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Andy is trying to run a cute & relaxing farm - all while comparing cozy life sims Stardew Valley and Animal Crossing New Horizons - so hopefully nothing sinister or violent happens.

Andy hosts the first annual Video Game Deathmatch GOTY Awards - including Baldur's Gate 3, Alan Wake II, Tears of the Kingdom, and more!

Andy visits a mysterious island to compete in a violent fighting tournament. While he's there, he finds time to compare and contrast two early '90s fighting classics: Street Fighter II and Mortal Kombat.

Andy has taken to a secluded cabin in the mountains to watch a meteor shower - like a big nerd - but his night goes horribly wrong when a violent psychopath returns to the mountains to slaughter anyone that he finds. While Andy deals with this, he tries to compare and analyse Supermassive's duet of interactive horror drams: Until Dawn and The Quarry.

Join Bash, Andy, Orange, and Ben for a celebration of Steam's 20th birthday! The gang sit down to discuss their favourite purchases, their shameful Steam stats, read out some unhinged Steam reviews - and much more!

Join Orange, Andy, and Foxy for the latest episode 1UP Pod's new series: Retro Reboot! Every episode, the hosts will choose two retro games to discuss and then choose one of them to reboot! This episode features Road Avenger, Yoshi's Island, Donkey Kong Country 2, the notorious Night Trap, Peter Molyneux's Black & White, and Kingsley's Adventure ! What game would YOU want to reboot?

Join Orange, Andy, and Ben for an all-new 1UP Pod series: Retro Reboot! Every episode, the hosts will choose two retro games to discuss and then choose one of them to reboot! This episode features Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Ages, Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake, Crash Bandicoot 2, Fire Emblem: The Blazing Blade, Hideo Kojima's Snatcher, and Sitting Ducks! What game would YOU want to reboot?

Join Andy, Ben, Orange, and Foxy for 1UP Pod's unique look at the world of movie tie-ins! The video games based on the movies (and TV shows) that we know and possibly even love! Including titles like Disney's Aladdin, The Warriors, Small Soldiers, Minority Report, and more!

Join Bash, Orange, and Ben for this months celebration of indie gaming. With discussions on Death's Door, Planet of Lana, Sticky Business, Oxenfree, Dredge, Crime O'Clock, BOSS GAME: The Final Boss is My Heart, and a host of games that Bash picked up from Humble Bundle. The gang also look ahead to what's coming soon - featuring much excitement over Under The Waves, Stray Gods, En Guarde!, Super Space Club, Goodbye Volcano High, Word Factori, and The Cosmic Wheel Sisterhood. Sticky Business key kindly provided by Mark Allen PR. Cover Games: Sticky Business, Death's Door, and BOSSGAME: The Final Boss is My Heart.

[NOTE: THE OPTIMAL EXPERIENCE IS WITH HEADPHONES] Andy ventures into the big, dangerous land of Mordor to destroy the One Ring - all while comparing Shadow of Mordor and LOTR: Gollum - and he's not alone! What dangers await him as he breaks down two very different Lord of the Rings games?

Join Bash, Andy, Becky, and Foxy for a look at the video game villains that thrill and repel us the most! Including Wario, Sephiroth, and more!

Join Bash, Becky, and Ben for a new Indie Showcase where the gang talk all about the indie games they've been playing (but not necessarily enjoying) over the last month - as well as looking ahead to the games that are exciting them on the horizon! Fall of Porcupine key provided by Mark Allen PR Tiny Thor key provided by UberStrategist The Fermi Paradox key provided by Player Two PR A Long Journey to an Uncertain End key provided by Player Two PR Cover Games: A Long Journey to an Uncertain End, CorpoNation: The Sorting Process, Slay the Spire, Tiny Thor, Monster Train, Fall of Porcupine, Cats Organized Neatly

Andy finds himself lost in a sinister mansion full of horrifying and deadly surprises, all while trying to analyse and compare Capcom's two iconic survival horror remakes - Resident Evil 2 (2019) and Resident Evil 4 (2023).

Join Bash, Becky, Andy, and our latest Fake Chip/co-host - Foxy - for a vulnerable but illuminating discussion on how video games have helped improve their mental health. Including games such as Skyrim, Death Stranding, Child of Light, Firewatch, and more! Mental health resources: Samaritans | https://www.samaritans.org/ Shout | https://giveusashout.org/get-help Rethink | https://www.rethink.org/ Mind | https://www.mind.org.uk/ YoungMinds | https://www.youngminds.org.uk/ Safe In Our World | https://safeinourworld.org/find-help/

Join our host, Bash, along with Andy & Orange for a new monthly series: Indie Showcase! Taking a look at the indie games that are exciting us the most! The gang will share their favourite indie games of all time, before getting into what new indie delights they have been enjoying, and what they are looking forward to in the month ahead!

Join Andy as he bounds haphazardly through his own platform adventure, trying to work out which game is better: Super Mario World or Sonic the Hedgehog 2? Music by HeatleyBros: https://www.youtube.com/user/HeatleyBros

The gang (plus a special guest) gather to take a deep dive into the history of gaming's greatest icon: Super Mario. A lot of history, a lot of video games, a lot of loving memories, and a few barely veiled threats. All that and more!

Fresh from his ordeal on a doomed space ship, Andy now finds himself fighting through hordes of street punks in a crime-infested city while trying to analyse and discuss Dotemu's recent beat 'em up throwbacks: Streets of Rage 4 and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder's Revenge. Intro, intertitles, and club scene music by Infraction.

Join Andy, Becky, Bash and introducing... Ben! Stepping in for Chip while he takes a mental health break, Ben joins the 1UP Pod gang to talk all things Stardew Valley! The gang share their style of farm building - be it chaotic or heavily organised - as well as Bash's disdain for all crops. They talk about their favourite characters and storylines, their romanceable preferences, with Andy ruining a perfect segue from Becky between all that. Favourite tasks and favourite seasons are shared, and the gang try to explain why this game is so addictive to some people. All that, plus the usual 1UP Pod nonsense.

WARNING: Contains 'jump scares' - in the form of sudden noises. Andy has found himself trapped on a spaceship overrun by terrifying monsters, but that doesn't mean he doesn't have time to record a podcast comparing The Callisto Protocol and the Dead Space remake. Join him as he pits these sci-fi horror games against each other in six unique categories - all while trying to avoid being eaten alive.

Andy & Becky sit down for the final GamesMaster of series 1 and discuss Duck Hunt trauma, erotic video games, hometown statues, the joys of chaotic gaming, and more!

Andy & Becky sit down for another look back at GamesMaster - featuring zany golf, terrible-looking boxing games, and suspicious ninja gaming challenges.

Join Andy & Becky as they discuss souffle, flight simulators, the questionable views of a Wimbledon champion, and more on another GamesMaster Revisited!

Nearly 30 years ago, Sony released a console that changed the lives of many gamers. Join the 1UP Pod gang as they relive some of their favourite memories of this classic machine and enjoy the sweet hit of nostalgia as that load up music plays.

1UP PODAMANIA IS RUNNING WILD! WHATCHA GONNA DO WHEN ANDY "HITMAN" SHAW AND MACHO MAN CHIP THOMPSON REVIEW EVERY SINGLE EPISODE OF GAMESMASTER, BROTHER?

Pat Sharp is on this weeks episode of Gamesmaster. What else do you need to know honestly!?

Some fantastic games have been played in 2022 and now the 1UP Pod gang must decide on their favourite of the year

Get ready for a plethora of puns, questions about where to insert things and a healthy discussion of the 2017 'Marmite' game NieR: Automata

Jimmy?!

The innuendos go into overdrive and this just may be the episode that breaks Andy and Chip's respective brains. And it's only episode 3...

After 4 years of anticipation, Ragnarok is finally here! But has it been worth the wait? The 1UP Pod's own Kratos and Atreus (Andy and Chip) find out

BREAKING NEWS - A strange looking object has been seen floating next to Sir Patrick Moore's head. Andy and Chip investigate. They also review episode 2 of the cult channel 4 show Gamesmaster!

With the release of Netlix's Edgerunners, Cyberpunk 2077 has found a new lease of life. And now with 75% of the 1UP Pod gang having completed the game, we thought it'd be about time we did a spoiler special! WARNING: Contains spoilers (in case that wasn't obvious)

Welcome to a brand new series on the 1UP pod channel where we'll be chronicling the amount of penis based innuendos Dominik Diamond makes and Andy's worrying obsession with alligators, as we review every episode of the classic Channel 4 show. It's Gamesmaster Revisited!

Last year we learned all about the games that made the 1UP Pod gang into the gamers they are today. This Halloween we're going find out what games made them poop their pants! (in fear, this isn't an incredibly specific episode)

We promise we didn't force Andy into this but Chip finally, finally finished Assassins Creed Odyssey and who better to have a chat with Chip about it than the man he tortured for 2 years with this game

Join Andy and Bash as they discuss the latter's incredible experience with FFXIV and just what the past 12 months with the game has meant to her

With Ragnarok right around the corner, we thought it was time to take a look at the 2018 offering of God of War and chart Papa Kratos' journey from angry young man to awful father.

Part 2 of our look at video game adaptations!

There are many movie adaptations of video games out there but how many of them are as good as Doom (2005)? The 1UP Pod investigates in this special two parter episode!

It's been 10 years since Telltale released the first season of the Walking Dead (yes we're all old and going to be corpses soon) but does Lee and Clem's attempts at surviving a zombie infested world hold up today? The 1UP Pod find out

We all have those little quirks and approaches to the video games we play. Today we learn a little bit too much about some of the 1UP Pod's

There's no doubt GTA is a monster in the gaming world and continues to line the pockets of Rockstar, for better or worse, but did you also know there would be no 1UP Pod without GTA Online? Come learn our origin story and meet the Fruit Salad Gang, the most incompetent criminals in all of Los Santos

Becky and Andy review Elden Ring/have a therapy session over the amount of times it took them to kill certain bosses

Join "Macho Man" Chip Thompson and Andy "Hitman" Shaw as they review the latest WWE offering from 2K games. Is it another disaster like 2K20 or will you be laying the smackdown much more often?

Can you imagine a world where no one plays video games? Well, in some alternative universe out there, those poor suckers have to live that nightmare and it was likely all down to the gaming crash of 1983 which the 1UP Pod gang are here to discuss today. They also talk about Pong like a lot!

Cyberpunk 2077 has just had a next/current gen upgrade, along with some promises that the game is in much better condition on consoles than it was upon release. Join Chip and Andy as they see if this is the case

While they might not ever see the movie, Andy and Chip are huge fans of the Uncharted series and bring to you a review of the Legacy of Thieves collection. Please don't sue us Donnie Wahlberg...

Happy birthday to us! The 1UP Pod is officially 1 year old today and to celebrate, we thought we'd bring you a classic deep dive into a game you know and love. This month, it's Life Is Strange. Website ⇨ https://www.1uppod.com/ Twitter ⇨ @1UPPod Instagram ⇨ @1UPPod You can also find us on Twitch! ⇨ twitch.tv/bashatdemonhead ⇨ twitch.tv/chipthompsonsthumbs ⇨ twitch.tv/truly_defective

We've all had those franchises we've just never got around to in gaming and this month the 1UP Pod gang are looking at those games which have slipped through their gaming cracks