How To Murder Time

We’ve been podcasting for 9 years this week, so it’s a sort of special show that I hope won’t put you all off from watching. We talk about playing Elite Dangerous with the gang, the new Microsoft game subscription service, The Division and Project Cars.

The regrowth series recently ended, so we have a chat about what we think of it now we’ve done it all. Then we move on to talking about the first of our Elite Dangerous group sessions and how that went.

This week we’ve mostly been playing Guildwars 2, Fallout Shelter, The Division, Halo: Combat Evolved and Elite Dangerous.

It’s Hugo winner time again, and so we’ve read Philip K Dick’s classic 1962 alternate history novel The Man in the High Castle where the Allies lost WW2 and now the Germans and Japanese have divided up a conquered America.

This week Tim has visited all of the map in Guildwars and has been on a road trip in Elite Dangerous, while Jon has been breaking time in Quantum break and having doubts about renewing PlayStation Plus.

This week we’re talking about what the various static groups are, chime up if you want to join in! We’re discussing Guild Wars, Guild Wars 2, The Division, Elite Dangerous and Star Wars: Force Arena.

This week we’ve been playing The Division, The Last Guardian, Fallout: New Vegas and the original Gears of War.

It’s the monthly Hugo episode so we’re joined by Toerag and Days to read the 2001 Hugo Winner, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. You may not have heard of it, it’s a bit obscure. Possibly the most un-Hugo novel to ever win, and undoubtedly the most successful book to ever win but what do we think of it? Is it worthy of the award and who is it for exactly?

Another year has passed so we’re looking back to the games that we played that stood out to us this year. They may not have been released this year, but they’re the ones we really enjoyed. This year the honours go to Destiny, Tabletop Simulator, Firewatch, Doom (2016), Minecraft Regrowth and Hitman (2016). That’s not a bad list actually. Gaming is saved for another year.

This week we’ve been playing The Beginner’s Guide, Space Hulk: Deathwing and Fallout: New Vegas. Well you can’t say we don’t give you a varied set of games this time.

This week we’re been playing Guild Wars, Pokemon Moon, Duskers and Defect SDK. So we talk about them.

It’s time for the Hugo show, so this time we’ve been reading The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula Le Guin. The book won in 1969 and is the tale not understanding a culture while trying to recruit them into a federation of planets.

This week we’re discussing who’s really in control when you play a game with The Stanley Parable, the odd release of F1 2016 on iOS, Guildwars 2 and the abomination of ship design that is Battlestar Galactica Squadrons.

It’s Hugo time again, so we’re joined by Toerag and Days again to talk about the 1966 Robert Heinlein classic The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, which won in 1967.

It’s another what we’re playing, and this week we’ve been busy with more Guild Wars 2, Lego Dimensions and Star Wars: Galaxy of Heroes. Tim has also finally been finding out what Dear Esther is all about, while Jon is back with Mafia 2 because it was easier than buying the newly released third game.