IGN UK Podcast

Somehow, we did things that weren't playing Zelda this week. I mean, not many things, but definitely some things. Like watching excellent new horror film, Get Out, or thinking about how the Switch is already worming its tablet-y little way into our daily lives. But yeah, mainly we just play Zelda now, and the breathless enthusiasm and inability to talk in a straightforward way about it you're about to hear will attest to that. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

There's so much good in this week's podcast that we had to call the server nerds at IGN and tell them to chuck on more logs. We've had a week with the Nintendo Switch (it's good) and saw Logan (it's very good) and Kong: Skull Island (also good). Let's take a moment to appreciate how good life is right now by listening to three men gob off into microphones. Get in touch with us: [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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This week, Alysia's been playing Prey, Joe's been playing Thimbleweed Park, and Gav's here to play another episode of Keyword Countdown. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week, Rory, Alysia and Dale chat Nioh, the Superbowl trailers that got them most excited, and introduce a brand new, COMPLETELY original game.... Boss Key-word Countdown. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Joe, Krupa, and Gav talk about Legion, T2, McDonalds, and the trouble we've had with giant ants. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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This week Alysia asks Joe and Gav the questions no one else is wondering after the launch of the Nintendo Switch - perhaps because there are more important questions to be answered... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We take a look back at two years of Switch rumours – some of which were eerily close to the final thing – and mourn the loss of Scalebound. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Christmas break is over so, naturally, all Gav, Rory and Joe want to talk about is what they did over the Christmas break. Super Mario Run, Let It Die and the joys of playing remotely playing PS4 games on a mobile phone because it cannot be overstated how crazy the future is. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

As the curtain closes on 2016, Alex, Alysia and Rory look forward to the most exciting games, films and TV shows of next year. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The official IGN Awards will shortly be live, but we thought we'd dish out some gongs of our own devising. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Gav, Alysia and Krupa work out where Rogue One measures up in the Star Wars saga, plus chat The Last Guardian and Dawn of Titans. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Gav went to Japan, got scared out of his wits, and returned with an uneasily rustling bag of answers to the Internet's most stinging questions about Resident Evil 7. In the meantime, Rory and Joe just watched lots of comedies about idiot men having a nice time. Different strokes for different folks. Also: beer stealing, Gang Beasts tricks, beer pong trophies, and Keyword Countdown. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Game Awards 2016 winners have officially been announced, but who better to guide you through the cream of the crop than an actual Judge? Plus a Driver and a.... Simmons. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Call of Duty, Batman, and Assassin's Creed are just a few of the franchises that have been polished and repurposed for 2016. This week Alysia, Dale and Joe sift through the releases, before Joe gets trigger happy with a nerf gun. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Amid the hurricane of games coming out, we chat Dishonored 2, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, plus take an early look at Final Fantasy XV ahead of next week's IGN Premiere. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We tried. We tried to discuss the PS4 Pro. We tried to talk about this year's blockbuster shooter trifecta. We tried to talk about Red Oaks Season 2. But Gav 'Van Helsing' Murphy just had to go and notice that Rory and Joe had something strange going on with their necks, and it all went downhill from there. Apologies in advance. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Crazy Japanese arcade games, Animal Crossing, and Sombra - what more could you want from a podcast? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode we're left divided over Dr Strange, unanimous in how much we love Star Trek VR, and riled by Bethesda's review code decision. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Monday seems a very long time ago now. Nintendo Switch had a different name, we were only guessing that Red Dead 2 existed, and IGN LA's Terri Schwartz chose to spend some of her holidays in our office for no discernible reason and we wanted to record a podcast with her. Basically, all of this is an excuse for why this four day-old episode seems very out-of-date. Forget all that brand new stuff, let's talk about The Crystal Maze and Miles Teller's gusset, then play Keyword Countdown. Oh, and one of you makes us look really clever with your feedback - thanks for that. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Good bye, Tilly. We will never forget you or all who have sailed in you. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We've gone all-in on PSVR this week. Rory's started questioning the fabric of our universe, Alysia's been forced to curl up under tables out of fright, and Joe is changing his name by deed poll to Victor Réalité, just because he likes the initials (and the idea of being French). As such, it's a bit of a VR special, as we talk through our favourites and least favourites of the PSVR launch line-up, tell anecdotes from other worlds, and end with a good o' fashioned quiz. Prepare to be catapulted out of your own brain into another by sheer power of chat. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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This week Alex, Alysia and Rory chat about everything beginning with F: FIFA 2016, Forza Horizon 3, and Fear the Walking Dead... but then Rory breaks the fricative pact and starts talking about his Pokémon Go Plus. Because plosives. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Steve Jackson's choose-your-own-adventure games are coming to a close with the launch of Sorcery! 4. Playing live in an East London bar, Krupa, Alysia and Joe discovered many things, including: 1. Ropes may in fact be snakes, 2. Don't bury dead goat people, 3. Steps did not originally sing "Tragedy." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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New versions of the PlayStation 4 and iPhone have been unveiled. Are they important or just incremental upgrades? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Shh shh - you hear that? That's the sound of the spoiler klaxon. Because Joe, Krupa and Alysia have a few theories about the enigmatic indie sidescroller Inside. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We've accidentally turned into the most cosmopolitan games podcast on Earth, as Gav, Alysia and Joe discuss Swedish indie camps, Italian VR games, and advanced colourblindness platformer solutions. Also on the agenda - Stranger Things series 2, Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping, the tragic death of Princess Diana, and a landmark round of Keyword Countdown (spoilers: Joe nails it because he's the best at both that game and writing these podcast intros). Enjoy! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Alysia, Dale and Joe chat horrors and hacking.... Computer hacking, that is. You monster. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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This week we're all about the stars, dissecting Rogue One's trailer and chatting everything No Man's Sky. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Suicide Squad has divided critics, so our own motley crew of hard-drinking reprobates wanted to see what the fuss was about. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Podcasts. The final pig's ear. These are the ramblings of the IGN UK team. Its hour long mission: to talk about Star Wars Celebration, to preview the new Star Trek and XXX films, to boldly go where no podcast has gone before. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Alex, Joe and Alysia talk through the best games of the year so far. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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In this week's show Rory, Dale, and Alysia take look at the next chapter in Link's adventure, Power Rangers and Zordon, plus Dale and Rory go head to head in the Mother (of dragons) of all Game of Thrones quizzes. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

E3 came and went like a big greasy whirlwind of sexy game announcements, a shed load of virtual reality stuffs and something about a Scorpion?! In this week's show Dale, Alysia & Gav run through the buzzing highs and crushing lows of the conference which include Resident Evil 7, For Honor and even Crash Bandicoot gets a mention (yeah, cheers Dale!). There's also everyone's favourite feature in the history of podcasts: Keyword Countdown. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Join the IGN UK Podcast team as they look ahead to every major conference and speculate about coming announcements. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

If you'll learn one thing in this episode, it's that Preacher is gross. If you'll learn two things, it's that Preacher is gross, and that Rory's dad is a sort of modern Spartan. If you'll learn three things, it's Preacher=gross, Rory=Spartan progeny and that there is a Spider-Man who is a pig. We were also apparently less disappointed by the new Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles film than Warcraft, and Krupa once played frisbee with either some goop or a man's face. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

After last week's, er, heavy review scores chat, new podcast dream team Gav, Alysia and Joe reconvened to relax a little. We talked Overwatch, we talked half-forgotten English soap opera stars, and we talked James Young, the man with the incredible Metal Gear-connected bionic arm. Plus Keyword Countdown gets FOUR new theme tunes, and Alysia loses her freaking mind because Joe is the best. Oh, and if you want to sponsor us to run 10 kilometres/perish for charity, here's our Just Giving page: https://www.justgiving.com/IGN/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week, we were joined by a new member of Team IGN UK, Alysia Judge. As is traditional, we had a long and semi-furious rant about the problems of review scores in the modern games industry as a result. Classic hazing. Also there's, you know, horror films, going on a stag do from the men from Catherine and the real definition of male full frontal nudity. Enjoy! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We're bang into Uncharted 4, not least because it makes our consoles sound like terrifying spaceships by putting them under way too much performance strain. Plus: Green Room might be Gav's film of the year, Overwatch might be Joe's game of the year and Game of Thrones doesn't make Alex quite as sad anymore. Positivity abounds! And if that wasn't enough, this week sees the return of the greatest feature of all time, Keyword Countdown. And we're not just saying that because Joe's writing this story. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

To use the parlance of our times, Overwatch has emerged out of a jungle of MOBA-infused FPS games and ganked us right in the excitement buttons. Krupa, Joe and Dale are just a little enthused about the potential of Blizzard's new characterful shooter. And that's not to mention trips to see hidden Star Wars stories, a man nearly stabbing Gav off of a balcony, and the genetic differences between those who are and aren't... affected by asparagus. Get involved, if you please. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Boy oh boy did we go off-piste this week. We matched discussions of new Game of Thrones, the Ratchet and Clank movie and The Division with our dream film pitches, the brilliance of The Cube (game show and film) and the problems of Looper-face. Plus: Mr. Zurkon or Mr. ZurkOFF? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The IGN UK Podcast remembers and celebrates the greatest quiz show involving small rooms, jumpsuits, and tinfoil money ever made. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We went into Miitomo with Nintendo-grade grins on our faces, but not long after and we're wishing there was a little more to it. So where does Nintendo go next? We have all the questions and probably one or two answers. Other than that, we've got a quiz about the weirdest games Joe's played recently, we can't make up our minds about whether zombie games are actually fun and Rory reveals his childhood past as an amateur spy. On his mum and cat. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices