No, we don't talk like that in the episode. Yes, we have fully embraced the dark side... of clickbait. Then again this is simultaneously episode 100 and 83, so all the rules are off the table. I'll stop bringing that up after this episode, promise. In the first half of the show we talk about news. Specifically that clickbait title, Hideo Kojima, Dead Space, Silent Hill and loads more. My favourite part is when I call of Todd Howard out for his d*ck move of publishing an announcement trailer for ...
Jul 07, 2021•1 hr•Transcript available on Metacast Somehow we can be on episode 82 but 1 off our 100th podcast. The internet is weird. This week, we collect together the first news episode post-e3 on which we talk about the few news stories to slither from underneath the gargantuan heft of e3. Not that this episode totally escapes the electronic entertainment expo of youtube playlists. No, we take a good amount of time to talk about whether or not it made a successful return. Then in the second half, we talk about some games we have played recen...
Jun 22, 2021•1 hr 20 min•Transcript available on Metacast As a final apology for my laxness in getting the podcasts out, not only are you getting the latest news trash a day early. You are also getting the next episode of Impossible Mission about a week early too. In the future, we'll try to stick to this and get episodes out on a Monday. Anyway. In the first half - we have a news trash. On which we talk about all the leaky susan's in videogame press and all the rumours they keep dropping. After which we have three stories on the bounce about members o...
Jun 07, 2021•1 hr 7 min•Transcript available on Metacast All up to date now. Won't be making the mistake of forgetting to upload episodes to the podcast feed. My bad. My really bad. This week we collect a new trash and an impossible mission. We probably should rename this feed news trash weekly games blast or something, it belongs to news trash more than it belongs to impossible mission, these days. In the news trash half, we talk about the sony investor relations document, more EA ultimate team sneakiness, timesplitters, square enix going through the...
Jun 04, 2021•1 hr 10 min•Transcript available on Metacast Just one more then we are all caught up. This episode is a twofer, collecting May's Marmalade and an episode of News Trash - meaning this is twice the episode. In the first half, we have news trash, on which the realisation that this semi-conductor shortage is real serious hits - why? because Nintendo is feeling the pinch, Sony has loads of ps5 exclusive buns in the oven, Xbox is hitting China and much more. Plus a truly evil trailer for Fatal Frame or Project Zero, I don't know, names are weird...
Jun 03, 2021•1 hr 19 min•Transcript available on Metacast Two more episodes today, again, I cannot apologise enough for not keeping up to date with these episodes. I am a bad podcast producer, bad. No treats for me today. In this news trash solo episode we talk about the high price of digital PS games, Xbox not making any profit on any machine, discord to PlayStation in 2022, e3 steaming ahead, resident evil 7 was apparently too scary, and more. If you want to keep this podcast Absolutely Free from advertising, why not donate to our PATREON ? Backers w...
Jun 03, 2021•37 min•Transcript available on Metacast Two in one day is probably enough for today, more new episodes will go live tomorrow so we will be up to date by Thursday - good fortune willing. In this episode, we harp on about 7.8 million PS5's in the wild, PlayStation investing more in exclusives, Xbox doing much better, EA being their usual sh*tbird selves, there's a hunger for socially responsible games, Konami is actually doing stuff, and much more. Including us waxing lovingly about the most adorable Japanese promotional campaign for Re...
Jun 01, 2021•42 min•Transcript available on Metacast Bit of a crunched up blast of trash, apologies, life sometimes gets on top of you and tasks get overlooked and forgotten - this is one such time. Sorry, after this salvo of NT, it won't happen again. Fingers Crossed. In this episode, Rob and Prob talk about Playstation Reversal, "Playstation Plus Video Pass" Xbox Dropping Xbox Live Requirement for Free to Play Online Games, Olympic VR eSports, ageing gamers, Assassins Creed Mr Men Crossovers, Ubi Soft and Blockchain sitting in a tree, Amazon's L...
Jun 01, 2021•47 min•Transcript available on Metacast This time on the Omni-feed, we collect April Games Marmalade and the latest News Trash. In Marmalade we look at Paradise Lost as well as some older titles and oddities. Part of which includes Rob just wrecking Donut County for Prob. Something which I make absolutely no apologies about - if someone presents an open goal like that. It's just wasteful to not make some jokes at its expense. Then in the back half, we talk about Loot Boxes, Six Days to Fallujah, E3, Jason Schrier powering himself with...
Apr 13, 2021•1 hr 14 min•Transcript available on Metacast News Trash doesn't have solo billing this week, it shares the centre stage with an episode of Impossible Mission in which we totally don't get carried away about the fallout of the Sony PS3/Vita/PSP store closures. Nope. Not a jot of exaggeration or anything, no, not us, no sir-ee. Any-way. Now that we've totally convinced you of that, we have to kick things off with a news week that isn't quite as heavy as last week. Weirder? Yeah, for sure, there's just less of it. We have more on Sony's store...
Apr 07, 2021•1 hr 4 min•Transcript available on Metacast This week is a News Trash solo outing and there's a whole buttload of video games news to dig into. There's so much, in fact, that I'm not even going to bother trying to write it all down. Instead, I'll say just these few teasing sentences. Prob doesn't like the new Gollum Game; Playstation shutting down the PS3, Vita and PSP sucks hard; Sony is doing some movies, one of which we could do without; and, SEGA wins. The 8-year-old in me is bouncing off the walls at that last one. SUPPORT US ON PATR...
Mar 30, 2021•55 min•Transcript available on Metacast This week on Impossible Mission, we open with the latest from the world of gaming news and a back half where we talk about the upcoming PS5 exclusive, Returnal. Come for all that, stay for the weird metaphors about the state of the gaming industry. We talk Square Enix Presents 2021 (in the future, we'll be releasing digital events like this on their own under the banner "trailer trash", which will also be under this heaving feed). PSVR 2, a new cloud gaming service, UK Games Industry smashing re...
Mar 24, 2021•1 hr 10 min•Transcript available on Metacast Time for another episode of your salty neighbourhood videogames podcast. This time out its a solo venture for News Trash, so let us hit you with the full weight of our news. Before any of that, though - you read that image and episode title right; we make some bold Xbox predictions but not the sort you might be thinking. The sheer tease of it all. This week's Stories include Microsoft's Acquisition of ZeniMax Bethesda, Microsoft testing a chrome based browser for the series X, Outriders Dev puts...
Mar 16, 2021•39 min•Transcript available on Metacast News and a nice old chat with two smug people who dared predict that the videogames industry wasn't robust enough to not be effected the the biggest elephant in the room since World War II. Yes, I'm happy enough to admit this episodes back half is fuelled by smug. Before that though, there's the small matter of news. There's a PSVR blowout, 2020 Console Sales Figures and Nintendo Switch Pro?, Square Enix plan to remake more of their old titles, Sony to Stop Selling and Renting Movies & TV sh...
Mar 09, 2021•1 hr 7 min•Transcript available on Metacast Another solo outing for News Trash, focus on the trash - there. Despite the video version being beleaguered by issues of all kinds, this audio version was all rosy. Buttery smooth as all those Americans say on the Intertubes. The stories we look at in this episode include... the latest Playstation State of Play & Other PS News. An Update in the Apple Vs. Epic "War". Sony have decided to shut down and Assess Japan Studio 22:16 Illinois Politician Tries to get GTA banned... in 2021!?Twisted ...
Mar 02, 2021•41 min•Transcript available on Metacast Impossible Mission has returned to the impossible mission podcast feed. Fancy that? Also. Fancy that it's debuting here instead of over on youtube. The first half of the show is given over to News Trash, our weekly look at news from the big, bold and beautiful world of video games. Well... it's big and bold. Some of the news we look at includes... Updates on the PS5 DualSense court case, Apple Vs Epic Continues, EA and their Codemasters Acquisition, e3 and pals, and a Konami rumour blowout. On t...
Feb 23, 2021•1 hr 1 min•Transcript available on Metacast Apologies about the audio quality. We tried a new recording method and the kinks have yet to be worked out. Still, News has to go on. There's no stopping for any audio interference. If it's good enough for news broadcasts, it's more than good enough for YouTube. Still, we apologise and are working hard to fix these issues. Right. The stories. PS5's DualSense is the latest controller to suffer from "stick drift" CD Projekt Red hacked source code has apparently been bought at auction Warner Bros. ...
Feb 19, 2021•43 min•Transcript available on Metacast Another Twofer on the podcast feed. First up is News Trash on which we talk about some of the following hoo-haa. AMD "demand for their gaming chips has exceeded supply, and this is going to continue to be the case for the first half of 2020"; 99% of Video Games Sales in Japan (so far in 2021) have been for the Nintendo Switch; Google Stadia closes Games and Entertainment Studios; and More. Then, some games we've been playing. Like Morbid: the Seven Acolytes, in which Prob spends too much time de...
Feb 12, 2021•1 hr 22 min•Transcript available on Metacast In 2021, Impossible Mission is three shows; Impossible Mission (Obviously, which is going fortnightly), The Monthly Games-we've-been-playing Chat, Marmalade And, New boy, News Trash, a weekly show in which we cover the less exposed video games news story. In the first episode, we talk about: EA set up new Studio to make the upcoming Skate Game; Amazon Spent Nearly $500 million in a year on its gaming division; Netflix and Legendary Pictures to Produce animated Tomb Raider Series; Ninja Theory to...
Feb 09, 2021•1 hr 20 min•Transcript available on Metacast This is a deeply cynical episode for the most cynical time of the year. I mean festive. How could I possibly confuse the two things? How very bad of me. Controversial opinions thy name is Impossible Mission. This week we talk about video game music. Then we do a 2021 videogames preview a.k.a. 8-ish games that we are looking forward to in 2021. Not much else to say about this one, it's a "does exactly what it says on the tin" type of episode. It is the last one of 2020, mind you, so hope you had ...
Feb 08, 2021•1 hr 9 min•Transcript available on Metacast The first half of the show has Rob & Prob talk about some of the games we've been playing - otherwise known as Monthly Games Marmalade on YouTube, because Games Jam, geddit?. Which includes the likes of Katamari Damacy Reroll, Thumper & Sleeping Dogs Definitive Edition. Then, we hop on over to a more traditional impossible mission episode for this collected feed. On which we do this. Capitalism! Isn't it great? Join us as we discuss how those sneaky games publishers have put full-blown a...
Feb 07, 2021•1 hr 16 min•Transcript available on Metacast This week on Impossible Mission, we talk about a simple question but one with tentacles that reach far and wide... Do Genres Matter in Videogames? And then, we talk about the Dual Sense and what it means for immersion in upcoming PS5 games. Leading on from that, we segue into a conversation into VR - which is very much related and totally not a tangent, thank you very much. DEBUTED ON OUR YOUTUBE NOVEMBER 2020 If you like the podcast, send some support by visiting our PATREON . Alternatively, gi...
Feb 06, 2021•1 hr 5 min•Transcript available on Metacast This week we talk about something that should be a bigger deal in gaming but it just isn't - games for adults. We don't mean sexy, sexy games either, we mean the way games tell a story. Although, we do stop off for a bit on sexy, sexy games. You know? to cover the bases. Then we talk about something that sounds simple but reaches far and wide within the world of video games. Aesthetics, specifically Art Design Vs Photo Realism. Sounds complex but it really isn't. DEBUTED ON OUR YOUTUBE CHANNEL N...
Feb 05, 2021•1 hr 5 min•Transcript available on Metacast On this episode, we talk about some of the games we've been playing which include Yakuza-Like detective-'em-up Judgment and Housemarque Bullet hell glee in Nex Machina. Then in the back half of the show, A fairly simple concept as we talk about those games that should by all rights by in a strike zone. Those games that are right up our dirty alley but fail. Or, to put it a less filthy way, games that we should like but we don't. DEBUTED ON OUR YOUTUBE NOVEMBER 2020 If you like the podcast, send ...
Feb 04, 2021•1 hr 3 min•Transcript available on Metacast Halloween is upon us so join us on Impossible Mission for a one-two punch of horror crunchiness. In the first episode, we talk about a concept that might sound alien to a lot of people - horror games for kids. This comes from us kids of the 80s and 90s, where movies made horror and horrific movies and TV for kids with frightening and awesome regularity. So, we ask where the same stuff is for games... We conclude our horror-themed double-bill with a chat about games that scares us. Nothing more, ...
Feb 03, 2021•57 min•Transcript available on Metacast In the first half of this episode, there's no dancing around this one as our eventual opinion may upset some people - so, all we can say is we intended no offence. That being said, we ask the question - Was the PS4 and Xbox One Generation a Good One? Then, in part two. Every time a new console generation rolls around the question is always asked, is this new machine back-compatible? This week on Impossible Mission, we talk about why back compatibility is more important than you think, especially...
Feb 01, 2021•49 min•Transcript available on Metacast With the news that Bethesda/ZeniMax has been acquired by Microsoft, the internet media have been agog at who the Redmond titan could buy next. We address the theories surrounding Sega and Konami, before looking at some of the other developers out there in videogame land. After which we talk about the games we've been playing for the last month, which in this case was September. Again, sorry for the long radio silence on this feed. Games that include the likes of Judgment, Night in the Woods and ...
Jan 29, 2021•1 hr 10 min•Transcript available on Metacast We are back, 2021 is going to be a year of much change. One of which is ensuring that the podcast version of Impossible Mission and the youtube version has some degree of consistency with one another. As such, we are back to double billing episodes until we've caught up. A new type of topic on Impossible Mission this week, this is a hypothetical discussion. On this one, we ask the question - if you had to play only triple-A games or high profile Indie titles exclusively for a year, which would y...
Jan 28, 2021•38 min•Transcript available on Metacast This week we zag where the video game industry zigs. Yeah, you'd think we'd do an episode on PS5 and the pre-order debacle. No, we say. Impossible Mission isn't like that, Impossible Mission is counter-programming. In this episode, we talk about games we shouldn't like but do. That isn't guilty pleasures, by the way, Guilty pleasures are something altogether different that warrants its own episode.
Sep 24, 2020•26 min•Transcript available on Metacast Games are big, much too big. That fact is probably why we all have such big game backlogs. This week we talk about things on the opposite end of the spectrum with short games and why they are much more satisfying as well as some longer games that'd be better if they were shorter.
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