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Sound-byte 046: Pokémon Home

Sound-bytes are our shorter episodes about what we’ve been up to recently. Jalada picked up Pokémon Home and has been transferring his treasured Pokémons.
Nintendo
Mobile gaming
Pokémon
Nintendo Switch

Sound-byte 045: Website refurbishments

Sound-bytes are our shorter episodes about what we’ve been up to recently. Jalada has been busy refreshing the website and migrating us over to a new podcast provider.
Technology
Podcasting

086: Game Club - Sayonara Wild Hearts

In Game Club, we pick a game to both play seperately that we've never played before, and then come together on the show to discuss our thoughts. This time, it's the turn of Sayonara Wild Hearts.

We both played Sayonara Wild Hearts on Nintendo Switch, but it's also available on PC, PS4, and iOS. Thanks Toni for recommending it.
Video games
Mobile gaming
Indie games
Nintendo Switch
Game Club
Sayonara Wild Hearts

Sound-byte 044: Weathering With Us

Sound-bytes are our shorter episodes about what we’ve been up to recently. Sefran has been to see Weathering With You, the new film from the creators of Your Name, and gives us his hot take.
Japan
Anime
Film
Your Name

085: Games of 2020

We share the games we're most looking forward to in the year ahead in this continuation of our look back and forward at the games of last year and this year.

Games we cover:

Video games
Final Fantasy
Animal Crossing
VR
Half Life
Iron Harvest
The Red Lantern
Coffee Talk
Industries of Titan
Haven
Sable

Sound-byte 043: Happy 2020!

Sound-bytes are our shorter episodes about what we’ve been up to recently. We took a bit of a recording break over Christmas, so in this episode we catch up with each other on what we got up to.

084: Games of 2019

In this episode we take a look back at the games we enjoyed playing in 2019.

Jalada's choices were Link's Awakening, Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice, and Xenoblade Chronicles 2: Torna - The Golden Country.

Sefran's main choices were Persona 5, Death Stranding, and Deep Rock Galactic. He also had a few honourable mentions including Wilmots Warehouse and Katamari Damacy Reroll.

Video games
Zelda
Deep Rock Galactic
Death Stranding
Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice
Katamari Damacy
Persona 5
Wilmots Warehouse
Xenoblade Chronicles

Sound-byte 042: The fate of our 2019 hopefuls

Sound-bytes are our shorter episodes about what we’ve been up to recently. We've been busy recording our 2019/20 episodes of Octal FM where we look back at our games of 2019, and games we're looking forward to next year. In this Sound-byte, we take a look back at what we thought about this time last year to see if any of it came true or not.
Video games
Final Fantasy
Breath of the Wild
Animal Crossing
Cyberpunk 2077
Persona 5
Fire Emblem
Civilization

083: Should I Stadia or Should I Go?

In this episode we continue our dive into the world of streaming games and games-as-a-service. Jalada just got his Founder's Edition Google Stadia and he gives us his thoughts and first experiences.

You can add Jalada on Stadia. His username is...Jalada.

Video games
Google
Technology
Google Stadia
Streaming

Sound-byte 041: Do I choose you, Sword?

Sound-bytes are our shorter episodes about what we’ve been up to recently. This time, Jalada gives his first impressions of Pokémon Sword, thirty or so hours in.

Pokémon
Nintendo Switch