Caspius and SiliconNooB end the current Bravely Default playthrough and announce the next game so featured, and they prepare for the opening of Gamescom 2025 with a review of the conference schedule—and a discussion of how the 'internet' worked in 1990. Continue reading
Caspius and SiliconNooB review the latest My Mario announcements, including a wooden block set that doubles as Amiibo, before looking forward to the selection of unreleased titles reported to be playable at Gamescom 2025—and a future Nintendo Direct. Continue reading
Caspius and SiliconNooB review the announcements from the latest Nintendo Direct Partner Showcase, speculate about Nintendo's participation at GamesCom, and consider the failure of games with systems that are either too complex or too spartan. Continue reading
Caspius and SiliconNooB await an increasingly inevitable Nintendo Direct, extending the Bravely Default playthrough and giving them time to discuss Atari, the changing industry roles of Sony and Microsoft, and Hajime Tabata's flight from certain doom. Continue reading
Caspius and SiliconNooB discuss the biggest Switch release of the month--Donkey Kong Bananza--at least, before the forthcoming Nintendo Pokemon Showcase and the long-expected but hitherto still unconfirmed Nintendo Direct for the second half of 2025. Continue reading
Caspius and SiliconNooB put on their best Rumplestiltzkin act, spinning straw into news, with talk of Nintendo's game vouchers, a remake of School Days, games new and old from IntiCreates, and the very best titles skimmed from the Top of the Plops. Continue reading
Caspius and SiliconNooB compare cricket fortunes before turning their attention to the complexity of international labour: Microsoft is in the news again, this time sacking thousands more workers and closing game studios to become 'stronger than ever'. Continue reading
Caspius is reduced to playing games whilst wearing pince-nez, only to find himself further aggravated by SiliconNooB refusing to take the mandatory Starlight Megaphone supplemental training: a Nintendo Switch 'listening and connexion-building game'. Continue reading
Caspius and SiliconNooB set aside their praise of Bravely Default and good cheer about the Switch 2 before turning down the podcast dial labelled 'NICE' in order to deliver the Starlight Megaphone's speciality: a thorough, vigorous Square-Enix beatdown. Continue reading
Caspius and SiliconNooB enthuse about the Nintendo Switch 2, tempering their positivity with a few critiques of some of the system's minor shortcomings, before moving on to the latest announcements in what promises to be a banner year for JRPG fans. Continue reading
Caspius and SiliconNooB rejoice, celebrate, and otherwise enthuse about the triumphant launch of the Switch 2, and the bevy of fantastic game announcements that have followed in its wake, including releases of Final Fantasy Tactics and Mina the Hollower. Continue reading
Caspius and SiliconNooB bid farewell to the Switch—although they expect that its sales will be considerable for years to come—as they await the arrival of the Nintendo Switch 2, complete with an official list of compatibility for hardware and software. Continue reading
Caspius and SiliconNooB discuss the aesthetic merits of Bravely Default's visuals and music, praise the highly-regarded (and free) expansion to Sea of Stars, and share a derisory giggle at the latest grim tidings from the greedy director of 4derlands. Continue reading
Caspius and SiliconNooB discuss the many games that will receive free graphical, performance, and GameShare upgrades on the Nintendo Switch 2, before digging into the leftover avalanche of news, and closing with a gaming moment that happens live! Continue reading
In a Plop fraught with strife, discord, and random numbers, SiliconNooB asks Caspius what it is, only to discover that a mountain of digits and terse grammatical explanations stand between him and any possibility of understanding the meaning of it. Continue reading
Caspius and SiliconNooB discuss the explosive rumours surrounding Yuji Horii's appearance at Napoli ComicCon, before delving into a news deluge so deep and so expansive that despite their best efforts it simply cannot be addressed in a single episode. Continue reading
Caspius and SiliconNooB discuss the state of preorders for the Nintendo Switch 2, commiserate about the new appointment of the Candy Crush King to the role of Discord CEO, and skim the surface of The Plop, which this week contains at least one good game. Continue reading
Caspius and SiliconNooB close out the Suikoden Playthroughs Revisited and launch the Lunar: Eternal Blue playthrough, before confirming the North American pre-order date and price for the Switch 2, along with the increased prices of Switch 2 peripherals. Continue reading
Caspius and SiliconNooB discuss the conclusion of the the Suikoden playthrough, the imminent arrival of the Lunar: Eternal Blue playthrough, and the imposition and relaxation of tariffs and their combined effects on the impending release of the Switch 2. Continue reading
SiliconNooB has to eat some crow when his grossly incorrect and blatantly false predictions of a late autumn Switch 2 release fail to come to pass, proving Caspius right, once again, about Nintendo's always-blindingly-obvious spring release schedule. Continue reading
Caspius of Lemon Castle and SiliconNooB of Lime Castle discuss the ongoing Suikoden playthrough, and the first of two Nintendo Directs scheduled for the spring, including the surprise announcement (and instant release) of SaGa Frontier 2 Remastered. Continue reading
Caspius and SiliconNooB continue the Suikoden playthrough, fall asleep during Xenoblade Chronicles X, predict a Switch 2 Direct that will blow the bloody doors off, and skim the top of a fun-and-relaxing-brain-training-game-filled issue of The Plop. Continue reading
Caspius and SiliconNooB are enthusiastic about the Suikoden I and II HD Remasters, positive about the return of Blizzcon, optimistic about the sale of Niantic's gaming division, and brimming over with good cheer at the rumours of a Microsoft handheld. Continue reading
Caspius and SiliconNooB discuss the Suikoden Broadcast, including a host of Suikoden-themed announcements: a mobile JRPG, a dramatic production, a new anime, a manga adaptation, an orchestral concert, and tie-ins with restaurants and other merchandise. Continue reading
Caspius and SiliconNooB close out the playthrough of The Messenger, discuss the latest news from the Pokemon Direct, anticipate what Konami's Suikoden Broadcast might entail, and puzzle over what the gameplay of Keita Takahashi's To a T might involve. Continue reading
Caspius and SiliconNooB sift a paucity of news and engage in lengthy philosophical discussions, but still find themselves compelled to The Plop, which is filled to the brim with exceptionally bland offerings, including a verbose and vampiric visual novel. Continue reading
Caspius and SiliconNooB navigate a news deluge, beginning with a 225-page long slideshow about the state of the gaming industry, before moving on to a Plopless examination of Sony's State of Play, and its overwhelming number of robot-adjacent games. Continue reading
Caspius and SiliconNooB are gifted with a playthrough of The Messenger and a veritable buffet of news, yet they still cannot find a way to avoid recourse to The Plop and one of the more peculiar concepts that they have ever encountered there: BeefCat. Continue reading
Caspius and SiliconNooB discuss the ongoing playthough of The Messenger before moving on to a genuine news deluge, complete with the latest Squeenix silliness, and the arrival of real consequences for Electronic Arts, Ubisoft, and even Sony Interactive. Continue reading
Caspius and SiliconNooB discuss the merits of ninjas in games from the 1980s to the present day, whilst also reviewing their first-week experiences with The Messenger, and a bevy of ninja-themed games recently announced, released, or re-released. Continue reading
