The Finger Guns Podcast

We're back once again to talk all things video games and probably Taylor Swift in episode 252 of The Finger Guns Podcast. Join Rossko, Miles and Kat as they dredge through the weeks news which is primarily focused on the fallout of Microsoft huge studio closures from last week and what the hell came next.First up, Xbox president Sarah Bond came out to try to defend the companies decision to sack hundreds of employees through closing award winning studios and breaking down award winning companies so yeah, there's that. Oh and Xbox announced, the day after closing Tango Gameworks (the one who made BAFTA-winning small game Hi-Fi Rush) that they want to focus on games which are small and award winning. You couldn't make this up, we are truly bereft with Xbox right now. They've certainly fudged around and found out, indeed. Oh, and there's a third Jurassic Park Evolution on the way and Miles is, weirdly hyped? We find out more. A FLYING T-REX. In Game of the Week Miles has been playing Dredge and the latest rhythm shooter that we call Robobeat while Kat has stuck out Fallout Shelter for a second week running whilst Rossko has been checking out Crow Country and the wonderful Animal Well.In recommendations Miles talks up the latest Saw movie, Kat recommends the Natural History Museum (don't get married there though, tis pricey) and Rossko wants everyone check out the demo for the lovely little indie Fishbowl.Oh, and don't miss Kat's Candy Crush Saga story. It's one for the ages.Hey if you like our podcast why not leave us a review?! You can do it on Apple where you can also spread the love and on Spotify with their star ratings. Everything helps and we'd really appreciate it. Thank you!Theme Music – De Jongens Met de Zwarte Schoenen by RoccoW & xyce. | Edited and produced by Ross Keniston | Published by Acast.Team: @FNGRGNS / Rossko – @RosskoKeniston / Paul – @ThePaulCollett / Greg – @GregatonBomb / Josh - @jshuathompson / Sean – @Omac_Brother / Toby – @toby_andersen / Kat – @RainbowDropx / Tom - @T_Woods93 | Yogdog (Jonathan Brown) - @Yogdog | Facebook: FingerGunsUK / Twitch: twitch.tv/fingergunsdotnet / The Official Finger Guns Discord Discord: Join here

Hello everyone! Josh here, don't we have a treat for you this week? Not only do our dear listeners now have two episodes, but we've also got the co-founders of SFB Games, Tom Vian and Adam Vian talking about their new release Crow Country. Crow Country is a retro-inspired survival horror. We go through the process of the game's development, how the influences played a part in paying homage to those and all the potential secrets to discover throughout the game. Make sure to check SFB Games on their socials:Tom: https://twitter.com/SFBTomAdam: https://twitter.com/SFBDimThank you to SFB Games for spending the time to talk to us; thank you to Neonhive (https://twitter.com/Neonhive) for helping make this episode happen. And thank you all for listening to this special episode of the Finger Guns Podcast!Theme Music – De Jongens Met de Zwarte Schoenen by RoccoW & xyce. | Edited and produced by Joshua Thompson | Published by Acast.Team: @FNGRGNS / Rossko – @RosskoKeniston / Paul – @ThePaulCollett / Greg – @GregatonBomb / Josh - @jshuathompson / Sean – @Omac_Brother / Toby – @toby_andersen / Kat – @RainbowDropx / Tom - @T_Woods93 | Yogdog (Jonathan Brown) - @Yogdog | Facebook: FingerGunsUK / Twitch: twitch.tv/fingergunsdotnet / The Official Finger Guns Discord Discord: Join here

The Finger Guns Podcast returns after a week off with the full team back back back to get into the weeks news and well, there's a fair amount of it this week. First up, a few hours before we recorded Microsoft announced that they have closed Hi-Fi Rush developer Tango Gameworks and Redfall's Arkane Austin. We talk about this shocking reveal and what the bloodyhell is going on with Xbox right now and what - if anything - they have planned for the future. On the other side of the war PlayStation have another rough week culminating in a rather surprising u-turn after the huge backlash of announcing that Helldivers II Steam players will need to have a PSN account in order to keep playing. Sony have announced this will no longer be the case, much to the celebration of gamers around the world. At least 100,000 of them, at least. We also get into what we'd like to see from Resident Evil 9 and if we really need a Horizon Zero Dawn remaster after the original game is being taken down from PS Plus this month. In Game of the Week Josh has been checking out Another Crabs' Treasure, Kat has been checking out the glory of Fallout Shelter thanks to the TV show whilst Miles has nerded out in King Arthur Legion IX. Rossko has been checking out Fallout 4, Fallout New Vegas (for the first time ever?!) and a glorious little footy RPG called Bang Average Football.In recommendations Kat talks Queenpins, the Kristen Bell fronted film which is now on Netflix, Miles talks about Hexguardian and Harvest Hunt, a roguelike horror game from the glorious folk at Neonhive. Josh talks about the glorious new film from Alexander Payne, The Holdovers whilst Rossko recommends not watching Strays. Yikes. Hey if you like our podcast why not leave us a review?! You can do it on Apple where you can also spread the love and on Spotify with their star ratings. Everything helps and we'd really appreciate it. Thank you!Theme Music – De Jongens Met de Zwarte Schoenen by RoccoW & xyce. | Edited and produced by Ross Keniston | Published by Acast.Team: @FNGRGNS / Rossko – @RosskoKeniston / Paul – @ThePaulCollett / Greg – @GregatonBomb / Josh - @jshuathompson / Sean – @Omac_Brother / Toby – @toby_andersen / Kat – @RainbowDropx / Tom - @T_Woods93 | Yogdog (Jonathan Brown) - @Yogdog | Facebook: FingerGunsUK / Twitch: twitch.tv/fingergunsdotnet / The Official Finger Guns Discord Discord: Join here

We did it! The Finger Guns Podcast Episode 250 is here! Join Rossko, Josh, Kat and our very special guests, VGC's Chris Scullion and our boy, the fantastic Ethan Lawrence (of Bad Education, Horrible Histories, Boat Story and After Life fame) as we talk all things video games with an extra dash of absolute nonsense and sliding very far off kilter but for the absolute lols in an absolute 250 megacast celebration of all things nonsensical. it's what we do init. In an attempt to talk news from the week we scrape the bottom of the barrel of updates in our favourite industry to talk petitions about games staying active long after developers are done with them, we raise a glass to LittleBigPlanet 3 and Media Molecule as a whole as the formers servers are shut off for good and absolutely nobody gets excited for the announcement of Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2. In Game of the Week Josh talks checking the latest EA Oiriginal Tales of Kenzera and the fascinating Harold Halibut, Kat gets exactly what it says on the tin in Wizard with a Gun, Ethan has his eyes set on the glorious Octopath Traveler II whilst Rossko and Scully check their embargoes so they can talk the brand new Top Spin. It's quite amazing we've made it this far with such a passionate group of listeners and really couldn't have done it without you. A huge thank you to everyone who has listened to this show from its inception and continue to support it to this day. This episode is a huge celebration of the nonsense we've been selling for nearly five years now and we're so grateful we still get to do this on a weekly basis. Here's to pod 500! Oh jeez...Hey if you like our podcast why not leave us a review?! You can do it on Apple where you can also spread the love and on Spotify with their star ratings. Everything helps and we'd really appreciate it. Thank you!Theme Music – De Jongens Met de Zwarte Schoenen by RoccoW & xyce. | Edited and produced by Ross Keniston | Published by Acast.Team: @FNGRGNS / Rossko – @RosskoKeniston / Paul – @ThePaulCollett / Greg – @GregatonBomb / Josh - @jshuathompson / Sean – @Omac_Brother / Toby – @toby_andersen / Kat – @RainbowDropx / Tom - @T_Woods93 | Yogdog (Jonathan Brown) - @Yogdog | Facebook: FingerGunsUK / Twitch: twitch.tv/fingergunsdotnet / The Official Finger Guns Discord Discord: Join here

The Finger Guns Podcast returns once again with our pre-250 episode which incredibly, is episode 249! Join Rossko, Kat and Miles on this (unintentionally) shorter episode as we jump through the weeks interesting news and talk about all the wonderful games we've been playing this week (or, well, two of them). This week then we talk through the BAFTA Game Awards winners after the ceremony took place this week. Were there any surprises? We jump into find out. Also this week ex-Blizzard boss Mike Ybarra has been on Twitter this week discussing the possibilities of 'tipping' game developers at the end of a game you like. The three of us weigh in on whether or not we could see this idea moving forward and if we could see it happening with such strong regulation on monetisation in gaming already. Will the tips end up it the hands on the right people? Will it cause bosses to pay their developers less? We try and work out a way through to a satisfying end. In Game of the Week Miles sings the praises of the awesome Dave the Diver now it's finally landed on PlayStation and Kat concurs as she also praises the wonderful Dave the Diver and surprises Rossko with a beautiful Dave the Diver remix of one of his own songs. It's quite something. Rossko? Well he's been playing the Sea of Thieves Private Beta on PlayStation.In recommendations Kat talks The Octopus Murders on Netflix (true crime! octopuses and stuff! databases!) whilst Miles wants to share with the world the wonders of Kat's banana bread and Nolan's InterstellarHey if you like our podcast why not leave us a review?! You can do it on Apple where you can also spread the love and on Spotify with their star ratings. Everything helps and we'd really appreciate it. Thank you!Theme Music – De Jongens Met de Zwarte Schoenen by RoccoW & xyce. | Edited and produced by Ross Keniston | Published by Acast.Team: @FNGRGNS / Rossko – @RosskoKeniston / Paul – @ThePaulCollett / Greg – @GregatonBomb / Josh - @jshuathompson / Sean – @Omac_Brother / Toby – @toby_andersen / Kat – @RainbowDropx / Tom - @T_Woods93 | Yogdog (Jonathan Brown) - @Yogdog | Facebook: FingerGunsUK / Twitch: twitch.tv/fingergunsdotnet / The Official Finger Guns Discord Discord: Join her

This week on The Finger Guns Podcast we're getting a bit excited for episode 250 and talk all about the weeks gaming news whilst derailing the entire podcast to talk football and Taylor Swift. Because of course it did.We get into the news that Xbox are taking game preservation very seriously by establishing a new team to work on just that. We also get into the unfortunate news that Finger Guns favourite Deck Nine Studio have been accused of a toxic studio environment by developers. We get into this rather horrid story with huge Life is Strange fans talking about their sadness hearing the story.We also get into what the hell we wanna see from Gears of War 6 and the next Call of Duty game as they're due to be revealed very soon. Basically, more guns and better everything. Over at Game of the Week Kat has jumped into her backlog to check out Hades, Josh has carried on his time with Rise of the Ronin. Miles has checked out the demo for Knights in Tight Spaces, the Ground Shatter spin-off to Fights in Tight Spaces and checking out the mellow chill of Spirit City: Lofi Sessions. Rossko has been playing Fortnite. Sorry.And in recommendations Miles talks about heading to a Hans Zimmer concert and losing his freakin' mind. Kat has been checking out Fletcher's new album In Search of the Antidote. Josh recommends another Paramount+ film with the superb Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Mutant Mayhem and Rossko gets his yeehaw on with the brand new Beyonce album Cowboy Carter.Hey if you like our podcast why not leave us a review?! You can do it on Apple where you can also spread the love and on Spotify with their star ratings. Everything helps and we'd really appreciate it. Thank you!Theme Music – De Jongens Met de Zwarte Schoenen by RoccoW & xyce. | Edited and produced by Ross Keniston | Published by Acast.Team: @FNGRGNS / Rossko – @RosskoKeniston / Paul – @ThePaulCollett / Greg – @GregatonBomb / Josh - @jshuathompson / Sean – @Omac_Brother / Toby – @toby_andersen / Kat – @RainbowDropx / Tom - @T_Woods93 | Yogdog (Jonathan Brown) - @Yogdog | Facebook: FingerGunsUK / Twitch: twitch.tv/fingergunsdotnet / The Official Finger Guns Discord Discord: Join her

On this very special episode of The Finger Guns Podcast Miles sits down with Byterocker Games' Maximilian Grausteint to talk about their upcoming rhythm slayer-em-up Beat Slayer, a game we've had on our radar for a while and finally due for release this week. Miles chats with Max all about the creation of the game, the inspirations and what they hope to do in the future with the game. Before that though Miles is joined by Rossko to talk about the full game and their impressions, and of course they fly off topic discussing what other games should be rhythm based. We're so sorry. Hey if you like our podcast why not leave us a review?! You can do it on Apple where you can also spread the love and on Spotify with their star ratings. Everything helps and we'd really appreciate it. Thank you!Theme Music – De Jongens Met de Zwarte Schoenen by RoccoW & xyce. | Edited and produced by Ross Keniston | Published by Acast.Team: @FNGRGNS / Rossko – @RosskoKeniston / Paul – @ThePaulCollett / Greg – @GregatonBomb / Josh - @jshuathompson / Sean – @Omac_Brother / Toby – @toby_andersen / Kat – @RainbowDropx / Tom - @T_Woods93 | Yogdog (Jonathan Brown) - @Yogdog | Facebook: FingerGunsUK / Twitch: twitch.tv/fingergunsdotnet / The Official Finger Guns Discord Discord: Join her

It's all the lads this week on The Finger Guns Podcast as Rossko, Miles, Josh and the returning FFG himself Sean Davies get into the weeks news and tear it to pieces starting with the announcement of Take Two buying Gearbox from Embracer. What does this mean for future Gearbox titles? We speculate. Oh, did you know the PS2 has sold close to 160 million units since launch? So says departing CEO Jim Ryan. We get into the wonders of the PS2 and debate whether or not the Switch will be able to reach such high numbers. Elsewhere PlayStation have announced user generated Game Help videos will be coming to the dashboard soon, ensuring absolutely no trolling videos will take you over a cliff in Elden Ring. Nope. Not gonna happen. Yeesh. In Game of the Week Josh has been cranking out the madness of OTXO, Miles has been playing early access title Sentry (NERD GAME ALERT) whilst Rossko has been checking out the Stellar Blade demo with thoughts from him, Josh and Miles on this one Oh, and Sean has been enjoying the wonders of Football Manager 2024. In recommendations Miles doesn't recommend Planet Zoo on console, Sean does indeed recommends Assassin's Creed Gold, an audiobook about a blind Assassin which is available now on Audible. Josh has recommended the ultimate recommendation in Mission: Impossible Dead Reckoning along with Twisted Metal, the TV series based on the game which is now available on Paramount+.Hey if you like our podcast why not leave us a review?! You can do it on Apple where you can also spread the love and on Spotify with their star ratings. Everything helps and we'd really appreciate it. Thank you!Theme Music – De Jongens Met de Zwarte Schoenen by RoccoW & xyce. | Edited and produced by Ross Keniston | Published by Acast.Team: @FNGRGNS / Rossko – @RosskoKeniston / Paul – @ThePaulCollett / Greg – @GregatonBomb / Josh - @jshuathompson / Sean – @Omac_Brother / Toby – @toby_andersen / Kat – @RainbowDropx / Tom - @T_Woods93 | Yogdog (Jonathan Brown) - @Yogdog | Facebook: FingerGunsUK / Twitch: twitch.tv/fingergunsdotnet / The Official Finger Guns Discord Discord: Join her

This week on The Finger Guns Podcast Josh takes hosting duties as Rossko is otherwise engaged, along with Kat and Miles as they talk through the weeks gaming news and what they've been playing.The gang get into the huge reveal of the Marvel 1943: Rise of Hydra project from Amy Hennig and her team and it looks absolutely stunning and get super hype awaiting some brand new Marvel goodness from Skydance Studios. Elsewhere Kat gets very excited as the news is revealed that Toys for Bob have reportedly joined forces with Microsoft to work on their latest title. There's too much to get hyped about here and we speculator what they could be working on now they have access to the IP they brought back to life so brilliantly. In Game of the Week Miles can finally talk about his adventures in Dragons Dogma II (along with discussing the microtransaction controversy), Kat talks the wondrous Tinykin whilst Josh spills his guts over the brand new Alone in the Dark remake along with Rise of the Ronin.And in recommendations Kat invites us all to check out Hickories, a smokehouse restaurant chain that is apparently 'so juicy'. Miles gets lo=fi once again as he recommends a Dark Souls Ambient Lo-Fi album you can find on YouTube. Wonderful to do notes to apparently whilst Josh actually recommends a game and that game is infact Hi-Fi Rush now it's on PlayStation. Hey if you like our podcast why not leave us a review?! You can do it on Apple where you can also spread the love and on Spotify with their star ratings. Everything helps and we'd really appreciate it. Thank you!Theme Music – De Jongens Met de Zwarte Schoenen by RoccoW & xyce. | Edited and produced by Ross Keniston | Published by Acast.Team: @FNGRGNS / Rossko – @RosskoKeniston / Paul – @ThePaulCollett / Greg – @GregatonBomb / Josh - @jshuathompson / Sean – @Omac_Brother / Toby – @toby_andersen / Kat – @RainbowDropx / Tom - @T_Woods93 | Yogdog (Jonathan Brown) - @Yogdog | Facebook: FingerGunsUK / Twitch: twitch.tv/fingergunsdotnet / The Official Finger Guns Discord Discord: Join her