Can you believe it? We’re back again! Two more Playdate Season 2 games = another episode! (You lucky sods.) This week: a lovely interview with Panic’s head of video and media, Christa Mrgan; a bonus review of Catalog title TOP BINZ!; and of course, as is now standard, some lavish praise for this week’s seasonal offerings, Tiny Turnip and Chance’s Lucky Escape. - HUGE THANKS to our AMAZING Patreon Subscribers!! Join us all in the O3C Discord server here! Support us either via Patreon or with a on...
Jul 02, 2025•51 min
The boys chat with Jan Martinek, AKA Mouflon Cloud, AKA the developer behind podcast favourites Stars of the Screen and Be Kind To Yourself. Windows 3.1 screensavers! Feature creep! Playdate hidden gems! Oh, and this week’s divisive Season 2 entries, Shadowgate PD and CatchaDiablos. IT’S A YELLOW CRANKY HANDHELD AND WE LOVE TO PLAY IT If you want to play any of the cool games Jan mentions in the episode, check out the following links: - Games by others for Playdate- Microwave Story https://samfe...
Jun 25, 2025•52 min
This week, Jonathan and Chris chat with Arisa Sudangnoi, Panic’s lead for developer relations to talk Playdate’s Season One, Season Two and beyond. The boys get DOWN AND DANCE with Otto’s Galactic Groove, and deposit their dog’s defecations for MAD SCORE in Long Puppy. What’s that? The Playdate Season 2 serving up another two absolute rippers? YOU BET YER BOTTOM - HUGE THANKS to our AMAZING Patreon Subscribers!! Join us all in the O3C Discord server here! Support us either via Patreon or with a ...
Jun 18, 2025•46 min
The boys chat with Gregory Kogos, creator of Playdate games OMAZE and OOM, covering Playdate development, the importance of playtesting, and brand spanking new Season 2 games Wheelsprung and The Whiteout. Physics engines! Dithering! Walk cycles! It’s all here! If you want to play any of the cool games Gregory mentions in the episode, check out the following links: Leap Year - https://store.steampowered.com/app/2951770/Leap_Year/ UFO 50 - https://store.steampowered.com/app/1147860/UFO_50 Utopia M...
Jun 11, 2025•45 min
OH DAY OF DAYS! Playdate Season 2 is HERE. And what a barnstorming first week, with Fulcrum Defender, Dig Dig Dino and Blippo+ gracing our little yellow squares. Crank to survive in rogue-like score chaser Fulcrum Defender, get excavating with Dig Dig Dino, and have your brain frazzled by the interdimensional cable of Blippo+. Panic! We love you! - HUGE THANKS to our AMAZING Patreon Subscribers!! Join us all in the O3C Discord server here! Support us either via Patreon or with a one off donation...
Jun 04, 2025•28 min
How's Jonathan finding that new Oblivion remaster? And how does it compare to the semi-recent PS5 port of Skyrim? What exactly is Harold's Walk and why is Chris so keen to get people to check it out? What about Blue Prince is making Jonathan and Chris all giddy? And Finland? Baba is You! Sega Rally Revo (on a technicality)! Videogames! - - HUGE THANKS to our AMAZING Patreon Subscribers!! Join us all in the O3C Discord server here! Support us either via Patreon or with a one off donation here! Fo...
Jun 01, 2025•1 hr 6 min•Season 6Ep. 18
No way! It’s NORWAY! The boys touch down in Scandinavia to big up pairing of Snufkin: Melody of Moominvalley and Draugen, two lovely games of Norwegian developmental descent. But that’s not it. OH NO. Ruminations of Playdate Season 2! Extended (and late) thoughts from Jonathan on Diablo IV! Micro reviews of a whole bunch of Steam games that Chris claims you should care about! - HUGE THANKS to our AMAZING Patreon Subscribers!! Join us all in the O3C Discord server here! Support us either via Patr...
May 03, 2025•39 min•Season 6Ep. 17
Surprise! We’re back a few days early with a bonus episode all about the Switch 2. The PRICE! The POWER! The POTENTIAL! What are the boys happy about? What are the boys unsold on? And what’s ruffled Chris’ feathers specifically about Nintendo’s retail strategy for this next gen? YOU CAN PLAY AS A COW IN MARIO KART WORLD - HUGE THANKS to our AMAZING Patreon Subscribers!! Join us all in the O3C Discord server here! Support us either via Patreon or with a one off donation here! Follow us on social ...
Apr 26, 2025•34 min
We’re in Croatia, ladies and gents, and we’re checking out a Croteam double bill: The Talos Principle and Serious Sam. Also! Can Chris talk about Tetris Forever without getting weepy and emotional? How has Jonathan found the brand spanking new Monster Hunter Wilds? And what’s possessed Chris to boot up the original Call of Duty 2 (as well as Sonic ‘06?!). - HUGE THANKS to our AMAZING Patreon Subscribers!! Join us all in the O3C Discord server here! Support us either via Patreon or with a one off...
Apr 01, 2025•52 min•Season 6Ep. 16
It’s March! Jonathan and Chris visit Taiwan to sample gaming delights, both old and new. How’s that new ‘Tao-punk’ metroidvania Nine Sols? And what was going on in China and Taiwan in the 90s with bootleg games development and publishing? Of course, before we get to slurp down this bubble tea of regional content, there’s other games to cover. Chris becomes re-enamoured (or is that re-obsessed?) with the Nintendo 3DS and its many post-Nintendo homebrew charms and Jonathan struggles to fill the po...
Mar 01, 2025•1 hr 3 min•Season 6Ep. 15
WELCOME TO TWENTY TWENTY FIVE How are you all doing? Settled in to 'FRESH HELL: 25 Edition’? We’ve been playing games. Some of them are from Austria. Listen to us waffle about: DISNEY SPEEDSTORM, LOST FOR SWORDS, LETTERLIKE, MONSTER TRAIN, WILDFROST, GUNFIELD, VAMPIRE SURVIVORS, MARIO AND LUIGI: BROTHERSHIP, EARTH DEFENSE FORCE 5, MONSTER ATTACK, XENOBLADE CHRONICLES 3, DUNGEONS OF HINTERBERG, SPONGEBOB SQUAREPANTS: BATTLE FOR BIKINI BOTTOM REHYDRATED - HUGE THANKS to our AMAZING Patreon Subscri...
Feb 01, 2025•1 hr 15 min•Season 6Ep. 14
We did it! And by ‘it’, we mean ‘ 2024 ’. And by ‘did’ we mean ‘ survived ’. Videogames helped. Videogames always help. And so we’ve opted, as is tradition, to get together to regale and delight one another as well as YOU fair listener, with tales of the games that made 2024. Big AAA games! Indie games! Games exclusive to the Playdate! Games that came out a few years ago! Games that came out 20 years ago! Games that may come out next year, or beyond! FUN What will we crown as our individual game...
Jan 01, 2025•1 hr 25 min
Y’know how in these episodes we always talk about a bunch of games? Well this month we REALLY talk about a bunch of games, no foolin’, NO CAP. Here is a list of the games we discuss in case you want to play along like a book club or something. Would you believe that some of them are developed in Spain too so that we can maintain the central conceit of this season’s over-arcing narrative premise? Deadly Premonition 2 Tokyo Xtreme Racer Fire Emblem: Shadow Dragon and the Blade of Light Dragon Sink...
Dec 01, 2024•1 hr 8 min•Season 6Ep. 13
It's that time again! A brand spanking new episode of the O3C Podcast. This month, Chris and Jonathan check out the games of Indonesia including Rage in Peace and Coffee Talk, but not before catching one another up on a month's gaming activity including retro obsessions on the Anbernic RG35XXSP, a final verdict on Astro Bot, and big thumbs up for The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom. Not enough? What about a review of Eyeland for the Playdate? Or a breakdown of how modding tool Seventh Heaven e...
Nov 01, 2024•1 hr 12 min•Season 6Ep. 12
Bonjour! We’re in France. Well not really , but within the fiction of this series we’re sat at a nice Parisian café and ready to tackle a couple games from the incredible well of French development. How did Jonathan get on with The Rogue Prince of Persia? How did Chris get on with Jusant? But naturally, that is NOT all. There’s a big discussion on the current State of Sony as the company publicly juggles massive highs and lows that run the gamut from Astro Bot to Concord. Chris gets stuck into 2...
Oct 01, 2024•1 hr 18 min•Season 6Ep. 11
Just a small trip this month as we hop over to our nearest neighbours in Ireland. What gaming delights does the Republic have to offer? And what of this offering will Jonathan and Chris be quaffing? (A turn based Dungeon Crawler and a tetralogy of dross PS1 racing games, of course). PLUS, a whole bunch of semi-contemporary videogame chat, as per. Final Fantasy XIV! Slice and Dice! Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League! Bleak Sword DX! Thank Goodness You’re Here! These are games that we’ll be ta...
Sep 01, 2024•1 hr 4 min•Season 6Ep. 10
Have you noticed how these episodes are getting longer and longer? And that as of this episode we’ve only covered 18 of our 80 games? And that by this season’s end that means each monthly show could be 16 hours long? SHEESH Anyway, videogames! We’re in Germany to talk guns and horses with Crysis and Windstorm, but not before lengthy coverage of DOOM, DOOM ETERNAL, ECHOES OF THE EMERGENT, SUPER MONKEY BALL: BANANA RUMBLE, APOTRIS, DEADLY PREMONITION, ELDEN RING and the STEAM CONTROLLER. DOUBLE SH...
Aug 01, 2024•1 hr 29 min•Season 6Ep. 9
Grab your vuvuzelas, as we’re headed to South Africa to check out some VIDEOGAMES. There’s deep dives into Terra Nil and Broforce that come courtesy of Cape Town natives Free Lives Games, but, as ever, so much more. Has Chris really become the only human on the planet who’s managed to get Deadly Premonition: Director’s Cut running on the Steam Deck? What’s Jonathan’s favourite shell in recent indie hit Another Crab’s Treasure? Has Chris finally beaten all of the Outer Worlds DLC, a cool 2 years ...
Jul 01, 2024•1 hr 14 min•Season 6Ep. 8
You all know what time it is, right? C’mon, check your watches, we’ll wait. It’s a new episode of the O3C Podcast! And boy howdy is it a chunky boy. Limber up and stretch out to extended thoughts on THE OUTER WORLDS, ANIMAL WELL, BALATRO, LOOP HERO, DRAGON SINKER and OTHERS, and then take on the main AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 GAMES event as we visit India to sample LOVELY PLANET and RAIJI: AN ANCIENT EPIC. You won’t be disappointed. Although to be honest, even if you are, this is free, right? Unles...
Jun 01, 2024•1 hr 14 min•Season 6Ep. 7
After a long flight, our plane descends, loops the outstretched arms of Christ the Redeemer as we touch down in Brazil. What treats will South America offer on our videogames tasting menu? Chris gets stuck into indie racer Horizon Chase Turbo, and Jonathan picks through the tabletop referencing Knights of Pen and Paper. There’s loads more though, OF COURSE. But, rather than spoil it here, why not give this month’s globetrotting episode a listen? We PROMISE that the episode includes: videogames; ...
May 01, 2024•1 hr 4 min•Season 6Ep. 6
Jonathan and Kaspar are back AGAIN for Part 4 of an originally planned duology of episodes. Just how long can this casual chat continue? AD INFINITUM when you’re discussing one of the very greatest games of all time! - HUGE THANKS to our AMAZING Patreon Subscribers!! Join us all in the O3C Discord server here: https://discord.gg/yWkekkk3fc Support us either via Patreon or with a one off donation at o3c.games/support Follow us on social media - we're @o3cgames on pretty much EVERYTHING. Reach out...
Apr 29, 2024•42 min
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 bizarre design missteps. Jonathan plays through almost the entirety of The Legend of Zelda’s formative 2D past. Chris realises that ‘ scoring goals, goals...
Apr 01, 2024•1 hr 2 min•Season 6Ep. 5
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! Thoughts on modern games like Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown, Palworld, and Playdate treat Under the Castle as well as thoughts on old games like Rez...
Mar 01, 2024•1 hr 3 min•Season 6Ep. 4
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 Survivors copycat Halls of Torment, and Chris has some long tedious updates about his emulation setup. He’s been playing some old tosh via Wii emulatio...
Feb 01, 2024•1 hr•Season 6Ep. 3
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 getting on? What’s on the gaming docket for 2024? A HAPPY NEW YEAR TO ALL! — HUGE THANKS to our AMAZING Patreon Subscribers!! Join us all in the O3C D...
Jan 01, 2024•1 hr 3 min
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 Evercade and Playdate updates, and a truck load more we weren’t permitted to take as carry on luggage. Prepare for boarding! — HUGE THANKS to our AMAZING P...
Dec 01, 2023•1 hr 16 min•Season 6Ep. 2
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 puzzler from former-Playdead lead Jeppe Carlsen: Cocoon! Of course, we also update on what we’ve been playing in the last month with thoughts a selection ...
Nov 01, 2023•1 hr 9 min•Season 6Ep. 1
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 they were all extremely fun! So come join us in the meandering delight that is Tears of the Kingdom! In part 3: - We discuss all of Link’s new world-...
Oct 25, 2023•1 hr 4 min
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 Farm Together.And… AND… make sure you listen in to find out our intended format for Season 6 proper, kicking off in just a few short weeks! o3c.games ...
Oct 09, 2023•52 min
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 why Nintendo ‘re-using’ the Hyrule map of Breath of the Wild is a stroke of genius! So many wonderful characters to love and so many incredibl...
Sep 25, 2023•1 hr
