The Back Page: A Video Games Podcast – Details, episodes & analysis
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The Back Page: A Video Games Podcast
Samuel Roberts and Matthew Castle
Frequency: 1 episode/7d. Total Eps: 249
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Star Wars Outlaws First Impressions, Gamescom 2024 and an Emergency Mailbag
vendredi 30 août 2024 • Duration 02:12:31
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Writing the Book on Alien: Isolation (with Andy Kelly)
vendredi 23 août 2024 • Duration 01:03:41
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Episode 182: Games Court – Big Sammy European Extreme Edition
vendredi 21 juin 2024 • Duration 01:58:08
The worst format in podcasting is back! For the first time since 2021, Samuel runs his pre-owned purchases past Judge Castle.
This week's music is from The World Ends With You soundtrack by Takeharu Ishimoto.
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Episode 102: God of War Games Ranked
vendredi 4 novembre 2022 • Duration 02:31:37
Ahead of the release of Ragnarök, we rank all the God of War games from 2005's original up to the 2018 PS4 entry – minus the odd Facebook game or mobile title. Enjoy. Once the new one drops, we'll discuss where it places in a future episode.
This week's music is from the God of War 2 soundtrack by Cris Velasco, Ron Fish, Gerard Marino and Mike Reagan.
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Episode 101: Bayonetta 3 and the PlatinumGames Hall of Fame
vendredi 28 octobre 2022 • Duration 01:54:25
The wonderful 101st episode of The Back Page attempts to build a 5-game hall of fame from the entire PlatinumGames catalogue. Plus, Matthew has been reviewing Bayonetta 3 on Switch – hear his thoughts on the latest (but perhaps not greatest) entry in the hack-and-slash brawler series.
This week's music is from the Bayonetta 2 soundtrack by Norihiko Hibino, Takahiro Izutani, Masami Ueda, Hiroshi Yamaguchi, Rei Kondoh, Naofumi Harada, Satoshi Igarashi, Hitomi Kurokawa and Takayasu Sodeoka.
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Episode 100: Clip Show
vendredi 21 octobre 2022 • Duration 01:50:28
It's a clip show. Enjoy the clips.
Thanks so much for listening and supporting us. Here's to 100 more.
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Episode 99: Best Visual Novels (with Lucy Blundell)
vendredi 14 octobre 2022 • Duration 02:22:33
Indie developer Lucy Blundell (One Night Stand, the upcoming VIDEOVERSE) joins us to discuss one of Matthew's favourite genres: the (usually) non-horny visual novel.
This week's music is from the 428: Shibuya Scramble soundtrack by Naoki Sato and Hideki Sakamoto.
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Episode 98: From Game Informer to MinnMax (with Ben Hanson)
vendredi 7 octobre 2022 • Duration 01:21:12
We're joined by Ben Hanson of MinnMax on this episode, who shares a bunch of great stories from his many years making videos for Game Informer's elaborate cover features. Hear about the times he visited Kojima Productions and Square Enix, among other studios.
This week's music is from the Final Fantasy XV soundtrack by Yoko Shimomura.
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Episode 97: Games Court Returns – More Pre-Owned Purchases On Trial
vendredi 30 septembre 2022 • Duration 01:55:42
More listeners' pre-owned purchases go on trial this week, from classic JRPGs to a hilariously rough PS3-era shooter – and a grim fate awaits anyone who gets on the wrong side of Judge Big Sammy.
Apologies in advance if you hate Games Court.
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Episode 96: GTA Clones on Trial (with Jeremy Peel)
vendredi 23 septembre 2022 • Duration 02:24:52
From The Getaway to Sleeping Dogs, this week Judge Matthew Castle puts the open world games that followed in GTA 3's wake on trial. Jeremy Peel returns to help make the cast for Driv3r, among other games.
This week's music is from the Driv3r soundtrack by Marc Canham.
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