Daft Souls

Matt has been dabbling with Clash Royale and the Nioh alpha demo, while Quinns has become obsessed with Hitman and Fallen London. We then cap off the podcast with a brief chat about what it's like to be faced with the prospect of BEING OLD.

Matt and Quinns return with a mild palette-cleanser. After weeks of Dark Souls chat, here's a short and sharp podcast that's largely about Ratchet & Clank, with some general chat about the challenges of narrative design whacked onto the end of it. Enjoy!

Listen, you knew it had to happen at some point - the clue was right there in the podcast's name. This week Matt and Quinns are joined by Keza, who has spent two years writing a book about Dark Souls. We chat about the book, the series, From Software's magic, and cap it off with a clearly-flagged spoilery discussion about the first 15 hours of Dark Souls 3. Enjoy!

Matt and Quinns snuggle up inside a small cardboard box for an exciting conversation about VIDEOGAMES. Matt shares spoiler-free thoughts on Dark Souls 3, then we chat Enter The Gungeon, Ultimate Chicken Horse, Samurai Gunn, and more.

This week Matt is joined by Jim Trinca and Pip Warr - two wonderful guests who combine forces to routinely pull this week's podcast off-piste. When the conversation isn't happily swerving into increasingly unlikely lanes, we chat Overwatch, Clash Royale, and The Witcher 3. We had fun recording it, we hope you enjoy listening!

Quinns and Matt are joined by Kotaku UK’s Keza MacDonald for a chat about this year’s Game Developer Conference, followed up with a detailed delve into our experiences, anecdotes, and thoughts on the current state of Virtual Reality. Contains non-explicit but nonetheless adult chat about popular alternative uses.

Matt and Quinns spend a phenomenal amount of time talking and arguing about Stardew Valley, before Pip reveals she's played No Man's Sky and both of the boys feel very bloody silly. The podcast will be taking a week off next Monday, but should return the week after that with an episode recorded live at GDC. How exciting!

Matt and Quinns are joined by Joe, who has played 9999 games in the past week. We chat about The Flame In The Flood before diving off into a world of horror: Quinns has been playing Kitty HorrorShow's Anatomy, while Joe has fond thoughts about Layers of Fear.

This week Matt hits PEAK-LURGY, evolving into the grumpiest man in the United Kingdom. If only someone had hit B during the transformation animation/fed him cake/let him slide away into a bath. Apologies for that - form will return shortly. This week we chat SFV, Puzzle and Dragons, the Bravely Default sequel, and more.

This week Matt is joined by two guests: Chris Bratt and Gav Murphy, both of whom remain sober and sensible while Matt glugs his way through the dregs of a cold. We chat about Unravel (and whether or not Yarny deserved to horribly die in a fire), Overwatch, briefly chat about XCOM 2 - obviously - and then Matt reveals that he's playing Cookie Clicker. Again. Finally, we answer a couple of interesting questions - leading to Chris Bratt offering the shocking revelation: "I don't know a lot about developing lunchboxes".

Matt and Quinns are joined by Pip for what may as well be a slice of the American Dream - the great outdoors of Firewatch, and the less-great outdoors of American Truck Simulator.

This week Quinns and Matt are joined by Keza MacDonald to chat about puzzle games - specifically The Witness, Homeworld: Deserts of Kharak, and Yakuza.

Matt is joined by Pip Warr for a wonderful chat about Oxenfree, murder mystery television, and Fabulous Beasts. I think it's safe to say we went off-topic this week, but I can't say I've even the slightest of regrets.

Quinns and Matt are joined by Joe to talk about three old-ish Japanese games that all have names that start with the letter D. Other things are talked about too, but let's not spoil the SURPRISE.

Matt is joined by Chris Bratt for a bumper edition of Daft Souls that's entirely about XCOM 2. Spoilers are kept to an absolute minimum as we're a pair of respectful chaps, but obviously it IS two people talking about a game for over an hour, so if you're precious about not knowing anything at all - avoid! Everyone else? ENJOY.

Matt and Joe round off the year with some excited chatter about SteamWorld Heist - a game which snuck in before the end of the year and might well be one of 2015's best. Matt's also been playing Xenoblade Chronicles X - but he isn't quite sure that it's his cup of tea. Finally, we top off this frothy festive podcast latte with a few of your questions!

Quinns is back! Oh no wait, he’s gone again. But he’s back now, here, in brief podcast from. In this week’s two-man podcast we talk Rainbow Six: Siege, Persona 4 Golden, and get a bit heated about Final Fantasy 7. FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT no stop don’t fight we don’t do that here.

Matt and Joe are joined by Chris Bratt, who's been playing a lot of Overwatch. It sounds exciting, but the other chaps have real reservations about the online team-shooty genre - can stuff like this and Rainbow Six: Siege avoid the horrible fate of Evolve? Matt's been playing Starcraft 2, and Joe's been dipping into Code Name S.T.E.A.M and thinking about stressful games. Special thanks again to Mr Joe Skrebels for standing in for Quinns over the last few months, and thanks to those of you who fund Cool Ghosts for allowing us to pay him for his brilliant services! If you love Joe then don't despair, we're planning to get him doing a little bit of video stuff for us at some point in the new year. For subscription links, Daft Souls info, and a place to ask questions - head on over to the Daft Souls page. If you love the podcast, please consider writing us an iTunes review!

The Cool Ghosts Core can't be arsed with Fallout 4, but thankfully we've got guests who can. And what guests! Matt and Joe are joined by the brilliant Kate Gray. So they'll talk about this a bunch this week, while Matt is still reeling over how much fun he's been having with Sorcery! (Matt is also reeling from jetlag, so give him a break if he repeats stuff/loses his mind a bit).

Matt listens to Joe talk about the latest Call of Duty game for almost an hour, and honestly I think that's fine. After that, a little bit on the full release of Chaos Reborn, and finally some recommendations about good games to play while on a train. (Alone, Desert Golfing, Ghost Trick, Another Case Solved, Pacman 256, Monster Hunter Ultimate 4).