This Week’s BRP: Brief Delay
Yeah, you guys have had to deal with a lot of delays recently, and for that I apologize. Unfortunately things seem to be coming down on Joe and me at the moment - he had some family things to deal with this weekend and wasn’t able to appear on the show. As for me, I’m still coming off the back of not one but two infections, as well as trying to catch up on all the missed work - which of course has piled up during my time off. So I hope you can forgive the delays, but sometimes there’s not much you can do.
I think, to compensate, we may open Season 8 (which starts next week) with a couple of Co-op Mode episodes to give us more of a chance to get back on schedule, and then try to make up for that with some big belter specials to close the year on. I have a couple of really good specials already planned in my head, and I think they’ll be worth the delays we’re going through at the moment.
I’ve changed the ETA for this week’s show to Wednesday 18th, but honestly I’m not going to make any promises about that. Once it does go up, I think we’ll be putting up a couple of blog posts after it, and then hopefully we can get back on schedule by the end of the month. Thanks to you for your patience, and hope you’re having a better November than we are.
UPDATE: Glad I didn’t make any promises. Given our currently ridiculously busy schedules, we’ve decided the best thing to do is post Episode 30 on Monday 23rd, and then post a Co-op Mode on Monday 30th. We’ll announce the Season 8 schedule the following Monday. Again, apologies for the delays and another week without the show - we’re hoping that pushing things back a week will give us a chance to get back on schedule and concentrate on all the other things in our lives for a short while.
Axel & Pixel: Simple or Too Simple?
Axel & Pixel has the right ingredients. It’s an indie game released on the Xbox Live Arcade Marketplace, a platform which helped Braid achieve commercial and critical success. Like the mind-bending Braid, it has an unusual take on a gaming staple, in its case the point-and-click genre. Like And Yet it Moves - another great indie game we’ve talked about - it features a quirky, endearing art style that draws you in immediately. So why hasn’t this unique, interesting downloadable title caught on with the masses?
No BRP This Week
Sorry guys, but I’m afraid there isn’t going to be a Big Red Potion episode this week - you’ll have to find your aimless, video game-related rambling somewhere else until next Monday.
Uncharted 2: Too Much Action?
Since I was unable to join Joe, Jeff and Xan on last week’s fine episode of Big Red Potion which was all about Uncharted 2, I thought I would share a few, can’t-sleep-and-it’s-now-early-morning-already thoughts. Hope you enjoy.
Season 7: Ready & Go!
Yes, we run in seasons. Or, more accurately, we organize shows in giant lumps rather than individually, but calling those giant lumps ’seasons’ just sounds better. Anywho, the seventh season of Big Red Potion is upon us. And we think we’ve got some cracking show topics lined up for you, and hopefully some cracking guests. But, because we like to keep things exciting, we’re doing something a bit different this season…
