Tom, Pete and Dan discuss the importance to both the movie and video game industry of indie developers. From taking risks the big studios won't, to inventing new game mechanics those same big studios then copy and milk the heck out of, your hosts catch up on everything indie!Beers Reviewed This Episode: New England - Sanger - Heffeweizen - 5.8% Seeker - Chasing Summer - DIPA - 8.3% Hawkers - Four Seasons: Spring - Triply Hazy IPA - 10% Slow Lane - Hibernation - Baltic Porter - 9.5% Seeker - Amped Up - DIPA - 8%
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1:24:15
S7 E12: Red Dead Wukong
From the latest in popculture news, like the collapse of Concord and the fistful of new games just released, through to reviews on Godzilla Minus One, Monkey Man and House of the Dragon season 2, we drink our way through a tonne of content, finishing with Tom's story of finally completing Red Dead Redemption, and Dan's first look at Black Myth: WukongBeers Reviewed This Episode: Hope Estate - FKA Juicy Hazy - Sour - 6% Hop Nation - Frisbee Guava Sour - 4.3% Beer Fontaine - Botany Best Bitter - ESB - 4.5% Beer Fontaine - The Freschness - Farmhouse Ale - 4.9% Hop Nation - Eggers - DIPA - 8% White Bay - Nebulosity - Hazy Pale - 5.7% Hop Nation - Saltwater - Black Lager - 4.8% Range Brewing - Life Finds a Way - Red IPA - 6.8% Hawkers Beer - White Stout '24 - 6% Surfboat Brewing - Sweeps Stout - Dry Irish Stout - 4.2%
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2:22:59
S7 E11: Up Late - Chasing the Dragon
We sit down to discuss those magical gems in movies, TV shows and video games throughout our personal histories that will forever be fond memories, and will forever be the yard stick by which we measure modern media. Beers Reviewed This Episode: Beer Fontaine - Big Otis - Imperial Stout - 9.5% Beer Fontaine - Petit Lourde '21 - Scotch Ale - 11% Beer Fontaine - Patience '23 - Imperial Stout - 11.5%
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1:51:58
S7 E10: Doom on a Fleshlight?!
Another zany episode indeed! We cover the Games Fest announcements, the crazy fact that Beyond Good & Evil 2 is apparently still in development, and Kotaku shutting down, through to our thoughts on The Covenant, Aquaman 2, Gozilla Minue One, House of the Dragon S2 and much, much more!Beers Reviewed This Episode: One Drop - Roar Witness - White IPA - 6.1% Range - Pre-Loved #3 - 3.0% Brick Lane - Trilogy of Fear '24: - Soul Trader: Life - Imp. Stout - 11.0% White Bay - Gantry Noir - Tmavé (Dark) Lager – 5.3% Shout - Cloud w\ a Chance of Juice - NEIPA - 6.8% Brick Lane - Trilogy of Fear '24: - Soul Trader: Love - Imp. Stout - 11.0% Hawkers - Neapolitan Bonaparte: Vanilla - White Stout - 6.0% Akasha - Red Again - Red IPA - 6.5% Rocky Ridge - Karl, I Am Your Father - Black IPA - 6.8% Hawkers - Neapolitan Bonaparte: Strawberry - White Stout - 6.0%
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2:31:25
S7 E9: Up Late - Naturally Unintelligent
We take a DEEEEEEP dive into artifical intelligence in the video game industry, from the AI that drives enemy and NPC behaviour through to the mechanics of your avatar moving through a virtual landscape. We also cover the introduction of deep learning and generative AI and how that has and will continue to impact both the way we play games, and the way games are made. Finally, we cover the eponymous ChatGPT and its Large Language Model brethren - the tool that put AI into family dinner table discussions into a couple of years ago, and how it's revolutionalising the way we interact with video games.Beers reviewed this episode: Akasha Brewing - Whisky Barrel Aged Imperial Stout - 10.2% Dainton Beer - Apple Brandy Barrel Aged Barley Wine - 14.1% Hawkers Beer - Gee These Woods Sure Are Dark - Imperial Stout - 8.0%
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