Episode 7 – Dark Souls Kart Racing

Cara can’t be with us this week but her disembodied spirit haunts the podcast nonetheless. Instead Pip, Tom and Craig are joined by USGamer’s Cassandra Khaw to talk about David Cage’s BAFTA presentation, the ethics of Kickstarter, the Dark Souls community and Tom’s weird fan fictiony Crusader Kings 2 game. Plus we finally get around […]

Cara can’t be with us this week but her disembodied spirit haunts the podcast nonetheless. Instead Pip, Tom and Craig are joined by USGamer’s Cassandra Khaw to talk about David Cage’s BAFTA presentation, the ethics of Kickstarter, the Dark Souls community and Tom’s weird fan fictiony Crusader Kings 2 game. Plus we finally get around to answering some reader questions!

Pip was thinking of ‘Idle hands are the devil playthings’. Idle Thumbs is definitely a podcast.
Pip talks to David Cage.
If you want to see a great example of using the ideas of cinema in games, go play Thirty Flights of Loving.
Cassandra’s Remember Me review.
Here’s the article on responsibility and Kickstarter Pip talks about.
You can follow Tom’s Crusader Kings misadventures at #journokings.
Alternatively you could read Rich McCormick’s fanfiction-tastic Game of Thrones mod playthrough. Or watch Idle Thumbs try and get to grips with it.
And here’s the mod he’s using, the gender equality submod is the important bit here.
Cassandra’s big article about the Dark Souls community. Part 1 and Part 2.
Pip writes about Saltybet for PC Gamer.
Tom talks Roguelikes for the now defunct GameSpy.
Cara’s new thing will presumably be at One Life Left sometime today.
Craig is a psychopath.