Flash Point: An Oceanic Gamer Podcast

This week we’re nugget-fueled (well one of us is) and my doesn’t it show! Talking Points – What we’ve been playing – Nintendo Switch and Zelda – Xbox Game Pass (link) – Kinda Funny/Colin M split – Mass Effect: Andromeda – are we still looking forward to it? Gamergate assholes are back! (link) – Game […]

We’re back and even on schedule. Special guest co-host is long-time listener Jay Connell and we talk the gamut of gaming and pop culture. Talking Points – What we’ve been playing – Switch unboxing (stolen – Ninty grumpy) – Breath of the Wild ‘Expansion Pass’ – New Bioware IP planned for release in 2018 – […]

Hot on the heels of this week’s Nintendo Switch announcement, we talk a bit about the year past and lots about the year ahead. Talking Points – What we’ve been playing – Dissection of the Nintendo Switch live stream – What we’re excited about for the year ahead – Microsoft kills Scalebound, Sony kills Guerrilla […]

It’s our non-festive filled end of year episode where we review the year that was, announce our games of the year and make some startling predictions for 2017. Or something like that. Talking Points – What we’ve been playing – Reviewing the year that was – each of us pick a game of the year […]

PAX Australia only finished a handful of hours ago, so it’s perfect timing for some semi-informed gaming discussion. We welcome as a guest Brendan from the Hungry Gamers podcast Talking Points – What we’ve been playing – PS VR thoughts – Nintendo Switch – Mass Effect Andromeda and MS2 and 3 now backwards compatible on […]

This episode is more jam-packed than a sandwich packed with jam. Or something. Talking Points – SWTOR Knights of the Eternal Throne Announced (link) – Destiny: Rise of Iron thoughts – Destiny 2 discussion – EB Expo thoughts: Horizon Zero Dawn, Mafia 3, For Honor, Drive Club VR, Phil Spencer is a legend, Ghost Recon […]

Just a little bit has happened since last show, so we barrel through everything from WoW: Legion to new consoles and movie reviews. Talking Points – What we’re playing – WoW Legion mini-review – Sony’s Playstation ‘evolution’ – No Man Sky’s developer falls off the planet? – Destiny Rise of Iron – Super Mario Run […]

The majority of our co-host cohort are playing more games than eating meals, so again lots to talk about. Talking Points – No Man’s Sky launches, has some challenges (link) – Wow pre=expansion demon invasion event – Xbox One S impressions – Minecraft finally hits Oculus next week (link) – Sony to announce Neo at […]

So much gaming news, so little time! Besides some post-E3 thoughts we delve into everything from Pokemon Go through to the new-fangled MMO World of Warcraft. Talking Points – What we’re playing – Warcraft movie review: sheep, scenery and (no) sex – Overwatch Gets new hero in next big patch (Ana, Healing Sniper) – NES Mini […]

It’s a pre-E3 speculation fest bolstered by dozens of leaks over the past weeks. We welcome back David Carr to join our hypothesising. Talking Points – What we’re playing – Destiny Rise of Iron – discussion of pre-E3 stream – leaks leaks and more leaks! – Watchdogs 2 – Injustice 2 – Dead Rising 4 Leaked? […]

We’re unsure whether the United Nations could cover areas as diverse as we do on this episode! Talking Points – What we’re playing – Doom mini-review (PS4) – Overwatch Beta had 9.7 million players. New world record? – Nintendo NX and Zelda pushed to 2017 – Simon buys Star Wars Battlefront – Star Wars Battlefront […]

We’re back right on schedule for a change and we cover the gamut of gaming and pop culture topics. Talking Points – What we’re playing – Overwatch stress test – 2016 Video Game Hall of Fame Finalists (link) – Next-gen console rumours – Tay the Microsoft AI bot gets a hard time on Twitter (link) […]

Ben is bake from overseas and there’s been some big game releases so there’s no shortage of talking points tonight. Talking Points – What we’ve been playing – Tom Clancy’s The Division – our thoughts and assorted news – PS4 VR – Xbox wants to support cross-platform multi-player (link) – Sony working on a Playstation […]

One of our crew is flouncing around North America so we have the brilliant Casmas join Simon and David this episode. Apologies for a couple of drop outs! Talking Points – What we’ve been playing – Game of the year discussion: we have a winner! – The Division beta – Plumbing The Death Star podcast […]

We’re back for 2016 pumped and ready to talk everything gaming. Talking Points – What we’ve been playing – Fallout 4 – Game of the year discussion (post a comment here to go into the running to win Sunset Overdrive!) – Konami and VGA’s – New SWTOR Chapter – Chapter X Anarchy in Paradise – […]

It’s our last episode for the year so we spend some time covering a lot of different games, with a focus first up on Fallout 4 and Star Wars: Battlefront. Talking Points – What we’ve been playing – Fallout 4 roundtable (link to Fall Out 4 mod of the week on IGN) – Star Wars: […]

This episode is a special – thanks to Simon’s great work at Pax Oz we have a one hour keynote from Warren Spector titled ‘Storytime with Warren Spector’. It’s a fascinating keynote so jump in and immerse yourself in much more substance than you usually get here! – Shout outs for our Facebook page, Twitter […]

This episode we welcome a new regular co-host, Ben McJannett and we jump into some good gaming discussion and a little bit of other stuff to boot. A big thanks to David Carr for joining us again this episode. Talking Points – What we’ve been playing – SWTOR: The Fallen Empire – Destiny: Taken King […]

Who needs the United Nations when you have the Flash Point Podcast? We convene a roundtable on Destiny with David Carr and Ben McJannett, plus talk a bit about a few other things as well. Then we secure world peace. Talking Points – What we’ve been playing – Destiny: The Taken King roundtable – Star […]

After the turbulence of Australian politics over the past couple of days we provide some much needed stability and security. Or something. Talking Points – What we’ve been playing – Destiny: The Taken King – Everybody’s Gone To The Rapture (link and here’s who Kay Cottee is) – Pokemon Go (link) – Funcom announces The […]