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Every week, on Rock Paper Shotgun's Electronic Wireless Show, listen to a few friends dive into a topic that revolves around PC gaming. Also, you'll hear them go off-topic and chat about fish tanks and traffic cones, too.

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Every week, on Rock Paper Shotgun's Electronic Wireless Show, listen to a few friends dive into a topic that revolves around PC gaming. Also, you'll hear them go off-topic and chat about fish tanks and traffic cones, too.

    S2 Episode 19: a Terraria board game, you say?

    S2 Episode 19: a Terraria board game, you say?

    In a twist of serendipity, the Terraria tabletop game was shown at the very same UK Games Expo that Nate himself visited! We couldn't have planned it better (and indeed, did not) which means this week on The Electronic Wireless Show podcast we talk about not just that board game, but other PC versions of board games, and vice verse, and the games we think should have tabletop versions.
    Plus, this week we have once again been playing current video games, and Nate returns with an extremely silly mini-game. In the hardware section James lets us in on the unlikely second wind for VR headsets, most notably Apple's extremely stupid fake face projection thing. Please, Silicon Valley: stop.
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    • 1 hr 10 min
    Gollum's very sorry, precious

    Gollum's very sorry, precious

    The Lord Of The Rings: Gollum turned out to be a hot mess. Who knew? The Electronic Wireless Show podcast is on hand to do a dramatic reading of the developer apology post, and talk about the reception to the game - plus our favourite Lord Of The Rings Games, and our favourite apologies. In a shocking twist, James turns out to not be a LotR fan. He is useless to me. I will let you know when we discover things he does like.
    We've also been playing some video games this week, how about that! Including the click-fest game of the moment, the remake game of the moment, and a whole other thing I hadn't heard of. So actually James does have a use after all. Plus: he finally got hold of a ROG Ally!
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    • 1 hr 1 min
    a brief history of everything that ever ran Doom

    a brief history of everything that ever ran Doom

    This week, inspired by Doom running on teletext, the Electronic Wireless Show podcast investigates: what over devices, mechanisms, or live animals can join the immortal shooter’s vast port empire? Despite not even being on the show this week, Alice B tasks us with finding the best, worst, or weirdest cases of Can It Run Doom from across the internet. And, sometimes, inside Nate’s mind. 
    We also discuss what we’ve been playing this week, with a double bill of disappointment in The Lord of the Rings: Gollum and Darkest Dungeon 2, before Nate transforms the Tower of Jocularity into a marketplace of Dark Bargains.
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    • 1 hr 11 min
    S2 Episode 16: a Zelda episode as a naked play for your attention

    S2 Episode 16: a Zelda episode as a naked play for your attention

    The Electronic Wireless Show is not bound by your mortal rules, which is why even though this is a PC gaming podcast we're going to talk about Zelda, dammit all, because everyone else gets to talk about Tears Of The Kingdom and we're just as cool as them. We (attempt to) talk about our favourite Zelda games of the past, our favourite Zelda-likes on PC, and I explain how Tears Of The Kingdom works to Nate and James. Honestly though, we don't make it very far, because it turns out the lads haven't ever played a Zelda game before. At least, Nate might have. We're not entirely sure.
    We do also talk about what we've been playing this week as well - which include some old favourites, some new secrets, and Gaben's tiny hands - and give some great new recommendations. Nate also delivers a very involved mini-game involving beans and aliens, and James doesn't talk about the Asus ROG Ally.
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    • 1 hr 2 min
    Welcome to the Fortnite Olympics

    Welcome to the Fortnite Olympics

    This week, the Electronic Wireless Show podcast – minus Alice, who’s away – goes faster, higher, and maybe even stronger as we discuss the upcoming Olympic Esport Series 2023. Yes, those Olympics. Battle royale megahit Fortnite recently joined the events list, but are the Olympics folk really making the best use of games if they’re just recreating real-life competitions? And which games would we choose for our own hypothetical esports event, which may or may not involve the unleashing of big cats? Listen in to find out, though you probably already know Nate is going to say Age of Empires. Also, we attempt to crack the case of a mysterious graphics card/lobster smuggling operation, chat about what we’ve been playing this week, and make some zesty recommendations.
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    • 1 hr
    S2 Episode 14: the optional content cometh

    S2 Episode 14: the optional content cometh

    On account of not loads happening in the last week apart from the Actiblizz acquisition news, which I do not want to talk about under any circumstances, the Electronic Wireless Show podcasts talks this week about DLC, because a couple of good games got some DLCs - good, but different games getting different kinds of DLC expansions. Thus we discuss DLCs in general and what the difference is between a live service game and a game that is supported with DLC for years. As usual, we all talk about what we've been playing - what's up with Redfall, y'all? - and have some recommendations. The mini-game this week is to imagine feeding beans to Quentin Tarantino.
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    • 59 min

Customer Reviews

4.7 out of 5
61 Ratings

61 Ratings

I. Russ ,

The essence of why I love games - and RPS

I’ve been listening to the Electronic Wireless Show for well over a year, and while I certainly miss Matthew (RPS in peace), the new trio of Alice, Nate and James hasn’t missed a beat. The new format is fantastic, the Tower of Jocularity is a worthy successor to the Cavern of Lies, and I actually understand hardware on the strength of numerous metaphors involving cowboys and beans. Just as good as ever, highly recommend. (PS - best podcast music ever.)

Denny the Scout Master ,

Pretty Dang Good

Have been reading RPS for a long time now and decided to give this pod a listen. Highly recommend. Great accents with great content.

Duty 4.2 ,

Top Shelf Stuff

This podcast has dramatically improved my life.

I’m sleeping better, losing those extra 10 pounds my physician keeps reminding me of, and I momentarily lose a certain sense of dread that erupts when I think about Shrek possibly entering my home and violently smacking me into an early grave unless a space fascist has been given room and board next to my refrigerator: all from one delightful podcast!

In seriousness, I started reading RPS only 8 months ago. When it finally hit that I should check if they had a podcast, it was the penultimate of season 1.
While I’m always for a format break, the current era is quite good. The hosts are funny, knowledgeable, and the banter is delicious.

Stay awhile and listen.

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