Staying In Podcast

A Staying In podcast exclusive? Yep! We’re among the first people in the UK to play Red Notice - Le Million ou la Prison, which is a game about risking what you can on what you think you can get away with, themed on the game of cat and mouse found in works like Catch Me If You Can. It’s a stonker; you heard it here first.

Of course there’s loads of other things to talk about coming out of AireCon 2026. We start getting very close to each other (and strangers) with Yubibo’s novel Twister-with-fingers from JELLY JELLY GAMES, and building (pleasingly broken) engines in Thief's Market, PickPocket Games' fresh lick of paint on a previously released title. There’s also Jason Tremblay and The Op’s Tacta, which is a light and delightful little treat of a game, and Ellie Dix, Maria Surducan, and Osprey Games' Threaded: A Game of Needles and Points, which is so completely charming we can’t stop thinking about it, even when it’s gone midnight and security is about to throw you out the convention.

With that many board games, we change things up and round things out with a movie: the sci-fi book adaptation with Ryan Gosling that’s currently doing the business at the box office.

All that, and putting down a towel, on Ep244, available now on your preferred podcast player.

It’s time to dredge up some painful memories of Tom Clancy games with Predator: Badlands, then it’s onto cheerier topics, like a discussion on Marvel Studios' latest short run TV series Wonder Man and whether it might be the start of a new era for the MCU. Having already properly dated the show with a recent “holiday” we turn to Game Dev Story from Kairosoft, a fairly casual but very revealing management game, then it’s off to the Jazz Age with Gatsby from Catch Up Games via Hachette.

All that, and an incorrect use of butter, on Ep242, available now.