The Codec Call

After a prolonged hiatus, Matt and Andy are back with another episode of The Codec Moments Podcast.  Matt’s been playing a lot of games, and can you guess which single entry on the below list belongs to Andy?

In this podcast we talk about:

• Kona
• The Walker
• Mugsters
• 18 Floors (well, two of them)
• No Man’s Sky (NEXT update)
• Danger Zone 2
• Overcooked! 2
• This is the Police II
• The Crew 2
• F1 2018
• Firmware version 5.0 for the Zoom F8

It’s that time of year once again… the annual tradition that Matt and Andy record an E3 podcast that never sees the light of day, as it languishes in editing hell until EGX… but not so this year!  Andy, Matt and everyone on the Codec Moments Discord Server, got together to discuss their E3 predictions ready to form their bingo sheet for the actual event.  Some are outlandish, some sound like they have been researched and some have already been announced in the week since the recording took place.

In this podcast:

• We predict that Ubisoft will be bringing Michael Ironside back as the voice of the Knight Rider car
• We fail to predict that Bethesda will announce a new Fallout game prior to E3
• Predict that the one game without a Battle Royale mode at E3, will be hailed as innovative and original
• Give away a classic British TV show on DVD, to a lucky member of our DIscord server

So…. it’s not just our games that sit on the pile of shame, it’s our podcast recording too.  Matt and Andy have finally waded through the heap of real life refuse blocking the garbage chute to the recording studio and are now able to bring you info that you’ve probably know for about 8 weeks.  But dammit!!  They’ve made the effort and aren’t going to be stopped now.

In this late #CodecMomentum update episode of the Codec Moments Podcast, you’ll hear:

• A skim read of the entries because there are too many to list
• March’s winner
• April’s winner and what they bought with their non-gaming voucher
• Plugs for YOS Challenge 6
• Who’s at the top of the leaderboard
• Plugs for Matt and Andy guesting on FilmGuff
• Progress on the 2017 winner’s trophies (yes, they’re still being made)
• A whole heap of corpsing
• Some random ideas for how to manage the next leaderboard countdown and who will be asked to guest

In what was once again the busiest month for pledging to clear backlogged games yet, Matt was joined by the wonderful Colm Sheridan from Last Save Loaded for a Codec Momentum update and quiz!

If you’ve not got an Amazon Echo – and you should consider one because they’re very useful – then you’re missing out on the daily news and musing from the Codec Moments team.  To keep you up to speed on their thoughts on what’s happening in gaming, Matt and Andy have collated the last 7 days of flash briefings into one easy to listen to round up.

In this week’s flash briefing update that covers 19th to 25th March, you can hear:

• It’s BAFTA nomination time
• Arrr! Pirate adventures with Sea of Thieves and Assassin’s Creed Rogue
• Racing across America but dealing with predictable story lines
• A celebration of a PS2 classic
• Brum, brum – it’s the start of the 2018 F1 season
• Ubisoft are safe!
• Our favourite time travel games

If you’ve not got an Amazon Echo – and you should consider one because they’re very useful – then you’re missing out on the daily news and musing from the Codec Moments team. To keep you up to speed on their thoughts on what’s happening in gaming, Matt and Andy have collated the last 7 days of flash briefings into one easy to listen to round up.

In this week’s flash briefing update that covers 12th to 18th March, you can hear:

• A retrospective of Surgeon Simulator
• Re-re-release dates
• Speculation on what Valve is up to
• Could we build a colony on Mars?
• A truly memorable rendition of Paradise City
• Tomb Raider announcements
• Can we splice human and alien DNA to solve puzzles?

If you’ve not got an Amazon Echo – and you should consider one because they’re very useful – then you’re missing out on the daily news and musing from the Codec Moments team.  To keep you up to speed on their thoughts on what’s happening in gaming, Matt and Andy have collated the last 7 days of flash briefings into one easy to listen to round up.

In this week’s flash briefing update that covers 5th to 11th March, you can hear:

• PS+ updates and how Andy doesn’t think it’s a good month
• Release dates
• The Golf Club 2 is announced
• MCV awards 2018
• More release dates
• A Mad World celebration
• Fancy dress shenanigans at vdjomb’s cosplay birthday party

That was quick!  Already the first month of 2018 is gone and with it the first lot of Codec Momentum’s completed.

In what was probably the busiest month for pledging to clear backlogged games yet, Matt and Andy talk about:

• How many times they’ve had to record this podcast
• Who took part out of the 55 entries in January
• The winner of this month’s prize
• Quarterly special prizes
• The fact that this isn’t the first time they’ve recorded this
• What the overall standings currently are
• Andy’s choice of prize picking headwear
• Progress on the year end trophies… spoiler, the weather’s causing problems
• How you can enter and what the main rules are
• Did we mention this isn’t the first time they’ve recorded this podcast?

Because we like quizzes, research and lots and lots of questions, it’s time for Andy to pose another set of brain teasers to Matt.  This time it’s all about who’s is the biggest… open world that is.  Do you know your square mileage of San Andreas from the footprint of Skyrim?  What about whether New Vegas is as big as Medici?  Do you even care?  Have a listen to this episode of the Codec Moments podcast to discover more than you ever wanted to know about map sizes in games.

Well, you all thought you were getting quality content, it’s time for that to dry up and the half baked ideas and poorly researched games to come back to the fore.

In this episode of the Codec Moments podcast, Matt and Andy pretend then know all about:

• Upcoming racing games that haven’t hit the mainstream press
• Get confused by the premise of Genital Jousting
• Breaking news – there’s a new Alien game coming
• How easy Andy’s Year of Shame is at the 2 weeks in point
• The Amazon Echo Spot hitting UK shores
• Scotch Corner’s birthday giveaway
• Brainwashing