The Cane and Rinse videogame podcast

<p>“Where’s everyone going? Bingo?” We realised there haven’t been enough Cane and Rinse podcasts dedicated to Resident Evil 4, so here we are. Leon, Brian, […]</p> <p>The post <a href="https://caneandrinse.com/resident-evil-4-2023/">Resident Evil 4 (2023) – Cane and Rinse No.663</a> appeared first on <a href="https://caneandrinse.com">Cane and Rinse</a>.</p>

<p>“Proceed north to big gun area.” Behold the Bitterman, in id Software’s archetypal ‘boomer shooter’ sequel, Quake II. Strogg-blasting vets Leon, Chris O’Regan, Darren and […]</p> <p>The post <a href="https://caneandrinse.com/quake-ii/">Quake II – Cane and Rinse No.662</a> appeared first on <a href="https://caneandrinse.com">Cane and Rinse</a>.</p>

<p>“Cut off their limbs.” Perhaps not the most pressing candidate for the remake treatment, nevertheless, EA Motive found itself remaking 2008’s sci-fi horror shooter Dead […]</p> <p>The post <a href="https://caneandrinse.com/deadspace/">Dead Space (2023) – Cane and Rinse No.661</a> appeared first on <a href="https://caneandrinse.com">Cane and Rinse</a>.</p>

<p>“This could be interesting.” Star Wars + DOOM = awesome success. A simple enough equation for mid-90s LucasArts, but is there more to Dark Forces […]</p> <p>The post <a href="https://caneandrinse.com/star-wars-dark-forces/">Star Wars: Dark Forces – Cane and Rinse No.660</a> appeared first on <a href="https://caneandrinse.com">Cane and Rinse</a>.</p>

<p>“Good luck! You’ll need it!” The twin-stick shooter never fully caught on in the arcade’s golden age, and yet, some years after the beloved Robotron […]</p> <p>The post <a href="https://caneandrinse.com/smash-tv/">Smash TV – Cane and Rinse No.659</a> appeared first on <a href="https://caneandrinse.com">Cane and Rinse</a>.</p>

<p>“Wake up little one. The corruption has emerged… The Unchosen is back!“ In this issue of Cane and Rinse, Chris, Jon, Leah and Sean discuss […]</p> <p>The post <a href="https://caneandrinse.com/minishoot-adventures/">Minishoot’ Adventures – Cane and Rinse No.658</a> appeared first on <a href="https://caneandrinse.com">Cane and Rinse</a>.</p>

<p>“We just gotta get to the vault, get the weapon, kick the Combine off Earth — super easy — and they’re — and there’s sandwiches, […]</p> <p>The post <a href="https://caneandrinse.com/half-life-alyx/">Half-Life: Alyx – Cane and Rinse no.657</a> appeared first on <a href="https://caneandrinse.com">Cane and Rinse</a>.</p>

<p>“Hi. Why are you here?” Our Tony’s nomination for the 14th year of podcasts is 2007’s first-person survival horror, S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chornobyl. Leon, Jon and […]</p> <p>The post <a href="https://caneandrinse.com/stalker-shadow-of-chornobyl/">S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chornobyl – Cane and Rinse No.656</a> appeared first on <a href="https://caneandrinse.com">Cane and Rinse</a>.</p>

<p>“Dear Player. You’ve come a long way, haven’t you?” Lead developer Andrew Shouldice stuffed every single corner of Tunic’s world with secrets and mysteries, and […]</p> <p>The post <a href="https://caneandrinse.com/tunic/">Tunic – Cane and Rinse No.655</a> appeared first on <a href="https://caneandrinse.com">Cane and Rinse</a>.</p>

<p>“It’s big.” Presented explicitly as the world’s first “stupid game” or “baka game”, Segare Ijiri is a pretty well known cultural touchstone in Japan, but […]</p> <p>The post <a href="https://caneandrinse.com/segare-ijiri/">Segare Ijiri – Cane and Rinse No.654</a> appeared first on <a href="https://caneandrinse.com">Cane and Rinse</a>.</p>

<p>“Now you have a friend in the paper business.” A vintage game about an anachronistic job delivering a dying medium. Atari’s arcade hit Paperboy is 40! […]</p> <p>The post <a href="https://caneandrinse.com/paperboy/">Paperboy – Cane and Rinse No.653</a> appeared first on <a href="https://caneandrinse.com">Cane and Rinse</a>.</p>

<p>“It is the year 1999, and our game development House, Koch Games, has been hired by The Oikospielen Opera to adapt the novel Tristram Shandy, […]</p> <p>The post <a href="https://caneandrinse.com/oikospiel-book-1/">Oikospiel Book I – Cane and Rinse no.652</a> appeared first on <a href="https://caneandrinse.com">Cane and Rinse</a>.</p>

<p>Back for a fourteenth year of deep-dive videogame review podcasts, and the first subject for 2025 is SEGA’s Panzer Dragoon. Leon, Chris O’Regan, Chris Worthington […]</p> <p>The post <a href="https://caneandrinse.com/panzer-dragoon/">Panzer Dragoon – Cane and Rinse No.651</a> appeared first on <a href="https://caneandrinse.com">Cane and Rinse</a>.</p>

<p>“Shouldn’t have wished to live in more interesting times.” We conclude our thirteenth year of podcasts by covering the all-conquering, 2023 game of the year […]</p> <p>The post <a href="https://caneandrinse.com/baldurs-gate-3/">Baldur’s Gate 3 – Cane and Rinse No.650</a> appeared first on <a href="https://caneandrinse.com">Cane and Rinse</a>.</p>

<p>“Automatons do not have bugs, Kate Walker. They simply display functional idiosyncracies.” In the aftermath of the golden age of graphic adventure games, the early 2000s […]</p> <p>The post <a href="https://caneandrinse.com/syberia/">Syberia – Cane and Rinse No.649</a> appeared first on <a href="https://caneandrinse.com">Cane and Rinse</a>.</p>

<p>“The powers of the Gold Armlet are now yours to wield.” Team Ancient turned its attention from the urban grime of Streets of Rage 2 […]</p> <p>The post <a href="https://caneandrinse.com/story-of-thor/">The Story of Thor (Beyond Oasis) – Cane and Rinse No.648</a> appeared first on <a href="https://caneandrinse.com">Cane and Rinse</a>.</p>

<p>“That old coot had me locked up tight in his lab… But guess what? I GOT OUT!” This week’s destination is the Last Resort hotel. […]</p> <p>The post <a href="https://caneandrinse.com/luigis-mansion-3/">Luigi’s Mansion 3 – Cane and Rinse No.647</a> appeared first on <a href="https://caneandrinse.com">Cane and Rinse</a>.</p>

<p>“We might make a name for ourselves after all…” In a pre-prequel, pre-Disney’s Star Wars world, almost any game featuring George Lucas’ galaxy-spanning space opera […]</p> <p>The post <a href="https://caneandrinse.com/star-wars-rogue-squadron/">Star Wars: Rogue Squadron trilogy – Cane and Rinse No.646</a> appeared first on <a href="https://caneandrinse.com">Cane and Rinse</a>.</p>

<p>“EVERYTHING YOU KNOW IS WRONG” Mark Cerny’s first full project as a prodigious teen game creator (after coding a ‘mushroom growing algorithm’ for Millipede) was Atari’s […]</p> <p>The post <a href="https://caneandrinse.com/marble-madness/">Marble Madness – Cane and Rinse No.645</a> appeared first on <a href="https://caneandrinse.com">Cane and Rinse</a>.</p>

<p>“The evil hand of BASHTAR has seized the lovely MIHO.” Representing the tiny overlap in the Venn diagram of at least two niche subgenres (prehistoric […]</p> <p>The post <a href="https://caneandrinse.com/juju-densetsu/">JuJu Densetsu (Toki) – Cane and Rinse No.644</a> appeared first on <a href="https://caneandrinse.com">Cane and Rinse</a>.</p>

<p>“…” Installation artist, juggler, balloon artist and first-time game developer William Chyr told himself it would take three months to design a Portal-sized puzzle game. […]</p> <p>The post <a href="https://caneandrinse.com/manifold-garden/">Manifold Garden – Cane and Rinse No.643</a> appeared first on <a href="https://caneandrinse.com">Cane and Rinse</a>.</p>

<p>“If you make like you’re a DeathMatch hotshot you should be able to bluff your way into the party.” After a tumultuous few years of company […]</p> <p>The post <a href="https://caneandrinse.com/perfect-dark-zero/">Perfect Dark Zero – Cane and Rinse No.642</a> appeared first on <a href="https://caneandrinse.com">Cane and Rinse</a>.</p>

<p>“If you love a character, you give them pain, ruin their lives, make them suffer.” Just ahead of the release of the fourth instalment in […]</p> <p>The post <a href="https://caneandrinse.com/dragon-age-inquisition-2/">Dragon Age: Inquisition – Cane and Rinse No.641</a> appeared first on <a href="https://caneandrinse.com">Cane and Rinse</a>.</p>

<p>“Throw me back.” What better way to spend time in the ocean than to fish while trying not to succumb to ancient malices from the deep? […]</p> <p>The post <a href="https://caneandrinse.com/dredge-2/">Dredge – Cane and Rinse No.640</a> appeared first on <a href="https://caneandrinse.com">Cane and Rinse</a>.</p>

<p>“Good speech. Blast him.” Marvel’s relatively obscure comic book sci-fi misfits received a huge boost in recognition with their first MCU movie in 2014. Following a […]</p> <p>The post <a href="https://caneandrinse.com/guardians-of-the-galaxy/">Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy – Cane and Rinse No.639</a> appeared first on <a href="https://caneandrinse.com">Cane and Rinse</a>.</p>

<p>“TWO YOUNG VAMPIRE HUNTERS SET OUT TO FULFILL THEIR DESTINY….” New protagonists for a new era. Initially, officially, considered to be a gaiden, Konami’s second […]</p> <p>The post <a href="https://caneandrinse.com/vampire-killer/">Vampire Killer / Castlevania: Bloodlines / The New Generation – Cane and Rinse No.638</a> appeared first on <a href="https://caneandrinse.com">Cane and Rinse</a>.</p>

<p>“Go! Go! Go! Go-go!” It could have been Sonic 3D, but the tech wasn’t ready. In fact, the game itself wasn’t entirely ready when it […]</p> <p>The post <a href="https://caneandrinse.com/sonic-3-knuckles/">Sonic 3 & Knuckles – Cane and Rinse No.637</a> appeared first on <a href="https://caneandrinse.com">Cane and Rinse</a>.</p>

<p>“Thank you Poe, but the vampire is in another coffin.” Vampire Survivors started off as a solo developer effort that turned into a huge indie […]</p> <p>The post <a href="https://caneandrinse.com/vampire-survivors/">Vampire Survivors – Cane and Rinse No.636</a> appeared first on <a href="https://caneandrinse.com">Cane and Rinse</a>.</p>

<p>“HOT FIGHTING HISTORY” Yie Ar Kung-Fu marked the first appearance of many core one-on-one fighting game tenets that remain in use fully 40 years later. […]</p> <p>The post <a href="https://caneandrinse.com/yie-ar-kung-fu/">Yie Ar Kung-Fu – Cane and Rinse No.635</a> appeared first on <a href="https://caneandrinse.com">Cane and Rinse</a>.</p>

<p>“Guess what. This house has an illusion wall.” This week, we put the “cane” back in Cane and Rinse with our discussion of DuckTales on […]</p> <p>The post <a href="https://caneandrinse.com/ducktales/">DuckTales – Cane and Rinse No.634</a> appeared first on <a href="https://caneandrinse.com">Cane and Rinse</a>.</p>

<p>“Good morning.” Covering all the main games from thirty years of Iron Fisting, we relive the mad, bad Mishima saga and recall its many combatants. […]</p> <p>The post <a href="https://caneandrinse.com/tekken/">Tekken series – Cane and Rinse No.633</a> appeared first on <a href="https://caneandrinse.com">Cane and Rinse</a>.</p>

<p>“Why not pay the tavern a visit first?” From oaks to acorns. The Fable series began life as O.G. Xbox exclusive, released under the weight […]</p> <p>The post <a href="https://caneandrinse.com/fable/">Fable – Cane and Rinse No.632</a> appeared first on <a href="https://caneandrinse.com">Cane and Rinse</a>.</p>

<p>“Oh no!” All-but abandoned after just two critically successful entries, Capcom’s Power Stone is a series that – until a recent announcement – lived on […]</p> <p>The post <a href="https://caneandrinse.com/power-stone/">Power Stone – Cane and Rinse No.631</a> appeared first on <a href="https://caneandrinse.com">Cane and Rinse</a>.</p>

<p>“Honk!” Terror most fowl or anserine champion? James, Brian and Leah are going to find out if House House’s goose is cooked or whether they […]</p> <p>The post <a href="https://caneandrinse.com/untitled-goose-game/">Untitled Goose Game – Cane and Rinse No.630</a> appeared first on <a href="https://caneandrinse.com">Cane and Rinse</a>.</p>

<p>“Any objections, Lady?” The infamous odd-one out. Nintendo SPD collaborated with Tecmo’s Team Ninja for the Wii-exclusive follow-up to the Prime trilogy, with results that […]</p> <p>The post <a href="https://caneandrinse.com/metroid-other-m/">Metroid: Other M – Cane and Rinse No.629</a> appeared first on <a href="https://caneandrinse.com">Cane and Rinse</a>.</p>

<p>“The fighting in this area is ferocious.” Two shoot ’em ups with two names each, from Capcom’s arcade heyday of the late 80s/early 90s. Leon, Chris […]</p> <p>The post <a href="https://caneandrinse.com/area-88/">Area 88 (U.N. Squadron) and U.S. Navy (Carrier Air Wing) – Cane and Rinse No.628</a> appeared first on <a href="https://caneandrinse.com">Cane and Rinse</a>.</p>

<p>“You were my friend, the very best I could have asked for.” That game with the cat. Actually – as we briefly discuss in this […]</p> <p>The post <a href="https://caneandrinse.com/stray/">Stray – Cane and Rinse No.627</a> appeared first on <a href="https://caneandrinse.com">Cane and Rinse</a>.</p>

<p>“BUT THE PEACE DID NOT CAME.” A trio of games, but not a trilogy, make up our The Ninja Warriors series podcast. Leon, Chris Worthington, […]</p> <p>The post <a href="https://caneandrinse.com/ninja-warriors/">The Ninja Warriors – Cane and Rinse No.626</a> appeared first on <a href="https://caneandrinse.com">Cane and Rinse</a>.</p>

<p>“We still have a long way to go yet, we can talk, if you’d like?” We return to Hideo Kojima’s back catalogue in the 1994 […]</p> <p>The post <a href="https://caneandrinse.com/policenauts/">Policenauts – Cane and Rinse No.625</a> appeared first on <a href="https://caneandrinse.com">Cane and Rinse</a>.</p>

<p>“Alas, this twilit world is too full of pain and contradiction, too full of broken dreams.” It’s the newest game we’ve ever covered on Cane […]</p> <p>The post <a href="https://caneandrinse.com/paper-mario-the-thousand-year-door/">Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door – Cane and Rinse No.624</a> appeared first on <a href="https://caneandrinse.com">Cane and Rinse</a>.</p>

<p>“YOU CREATED A TWO MILE CRATER” A double game ‘twofer’ show, as we look back at the start of the so-called ‘Golden Age’ of arcade games […]</p> <p>The post <a href="https://caneandrinse.com/lunar-lander/">Lunar Lander and Lunar Rescue – Cane and Rinse No.623</a> appeared first on <a href="https://caneandrinse.com">Cane and Rinse</a>.</p>

<p>“Are you quite finished?” It’s Elden Ring. In the lead-up to the long-awaited Shadow of the Erdtree DLC, Leon, Brian, Jay and Thomas summon collaborators […]</p> <p>The post <a href="https://caneandrinse.com/elden-ring/">Elden Ring – Cane and Rinse No.622</a> appeared first on <a href="https://caneandrinse.com">Cane and Rinse</a>.</p>

<p>“Having power makes the ones you love vulnerable.” Rich, James and Jon are joined by Sean Bell of The Computer Game Show as they come […]</p> <p>The post <a href="https://caneandrinse.com/torment-tides-of-numenera/">Torment: Tides of Numenera – Cane and Rinse No.621</a> appeared first on <a href="https://caneandrinse.com">Cane and Rinse</a>.</p>

<p>“Well, this looks inviting.” For our second look at a Ghostbusters videogame (there are plenty of others that didn’t make the cut), we look at […]</p> <p>The post <a href="https://caneandrinse.com/ghostbusters-video-game/">Ghostbusters: The Video Game – Cane and Rinse No.620</a> appeared first on <a href="https://caneandrinse.com">Cane and Rinse</a>.</p>

<p>“GALACTIC COOK” “Ahead of its time” is a barely adequate phrase with which to describe Star Raiders. Doug Neubauer’s 1979 space combat simulator was a sensation […]</p> <p>The post <a href="https://caneandrinse.com/star-raiders/">Star Raiders – Cane and Rinse No.619</a> appeared first on <a href="https://caneandrinse.com">Cane and Rinse</a>.</p>

<p>“When the tongue slips, grab it, and yank out the truth.” A visual novel about ten hours in Shibuya, Tokyo. Not much could possibly happen, right? Spike […]</p> <p>The post <a href="https://caneandrinse.com/428-shibuya-scramble/">428: Shibuya Scramble – Cane and Rinse No.618</a> appeared first on <a href="https://caneandrinse.com">Cane and Rinse</a>.</p>

<p>“MAYOR AWARDS YOU $2000 FOR AVERTING MARSHMALLOW CATASTROPHE.” The summer of 1984 and Activision lights a fire under Davd Crane’s butt, giving him and his team […]</p> <p>The post <a href="https://caneandrinse.com/ghostbusters/">Ghostbusters – Cane and Rinse No.617</a> appeared first on <a href="https://caneandrinse.com">Cane and Rinse</a>.</p>

<p>“This reckless defiance is intolerable.” Lucasfilm Games teamed up with Infocom’s visionary creative Brian Moriarty in 1990 for the fifth of the studio’s SCUMM-based point and […]</p> <p>The post <a href="https://caneandrinse.com/loom/">Loom – Cane and Rinse No.616</a> appeared first on <a href="https://caneandrinse.com">Cane and Rinse</a>.</p>

<p>“Ready for another day of toiling for the profit of your company?” Somehow, nearly six years has passed since we covered the original Pikmin back […]</p> <p>The post <a href="https://caneandrinse.com/pikmin-2/">Pikmin 2 – Cane and Rinse No.615</a> appeared first on <a href="https://caneandrinse.com">Cane and Rinse</a>.</p>

<p>“I won’t ask again. Where is your son?” A lovable set of siblings, a journey of hope, and a billion rats. Brian, James, Jon and […]</p> <p>The post <a href="https://caneandrinse.com/a-plague-tale-innocence/"> A Plague Tale: Innocence – Cane and Rinse No.614</a> appeared first on <a href="https://caneandrinse.com">Cane and Rinse</a>.</p>