As the last vestiges of the summer get swept away in the wind and rain, so too do we sign off the season with part two of the 4th annual Summer of Resi with a deep dive into one of the series' greatest games: Resident Evil 4.Come say hi on Twitter or BlueSky @winnerisyoupod, rate/review the pod on your platform of choice, share with your pals, check out the video version on YouTube or search for us on TikTok.
YES! It's finally that time of year! Bust out your tank controls and your zombified dads, fill 'em full of SMG bulllets and have a little cry - it's time to play Resident Evil CODE: Veronica!We chat about the game's development, the gameplay, the visuals, the weapons, the characters, the bosses, and then we stumble through the story after realising we'd both somehow ignored important information about the entire premise of the game. Morons. This is a great game and a fun pod, so let us know if you enjoyed it over @winnerisyoupod on Twitter (boo) or BlueSky (yay?). Check out the video version by searching for us on YouTube.
Hey, it's 2025 innit! That means we're a quarter of the way through the 21st Century. What that also means is we've had a cavalcade of cool games in the last 25 years. We're here to celebrate that with 25 games for 25 years - 2000 to 2025 (and yes, we know we're technically in the 26th year of the century but shut up). Well, more than 25, actually, as David and Alex both have their own individual Top 25 lists to discuss. Come tell us your favourite game of the century over @winnerisyoupod on either Twitter or BlueSky. Check out the A Winner Is You Podcast channel on YouTube for the video version of this episode, or go on TikTok to see clips if you can't pay attention for more than 30 seconds. WOW, A BLUE CAR!
We ran the randomiser over all the SNES and Mega Drive games currently on the Nintendo Switch Online service, came up with three games from each console, played 'em and now we rank 'em. This episode features, for the SNES: F-Zero, Psycho Dream and Wild Guns, and for the Mega Drive: Earthworm Jim, Space Harrier 2 and Strider.Say hi on Twitter or BlueSky @winnerisyoupod
Another draft, another KDB appearance, another pod full of fun, elation, surprises, dismay, a winner, two losers and a whole heap of rambling. Speaking of rambling, skip to 34:22 if you want to get straight into the draft and avoid a whole heap of spoilers for Clair Obscur: Expedition 33. Come say hi to us on Twitter or BlueSky @winnerisyoupod, please rate/review on your platform of choice, and check us out on YouTube instead if you want to look at men with beards. Oh, and thanks to TerraPlayer for adding us to their roster. Solid lads, right there.
You know us. We love a good moan. Especially David, but ESPECIALLY Alex. We feed our blackened hearts with pure, grade A disappointment, so we're serving it up for your, hopefully more optimistic, palates. We take 10 disappointing moments or trends from gaming history and stick them in a tier list. Nintendo, GAME, Rare, Sony, Microsoft - they all better watch their backs. We're coming for 'em. Tell us your disappointments over @winnerisyoupod on X or BlueSky, and please rate/review on your platform of choice.
It's time for a good ol' fashioned knockout tournament! In the first of a new pod format (that we will continue to run with whether you like it or not), we're hosting a tourney to crown the king of the first person shooters.12 games enter, 8 progress to the knockouts to be randomly drawn against each other on the road to the final. What will win? Halo? Half-Life? Goldeneye? Doom? Call of Duty? You better listen to find out. Rate/review on your pod platform of choice, and say hi @winnerisyoupod on X and BlueSky.
It's been a huge week to be a Nintendo fan, for good and bad. We're here to condense and deliver as much information and opinion from the Nintendo Switch 2 Direct, and all the information trickling out since, as we possibly can just for you.To round out the episode, we celebrate the console that came before with our individual top 10 lists of Switch 1 games. Come say hi on Twitter or BlueSky @winnerisyoupod and we'll see you next episode for Genre Wars pt.1 - FPS Games.
It's a movie and a game for you lucky people! That's right, we're ready to believe you... want to hear us discuss the 1984 classic movie Ghostbusters AND Ghostbusters: The Video Game. We love the movie, we... kinda like and respect the game. There is absolutely nothing extraordinarily bad about this podcast. Yes, it's true, this man has no dick. Say hi to us on BlueSky @winnerisyoupod and we'll see you next time for a Switch 2 Direct reaction pod + our Top 10 Switch games of all time.
It's finally here, lads. We go deep into covering all the wonderful Dishonored games, right from the 2012 original through all the DLC and onto Dishonored 2 and Death of the Outsider.It's safe to say we adore these games. The main two are both 10/10s. We'll fight anyone who says otherwise. Say hi @winnerisyoupod on Twitter or BlueSky and get ready for March Movie Madness up next!
Once again we bring in KDB to join us picking 10 video games each, this time from the year 2010, and trying to get the highest total Metacritic score. This is an epic, folks. Banger game after banger game, a photo finish down to the last game for second place, records broken, and a bonus 2025 fantasy draft for a bonus point in the league table. Please rate and/or review us on your pod platform of choice and tell your gaming buddies how rad this pod is. Come say hi to us @winnerisyoupod on Twitter and BlueSky!
Oh bugger, this is already getting messy. We're back with another 15 rock solid Xbox 360 games to add in to our burgeoning top 100 list. So you can follow along while listening, the current top 15 before recording looked like this: Dead Space Gears of War Portal 2 Batman: Arkham Asylum Call Of Duty 4: Modern Warfare Bioshock The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Binary Domain FIFA 10 Sonic & All Stars Racing Transformed Alan Wake Left 4 Dead 2 Resident Evil 5 Limbo Split/Second VelocityWill Binary Domain hang in the top 10 by the end? Can anything usurp Dead Space? Why is Limbo so low? All this and more to be revealed in a stonker of an episode for Xbox fans. Come say hi on Twitter or (preferably) BlueSky @winnerisyoupod and we'll see you in the next episode for the 2010 Video Game Draft!
We may be halfway through January already, but 2024 doesn't officially end until we've decided our prestigious Game of the Year Awards! The categories, as is now the standard, are: Best Story, Best Gameplay, Most Bullshit, Best Surprise, Worst Game, Outsider Award (best non-pod game), Best Game, Most Anticipated 2025 Podcast Game, and Most Anticipated 2025 New Release. Enjoy the rambling, long awards show and tell us what you thought over @winnerisyoupod on either Twitter or BlueSky (preferably the latter).
What a way to close out 2024, eh? There's something quintessentially Christmassey about sticking on an Indiana Jones movie, so we decided we'd play one in Machine Games' latest masterpiece. We dive deep into the gameplay, story, mysteries, puzzles, characters, combat and much, much more. Say hi to us on Twitter or BlueSky @winnerisyoupod and have a bloody brilliant new year. See you in 2025!
Snaaaaake Eeeeeeeaaaaaterrrrrrrrrrrrrr! That's right, we're rounding off the original MGS trilogy with what many believe to be its finest hour. Join us in celebration of MGS3's 20th birthday as we have a deep dive into its gameplay, impact, bosses and all the insane details you may have missed! Come say hi to use on Twitter or BlueSky @winnerisyoupod
Happy birthday, PlayStation, you old bastard! 30 years of Sony's iconic, game-changing machine needs to be acknowledged and celebrated with more than just a grey PS5 controller, so we're here to throw a proper party. We've got memories of the console, anecdotes from childhood, a look through our PS1 games collections and our individual top 10 lists of PS1 games. It's a warm and fuzzy pod for those cold winter nights. Follow us on Twitter or BlueSky @winnerisyoupod, and give us a rating or review on your pod platform of choice!
Don't feel old, mate. We're all in this together, ageing like fine wine. Has Halo 2 done the same, or is it old and embarassing like your dad? We talk through everything - gameplay, story, marketing, multiplayer, the 2014 remaster and much, much more. Say hi @winnerisyoupod on twitter and/or BlueSky, watch us on YouTube, and please rate/review on your platform of choice - it probably helps.
Yeah, not the remake. We both bought the terribly-optimised PC version and... nah. Unplayable. But hey, the original Silent Hill 2 is a masterpiece and one of the greatest horror games, if not the greatest, ever made. We have an epic chat about this seminal, groundbreaking game that is just as unsettling now as it was in 2001. Trigger warning: this podcast contains discussions about sexual assault, mental illness, terminal illness, euthanasia, suicide and more dark topics that you probably already know are in the game. Just letting you know now - this pod gets pretty heavy at times. Rate/review/sub, tell your friends, say hi to us on Twitter @winnerisyoupod.
It's spooky season once again, and we are nothing if not men of tradition. It's a two-parter this year, and first up is a game we've wanted to play for years: Eternal Darkness: Sanity's Requiem. A GameCube launch window gem, this game has a still-unique sanity system that brilliantly fucks with the player, some great puzzling, a deep magic system, top voice acting and much more to recommend. All of which you'll hear in this episode. Say hi on Twitter @winnerisyoupod, rate/review/sub on your platform of choice, and we'll see you for part 2 with Silent Hill 2 (both versions)
The final game before Spooky Season is a strong contender for game of the year, and the best 3D platformer in bloody ages (and we do love one of those on this pod) - it's the PS5-chugging Astro Bot. As a little bonus, Alex relays all the mad games he played while abject and directionless as David was away on a cruise for two weeks. Say hi @winnerisyoupod on X, awinnerisyoupod on Instagram, or @winnerisyou on BlueSky. We're also on YouTube if you want to watch us while we chat, you fackin' perv.