Link To The Cast

Aloha internet! It's been a whiiiile..... Welcome back for a brand spanking new edition of Link To The Cast! On this week's show *Brian is still hanging with yer boy T-Clance in The Division *Mark is so utterly, hopelessly lost in Stardew Valley addiction. *Is Quantum Break an early shout for Best 7/10 Game Of The Year? Dave reckons so. *Plus all this week's gaming news and views. Our LTTC Book Club this week is a very special one for Dave. It's the first game he ever played (as a child waaaaaay too young to have done so), and it is largely to blame for his love of gaming that endures to this day: id Software's iconic DOOM. Listen, like, share, find us on iTunes (rate us there too to be extra nice), and enjoy! If you wanna contact us for our mailbag, or just to say hi, or if you just want to keep up to date on our content as it’s posted, check out the following: linktothecast@gmail.com http://twitter.com/linktothecast http://facebook.com/linktothecast http://twitch.tv/linktothecast https://www.y

It's a podcast Jim, but not as you know it. The lads are off on a trip to Dallas next week to the Mecca of the pro graps, and rather than maintain radio silence, we thought we'd try something a little different, setting the video games aside briefly, and have a look forward to the trip. Joining us for this show are the dulcet tones of debuting guests and all around FINE MEN Eamonn Dalton and Barry Murphy. On the show, we have a look at: what possessed us to go Ribs for breakfast and selfies with Russ Haas. NXT, featuring the goddamned drifter. ROH, featuring no one Eamo's ever heard of Wrestlecon, featuring sadness and the past/ and Wrestlemania itself, I suppose. We'll be back after our trip with a quick road report and then back to business as usual, so hopefully you all enjoy this very different episode. Eamo is @EamoV1 on Twitter, and you can join the Cecil Club over on his Redbubble page Barry is @TheBarrylad on Twitter, and his gaming Youtube channel is https://www.youtube.com/user/BarryMurphy236

A wild podcast appeared! In the midst of a flurry of streams, Link To The Cast has returned to you with grand tidings. This week we sail the good ship Podcast without Brian, but worry not, as we still have much to discuss: *Is there any cure to the Pokémon sickness that has washed over Mark? *Hitting stuff with other stuff in UFC 2 *Is Yo-Kai watch the new Pokémon? *How bad is Dave at covertly assassinating people? A review of a regional St. Patrick's Day Parade by Mark. In addition to all this, we bring you through the big news from the world of gaming this week, and a book club that takes a closer look at one of the defining games in the history of first person shooters: Goldeneye 007 on Nintendo 64. Listen, like, share, find us on iTunes (rate us there too to be extra nice), and enjoy! If you wanna contact us for our mailbag, or just to say hi, or if you just want to keep up to date on our content as it’s posted, check out the following: linktothecast@gmail.com http://twitter.com/linktothecast h

Link To The Cast returns! On this week's bumper edition of the show (uploaded late because life), we have a metric ton of stuff to get through. Impressions of Hitman and Division Betas Dying Light is still amazing Mark's Pokémon addiction is truly frightening Nintendo newsageddon with two Directs and a bunch of leaks. All that plus a host of other headlines from the world of gaming. This week's Book Club is arguably our most obscure to date, a unique gem that is one of Dave's favourite games ever (and that Brian and Mark had never heard of)- The Neverhood. Listen, like, share, find us on iTunes (rate us there too to be extra nice), and enjoy! If you wanna contact us for our mailbag, or just to say hi, or if you just want to keep up to date on our content as it’s posted, check out the following: linktothecast@gmail.com http://twitter.com/linktothecast http://facebook.com/linktothecast http://twitch.tv/linktothecast https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8tQR9nEJw2KbTQ9Xd23D2Q

New podcast! And in a first, all three hosts are in the same room at the same time! This week on the show: The harrowing tale of Dave and Mark vs. The M6 Was Deadpool any good? An anything but timely review of San Andreas. The lads discuss playing through Gone Home, Unravel and Firewatch, among other things. Hideo Kojima becoming a youtuber breaks Dave's brain. Plus all the rest of the news of the week, and a book club that takes a look at our favourite memories of portable gaming. Listen, like, share, find us on iTunes (rate us there too to be extra nice), and enjoy! If you wanna contact us for our mailbag, or just to say hi, or if you just want to keep up to date on our content as it’s posted, check out the following: linktothecast@gmail.com http://twitter.com/linktothecast http://facebook.com/linktothecast http://twitch.tv/linktothecast https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8tQR9nEJw2KbTQ9Xd23D2Q

This week on Link To The Cast, Dave and Mark attempt to bravely soldier on in Brian's absence and see what's been going on in the world of videogames. This week: Dave is deep in the puzzley rabbit hole of The Witness Mark played a Call of Duty game? Has hell frozen over? We answer your tweets and messages in our mailbag. All the latest news in gaming. Our Book Club this week is a look back at a game that has lots of fond memories for the 90's kids out there: Crash Bandicoot on the PS1. Listen, like, share, find us on iTunes (rate us there too to be extra nice), and enjoy! If you wanna contact us for our mailbag, or just to say hi, or if you just want to keep up to date on our content as it's posted, check out the following: linktothecast@gmail.com http://twitter.com/linktothecast http://facebook.com/linktothecast http://twitch.tv/linktothecast https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8tQR9nEJw2KbTQ9Xd23D2Q

The first LTTC of 2016 is here, and what better way to celebrate a new year than by welcoming our favourite Englishman Mark Robinson back to the show! Mark has returned from his time in China and has some GOTY beef to thrash out with Dave and Brian, among other things. Join us this week as we discuss, among other things: the wonder of Five Guys burgers, the death of David Bowie and Alan Rickman, Brian's thoughts on the Revenant, Dave's on The Hateful Eight, Mad Max being the perfect 7/10 game to keep you busy a while, Fast Racing NEO, Tales From The Borderlands, and all the headlines in gaming since the new year (yes, including the PSN crash) Our Book Club this week is a special look at a sleeper hit from last year that Brian and Dave blitzed through over the Christmas break: the slasher movie turned video game (or ass simulator depending on which one of us you listen to) Until Dawn! Listen, like, share, find us on iTunes (rate us there too to be extra nice), and enjoy! Contact us: linktothecast@gmail.co

Drumroll please! The final part of our awards show spectacular is upon us! So join Dave, Brian and Jack (and Jack's brass section) for our final four awards: Best Game Music, Best Console Exclusive, Best Multiplayer Game, and of course the Game of the Year 2015. It's been a fun 2015 for us here at the podcast, and we hope you join us when we return for the first official podcast of 2016 next week with our first Book Club game of the year- Until Dawn. We have a lot of cool plans for 2016 that we hope you'll enjoy! Listen, like, share, find us on iTunes (rate us there too to be extra nice), enjoy, and Happy New Year!! Contact us: linktothecast@gmail.com http://twitter.com/linktothecast http://facebook.com/linktothecast http://twitch.tv/linktothecast https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8tQR9nEJw2KbTQ9Xd23D2Q

Bah Humbug and such, Link To The Cast returns for our part Christmas special, part season finale, part end of year awards show! Mark is somewhere up a mountain with his surrogate Irishman while myself, Brian and our special festive guest- the Roman Reigns of audio, our sporting game correspondent, and the only man I know who has a brass section handy, Jack Layzell do all the work. Join us on the first part of a fun and chaotic end of year special as we thrash out our favourite games of the last year, and keep an eye out in the next few days for part two which will include us crowning our inaugural Game of The Year. Listen, like, share, find us on iTunes (rate us there too to be extra nice), enjoy, and Happy New Year!! Contact us: linktothecast@gmail.com http://twitter.com/linktothecast http://facebook.com/linktothecast http://twitch.tv/linktothecast https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8tQR9nEJw2KbTQ9Xd23D2Q

Ho ho ho, merry everyone! Link to the Cast is sort of back! Brian has returned home to the rural Utopia from whence he came for Christmas, and the lack of M&S Turkey sandwiches has made Mark as feral as a coyote, which left me to hold down the fort this week. Fortunately, rather than listen to me prattle on about Silent Hill for two hours (oh believe me, I could), I decided instead to release this week's pre-recorded Game of The Year Book Club feature as a standalone episode. This week is the turn of Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain, and helping me wax lyrical about Kojima's magnum opus is none other than friend of the show, and all around top bloke Jack Layzell. So enjoy an unedited and extended chat about one of the best games of this year, and laugh along as I attempt to seamlessly segue back into a podcast that I would go on to not be able to record. Listen, like, share, find us on iTunes (rate us there too to be extra nice), enjoy, and merry Christmas!! Contact us: linktothecast@gmail.com http:

Boy howdy is this a big show! This week on Link to the Cast, we have a hell of a lot to get through: *What the hell is the Late Late Toy Show, and why is it so amazing? *Brian's Fallout update, and his early wanderings in Destiny. *Both Dave and Brian blow lots of stuff up in Just Cause 3. *Dave gushes over Rise of the Tomb Raider, and returns to Vice City plus, a lot of news this week from both the Game Awards, and Playstation Experience 2015. Then we round off the show with a book club feature about one of our GOTY nominees, Dying Light. Listen, like, share, find us on iTunes (rate us there too to be extra nice), and enjoy! Contact us: linktothecast@gmail.com http://twitter.com/linktothecast http://facebook.com/linktothecast http://twitch.tv/linktothecast https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8tQR9nEJw2KbTQ9Xd23D2Q

Returning from the sickbay, it's a new Link to the Cast! We're back from an extended break after a flu rendered Dave barely human any more. On the show this week, we answer the tough questions: *Marvel's Jessica Jones, was it as good as we'd hoped? *Did Brian keep his pants on when he saw the Captain America trailer? (He did not.) *Has Brian been able to play anything not called Fallout 4? (He has not) In addition, Dave talks about finishing off Telltale's Game of Thrones, and finally getting to sit down with Guitar Hero Live for a while. As per usual, we also cover some of the main news stories of the week and return to our weekly book club, where we look at an important game from the past that you should check out or revisit. This week, to the surprise of no one when Brian picked it, we take a look at the most critically acclaimed 'Liam Neeson's yer da' simulator- Fallout 3. Listen, like, share, find us on iTunes (rate us there too to be extra nice), and enjoy! Contact us: linktothecast@gmail.com

Witcher please! Link To The Cast is back, in spite of all the obstacles in our way (namely dragging Brian away from Fallout for more than five minutes)! Before we get to that, Dave tells us about some of the cool new party games he and the guys have been enjoying over Halloween at home. Then Brian finally gets to wax lyrical about his new life in Fallout 4. On top of that we have all the big news stories of the week, including a couple of very strange ones, and our usual Book Club feature, where this week we give long overdue praise to one of the best games of this year- The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt. Listen, like, share, find us on iTunes (rate us there too to be extra nice), and enjoy!

Welcome to the Link to The Cast Halloween Spooktacular! ....except, we kinda forgot it was Halloween til we were already recording, so we got nothing..... Join us this week as Brian gives us a quick rundown of Wasteland 2: Electric Boogaloo, Dave celebrates beating The Witcher 3, and also had time to play WWE 2K16 and indie darling The Beginner's Guide. On top of that we have a metric ton of news from Sony at Paris Games Week, a few non-PGW news notes, and Brian takes the reigns of the Book Club this week (for which there was a false start too funny to edit out), as he makes a case for the significance of Far Cry 2. Listen, like, share, hit the iTunes button on our channel page (rate us there too to be extra nice), and enjoy!

Back for more, it's another episode of Link To The Cast! This week we've been playing a lot. Brian took the plunge on GTAV and Uncharted: The Nathan Drake Collection. Dave talks about Rock Band 4, The Star Wars Battlefront Beta, and Minecraft: Story Mode. On top of that, we have the big headlines from the week in games, and a very special LTTC Book Club feature this week, taking a look at one of Dave and Brian's favourite games of the last several years: Bioshock Infinite. Listen, like, share, find us on iTunes (rate us there too to be extra nice), and enjoy!

Number 13, unlucky for some! It's another episode of Link To The Cast! On this week's second attempt to record this show (more on that at the start of the show): *Brian willingly subjects himself to Battlefield 4 *Dave weighs in on the FIFA vs. Pro Evo debate *Mark joins us live via satellite for his own update segment (hence the longer show) *All the big news in gaming. and of course this week's Link To The Cast book club, in which Brian is alone in space and would very much appreciate adult supervision: Dead Space. Listen, like, download, subscribe on iTunes or your podcast client of preference, and sure go ahead and give us a nice rating on there like a pal. [Note from Dave: sorry about my audio issues during the Mark segment, that will give you a taste of why we had to re-record everything else.]

Dave and Brian are back with another dose of audio goodness! On this week's show: Brian struggles with whether Mad Max is very good or not, Dave makes googly eyes at Metal Gear Solid V, an update on the life and times of Mark Robinson, all the news of the week, a return to Konami Korner (Oh joy...), and for our book club we talk about the influences of video game violence by talking Manhunt. A fun show, so like, share and find us on iTunes! https://itunes.apple.com/ie/podcast/link-to-the-cast/id1041159027?mt=2

Days late and only a few dollars short, A Link to the Cast returns to kick your weekend off right. Mark Robinson is away on assignment, so into the breach steps new co-host Brian McNamara. On this week’s show: Fallout Shelter, Madden 16 melodrama, Mega Man Musings, all your news for the week, and a look at the bro-iest of bro shooters: Gears of War. A real game. For real men. Based on a real war. With real guns. Listen and enjoy.

On this week’s instalment of a Link to the Cast: Jack Layzell joins us to talk about his thoughts on the new EA Tiger Woods Rory Mcllroy PGA Tour release; Mark gives us a brief rundown on the history of Rayman; and Dave shares words on Everybody’s Gone to the Rapture, Rare Replay, and Hatoful Boyfriend. We dive into this week’s news, including the latest instalment of ‘Konami Korner’. Finally, the three of us share a number of opinions and emotions on one of the most important video games of all time, as we delve into this edition’s book club: Metal Gear Solid.

On the inaugural edition of LTTC – Dave & Mark review Mario Kart 8, Axiom Verge, and Shovel Knight. They also break down the breakdown of Konami, including the recent cancellation of Silent Hills; Ex-Rare employees coming together to make a spiritual successor to Banjo Kazooie; plus the revival of Guitar Hero and Rock Band. Finally, we take a look back at one of the finest games of all time: A Link to the Past.