by Jay […]
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July 9, 2018
“Sharpen thy shovel!” Hoist your gardening implement of choice and strike the earth as we explore a game grounded in the 8-bit era with Shovel […]
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July 6, 2018
In this interview extra, Leon Cox (@ratsoalbion) talks again to author David L. Craddock (@davidlcraddock), author of Stay Awhile and Listen: Book II a documentary-style […]
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July 2, 2018
“Oh yes, dear. Just like this.” All back to the Spencer Mansion for a rerun of the events of the 1996 original Resident Evil. Leon, […]
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June 25, 2018
“You spoony bard!” Final Fantasy leaps the generation gap like a nimble young chocobo, and sets up camp on the Nintendo’s new for the 90s […]
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June 18, 2018
“HIGH SPEED ROBOT ACTION” Ahead of the sequel’s latest re-release, we revisit Konami’s 2001 sci-fi mech action game Zone of the Enders. Leon, Karl and […]
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June 12, 2018
In this interview extra, Leon Cox (@ratsoalbion) talks to the game urbanist, designer, and writer Konstantinos Dimopoulos (@gnomeslair), author of the forthcoming book Virtual Cities.* […]
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June 11, 2018
“The Pikmin are as curious as children!” Leon, Darren, Leah and Michiel have finally recovered all 30 parts of their ship and succeeded in escaping […]
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June 4, 2018
“PLAY PLAYER<1>” Cane and Rinse celebrates the 40th (fortieth!) anniversary of one of the most important and influential videogames of all time, Space Invaders. Leon, […]
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May 28, 2018
“You want it? You aren’t worthy of its power.” In the fourth of our ten show series on the core Resident Evil games, we take […]
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May 21, 2018
“In here, I can be happy, forever. I will be happy.” Stanley popped his headphones on and started listening to his favourite podcast, Cane and […]
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May 15, 2018
In this interview extra, Leon Cox (@ratsoalbion) talks to the writer Richard Moss (@MossRC), author of the book The Secret History of Mac Gaming, recently […]
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May 14, 2018
“You had it comin’” Leon, Darren, Karl and Tony embark on a whistlestop tour of Team 17’s prolific ballistic battler franchise, Worms. Tunneling through from […]
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May 7, 2018
“Transcending history and the world, a tale of souls and swords, eternally retold.” One of our whirlwind tour type shows as we take on Namco’s […]
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April 30, 2018
“Maybe they’re out pillaging the countryside like good soldiers of doom?” Continuing our ongoing series, Josh, Leah and Jon say goodbye to the NES era […]
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April 23, 2018
“Calling all Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.” Listen this week as Karl Moon, James Carter and guest, Brad Gallaway of GameCritics discuss Demiurge Studios’ 2013 title, Marvel […]
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April 16, 2018
“S.T.A.R.S!” Leon, Josh and Michiel are pursued from beginning to end by the relentless, merciless and fashion-conscious Nemesis in our third Resident Evil podcast of […]
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April 13, 2018
Gareth Damian Martin (@JumpOvertheAge) is a writer, game designer, and photographer. Early last year, he took his column at Kill Screen, entitled “Heterotopias” and fleshed […]
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April 9, 2018
“STILL AT LARGE… VERY LARGE!” Just ahead of the release of the 2018 movie version, Leon (George), Michiel (Lizzie) and Dan Clark (Ralph) team up […]
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April 2, 2018
“This game is not a game: It’s a portrait.” James, Leah, Tony, and guest Charlotte Cutts (@ccuttsgames) are your panel this week, as Will O’Neill‘s […]
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March 26, 2018
“It would seem the universe does not like its peas mixed with its porridge.” Comstock’s corrupt Columbia is the Cane and Rinse collective’s destination in […]
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March 19, 2018
“Hrm? This tangle of yarn here looks familiar… …AH! IT’S A YOSHI! Another entry into the subset of textile-based platformers(!), Yoshi’s Woolly World arrived on […]
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March 15, 2018
In this interview extra, Leon Cox (@ratsoalbion) talks to the creator of Point & Clickbait Tim Colwill (@burgerdrome) about his time as a game developer, […]
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March 12, 2018
“I fight because I must.” 1998 was a big year for stealth games, and Tenchu: Stealth Assassins was the first to draw its weapon. Podcasting […]
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March 8, 2018
In this interview extra, Leon Cox (@ratsoalbion) talks to the gaming historian David L. Craddock (@davidlcraddock), author of the popular online book Rocket Jump: Quake […]
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March 5, 2018
“So… this is what everyone’s been dying for…” Raccoon City itself is under siege from the infected hordes and – wouldn’t you know it? – […]
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February 26, 2018
“Guy speak beaver.” In the second of at least fifteen podcasts on the series, Leon, Josh, Leah, and drop-in fourth party member Jon Salmon take […]
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February 19, 2018
“Ricky Winterborn!” As the N64 original turns 20, Leon, Darren, Michiel and Tony wrap up warm for another few runs down the mighty twin peaks […]
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February 12, 2018
“Skills for Kills, Agent. Skills for Kills.” In anticipation of the series’ forthcoming third instalment, Leon, Leah, Tony and guest David Turner from The Computer […]
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February 5, 2018
“aren’t you afraid?” Belatedly following on from issue 3 of the podcast(!) – in which we spoke to producer James Mielke about Child of Eden […]
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January 29, 2018
“Whatever dreams you have! You’ll do your best to make them come true!” It’s been a long time coming, but all heroes must eventually fall. […]
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January 22, 2018
“How come you look so scared?” The Cane and Rinse podcast’s seventh year commences with our look at the original 1996 incarnation of Capcom’s Biohazard […]
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January 9, 2018
The entire Cane and Rinse team takes an epic look back at 2017 to reflect on all of the games that released that year that […]
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December 24, 2017
“What the devil?” Cane and Rinse concludes its epic sixth year by closing off our run with The Witcher, specifically the two substantial pieces of […]
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December 22, 2017
Thank you to all of our Patreon patrons and supporters. We didn’t hit our ambitious target, but we still thrive on your support. We knew […]
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December 18, 2017
“Death to the fascists!” Following on from our Medal of Honor: Allied Assault podcast back in 2014, we move on to Infinity Ward’s first ever […]
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December 11, 2017
“Battle.” Cane and Rinse rejoins the race in 1996, as we review Mario Kart 64 – a wildly divisive entry in a much-loved but polarising […]
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December 4, 2017
The people wait, their only hope, a prophecy….” In the first podcast of what we intend to be several years’ worth of Final Fantasy coverage, […]
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November 27, 2017
“FIGHT, MEGAMAN! FOR EVERLASTING PEACE!” Capcom’s Rockman – better known in the West as Mega Man – blasted his way onto the scene 30 years […]
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November 20, 2017
“ROLLING START” Moving onto the last lap, Karl, Tony and returning guest Gary Blower round out the final two iterations in the Project Gotham Racing […]
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November 13, 2017
“Don’t miss out on the enjoyment of a lifetime!” Are you ready, true believers? This jam-packed show spans a whole slew of fighting games released […]
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November 6, 2017
“Maybe this old pig can’t fly… But he’s still got a bounce in his step!” Attention Hillyans! Cane And Rinse Network members, Tony, Leah, Josh […]
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October 30, 2017
“Is this what you want?” In the third of our four podcasts on CD Projekt Red‘s celebrated RPG series, we arrive at 2015’s legitimately epic […]
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October 23, 2017
“My scythe… I like to keep it next to where my heart used to be.” Tim Schafer‘s final game for LucasArts was his much-loved noir […]
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October 20, 2017
Here’s our latest update to our ongoing Patreon campaign to try and raise enough to allow us to make Cane and Rinse a full-time concern […]
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October 16, 2017
“Heaven condemned me, and hell deceived me. Now, it’s time to teach them both a lesson.” Autumn 2014 saw PlatinumGames’ Bayonetta 2 arrive as a […]
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October 14, 2017
In this interview extra, Leon Cox (@ratsoalbion) talks to William Collis (@William_Collis) the Co-Founder and President of esports coaching platform Gamer Sensei that provides personalized […]
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October 9, 2017
“…Who am I?” Join Josh, Tony and Sean as we travel to the year 2104 and try our best not to slip up on the […]
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October 2, 2017
“The answers you seek are inside this box… You always were the smart one.” Fireproof Games‘ trilogy of mobile puzzle games is about to become […]
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September 25, 2017
“Gimme a hard copy of that” The acid rain beats the streets of L.A. like drums, marching me towards my next stop on the trail […]
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September 22, 2017
In this interview extra, Leon Cox (@ratsoalbion) talks to Ben Cartlidge (@1creditclassics) the creator behind the YouTube channel One Credit Classics, a channel dedicated to […]
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September 18, 2017
“Come here!” Kane and Rinse kovers the early years of one of videogames’ more kontroversial koncepts, Midway’s Mortal Kombat. From the ropey blue-skreen of the […]
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September 11, 2017
“Marian! Aw, man; not this again.” A subtly different show this issue as Leon, James and Michiel consider three different approaches to reviving or renewing […]
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September 8, 2017
Joining Leon for this interview extra are Jordan Erica Webber and Daniel Griliopoulos. Leon talks to Jordan Erica Webber and Daniel Griliopoulos about their new […]
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September 4, 2017
“This path should lead us straight to the grave.” From Earth to Mars and everywhere in between, join Guardians Leah and Karl, with guests CJ […]
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August 28, 2017
“Our descendants will decide who we were when they see what we’ve left behind.” In the second of four podcasts on CD Projekt Red’s fantasy […]
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August 21, 2017
“SPECIAL CUP” As Super Mario Kart celebrates a quarter of a century of infuriating racing mania, we return to the Mode 7 madness Super Famicom/SNES […]
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August 20, 2017
Here’s our second update to our ongoing Patreon campaign to try and raise enough to allow us to make Cane and Rinse a full-time concern […]
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August 14, 2017
“AGAIN!” In this issue we test our nerve to the very limit in the face of colour and sound smashing together and the very walls […]
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August 11, 2017
Joining Leon for this interview extra is author of 100 Best Video Games (That Never Existed), Nate Crowley Originating from an idea that began on […]
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August 7, 2017
“I feel like someone’s watching us.” Karl, Tony, Josh and Leah discuss Supermassive Games first foray on Playstation 4 with the console exclusive, Until Dawn. […]
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July 31, 2017
“I had faith in you. In your ability to hate, in your self-righteous indignation” 1999 saw the release of the second title in the Legacy […]
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July 24, 2017
“BUZZARD BAIT!” Recorded one day after the 35th anniversary of the game’s arcade debut, the Cane and Rinse crusty crew remembers Williams’ bizarre bird-battler Joust. […]
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July 17, 2017
“No wonder they call it a ‘web’ – nothing can ever get out.” Time travel is complicated. When time travel is the best hope you […]
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July 10, 2017
1987: Inspired by Aliens and Gradius, a compact but crack team at Irem produced a horizontally scrolling shoot-’em up that would become a genre icon, […]
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July 3, 2017
“Am I… am I in-inside the movie?” As part of the once Nintendo GameCube exclusive Capcom 5 and Hideki Kamiya’s third directing job, following the […]
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July 1, 2017
Here’s our first update to our ongoing Patreon campaign to try and raise enough to allow us to make Cane and Rinse a full-time concern […]
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June 26, 2017
“Old age is no jest!” The first of four podcasts covering CD Projekt Red’s celebrated series of RPGs. Leon, Josh and Sean each complete the […]
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June 19, 2017
“DUE TO A GENETIC ENGINEERING ERROR, YOU POSSESS SUPERHUMAN POWERS.” Robotron: 2084 – by Williams’ ‘Vid Kidz’ – may not have been the first twin-stick […]
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June 12, 2017
“I can’t even win with a sword anymore.” For more than twenty years, the sprawling, lush titles of the Tales series have captivated JRPG fans […]
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June 5, 2017
“INVADE THE ENEMYS BASE” After the success of Nekketsu Koha Kunio-kun and Renegade, Yoshihisa Kishimoto of Technos Japan set about outdoing himself with Double Dragon. […]
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May 29, 2017
“LINES LEFT” Tetris: Such a simple, elegant game with such a complex and convoluted back story. Leon, Josh, Karl and Leah recall the heights of […]
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May 22, 2017
“Watch her… she’s sharp.” Following a protracted and disrupted development, Rare eventually launched its spiritual successor-cum-sci-fi-sequel to the ubiquitous GoldenEye 007 (see issue 200 of […]
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May 19, 2017
Joining Leon for this interview extra is WayForward Technologies‘ Game Director, Tomm Hulett. Recounting his remarkable career, Tomm tells us of his early days testing […]
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May 16, 2017
Cane and Rinse announces its desire to make twice the amount of podcasts from 2018 with the support of its incredible listeners and community http://media.blubrry.com/caneandrinse/caneandrinse.com/podcast/patreon_appeal_full_2017.mp3 […]
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May 15, 2017
“That’s my story, just the way I lived it…” We travel to the year 2140 and crash land on the planet Titan. Panellists Karl, Michiel, […]
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May 8, 2017
“Here it comes… A MIGHTY DUSTER!” His name is Max and his world is fire and blood. Tony Atkins, Sean Bell (@CaptainToss), Jay Taylor and, […]
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May 1, 2017
“It seems I have greatly overestimated you.” The art of the Ninja is one of subtlety, patience and stealth. However, no one told Mr. Hayabusa […]
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April 24, 2017
“Stay awhile and listen.” In this three-man dungeon run Cane and Rinse, we delve deep on (almost) everything Diablo, briefly discussing the first two games […]
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April 21, 2017
In this interview special, Ryan talks to Mattia Traverso (@MattiaNotFound) about the 2016 Kinect oddity FRU, on which he is one of the designers. They […]
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April 16, 2017
“Maybe I’ve done this one too many times.” Leon, Josh, Sean, Tony and the Cane and Rinse community lie to their spouses before slaughtering hundreds […]
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April 9, 2017
“Meow meow, meow meow meow.” Join Josh and guests Jon Salmon (@CatatonicNali) and Sean Bell (@CaptainToss), as we return to the family home on Arbor […]
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April 2, 2017
“Hot cars, sweet moves…” The engines are revving and the lights are green as Karl, Tony and returning guest Gary Blower (@Xantiriad) discuss Bizarre Creations […]
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March 26, 2017
“There’s no choice but to go.” In the final podcast of our Zelda run spanning the first 27 or so years of the series, Leon, […]
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March 19, 2017
“We’re here to make you happy!” Another ‘cult classic’ comes under the Cane and Rinse microscope as we inspect skip Ltd.’s late entry into Nintendo’s […]
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March 12, 2017
“You’re just trying to impress me!” Former Rare man Darren is your host as a panel of Karl, Michiel and Tony cause environmental carnage in […]
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March 5, 2017
“First we need to make sure that you can see in the darkness.” In a slightly different sort of Cane and Rinse podcast, Leon, James […]
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March 4, 2017
Leon talks to Ben Clavin (@BenClavin) of Pewter Games Studios about their charming debut adventure, The Little Acre. An unusual point and clicker set in […]
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February 26, 2017
“This news has just filled my heart with rainbows!” In our 14th of 15 podcasts covering The Legend of Zelda, we arrive at the most […]
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February 19, 2017
“You are the first human to come here in a long time.” It’s high time humans extended an olive branch to the monsters they exiled […]
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February 12, 2017
“Never Accept. Always Question.” Tony, Leah, Sean and Jay take to the grimy, smog-filled streets of an alternative history Victorian era London to discuss Ready […]
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February 6, 2017
To tie in with issue 254 of the podcast, we talk to the most successful European Street Fighter III: 3rd Strike player of all time, […]
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February 5, 2017
“May the best fighter win and win again.” Following the earlier Street Fighter II and Street Fighter Zero/Alpha series podcasts, Leon and James – along […]
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January 29, 2017
“What is this place?” When the arcades ruled and legal teams didn’t, Konami went a long way to defining the run and gun genre with […]
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January 22, 2017
“Congratulations on your resurrection, Your Majesty!” We’re almost on the homeward stretch of our odyssey of Link, with this particular leg of the journey a […]
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January 15, 2017
“I don’t know if anyone will ever hear this. It’s all over, I’m the only one left.” Volume Six begins at the end of all […]
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January 2, 2017
In this little podcast extra to kick off 2017, Leon Cox, Leah Haydu, Josh Garrity, Darren Gargette and Ryan Hamann look back and reminisce about […]
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December 23, 2016
Leon Cox (@ratsoalbion) talks to talented young actor Raphael Corkhill (@raphaelcorkhill) about making a living, including providing a variety of vocal performances for high profile […]
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December 4, 2016
“We are born of the blood, made men by the blood, undone by the blood.” We conclude our fifth year of the podcast with our […]
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December 2, 2016
In this Cane and Rinse interview special Leon (@ratsoalbion) talks to Game Informer Senior Editor Jeff Cork (@gijeff) about his new book, Limitless Sky: No […]
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November 27, 2016
“That’s enough out of you, Sparkles.” Not D-pads nor analogue sticks but styluses. Or should that be stylii? Either way, a contentious change of control […]
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November 20, 2016
“Good job Kurt, you saved Kirkcaldy (tourism is safe!)” Leon, Tony and Sean Bell display their Mighty Deep Knowledge of Shiny’s bizarre 1997 3D run […]
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November 13, 2016
“It seeks ambition… and it will change the way you think about driving. Forever.” Join Karl, Tony and guest Gary Blower (@Xantiriad) as they race […]
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November 6, 2016
“It’s… a thing. A science thing. It hurts robots.” Honest hearts Josh, Sean and James take a long journey down the lonesome road towards Obsidian’s […]
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October 30, 2016
“There is nothing left, everything is gone.” Join Josh, Leah, Sean and special guest Simon Cole, as they explore the dilapidated halls of Brennenburg Castle […]
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October 23, 2016
“He’s not exactly what I had in mind, but… I guess he’ll do.” Swansong for Nintendo’s GameCube and curtain raiser for its Wii, The Legend […]
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October 16, 2016
“Paris in the fall, the last months of the year, at the end of the millennium. The city holds many memories for me, of music, […]
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October 9, 2016
“Working together for a safer, better connected Sevastopol.” In this issue Josh, Tony and Sean, along with special guest and writer for PC Gamer Andy […]
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October 2, 2016
“AAAAAHHH! They’re everywhere! Pink elephants are everywhere!” It’s a very extreme issue of Cane and Rinse as Ryan, Karl, and guest Dan Clark take to […]
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September 25, 2016
“I hate drugs and chewing gum.” The daring and diligent dudes of digital dialogue discuss the deviant, delerious Dark Dreams Don’t Die. Does it demand […]
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September 18, 2016
“It’s not big; we’re just small!” Capcom’s dinky Game Boy Advance offering gets its own full-sized podcast of course. In the latest of our mammoth […]
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September 11, 2016
“Nothing looks more suspicious in America than someone who’s actually prepared to make something.” Leon, James, Jay and Sean take on Rockstar Games‘ critical and […]
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September 4, 2016
“Checkpoint!” Celebrating its 30th anniversary, SEGA AM2’s iconic coin-op racer Out Run is the subject of our latest podcast retrospective. Leon, Ryan (new to the […]
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August 28, 2016
“Penalty.” Dino Dini and Steve Screech collaborated in the late 80s to make the 16-bit footy phenomenon that was a ubiquitous multiplayer fixture for the […]
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August 21, 2016
“Even if you worms attack me as a group, I’ll skewer the lot of you on my mighty trident!” Our ninth The Legend of Zelda […]
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August 14, 2016
“I can take care of myself. I’ve been doing it for centuries.” In 2014 Telltale Games applied its episodic, adventure game formula to a title […]
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August 7, 2016
“Hello there ladies and gents, are you ready to rock?” A combo of Leon (guitar), Ryan (bass), Tony (drums) and full combo-meister Paul Shotton (vox) […]
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July 31, 2016
“We leave for Paris on the 8:25. In an hour.” Pack your bags! Ryan, James, Tony, and special guest Sean Bell grab their train schedules, […]
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July 24, 2016
“Oceans… Oceans… Oceans… Oceans… Oceans as far as the eye can see.” Or Zelda IX. Or is it VIII? Seven-and-a-half? That’s why no-one calls it […]
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July 17, 2016
“Hey hey hey, c’mon over, have some fun with Crazy Taxi!” It’s 1999 and arcade gamers are enjoying some Crazy Taxi, SEGA Hitmaker’s loud and […]
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July 10, 2016
“I know your type: tall, dark, and dead you want to bite all the petals off of my head.” No-one had pitted flesh-eating vegetation against […]
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July 3, 2016
“We shall always remember the night… when I lost Ori to the Great Storm…” Developed by Moon Studios, Ori and the Blind Forest was released […]
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June 26, 2016
“Soil, time, sun, rain, warmth… I await one who knows many essences…” Nintendo entrusted the development of a Zelda game to Capcom ‘super-group’ Flagship for […]
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June 19, 2016
“Another world?” For many, the idea of JRPG maestros Level-5 teaming up with animation and storytelling magicians Studio Ghibli was the stuff of fantasy. Ni […]
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June 12, 2016
“To defeat them is a must and bringing peace to the land is my duty!” With their mothers, fathers, siblings and even their old mate […]
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June 5, 2016
“I must admit, nothing could have prepared my old eyes for what now lies before them.” Inspired by the arcade games of CAVE and Treasure, […]
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May 29, 2016
“Bring it down.” Titanfall landed just over two years ago, the much anticipated first product of former Infinity Ward devs, Respawn Entertainment. Although closely associated […]
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May 22, 2016
“Goddess of Time, help us please! We need more time!” In our sixth podcast covering Nintendo’s fantasy series, we come to 2000’s The Legend of […]
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May 15, 2016
“We have awakened the terrible destructor…” Breakaway studio Treasure launched its first game in 1993, Gunstar Heroes. Formed of some of Konami’s crack Super Nintendo […]
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May 8, 2016
“I know you got questions, but we gotta get moving.” Darren, Karl and Sean discuss RAGE, a game from a fascinating time in id Software’s […]
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May 1, 2016
“Persona!” Josh and Ryan, along with special guests Leah Haydu and Jerome McIntosh (@JeromeMci), enter the mysterious dark hour and explore every nook and cranny […]
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April 24, 2016
“Oh… man! It’s gonna be a long day…” Darren, Ryan, Cane and Rinse debutant Michiel Kroder and returning guest Jon Salmon discuss the potty-mouthed squirrel […]
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April 17, 2016
“Listen!” In which a panel of Leon, Darren, Karl and Leah Haydu consider what the fifth The Legend of Zelda title brought to both the […]
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April 10, 2016
“You said you were different, Jodie. In what way?” Following on from our much earlier Fahrenheit (96) and Heavy Rain (100) podcasts, we now turn […]
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April 8, 2016
On this special edition of Cane and Rinse, Ryan Hamann (@Insrtcoins) interviews author, professor, and games philosopher Alfie Bown, sharing the insights that he has […]
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April 3, 2016
“Your mission has always been to die, soldier!” In the second of our current run of three id Software podcasts, Leon, Darren and Jon Salmon […]
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March 27, 2016
“My sweet heart since child hood.” Certainly not the first urban brawler although perhaps one of the most fondly remembered and influential, Capcom latterly entered […]
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March 26, 2016
“And all these stories we’ve been telling each other. Just that… stories.” Her Story arrived in Summer 2015 to critical acclaim and has since garnered […]
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March 13, 2016
“The Wind Fish sleeps long and dreamily in the Egg above…” In the fourth of this mammoth run of podcasts featuring Nintendo’s eternal hero we […]
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March 6, 2016
“ONCE YOU BEAT THE BIG BADASSES AND CLEAN OUT THE MOON BASE YOU’RE SUPPOSED TO WIN, AREN’T YOU?” The landscape of the videogame industry changed […]
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February 28, 2016
“I swear on the name of Dumuzid, the Shepherd, consort of Ishtar! Your ass is mine, punk.” Buckle your chastity belts because we’re exploring the […]
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February 21, 2016
“No, I wanted orange! It gave me lemon-lime.” In the year 2000, Ion Storm released the cyberpunk-themed action role-playing game Deus Ex to universal acclaim. […]
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February 14, 2016
“May the way of the hero lead to the Triforce.” Released on the one year anniversary of the Super Famicom in Japan, The Legend of […]
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February 7, 2016
“Ain’t there somebody who can stop this fighting machine?” After the Street Fighter II series finally came to its end but before The New Generation’s […]
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January 31, 2016
“It’s Me! Fizzie!” In this issue, Host Tony Atkins is joined by Karl Moon, Sean O’Brien and Darren Gargette as they venture over to Sunset […]
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January 24, 2016
Objection! It’s the trial of the century! The prosecution and defense line up to examine and find the truth about Gyakuten Saiban a.k.a. Phoenix Wright: […]
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January 17, 2016
“I AM ERROR.” In the second of our seventeen (!) planned The Legend of Zelda podcasts, we tackle notoriously tough ‘odd man out’, Zelda II: […]
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January 1, 2016
Cane and Rinse contributors Leon, Darren, James, Josh, Ryan and Sean crack open the brandy and cigars and pass judgement on their personal 2015 gaming […]
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December 20, 2015
“It is so a fine gift.” Monolith Productions (not to be confused with Monolith Soft) hit pay dirt when they combined JRR Tolkien’s fantasy with […]
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December 13, 2015
“If this thing goes sideways and we end up on the other side, meet me at the bar. I’m buying.” Following on from issue 22 […]
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December 6, 2015
“IT’S DANGEROUS TO GO ALONE! TAKE THIS.” The Cane and Rinse podcast returns for its fifth year with the start of its longest series yet. […]
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November 30, 2015
What is Cane and Rinse? Cane and Rinse is a videogames podcast and blog. Our team of experienced enthusiasts takes a different game (or occasionally […]
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November 1, 2015
“For England, James?” Because we failed to do it for issue 007, finally here it is for issue 200. That’s right, to polish off our […]
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October 30, 2015
“Stay away from my bins!” The driest and most reverent gaming organ around (that’s us) comes face-to-face with possibly the most succulent and disrespectful – […]
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October 25, 2015
“Hello, Mr. Snowman” In the penultimate issue of Volume Four, Ryan Hamann, Brian Tarran, Jay Taylor, and guest CJ Black explode into the action-packed Just […]
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October 18, 2015
“All o’ ya!” Leon, Darren and Josh put their gizzards and giblets on the line as they tiptoe back through Rupture Farms. Oddworld: Abe’s Oddysee […]
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October 11, 2015
“Before this is over, promise me you’ll figure out which one of us is the machine.” Concluding our run of Halo podcasts ahead of the […]
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October 8, 2015
The incomparable creator of Eternal Darkness and Too Human breaks radio silence to offer us this searingly honest interview. Leon and James are joined by […]
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October 6, 2015
In this special edition of the Cane and Rinse podcast, Ryan Hamann interviews USA Today’s top education writer, Greg Toppo. Greg was invited to speak […]
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October 4, 2015
“Sup?” Ryan, Josh, Jay, and James swipe right to express their fondness for the deceptively simple iPhone mega-hit Threes!. The panel discusses the developmental history […]
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September 27, 2015
“…I’m just a drawing! But I’ll be free soon enough…” Leon, Tony and Karl abuse save-states to see SEGA Technical Institute’s late era Mega Drive/Genesis […]
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September 20, 2015
“Thomas was alone. Wow, what a weird first thought to have” Josh, Ryan and Tony set up their microphones, for what was bound to be […]
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September 13, 2015
“It’s wounded, end its suffering!” For the penultimate podcast in our current run of Halo shows Leon, Josh, Karl and Tony remember Reach. Did Bungie, […]
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September 6, 2015
“That’s the second biggest monkey head I’ve ever seen!” LucasArts (nee Lucasfilm Games) discovered buried treasure with their swashbuckling 1990 point-and-clicker, The Secret of Monkey […]
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August 30, 2015
“Every goal, goal, goal, says you’re the best in the land!” Before FIFA, before Pro Evo (but after Kick Off), there was Sensible Soccer. ‘Sensi’ […]
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August 23, 2015
“Oh disciple of the dark sun, thou hast journeyed far.” From Software switched personnel around for Dark Souls II, the first straight sequel in their […]
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August 16, 2015
“Get set for a combat drop!” In the latest of our Halo series of podcasts, Leon, Karl, Tony and guest CJ Black (Twin Humanities) revisit […]
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August 9, 2015
“Super State.” Stephen Cakebread’s Geometry Wars may have started life as a Project Gotham Racing Easter egg but has since taken on an intensely glowing, […]
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August 2, 2015
“Oh my God! Corn! I didn’t have corn for dinner! This is awful!” In 2006, Rockstar Vancouver introduced us to Bulworth Academy and the adventures […]
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July 26, 2015
“We must strive to cherish their memory and never forget.” With Valiant Hearts: The Great War, Ubisoft Montpellier took on the daunting task of making […]
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July 19, 2015
“Wake me… when you need me.” Halo 3 saw the Master Chief’s debut on the Xbox 360, surfing in on a tidal wave of hype. […]
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July 12, 2015
“The dark, reddish-black pool of blood… The scattered pieces of flesh… Organs strewn across the floor like the blossoming of a grotesque flower…” It’s a […]
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July 5, 2015
“I love you so much, Red. You know that right?” As a follow up to their critically well-received first game Bastion, Supergiant Games came up […]
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June 28, 2015
“I’m a science genius girl. I won the science fair. I wear a white lab coat. DNA strands in my hair.” A pair of PlayStation […]
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June 21, 2015
“I… I am a monument to all your sins…” With Halo 5: Guardians scheduled to arrive later this year, Cane and Rinse company drop from […]
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June 14, 2015
“I’m talking guys who beat off, four times a day!” Goichi Suda teamed up with co-writer Shinji Mikami to create one of the ‘Capcom Five’ […]
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June 7, 2015
“Weatherman says there’s a storm coming our way to spoil the fun.” The Cane and Rinse podcast concludes its Silent Hill cycle where it began, […]
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May 31, 2015
“This one red hour will make your reputation or mine… are you right with your maker?” Silicon Knights‘ 2008 Xbox 360 exclusive, Too Human, was […]
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May 24, 2015
“You can wax on, wax off all you like. I’m still kicking your ass.” A late-generation cult classic or a ridiculous, slapstick B-movie take on […]
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May 17, 2015
“Yes, the Nazis rule the world now, they are everywhere. Everywhere.” Our four podcast series tracing the history of this particular franchise concludes with MachineGames‘ […]
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May 10, 2015
“Our caller ID shows that you are calling from Silent Hill, I regret to inform you that you are beyond even our help.” The penultimate […]
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May 3, 2015
“What was I really doing walking in there with my bad haircut and ridiculous shirt?” Max has a snazzy shirt and new employers as he […]
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April 26, 2015
“Magic… The elusive trickery that chains my people…” Hanging up their Covenant sniper rifles and Dragon Greatswords to dawn the wings of a fairy princess […]
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April 19, 2015
“Ice cream! Ice cream!” A dystopic vision (late 80s/early 90s style) of bone-crunching, metallic future sports, courtesy of the famous Bitmap Bros, first Speedball and […]
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April 12, 2015
“Alright, you cuff him, I’ll read him his rights.” In this, the sixth of our eight podcasts on Silent Hill, we turn our attention to […]
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April 5, 2015
Guests CJ Black (Twin Humanities) and Sean Bell (Midnight Resistance) join Leon and Jay in our entirely unbalanced Dragon’s Dogma issue. That’s right, you’ll not […]
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March 29, 2015
“Why don’t you have a pork bun in your hand?” United Front Games fused classic Hong Kong crime cinema with contemporary open-world videogame shenanigans for […]
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March 22, 2015
“Mein Leben!” In this, our third podcast on the Wolfenstein series of games, James, Brian and Tony discuss Raven Software’s 2009 addition to the series […]
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March 15, 2015
“Hey, chill. You don’t see me bringing up your issues.” It’s back to basics for the fifth of our Silent Hill series of podcasts. Climax […]
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March 8, 2015
“Did you guys just come out of the closet? Get out of here!” In 1995 a Square Soft development ‘Dream Team’ launched an epochal RPG […]
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March 1, 2015
“Don’t get too cocky!” For those times when minigames are just too time-consuming, Mario’s evil doppelganger Wario (with a little help from Nintendo R&D1) invented […]
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February 22, 2015
Move a little, turn a little break a little, hurt a little In this podcast Ryan, Josh, Karl and Sean confer about Queasy Games‘ 2012 […]
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February 16, 2015
“This is a nightmare… It can’t be happening…” The last game in the series by Team Silent, Silent Hill 4: The Room is a game […]
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February 8, 2015
“You have simply given up, and you would have us all do the same.” In our first Assassin’s Creed podcast for over three years we […]
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February 1, 2015
“But what am I supposed to do with all this cheese?” In the second of four Wolfenstein podcasts we turn our attention to Gray Matter’s […]
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January 25, 2015
“I should never have angered that shopkeeper…” Join us as we explore the spider-infested, alien-contested and shopkeeper-invested world of Derek Yu’s 2008 and 2012 roguelike […]
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January 18, 2015
“Monsters? They looked like monsters to you?!” We’re less than halfway through our Silent Hill series of podcasts and yet already concluding the ‘original’ and […]
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December 28, 2014
“You are that special one that I’ve been waiting for” A slightly under-the-weather Leon (cold), Karl (stomach ache) and Dan Clark (headache) huddle together to […]
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December 21, 2014
“Let’s ruffle some feathers!” Tony, along with guests Gary Blower (GameBurst) and Brad Gallaway (GameCritics) take a look at the Activision published Skylanders series – […]
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December 14, 2014
“Select your vehicle.” Fond festive memories of Christmas ’97’s gleeful kart, hovercraft and plane adventure: Diddy Kong Racing. Leon, Darren, Karl and our community peer […]
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December 7, 2014
“I guess I really don’t care if it’s dangerous or not. I’m going to town either way.” Can we already reached the peak of the […]
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November 30, 2014
“Wow! Incredible!” Leon, Darren, Josh and Ryan explore the vast, chaotic world of Super Smash Bros. from its pre-millennial inception on N64 up to and […]
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November 23, 2014
“What are you doing here? Are you lost too?” In this issue, James Carter, Ryan Hamann, Brian Tarran and Jay Taylor discuss Keiichiro Toyama’s gravity […]
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November 16, 2014
“Mein Leben!” In the first of four podcasts looking into the storied history of the (Castle) Wolfenstein saga, we start with the late Silas Warner’s […]
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November 9, 2014
“Huh? Radio? What’s going on with that radio?” Cane and Rinse returns for its fourth year with the start of our Silent Hill series. In […]
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October 19, 2014
“Do you like hurting other people?” In a flurry of chaos, Hotline Miami burst through the door of the videogame world and took on all […]
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October 12, 2014
“We now have a dog and Alistair is still the dumbest one in the party.” Ahead of the forthcoming Inquisition (which we are expecting), Leon, […]
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October 5, 2014
“Your team has trained hard, and I have every confidence you’ll get the job done.” WASD and mouse fingers are flexed as Leon, Tony and […]
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September 28, 2014
“Let us fight man versus tiny baby man!” For this week’s podcast, Josh, Darren G., Karl and Jay discuss Valve‘s 2007 idiosyncratic cartoonish shooter Team […]
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September 21, 2014
“Ugh! It smells like a whale… ate some cabbage… and died in your mouth… like a year ago!” Darren, Brian, Ryan and Jay discuss Double […]
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September 14, 2014
“i borrowed this phone from a sex worker and i haven’t figured out how to do capitals on it yet” Tom Francis’ Gunpoint is, by […]
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September 7, 2014
“It doesn’t matter how much you push the envelope, it’ll still be stationery.” Oft-requested, once delayed, here at last is our podcast devoted to Naughty […]
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August 31, 2014
“Don’t be a stranger now!” This week Tony, Darren, Ryan and guest Gary Blower (Gameburst) discuss Rare‘s brightly coloured, papier-mâché life (or perhaps zoological) simulation […]
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August 24, 2014
“You come from a world that’s been gone for 50 years…” Hideo Kojima’s Snatcher isn’t quite 50 years old, but James, Sean, Karl and special […]
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August 17, 2014
“Talking about me? Never wise.” Darren Gargette, Darren Forman and Brian Tarran discuss interplanetary anti-hero Richard B. Riddick and his break-out critical hit, 2004’s first-person […]
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August 9, 2014
“Your flesh is an insult to the perfection of the digital.” Leon, James and Karl were unfazed by the task of having to complete Looking […]
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August 3, 2014
“Mya ha! They’ll remember ME once I drive my axe into their… Wait… my axe! Where’s my axe?!” Nintendo‘s near-quarter-of-a-century-old tactical, turn-based fantasy battle RPG […]
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July 26, 2014
“Yes, that’s it! Embrace the path of uncertainty! Jump!” Media Molecule‘s Vita-feature utilising Tearaway is the subject of this issue of the podcast. Traversing a […]
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July 20, 2014
“It really does sound quite absurd, adventure of a bear and bird!” Rare’s ursine-avian twosome are the subject of this issue of the podcast. Not […]
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July 12, 2014
“You’re so fine, I want you mine, you’re so delicious, I think about you all the time, you’re so addictive…” Bringing our journey through the […]
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July 5, 2014
“Hey, wanna hear the new dubstep song I wrote? Wub wub wub wub wub wub wub wub wub wub wub wub wub wub. DROP! Wub […]
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June 28, 2014
“Because, y’know, that’s what grown-ups do. They make things up.” Leon, Tony, Josh and Ryan plug into old Johnny’s brain to experience the RPG Maker […]
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June 22, 2014
“The fight is everything.” With some trepidation but no little enthusiasm Leon, Josh, Sean and guest Dan Clark take on the phenomenon that was Street […]
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June 15, 2014
“Can you guys believe this?! DJ Atomika from Race Radio just called and told me to turn the down the volume!” A new publisher, new […]
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June 8, 2014
“Names are for friends, so I don’t need one!” Karl, Brian, James and Jay dust off their silverballers, check their fiber wires and discuss the […]
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June 1, 2014
“Oh, hey. Hiya, pretty lady. Name’s Rick. So, you out having yourself a little adventure?” Leon, Tony, James and Josh awake after 999999 days of […]
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May 25, 2014
“This way!” Concluding our (first) Super Mario marathon, Leon, Darren Gargette and James attempt to resolve the quandary that is the (not so) New Super […]
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May 18, 2014
“High speed, high risk, drive to the limit.” In the first of a trio of podcasts dedicated to Criterion’s Burnout racers Leon, Darren Gargette, James […]
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May 11, 2014
“Life was never easy in the tunnels, but it was our home.” We return to the post-apocalyptic waste land of Moscow in 4A Games’ 2013 […]
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May 4, 2014
“Have I lied to you? …I mean, in this room?” From Narbacular origins to Orange Box unveiling, Leon, Josh, Karl and the Cane and Rinse […]
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April 27, 2014
“Yes, it’s undeniable! We’re detecting Power Star energy patterns in the nearest galaxy.” In this, the penultimate podcast of our six month long Super Mario […]
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April 20, 2014
“To my mother, brothers and sister, with whom I survived the monster in my father.” In this issue of the podcast Leon, Tony, James and […]
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April 13, 2014
“Dropped out of college and got a job as a bike courier. Mostly just to piss off my parents.” An electro-charged double-header this issue as […]
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April 6, 2014
“Naiee.” “Nyaa.” A change of pace and tone for Starbreeze with their downloadable story of symbiotic siblings, Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons, affecting many […]
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March 30, 2014
“What happened? Did the perpetrator get away?” In the fourth of our six podcast ‘core’ Super Mario series, Leon, Tony and Darren G jet off […]
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March 23, 2014
“Slurp it, suck it, I know we all like it.” PaRappa the Rapper, Masaya Matsuura’s little lovelorn dog that could (rap) pretty much kick-started the […]
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March 16, 2014
“Do exactly as I say, and I promise this will be over before the night is out.” Manhunt and Manhunt 2 have garnered a fair […]
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March 9, 2014
“No interest eh? I can tell you’re not going to last long here.” In Issue 76, Cane and Rinse visited Lordran to discuss of Dark […]
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March 2, 2014
“Ah spaghetti… Ah ravioli… Ah mamma mia…” In the third of our ‘core’ Super Mario series podcasts we arrive at the dawn of the 64-bit […]
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February 24, 2014
“Isaac and his Mother lived alone in a small house, on a hill…” In our second podcast covering an Edmund McMillen designed videogame, James Carter, […]
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February 16, 2014
“Am I not beautiful?” Starting with the Nintendo 64 and working our way through Dreamcast and PS2 we trace the murky history of 3D Castlevania […]
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February 9, 2014
“It’s like looking after a bunch of misbehaving kids…” Hironobu Sakaguchi’s Mistwalker attempted to ring in some changes to the traditional JRPG template for Wii […]
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February 3, 2014
“Thank you for rescuing me. My name is Yoshi. On my way to rescue my friends!” In the second of our ‘core’ Super Mario Bros. […]
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January 26, 2014
Danmaku fuss about it but we’re covering a whole load of games in this issue instead of the usual one. This time out we turn […]
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January 20, 2014
“Makes you wonder what the point of everything is.” James Carter and Darren Forman along with Joystiq’s Sinan Kubba and The AI Bots’ Dan Clark […]
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December 29, 2013
“Magical spell is Ei-Ei-Poo!” Tony ‘AiAi’ Atkins, Darren ‘GonGon’ Gargette and Leon ‘MeeMee’ Cox are your guides on this whistle-stop tour of SEGA Amusement Vision’s […]
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December 22, 2013
“Thank you Mario! But our princess is in another castle!” In the first of a six podcast series dedicated to the core games of the […]
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December 15, 2013
“Rule number one: Don’t get me killed.” In 2012 Klei Entertainment released their love letter to the stealth genre in the form of Mark of the Ninja. […]
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December 13, 2013
In addition to issue 107 of the podcast, and a coincidental update to Proteus this week, James sat down to chat with the game’s designer, Ed […]
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December 8, 2013
Ed Key and David Kanaga’s collaborative musical exploration game Proteus raised eyebrows equally for its distinctive visual style and interactive music, as much as for […]
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December 1, 2013
“‘In and out within a month’ they said.” Taking in all of Guerrilla’s now six-game PlayStation-exclusive sci-fi FPS series but focusing on Killzone 2 and […]
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November 24, 2013
“What’s next, Arkham County, Arkham Country, or even Arkham World?” We conclude our brief Caped Crusader series with in-depth analysis of Rocksteady‘s highly rated 2011 […]
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November 17, 2013
“Don’t go throwing your controller at the cat, it could throw something back and it would only escalate from there!” Sack People of the world […]
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November 10, 2013
“I can assure you it is much, much more important than that.” Leon, James and Karl jump in the communal bath and swap boot-room stories […]
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November 3, 2013
“Gather round and I’ll tell you a story, of a castle that fills men with fear” Rare’s first game for Microsoft following their megabucks move […]
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October 27, 2013
“Come on boys! He’s just one man! One man dressed like a lunatic and armed to the teeth.” Cane and Rinse returns for its third […]
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September 30, 2013
“I’m trying to keep a handle on it. But… it’s difficult.” Concluding both our Quantic Dream series and Volume Two of the Cane and Rinse […]
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September 22, 2013
“Now hold still, this will only hurt until your brains come flying out!” Ex-LucasArts employees Tim Schafer, David Dixon and Jonathan Menzies formed Double Fine […]
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September 16, 2013
“Well you picked the right place, Cole, a city that needed an honest cop like a thirsty man needed water.” After the best part of […]
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September 8, 2013
Using the foundations laid down by a 2008 flash game, Edmund McMillen and Tommy Refenes crafted what would become one of the most talked about […]
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September 2, 2013
“It all started right here… Where else could it happen?” James, Tony, Sean and special guest, GamerNode’s Eddie Inzauto contend with fourth wall breaking, multiple […]
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August 26, 2013
“Agh! I knew it! I knew there were ninjas around here!” Two and a half years after they released the first of the Splinter Cell […]
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August 19, 2013
“It’s about time you showed up, Fox. You’re the only hope for our world!” Corneria, fourth planet of the Lylat System. The evil Andross turned […]
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August 12, 2013
“I’ve been through a lot of crazy situations, but that one… that one takes the cake.” After a four year absence following 2003’s Spy Fiction […]
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August 4, 2013
“Breaking news, Bob! You’re fired!” Following mixed fortunes with Grin’s Bionic Commando and Blue Castle’s Dead Rising 2, Capcom decided to hand over another of […]
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July 31, 2013
“Allow me to tell you a tale. It took place 360,000… No, 14,000 years ago.” Ignition Tokyo, with Okami’s Takeyasu Sawaki at the helm, set […]
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July 22, 2013
“A famous explorer once said, that the extraordinary is in what we do, not who we are.” In this podcast Leon, Tony, James and guest […]
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July 14, 2013
“In the end, you know it’s all just blocks.” Mojang Studios, based in Stockholm, Sweden created not only one of the most popular games in […]
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July 7, 2013
“We all start with innocence, but the world leads us to guilt.” Borrowing elements from Thief, Deus Ex, Half-Life and more, Arkane’s Dishonored debuted in […]
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July 1, 2013
“My mommy always said there were no monsters – no real ones – but there are.” Making an exciting videogame based around James Cameron’s 1986 […]
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June 23, 2013
“Today is special day.” After five years of development, would Phil Fish and his Polytron Corporation be able to create the indie darling that everyone […]
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June 16, 2013
“…be careful what you wish for. It might just get you.” To coincide with the release of The Last of Us – and to conclude […]
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June 12, 2013
“What is a man? A Miserable little pile of secrets!” More than ten years after the series’ Famicom debut, director Toru Hagihara fully integrated exploration […]
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June 2, 2013
“Hell, what happened to you?” 2011’s Driver: San Francisco, the sixth game in the franchise. Were Ubisoft Reflections able to turn back the clock and […]
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May 26, 2013
“Yeah, good luck pal, that’s almost impossible to – oh, you did it. Nice.” In the second of our Uncharted trilogy of issues, we turn […]
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May 22, 2013
A couple of months ago I recorded an interview with C.Y. Reid, also known as failnaut. It took me longer than it should to edit […]
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May 20, 2013
Lo cunto de li cunti Independent developer, Tale Of Tales aims to create “emotionally rich interactive entertainment” whilst eschewing the “limitations of competitive play”. In […]
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May 12, 2013
“We fell through a TV! Actually, uh… what is going on here?” Shin Megami Tensei has been around for awhile, standing just outside the industry […]
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May 5, 2013
“Are you sure you wanna be defiling your ancestor’s remains like that?” After ten years of working with Crash and Jak, Naughty Dog attempted to […]
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April 28, 2013
“We will be watching” Once again you’re put in charge of defending the Earth from an extraterrestrial incursion, only this time you have an army […]
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April 21, 2013
“I know this tunnel, and it knows me.” Would you Adam ‘n’ Eve it? Another nuclear apocalypse, and this one’s due in 2013! Leon, Tony, […]
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April 14, 2013
“YOU DEFEATED” In the Age of Ancients, The world was unformed, shrouded by fog A land of grey crags, archtrees, and everlasting dragons But then […]
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April 7, 2013
“You motherf**kers think you’re too good for these?!” Grand Theft Auto IV was of course in fact the eleventh GTA title. Five years and three […]
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April 1, 2013
“Hello. Um…allow me to introduce myself…” “The name’s Resetti. Mr. Resetti. Have we…met before? At the…post office, perhaps? Yeah, whatever. Anyway, let me just say thanks for […]
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March 24, 2013
“This is not a sermon. I will offer no insight.” It took four studios to make BioShock 2: 2K Marin, 2K China, Arkane and Digital […]
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March 17, 2013
“Like it or not, the world has changed.” In Ubisoft’s I Am Alive you play as an unnamed man trying to reach his partner and […]
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March 10, 2013
“Hell, it’s about time.” From 1998 South Korea would never be the same again. It was that year that Blizzard decided to put aside their […]
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March 4, 2013
“Ground Upper!” In the 80’s and 90’s you could hardly move through town for badly dressed punks being flying kicked by vigilantes with terrible haircuts. […]
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February 25, 2013
“I am Andrew Ryan, and I’m here to ask you a question.” “Is a man not entitled to the sweat of his brow? ‘No!’ says […]
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February 18, 2013
“If you want guarantees, buy a toaster.” Formed by the three Yerli brothers, Frankfurt’s Crytek burst onto the PC gaming scene with the technically impressive FarCry […]
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February 10, 2013
“It takes a strong man to deny what’s right in front of him.” Released in June 2012 for 360, PS3 and PC, Yager Development’s Spec […]
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February 8, 2013
Long Road Ahead Is anyone out there? Tony, Josh, Sean and James are still in the Cane and Rinse bunker as they try desperately to […]
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February 4, 2013
“Clementine will remember that.” From a secure location, Cane and Rinse continue to podcast to any and all survivors. Be warned, point-and-click adventures have risen […]
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January 28, 2013
“Remember that pain! Next time it will be worse!” On the day that the snow turned into rain we recorded the second and final of […]
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January 23, 2013
In the first of an occasional series of bonus podcast industry interviews, Leon speaks with Jim Crawford of San Francisco’s Twinbeard Studios. Creator of the […]
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January 20, 2013
“Guess that one saw the light!” Following a protracted period in well-publicised ‘development hell’, Max Payne developer Remedy’s David Lynch/Stephen King/Rod Serling homage Alan Wake […]
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January 13, 2013
“Now you’ve really crossed the line.” The Resident Evil follow-up that metamorphosed into its own IP during development, Hideki Kamiya’s Devil May Cry arrived on […]
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December 23, 2012
“Heh… you like me that much?” A developer whose hallmark is technical wizardry, Yu Suzuki’s AM2 were responsible for eye-popping innovation throughout the 80s and 90s with […]
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December 17, 2012
“Origin of all that is good and mother to us all” During its relatively short existence, Clover Studio produced a triumvirate of significant and memorable titles; […]
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December 9, 2012
“Prepare for unforseen consequences.” In the last of our Half-Life series of podcasts, we review both Half-Life 2: Episode One and Episode Two. Beyond this […]
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December 2, 2012
I’ve got all the patterns down, up until the ninth key… …I’ve got Speedy on my tail, and I know it’s either him or me. So […]
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November 25, 2012
“Am I the only one who understands the meaning of the word “covert?”” Thick-necked, wise-cracking future soldiers shooting the crap out of robots with big guns. […]
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November 18, 2012
Doukutsu Monogatari The late 1990s: Inspired by a host of classic Japanese titles, printer operating systems programmer, Daisuke Amaya, has a dorm-mate teach him how to code […]
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November 11, 2012
“Rise and shine, Mr. Freeman. Rise and shine.” Some twenty years after defeating the Nihilanth on Xen, Dr. Gordon Freeman is brought out of stasis […]
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November 4, 2012
“By 2069 the world will be controlled by giant mega-corporations called Syndicates.” They will vie for the minds of a populace helpless to escape their […]
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October 28, 2012
“Hurry! Before Mizrabel uses her powers of illusion to make herself look like Minnie, and make Minnie look evil like her.” Leon, Tony, Darren Gargette […]
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October 21, 2012
“Stop praying. This is pathetic.” Asura’s Wrath doesn’t so much defy description as demand a lengthy one: The game, produced by CyberConnect2 (best known for […]
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October 14, 2012
“Fascinating! I never suspected such things could be.” In 1996 Gabe Newell and Mike Harrington founded Valve Corporation. Employing a team plucked from the cream […]
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October 7, 2012
It’s still alive, and cannot apologise: Mirror’s Edge We mantle into Volume Two by reflecting on the strange time of 2008, when Electronic Arts were […]
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September 16, 2012
“C’mon everybody, check me out: I’m dancin’! I’m dancin!” Oh, there ain’t no rest for the wicked, money don’t grow on trees. I got bills […]
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September 9, 2012
We’ve finally reached the end (for now?) of our Metal Gear series retrospective. In the epic conclusion to our six part Metal Gear 25th Anniversary […]
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September 2, 2012
“You can look me in the eye when I kill you.” Melding the comic book stylings of Joe Madureira with Hebrew mythology while lifting structure […]
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August 26, 2012
Superbrothers: A tale of Sword & Sworcery, eternally retold Superbrothers: Sword & Sworcery EP is a collaboration between designer Craig Adams, developer Capybara and musician […]
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August 19, 2012
“I don’t know about angels, but it’s fear that gives men wings.” Leon, Tony, James and Karl slo-mo dive – sideways – into their recording […]
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August 13, 2012
“Don’t get your hopes up… Not all humans… look as good as me!” Leon, Tony, Darren Gargette and Josh review Nintendo Software Planning and Development’s […]
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August 5, 2012
“We abandoned our countries. Nothing more.” In the penultimate of our six Metal Gear 25th anniversary specials, Leon, Tony, James and Paul Rooney of Ready-Up […]
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July 29, 2012
Cute and fluffy: that’s the team talking Kirby’s Epic Yarn. Leon, Tony, Darren Gargette and James get cute with Kirby’s Epic Yarn. HAL Laboratories’ pink […]
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July 22, 2012
“Ha ha! I died again!” Leon, Tony, James and Josh discuss Capcom’s unusual afterlife puzzle adventure – Ghost Trick: Phantom Detective – from Shu Takumi, […]
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July 15, 2012
“If I become number one, will you do it with me?” Leon, Darren Forman, Josh and Sinan Kubba discuss the tenth game by Goichi Suda’s […]
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July 9, 2012
This week we discuss LostWinds and it’s sequel. Frontier Developments’ 2008 WiiWare launch title LostWinds remains one of the highest profile releases for that service, […]
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July 2, 2012
“So this is the legendary Boss? We meet at last.” In the fourth of our six Metal Gear 25th anniversary series specials Leon, Tony, Darren […]
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June 25, 2012
“I know, so much for clean underwear.” Take a trip with Tony, James and Josh as the Cane and Rinse team venture through a rift […]
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June 17, 2012
“Ain’t seen anything like this before…” Grabbin’ pills! Leon, Tony, Darren Gargette and special guest David Turner of Joypod discuss Valve’s zombie opus Left 4 Dead […]
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June 10, 2012
A different sort of a show of this Issue as Cane and Rinse returns to the ever-evolving world of DICE‘s Battlefield 3 online multiplayer. Leon […]
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June 3, 2012
Leon, James, Karl and Sean emerge from the Vault to relive their time with Bethesda’s Armageddon RPG Fallout 3. Was the mutation from Black Isle’s isometric third […]
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May 26, 2012
Tony, James, Josh and Darren are your panel for two contrasting titles. Strange Loop’s Vessel is a puzzle-platformer with a steampunk aesthetic and an emphasis on physics. […]
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May 20, 2012
“The world has room for only one big boss!” In the third of our six Metal Gear 25th anniversary specials Leon, Tony, James and Ready-Up‘s […]
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May 13, 2012
“I’ll give you a mouthful of love, punk!” Leon, Tony, Karl and Darren Forman don their muscle suits and slogan-daubed space armour while reloading their […]
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May 7, 2012
This week we deliberate over Thatgamecompany’s offerings. In this Issue Leon, Tony, Josh and Sean review the outstanding, innovative titles produced during Thatgamecompany’s three game […]
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April 29, 2012
“You too will come to understand fear, as I have.” In 2002 Silicon Knights produced Eternal Darkness: Sanity’s Requiem, a GameCube exclusive survival horror yarn. […]
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April 22, 2012
“…For the first time in my life… I am afraid.” Leon, Tony, James and Darren Forman return to Persia and Ubisoft’s (so far) one-off reboot […]
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April 15, 2012
“So you’re the one that the Boss keeps talking about.” In the second of six planned Metal Gear specials, Leon, Tony, James and Ready-Up‘s Paul […]
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April 8, 2012
In this show we exchange views on Gaijin’s BIT. TRIP series. Leon, Joshua and Darren join Commander Video on his “journey of the soul” with […]
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April 2, 2012
“There’s always a little light in the darkness.” Tony, Joshua, Karl and Darren Gargette take a look back Starbreeze Studios‘ The Darkness, along with its […]
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March 25, 2012
“Oi! You! With the moustache! Yeah, you!” Mario’s unsung sibling got his own gig in 2001 for the launch of the Nintendo GameCube. Leon, Tony, […]
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March 18, 2012
Multiple sinners Leon, Tony, Josh and Sean journey into the afterlife to revisit Playdead‘s 2010 début, LIMBO. The panel proffer some theories as to what […]
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March 11, 2012
Solid Snake! I’ve been expecting you… In the first of our Metal Gear podcasts, Leon, Tony, James Carter and Ready-Up‘s Paul Rooney return to the […]
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March 4, 2012
“It’ll be better than the old days… You’ll see!” Leon, Darren Forman and Josh Garrity climb back aboard the Normandy to once again explore BioWare’s […]
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February 27, 2012
“Steef! Steef! Steef! Steef!” In which Leon, Tony and Darren Gargette attempt to establish whether Oddworld: Stranger’s Wrath‘s hallowed reputation is justified, as well as […]
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February 19, 2012
In this 20th issue of the podcast Leon, Tony, James and Josh go to town on Michel Ancel’s lush 2011 UBIart platformer Rayman Origins, as […]
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February 12, 2012
“My Wonderland is shattered. It’s dead to me.” Leon, Tony, James and Darren G try to get into the mind of American McGee and his […]
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February 6, 2012
“People don’t forget. Nothing gets forgiven.” In this week’s issue, Leon Cox, Tony Atkins, James Carter and Joshua Garrity venture back to the wilds of […]
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January 31, 2012
“I would have been your daddy, but that dog beat me over the fence.” This week Leon and Tony are joined by Karl Moon and, […]
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January 23, 2012
Leon and Tony interview the internet enigma that is Adam Capone, starting with his transatlantic career within the games industry and then about his extracurricular […]
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January 16, 2012
To conclude our thoughts on the year in videogames that was 2011, Cane and Rinse contributors Karl Moon, Darren Gargette, James Carter, Joshua Garrity and […]
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January 8, 2012
For the first podcast of 2012 Leon and Tony gather up the vestiges of the holiday season (some Thornton’s chocolates & Crabbie’s ginger beer), huddle […]
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December 29, 2011
A less structured than usual and festively combative issue this week as Leon, Tony, Jay and Karl assemble to trade shots over EA/DICE’s Battlefield 3. […]
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December 18, 2011
In this issue Leon, Tony, Josh and Darren revisit two full-on action games from Japanese ‘super-group’ developer PlatinumGames. Bookending 2010, Bayonetta and Vanquish embraced their […]
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December 12, 2011
Leon, James, Josh, Sean and Ready-Up’s Dan Bendon return to review Square Enix’ late summer 2011 smash, Deus Ex: Human Revolution. Did Eidos Montreal’s prequel […]
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December 4, 2011
“No matter what happens now, you done good kid.” Leon, James, Josh and Sean are joined by Ready-Up’s Dan Bendon to air and share their […]
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November 27, 2011
“Isaac… make us whole again.” In this issue Leon, Jay, Darren and Josh brave a return to the USG Ishimura for Dead Space, then later […]
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November 21, 2011
“Demon keeps a-dreamin’ of a demon town…” In part one Leon, Tony, Joshua Garrity and newcomer Sean O’Brien take an express elevator to Hell and […]
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November 14, 2011
The gloves are off this week as no fewer than five panellists tear it up over Ninja Theory’s passion-inspiring pair. Hosts Leon and Tony are […]
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November 7, 2011
“We work in the dark, to serve the light” This week, in preparation for the forthcoming Assassin’s Creed: Revelations, Tony Atkins, Jay Taylor, Karl Moon […]
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October 31, 2011
“You ever feel like you’re dead, but no one told you?” An uncommonly up-to-date show this week as we cast eight compound eyes over Epic’s […]
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October 23, 2011
“But heed this: the price you pay may be heavy indeed.” These two great stories of four young people: ICO, Yorda, Wander, Mono and the […]
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October 16, 2011
Our first interview subject on Cane and Rinse is the multi-talented industry veteran James Mielke. He describes his remarkable career path from comic illustrator to […]
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October 9, 2011
“Better try a new trick ’cause that one’s getting old!” Leon Cox is joined by Jay Taylor, Darren Forman and Joshua Garrity to worship and/or […]
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October 2, 2011
“My vengeance… ends now!” For the first show proper Leon, Tony and Jay are joined by Darren Forman to discuss Sony Santa Monica’s God of […]
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September 29, 2011
The “Dummy” Issue A shorter than usual podcast allowing us to introduce ourselves and give a little background on both our gaming and podcasting histories […]
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