We’re off to Australasia to check out the videogames of New Zealand! Jonathan staves off ichthyic madness in Dredge, and Chris revisits Shatter, a modernised take on a the brick breaker genre. But before any of that, OF COURSE there’s a good 45 minutes of waffle about other games we’ve been playing! Chris has a right old moan about Starfield’s biza…

POLAND! There are so many great titles produced in Poland: Cyberpunk 2077, This War of Mine, Dead Island, Outrunners; the list goes on. which is OF COURSE why Chris spent a chunk of the month playing Teyon’s execrable Rambo: The Game. Jonathan tries a little harder with his homework, smashing through One More Level’s sublime Ghostrunner 2. Also! Th…

Welkom allemaal! We’re back on our globe trotting adventure, exploring the games of the Netherlands with special focus on Guerrilla Games’ Horizon series, and Rusty Lake’s… well, Rusty Lake series. Plus - because we’re good to you lot - Jonathan’s here to tell you all about his recent romp through Dark Souls 3 on the Steam Deck as well as Vampire S…

2023 may well be DEAD and BURIED, but what of its gaming legacy? Join ol’ Jonathan and Chris for their thoughts on the year that was. How many games did the boys finish between them over the last 12 months? What were the best games of 2023? What were the best games not of 2023 that we played in 2023 for the first time? How’s the Playdate ecosystem …

OFF WE GO! Back on the plane, folks, we’re off to South Korea. Perhaps most famous for their mobile titles and MMORPGs, what other games has the land of K-Pop produced? Dave the Diver! DJMax Respect! …Metal Slug 4?! ALSO: Loads of top gaming chat covering the new Steam Deck OLED, Sony’s Insomniac’s Marvel’s Sony’s Spider-man 2, Fae Farm, some Everc…

As the plane wheels touch down at CPH, season 6 starts proper. Around the World in 80 Games starts in earnest, TODAY. It’s got a bleedin’ jingle and everything! There’s Danish facts, Danish games, and Danish jokes. But also, in depth looks at Hitman: World of Assassination (as well as the franchise as a whole) as well as the brand spanking new puzz…

Jonathan and Kaspar are back for Part 3 of an originally planned two-part spoiler episode. This time we managed to get through half of our planned discussion, which is only fitting when you are talking about a game where you set off to do one thing and 10 hours later you still haven’t done that one thing, but you’ve done a million other things, and…

Once more into the breach! Jonathan and Chris lay down their thoughts on 7 or so games they’ve played recently: The shared-world twofer of Aeterna Noctis and Summum Aeterna; a bunch of Vampire Survivors clones; Super Mario Land 2’s gorgeous DX rom hack; the breezy knockabout that is TMNT: Shredder’s Revenge; LaserCat (?); and the calmingly bucolic …

What ho adventurers! It’s Part 2 of the Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom Spoiler Special! And in this episode, our intrepid gamers Jonathan & Kaspar are diving even deeper in the stories and the world of Hyrule 7 years post-Calamity! They discuss their favourite Side Quests, Side Adventures & NPCs. They discuss the evolution of the world, and …

Hey, hey, hey! Would you like to know what we’ve been playing over our extended Summer hiatus? How far into his Master Mode run of Breath of the Wild did Jonathan get? How many consecutive days has Chris played Daily Dadish? Has Mr Dunn gone Playstation 5 or Steam Deck for Diablo IV? What about the recent Switch port made Vampire Survivors suddenly…

Are you still knee-deep into Tears of the Kingdom and perhaps crafting that perfect Hoverbike, hunting those nefarious Bubbulfrogs, or diving to grab a Korok seed instead of destroying Ganondorf and finding the princess? Then you might want to stay clear of this episode for now, because we are talking about EVERYTHING! Consider yourself warned, thi…

We’re back! Kind of! In this pre-season, episode zero kind of dealio, we lay out a few changes that will be part of the upcoming season 6, and try to be as honest as we can about why we’ve had to rock the boat a little in order to keep the ol’ girl sailing. Please, please, please, join us in the now public Discord, and sign up for the continuing ne…

Bing bleedin’ bong, it’s the end of the season, and by GUM do we have a lot stuffed into this finale for you. A FULL RUNDOWN AND RANKING OF ALL 26 PLAYDATE SEASON ONE GAMES A BEST OF THE REST TOP FIVE RANKING OF SIDELOADED / CATALOG PLAYDATE TITLES BARELY A BREATH BETWEEN US Which games ended up tippity top and which games ended up bippity bottom? …

Boy oh boy! How are these two boys getting on with The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom? What new marvels have they unearthed? What new ways of solving puzzles have they found? Just how mad are their respective strategies for approaching every single little thing in the game? Find out!! But also find out: How Chris is faring with Dadish - a da…

Just as Panic saw fit to bestow Playdate owners with 2 free games via their on-device Catalog store, so too do we at O3C bestow upon you reviews of said free games to extend our season coverage of the Playdate. Reel Steal and Recommendation Dog both arrive via a mentorship programme run in conjunction between Sweet Baby Inc and Panic that looks to …

I know it’s only May, but shall we just announced our Game of the Year now? Let Chris and Jonathan fill you in on their initial thoughts on Tears of the Kingdom’s opening few hours. (It’s astonishing.) SPOILER WARNING: Whilst we don’t go into serious detail about the game’s plot or questlines outside of vague allusions to opening tasks and challeng…

And with that, we reach games number 23 and 24 in Playdate’s Season One. Jonathan and Chris tackle both the rotational take on Arkanoid that is b360, and the Link’s Awakening love letter that is Ratcheteer. Are we going out on a high? Also! The boys cover a billion other Playdate games released via outside of the main season, as well as the officia…

What better way to celebrate the coronation of KING CHARLES THE RUDDY THIRD than by wrapping your oversized plate-ears around this latest offering from O3C Games! We’re filling each other in on our gaming activity of the last fortnight since last we chatted - and it’s the usual eclectic mix of genres and qualities! JD chats Vampire Survivors, Tomb …

Naughty Dog made a game called the Last of Us. Then they remade it. Then they remade it again. Not content with camping at the top pretty of much all ‘reasons to buy a Playstation 3, 4 and 5’ articles published over the last decade, is The Last of Us’ marquee television serialisation reason to subscribe to Now TV, HBO Max, or Hulu? Joining Jonathan…

It’s the penultimate week of the ‘oh oh, blue light means there’s new games to play!’ Playdate season, and we’re here, as you rightfully now EXPECT to give our thoughts on the bizarro pairing of Battleship Godios and Forrest Byrnes: Up in Smoke. A shmup-come-Arkanoid clone with modern racer style rewind? A procedurally generated platformer that tan…

Chris and Jonathan play a boat load of videogames. How ‘bout we do this in alphabetical order, eh? Alwa’s Awakening, Canon - Legend of the New Gods, Chime, Cruisin’ Blast, Dragon Spirit, Farmside, Gato Roboto, Have a Nice Death, Lone Fungus, Marvel’s Avengers, Pac Attack, Plants vs Zombies, Tomb Raider Reloaded… is that it?! YOU BETTER BELIEVE IT o…

SNAKE + JUMP = SNAK ADVANCE WARS + POKÉMON SNAP = SASQUATCHERS Allow us to expand on these derivative X plus Ys and give you the lowdown on whether this week’s Playdate offerings ought tickle your pickle. ALSO! Resident Evil 4 still doing the business for Jonathan? Is the steady drip of Theatrhythm DLC satiating Chris’ rhythm game urges? How’s the …

Jonathan bests a potential addiction to a new F2P money sink and decorates his attaché case in Resident Evil 4 Remake as Chris mines the Evercade library for shiny jewels. Can you AFFORD to miss this? o3c.games ——— Massive thanks to our Patreon subscribers Andy Smith, Gene Limbrick, Debbie Booth, David Boys-Layton, Darren Hughes, Rob Wade, Ross Ewi…

Would you believe that there’s more bleedin’ Dead Cells talk in here? Jonathan approaches his final form in the little roguelite that could whilst Chris curses the in-house focus groups at Sega for making Sonic Frontiers into… whatever it is. On the Playdate this week: RPG adjacent not-quite-em-up Inventory Hero, and Cooking Mama: Cauldron Edition …

What’re ya buyin’? What’re ya’ playin’? Not the RE4 Remake demo, that’s for sure. Jonathan Dunn enjoys returning to Dead Cells and its expansive, luxurious Castlevania inspired makeover. Chris continues Harvestella, grinds his head against the rough surface of Monster Jam Crush It, and gets back into the Evercade in anticipation for receiving the n…

Is this the best week of the Playdate’s season so far? (spoilers: probably!) Jonathan and Chris pick apart what makes the arcadey, Nights Into Dreams-inspired Star Sled such a riot, and gawp at the sheer artistry on show in traditional point and click Saturday Edition. Plus! More Theatrhythm! Some highlights from the Nintendo Switch Online emulatio…

After a wee break for holibobs, the boys reconvene to catch up on The Callisto Protocol Dead Space worship, Chocobo GP’s sunset months, Farmside’s Premium-Freemium bucolia, and Theatrhythm’s ludicrous generosity. Plus, a huge segue about guns and the UK postal service for some reason. o3c.games ——— Massive thanks to our Patreon subscribers Andy Smi…

Thoughts and opinions on Nintendo’s recent Direct are HERE, baby! What are we excited for? What were we surprised by? What do we laugh at? THEN: Jonathan completes his romp through the Metroid Prime trilogy with his first playthrough of the third entry in the series, and garnishes his time with Retro Studio’s take on Samus Aran with a revisit to th…

Let’s make it easy for both you and us. What’s in the episode you ask? Well, I’m going to tell you, RIGHT BLOODY NOW. This week we will present thoughts on the following games, in this EXACT order. No foolin’. No messin’. No tricks. METROID PRIME 2 FORZA HORIZON 4 DEAD SPACE REMAKE EXECUTIVE GOLF DX QUESTY CHESS How ‘bout that then? o3c.games ——— M…

What have we been playing this week? RPGs! Rice Pudding Games How’s ol’ Jonathan Dunn getting on with his Metroid Prime Trilogy replay? Does the recent Dead Space remake hold up to the original? Is Chris still playing Fish ‘n Feathers on the Playdate? Does the ‘Valve Playable’ Forza Horizon 4 really work that well on Steam Deck? And what connects E…

After being quietly tucked into our pockets over Christmas, the Playdate makes its big return with, dare I say it, its strongest weekly pairing yet? How does Hyper Meteor pay homage to and iterate on the arcade classic Asteroids? Why is Zipper better than Ghosts of Tsushima? What sideloaded treats has Chris been playing this week in between the sea…

HEY-OH! We’re back, and at least partially rested from our festive bonanza to talk, to you dear listeners, about videogames. What have we spent the last month playing? And how did we get on with our Christmas homework to play Silver and James Pond 2: Codename: RoboCod? Including thoughts on: SONIC FRONTIERS BABYLON’S FALL THUMPER POKÉMON PICROSS FA…

Arcade Paradise is a Game of the Year. Elden Ring is a Game of the Year. Bloom is a Game of the Year. o3c.games ——— Massive thanks to our Patreon subscribers Andy Smith, Gene Limbrick, Debbie Booth, David Boys-Layton, Darren Hughes, Rob Wade, Ross Ewing, Roger Swan, The Giraffe, Thomas Duncan, Dominic Kemp and the gang at Chat of the Wild! Reach ou…

As the sun breaks to a New Year, join Chris and Jonathan as they reminisce on the 365 days colloquially known as Twenty Twenty Two. What were the standout games we played in 2022? The best releases of 2022? The games we never got round to because we were stuck playing Everybody’s Golf and Monster Hunter respectively? And the games we’re looking for…

And so this is Christmas, And what have you done? (Other than listen to 50-odd episodes of the O3C Games podcast of course!) Bezzies Chris and Jonathan get together for a festive celebration, sharing gifts and glad tidings as they unwrap four presents each that have been chosen to fit in with the schema ‘something you want, something you need, some…

Sail the Sunless Sea, (actually Unterzee), Here where it’s darker, and light is much starker, Failure guaranteed! Then under the sea, Under the sea, Moments of quiet, then gatekeeping giants, An eco-message ‘bout trees! (Chris and Jonathan report back on saltwater twofer Sunless Sea and The Aquatic Adventure of the Last Human) o3c.games ——— Massive…

You know what? I’ve written about 200 of these blurbs now, and I’m reasonably confident no one reads them. Sometimes I put in little stories and jokes about the games we’ve played like this: Jonathan and Chris do their best to get to grips with the 85th instalment in the venerated Demon Quest franchise, and lose their topsy turvy minds and collecti…

Listen to Chris and Jonathan tackle the following old games: Jurassic Park, Nintendo Entertainment System, 1993 Jurassic Park: The Lost World Special Edition, Sony Playstation, 1998 Cave Noire, Nintendo Gameboy, 1991 (Fan Translation by Aeon Genesis, 2012) Good? Bad? Ugly? Also! Chris completes Arcade Paradise, listens to dance music, and is reward…

The plucky little handheld that could, does and continues to do, delivers two more oddballs this week in the form of Flipper Lifter and Echoic Memory. Ferry penguins up hand cranked elevators. Restore the memories of sentient boomboxes. Quite literally, ONLY on Playdate. PLUS! More Arcade Paradise, and some Pokémon Upset. o3c.games ——— Massive than…

Games are really chuffin’ cool. On this week’s edition of the O3C Podcast, let us walk you through our experiences with the following very good games. LUNISTICE ARCADE PARADISE TETRIS EFFECT: CONNECTED BAYONETTA UNBOX: NEWBIE’S ADVENTURE MO: ASTRAY Oh, and Jonathan plays ten minutes of the perfectly-serviceable-but-nothing-special Poi as well. o3c.…

They can’t all be zingers, right? Week 3 of the first Playdate Season has us readin’ and rollin’ with Lost Your Marbles, and pickin’ and packin’ with Pick Pack Pup. As a mild spoiler, we enjoyed one of these games much more than the other! Alongside our Playdate play date, Jonathan bigs up 10 other sideloaded Playdate treats from itch.io, and Chris…

Who’s up for some retro gaming? Two weeks ago, Chris challenged Jonathan to whack on the Sega Mega Drive twofer, Castle of Illusion Starring Mickey Mouse and Quackshot Starring Donald Duck. How did he get on with the in-house, Sega-developed takes on two of Disney’s most enduring characters? Jonathan asked Chris to give Gameboy Advance powerhouse, …

I’m sure you’re all eager to hear how we got on with the Playdate’s second set of weekly offerings, right? Big thoughts on the platform puzzler Crankin’s Time Travel Adventure and the chiptune sequencer Boogie Loops are HERE for YOU to LISTEN to. What have we been up to this week? Jonathan plays a lot of Resident Evil. Chris presents a lecture on t…

Fresh from stints staying with the NHS, Jonathan and Chris reconvene to talk about the old vidcons. How did the boys entertain themselves both in and then out of hospital? (deep breath) Barkley, Shut Up and Jam: Gaiden, anyone? Tetris on mobile? The Terry Gilliam-inspired comedy adventure game Procession to Cavalry? The Gameboy’s James Bond: 007? S…

In a rare state of synchronicity, both of our O3C boys have spent most of the last week in hospital with entirely unrelated NHS-challenged stints. As the first to be discharged, Chris picks up the microphone to fill the void left by our inevitable break in scheduling. And he revisits his old stomping ground of video game opinions, a blog called Gam…

Games are so flippin’ cool. Am I right?! Season 5 of the O3C podcast introduces a new fortnightly segment as our boys tackle the offerings of the Playdate’s seasonal output two at time. This week, thoughts on the handheld console itself - “it’s yellow! it’s square! it’s got a crank!” - as well as mini reviews and thoughts of its launch pairing, Whi…

It’s all change at O3C Towers. After a brief end of season break, Chris and Jonathan are back, flying duo, to update you lovely lot on where we’re at, where we’re going, and what we might do when we get there. Plus, why not enjoy a slathering of thoughts on: TAIJI! BATMAN ARKHAM ASYLUM! FORZA HORIZON 4! HERO EMBLEM! EXCITE TRUCK! TOP GEAR RALLY! RA…

After nearly 200 episodes, it’s all change at O3C Games as Minty Booth steps down from the podcast. Join us in wishing Minty a fond farewell with individual messages of love and support from Jonathan and Chris; a Dennis Norden style ‘Best of Minty’ clip show compilation; and a last ‘thank you and goodnight’ from Minty as they sling their bindle ove…

Season 3.5 draws to a close as we solidify our top 100 lists,. Chiselled by hand, these stone totems represent Jonathan Dunn, Minty Booth and Chris Dow’s favourite videogames of all time, or at the very least their favourites as of September 2022. Honourable mentions! Movers and shakers! In Memoriam! And then, a final countdown of the THREE HUNDRED…

Jonathan Dunn reaches his final amendment, finding space in his list for the majority of From Software’s collective oeuvre. How has Jonathan managed to justify the Dark Souls Trilogy only taking up * ONE * space on his list? How high is Elden Ring going to place? Why are Jonathan’s memories of Dark Souls 2 so heavily intertwined with memories of hi…