Cane And Rinse

“Clementine will remember that.” From a secure location, Cane and Rinse continue to podcast to any and all survivors. Be warned, point-and-click adventures have risen again and are walking the Earth. This is the first […] The post The Walking Dead – Cane and Rinse No.66 part. 1 appeared first on Cane and Rinse.

“Remember that pain! Next time it will be worse!” On the day that the snow turned into rain we recorded the second and final of our Shenmue podcasts. Yu Suzuki’s Shenmue II sees Ryo cross […] The post Shenmue II – Cane and Rinse No.65 appeared first on Cane and Rinse.

In the first of an occasional series of bonus podcast industry interviews, Leon speaks with Jim Crawford of San Francisco’s Twinbeard Studios*. Creator of the ambitious, surprising and hilarious browser based Flash game, Frog Fractions, […] The post Podcast special: An Interview with Jim Crawford appeared first on Cane and Rinse.

“Guess that one saw the light!” Following a protracted period in well-publicised ‘development hell’, Max Payne developer Remedy’s David Lynch/Stephen King/Rod Serling homage Alan Wake was eventually released on Xbox 360 in May 2010 and […] The post Alan Wake – Cane and Rinse No.64 appeared first on Cane and Rinse.

“Now you’ve really crossed the line.” The Resident Evil follow-up that metamorphosed into its own IP during development, Hideki Kamiya’s Devil May Cry arrived on the PlayStation 2 to largely rapturous acclaim in 2001. Two […] The post Devil May Cry 3: Dante’s Awakening Special Edition – Cane and Rinse No.63 appeared first on Cane and Rinse.

“Heh… you like me that much?” A developer whose hallmark is technical wizardry, Yu Suzuki’s AM2 were responsible for eye-popping innovation throughout the 80s and 90s with arcade titles such as Space Harrier, OutRun and Virtua Fighter. Open-world […] The post Shenmue – Cane and Rinse No.62 appeared first on Cane and Rinse.

“Origin of all that is good and mother to us all” During its relatively short existence, Clover Studio produced a triumvirate of significant and memorable titles; Viewtiful Joe, God Hand (each a candidate for a  future Issue […] The post Okami – Cane and Rinse No.61 appeared first on Cane and Rinse.

“Prepare for unforseen consequences.” In the last of our Half-Life series of podcasts, we review both Half-Life 2: Episode One and Episode Two. Beyond this Leon, Darren Gargette, James and Josh speculate upon what may […] The post Half-Life 2: Episode One and Episode Two – Cane and Rinse No.60 appeared first on Cane and Rinse.

I’ve got all the patterns down, up until the ninth key… …I’ve got Speedy on my tail, and I know it’s either him or me. So I’m heading out the back door and in the other […] The post Pac-Man Championship Edition DX – Cane and Rinse No.59 appeared first on Cane and Rinse.

“Am I the only one who understands the meaning of the word “covert?”” Thick-necked, wise-cracking future soldiers shooting the crap out of robots with big guns. In the minds of gamers, SEGA Yakuza Studio’s Binary Domain is […] The post Binary Domain – Cane and Rinse No.58 appeared first on Cane and Rinse.

Doukutsu Monogatari The late 1990s: Inspired by a host of classic Japanese titles, printer operating systems programmer, Daisuke Amaya, has a dorm-mate teach him how to code video games. The result – five years later – is […] The post Cave Story – Cane and Rinse No.57 appeared first on Cane and Rinse.

“Rise and shine, Mr. Freeman. Rise and shine.” Some twenty years after defeating the Nihilanth on Xen, Dr. Gordon Freeman is brought out of stasis by the mysterious G-Man to defend humanity (and the Vortigaunt) […] The post Half-Life 2 – Cane and Rinse No.56 appeared first on Cane and Rinse.

“By 2069 the world will be controlled by giant mega-corporations called Syndicates.” They will vie for the minds of a populace helpless to escape their grasp. The dystopia imagined by Starbreeze earlier this year in […] The post Syndicate (2012) – Cane and Rinse No.55 appeared first on Cane and Rinse.

“Hurry! Before Mizrabel uses her powers of illusion to make herself look like Minnie, and make Minnie look evil like her.” Leon, Tony, Darren Gargette and special guest/Mega Drive (Genesis) guru Dan Clark of the […] The post Mickey and Donald’s Mega Drive trilogy – Cane and Rinse No.54 appeared first on Cane and Rinse.

“Stop praying. This is pathetic.” Asura’s Wrath doesn’t so much defy description as demand a lengthy one: The game, produced by CyberConnect2 (best known for the .hack and Naruto series’ as well as Solatorobo on the […] The post Asura’s Wrath – Cane and Rinse No.53 appeared first on Cane and Rinse.

“Fascinating! I never suspected such things could be.” In 1996 Gabe Newell and Mike Harrington founded Valve Corporation. Employing a team plucked from the cream of the Quake mod scene, they began work on a […] The post Half-Life – Cane and Rinse No.52 appeared first on Cane and Rinse.

It’s still alive, and cannot apologise: Mirror’s Edge We mantle into Volume Two by reflecting on the strange time of 2008, when Electronic Arts were championing new ideas, first-person shooters didn’t need guns and freerunning […] The post Mirror’s Edge – Cane and Rinse No.51 appeared first on Cane and Rinse.

“C’mon everybody, check me out: I’m dancin’! I’m dancin!” Oh, there ain’t no rest for the wicked, money don’t grow on trees. I got bills to pay, I got mouths to feed, there ain’t nothing […] The post Borderlands – Cane and Rinse No.50 appeared first on Cane and Rinse.

We’ve finally reached the end (for now?) of our Metal Gear series retrospective. In the epic conclusion to our six part Metal Gear 25th Anniversary series Leon, Tony and Jay review 2008’s spectacular but polarising […] The post Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots – Cane and Rinse No.49 appeared first on Cane and Rinse.

“You can look me in the eye when I kill you.” Melding the comic book stylings of Joe Madureira with Hebrew mythology while lifting structure and mechanics wholesale from other popular franchises, Vigil’s assured 2010 […] The post Darksiders – Cane and Rinse No.48 appeared first on Cane and Rinse.