Well, the year is underway and honestly, with January now behind us, it feels like a rollocking start. Best guess is it's because everyone wants to get the eff-train out of the way of the splash that Grand Theft Auto is going to make when it lands towards the end of the year, so now things are kind of a little bit in reverse. That did lead us to think, though: how might the gaming landscape look or be different if certain key titles throughout its short history were either plucked from existence, or simply failed to catch fire the way that they did?

Tim is back in charge here, and he's managed to drag Hewso along for the ride. Hendo & Hewso it is then, like some crappy Murdoch FM radio show from the '90s, only with fewer airhorn sound effects and way less transphobia. And also more video games. Way more video games.

Games: Disciples: Domination, Romeo is a Dead Man

Theme Music: Visitors from Dreams by Mathieu Stempell Dma-Sc

Break Music: Freestyle Dojo by MkVaff

Cast

Matt Hewson

Tim Henderson

Sometimes, sh*t happens. You go to turn on your PC, only to find that Microsoft borked a Windows 11 update so bad that it won't even boot up. You go to turn on your trusty RoG Ally, only to find that Microsoft borked a Windows 11 security update so bad that now it seems to view loading up games as the enemy. You go to record a podcast, only to... well, this one may not be entirely Microsoft's fault, but it would have been nice had the levels been more even and the uploading process less of a pain.

Still, we're releasing what we have. And why wouldn't we? Hewso is in charge or shepherding the crew through what will surely, in time, turn out to be some truly stupid predictions about the future. Jump in!

Games: Tainted Grail, Code Vein II, Star Wars Outlaws

Theme Music: Visitors from Dreams by Mathieu Stempell Dma-Sc

Cast

Matthew Hewson

Shaun Nicholls

Stephen del Prado

Well, that didn't take long. We thought we could at least get into the first recording of January of a new year before the world leveled up being an absolute disaster, but here we are. Happy new year, we guess? At least the one that let us, while also a disaster in its own right, had some pretty good games released? Naturally, this being the first episode of the year, those present use this as a chance to look back at the games they most enjoyed in the previous year, 2025 in this case.

The people in question would be Tim and Rob. Everybody else just hates videogames now. Which three games do our two hosts shout out? Are they entirely predictable? To answer those questions, one may have to go and read out GotY posts. listen to a whole bunch of old episodes... or maybe just tune in to this one? Yeah, that works, too.

Games: Earthion, Metroid Prime 4, Saints Row 4

Theme Music: Visitors from Dreams by Mathieu Stempell Dma-Sc

Break Music: Zanarkand String Quartet by GrayFox1217

Cast

Rob Caporetto

Tim Henderson