Thundercast

For episode 44 of Thundercast, Matthew Sawrey, Shane Ryan and Calvin Kemph discuss the games they’re looking forward to in 2014.

As 2013 comes to a close, Mathhew Sawrey, Shane Ryan and Sean Kelley get together to look back at the year as whole, from the PS4 reveal to personal favourite games.

For episode 42, Matthew Sawrey, Shane Ryan and Nick Horth aimed to not talk about next-gen consoles, and failed in that regard quite quickly. Wii U, PlayStation 4, Xbox One. All of the next-gen consoles are now upon us.

Matthew Sawrey and Shane Ryan discuss Telltale Games' latest adventure, The Wolf Among US.

Matthew Sawrey, Shane Ryan and Nick Horth discuss Rockstar North's latest entry into the GTA franchise.

Matthew Sawrey, Shane Ryan and Nick Horth talk about the big three Valve announcements: SteamOS, Steam machines and the Steam controller.

Recorded the day after Eurogamer Expo 2013, Matthew Sawrey, Shane Ryan and Nick Horth discuss the virtues of queuing and what's on the videogame horizon.

For episode 37 of Thundercast, Matthew Sawrey and Shane Ryan discuss Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs and Outlast, contrasting their different approaches to telling horror stories.

Matthew Sawrey and Shane Ryan discuss badgers, pastel colours, jazz and permadeath for episode 36 of Thundercast.

For episode 35 of the Thundercast, Matthew Sawrey and Shane Ryan discuss the alpha build of Betrayer.

Matthew Sawrey and Shane Ryan discuss the entirety of Gone Home. Spoilers included.

This episode sees Matthew Sawrey, Shane Ryan and Sean Kelley take part in a quick fire round of what we've been playing.

It's time to talk about communication. Matthew Sawrey, Shane Ryan, Nick Horth and Calvin Kemph discuss the ups and downs of communication in both videogames and the surrounding industry.

Shane Ryan interviews Thomas H. Lund, CEO of Full Control, on their upcoming Games Workshop licensed turn-based strategy title Space Hulk.

Shane Ryan interviews Joseph Humfrey and Jon Ingold of Inkle Studios regarding their iOS title Sorcery!. Based on an old Steve Jackson adventure book, Sorcery! creates a blend of interactive storytelling.

We're over the half way point of 2013 and it's now time to look back at the best of the year so far. Matthew Sawrey and Shane Ryan give their current top fives.

For many, Telltale's The Walking Dead series was a triumph. Matthew Sawrey and Shane Ryan discuss the latest DLC, 400 Days, which aims to work as a narrative bridge between the first and upcoming second season.

Matthew Sawrey and Shane Ryan discuss their personal purchases during the Steam summer sale.

Matthew Sawrey, Shane Ryan and Nick Horth talk about what the next generation of consoles could mean for gaming, where it's going, and where these decisions are coming from.

With Shane away on holiday, Matthew Sawrey and Sean Kelley take the opportunity to have a spoiler filled conversation about Naughty Dog's The Last of Us

The press conferences; the games; the show floor. For episode 24 of Thundercast, Matthew Sawrey, Shane Ryan and Philip Morton talk about E3 2013.

On episode 23 of Thundercast, Matthew Sawrey and Shane Ryan discuss what we can expect to see at this year's upcoming E3, and drop a few predictions along the way.

Matthew Sawrey and Shane Ryan get together to discuss several topics and recent news pieces from the videogame industry.

In episode 21 of Thundercast, Shane Ryan, Sean Kelley and Nick Horth discuss 4A Games' Metro: Last Light.

Recorded immediately after the Microsoft reveal of Xbox One, Matthew Sawrey and Shane Ryan discussed what happened, what worked and what didn't.

Matthew Sawrey, Shane Ryan and Richard Murphy discuss Deadly Premonition for episode 18 of the Thundercast. Matt discovers horses, Shane fights a cold to continue his insistent praise of Deadly Premonition as this generation's best, and Richard is shocked at the price of Twin Peaks on DVD.

Matt Sawrey and Shane Ryan catch-up to discuss what they've recently been playing for episode 17 of the Thundercast.

With the clock ticking down until Microsoft inevitably announces their next console, Matt Sawrey and Shane Ryan run to the top of the rumour hill and back for episode sixteen of the Thundercast.

For episode 15, Matt Sawrey, Shane Ryan and Richard Murphy discuss 'Always Online' and Twitter, Dark Souls 2, Metacritic, and the closure of Lucas Arts.

Following episode 13 of the Thundercast, Matt Sawrey, Shane Ryan and Nick Horth throw the no-spoiler rule out the window and continue to discuss Bioshock Infinite.

Matt Sawrey, Shane Ryan, Nick Horth and Richard Murphy get together to discuss Bioshock Infinite. We do our best to avoid spoilers, but do recommended you come back later if you don't want to risk hearing anything about the game. Keep an eye out for Episode 14 where we will be throwing the no spoilers rule out the window and digging deeper into the details.

Ahead of the release of Bioshock Infinite, Matt Sawrey, Shane Ryan and Richard Murphy discuss the original Bioshock for the twelfth episode of Thundercast.

For episode 11 of Thundercast, Matthew Sawrey, Shane Ryan, Nick Horth and Calvin Kemph get together to discuss initial impressions of Tomb Raider and where they're up to.

For episode 10 of the Thundercast Matt Sawrey, Shane Ryan, Nick Horth and Sean Kelly debate the virtues and pitfalls of paying for games £0.99 at a time, and contemplate what the future holds for the free-to-play monetization model. Note: Electronic Arts CFO Blake Jorgenson’s recent statement regarding EA’s intention to build microtransactions into all of their future titles is discussed in this podcast. Yesterday Jorgenson retracted this statement, clarifying that he did not mean “all games”.

For episode 9 of the Thundercast we get together to discuss Sony's PlayStation 4 announcement. Matt Sawrey, Shane Ryan, Nick Horth, and Sean Kelley talk about general feelings for what we saw, the controller, game line-up, streaming, sharing, and more. Join us.

We dissect the reveal of Bungie's next project Destiny and give out some recommendation for quality titles we've played in 2013.

Plasma tools at the ready listeners, because it's time to dissect the Dead Space 3 demo limb by action-horror limb. Does the co-operative look promising? What's with all the snow? And what exactly are those crazy Unitologist scamps up to now? Find out within. Also, we discuss 2012 in gaming for one last time a look at the Thunderbolt forumer's top games of 2012.

It's a new year which means it's time to dust off Thunderbolt's crystal ball and look ahead at what we think the videogame industry will bring in 2013. But not before we close out our thoughts on 2012 with a final discussion of Ubisoft's tropical open world shooter, Far Cry 3.

We say goodbye to 2012 with a look at our top 20 games of the year, what we liked, what we didn't like and why certain games made the cut.

The yuletide spirit is descending upon Thunderbolt like a polygonal snowflake drifting to the ground, so to sum up our thoughts on the year that is nearly behind us we decided to pick 12 of the biggest industry happenings from 2012 and have some quickfire discussions.