Podcast! After Hours Episode 1

Surprise! We now have another podcast! Ever wonder what happens to all that stuff i cut out of the show? Like the coughs and sneezes..... the long, rambling diatribes and non-sequiturs? What's that you say? We already have them in the main podcast? Well, "EFF YOU" buddy! We're doing this anyway!

So, basically this is all the outtakes, cut and slashed bits of the conversation.... They are largely unedited and with no reference surrounding them. I'm trying this as an experiment so let me know how you think this has turned out. Also, i wrote a new theme tune.

Credit goes to juskiddink for the guiro sound i used in the ending theme tune licenced under the CC.

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Podcast! The Easy Button Episode 17

Welcome back, campers! Welcome to our "second season" of The Easy Button. We're back and better than ever! I have a new microphone, Tboon has a clean office and I'm still failing at introductions.... well, we can't improve 100% now, can we?

This week on The Easy Button: EU3, Victoria 2, Far Cry 2, Portal 2 (though not in much detail), Mass Effect 2 and Dragon Age 2. We also have a bit of a wander off talking about negative consequences in games and how they pretty much don't exist any more in modern game design.

We've also got a new idea coming up that i'll be posting about soon. So keep an eye out for that!

Here's a link to Spoiler Warning - the MST3K style show i've mentioned a few times on the podcast!

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Podcast! The Easy Button Episode 16

Happy anniversary! This week, Taylor talks about Crusader Kings, i moan a bit about Test Drive Unlimited 2 and we think about things over our first year of podcasting together.

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Podcast! The Easy Button Episode 15

Hey everybody! Here's a new show to brighten your week! We're back to the usual format this week with some talk of the recent(ish) news, games we've been playing and even a topic! We talk about our comfort games.... so download or listen in your browser and maybe send us some of your comfort games to our email below.

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Podcast! The Easy Button Episode 14d

And so it comes to an end..... our best and worst games of all time.... to date..... that we have played! No further qualification is needed so step inside and lend an ear to hear our mutterings, ramblings and complaints about these terrible titles.

Also, i mess up the intro again - but this time it's funny! :D

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Podcast! The Easy Button Episode 14c

The third part of our top games of all time marathon epic... You might be able to tell from my voice near the end but after four hours of talking (and perhaps drinking alcohol on an empty stomach) i was feeling worse for wear. :)

The list this time is our games that didn't quite make it into the top ten.

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Podcast! The Easy Button Episode 14b

Here's the second part of our top ten games of all time! You get to hear us both wax lyrical about the final five games on our lists.

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Podcast! The Easy Button Episode 14a

This week we've split up the podcast into segments! Surprise! It's our top ten most awesome games of all time..... this part is just five of them from each of us but it's not in any particular order so you won't "get to the good stuff" by skipping this and heading to part deux.

I won't spoil which games we pick so listen in for enlightenment. :)

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Podcast! The Easy Button Episode 13

This week we talk about Fallout 1 and 3 and there's also a chat about Master of Orion 1 and 2. There may also be calls for listener submissions for their top and bottom games of all time..... You'd better listen to get the lowdown!

Oh, and we also made the show shorter. I think some people will be happy with that! :D

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Podcast! The Easy Button Episode 12

Another episode of this hit show! In this episode: reduced audio quality! We also talk about Minecraft (shock!), Icewind Dale, Planescape Torment, Baldur's Gate and Elemental: War of Magic.

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Podcast! The Easy Button Episode 11

Amazingly, there's a new podcast up and edited! Crazy stuff!

We talk a lot about Bioshock: Infinite, Dragon Age 2, Drakensang, Hearts of Iron 3, Minecraft, Oblivion and more!

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Podcast! The Easy Button Episode 10

Surprise! Episode 10 of The Easy Button: Double digits edition! This episode i find that i am incapable of talking. We chat about the games we've been playing - mainly Alien Swarm, Oblivion, Hearts of Iron and Echelon Book 1.

Enjoy!

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Podcast! The Easy Button Episode 9

We're live(ish) again and forging ahead with the podcast-making. It's sort of like baby-making... but with less thrusting and more feinting. This week we talk about the games we've been playing... possible futures for the Team Fortress franchise along with a unintended divergence into privacy and other such things!

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Podcast! The Easy Button Episode 8

Hello, and welcome to the Easy Button!* The show were you get to hear me miss the point several times as Tboon goes over my head with his high-brow humour and intellectual debate.

You might have to pre-stitch up your sides this week as Tboon had sharpened his wit to a fine edge so prepare yourself for some laughs! Though he also pulls out his "old man curmudgeon" act for a bit of naysaying. :D

Enjoy!


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*I swear i'm going to get that right one of these days!!

Podcast! The Easy Button Episode 7

Amazing! Another podcast, just one week after the previous one..... We'll just ignore the fact that it was over a month since it was recorded. ;)

This episode we talk around the water cooler as usual; Fable 2, Master of Magic et al. but we also chat about remakes and reboots and why they're good or bad.

Enjoy!!

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Podcast! The Easy Button Episode 6

Amazing! We hit a bank holiday weekend and I managed to get something done! I know it's a bit unconventional but I should be getting episode 7 up in the next day or so too.

Of course, all news is seldom good news and this post is no different. I managed to botch up the recording of this particular show which has meant that you're only getting the last two thirds of what we did originally. Ah well.... you win some you lose some.

This week we talked around the water cooler about the games we were playing and also some talk about how developers, publishers and communities interact.

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Podcast: The Easy Button Episode 5

Okay....

Dear Readers... er, listeners... or whatever you prefer,

I'm writing in regards to the discussion we had last time about the podcast and am forwarding this on to you as per your request. Please find attached a copy of Episode 5


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Podcast: The Easy Button Episode 4!!

It's finally here! Episode 4 of The Easy Button has landed after much disruption on my part. We have a bit more strong language in this episode so beware!


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The Easy Button drinking game words of the day:
Echo system
Nostalgia
Errm

**Warning, explicit language!**

1:32 Ubisoft DRM cracked?
3:33 Infinity Ward firings
10:40 Portal updates/Portal 2 hints

14:23 **The water cooler**
Brief mentions:
- Left 4 Dead 2/TF2 (PC)
- Europa Universalis 3 (PC)
21:42 - Interstate '76 (PC)
28:13 - Trine (PC)
32:46 - Shiren the Wanderer (DS)
36:44 - Resident Evil 5 (360)
44:55 - Brutal Legend

54:59 **Music Break**
56:25 **Topic of the week**
- Is the gaming industry releasing too many good games?
1:13:00 - Replaying games? Do you do it more on console or PC versus the other?
1:18:25 - Guilty game pleasures

1:26:20 **Music Break 2**
1:26:53 - Gaming regrets

Podcast! The Easy Button: Episode 3

It's amazing! We now have another podcast, done, dusted and with a minimal amount of dead chickens' entrails and other shenanigans to boot!

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Show notes:

The Easy Button drinking game words of the day: "Exposition" and "Errrm"

00:20 Ubisoft DRM
12:42 GoG plug!!
13:11 The water cooler - The games we've been playing:
13:18 Arcanum of Steamworks and Magic Obscura (link to GoG)
15:05 Interstate '76 (link to GoG)
16:47 Mass Effect 1
**Link to Shamus Young's ME2 story thoughts - WARNING SPOILERS** Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3
23:55 Europa Universalis 3
32:28 Rainbow Six Vegas 2
42:25 Rome: Total War
56:39 - I wasn't talking about Age of Empires... I was talking about Empire Earth :D
57:06 Music Break
57:09 The evolution of co-op and social multiplayer - a.k.a. "Where I talk out of my ass about something i don't know anything about."
2:05:26 Outro

I'm afraid we lost the end of Tboon's part of the show so you'll have to suffer through my rambling at the end :)

Podcast! The Easy Button: Episode 2

Welcome back! Join us again on a journey of self-discovery, rambling overtures and general nonsense.

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Once again, we have the games we've been playing: Aurora, Batman:Arkham Asylum and a few others to be sure.

Light sabers and their deadliness.

We talk about genres that we used to play and that have fallen out of our favour.

....and i have a rambling diatribe about the different types of gamer and how their choices can inform the evolution of games.