IGN UK Podcast

We're big fans of Halloween at the IGN UK podcast so we thought we'd celebrate this week by bringing you a big ol' episode dedicated to it. We've done a nice rundown of all the spookiest goings on in the cinema, on Netflix and on regular people telly. There's also a full-on spoiler discussion about the new Halloween film and as if that wasn't enough we're joined by THREE special guests. You'll find lovely chats with Julius Avery and J.J. Abrams, the men responsible for bringing awesome new WW2 horror film Overlord to our cinemas, and we're also joined by the one and only Jamie Lee Curtis! We don't know how we've done it...I mean, we do - months of careful planning and loads of emails - but still, what a fantastic time YOU'RE about to have. Remember if you want to get in touch with the podcast, please do: [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Due to tangible demand, the IGN UK podcast is BACK! This week we've mostly been playing Dark Souls on Switch, getting the willies stuffed up us by The Haunting of Hill House and watching Nicolas Cage go berzerkoid. We also watched Bad Times at the El Royale which we didn't have any particularly strong feelings about either way but sometimes we come up with the title of the podcast before we record...so....yeah. Remember if you want to get in touch with the podcast, please do: [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It's a packed week on the podcast, as Gav, Dale and Joe convene to discuss why Fallout 76 is best when it's not being a Fallout game, why game maps are getting too big, what Observation is, and why Joe might be mentioned on Waluigi's Wikipedia page. Plus, obviously, there's Keyword Countdown - we know it's all you're here for. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Venom, Forza Horizon 4, the Welsh Valleys. All the big ones are up for discussion on this week's episode. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week Krupa and Gav are in Tokyo hanging out with the IGN Japan crew, Daniel and Esra, playing Devil May Cry and losing their minds over Astro Bot. There's also the first ever Keyword Countdown on Japanese soil. Enjoy! If you want to get in touch with the podcast, please do: [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

You've probably heard enough of Alex and Joe banging on about Red Dead Redemption 2, but if not they talk more about Rockstar's upcoming Western - and answer your questions - on this week's episode. There's also chat about WWE 2K19 and its weirdest modes, plus the PSone games we'd like to see on the PlayStation Classic. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Don't go near the water. Sage advice, whether you live on an island surrounded by sharks or, worse still, live in Manhattan. Have you seen the freaks on the boats in Marvel's Spider-Man? It's enough to give anyone nightmares. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It's double quiz week on the UK podcast. Why? Because Cardy had already written Boss Keyword Countdown before we realised a massive prop auction might make good quiz content. You're welcome. Also: American Vandal, Hollow Knight, and all the celebrities you people live near and watch on the daily. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Look, we could talk about Shenmue, or Succession, or any of the new stuff we've been indulging in this week, but Gav's bang back into Lost and he's got a bone to pick with a temple. Plus, why flashbacks are bad film-making, if playing cards other than the Queen are female, and Keyword Countdown. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It's been a very long week, but three intrepid podcasters made it back to the office to do a little special podcast. Those brave boys are Krupa, Rory, and Simon, and they're here to tell you about their favourite games they've played this week, as well as what takeaway they're ordering a recovery treat, not to mention all the augments they'd riddle their bodies with given half the chance. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We stretch the truthfulness of our podcast's name this week, as Joe and Cardy are joined by Tina and Andrew from the IGN San Francisco office. We talk all things Gamescom, hear a lovely story about Final Fantasy X, and feel the looming jeopardy of our US bosses realising just what it is we're up to over here, before shutting this all down. Plus, a new and exciting all-American Boss Keyword Countdown! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Join us on a not-so dark tour of contemporary popular entertainment. Marvel at our informed discussion of Red Dead 2! Wonder at just how Castle Rock is squeezing so much of Stephen King's big-faced glory into one TV series! Gasp at the fact Cardy can't clap! Plus: Boss Keyword Countdown! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Joe's played Spider-Man, Krupa is in love with the way Venom says pancreas, and Dale's been recreating LOST somewhere in the universe. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Mission: Impossible – Fallout is out this week. So we take a look back at the series so far, speak to Simon Pegg and Christopher McQuarrie about the new one, and do a little spoilercast too. **All spoilers are in the second half of the show.** Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

What do you get if you cross a rapper with a chicken that can poop bombs and a giant statue of Jeff Goldblum? Give up? It's this week's podcast, ya numpty! Krupa's been playing Bomb Chicken, Gav's been watching The Defiant Ones and everyone's been enjoying a giant Jurassic Park statue. Thanks to everyone that sponsored us for our 10k, it was HARD. You can still chuck in some pennies if you're up for that: http://bit.ly/RunIGN Also get in touch with us: [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On the surface, you'd think we'd gone all professional this week. We cover Fortnite Season 5, Captain Toad, We Happy Few and GLOW - classic fare. So how did Cardy, Joe and Rory get onto illicit 3DS photography, drugs and absolutely ruined jokes? We don't know, and we can only apologise. Please also sponsor us for running the British 10k this weekend. It's all going to the incredible Special Effect, so give as much as you can! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On this week's podcast Rory and Gav have just got back from acting like damn fools in Athens, Cardy's been watching The Incredibles 2 and we have a brand new (possibly reoccurring feature) "Michael Giacchino needs to calm the f**k down!" Please also sponsor us for running the British 10k next week. We're so close to our target now: http://bit.ly/RunIGN Get in touch with us: [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Despite our brief opening talk about YouTuber beefs, we actually talk some Overwatch this week including the brand new hero, The Wrecking Ball, Hammond and Rory's live Overwatch League experience. We've also all got strong opinions on the new Predator and Mandy trailers and of course, another delicious game of Keyword Countdown. Oh! And please sponsor us for the Special Effect 10K run we're doing - it's for an amazing cause. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

E3 might be over, but we somehow still aren't sick of talking about it. Joe's got all the behind-the-scenes deets (and slightly contrarian opinions) on Cyberpunk 2077, Dale and Simon have been on a romantic little Forza holiday to a Bond lair, and we talk our way through the latest Mario Tennis. Also, there's a bit where Joe goes mad because they're putting Neanderthal brain bits into crab robots. Plus, the return of Boss Keyword Countdown, even though Rory isn't here. Oh! And please sponsor us for the Special Effect 10K run we're doing - it's for an amazing cause. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

E3, the biggest event in the gaming calendar, just took place in LA. There's a lot to get through. Gav, Cardy, and Krupa dish out the unofficial IGN awards from back here in London, while we've got Joe, Rory, and Dale on the ground in LA to tell you the best of what they actually got to play. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Gav and Krupa sit down with director J.A. Bayona to discuss his new take on the Jurassic series, and Simon dresses up as a big egg. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week Joe, Simon, and Krupa look ahead to E3 and make some very insightful predictions that almost certainly will be true. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Early in the 21st Century, THE IGN CORPORATION advanced podcasters into the nexus phase – a podcaster virtually identical to an idiot – known as a Benny. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

To celebrate the release of Deadpool 2 we've gone mutant MAD and run down some of the weirdest mutant powers from the X-Men comics. We've also got Josh Brolin aka Cable aka the man with the naughtiest finger click in the galaxy for a big old interview where he does impressions of Marvel head Kevin Feige, questions Gav's British credentials and tells us about lies he's told. There's also one of the highest scoring Keyword Countdown's we've had in ages. Let us know what you think of the interview and Deadpool 2 which is out now. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Gav's been hanging out with dinosaurs in Cambridge. Bit far-fetched, etc., etc. Krupa's been goggling at the new Predator trailer. And Simon, well, Simon's fuming about something... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Krupa and Alex went to Rockstar North to check out 45 minutes of Red Dead Redemption 2, so here they break down everything they saw in detail, with Gav milking them for every last bit of info they have on the game. If you want to know everything there is to know about Red Dead 2 right now, this is the place to be. There's a also a bonus Keyword Countdown for you to enjoy! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We're dedicating this week's entire podcast to Avengers: Infinity War because, well, they've blood well earned it! We've got Tom Hiddleston, Letitia Wright & Sebastian Stan as well as the awesome directors Joe and Anthony Russo stopping by and we rank the Top 5 Best Marvel Cinematic Universe scenes ever. We also do a big old Infinity War spoiler-filled discussion in the second half of the podcast but we've done our best to ensure that there's no spoilers at all until then. Let us know what you think of the film: [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We've got Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom theories, discussion of brilliant new cartoon-Zelda game Swords of Ditto, and Cardy's problematic breakaway project that Gav definitely didn't make up. Plus, Keyword Countdown gets spicy with a close-fought showdown. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week Krupa's been playing that new God of War, but to be honest that bit mainly ends up being about the canonical status of what happened in Hollyoaks Afer Dark. If you don't know what that is, it's like naughty Hollyoaks. If you don't know what Hollyoaks is – well, there's no helping you. We've seen a little bit of Infinity War, but can't talk about it, so enjoy that. And enjoy the really, really hard Keyword Countdown. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week we're joined by possibly the nicest man to grace this earth, John Krasinski. Krazzers was in town to talk about his new film A Quiet Place and was patient enough with Gav to talk about The Office, auditioning for Captain America and The Prestige. We also hear about Alysia's recent trip to the Games Developer Conference and Rory's been playing the new Dark Souls Remastered. Get in touch: [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Two boys, two films. Krupa and Joe cover Ready Player One and brilliant new horror anthology Ghost Stories before, like all the best horror films, we pull the rug right out from under you. Krupa sat down with Ghost Stories' creators, Andy Nyman and Jeremy Dyson to talk through adapting their play as a movie, how it uses conjuring to frighten you, and the rise of anthology stories. Enjoy! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We've played games, games, games this week. God of War, A Way Out and Ni No Kuni 2 make up the big hitters, before good old Football Manager comes around again, this time even in quiz form. Also: will someone please watch Wild Wild Country so that Joe can talk about it with another human? He looks ill. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Krupa, Skrebels and Cardy discuss our unexpected new lunchtime obsession, the beguiling weirdness of Annihilation, the weirdly beguiling Love, and a discussion of the words in a Swedish folk song. And forget Keyword Countdown, because this week you've got 'Bottom or Wrestler' to enjoy. It's more innocent than it sounds. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Nintendo Direct took a big old dump of awesome games on us this week so Rory, Krupa & Gav go absolutely mad on Dark Souls Amiibo, Rory's Smash Bros. skills and there's a lovely embarrassing story about Priyanka Chopra. We've also got some awesome feedback and an absolutely epic round of Keyword Countdown. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Who wants a podcast where the hosts predict the big winners of the 2018 Oscars, interview the amazingly funny and talented Joel Edgerton AND talk for far too long about taking over managerial duties at Bayer Leverkusen? Well, ladies n gents - we might just have your sweaty little butts covered! Mr. Edgerton stops by the podcast to talk about his new sexy spy thriller Red Sparrow and is very patient whilst reading out some strange Star Wars fan-ficton Gav came up with. Red Sparrow is in cinemas right now and we have it on good authority that you get to see Edgerton's nips more than once in it, so... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week is an absolute banger! Not only do we have Alysia, Rory & Gav chatting about Fortnite, a new VR game called Seed and the fact that some of us have only just got around to playing What Remains of Edith Finch BUT we also have a big exciting interview with Alex Garland. The Ex Machina director talks about his brand new film, Annihilation. He's also a ridiculously dedicated gamer and loves any opportunity to talk about Dark Souls. Lovely. Drop us a line: [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Joe and Gav have just got back from Tokyo and bring with them the finest stories yen could buy. Simon's not sure how he feels about Altered Carbon and he's fallen out with Mick McCarthy (in Football Manager). There's also a THRILLING round of Keyword Countdown. Get that in you. Get in touch with us: [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

There's been a ridiculous amount of trailers dropping this week, so we thought we'd get stuck into them. Solo, Deadpool, Venom, you name 'em we've watched 'em. Also, Cardy's verdict on Black Panther is in, Alysia has been going back to school and Rory has been flirting with a witch on a Switch. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week we've got Paul Thomas Anderson on the brain after watching two of his films in a week, not to mention a chat about the 10/10 reviewed Celeste, Cardy's newly-named Roverwatch, and the tensest Keyword Countdown all year (probably). Joe's also been away hunting real-life monsters in Devon, and made an entire half-hour radio documentary about the experience - wait until the end of the podcast for that. Get in touch with us: [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We've got a monster of a podcast for this week. Simon's had his head up a Hornetaur in Monster Hunter: World, Krupa's been going off in Shadow of the Colossus and Gav's been have a lovely time watching naughty German dramas and playing Crossing Souls. We've also got an absolute banger of a Keyword Countdown and Sidekick Simon's Football Manager Update - would you be happy with a 49% win-rate? Because Gav's not. Get in touch with us: [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week we get all excited about Nintendo Labo and it's possible future. Rory is all giddy about Dragon Ball FighterZ, Dale (for some reason) is banging on about former Coventry City legend, Dion Dublin and Cardy returns with his now infamous Football Manager updates (We still need a better title). Also, after getting so much good feedback, we decided make the email section twice as long this week. There's some great questions and frankly, a mixed bag of responses... Get in touch with us [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Awards seasons has got hold of the IGN UK team and they went off to see a flurry of worthy films this week. Gav is bang into I, Tonya, Rory's feeling Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, Simon's running lukewarm on The Shape of Water and they all stepped out to the premiere of The Post. There's also sexy times to be had with a Nintendo Direct and the announcement that we'll be going back to Lordran when Dark Souls comes to the Switch. That's not all! There's a dramatic Keyword Countdown and due to tangible demand we have the return of Cardy's Football Manager Update (we really need a new name for that segment) Get in touch with us [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

New Year, Old Us. Of course we start by trying to discuss shiny new things like Black Mirror and Bright, but we just can't help ourselves falling into talking about Jonathan Creek, Football Manager and, yes, The Prestige. But we've also got a round-up of the games we caught up on over Christmas, the maddest film of last year, plus there's a recipe for a chicken meal at the very end for some reason. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Nursing a New Year hangover? Listen to us waffle about the things we're most looking forward to watched, playing, and doing in the New Year. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Look, we're not going to cover the regular stuff - we've got a place for that already - but in this episode you'll find out some of the more niche pursuits the UK office has been enjoying this year. Join Joe, Rory and Simon as we cover everything from our favourite Netflix Originals and the Games That Made Us Want to Punch One Another, to the greatest meal deal snack and our coveted Beer of the Year title. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It's that time of year where it's okay to really indulge yourself. So here we are: a Keyword Countdown Christmas Special. Merry Christmas! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Hold on to your butts. Wrong film. Anyway, here it is: a spoiler-filled discussion of Episode VIII and why it's proved to be one of the most divisive blockbusters ever. Punch it! (Now that's Star Wars.) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Kingsman: The Golden Circle director joins us to talk about the movie and his ambitious plans for the future of the spy series. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The day after the Christmas party and yet we still manage to deliver a vintage episode. Well, not vintage. Let's not go mad. It's good, don't get me wrong. Still definitely worth a listen. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week Gav, Dale and Alysia talk about the brand new Avengers: Infinity War trailer and lay down our story predictions. We also have been playing (and loving) a new playlink, detective thriller game called Hidden Agenda. We set Detective Flaps and BigBoi on the case to hunter down the Trapper and blow this whole thing wide open. Alysia has also played Doom VFR and wants to tell us all about it, although she's hesitant to explain what the F stands for.. As always, we also dive into Keyword Countdown and your lovely feedback. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices