How To Murder Time

How To Murder Time 213: It’s basically Countryfile

October 10, 2018 17:30 - 1 hour - 69.1 MB

It’s been a while because of things like actually needing to go walking to make the walking videos, but we are back and talking about Forza Horizon 4, No Man’s Sky, Lord of the Rings Online and Stellaris.

How To Murder Time 212: Not Planescape

September 06, 2018 16:16 - 1 hour - 74.2 MB

This time Tim has been playing Torment: Tides of Numenera so we get to hear how great Planescape Torment was. Again. Jon has been playing Graveyard Keeper and we’ve both been playing more Warhammer 40,000: Killteam, but this time we’ve been playing both on the tabletop and online using Tabletop Simulator.

How To Murder Time 211: Killing in Teams

August 08, 2018 15:39 - 1 hour - 73.1 MB

This week the heat has got to us a bit and we can’t be bothered with games, so we talk about other things. We also talk about games because even that doesn’t seem to be able to stop us. There’s a roundup of the usual games as well as No Man’s Sky and Kill Team.

How To Murder Time 210: Disappointing crashes

July 25, 2018 17:40 - 1 hour - 117 MB

This week we have been playing Factorio, Danger Zone 2, Warframe, Warhammer 40,000: Gladius and Red Faction Guerrilla.

How To Murder Time 209: A song and dance number

July 12, 2018 15:30 - 1 hour - 72.2 MB

This time Tim has been looking at Dragon’s Dogma: Dark Arisen, Secret World Legends and Neverwinter Nights and Jon has been playing Aye Fair Lady, which is a musical point and click game with oddly catchy tunes and has managed to get his copy of Star Trek Armada working on Windows 10. As always there’s […]

How To Murder Time 208: Remember when hard disks used to last?

June 27, 2018 15:30 - 49 minutes - 56.3 MB

This time Tim and Jon are talking about the Hugo nominations this year, Warhammer 40,000: Inquisitor Marty, Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice, Lord of the Rings Online and replacing broken hard drives.

How To Murder Time 207: Playing Games is Hard Work

June 13, 2018 17:30 - 1 hour - 70.2 MB

This time we’re talking about Shadespire, Warhammer 40,000: Inquisitor Martyr and don’t once comment on how bad a name that is, Quarantine Circular, Stellaris and Factorio. There’s a video version as well of course.

How To Murder Time 206: Other Chapters May Exist

May 31, 2018 15:30 - 57 minutes - 66.2 MB

It’s all oddly Space Wolves this week with Jon playing Warhammer 40,000: Sanctus Reach and Warhammer 40,000: Space Wolf. They’re Warhammer 40,000 games but they don’t like to give that away in the names. Tim meanwhile has been playing the Telltale Borderlands game and Transport Fever The video version is available here

How To Murder Time 205: Hands Free Batmanning

May 16, 2018 15:30 - 58 minutes - 67 MB

This week we’re talking about the first season of Telltale’s Batman, Secret World Legends, Battletech and Lord of the Rings Online. As always there’s a video version available over here if you’d rather look at our faces for some reason:

How To Murder Time 204: Even the non-retro games felt retro

April 25, 2018 15:00 - 57 minutes - 66.3 MB

Here’s the times for the things we talk about in case you only want to see something specific. Neverwinter nights enhanced edition 0:40 Minit 28:45 Ultima Ascension 32:45 Star Trek Online 39:47 Video version of the podcast is available over at YouTube

How To Murder Time 203: Sometimes games are dated when they launch

April 11, 2018 15:30 - 1 hour - 68.9 MB

This time we’ve been playing Planet Explorers, Polytopia, Might and Magic 7, Titanfall 2 and Yorkshire Gubbins. As usual the video version is available here:

How To Murder Time 202: This was recorded live for some reason.

March 27, 2018 12:00 - 1 hour - 113 MB

It’s podcast time again, and this time we’re chatting about Secret World Legends, Monster Hunter World, Factorio, Vermintide 2, Warframe, Lord of the Rings Online and Evil Genius. Can you tell it’s been a few weeks? Video version is, as always, here:

How To Murder Time 201: I guess we’ll keep making these then

February 28, 2018 16:30 - 1 hour - 72.3 MB

This week there’s less party hats but more games as we talk about going back to Lord of the Rings Online, hitting people in Kingdom Come: Deliverance, Secret World Legends and the now in early access Rise of Industry.

How To Murder Time 200: There Now

February 14, 2018 16:30 - 1 hour - 72.1 MB

It’s out 200th episode and also our 10th anniversary of starting podcasting so we’re having a think about what we’ve learnt. While wearing hats. Here’s the video version if you want to see them, or stick to the audio if you don’t. And who would blame you?

How To Murder Time 199: Nearly There

February 01, 2018 16:30 - 58 minutes - 109 MB

We return after a short break with talk of both GTA V, because Tim is nothing if not cutting edge, and The Universim, because Jon is way too cutting edge for his own good. The video version is available here

How To Murder Time 198: Entering the 10th year

January 10, 2018 16:30 - 1 hour - 116 MB

We start this new year with talk of Echo, which is an interesting take on a stealth game and Google Earth, which isn’t a game but is very fun in VR. Jon also ran a religion in The Shrouded Isle and Tim was gives another take on Stories Untold.

How To Murder Time 197: Still Cold

December 27, 2017 18:34 - 59 minutes - 112 MB

This time we’ve been playing Stellaris, Danger Zone, Warframe, GTA V and Skyrim. There may also be a little moan about VR pricing. Video Version is here if you want to see how we don’t look like how you’ve imagined us.

How To Murder Time Episode 196: Onion Time

December 13, 2017 12:55 - 1 hour - 112 MB

This time we’re through the weekly games, with Path of Exile, Elite Dangerous and getting all Battle Royale with Fortnite. Meanwhile Jon has been getting confused by Million Onion Hotel Laughing at really bad acting in Need For Speed and talking to AIs in Event[0] Video Version:

How To Murder Time 195:

November 29, 2017 16:30 - 53 minutes - 100 MB

This week we have been playing Stellaris, Subsurface Circular, Elite Dangerous, Yorkshire Gubbins and Warframe. Video Version: https://youtu.be/ZCklSrEWLSM

How To Murder Time 194: Just give us space ships and we’re happy

November 15, 2017 16:30 - 1 hour - 73.5 MB

This week we’ve been skulking beneath ground in Metro 2033, playing more of a text adventure than expected in Stories Untold and making money in Rebel Galaxy. We also have a chat about Skyfactory 3, the minecraft mod we just finished a series on and how it shaped up as a mod.

How To Murder Time 193: Moaning

November 01, 2017 15:30 - 1 hour - 56.6 MB

This time we’re talking about Warframe, Elite Dangerous and moaning about too long games. Video Version:

How To Murder Time 192: As hard as it should be

October 18, 2017 16:30 - 1 hour - 56 MB

We’re back with a roundup of the weekly groups and a chat about game difficulty.

How To Murder Time 191: Thargoids

October 04, 2017 14:40 - 1 hour - 56.6 MB

This week we talk about Forza 7, Thargoids in Elite Dangerous and some mobile games that stopped Tim from getting bored on a walking holiday.

How To Murder Time 190: There’s been another Mordor

September 14, 2017 13:12 - 1 hour - 55.4 MB

This week we’ve been playing more games, but Tim wasn’t a cylon this time. Middle Earth: Shadow of Mordor Rise of Industry Warframe Battlestar Galactica: Deadlock Lords of Waterdeep

How To Murder Time 189: We’ve run out of easy to pronounce games

August 30, 2017 12:00 - 55 minutes - 50.5 MB

This week Jon has been finding out what the later game in Slime Rancher is like as well as throwing bikes at steep slopes in Trials Fusion while Tim has been playing Endless Legends and the Tabletop Simulator group is continuing.

How To Murder Time 188: Ringworld

August 23, 2017 11:30 - 1 hour - 58.2 MB

We’re joined again by Toerag to talk about our latest Hugo novel, which this time is Ringworld by Larry Niven. There’s a large ring around a sun and so a team is assembled to go investigate it in a book that dominates the genre of big stupid objects in space.

How To Murder Time 187: Tim is wrong again?

August 16, 2017 13:55 - 53 minutes - 48.8 MB

This time Tim talks about the list of winning Hugo novels this year and looks at how they compare to his choices, Jon has been playing Slime Rancher and Patapon while Tim has been playing Warframe, Path of Exile and Tabletop Simulator. 00:00 Hugo winners 2017 10:55 Slime Rancher 16:50 Warframe 29:50 Patapon, Skyrim and […]

How To Murder Time 186: How to complete MMOs

August 02, 2017 17:39 - 57 minutes - 52.3 MB

This week Jon has been learning how to play football with Behold the Kickmen and how to run a kingdom with Kingdoms and Castles. Castles and Kingdoms. Towns and Castles. Avenues and Alleyways. One of those titles, it’s a very forgettable name. Meanwhile Tim has gone to Earth in Elite and actually finished Guildwars. Or […]

How To Murder Time 185: The real 185

July 19, 2017 17:44 - 58 minutes - 53.1 MB

This week Tim is rounding up the nightly groups while Jon has been playing Kane and Lynch 2, which is without doubt the worse game that he’s played in… forever and getting annoyed at Horizon: Zero Dawn.

How To Murder Time 184: Ninja Camping

July 12, 2017 17:20 - 1 hour - 56 MB

Time spent the night in a ditch (on purpose), Jon played Lara Croft and the Temple of Osiris, Tim finished Obduction, and Jon tried out Grow Up. Tim has also read an awful lot of books so there’s a wrap up of the Hugo finalists for this year.

How To Murder Time 183: The City & The City

July 05, 2017 16:14 - 58 minutes - 54 MB

This week we are joined again by Toerag as we tackle the next in our Hugo award winning books: The City & The City by China Miéville, which won the award in 2010. When a murder takes place, Inspector Tyador Borlú, of the Extreme Crime Squad in the European city-state of Besźel, investigates the murder […]

How To Murder Time 182: You’ve got 4X in your board game

June 28, 2017 17:42 - 57 minutes - 52.7 MB

This week the Friday group has moved onto Eclipse as their boardgame of choice in Tabletop Simulator, Tim has finished Mad Max and Jon has been playing The Crew and been very annoyed by it.

How To Murder Time 181: But the game’s too long

June 14, 2017 14:45 - 59 minutes - 54.9 MB

This week we’re complaining that Borderlands 2 is too long, rounding up the static group progress and playing Little Nightmares.

How To Murder Time 180: Mad Ranting

June 07, 2017 14:31 - 57 minutes - 52.9 MB

This week we’ve both been playing Mad Max and we have a chat about how many games you can get from subscriptions each month, and how much that’s stopping us buying new games.

How To Murder Time 179: Neuromancer

May 31, 2017 21:44 - 1 hour - 57.7 MB

This week it’s the return of the Hugo award winning book show. Not that we won a Hugo, the books did. We weren’t even nominated even though Tim could have done it if he really wanted but considered it crass to nominate ourselves. The book the week is Neuromancer, the 1984 novel by William Gibson […]

How To Murder Time 178: Smuggling

May 24, 2017 13:43 - 1 hour - 56.2 MB

This week Tim has been off walking and is now paying the price and the group has been smuggling things in Elite. Jon has been playing the Hot Wheels DLC in Forza Horizon 3 and it’s as insane as it sounds, and has also been playing Thimbleweed Park which is just as mad as you’d […]

How To Murder Time 177: Remember FMV

May 10, 2017 18:15 - 51 minutes - 47.1 MB

This week we’ve been playing Late Shift, which is a fully FMV game, Remember Me, which isn’t, Path of Exile and Dawn of War 3.

How To Murder Time 176: You can’t win

May 03, 2017 11:37 - 52 minutes - 47.7 MB

This week we’ve been looking at generation ships in Elite Dangerous, building ships in Space Engineers, hitting things in Guns of Icarus and wondering how unbalanced a boardgame can actually be with Warhammer 40k Lost Patrol.

How To Murder Time Episode 175: 40k 8th Edition and the Bloodborne card game

April 27, 2017 08:16 - 53 minutes - 48.8 MB

This week we’re talking about why the Division is no longer being played, why The Witness was good but pretentious and why the Bloodborne card game is better that you would expect. Then there’s some 40k talk as GW have gone mad and continue to do things right, and they also announced 8th edition just […]

How To Murder Time Episode 174: The Graveyard Book

April 19, 2017 12:08 - 51 minutes - 47 MB

It’s time for another Hugo award winning book, and this month Toerag has picked The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman. It’s the tale of a boy who grows up in a graveyard and is our second book ostensibly aimed at children. How does it fare against the usual books that win?

How To Murder Time 173: Round ups and Dawning of Zero

April 12, 2017 13:37 - 1 hour - 57.4 MB

This week we’re doing a roundup of the weekly groups, discussing why Horizon: Zero Dawn isn’t as good as it first seemed and then looking at the Hugo nominees for this year.

How To Murder Time 172: Puzzles all the way down

April 05, 2017 15:09 - 1 hour - 55.7 MB

This week Jon has given Tim a code for The Witness because he knew what it would do to him, but then started playing Thimbleweed Park so we’re both screwed really. Weve also checked out Guns of Icarus Alliance and the Cartoon Museum’s 2000ad exhibition.

How To Murder Time 171: It’s a kind of magic

March 29, 2017 15:53 - 53 minutes - 48.8 MB

This week we’re catching up with what Jon has been playing in his co-op sessions, which is Halo 1, Gears of War 2 and Borderlands 2. We also have a discussion about Magic the Gathering as games of it have been played recently and Tim has been walking loads instead of playing games.

How To Murder Time 170: Hyperion

March 22, 2017 15:44 - 1 hour - 56.3 MB

This week we’re joined by Toerag for the next in our Hugo award winners series. This time we’re looking 1989 winner, Hyperion by Dan Simmons.

How To Murder Time 169: Watching the Horizon

March 16, 2017 16:39 - 59 minutes - 54.4 MB

This week we’re talking about Elite Dangerous, Torment: tides of numenera, Horizon: Zero Dawn and Guildwars 2.

How To Murder Time 168: 9 Years of Podcasting

March 08, 2017 16:22 - 58 minutes - 53.5 MB

We’ve been podcasting for 9 years this week, so it’s a sort of special show that I hope won’t put you all off from watching. We talk about playing Elite Dangerous with the gang, the new Microsoft game subscription service, The Division and Project Cars.

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