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Lapsed Gamer Radio
by Lapsed Gamer Radio
Lapsed Gamer Radio is a friendly video game community podcast which brings lapsed and active gamers together to share a mutual enjoyment of the hobby. Play, listen, guest and join our team!
Episodes
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311 - Side Quest: 25 Years of Nintendo GameCube
Nick is joined by Chazzee and Mark to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the Nintendo GameCube, the short-lived console that lived in the shadow of the PS2 and Xbox, and shine some light on why it is so beloved amongst those who owned one. You can find additional content by us over on the LGR...
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310 - Checkpoint: Big Talk
Mark is joined by Chazzee, and somehow Nick AND Doug on the same episode(!) to talk about the Kojima news, even more layoffs at Xbox, a big talk about Big Walk, and all the other games they've been playing recently. You can find additional content by us over on the LGR website at...
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309 - Checkpoint: Supermarket Clock Tower
Mark is joined by Nick, Chazzee, and Andy to discuss holiday blues, arcade trips, an extended conversation about Gamescom, what its like to be at the convention, and all the game trailers they saw. Plus all the games they've been playing recently. You can find additional content by us over on the...
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308 - Checkpoint: Orange Blob
Mark is joined by Nick and Andy to discuss the GTA 6 leaks, the future of Bioware, Compulsion Games going independent, some other news, and of course all the games they've been playing recently. You can find additional content by us over on the LGR website at www.lapsedgamer.com and you can get…
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307 - Checkpoint: 2010 Chic
Mark is joined by Nick and Chazzee to discuss the 3rd anniversary of Baldur's Gate 3, the resurgence of classic 2010's games, EA being owned by the worst people on the planet, and of course all the games they've played recently. You can find additional content by us over on the LGR website at...
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306 - Side Quest: Best Gaming Year
In this special episode, Nick is joined by Mark and Chazzee to decide which year of the last 30 delivered the greatest lineup of video game releases. From genre-defining classics and blockbuster sequels to overlooked gems and surprise hits, the trio revisits three decades of gaming history to...
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305 - Checkpoint: Press X to Doug
Mark and Chazzee are joined by the delightful Doug to talk about more upsetting Xbox news, Playstation trying to end physical media, the delights of camper vans, and all the games they've been playing recently. You can find additional content by us over on the LGR website at www.lapsedgamer.com…
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304 - Checkpoint: Option Paralysis
Mark is joined by Nick and Chazzee to talk about the shockwaves going though the video game world following the news of massive cutbacks at Xbox, and whether the gaming industry is entering another crash. Plus lots of talk about what they've been playing, including lots of Steam Next Fest demos....
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303 - Checkpoint: Summer Game Fest 2026
Mark is joined by Chazzee and Nick to discuss the all the games we saw at Summer Game Fest, Xbox Showcase, PC Gaming Show, and Nintendo Direct during the annual Jeff Fest. You can find additional content by us over on the LGR website at www.lapsedgamer.com and you can get in touch with us via...
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302 - Checkpoint: Scotland Forever
Mark is joined by Nick, Chazzee, and Andy to sift through everything we saw at the big Playstation State of Play, before digging into 007 First Light and everything else they've been playing recently. You can find additional content by us over on the LGR website at www.lapsedgamer.com and you can...
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301 - Checkpoint: Bungo
Mark is joined by Nick, Chazzee, and Andy to discuss the end of Destiny 2 development and what it might mean for the future of Bungie, Ubisoft making horrible AI noises, more Warhammer stuff, and of course all the games they've been playing over the past few weeks. You can find additional content...
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300 - Side Quest: GOTGOTY
It's episode 300! Join Mark, Nick, Chazzee, and Andy as they mark the occassion by talking about the last decade in gaming, before pitting every GOTY winner from the last 10 years of LGR against each other. There can be only one. You can find additional content by us over on the LGR website at...
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299 - Side Quest: A Minecraft Movie
Mark, Nick and Andy get together again to watch another terrible video game movie, and this time its the 2025 box office behemoth A Minecraft Movie. You can find additional content by us over on the LGR website at www.lapsedgamer.com and you can get in touch with us via Twitter at...
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298 - Checkpoint: 21st Century Digital Boy
For the first time this year Andy joins Mark, Nick, and Chazzee, and he has new gaming hardware to talk about! The boys also discuss Easter traditions, Tim Sweeney still being a bellend, games that are announced too early, PvP market struggles, and of course all the games they've been playing.…
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297.5 - Checkpoint: Italian Genesis Evangelion
Nick is back and joins Mark and Chazzee to talk about defunct music venues, the recent Xbox partner showcase, Epic Games layoffs, some other old news, and all the games they've been enjoying recently. You can find additional content by us over on the LGR website at www.lapsedgamer.com and you can...
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297 - Checkpoint: Emergency Doug
Mark and Chazzee are joined by our friend and yours Doug to discuss Xbox's "Project Helix", layoffs at Battlefield Studios, Jeff Kaplan's tell-all podcast appearance, and of course all the games we've been playing recently. You can find additional content by us over on the LGR website at...
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296 - Side Quest: The Legend of Zelda Tier List
It's the 40th anniversary of the Legend of Zelda franchise, and seeming as Nintendo are doing nothing to celebrate that milestone we decided to. So join Nick, Chazzee, and Mark as they go through the entire franchise and rank the games on a tier list. You can find additional content by us over on...
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295.5 - Checkpoint: Tin Cup
Mark is joined by Nick and Chazzee to discuss regional chip shop cuisine, Upcoming Nintendo releases, more bad news about hardware shortages, and of course all the games they've been playing over the last month or so. You can find additional content by us over on the LGR website at...
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295 - Checkpoint: Whelmed
Mark is joined by Nick and Chazzee to talk about some video game news, rant again about how much Tim Sweeney sucks, discuss the Xbox Developer Direct, and all the games they've played over the last month or so. You can find additional content by us over on the LGR website at www.lapsedgamer.com…
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294 - Checkpoint: Two Tomb Raiders, Jeremy?
Mark is joined by Nick and Chazzee to look back on our 2025 predictions, make some new ones for 2026, and preview all the games we're looking forward to this year. You can find additional content by us over on the LGR website at www.lapsedgamer.com and you can get in touch with us via Twitter at...
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293 - Side Quest: Games of the Year, Part 2
It's time to conclude the annual LGR "best games we played this year that might have come out this year but not necessarily because we have jobs and lives and kids and can't keep up with all the newest games extravaganza 2025". In this episode the boys run down their honourable and dishonourable...
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292 - Side Quest: Games of the Year, Part 1
The boys are here for their annual "best games we played this year that didn't necessarily come out this year but most of them did except for Andy who doesn't play games newer than 2005 extravaganza part 1". In this first part we run down our 5th, 4th, and 3rd favourite games that we played this...
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291 - Checkpoint: Brass Monkey
Mark is joined by Nick and Chazzee to talk about Tim Sweeney's latest crashout, the weird story around Horses being blocked from Steam, JRPG 3.0, Battlefield sales figures, and of course all the games they've been playing recently. You can find additional content by us over on the LGR website at...
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290 - Side Quest: WW2 Video Games
To mark 80 years since the end of the end of World War 2, Mark is joined by Nick, Chazzee, and Andy to talk about the history of its depiction in video games. You can find additional content by us over on the LGR website at www.lapsedgamer.com and you can get in touch with us via Twitter at...
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289.5 - Checkpoint: The Game Awards Predictions
In this bonus extrasode Mark and Nick get together to talk about the nominations for all the categories in this year's Game Awards, pick their preferred winners, and predict who will win. You can find additional content by us over on the LGR website at www.lapsedgamer.com and you can get in touch...
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289 - Checkpoint: Masklophobia
Mark is joined by Nick and Chazzee to discuss some now comically outdated news, Chazzee's fear of mascots, back pain, the World Series, and all of the games they've been playing over the past month. You can find additional content by us over on the LGR website at www.lapsedgamer.com and you can…
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288 - Checkpoint: All My Homies Hate Quantic Dream
Quiet one this week, Mark and Chazzee get together to further discuss the EA buyout and union pushback against it, the latest David Cage bowel movement, a whole bunch of other news, and all the games they've been playing recently. You can find additional content by us over on the LGR website at...
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287 - Checkpoint: The Customer Is Always F*cked
Nick is joined by Andy and Chazzee to talk about EA being bought by the worst people on the planet and the implications for their IP, the Game Pass price increases and the future of Xbox, all the new game releases, and run down all the games they've been playing recently. You can find additional...
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286 - Checkpoint: Pit Beef
Mark is joined by Nick and Chazzee to laugh at Randy Pitchford, moan about the state of video game optimisation, ruminate on the nature of mosh pits, talk about upcoming Nintendo releases, and run down all the games they've been playing over the last few weeks. You can find additional content by…
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285 - Side Quest: Best Launch Lineup
We heard the internet loves tier lists, so we decided to get in on the action. Join Nick, Chazzee and Mark as they build a tier list of the best console launch lineups while doing a lot of reminiscing. You can find additional content by us over on the LGR website at www.lapsedgamer.com and you…
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284 - Checkpoint: Showdown
Worlds collide as Doug and Nick appear on an episode together! Join them and Mark as they talk a little about some very old news, Nick tortures the boys with a quiz, and they run down all the games they've been playing over the past month or so. You can find additional content by us over on the…
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283 - Side Quest: Video Game Music
Mark is joined by Nick and Chazzee for an extra special episode where they listen to, and talk about, some of their favourite pieces of video game music. You can find additional content by us over on the LGR website at www.lapsedgamer.com and you can get in touch with us via Twitter at...
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282 - Checkpoint: Skunk
Nick is on holiday so Doug makes his annual appearance, joining Mark and Chazzee to discuss the fallout from the mass layoffs at Microsoft, how utterly useless Copilot is, some video game movie adaptation news, a brief review of the Switch 2, and of course all the games they've been playing...
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281 - Checkpoint: Wet Hot Gamer Summer
Mark is joined by Nick and Chazzee to talk about yet more layoffs in the video game industry, how hot weather just hits different in the UK, midge protection, and to run down all the video games they've been playing over the last month or so. You can find additional content by us over on the LGR...
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280 - Checkpoint: Summer Game Fest 2025
Mark is joined by Chazzee and Nick to talk about all the games that were shown at the 2025 edition of Geoff Keighley's video games circle jerk, plus the Playstation and Xbox showcases and some of the smaller ones. You can find additional content by us over on the LGR website at…
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279 - Checkpoint: In This Economy?!
Nick is joined by Chazzee and Andy to discuss the cancellation of the Black Panther game and further job losses at EA, critical reception of Elden Ring: Nightreign, and the rumoured Cyberpunk 2077 sequel, before running down all the games they've played recently. You can find additional content…
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278 - Side Quest: Movie Tie-In Games
Taking a break from talking about terrible movies based on video games, Mark, Nick, Chazzee, and Andy explore the world of video games released to coincide with movie releases - their history from the the 80's through the golden age of the 90's and into the doldrums of the 2000's, why they aren't...
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277 - Poly Gone
In this episode Mark and Chazzee sit down for a chat about the latest turmoil in the world of video game journalism, talk about Arc Raiders and the state of the extraction shooter genre as a whole, and discuss the surprise smash hit of the year - Clair Obscur: Expedition 33. You can find…
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276 - Out Of Date
Join Mark, Nick, and Chazzee for an episode recorded two weeks ago as they talk about now very old news, argue about Blue Prince, wonder whether we needed an Oblivion remake, and talk about a bunch of other games. You can find additional content by us over on the LGR website at…
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275 - LGR Hall of Fame episode 6 - Dishonored 2
It’s time to induct another game into the LGR Hall of Fame, so join Mark, Nick, and Chazzee as they embrace The Outsider, pull on their masks, and descend into the murky whalepunk world of Dishonored 2. You can find additional content by us over on the LGR website at www.lapsedgamer.com and you…
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274 - Shenwho?
Mark is joined by Nick, Chazzee, and Andy to discuss some video game news, including a lengthy discussion about the Switch 2 Nintendo Direct, what looks good about it, and how the game price might end up costing Nintendo, before running down all the games they've been playing recently. You can…
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273 - Lara Croft: Tomb Raider 1 & 2
It's time to look at another terrible video game movie adaptation, and in this episode we're covering two for twice the misery. So join Mark, Nick, and Andy as they delve into the incredibly dated early 2000's action schlock that is the Angelina Jolie Tomb Raider movies. You can find additional...
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272.5 - Monster Hunter Wilds Extrasode
Rather than bore you and everyone else on the team with an hour of rambling about the new Monster Hunter game, Mark and Chazzee recorded a bonus episode so you can skip it if you don't care. You can find additional content by us over on the LGR website at www.lapsedgamer.com and you can get in...
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272 - Wilhelm Scream
Sorry this one is so late, life got in the way. In this episode Mark is joined by Nick and Chazzee to discuss the finer details of flat pack furniture, talk about yet more layoffs and studio closures in the industry, and chat about all the games they've playing over the past few weeks. You can…
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LGR Presents: Backlog Busting - Episode 1
In the first proper episode of Backlog Busting, Adam talks about all the weird and wonderful, books, tv shows, and of course video games, that he has been enjoying over the past month or so. You can find additional content by us over on the LGR website at www.lapsedgamer.com and you can get in...
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271 - Bottleneck
Mark is joined by Nick and Chazzee to run chat about some video game news, discuss how live service games have rotted gamer brains, and complain about poorly optimised modern PC games, before running down all the games they've been playing over the last few weeks. You can find additional content…
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270 - Great American Food
Severely delayed by technical issues, in this episode Mark is joined by Nick, Chazzee, and not Andy to discuss the Xbox Developer Direct, the Switch 2 reveal, spend a few brief moments eulogising the much maligned WiiU, and run down all the games they've been playing over the past month or so.…
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269 - 2025 Preview
It's time for the traditional new year preview episode, so join Mark, Nick, Chazzee, and Andy as they talk about all the games they are looking forward to in 2025, plus a little bit of chat about new hardware, potential industry upheaval, and some predictions for the year ahead. Note: this…
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LGR Presents: Backlog Busting - Episode 0
It's a new year and Adam is feeling guilty about his backlog, so to help him clear it (and because getting on regular podcast recordings is difficult) he's going to catalog his quasi year of shame with a new solo show: Backlog Busting. In this special Episode 0 Adam explains the concept and the...
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268 - Games of the Year, Part 2
It's time to conclude the annual LGR "best games we played this year that might have come out this year but not necessarily because we have jobs and lives and kids and can't keep up with all the newest games extravaganza 2024". In this episode Andy, Chazzee, Mark, and Nick run down their…
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Lapsed Gamer Radio is a friendly video game community podcast which brings lapsed and active gamers together to share a mutual enjoyment of the hobby. Play, listen, guest and join our team!
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