It's the final week of Ben's Japan trip and he's fresh from a visit to the new Donkey Kong Country addition to Super Nintendo World at Universal Studios Osaka! We hear all about the new area: the food, the costumes, the music and of course the new immersive mine cart ride! On the other end of the spectrum, Tommy's been decapitating demons in the aw…

One day we'll be fondly flashing back to this weeks episode of Videodrone with guest GREG LARSEN but for now, we're in the present, recording this episode of Videodrone where we recap the penultimate episode of season 2 of The Last of Us. Pedro is back, the great Joey Pants makes an appearance, and we're wondering how much they're going to cram int…

While the Ben's away, the mice will play... with a Nintendo Switch 2, with mouse controls. This week, Tommy is joined by ANDREW LEVINS to recap their big day at the Nintendo Switch 2 hands-on experience! We got to try out all of the big announced games so far: Mario Kart World, Donkey Kong Bananza, Metroid Prime 4, Welcome Tour, and Drag X Drive, a…

We're coming to you live from the Tullamarine airport car park with special guest GREG LARSEN to discuss episode five of season 2 of The Last of Us, including the coolest graffiti we've ever seen, which bits of this episode we were scared of, and which Festival we think the executives in at HBO are attending. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy …

Ben's in Japan and despite the Government's best efforts to keep us from podcasting with dodgy internet, we are logging on for a huge dose of news: rumours of an Xbox handheld, a playable demo of Hollow Knight Silksong and of course, the new cinematic trailer for a little game called Grand Theft Auto 6! Get Exclusive NordVPN deal here ➼ https://nor…

GREG LARSEN joins us for another recap of The Last of Us. As Ellie and Dina arrive in Seattle, they have two huge life developments to confront, we learn more about the mysterious "Scars" and the WLF, and of course we're visited by our old friends The Skellingtons. It's another perfect episode of Videodrone, especially if you work for Sky News. Hos…

What's this? ANOTHER surprise contender for Game of the Year so soon? And it's FRENCH!? Oui oui, Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 is here and we've been playing the hell out of it! Weird little guys, intricate combat and a melodramatic story - this game has it all. We also chat about the Oblivion remaster, 8BitDo no longer shipping to the US, and new "r…

After last weeks brutal episode we're back this week with Australian media bad boy GREG LARSEN. Ellie wants to hunt down the people who killed Joel but will the council of Jackson allow it? What's with these whistling people in the woods? And why have they cut out our favourite character from the video games? As always, we're doing a full episode a…

We've shadow dropped this episode into your podcast feed in order to let you know about the following news items: there's a remaster of Oblivion out now, a new season of Playdate games is releasing soon and you'll be able to play as Mario in Mario Kart World which we learned from a recent Direct. We've also got our first impressions of the awesome …

Special guest GREG LARSEN joins us once again to chat about a massive episode of The Last of Us, featuring an event that anyone who's played the game has been anticipating and dreading. There's a snowstorm, a horde of infected, some golf clubs and one of the most brutal episodes of television in a long time. We're breaking it all down and then doin…

It's been a long time since we've spent an entire episode talking about one game but it's been a long time since one game has grabbed our attention to such an extent. The new indie puzzle game BLUE PRINCE seemingly came out of nowhere (to us, at least) but man oh man is it good. We're fairly vague in our chat but we do talk about a couple of little…

THE LAST OF US is back on our screens and so of course that means that we are back recapping every episode here on Videodrone with special guest GREG LARSEN! If you listened to our sister podcast 'Clicker? I Barely Know Her' during season one, then you know what to expect: a full breakdown of the episode, focusing only on what we've seen in the epi…

Hey folks! We're back doing recaps for The Last Of Us with our friend Greg Larsen but now the show is going to live over on VIDEODRONE - a sister recap podcast that we've started on the Filthy Casuals feed. They'll be up every Tuesday evening (Australian time) on there. Here's episode one, if you enjoy it and want to continue listening each week, h…

This week we're chatting about our favourite new 3D action adventure game set in a bayou, and our favourite new interpretation of 'What If A 3D Sonic Game Was Actually Good?' We've also had a week to process the Switch 2 Direct and dig into a lot of the hands-on coverage as well as discussing a lot of the online reactions we've seen! Get Exclusive …

We've had a great few weeks whacking each other off, blackmailing strangers, and tracking down shady figures from our past but It's finally time to check out of The White Lotus for another year! We're recapping the movie length season 3 finale episode. Who dies, what are our thoughts on the season as a whole, and what would we like to see from the …

Good lord, it's finally happened. After years of rumours, leaks and speculation, we've FINALLY got ANDREW LEVINS to use his microphone properly! The Nintendo Switch 2 Direct has now happened and we've seen our launch title Mario Kart World, a new Donkey Kong 3D platformer, updates to Switch 1 games, a massive third party library, a new From Softwar…

This week, Ben has checked out the new Steven Soderbergh crime thriller 'Black Bag' PLUS we are nearing the end of season three of The White Lotus! The girls have imploded, The Ratliffs are in freefall, and Rick finally has his long-awaited confrontation. We wrap it all up and give our predictions for the finale next week! Hosted on Acast. See acas…

The boys sit down for definitely the last ever Nintendo Switch 2 speculation they'll ever do they definitely promise we're so sorry. They also chat about somes of the games shown at GDC 2025 including to a T, Take Us North, Phantom Blade Zero, Wheel World and more, and Ben talks about the first few hours of Assassin's Creed: Shadows. It's one of th…

We're IRL for the first time on Videodrone for an all TV recaps episode! We dive straight in to The White Lotus and the fallout from those grubby Ratliff boys at the Full Moon party, before getting in to the season 2 finale of Severance! (from 56:17). Did they stick the landing? What did we think of this season as a whole, and what do we think is i…

You've made it through the harsh forest and into a peaceful clearing where a little troll and a cranky warrior are working together at a... podcast studio? As you get closer, you can hear them talking about Sony refusing to let Jonah Hill's character even TOUCH a Playstation in Superbad, The horrendous AI-generated trailer for Ark: Aquatica, the hi…

This week GEN FRICKER is back to tell us about the short film 'Joey Earns Rewards Using the McDonald's Mobile App & Megh and Clev Discuss Their Future Together'. We're recapping everything about this weeks White Lotus including one of the all-time great guest spots and monologues (00:13:28 - 1:05:00) And our thoughts on this seasons penultimate epi…

Split Fiction is out which means that we've taken a break from sitting next to each other on a couch and talking about video games at the same time in order to sit next to each other on a couch and talk about video games at the same time. We've played through the first part of Hazelight's new couch co-op platformer and have all manner of thoughts a…

This week on VIDEODRONE it's a Boys Only episode as they lose Gen to illness, and it's a TV Only episode too because there's just too much content for one week. The fellas spend the entire podcast discussing Tim hanging dong in The White Lotus, so strap in! Nah jk, it's a big episode of The White Lotus as the boat party ends up revealing more than …

We thought we were going to be doing this weeks episode in a world where a remake of Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3 & 4 hadn't been announced but we were DEAD WRONG! Tommy's stayed up until 1am to watch the Pokemon Presents which gave us our first look at Pokemon Legends A-Z. How do we feel about the shift into a more modern setting? Who cares, because w…

We've got that post Oscars clarity this week as GEN FRICKER joins us for a brief wrap up of the big night! We've also hit the Vega strip for the razzle dazzle of The Last Showgirl, and we're going deep on the symbolism and theories for The White Lotus S03E03 and losing our minds trying to work out what's going on in Severance S02E07! WHITE LOTUS SP…

Ahoy, landlubbers! Filthy bilge rats Tommy and Ben have been sailing the high seas of the Steam Next Fest, making some WB executives walk the plank after their recent studio closures and also some other pirate metaphor used to connote that they've been playing Like A Dragon: Pirate Yakuza In Hawaii. It may be a spin-off of the main series but have …