Electronic Wireless Show

In a change of pace for the Electronic Wireless Show this week, Nate is on holiday and we're joined by special guest VidBud Colm Ahern to discuss our favourite special powers from video games. The title is actually a misnomer, because I immediately go on to say that really we're talking about weird or supernatural special powers, not super powers like wot The Avengers have. An example, that we talk about at in fact, is Max's power to rewind time in Life Is Strange. Our diversions this week are less likely to involve the term "bumeggs", but we do spend ages talking about whether or not a character in Resident Evil 7 has a beehive for a bum or not. Also, it turns out that we mostly want special abilities that facilitate the acquisition and consumption of food. We did record this around lunchtime, in fairness. To make things more confusing, the Cavern Of Lies this week is superhero themed, specifically around 2002 strategy game Freedom Force. Full show notes: www.rockpapershotgun.com/2020/09/03/p…-ins-special

As you all know, we here at The Rock Paper Shotgun Electronic Wireless Show podcast love to innovate and do things that nobody has ever done before. That’s why we did a live podcast episode! I know, I know. This has never been attempted by god nor human. But hold your applause and gasps of wonder until you’re listening to The RPS Electronic Show Live – The Living A Normal Life Special, part of EGX Digital! The theme, living a normal life, is partly so we could make a terrible pun that doesn’t quite work on live/life, but partly because in 2020 normal life seems a dream, beyond the reach of our grasp. Not if you have games, though! So, in this episode, we chat about the games that let us simulate a life, be that a tiny but more attractive version of your own in The Sims, or one where you are a cruel and capricious god in Black & White. Full show notes: www.rockpapershotgun.com/2020/09/03/p…-ins-special Discord: discord.gg/rockpapershotgun

This week the podcast moves out of Nate's dad wheelhouse and into Matthew's film wheelhouse. It's a bumper and bumpy ride this week, as we discuss video game adaptations of them there Hollywood talkies! This does end up involving quite a lot of Star Wars chat, because there are so many Star Wars games. Tangents this week include Nate going on about Gimli a lot, the terrible Mothers' Day present Matthew nearly got for his mum, and what film series LEGO should tackle next (spoilers: it is the work of Lars von Trier). Full show notes: https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2020/09/03/podcast-episode-108-the-movie-tie-ins-special Discord: discord.gg/rockpapershotgun

This week the podcast truly is the daddy of all podcasts, as we decide to talk all things dad in games. This, of course, means we must first establish what a dad game is. Are we talking about games that dads will like or games about dads? And what is the crossover between the two? Full show notes: https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2020/08/27/podcast-episode-107-the-dad-games-special Discord: discord.gg/rockpapershotgun

This week we have an extra special treat for you! It does mean we don't talk about PC games at all, though. Well, we do, but we talk about fake ones that we've made up. Today we're joined by special guests Meg from EGX and ReedPop video producer Dean to for an actual play of our new free tabletop RPG, EGX Rezzed The RPG! EGX Rezzed The RPG was written by Grant Howitt, of Rowan, Rook and Decard, and our own Nate Crowley. It is a madcap dungeon crawl adventure through the Tobacco Dock, and it's free for you to download and play right here: https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2020/08/20/we-miss-rezzed-so-much-that-we-turned-it-into-a-free-tabletop-rpg/ Full show notes: https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2020/08/20/podcast-episode-106-the-rezzed-tabletop-rpg-special Discord: discord.gg/rockpapershotgun

Ave, citizens! Rome wasn't built in a day, but this podcast was built in a few hours, so you tell me which is better? This week, we're doing a Romans special. We talk about the games Romans appear in, the way they're portrayed, and the difference between Romans on console vs on PC. Also we talk a lot about the Pope, and ask the important question: what does a wolf's milk taste like? Full show notes: https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2020/08/13/podcast-episode-105-the-romans-in-video-games-special Discord: discord.gg/rockpapershotgun

This week's Electronic Wireless Show is a bit quick and dirty - like a spiced pork meat snack. We loved talking about baddies so much last time that we've done a bit of a lateral move, and have each brought our favourite 'bad' game to the pod-table. Because secretly, all games are good. As ever, there is a healthy dose of chat along with our game talk. Nate's watery menagerie is multiplying at an alarming pace because all the animals are having sex, and he is also eating a lot of #BigOats, and basically Matthew and I want to talk about detectives again. Plus: weird old school adverts, KFC, and the return of the return of the Five Nights At Freddy's Book Club! Full show notes: https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2020/08/06/podcast-episode-104-mr-animal-peperami Discord: discord.gg/rockpapershotgun

This week the podcast talks bad, meaning good, and if we say a villain is bad then we mean they are not good, but bad. Make sense? Of course it does! Yes, we're talking about some of our favourite villains in PC gaming. Some interesting topics come up, including the utility of different kinds of villain, what kinds of villain are good, and whether Dr Eggman is a sad, sad boy. Full show notes: www.rockpapershotgun.com/2020/07/30/podcast-the-worst-villains-ever-by-which-we-mean-best Discord: discord.gg/rockpapershotgun

This week the Electronic Wireless Show celebrates the 7/10 game. Yes, we know RPS doesn’t have scores but the 7/10 is as much a feeling or a way of life. It’s those games that are a bit jank at the same time as being a bit genius, the ones that you love even though they’re a bit rough around the edges. Plus: more fish anecdotes, and how the TV show Friends could have been improved (the answer isn’t “delete Ross”, sadly). Full show notes: https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2020/07/23/podcast-heres-to-the-glorious-7s/ Discord: discord.gg/rockpapershotgun

We're back! This week, we've reverted to a more traditional gaming podcast format by spending the first five to ten minutes talking about 90s kids' TV shows we watched. Did you miss us?? Remarkably, we do also talk about some video games, to whit: Halo 3 and Death stranding, which are two big beasty release from this week that VidBud Matthew and Nate have been playing. Unfortunately I, Alice, haven't been playing anything new, but is able to provide input - as well as sound effects! Yes, this week also sees the return of the much loved soundboard. Ooh la la! Full show notes: https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2020/07/16/podcast-chiefing-death-a-pun/ Discord: discord.gg/rockpapershotgun

Rock Paper Shotgun doesn't do scores - until today! For a very special episode 100 of the Electronic Wireless Show, we've decided to finally ditch coherent critical analysis in favour of the comforting certainty of math(s). Over the course of the episode, Matthew, Nate and special guest host Graham (hi) assign numerical scores to 100 games, and then average out the results to deliver a single, definitive score for the entirety of PC gaming. Full show notes: https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2020/06/26/podcast-episode-100/ Discord: https://discord.gg/rockpapershotgun

This week we’re being vaguely topical! Imagine that. Today, because we’ve come through what we might call phase one of the not-E3 livestreams (with phase 2 being Thursday's EA stream and the underway Steam Game Festival) we decided to behave like proper games journalists. We pick out some favourites and standouts from the Guerrilla Collective streams and the PC Gaming show – links to the complete roundups of every trailer and announcement can be found in the show notes. Discord: https://discord.gg/rockpapershotgun Full show notes: https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2020/06/18/podcast-not-e3-best-bits/

This week we got an email from listener Tom from Melbourne, who suggested that it would be fun for us to talk about the scariest games we've all played. Would it, Tom? WOULD IT? What sort of pervs enjoy being afraid? Well, many people, obviously, so we thought Tom's suggestion was a good one. A lot of games come up, from The Evil Within to Soma to Chronicles Of Riddick. Talk about this episode on our Discord: https://discord.gg/rockpapershotgun Read the full show notes here: https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2020/06/13/podcast-june-halloween-special/

Remember when podcasts weren’t even a thing? Us neither. This week, you can join us in an ouroboros of podcasting where we, on a podcast about games, talk about games that we play whilst listening to podcasts. Come, stand betwixt these two mirrors with us! Discord: https://discord.gg/rockpapershotgun Show notes: https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2020/06/05/podcast-games-to-play-while-you-listen-to-podcasts

The big physical summer expos all got cancelled, but instead we have a whole load of great digi-vents to replace them. Looking at the schedule, it seems the Summer Of Games is going on until approximately next January. We’re in a bit of a hopeful mood for this week’s podcast, so the gang discuss their most anticipated upcoming releases, as well as their most anticipated and/or hoped for reveals that might come from the 2020 digital events. Discuss this episode on our Discord: discord.gg/rockpapershotgun Links: Desperados III has a nice big trailer: https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2020/05/20/desperados-3-gets-a-lengthy-gameplay-trailer-before-launch-next-month/ You can play a demo of Desperados III right this hot second: https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2020/05/27/play-demos-for-desperados-3-and-system-shock-right-now-via-gog/ Iron Harvest had a multiplayer alpha last year: https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2018/12/19/iron-harvest-preorder-alpha-released/ Alice is already well excited for Valhalla, and h

Technically it should be happy birthday to The Witcher 3, but it’s always better to put a face to an event, don’t you think? Yes, this week we all celebrated the fifth anniversary of CD Projekt’s most favoured baby (until later this year, at least). Join Alice Bee, VidBud Matthew and Nate as they discuss how Geralt would do on Come Dine With Me, if he’d be alright to have a pint with, and also maybe the game itself a bit. Discuss this episode on our Discord: https://discord.gg/rockpapershotgun Links: The Witcher 3 is going cheap for the next couple of weeks, if you don't have it yet: https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2020/05/19/the-witcher-sales-on-steam-and-gog/ Nate is fairly certain he knows the plot of The Witcher 3 now: https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2020/05/19/i-am-fairly-certain-this-is-the-plot-of-the-witcher-3/ Alice likes The Witcher 3 more if she ignores almost all of The Witcher 3: https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2020/05/19/the-witcher-3-is-most-fun-if-you-ignore-almost-all-of-the-witcher-3

We’ve been away from podcasting for a while, ever since Bungus Humongous (who used to record and edit it) fell off his skateboard and exploded into a pile of coins. But now we’re back! And because we all need a chat with mates at this difficult time, we’re just having a nice chat about the games we’re playing every week. This time: Gears Tactics vs. XCOM Chimera Squad, and family bonding in Sea Of Thieves. Plus: the best way to store a body in a freezer chest, the secret to delicious veggie mince, and the best Scampi merch. Discuss this episode on our Discord: https://discord.gg/rockpapershotgun Links: Nate's Gears Tactics review: https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2020/04/27/gears-tactics-review/ Ways gears tactics will appeal to Gears fans as well as XCOM fans: https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2020/04/02/gears-tactics-will-appeal-to-xcom-fans-and-classic-gears-of-war-fans-alike/ Matthew's video review of Gears Tactics: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XaOPS7L882c XCOM: Chimera Squad's surprise announceme

Wilmot's Warehouse is a good game about sorting boxes. Alice B likes to pile beautiful sunsets on top of one another. Brendan likes to store dangerous buttons next to the nuclear missiles. And I can't remember what boxes Nate likes. Probably eggs. Links: We can't stop playing Wilmot's Warehouse: https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2019/09/09/cant-stop-playing-wilmots-warehouse/ Nate's Wilmot's Warehouse review: https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2019/09/11/wilmots-warehouse-review/ The posters of the warehouse: https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2019/09/12/wilmots-warehouses-motivational-posters-are-a-deadpan-anti-reward/ It's a language game, says Philosophy Matt: https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2019/09/04/wilmots-warehouse-is-a-language-game-please-discuss/ The timelapses are cool: https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2019/09/02/timelapses-in-wilmots-warehouse-are-supremely-satisfying/ Wasteland Baby by Hozier: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OSye8OO5TkM&list=PL9tY0BWXOZFtpgUO2E_VBDIMKrNZuLU5f The Mind Expla

Welcome back, brine fans. Our pen and paper RPG podcast is continuing its salty journey to the top of the pod charts with its fantasy tales of bravery and fishmongering. This week, the gang find themselves waking up in the cavernous city-state of Snarlgrove, nursing some terrible hangovers. Can Nate, Astrid and Alice B uncover the events of their previous night in the settlement? Or did they get so blackout wasted that it's impossible to tell? As usual, the only way to find out is to listen along.

We're talking about families in games this week. Brendan likes the Mishima family from Tekken, who throw each other into volcanoes. Sin prefers the simple life of the Sims, and Matthew enjoys the magical tales of the Finch family in What Remains of Edith Finch. We've also been playing stuff. Children of Morta continues the family theme with some dungeon crawling. Gears 5 has some mother-daughter tension as well. And Ghost Recon Breakpoint ... well, I guess a special ops squad is like a family? Links: The Sims 4 new mermaid DLC: https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2019/06/21/the-sims-4-island-living-expansion-released/ What Remains of Edith Finch is good: https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2017/04/24/what-remains-of-edith-finch-review/ The Mishima family is complicated: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ozjp_TcB2EA Hong and Kong: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-49603717 Alice B liked A Plague Tale: https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2019/05/13/a-plague-tale-innocence-review/ Sin's review of Children Of M