About this podcast
Total Playtime is the official podcast of Jank.cool and is a conversation about videogames, mostly, by games industry veterans Alice Bell, Nate Crowley, Brendy Caldwell and Jon Hicks. Join them for discussion of the latest and most interesting PC and indie games, grumbles about the state of games media, and impromptu quizzes dredged from the unknowable depths of Nate's brain. Public episodes are released every two weeks, and if you subscribe to Jank you'll get weekly episodes. Send us questions, ideas and feedback at [email protected], and follow us on BlueSky if you like.
Episodes
The newest 20 of 49 episodes
- Episode 46: RIP BioWare · 1 h 4 min · Episode 46This week's episode is dedicated to a single bit of particularly crushing news: the demise of Bioware as part of EA's cost-cutting/the ongoing contraction of AAA game…
- Episode 45: Literacy Was Too High a Price to Pay · 45 min · Episode 45It’s another bijou two-hander this week, as Alice and I meet to pick over the remains of another week in PC gaming and get the latest updates on her dog and her neighbours, both…
- Episode 44: Delivered in the Tone of Igor · 58 min · Episode 44Total Playtime is the official Jank podcast, funded entirely by our paying subscribers (and formerly our backers on Patreon). This week’s episode is free, but subscribers get…
- Episode 43: Question-mark Interrobang?‽ · 57 min · Episode 43Alice is away this week, so three grown men get to sit around and puzzle over a particularly baffling week of news items and become steadily less certain that we were describing…
- Episode 42: Subpoena the Teenage Snitch · 1 h 1 min · Episode 42Total Playtime is the official Jank podcast, funded entirely by our paying subscribers (and formerly our backers on Patreon). This week’s episode is free, but subscribers get…
- Episode 41: The Hubris Era · 53 min · Episode 41Total Playtime is the official Jank podcast, funded entirely by our paying subscribers (and formerly our backers on Patreon). This week’s episode is free, but subscribers get…
- Episode 40: The Coriander Of Space Marines · 49 min · Episode 40It’s a free-to-all episode this week, so Alice, Nate and myself turned ourselves to the major issues of the day: Xboxes are really expensive, how a Skyrim username error can get…
- Episode 39: Suck Off Frankenstein · 1 h 7 min · Episode 39This week it’s a free episode available to all, in which our four hosts gather to judge the news of the week - chiefly, Bethesda’s smoke-bomb declaration of Fallout 5 in an…
- Episode 38: Call the Waspman · 1 h 3 min · Episode 38Total Playtime is now the official Jank podcast, and is produced through the munificence of our paying subscribers (and formerly our backers on Patreon). This week’s episode is…
- Episode 37: Mr Beast's Beef Lumps · 1 h 15 min · Episode 37Total Playtime is a weekly podcast about PC games, formerly funded by Patreon and now part of Jank. This is a free episode, but premium episodes are published every two weeks and…
- Episode 36: The Devil Is Always Sexy · 49 min · Episode 36This week's episode is late, for which we apologise and blame Geoff Keighley because let's face it, he's the one pulling all the strings these days. Jonty was still sat in…
- Episode 35: The Hot Ones · 49 min · Episode 34This week Alice and I gathered in hot rooms to have hot takes on the main news stories of the week, chiefly the end of Destiny (and perhaps the employment of many of its…
- Re-Run: Let's Fix This With Product Placement · 1 h 1 min · Episode 35I regret to say that we were unable to record a regular news episode this week. Everybody was away or ill or both, with the exception of Brendy who is a new parent and thus is…
- Episode 34: Five or Six ETs Could Tear Joe Rogan Apart · 50 min · Episode 34It’s an emergency episode this week: both Alice and Brendy were away, so I had to dial in from Vegas to assist Nate in judgement of the main news events. This lead to some…
- Episode 33: Wee Butt Mode · 1 h 13 min · Episode 33In a rare treat this week’s episode is not talking about layoffs, but I contrived to introduce them as additional context for Pete Hines being savagely critical of what happened…
- Episode 32: Mr Beast Big Naturals · 59 min · Episode 32This week we have fun (for a given value of fun) discussing Epic's mass layoffs, Sony's dynamic price testing, and the difficulty in reviewing Crimson Desert, maybe. One of these…
- Episode 31: Stoatal Playtime; Our DLSS 5 Is ON · 1 h 0 min · Episode 31This week we bring you an accidentally AI-themed extravaganza, as Krafton lost their Unknown Worlds/Subnautica 2 lawsuit for the funniest reason possible: they asked ChatGPT what…
- Episode 30: The Phil Spencer Xbox Explosion · 1 h 1 min · Episode 30It’s a quiet one this week, as Alice is away doing mysterious things and Nate is away on a secret mission which you’ll have to hear about in two weeks’ time. It thus falls to…
- Episode 29: Extremely Online Beef People · 1 h 8 min · Episode 29This week it's a conspiracy theory special, as Alice develops increasingly outlandish theories about the forces and decisions that shape the games industry, the pharmaceutical…
- Episode 28: Bugpunk · 1 h 3 min · Episode 28It was claimed that Sydney Sweeney was excited about the Split Fiction movie, and that’s an excuse for Alice to be absolutely livid about the Split Fiction game, so please strap…
