Deep Rock Galactic

Exclusive documentary footage of the average day in the life of a space dwarf. All of the ups, downs, guns, bugs, downs, holes, gold, downs, loot, death and downs captured on film for your pleasure.

Zac and Rob swap roles to go hunting for eggs and push back robotic rivals. Spoilers: The robots did not lay the eggs... we think.

Season 3 brings with it a whole bunch of yellow goop and meteors. Time to do even less mining than before!

We all know dwarves love a good mine. Absolutely love it they do. But how do think they react if offered three shifts with dual objectives back to back to back? Oh they lose their minds!

I don't think Hoxxes has a summer. It doesn't seem to have beaches. It's got plenty of bugs though. We'll have to go deeper.

Zac and Rob have caught 2023's "brutal cold". Unfortunately there's no umlaut on that so I regret to inform you that Jack Black is not a guest on this episode. Zac does talk about his new PC though, Rob finds his inner moth man with Cocoon and Dan is still full of Wonder.

Illness may have stumbled us this time, the SaladCast being a week late an' all, but hear this. Like any Youtube influencer with next to no real world power, I shall ask our listeners to like and subscribe the pain away. We have an undisclosed level of confidence that this will work.

In this episode, we catch up on the Nintendo Direct that seems a lifetime ago, the Xbox leaks, that whole Unity thing and a few games we met along the way.

This podcast may have been running for over 13 years but did you know that happysalad is much older than that? Over 20 years in fact, maybe more... we're old. It seems Mario might be feeling the age too as the "New" leaves the name of Super Mario Bros. Wonder. We also cover the rest of the Nintendo Direct and some redaction mishaps. There's plenty of the "Z-word" too.

Yes, yes. We are totally on that Zelda bandwagon. We're not usually all about those hot new releases but, come on, you don't have to look that far to realise this one's special. Other things are happening too of course but we know you're here for some Tears. Some salty, sweet tears. My favourite popcorn flavour.

We're throwing everything at you in this episode, including a washing machine, which is more than Sony's recent State of Play. Zing! We've got Hi-fi Rush, Captain of Industry, Yakuza 5 and two Wipeout games! Monster, monster!

In this episode we talk about Andor, Marvel film names, more light gun games, Captain of Industry and God of War: Ragnarok. Yakuza 5 is also here to talk about how snow and ice is 100% frictionless. Just sit on the ground and see where life takes you, free spirited one!

Being as it is the end the December there's not a lot happening in the games industry. Let's take the time to reflect on the year of games as experienced by the happysalad crew whilst our stomachs reflect on the multitude of errors made in recent days.

Welcome to club citrus. Enjoy a relaxing itinerary of treatments to bring you closer to your inner fruit. You too can be the lemon. Your program includes Bayonetta 3, God of War Ragnarok, Against the Storm and Pokémon.

Our health and safety officer, Zac, advises that we need to add bathrooms to the list of hazardous environments. An informational pamphlet entitled "know your tub" will be distributed shortly.

In this episode, Rob has some things to say about Bayonetta 3, Zac fights Against The Storm (and baths) and we try and talk about whatever's going on at Twitter.

Be good to your arms.

More enjoyable than running, it's time for the SaladCast! Zac outdoes himself and talks about at least three manufacturing games, Rob checks out Omega Strikers and the first Splatfest of Splatoon 3 and Dan embraces the sugar tax.

It's been an eventful peiod of time here in the UK, one we cannot possibly do any justice representing. We'll rely on our old friend, gaming news, to help us through.

In this episode we'll cover Sony's State of Play, Nintendo's Direct and Ubisoft's Forward. On top of that Rob's been playing Splatoon 3 and Zac's been drinking virtual beer.

If you don't consume your happysalad then you can't have any moody dessert. So eat up. There's a good listener.

In this episode, Rob finishes Bugsnax and jumps into VR whilst Zac continues to build and rebuild in Factorio and mine with guns in DRG.

It's Junemas! A month filled with wonders, delights and game trailers lacking hard release dates!

In this episode we'll be covering Summer Game Fest, State of Play, Future Games Show Devolver, Tribeca and some other stuff we be playing like Trek to Yomi and Oxygen Not Included.

We are become podcast, destroyer of lobes.

In this episode, EA feels like the kid left on the sidelines, Rob continues to struggle to describe the virtues of Cyberpunk 2077, Zac revisits the Factorio mod scene and the Age of Calamity might have been averted.

This week, Square Enix put their money where there mouth is. Or is it their mouth where their money is. Either way they were hungry for money so we talk about it before we get too hungry for pizza. Also in this episode we have Deep Rock Galactic Season 2, more game delays, The Gunk and Pikuniku.

Dan is out of action this week so that means it's guest time! Let's bring in our standard standup standin, Kippers. We've got "better late than never" coverage of Elden Ring and Cyberpunk 2077, Rob finishes Tunic, Zac gets updated and we talk about how SEGA may have lost their minds.

At some point in history, Gnomes invaded Ireland and forced out the native Leprechauns. On this day we remember the senseless violence between the blades of grass. Once done with that we'll talk about Playstation Plus, Bungie's legal foibles, Tunic, Boba Fett, Kirby and a dinosaur-based-city-building-rogue-like.

Correction: The Leprechauns actually won.

Season 13 is here! Another arbitrary length of time has passed and it's probably best we don't dwell on its insistence to keep passing. This week: Mario Kart 8 DLC concerns, Borg combat techniques, cow multiplication and State of SONY. Zac checks in on 7 Days to Die and Rob keeps Game Passin' it up with Guardians of the Galaxy.

2021 has been a weird year for games and for how the Happysalad crew played them. As a result we're making the Game of the Year stuff less of a thing. This way we can talk about Halo Infinite some more and with only mild spoilers.

Statistically, from a sample size of this podcast, 2 out of 3 factory games have the word "factory" in the title. You may also know that there are other genres that exist. This week we include the "shoot stuff", "drive stuff", "hit stuff", "think stuff" and "read stuff" varieties.

Genre learnings coutesy of the Saladcast.

I got a present for ya, and it's not C4 from Command & Conquer's GDI commando. It's the saladcast one day early! Rejoice!

Rob checks out that new Forza and Zac compares his Aven Colony to colonies of the past. We've also got Scarlet Nexus, Deep Rock Galactic and the other regulars.

Move into the country, don't see no trick or treaters, Move into the country, there's more time for the pizza.

There's not much news this week so you should be looking out for Scarlet Nexus, Metroid Dread, Hyrule Warriors and Satisfactory chat.

This week was filled with expectations. But have we been blessed with our fondest hardware wishes? For the answers we turn to Nintendo and... Valve?

Naturally we talk about Switch OLED and Steamdeck in this episode but SONY also tried to show us some things. We've got Horizon: Zero Dawn, Dyson Sphere Program, Deep Rock Galactic and more Breath of the Wild getting played too.

The sun over E3 might be setting but the shadow of Summer Games Fest is long. We've got some demo reports to carry on the fun. Also carrying some fun with him is guest DJKippling. Hopefuly he can replace some of the fun Dan stole from us before skipping off into the night.

In this episode: Chivalry 2, Terra Nil, Timbertown, The Rift Breaker, Super Mario Odyssey, Sable, VALORANT, Deep Rock Galactic and a few other things.

E3's not here yet, alright? Cool your jets OK. We've got a fairly relaxed episode to help bring you the calm.

In this episode we go mining, grinding, shooting and flying. There's a smidge of Sonic news and SONY showed some Horizon: Forbidden West.

All of the house moving interruptions have now been seen off so it's back to talking smack about power sockets and plumbing. Almost forgot there's a few games about too.

In this episode: Deep Rock Galactic, FFXII, Tony Hawk's 1+2, Banished and the nakedness of fruit.

If you're hangry for content in the category of "mostly video games", pull up a chair. There's Pokémon news for Zac to tear into, cancellation news for Rob to praise, and TV show endings it's hard for Dan to avoid spoiling. On top of that we add Dirt 5, Control and Deep Rock Galactic to our "played games" list.

It's the annual E3 press conference review show! Zac and Rob face the challenge without Dan to give a chronological sequence of all that happened on the stage of games. In this ridiculously long episode we cover all the major press events: EA, Microsoft, Bethesda, Ubisoft, SONY and Nintendo, potentially in that order.