The Cane and Rinse videogame podcast

<p>“That’s the second biggest monkey head I’ve ever seen!” LucasArts (nee Lucasfilm Games) discovered buried treasure with their swashbuckling 1990 point-and-clicker, The Secret of Monkey […]</p> <p>The post <a href="https://caneandrinse.com/the-secret-of-monkey-island/">The Secret of Monkey Island – Cane and Rinse No.192</a> appeared first on <a href="https://caneandrinse.com">Cane and Rinse</a>.</p>

<p>“Every goal, goal, goal, says you’re the best in the land!” Before FIFA, before Pro Evo (but after Kick Off), there was Sensible Soccer. ‘Sensi’ […]</p> <p>The post <a href="https://caneandrinse.com/sensible-soccer/">The Sensible Soccer series – Cane and Rinse No.191</a> appeared first on <a href="https://caneandrinse.com">Cane and Rinse</a>.</p>

<p>“Oh disciple of the dark sun, thou hast journeyed far.” From Software switched personnel around for Dark Souls II, the first straight sequel in their […]</p> <p>The post <a href="https://caneandrinse.com/dark-souls-ii/">Dark Souls II – Cane and Rinse No.190</a> appeared first on <a href="https://caneandrinse.com">Cane and Rinse</a>.</p>

<p>“Get set for a combat drop!” In the latest of our Halo series of podcasts, Leon, Karl, Tony and guest CJ Black (Twin Humanities) revisit […]</p> <p>The post <a href="https://caneandrinse.com/halo-3-odst/">Halo 3: ODST – Cane and Rinse No.189</a> appeared first on <a href="https://caneandrinse.com">Cane and Rinse</a>.</p>

<p>“Super State.” Stephen Cakebread’s Geometry Wars may have started life as a Project Gotham Racing Easter egg but has since taken on an intensely glowing, […]</p> <p>The post <a href="https://caneandrinse.com/geometry-wars/">The Geometry Wars series – Cane and Rinse No.188</a> appeared first on <a href="https://caneandrinse.com">Cane and Rinse</a>.</p>

<p>“Oh my God! Corn! I didn’t have corn for dinner! This is awful!” In 2006, Rockstar Vancouver introduced us to Bulworth Academy and the adventures […]</p> <p>The post <a href="https://caneandrinse.com/bully/">Bully (Canis Canem Edit) – Cane and Rinse No.187</a> appeared first on <a href="https://caneandrinse.com">Cane and Rinse</a>.</p>

<p>“We must strive to cherish their memory and never forget.” With Valiant Hearts: The Great War, Ubisoft Montpellier took on the daunting task of making […]</p> <p>The post <a href="https://caneandrinse.com/valiant-hearts/">Valiant Hearts: The Great War – Cane and Rinse No.186</a> appeared first on <a href="https://caneandrinse.com">Cane and Rinse</a>.</p>

<p>“Wake me… when you need me.” Halo 3 saw the Master Chief’s debut on the Xbox 360, surfing in on a tidal wave of hype. […]</p> <p>The post <a href="https://caneandrinse.com/halo-3/">Halo 3 – Cane and Rinse No.185</a> appeared first on <a href="https://caneandrinse.com">Cane and Rinse</a>.</p>

<p>“The dark, reddish-black pool of blood… The scattered pieces of flesh… Organs strewn across the floor like the blossoming of a grotesque flower…” It’s a […]</p> <p>The post <a href="https://caneandrinse.com/nine-nine-nine/">999: Nine Hours, Nine Persons, Nine Doors – Cane and Rinse No.184</a> appeared first on <a href="https://caneandrinse.com">Cane and Rinse</a>.</p>

<p>“I love you so much, Red. You know that right?” As a follow up to their critically well-received first game Bastion, Supergiant Games came up […]</p> <p>The post <a href="https://caneandrinse.com/transistor/">Transistor – Cane and Rinse No.183</a> appeared first on <a href="https://caneandrinse.com">Cane and Rinse</a>.</p>

<p>“I’m a science genius girl. I won the science fair. I wear a white lab coat. DNA strands in my hair.” A pair of PlayStation […]</p> <p>The post <a href="https://caneandrinse.com/frequency-amplitude/">FreQuency / Amplitude – Cane and Rinse No.182</a> appeared first on <a href="https://caneandrinse.com">Cane and Rinse</a>.</p>

<p>“I… I am a monument to all your sins…” With Halo 5: Guardians scheduled to arrive later this year, Cane and Rinse company drop from […]</p> <p>The post <a href="https://caneandrinse.com/halo-2/">Halo 2 – Cane and Rinse No.181</a> appeared first on <a href="https://caneandrinse.com">Cane and Rinse</a>.</p>

<p>“I’m talking guys who beat off, four times a day!” Goichi Suda teamed up with co-writer Shinji Mikami to create one of the ‘Capcom Five’ […]</p> <p>The post <a href="https://caneandrinse.com/killer7/">Killer7 – Cane and Rinse No.180</a> appeared first on <a href="https://caneandrinse.com">Cane and Rinse</a>.</p>

<p>“Weatherman says there’s a storm coming our way to spoil the fun.” The Cane and Rinse podcast concludes its Silent Hill cycle where it began, […]</p> <p>The post <a href="https://caneandrinse.com/silent-hill-downpour/">Silent Hill: Downpour – Cane and Rinse No.179</a> appeared first on <a href="https://caneandrinse.com">Cane and Rinse</a>.</p>

<p>“This one red hour will make your reputation or mine… are you right with your maker?” Silicon Knights‘ 2008 Xbox 360 exclusive, Too Human, was […]</p> <p>The post <a href="https://caneandrinse.com/too-human/">Too Human – Cane and Rinse No.178</a> appeared first on <a href="https://caneandrinse.com">Cane and Rinse</a>.</p>

<p>“You can wax on, wax off all you like. I’m still kicking your ass.” A late-generation cult classic or a ridiculous, slapstick B-movie take on […]</p> <p>The post <a href="https://caneandrinse.com/god-hand/">God Hand – Cane and Rinse No.177</a> appeared first on <a href="https://caneandrinse.com">Cane and Rinse</a>.</p>

<p>“Yes, the Nazis rule the world now, they are everywhere. Everywhere.” Our four podcast series tracing the history of this particular franchise concludes with MachineGames‘ […]</p> <p>The post <a href="https://caneandrinse.com/wolfenstein-new-order/">Wolfenstein: The New Order – Cane and Rinse No.176</a> appeared first on <a href="https://caneandrinse.com">Cane and Rinse</a>.</p>

<p>“Our caller ID shows that you are calling from Silent Hill, I regret to inform you that you are beyond even our help.” The penultimate […]</p> <p>The post <a href="https://caneandrinse.com/silent-hill-shattered-memories/">Silent Hill: Shattered Memories – Cane and Rinse No.175</a> appeared first on <a href="https://caneandrinse.com">Cane and Rinse</a>.</p>

<p>“What was I really doing walking in there with my bad haircut and ridiculous shirt?” Max has a snazzy shirt and new employers as he […]</p> <p>The post <a href="https://caneandrinse.com/max-payne-3/">Max Payne 3 – Cane and Rinse No.174</a> appeared first on <a href="https://caneandrinse.com">Cane and Rinse</a>.</p>

<p>“Magic… The elusive trickery that chains my people…” Hanging up their Covenant sniper rifles and Dragon Greatswords to dawn the wings of a fairy princess […]</p> <p>The post <a href="https://caneandrinse.com/kameo-elements-of-power/">Kameo: Elements of Power – Cane and Rinse No.173</a> appeared first on <a href="https://caneandrinse.com">Cane and Rinse</a>.</p>

<p>“Ice cream! Ice cream!” A dystopic vision (late 80s/early 90s style) of bone-crunching, metallic future sports, courtesy of the famous Bitmap Bros, first Speedball and […]</p> <p>The post <a href="https://caneandrinse.com/speedball/">Speedball / Speedball 2: Brutal Deluxe – Cane and Rinse No.172</a> appeared first on <a href="https://caneandrinse.com">Cane and Rinse</a>.</p>

<p>“Alright, you cuff him, I’ll read him his rights.” In this, the sixth of our eight podcasts on Silent Hill, we turn our attention to […]</p> <p>The post <a href="https://caneandrinse.com/silent-hill-homecoming/">Silent Hill: Homecoming – Cane and Rinse No.171</a> appeared first on <a href="https://caneandrinse.com">Cane and Rinse</a>.</p>

<p>Guests CJ Black (Twin Humanities) and Sean Bell (Midnight Resistance) join Leon and Jay in our entirely unbalanced Dragon’s Dogma issue. That’s right, you’ll not […]</p> <p>The post <a href="https://caneandrinse.com/dragons-dogma/">Dragon’s Dogma – Cane and Rinse No.170</a> appeared first on <a href="https://caneandrinse.com">Cane and Rinse</a>.</p>

<p>“Why don’t you have a pork bun in your hand?” United Front Games fused classic Hong Kong crime cinema with contemporary open-world videogame shenanigans for […]</p> <p>The post <a href="https://caneandrinse.com/sleeping-dogs/">Sleeping Dogs – Cane and Rinse No.169</a> appeared first on <a href="https://caneandrinse.com">Cane and Rinse</a>.</p>

<p>“Mein Leben!” In this, our third podcast on the Wolfenstein series of games, James, Brian and Tony discuss Raven Software’s 2009 addition to the series […]</p> <p>The post <a href="https://caneandrinse.com/wolfenstein-2009/">Wolfenstein (2009) – Cane and Rinse No.168</a> appeared first on <a href="https://caneandrinse.com">Cane and Rinse</a>.</p>

<p>“Hey, chill. You don’t see me bringing up your issues.” It’s back to basics for the fifth of our Silent Hill series of podcasts. Climax […]</p> <p>The post <a href="https://caneandrinse.com/silent-hill-origins/">Silent Hill: Origins – Cane and Rinse No.167</a> appeared first on <a href="https://caneandrinse.com">Cane and Rinse</a>.</p>

<p>“Did you guys just come out of the closet? Get out of here!” In 1995 a Square Soft development ‘Dream Team’ launched an epochal RPG […]</p> <p>The post <a href="https://caneandrinse.com/chrono-trigger/">Chrono Trigger – Cane and Rinse No.166</a> appeared first on <a href="https://caneandrinse.com">Cane and Rinse</a>.</p>

<p>“Don’t get too cocky!” For those times when minigames are just too time-consuming, Mario’s evil doppelganger Wario (with a little help from Nintendo R&D1) invented […]</p> <p>The post <a href="https://caneandrinse.com/warioware-inc/">WarioWare, Inc.: Mega Microgame$! – Cane and Rinse No.165</a> appeared first on <a href="https://caneandrinse.com">Cane and Rinse</a>.</p>

<p>Move a little, turn a little break a little, hurt a little In this podcast Ryan, Josh, Karl and Sean confer about Queasy Games‘ 2012 […]</p> <p>The post <a href="https://caneandrinse.com/sound-shapes/">Sound Shapes – Cane and Rinse No.164</a> appeared first on <a href="https://caneandrinse.com">Cane and Rinse</a>.</p>

<p>“This is a nightmare… It can’t be happening…” The last game in the series by Team Silent, Silent Hill 4: The Room is a game […]</p> <p>The post <a href="https://caneandrinse.com/silent-hill-4-the-room/">Silent Hill 4: The Room – Cane and Rinse No.163</a> appeared first on <a href="https://caneandrinse.com">Cane and Rinse</a>.</p>

<p>“You have simply given up, and you would have us all do the same.” In our first Assassin’s Creed podcast for over three years we […]</p> <p>The post <a href="https://caneandrinse.com/assassins-creed-3/">Assassin’s Creed III – Cane and Rinse No.162</a> appeared first on <a href="https://caneandrinse.com">Cane and Rinse</a>.</p>

<p>“But what am I supposed to do with all this cheese?” In the second of four Wolfenstein podcasts we turn our attention to Gray Matter’s […]</p> <p>The post <a href="https://caneandrinse.com/return-to-castle-wolfenstein/">Return to Castle Wolfenstein – Cane and Rinse No.161</a> appeared first on <a href="https://caneandrinse.com">Cane and Rinse</a>.</p>

<p>“I should never have angered that shopkeeper…” Join us as we explore the spider-infested, alien-contested and shopkeeper-invested world of Derek Yu’s 2008 and 2012 roguelike […]</p> <p>The post <a href="https://caneandrinse.com/spelunky/">Spelunky – Cane and Rinse No.160</a> appeared first on <a href="https://caneandrinse.com">Cane and Rinse</a>.</p>

<p>“Monsters? They looked like monsters to you?!” We’re less than halfway through our Silent Hill series of podcasts and yet already concluding the ‘original’ and […]</p> <p>The post <a href="https://caneandrinse.com/silent-hill-3/">Silent Hill 3 – Cane and Rinse No.159</a> appeared first on <a href="https://caneandrinse.com">Cane and Rinse</a>.</p>

<p>“You are that special one that I’ve been waiting for” A slightly under-the-weather Leon (cold), Karl (stomach ache) and Dan Clark (headache) huddle together to […]</p> <p>The post <a href="https://caneandrinse.com/nights-dreams/">NiGHTS into dreams… – Cane and Rinse No.158</a> appeared first on <a href="https://caneandrinse.com">Cane and Rinse</a>.</p>

<p>“Let’s ruffle some feathers!” Tony, along with guests Gary Blower (GameBurst) and Brad Gallaway (GameCritics) take a look at the Activision published Skylanders series – […]</p> <p>The post <a href="https://caneandrinse.com/skylanders/">Skylanders – Cane and Rinse No.157</a> appeared first on <a href="https://caneandrinse.com">Cane and Rinse</a>.</p>

<p>“Select your vehicle.” Fond festive memories of Christmas ’97’s gleeful kart, hovercraft and plane adventure: Diddy Kong Racing. Leon, Darren, Karl and our community peer […]</p> <p>The post <a href="https://caneandrinse.com/diddy-kong-racing-2/">Diddy Kong Racing – Cane and Rinse No.156</a> appeared first on <a href="https://caneandrinse.com">Cane and Rinse</a>.</p>

<p>“I guess I really don’t care if it’s dangerous or not. I’m going to town either way.” Can we already reached the peak of the […]</p> <p>The post <a href="https://caneandrinse.com/silent-hill-2/">Silent Hill 2 – Cane and Rinse No.155</a> appeared first on <a href="https://caneandrinse.com">Cane and Rinse</a>.</p>

<p>“Wow! Incredible!” Leon, Darren, Josh and Ryan explore the vast, chaotic world of Super Smash Bros. from its pre-millennial inception on N64 up to and […]</p> <p>The post <a href="https://caneandrinse.com/super-smash-bros/">Super Smash Bros. series – Cane and Rinse No.154</a> appeared first on <a href="https://caneandrinse.com">Cane and Rinse</a>.</p>

<p>“What are you doing here? Are you lost too?” In this issue, James Carter, Ryan Hamann, Brian Tarran and Jay Taylor discuss Keiichiro Toyama’s gravity […]</p> <p>The post <a href="https://caneandrinse.com/gravity-rush-153/">Gravity Rush – Cane and Rinse No.153</a> appeared first on <a href="https://caneandrinse.com">Cane and Rinse</a>.</p>

<p>“Mein Leben!” In the first of four podcasts looking into the storied history of the (Castle) Wolfenstein saga, we start with the late Silas Warner’s […]</p> <p>The post <a href="https://caneandrinse.com/castle-wolfenstein/">Castle Wolfenstein – Cane and Rinse No.152</a> appeared first on <a href="https://caneandrinse.com">Cane and Rinse</a>.</p>

<p>“Huh? Radio? What’s going on with that radio?” Cane and Rinse returns for its fourth year with the start of our Silent Hill series. In […]</p> <p>The post <a href="https://caneandrinse.com/silent-hill/">Silent Hill – Cane and Rinse No.151</a> appeared first on <a href="https://caneandrinse.com">Cane and Rinse</a>.</p>

<p>“Do you like hurting other people?” In a flurry of chaos, Hotline Miami burst through the door of the videogame world and took on all […]</p> <p>The post <a href="https://caneandrinse.com/hotline-miami/">Hotline Miami – Cane and Rinse No.150</a> appeared first on <a href="https://caneandrinse.com">Cane and Rinse</a>.</p>

<p>“We now have a dog and Alistair is still the dumbest one in the party.” Ahead of the forthcoming Inquisition (which we are expecting), Leon, […]</p> <p>The post <a href="https://caneandrinse.com/dragon-age-origins/">Dragon Age: Origins – Cane and Rinse No.149</a> appeared first on <a href="https://caneandrinse.com">Cane and Rinse</a>.</p>

<p>“Your team has trained hard, and I have every confidence you’ll get the job done.” WASD and mouse fingers are flexed as Leon, Tony and […]</p> <p>The post <a href="https://caneandrinse.com/medal-of-honor-allied-assault/">Medal of Honor: Allied Assault – Cane and Rinse No.148</a> appeared first on <a href="https://caneandrinse.com">Cane and Rinse</a>.</p>

<p>“Let us fight man versus tiny baby man!” For this week’s podcast, Josh, Darren G., Karl and Jay discuss Valve‘s 2007 idiosyncratic cartoonish shooter Team […]</p> <p>The post <a href="https://caneandrinse.com/team-fortress-2/">Team Fortress 2 – Cane and Rinse No.147</a> appeared first on <a href="https://caneandrinse.com">Cane and Rinse</a>.</p>

<p>“Ugh! It smells like a whale… ate some cabbage… and died in your mouth… like a year ago!” Darren, Brian, Ryan and Jay discuss Double […]</p> <p>The post <a href="https://caneandrinse.com/brutal-legend/">Brütal Legend – Cane and Rinse No.146</a> appeared first on <a href="https://caneandrinse.com">Cane and Rinse</a>.</p>

<p>“i borrowed this phone from a sex worker and i haven’t figured out how to do capitals on it yet” Tom Francis’ Gunpoint is, by […]</p> <p>The post <a href="https://caneandrinse.com/gunpoint/">Gunpoint – Cane and Rinse No.145</a> appeared first on <a href="https://caneandrinse.com">Cane and Rinse</a>.</p>

<p>“It doesn’t matter how much you push the envelope, it’ll still be stationery.” Oft-requested, once delayed, here at last is our podcast devoted to Naughty […]</p> <p>The post <a href="https://caneandrinse.com/the-last-of-us/">The Last of Us – Cane and Rinse No.144</a> appeared first on <a href="https://caneandrinse.com">Cane and Rinse</a>.</p>

<p>“Don’t be a stranger now!” This week Tony, Darren, Ryan and guest Gary Blower (Gameburst) discuss Rare‘s brightly coloured, papier-mâché life (or perhaps zoological) simulation […]</p> <p>The post <a href="https://caneandrinse.com/viva-pinata/">Viva Piñata – Cane and Rinse No.143</a> appeared first on <a href="https://caneandrinse.com">Cane and Rinse</a>.</p>