Episodes

  • What We've Been Playing (Ghost of Yotei, Silent Hill f, Baby Steps, Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Revisited)

    What We've Been Playing (Ghost of Yotei, Silent Hill f, Baby Steps, Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Revisited)
    Oct 10 2025
    Matthew has Covid! Poor chap. At least he got through all six seasons of Justified while recovering. Here are the games discussed this week: Silent Hill f, Ghost of Yotei, Baby Steps, No, I am not a human, Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 and the latest Golden Idol DLC.

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    1 hr and 42 mins
  • Reassuringly Finite (with Jon Denton)

    Reassuringly Finite (with Jon Denton)
    Oct 3 2025

    Music podcaster and former games journalist Jon Denton is our guest this week! Hear about Jon's journey from gamesTM to being pals with The Weeknd.


    This week's music is from the Super Mario World soundtrack by Koji Kondo.

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    2 hrs and 2 mins
  • The Best Games of 2017

    The Best Games of 2017
    Sep 26 2025

    A massive year for games, a bleak year for at least one giant man. One of our oldest and most popular podcast formats is back, more than two years after our 2016 episode!


    This week's music is from the Yakuza 0 soundtrack by Kensuke Inage and Yoshihiro Arai.

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    2 hrs and 57 mins
  • Mailbag

    Mailbag
    Sep 18 2025
    It's another mailbag. Topics discussed: Mr Kipling's Angel Slices, why Tomb Raider keeps needing reboots, Nintendo's struggles on the GameCube, Steve Martin and matching sandwiches to video games.

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    1 hr and 31 mins
  • Two Giant Men Play Rockstar's Bully (Patreon Sampler)

    Two Giant Men Play Rockstar's Bully (Patreon Sampler)
    Sep 12 2025

    If you enjoy this episode, consider supporting us so we can make more Two Giant Men episodes just like it!


    As voted for by the listeners, we revisit Rockstar Vancouver's 2006 ode to high school life – as well as our own cursed teenage years.


    This week's music is from the amazing Bully soundtrack by Shawn Lee, which we neglected to talk about in the episode. Thanks to Michael 'BanyaBat' for the edits.


    These are the two articles mentioned in the episode – Samuel Horti's Bully piece and Game Informer's Bully 2 piece.

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    1 hr and 53 mins
  • 007 First Light Reactions, Plus: What We've Been Playing (Mafia: The Old Country, Shinobi: Art of Vengeance, Hollow Knight, Kirby on Switch 2, MGS Delta: Snake Eater)

    007 First Light Reactions, Plus: What We've Been Playing (Mafia: The Old Country, Shinobi: Art of Vengeance, Hollow Knight, Kirby on Switch 2, MGS Delta: Snake Eater)
    Sep 5 2025
    The stack of games we've been chewing through lately, plus our reactions to the 007 First Light footage released this week.

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    1 hr and 44 mins
  • The All-Star Japanese Game Developer Draft (with Ashley Day and Dave Scarborough)

    The All-Star Japanese Game Developer Draft (with Ashley Day and Dave Scarborough)
    Aug 29 2025

    Our quarterly four-person draft is here! The Two Giant Men are joined by two further giant men as we compete to pick the best 11 games from some of our favourite Japanese game developers. To mix things up, expect a couple of twists on the usual draft format...


    This week's music is from the Street Fighter 2 soundtrack by Yoko Shimomura and Isao Abe.

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    2 hrs and 49 mins
  • Two Giant Men Play Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas

    Two Giant Men Play Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas
    Aug 22 2025

    The Back Page's road to GTA 6 – a borderline-unviable series of playthroughs of older GTA games – continues! You don't need to have revisited San Andreas to enjoy this episode. We give you a nice overview of everything going on in the story and missions. We dig deep into the game's early '90s Californian setting, the ways it pushed the GTA mission formula forwards, and why its Definitive Edition solves many of the original PS2 version's problems.


    This week's music is the Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas main theme by Michael Hunter.


    A few show notes and small corrections: Samuel is wrong about GTA 4 having checkpoints. The Breaking Bad episode referenced is called 'Caballo Sin Nombre', not 'Caballero Sin Nombre'.

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    2 hrs and 30 mins