023: The Best Ever - Super Mario

In this ‘The Best Ever’ episode, Jalada and Sefran try to agree on which game in the Super Mario series is the best; Super Mario Sunshine, or Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island?

In this episode we talk about early access games. Everything from their origins, where we think they're going, and some of our favourite and least favourite games we've backed or bought before release.

"Early Access popularity growing, but only 25% have released as a full game" (2014)
Jalada's favourites include:
Sefran's favourites include:
Some less-than-awesome examples of early access include:
- Mighty No 9
- Godus

Shelter

021: A wild Pokémon master appears!

In this episode we are joined by the brilliant Marti Bennett. Marti kindly agreed to tell us all about playing Pokémon competitively and recount some of her own stories and experiences of the professional Pokémon scene. Follow Marti:

YouTube - Virtual Accomplishment
Twitter - @MartiBennett (@VirtualAccomp for content updates)
Twitch - Virtual Accomplishment

020: Enter the Matrix

We recently got the opportunity to go hands-on with an Oculus Rift, complete with Oculus Touch controllers and two sensors. In this episode we discuss our thoughts and impressions, and what we think is in store for the future.

Oculus Rift
HTC Vive
Playstation VR
Apple ARKit
Google Daydream
Games we played:
Neuralink and the Brain’s Magical Future
Mixed Reality with Microsoft HoloLens

Elite: Dangerous

Video games

Apple

Google

019: The 'in-game' illusion

In this episode we discuss how video game advertising and trailers have changed, why 'footage captured in game' means nothing, and whether any of this matters at all.