Tommy's come down with what seems like a common cold but may in fact be DONKEY KONG FEVER because we watched the Donkey Kong Bananza Direct overnight and we're still reeling from some of the new revelations. Pauline! Ostrich Bananza! DK Artist Mode! A confusing Kong family timeline! We also discuss our trip to Sydney to see two of The Great Men: Hi…

SASHI PERERA joins me today. She's been killing it all over the place: nominated for Best Newcomer, appearing on Have You Been Paying Attention and selling out shows all around the world. I didn't really know her until recently when we shared a venue together at the Comedy Festival which, as we discover, is a lot like being in a long distance relat…

Wow is it really Not E3 again already!? Summer Games Fest has rolled around and we're wrapping up all of the big announcements from the week: some wild characters are showing up in the new Sonic racing game, there's freaky boxing puppets, surprise DLC for Lies of P, Game Freak making something that looks like it runs properly, a new detective story…

I’m long overdue to have my beautiful boys BRETT BLAKE and NICK CAPPER on the podcast so I figured why not get ‘em in here together for a big catch-up over a couple of beers. We chat about having a perfect day on the weed edibles, learning to drive on a farm, the mortifying audition tapes of us that exist in a warehouse somewhere and how Brett and …

We've been burning the midnight and 7am oils and as a result we're now the proud owners of a Switch 2! We each have a Switch 2, I mean. We're not sharing custody of one Switch 2. We've been hammering Mario Kart World all day so we've got some early first day impressions PLUS a big round-up of everything announced in Sony's State of Play and Ben rev…

This week I'm joined by LIZZY HOO! She's hosted the Melbourne International Comedy Festival Gala and appeared on Have You Been Paying Attention? among many, many other things. How many of these achievements were on her personal Bingo Card that she keeps every year? We chat about drafting difficult texts and e-mails in the notes app as a form of the…

A little tasting plate of some of the banger bonus episodes that are available right now over on Patreon, featuring highlights from Dilruk Jayasinha, Nina Oyama, Dave Thornton, Zan Rowe and Josh Earl. To get the full episodes (roughly two and a half hours worth of content!) and support the show, head over and sign up: Patreon.com/HowToDoEverything …

Episode 500! Can you believe it? We've gone this long without kicking ourselves off the air. To celebrate, we're reminiscing a little bit on the history of the show and then doing something that neither we, or any other show, has dared to do before (possibly for good reason): delivering our definitive list of the Top 10 Video Game Characters To Hos…

SONNY DAY is one half of We Buy Your Kids - a design duo who've made incredible posters for the likes of Jack White, Youth Group, Laneway Festival, as well as tonnes of movie and video game posters for Mondo. As a painter, he's had solo exhibitions around the world and painted murals for Paramount House in Sydney to pluck just a couple of credits f…

We've made it to the season finale of The Last of Us and the season finale of Videodrone with special guest GREG LARSEN. Ellie's still on the hunt for Abby, there's a cliffhanger, there's a weird creepy island, and (thankfully) there's no Skellingtons. How did we feel about this episode, the season as a whole, what are our predictions for the next …

It's the final week of Ben's Japan trip and he's fresh from a visit to the new Donkey Kong Country addition to Super Nintendo World at Universal Studios Osaka! We hear all about the new area: the food, the costumes, the music and of course the new immersive mine cart ride! On the other end of the spectrum, Tommy's been decapitating demons in the aw…

Who better to 'explore the neigbourhood' with than Deadloch's NINA OYAMA!? Nina takes umbrage with The Survey, we chat about predictability and being a photocopy of a photocopy in comedy as well as hearing all about Nina's adventures organising the dance for an Indian wedding and Tommy wants to know how to get booked on a cooking show. How To Do Ev…

One day we'll be fondly flashing back to this weeks episode of Videodrone with guest GREG LARSEN but for now, we're in the present, recording this episode of Videodrone where we recap the penultimate episode of season 2 of The Last of Us. Pedro is back, the great Joey Pants makes an appearance, and we're wondering how much they're going to cram int…

While the Ben's away, the mice will play... with a Nintendo Switch 2, with mouse controls. This week, Tommy is joined by ANDREW LEVINS to recap their big day at the Nintendo Switch 2 hands-on experience! We got to try out all of the big announced games so far: Mario Kart World, Donkey Kong Bananza, Metroid Prime 4, Welcome Tour, and Drag X Drive, a…

My old pal DAVE THORNTON joins me this week! Dave's such a knowledgeable guy about so many things so of course I couldn't resist wasting his time by talking about him about the Sonic The Hedgehog movie. We learn about how Dave's juvenile streak is really striking a chord with his children, his obsessive love of basketball and how it developed at a …

We're coming to you live from the Tullamarine airport car park with special guest GREG LARSEN to discuss episode five of season 2 of The Last of Us, including the coolest graffiti we've ever seen, which bits of this episode we were scared of, and which Festival we think the executives in at HBO are attending. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy …

Ben's in Japan and despite the Government's best efforts to keep us from podcasting with dodgy internet, we are logging on for a huge dose of news: rumours of an Xbox handheld, a playable demo of Hollow Knight Silksong and of course, the new cinematic trailer for a little game called Grand Theft Auto 6! Get Exclusive NordVPN deal here ➼ https://nor…

As the host of ABC's Take Five ZAN ROWE has interviewed hundreds of people and is so beloved as a conversationalist that just before this episode, she was giving a talk in the building where I record about how to be a good interviewer. No pressure! We chat about how Zan taunted me online about the fact that she was watching Jamiroquai in Adelaide a…

GREG LARSEN joins us for another recap of The Last of Us. As Ellie and Dina arrive in Seattle, they have two huge life developments to confront, we learn more about the mysterious "Scars" and the WLF, and of course we're visited by our old friends The Skellingtons. It's another perfect episode of Videodrone, especially if you work for Sky News. Hos…

What's this? ANOTHER surprise contender for Game of the Year so soon? And it's FRENCH!? Oui oui, Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 is here and we've been playing the hell out of it! Weird little guys, intricate combat and a melodramatic story - this game has it all. We also chat about the Oblivion remaster, 8BitDo no longer shipping to the US, and new "r…

Head chef and owner of the legendary restaurant Attica, and author of the book ‘Uses For Obsession’ BEN SHEWRY joins me to chat about being humbled by Yo La Tengo, harnessing the positivity that can come from shame, learning how to fix pinball machines and the time some Wall Street bankers landed a helicopter at his restaurant without permission. P…

After last weeks brutal episode we're back this week with Australian media bad boy GREG LARSEN. Ellie wants to hunt down the people who killed Joel but will the council of Jackson allow it? What's with these whistling people in the woods? And why have they cut out our favourite character from the video games? As always, we're doing a full episode a…

We've shadow dropped this episode into your podcast feed in order to let you know about the following news items: there's a remaster of Oblivion out now, a new season of Playdate games is releasing soon and you'll be able to play as Mario in Mario Kart World which we learned from a recent Direct. We've also got our first impressions of the awesome …

After gigging with her in Sydney a while back, I knew that JESS FUCHS would be a great chat for this show and so I bestowed upon her the grand honour of christening my new recording space. Jess prides herself on her ability to connect with and accurately read anyone she meets. I'm not sure if I'm good at connecting with people or, as in the case of…

Special guest GREG LARSEN joins us once again to chat about a massive episode of The Last of Us, featuring an event that anyone who's played the game has been anticipating and dreading. There's a snowstorm, a horde of infected, some golf clubs and one of the most brutal episodes of television in a long time. We're breaking it all down and then doin…

It's been a long time since we've spent an entire episode talking about one game but it's been a long time since one game has grabbed our attention to such an extent. The new indie puzzle game BLUE PRINCE seemingly came out of nowhere (to us, at least) but man oh man is it good. We're fairly vague in our chat but we do talk about a couple of little…

The almighty DEATH FROM ABOVE 1979 are about to hit Australia, playing their beloved debut album "You're A Woman, I'm A Machine" in full. They're one of my all-time favourite bands and so I'm thrilled to have vocalist and drummer SEBASTIEN GRAINGER join me on the show this week. We chat about how his self-critical appraisal of his own performances …

THE LAST OF US is back on our screens and so of course that means that we are back recapping every episode here on Videodrone with special guest GREG LARSEN! If you listened to our sister podcast 'Clicker? I Barely Know Her' during season one, then you know what to expect: a full breakdown of the episode, focusing only on what we've seen in the epi…

This week we're chatting about our favourite new 3D action adventure game set in a bayou, and our favourite new interpretation of 'What If A 3D Sonic Game Was Actually Good?' We've also had a week to process the Switch 2 Direct and dig into a lot of the hands-on coverage as well as discussing a lot of the online reactions we've seen! Get Exclusive …

In spite of her self-confessed terrible sense of direction, MELANIE BRACEWELL found her way to the studio and joins us this week to chat about how her meteoric rise through the ranks of Australian comedy wouldn't have been possible without scaling the most dangerous peak of all: Cringe Mountain. Tommy's been offered a free meal and feels too scared…

We've had a great few weeks whacking each other off, blackmailing strangers, and tracking down shady figures from our past but It's finally time to check out of The White Lotus for another year! We're recapping the movie length season 3 finale episode. Who dies, what are our thoughts on the season as a whole, and what would we like to see from the …