While the Ben's away, the mice will play... with a Nintendo Switch 2, with mouse controls. This week, Tommy is joined by ANDREW LEVINS to recap their big day at the Nintendo Switch 2 hands-on experience! We got to try out all of the big announced games so far: Mario Kart World, Donkey Kong Bananza, Metroid Prime 4, Welcome Tour, and Drag X Drive, a…

My old pal DAVE THORNTON joins me this week! Dave's such a knowledgeable guy about so many things so of course I couldn't resist wasting his time by talking about him about the Sonic The Hedgehog movie. We learn about how Dave's juvenile streak is really striking a chord with his children, his obsessive love of basketball and how it developed at a …

We're coming to you live from the Tullamarine airport car park with special guest GREG LARSEN to discuss episode five of season 2 of The Last of Us, including the coolest graffiti we've ever seen, which bits of this episode we were scared of, and which Festival we think the executives in at HBO are attending. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy …

Ben's in Japan and despite the Government's best efforts to keep us from podcasting with dodgy internet, we are logging on for a huge dose of news: rumours of an Xbox handheld, a playable demo of Hollow Knight Silksong and of course, the new cinematic trailer for a little game called Grand Theft Auto 6! Get Exclusive NordVPN deal here ➼ https://nor…

As the host of ABC's Take Five ZAN ROWE has interviewed hundreds of people and is so beloved as a conversationalist that just before this episode, she was giving a talk in the building where I record about how to be a good interviewer. No pressure! We chat about how Zan taunted me online about the fact that she was watching Jamiroquai in Adelaide a…

GREG LARSEN joins us for another recap of The Last of Us. As Ellie and Dina arrive in Seattle, they have two huge life developments to confront, we learn more about the mysterious "Scars" and the WLF, and of course we're visited by our old friends The Skellingtons. It's another perfect episode of Videodrone, especially if you work for Sky News. Hos…

What's this? ANOTHER surprise contender for Game of the Year so soon? And it's FRENCH!? Oui oui, Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 is here and we've been playing the hell out of it! Weird little guys, intricate combat and a melodramatic story - this game has it all. We also chat about the Oblivion remaster, 8BitDo no longer shipping to the US, and new "r…

Head chef and owner of the legendary restaurant Attica, and author of the book ‘Uses For Obsession’ BEN SHEWRY joins me to chat about being humbled by Yo La Tengo, harnessing the positivity that can come from shame, learning how to fix pinball machines and the time some Wall Street bankers landed a helicopter at his restaurant without permission. P…

After last weeks brutal episode we're back this week with Australian media bad boy GREG LARSEN. Ellie wants to hunt down the people who killed Joel but will the council of Jackson allow it? What's with these whistling people in the woods? And why have they cut out our favourite character from the video games? As always, we're doing a full episode a…

We've shadow dropped this episode into your podcast feed in order to let you know about the following news items: there's a remaster of Oblivion out now, a new season of Playdate games is releasing soon and you'll be able to play as Mario in Mario Kart World which we learned from a recent Direct. We've also got our first impressions of the awesome …

After gigging with her in Sydney a while back, I knew that JESS FUCHS would be a great chat for this show and so I bestowed upon her the grand honour of christening my new recording space. Jess prides herself on her ability to connect with and accurately read anyone she meets. I'm not sure if I'm good at connecting with people or, as in the case of…

Special guest GREG LARSEN joins us once again to chat about a massive episode of The Last of Us, featuring an event that anyone who's played the game has been anticipating and dreading. There's a snowstorm, a horde of infected, some golf clubs and one of the most brutal episodes of television in a long time. We're breaking it all down and then doin…

It's been a long time since we've spent an entire episode talking about one game but it's been a long time since one game has grabbed our attention to such an extent. The new indie puzzle game BLUE PRINCE seemingly came out of nowhere (to us, at least) but man oh man is it good. We're fairly vague in our chat but we do talk about a couple of little…

The almighty DEATH FROM ABOVE 1979 are about to hit Australia, playing their beloved debut album "You're A Woman, I'm A Machine" in full. They're one of my all-time favourite bands and so I'm thrilled to have vocalist and drummer SEBASTIEN GRAINGER join me on the show this week. We chat about how his self-critical appraisal of his own performances …

THE LAST OF US is back on our screens and so of course that means that we are back recapping every episode here on Videodrone with special guest GREG LARSEN! If you listened to our sister podcast 'Clicker? I Barely Know Her' during season one, then you know what to expect: a full breakdown of the episode, focusing only on what we've seen in the epi…

This week we're chatting about our favourite new 3D action adventure game set in a bayou, and our favourite new interpretation of 'What If A 3D Sonic Game Was Actually Good?' We've also had a week to process the Switch 2 Direct and dig into a lot of the hands-on coverage as well as discussing a lot of the online reactions we've seen! Get Exclusive …

In spite of her self-confessed terrible sense of direction, MELANIE BRACEWELL found her way to the studio and joins us this week to chat about how her meteoric rise through the ranks of Australian comedy wouldn't have been possible without scaling the most dangerous peak of all: Cringe Mountain. Tommy's been offered a free meal and feels too scared…

We've had a great few weeks whacking each other off, blackmailing strangers, and tracking down shady figures from our past but It's finally time to check out of The White Lotus for another year! We're recapping the movie length season 3 finale episode. Who dies, what are our thoughts on the season as a whole, and what would we like to see from the …

Good lord, it's finally happened. After years of rumours, leaks and speculation, we've FINALLY got ANDREW LEVINS to use his microphone properly! The Nintendo Switch 2 Direct has now happened and we've seen our launch title Mario Kart World, a new Donkey Kong 3D platformer, updates to Switch 1 games, a massive third party library, a new From Softwar…

DJ, Toy Collector, Travel Vlogger, Author, Chef and now: Guest On This Podcast, it's ANDREW LEVINS! How does he find the time to have so many strings to his bow and still hyperfixate on hobbies like old duck comic books? What's the secret to stressing less? How does he maintain such a positive attitude to parenting? Tonnes of wisdom in this episode…

This week, Ben has checked out the new Steven Soderbergh crime thriller 'Black Bag' PLUS we are nearing the end of season three of The White Lotus! The girls have imploded, The Ratliffs are in freefall, and Rick finally has his long-awaited confrontation. We wrap it all up and give our predictions for the finale next week! Hosted on Acast. See acas…

The boys sit down for definitely the last ever Nintendo Switch 2 speculation they'll ever do they definitely promise we're so sorry. They also chat about somes of the games shown at GDC 2025 including to a T, Take Us North, Phantom Blade Zero, Wheel World and more, and Ben talks about the first few hours of Assassin's Creed: Shadows. It's one of th…

Thirteen episodes in and we're finally having a discussion about Fasta Pasta, thanks to URVI MAJUMDAR! After each saying an interesting thing about ourselves we get stuck into Urvi's desire to be able to banter with the boys, her teenage punishment for being caught out in a very involved lie, and her speciality subject of reading tarot and birth ch…

We're IRL for the first time on Videodrone for an all TV recaps episode! We dive straight in to The White Lotus and the fallout from those grubby Ratliff boys at the Full Moon party, before getting in to the season 2 finale of Severance! (from 56:17). Did they stick the landing? What did we think of this season as a whole, and what do we think is i…

You've made it through the harsh forest and into a peaceful clearing where a little troll and a cranky warrior are working together at a... podcast studio? As you get closer, you can hear them talking about Sony refusing to let Jonah Hill's character even TOUCH a Playstation in Superbad, The horrendous AI-generated trailer for Ark: Aquatica, the hi…

JOHN SAFRAN has a new book and live tour called 'Squat', all about how he broke into Kanye West's mansion. We chat about the allure of abandoned properties, the timeline of John shaving his head, how he ended up with a free billboard PLUS Tommy's been working on a project that he needs John's advice for! John's book 'Squat' is available now and his…

This week GEN FRICKER is back to tell us about the short film 'Joey Earns Rewards Using the McDonald's Mobile App & Megh and Clev Discuss Their Future Together'. We're recapping everything about this weeks White Lotus including one of the all-time great guest spots and monologues (00:13:28 - 1:05:00) And our thoughts on this seasons penultimate epi…

Split Fiction is out which means that we've taken a break from sitting next to each other on a couch and talking about video games at the same time in order to sit next to each other on a couch and talk about video games at the same time. We've played through the first part of Hazelight's new couch co-op platformer and have all manner of thoughts a…

Australia's First Attractive Comedian ELOUISE EFTOS is here to help Tommy with one of the most pressing issues in his life: not having the blue tick on Instagram. She's making waves around the country with her incredibly confident brand of comedy but how much of that persona is Elouise able to carry into her personal life? We also dig into her IMDB…

This week on VIDEODRONE it's a Boys Only episode as they lose Gen to illness, and it's a TV Only episode too because there's just too much content for one week. The fellas spend the entire podcast discussing Tim hanging dong in The White Lotus, so strap in! Nah jk, it's a big episode of The White Lotus as the boat party ends up revealing more than …