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Total Playtime is the official podcast of Jank.cool and is a conversation about videogames, mostly, by games industry veterans Alice Bell, Nate Crowley, Brendy Caldwell and Jon Hicks. Join them for discussion of the latest and most interesting PC and indie games, grumbles about the state of games media, and impromptu quizzes dredged from the unknowable depths of Nate's brain. Public episodes are released every two weeks, and if you subscribe to Jank you'll get weekly episodes. Send us questions, ideas and feedback at totalplaytimepod@gmail.com, and follow us on BlueSky if you like.

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Episode 44: Delivered in the Tone of Igor

Épisode 44

samedi 3 octobre 2026 • Durée 58:00

Total Playtime is the official Jank podcast, funded entirely by our paying subscribers (and formerly our backers on Patreon). This week’s episode is free, but subscribers get additional episodes every other week. You may join them by subscribing here, and you can find all previous episodes here.

Alice and Nate are away this week, possibly because we're talking about layoffs again, chiefly those at Microsoft again. Still, this does spare us from having to tell Nate live on air that an unrevealed Age of Empires game has been cancelled.

Otherwise it's a bit of a bad-news rundown through the extended Xbox universe and into Bungie's recent decision that it's going to spend time on Destiny 2 after all, before Brendy brightens things up with some chat about the cheerily implausible fighter-plane-based fiction of Ace Combat 8. There are also some important tips about carrying car batteries, thus cementing our position as providers of service journalism.

You can listen to the episode right here, or find it in your podcasting app of choice.

Our art is by God Ribbon, our art is by Marsh Davies, our editing is by Alix Attenborough and the entire podcast is thanks to the paying supporters of Jank. Share your insights on impairment-based financial charges at totalplaytimepod@gmail.com, in the comments below, or in the rarified environment of the Jank Discord.

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Turns out that estate agents are held in higher regard than journalists although we've still got the edge on "politicians generally" and "social media influencers". Xbox did layoffs again. Don't call it a reset. Ninja Theory is marked for closure. Microsoft bought Activision for $69 billion. The reshuffle suggests a reverse acquisition. Bungie is de-vaulting Destiny and re-vamping Marathon.

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Forza Horizon 6. Clockwork Revolution. Gears of War E-Day. Fable (2027). Destiny 2. Marathon. Ace Combat 8: Wings of Theve. Permaban.

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The Hundred Brothers and Resident Evil (2026).

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Episode 43: Question-mark Interrobang?‽

Épisode 43

jeudi 17 septembre 2026 • Durée 57:12

Alice is away this week, so three grown men get to sit around and puzzle over a particularly baffling week of news items and become steadily less certain that we were describing reality. There were some positives: Nate got to let a year’s worth of Hearthstone annoyance off his chest, Brendy got to drop an unexpected Halo deep cut, and I got to talk about a nice cat that I met. All solid therapeutic behaviours.

Plus: subscribing to Accomplished Shootsman Magazine, earning money for being meat in the room, and surviving the horrors of modern capitalism. You can listen right here on this page, or find us in many of the places you get your podcasts.

Our music is by God Ribbon, our art is by Marsh Davies and our editing is by Alix Attenborough. The podcast only exists thanks to those who subscribe to Jank (and previously funded us on Patreon) who are additionally rewarded with an extra episode every other week dedicated to things like our videogame book club and the developing trials of Games Satan. Subscribe today and get us closer to being able to afford Brendy full-time.

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Blizzard announced a bunch of stuff at Blizzon including a Starcraft FPS that is not a service game, World of Warcraft Forever and new levels of . PhysInt is coming to Xbox because Sony dropped it for. Here’s how to unlock the, which was made by . IKEA already made some . The Breaking Benjamin guitarist will until the user rating improves. Here’s . Post Malone . We played Wardogs . Brendy has previously .

Episode 42: Subpoena the Teenage Snitch

Épisode 42

jeudi 3 septembre 2026 • Durée 01:01:22

For the first time in a while all four of us could make this recording, and it's a free-to-all news episode to boot. This meant we had to address the twin issues of Gamescom and an abundance of GTA 6 footage, both from vegetable-themed hackers and latterly Rockstar themselves via an extended preview on Netflix. The former is a much more interesting discussion point, although not particularly impressive unless it later transpires it was the previous GTA hacker doing it with even less technology this time.

I am also able to share some limited insights from Gamescom, although not all that much because I only saw three games and one of them I can't write about. Please support Jank so that we have enough money to send Brendy next year and have him report on all the very weirdest games on the different international stages.

Plus: Nate's utterly inevitable Bane-reciting-Shakespeare impersonation, the tedium of hat management, giving an octopus in a mech suit a New Jersey accent and fleeting discussion of some games we played, like we're a videogame podcast or something.

Our art is by Marsh Davies, our music is by God Ribbon, our editing is by Alix Attenborough and our existence is thanks to paying subscribers of Jank: thanks for making the podcast happen.

Links!The new GTA . The is pretty cringe. Google's made share prices go down because the market doesn't know anything. The hacker which barely seems worth the effort of being . Here's everything from . Brendy .

Episode 41: The Hubris Era

Épisode 41

vendredi 21 août 2026 • Durée 53:11

Alice and Nate were both unavailable this week, prompting Brendy and I to realise the crushing shortage of local whimsy in our lives. Our daily existence is simply devoid of rural oddities or freestyle whimsy that lends itself to a banging cold open, so we ended up with several minutes of middle-aged car chat which Brendy heroically drags back to a gaming reference.

Those matters aside we turn to the matters of the week, chiefly Saber’s CEO lashing out at a departed writer who handled it by having a great night out that ended in karaoke, which is the sort of karmic vengeance we should all aspire to. Plus: good philanthropy yet with concerns about whether philanthropy can actually be good, the ongoing destructive instincts of large corporations, and big walks with medium guns.

Our music is by God Ribbon, our art is by Marsh Davies and our editing is once again by Alix Attenborough. Thanks to backers of Jank (formerly on Patreon) for enabling the podcast to exist. You can send your favourite CEO faceplants and vintage shooter recommendations to totalplaytimepod@gmail.com, or simply comment on this article.

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Stella Sacco said she'd been kicked from Rideshare Stimulator and replaced with genAI, something which is now reflected . Matthew Karch and ; Stella . The battle which is OK because you shouldn’t go there anyway. Thimbleweed Park 2 is who liked the first one. five years after they were. It would appear that Amazon , part of a wider trend of .

Episode 40: The Coriander Of Space Marines

Épisode 40

jeudi 6 août 2026 • Durée 48:33

It’s a free-to-all episode this week, so Alice, Nate and myself turned ourselves to the major issues of the day: Xboxes are really expensive, how a Skyrim username error can get you wrongly imprisoned for soliciting minors, a new Thimbleweed Park and a very detailed explanation of how good the Space Marine x Helldivers 2 partnership is.

Join us for a detailed overview of the Astra Militarum, a half-remembered summary of the Xbox P&L and a fleeting cameo from Alice’s dog. Plus: children who chew on cigars from birth, engaging worm protocol, and clown husbandry.

Our music is by God Ribbon, our art is by Marsh Davies and this week our editing is by Dave of the Sonic The Comic podcast who did a banger job even with limited guidance. Thanks to backers of Jank (formerly on Patreon) for enabling the podcast to exist; if you sign up for Jank then you get an extra podcast every fortnight which will soon include Season 2 of Text Adventure. You can send comments and suggestions of Space Marine deep lore to totalplaytimepod@gmail.com, or simply comment on this article.

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Xboxes are now incredibly expensive in the UK and EU. Xbox had a big revenue drop but Microsoft did just fine. Brendy says don’t call it a reset. Double Fine had to lay people off. Rebekah at Kotaku summarised how hard it would be to reach a billion people a day. The is out next week. Ron Gilbert announced and it is l but Alice is excited regardless. An innocent man spent 18 months in prison because the police . . RIP .

Episode 39: Suck Off Frankenstein

Épisode 39

vendredi 24 juillet 2026 • Durée 01:07:27

This week it’s a free episode available to all, in which our four hosts gather to judge the news of the week - chiefly, Bethesda’s smoke-bomb declaration of Fallout 5 in an effort to distract from laying off a number of people who would have made it; Sony’s abandonment of discs as a storage medium and EA’s correct prediction of the World Cup final. If that all sounds a little dull, don’t worry, Nate naturally and effortlessly channeled it into pornographic takes of classic Gothic novels. Plus: the four male hobbies, a Henry Cavill origin story and headphones made out of eldritch meat.

Our art (now feat. Brendy) is by Marsh Davies, our music is by God Ribbon and our editing is by Alix Attenborough. The podcast only exists thanks to those who subscribe to Jank (and previously backed it on Patreon, which will endure for one more month).

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The Trojan Horse worked until it didn’t. Bethesda announced that it is making Fallout 5 which wasn’t fooling anyone. Obsidian missed their New Vegas bonus due to a single Metacritic point. Alice reviewed Dungeon Crawler Carl and people got cross about it, so now she has to review the next two books as well. Sony is giving up on physical discs, which is bad news because they have a history of . Microsoft has a plan for .

Episode 38: Call the Waspman

Épisode 38

jeudi 9 juillet 2026 • Durée 01:03:39

Total Playtime is now the official Jank podcast, and is produced through the munificence of our paying subscribers (and formerly our backers on Patreon). This week’s episode is free, but subscribers get additional episodes every other week. You may join them by subscribing here, and you can find all previous episodes here.

This week we started recording mere hours after Xbox started firing people, so we didn’t have the full despair reserves to draw on but we managed to discuss it anyway. We also mourned the loss of the corporeal, as represented by Sony’s announcement they’re ceasing disc production, and celebrated the spiritual, as represented by Alice’s potentially magical waspman.

There’s also an exclusive tease of an upcoming Jank article, and it’s right at the start so you don’t even have to keep listening – although of course you should because there’s so much to learn here about Nate discovering horny Marvel artwork. Plus: getting vouched for by a non-naughty priest, drinking a pint of wasps, piracy for the greater good, wholesome role models for 40-year-old men having feelings, and giggle-based social deduction.

Our music is by God Ribbon, our editing is by Alix Attenborough, and our art is by Marsh Davies - and now freshly updated to add a tiny image of Brendy to your pod-listening device. Thanks to our backers on Patreon and Jank for enabling the podcast to exist. You can send feedback and your own preferred social insect suggestions to totalplaytimepod@gmail.com, or simply comment on this article.

Episode 37: Mr Beast's Beef Lumps

Épisode 37

jeudi 25 juin 2026 • Durée 01:15:18

Total Playtime is a weekly podcast about PC games, formerly funded by Patreon and now part of Jank. This is a free episode, but premium episodes are published every two weeks and are only available to paying subscribers. You can join them over here.

The prodigal dad returns! Yes, Brendy finally got enough sleep to return to podcasting with his newly minted As A Father Of A Daughter viewpoint, meaning that we are now tied in a dead heat between parents and what I’ll generously call “free spirits”.

There was too much news this week, to the point where we even snuck in some commentary about Kier Starmer. It’s only brief, though, as we move on to considering the social media ban and the associated elevated risk of teens becoming cool hackers, the head of AI who thinks generative AI is bullshit, and what was at the time the latest bad news for Xbox although characteristically they’ve pulled some more out since.

Plus: the Steam Machine, Nate’s narc child, and please don’t touch my grass. Please ask your doctor if having a baby is right for you. Thanks to all the Patreon and Jank backers who made this happen, the podcast would not exist without you. Thanks also to Alix Attenborough for the editing, Marsh Davies for the art and God Ribbon for the music. Submit parenting advice of any quality to totalplaytimepod@gmail.com or in the comments below.

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The UK is banning social media for under 16s and the gaming impact is somewhat unclear. Poncle are. The former head of Take Two's AI division , and a bunch of game devs. Ed Zitron has . Tommy Thonson covers the . A superficial level look suggests an AI disclosure on your game means. What . Here’s GI.biz on rising genAI costs and what uses. The Steam Machine but it’s okay, you can’t buy one anyway. Here’s . Valve which it turns out is like £570. and recently died. The Microsoft gaming will continue until morale improves.

Episode 36: The Devil Is Always Sexy

Épisode 36

dimanche 14 juin 2026 • Durée 49:01

This week's episode is late, for which we apologise and blame Geoff Keighley because let's face it, he's the one pulling all the strings these days. Jonty was still sat in meeting rooms in LA when this episode was recorded and Brendy is still doing dad things, so it fell to Alice and Nate to judge the output of a week's worth of game showcases despite really wanting to just talk about their dogs instead.

Thankfully they were both able to struggle through in the face of, once again, entirely too many games. Thrill to Alice's judgement of Geoff Keighley's fashion choices, Nate's denunciation of the crippling lack of ambition in aquarium simulation, and collective theorising on gender division in circus skills. Plus: finally getting a plausible dinosaur survival game, Commander Riker Isolation, and collectibles for a WWI Lego game. Shout out the Pope, you da real Warhammer 40,000 (words).

This episode is free to all, but it only exists thanks to the generous backing of our Patreons and our partners on Jank.cool, to whom we are eternally grateful. Thanks also to God Ribbon for the music, Marsh Davies for the artwork and Alix Attenborough for the editing. If you are Games Methusula, present your receipts at totalplaytimepod@gmail.com.

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You can find all the trailers on gamesrecap.io. Nate was referring to PC Gamer's guide to Total Warhammer 40k although if you're clicking that link post-release it'll be the review because of SEO. You can find the playable... experience of 1666: Amsterdam on Steam. Here's the pitch for Magicians: The Devil's Deal. Sega is using AI to make the new Crazy Taxi and they are not particularly bothered about it. She Was Such A Good Horse is , not that fussed about the game though.

Episode 35: The Hot Ones

Épisode 34

jeudi 28 mai 2026 • Durée 48:31

This week Alice and I gathered in hot rooms to have hot takes on the main news stories of the week, chiefly the end of Destiny (and perhaps the employment of many of its developers) and the start of the Disco Elysium sequels. We also attempted to understand the Warhammer Skulls Showcase without Nate to guide us, which didn't get very far but we are quite taken with playing as Skaven.

We've also been playing some games, reading some books, and watching daft videos on the internet, all of which we have curated for our discerning audience. You can get still more of this rare insight by backing the show on Patreon (or subscribing to Jank) which gets you two extra episodes a month, and means you join the hallowed ranks of those who make this podcast happen. If you're one of them, thanks: we got this hot for you.

Additional thanks to God Ribbon for the music, Marsh Davies for the artwork and Alix Attenborough for the editing. Please send things that aren't Disco Elysium takes to totalplaytimepod@gmail.com.

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Penny Arcade was problematic because of the dickwolves. Bungie had this comic hanging in their lobby when Jonty visited in, god, 2013. Fond Destiny 2 memories by Nathan Brown and Dom Peppiatt. Rob Fahey on service games ending and The Final Shape. People are not okay about Zero Parades. Nic's review on Jank. Nate last year. The hench chicken is in . Brendy's . Jonty's .

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