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New year, new games! 2023 has the makings of a weird year and we're down for that.

Zac finds a new puzzle in Captain of Industry and enters a third dimension of creeping with Creeper World 4. Rob finishes up High On Life and feasts on Yakuza 5. Dan goes feral in Stray. We also talk about that Avatar film and report on the 2022 fantasy league.

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.

You may criticise us and claim that we "phone it in". Well this week, just for you, Dan is actually phoning it in. And if you weren't saying that then now we know we have to adjust our half tomato shaped, mind reading antenna that's crudely attached to the studio. Thanks either way.

In this episode we talk about The Game Awards, hot new Steam releases Dwarf Fortress and Against the Storm, Splatoon 3 updates, God of War Ragnarok and some other cheesey gubbins.

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.

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.

At what point in life does "sleep is for foo's" become "sleep is soooo goooood"? Don't underestimate sleep my friends.

In this podcast we have cereal debating, some talk about Bugsnax, the runes of Tunic and a beer cult.

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.

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.

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.

Be unsaddened my super-acquaintences! We have more pleasing noise for the ensounding of your ears. Come and whelm with us.

There's Nintendo news, Minecraft news, GTA news and more news. There's Artful Escape game, Sable game, Hyrule Warriors game and more games. And of course we have Rob man, Zac man and Dan man (but not more mans).

Zac continues to battle off the threat of the plague child to weigh in on the flurry of news Nintendo brought with them in this unfashionably long episode. We talk all about Chris Pratt and the Nintendo Direct, Shang-Chi, Sable, The Artful Escape and the regular stuff.

Zac may be under the weather but he has a 100% streak to maintain so casts through the maladies. Sony finally decides to show some of them there games so the news is dominated by that. There's also some of those games things what we have played so you can listen to us talk about those there games what you should also play. There be Psychonauts 2, Flight Simulator, Dwarf Fortress and more.

NERTS sounds like something you can catch. I hope it's not the next pandemic threat. Also in this episode, Rob finishes Horizon Zero Dawn's campaign, Zac finds another space builder thing in Avorion Dan is physically here! We've also got Rock of Ages 3, Dwarf Fortress and Lumines Remastered covered.

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.

Not much happening in game news so there's plenty of room for important topics like modern toilets. We also played Yakuza 3, What the Golf, Genesis Noir, Among Us and Pokémon Super Mystery Dungeon, which was nice.

Gary Numan wants his cars back. They're his friends.

It's hot, fresh and 100% of a podcast (this time). It's a Monday SaladCast!

This week we talk about moving home, Switch Pro rumours, Yakuza 3, Satisfactory, Panzer Dragoon Remake and some standard recurrences.

The Game Awards may have more trailers than awards but seeing as hype for 2021 is pretty more all 2020 has to give we'll lap it up. We've also been playing No Man's Sky, Mindustry, Haven, Star Renegades and Animal Crossing.

I think you might be able to guess what we talk about this week. Yes we really are being that obvious. We'll also talk about DOOM Eternal, Hyrule Warriors, No Man's Sky, Torchlight 2 and some other stuff.

A kettle is mentioned.

Not a lot of news going on this week but we fill the time with beans. No, really. There’s beans in the gaps. Even our gaps are nutritious. We’ll fill those PS5 dust gaps with beans too! GAPS!

We talk about the dribbles of new info around next-gen, Dan plays Star Wars Squadrons, Rob Shovel’s up the mess left by Afterparty and Zac does Zac things.

September got hot again and so the summer of hype is back for more. There's XBOX news, SONY news, Nintendo news and Ubisoft news in a larger digital package. We've got Spriitfarer, Hotshot Racing, Tell Me Why, Stormworks, Animal Crossing, Rocket League and absolutely no Avengers coverage. Everybody wins!

We've got some weird games for you this week. An exhibition of odd choices, interesting structures and broken concepts. Society as expressed in the medium of idiots playing games. Mario’s 35th Anniversary, ONL, Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles Remaster, Battletoads, Shapez.io, Spiritfarer and Tell Me Why are on display.

"E3" still had some stuff to say before it left. Most of it was hurtful but like true professionals we've cut all that out so we can present the last of this year's hype season news.

We've got that Microsoft showcase with them's Halo Infinite, dat Nintendo Direct Mini, this Neon Abyss, those Animals Crossing, the second Last of Us bit and Jet Set Radio?

Let's get topical for a moment. Apparently we're all going to be spending a lot of time indoors, scrubbing our hands, sitting on the loo, so why not spend some of your isolation time with us? You've got plenty of it to spare! In this episode, interesting news is still light but games do still exist to be played!

For the tenth time, the Saladcast will pointlessly rank the games and events of the past year. Has it even been a good year? Zac will clear that up quickly at least.

To celebrate the greatest and best number we thought we’d just talk about good games that we might not have covered on this podcast before. There’s still some news for all you modernists, because things happen, but concentrate on the positivity!

The wait is almost over. We’re nearly at the best number. We’re positive you’ll agree. For now, in this episode we look forward to award season, critique a V and talk about everyone’s favorite topic, YouTube controversy.

EGX 2019 has been occurring and once again Rob has been checking out as much as he can get his hands on. Dan and Zac stayed at home so Rob must recite his adventures to them.

Also in this episode, Bloodstained, Zelda, supermarket design, Oxygen Not Included and that Blizzard news.

Somehow October has crept up on us in a lederhosen. Stay vigilant out there. In this episode we have pretending to care about Star Wars, Oktoberfest history and some games that don’t involve a screen alongside the games that need a screen. That’ll be Gears 5, Untitled Goose Game, Bloodstained and Link’s Awakening then.

Getting older means forgetting about a lot more things a lot more regularly. Take this episode for example. It’s easy to forget that it ever existed, on time, and on happysalad.net before now. cough

In this episode: Sunflowers, EPIC store fail of the week, Nintendo Direct news, Void Bastards, Gears 5, Stormworks, Trackmania Turbo and more!

The summer months always bring out a certain grumpiness within the leaves of the Salad. Time for some juicy rants about pretty anything other than video games, which this podcast is still about, apparently.

In this podcast we get a fridge update from Dan, a fan update from Zac, a film update from Rob and then run out of ‘f’ and talk about tea. This is a podcast about video games.

Also feel free to point out the parts where the team inaudibly groans at bad jokes.

After taking in all three E’s, Dan is taking time off leaving Zac and Rob to bumble through.

In this episode Zac rants about the Steam sale game, Rob gets extreme with Yakuza Kiwami, Cadence of Hyrule drops by and the regular suspects are still here.

The endorphin rush that comes from exercise might be the greatest shared lie in history. Don’t be fooled by attempts to drag you into their shared misery. Stay inside and enjoy a slice of podcast instead.

Detective Pikachu, retro games, Nomad smugness and some CoD BlOps pad out the usual games, news and random.

There’s a rumbling coming this way. Do you feel it? Can you sense it’s power? No? That rumbling is me. Fear it.

In this episode there’s spoiler free Endgame talk, Sonic movie talk and game talk featuring new VR headsets, Borderlands 3 mishaps and the usual suspects getting played.

In an odd twist of fate, Dan returns to the studio whilst Zac “remotes” his voice to us from his cave of bricks. In this episode we’ve got new console news, new Star Wars news and all the usual game talk you’d expect. “Remote” be damned.

It's time for another wealth of ear sweets to tickle your tastebuds. Downwardly load it now to get the juices jumping for good times. Booyah.

In this episode: Antigraviator, Oxygen Not Included, God of War, Rise To Ruins, Super Mario 3D Land and a distinct lack of anecdotes.

In this episode of the SaladCast there's Cyberpunk gameplay footage talk, Rocketpass, Ruiner, CoD and Battlefield, FFXV, God of War, Stardew multiplayer, Overwatch revisiting, Two Point Hospital theories and Valkyria Chronicles 4. You just have to get past the food bit first.

It's too hot, the crew is woozy and injured, perfect podcast time!

In this episode: Halo Wars 2, Devil May Cry 4, Riptide GP Renegade, Rocket League, Minecraft, Pokémon Quest and smart light stuff.

PS. I know the audio isn’t quite up to snuff this week. There’s a bit of an echo and Dan is too quiet but we’ll figure it out next time.

Crticism may be easier than invention, but without criticism we may not learn as effectively. The Mario Tennis series is a reminder of what can happen should criticism be ignored. It is time for the SaladCast to cast judgement over the grass courts once again.

Also in this episode, Battlefield V, State of Decay 2, Surviving Mars, Fallout 76, PUBG, Laser League, Terratech, Team Sonic Racing, Don't Starve, Risk of Rain, Rocket League and always more Zelda.

THE HEAT IS BACK! Daytonaaaaaaaaa... Oh wait it's gone.

In this episode we talk about bad films and Ready Player One, Dan buying a PS4 to play Uncharted 4, RIME, "Oi!", Mega Drive Mini, Super Metroid, Jackbox 5, Surviving Mars, Superhot and some other regulars.

If we were to describe the SaladCast team as states of matter Zac would be solid, Dan would be liquid and Rob has to be gas. That's the end of the gag. Please enjoy the episode!

It looks like you're at a popular site for site for drug deals. Google would like to ask a few questions. Did Shifty Greg supply top quality gear? Would you recommend Shifty Greg to a friend? On a scale of one to ten, how would you rate the funk of the skunk?

In this episode of a podcast about videogames: Greetings, Mario Odyssey, awarding PUBG and other early access games, Micro Machines World Series, EA says silly things on reddit, Neon Chrome, android phones, Opus Magnum, Factorio, Rocket League and a tale of double hotness.

It seems that as far as humans have come with science and technology improving our daily routines, there are some elements of modern life that still suck. In this episode we cover the conundrum of the kettle and the office chair. This isn't a joke, we really do.

Other stuff in this episode: Forza 7 microwagers, finishing Nier Automata, the absence of Frozen 2, Cuphead problems, Slime Rancher, more Minecraft mod pack woes, Rocket League changes, Sonic on the Megadrive and DeadCore.

You know it must be raining when your noisy gaming session is interrupted by natural white noise. Take pause from the gunfire, engines and satisfying "dings" of gaming to enjoy some proper surround sound, and then drown it in dubstep.

In this episode: Space Engineers, stuff found in boxes, Sonic Mania, stuff found in ears, Nier Automata, stuff found in pipes, Splatoon 2, stuff found in Kitchens, Dwarf Fortress and stuff found in Hyrule.

Dude, video games are, like, so totally rad right now. I mean, you'd have to be like, mega lame to not be all "Woah, that’s so rad" when stuff is all lasers and sick tricks and tubular tunes, y’know? Don’t be a bozo bro, be wicked ace to the max.

In this episode: Sonic Mania, Gamescom news, old peripherals, Splatoon 2, NieR: Automata, Fault: Milestone 2 Side: above (yes that is the full title), Zac’s Rocket League update and Dan’s Zelda update.

There still isn't a great deal of news about. It’s now backpacking in Asia, lost it’s passport and may never return. Meanwhile, there is the subject of breakfast for us at home to attend to.

In this episode: Splatoon 2, Snake Pass, Fault: Milestone One, Formula Fusion, Wipeout 3, Minecraft, Titanfall 2, Noita, Overwatch, and the Zelda bit is back.

Dan has re-plumbed his tubes and returns to the fold only to find a mess of games happened. Let's clean it up!

In this episode: Dan’s E3 review, Tekken 7, Atari, Sonic’s boosh, Ever Oasis, bagging areas, DiRT 4, and the Zelda section never leaves.

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.

It's a late and dopey SaladCast this week as Zac had commitments. I know it sounds shocking but it’ll be less so when you find out what he’s committed to.

In this episode, Switch online news, the music of ARMS, Far Cry 5, wheel grinding, Rocket League, Assassin’s Creed history, Overwatch, increasingly spoilery Zelda stuff, some things we didn’t do and... Seaman?

We've taken our random injections, dressed our news wounds and have undergone significant game therapy. I think we’re ready for another round of Saladcasting.

In this episode: Hyper Light Drifter, tiredness, Zelda, Rocket League, caffeine, Bayonetta, Destiny 2, falling asleep, Sonic Chaos and Project Scorpio.

Season 8 is here and it promises to be squishier than any before it! The quality of the wisdom will remain unchanged.

This episode's word sponges include The Legend Zelda: Breath of the Wild, Grim Fandango, Mass Effect, F-Zero GX, Super Mario Run, Rocket League and the newwwwwws!

Confusion is a state that can be so easily adopted by a weak mind. Don't be a weak mind. Be free and let our nonsense wash over you like those fake rain machines that help you sleep a little.

In this episode there’s Thumper, Valve’s box of 3, Joe Danger 2, Boost Mode, Overwatch, what "Open World" is, Tetris, FTL, Assassin’s Creed IV, Sonic Generations, gun puns: the game, garbage old games and more Factorio.

It's at time’s like these that we can be very grateful that creative people can come up with worlds better than our own. Escape to the country/sea/space/factory with some SaladCast.

In this episode: Xbox news, Enter the Gungeon, DiRT4. double plus bad, Overwatch, speed running, Factorio, Rhianna, Assassin’s Creed 4, Homeworld and more.

"Negative Chromostereopsis" is one of the words I learnt this year and so are “post-truth” and “Brexit”. But while there's a lot of bad stuff to take away from this year you can also learn about the great year of games we’ve had and the SaladCast is ready to educate you. There’s also some sucky stuff for balance and fun but let’s celebrate! This special SUPER-LONG episode has us figuring the best of the best that we saw and honoring them with possibly the least prestigious GOTY on the internet.

Big stuff happening in game world! You need to hear it! No time for idle chit-chat, get podcasting fool! GO GO GO!

We got the Nintendo NX Switch-ing it up, Red Dead Redemption 2, Civilisation VI, Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare, Infinifactory, Battlefield 1, Jackbox Party Pack 3, Grand Theft Auto V, Rocket League and maybe the last we'll hear of Factorio.

Get to listening!

October is here and games are starting to come out for us to mostly ignore. Instead we talk about, XCOM 2, PSVR, Shadow of Mordor, running, Space Engineers, GTA V, FAST Racing NEO, Theatrythm, pay-to-spray, Affordable Space Adventures, Team Fortress 2 and always more Rocket League.

EGX 2016 is has been occurring and with it came long car journeys. As new regulations will inevitably be brought in to enforce the use of podcasts to keep boredom at bay on such journeys, the SaladCast remains ahead of the curve by providing this car-friendly episode. What makes it car-friendly you say? That'll be the marketing.

In this episode there’s more upcoming game hope discussion, Recore, TGS, Project Highrise, Call of Duty, Factorio, PSVR, Battlezone, Overwatch, Battlefield 1, Aaero, Civilization VI, Redout, Shadow of Mordor, Sonic Mania, Grand Theft Auto V, Rocket League and death by train.

I might as well be talking from my stomach. It's way louder than my voice right now. Late night McDonanald’s has repercussions.

In a twist of planning the SaladCast is coming out early and hot on the heels of the Playstation Meeting. We can be "Pro" when we need to be, we just mostly choose not to be, get off our case!

In this ‘cast: PS4 Pro, Airbuds?, Battlefield 1 Beta, Super Mario 1, EVE Online, Tricky Towers, Mass Effect Andromeda, Overcooked, Dara O’Brien’s Go 8-bit, Overwatch, Metal Gear Solid V, Planet Coaster, Roller Coaster Tycoon and some brief hype shouts.

There's Sonic news! There’s Sonic news! For Zac and Rob this is a big deal so let’s chat about the possibilities and the probability of them being crap. There’s a tiny bit of other news, DOOM, escape rooms, Starbound, house grouse, Factorio, Metal Gear Solid V, honey shoes, Rocket League and XCOM 2.

Something something something podcast. Something something hurray!

In this podcast: Zac gets a large mug and new kettle, Rob figures out what he wants from Starfox, Dan Gears on, the point of Early Access is debated, Overwatch is judged, Call of Duty and Battlefield announce new games with bad names, Pizza is mentioned, more of The Witness gets witnessed and Rocket League gets the jam.

This one's for all you marathon runners. Had we put this out ahead of the race we’d have got the average person through around 13 miles. You can call your own cab from Tower Bridge though.

In this episode: Rob goes blind, Zac dislikes Overwatch, betas are not played, Factorio gets modded, Metal Gear sells a car, Starfox divides, puzzles get witnessed and Titanfall gets a sword.

This episode has EVERYTHING. Possibly anything that's ever been said in human existence is crammed into this extra long SaladCast instalment. We’ve got running, rumours, Sonic’s Olympic garb, parking tickets, web development plugs, Zac’s eating habits, esports lifestyles, Shoutcast Radio and, in a surprise twist, video games!

Need a new diet plan for 2016? Don't eat Chocolate, play games instead. Take your mind of the sugar with the sweetness of staying alive in Alien Isolation. Eat mushrooms instead with New Super Mario Bros. 2. Simulate the feeling of being slighter further away from chocolate by going for a drive in Burnout Paradise or a greater distance in FAST Racing NEO. Grow your own chocolate alternatives that you can’t even eat in Stardew Valley. All this advice comes courtesy of the SaladCast.

Season 7 is here and so too is our new audio gift. A new theme tune... hold on we don't have one? Well I guess you can have some old jaunty brass instead.

In this episode there’s tragedy, news and reviews! Nintendo Direct, Microsoft’s PC game, Mario, Hand of Fate, Picross, Cities, and not Harvest Moon.

What else did we forget? Oh bugger there’s that Life Is Strange coverage we don’t talk about.

If one person doesn't really know what they are talking about and another person doesn’t have a clue about their own words, do they combine into fact or is this how culture begins? This episode attempts to answer this question with spectacular results.

This week there’s plenty of new Pokémon, Rob finishes Metal Gear, Zac avoids DLC, Dan breaks his stuff and vague news is back. Trust cautiously.

After a week off for Dan to get some surgery we're back and Zac and Rob have colds. Go figure.

Plenty of news this week as the games industry comes out of hibernation featuring Rocket League, money, Peter Molyneux, legal fights, Amazon, poopy PC ports and Nintendo. Welcome back!

What does it mean if you get "Enter Sandman" stuck in your head for a day and you haven't even heard the song in, like, forever? Does it cement it as a badass song? Is it destined to get on my nerves? Am I doomed to cause people to sleep forever? The answer may be found in your reaction to arcane recordings of the SaladCast. I hear there may be talk about the games we can’t quite finish yet, VR pricing, vague news, and not dying in the snow and a hidden message if you listen in reverse.

Oh boy oh boy oh boy! It's time for the end of year special show: GOTY 2015! We must scrutinize the heck out of 2015 for the good of mankind, for it is written: "Those who podcast, must arbitrarily award." There’s a lot of difficult decisions and few easy answers in one of the busiest gaming years in memory an you can find out exactly how the team arrive at their conclusions (a blog with the results will go up later).

Fair warning: we may talk about story spoilers and mention the Weak Ass Californian Gap.

It's the countdown to the close of the SaladCast for 2015 when we’ll do a countdown to close 2015. Until then have a regular SaladCast.

There are NO Star Wars spoilers here. You’ve all seen it already anyway.

Aaaaaand in the blue corner; The current console champion of the world, weighing in at over 25 million units sold despite only a few great games and looking to fight dirty; Sony Playstation! This would be the honest introduction in the current generation fight and it's Sony’s time to come out swinging as they dominate Paris Games Week. French it up!

Oh and there was a small release on XBONE called Halo 5. You might have heard of it.

To all those who went to EGX 2015, I have to clap my hands. Finally a show where the crowd isn't composed of annoying idiots who barge their way through to get anywhere, treading on toes as they do. You make music concerts look thoroughly uncivilised... which is probably the point in a lot of cases but I’m still impressed. See you next year my people.

Needless to say there’s a lot of EGX coverage this week but there’s just enough time for Zac to cover his tabletop adventures too.

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