The Character Unlock Podcast

Here lies the final entry in the Character Unlock saga. Thanks for listening to our stupid brand of bullshit for the last five years.

Nothing to talk about but plenty to say? Sounds like another relatively successful episode to us. John tried out the Battlefield beta, Lee continued his Wolfenstein binge and Brooker finally started Deathloop. All is right at Character Unlock Towers this week.

A full house this week, and there was a fully loaded and really good looking Playstation experience since the last episode. So the boys go through the list of stuff shown and get super excited about a load of stuff shown. Then it's all about September's challenge game and what the boys have been playing.

John has hidden himself away for a week. So that just leaves Lee and Brooker to dissect the news for the last week or so and chat about the games they've been playing. From Hades (again!) to Dishonored (again!) to Raji and The Medium. The boys survived without John... Just about.

Because scheduling is a bitch and calendars are hard, enjoy the guys talking about the first hour of Gamescom 2021. As always, the boys have played games. As always, none of them played anything new! Except for The Swapper, Lee chose it, they all played it, 2013's Puzzle Platformer is August's challenge game.

With still very little going on in the game world, the summer drought is in full effect for releases and news, the boys decided to spend a bit of time chatting about some of their favourite video game bosses. Big ones, final ones, mini ones, you name it, we chat about them. As well as the usual run through whet the guys have been playing, it's a fun old week.

The boys have come together this week with a mutual hatred for John's choice of game for this month. As the boys dissect last week's EA Play event and the latest freebies from the big boys, they also get to chat a few games they've been playing. Come along, join us

It's been a quiet couple of weeks for the boys, but we still have stuff to talk about. Nickelodeon Brawlers, million dollar Mario games and genre mashups galore in this weeks recording.

With a man down and an impressive lack of news, Lee and Brooker took advantage of being half done with the year to chat about their favourite games so far in 2021. Wanna guess at what they picked? Join Us

A long weekend is made even longer when E3 goes digital and goes on FOREVER! Come listen to the boys bitch about it.

With the summer's biggest gaming news festival just around the corner, everyone is getting their news out early and we've got a ton to talk about. New reveals from Horizon: Forbidden West; Dying Light 2; House of Ashes and Far Cry 6 have whet our appetite for the next year and we have loads to say. We played games, too. With a solid amount of time dedicated to Resident Evil and Mass Effect over the last week or so. Come join us.

With the remastered Mass Effect trilogy now out, two thirds of our hosts are balls deep into the Shepherd adventures. While another has been so busy celebrating cinemas opening that he played almost nothing. No prizes for guessing who is who in this. But come listen in to see if you're right.

Plenty of stuff to talk about this week. Sony fleecing devs, and trademarking xbox games. No one is playing Anthem any more and loads of games getting the High FPS treatment on XBox. Lee and Brooker are here to discuss, at length, the ups and downs of Housemarque's latest slice of Bullet Hell insanity. All three of us get into the myriad of games they've gotten into this last couple of weeks. If you want to hear Lee and Brooker chat about the latest Mortal Kombat movie, tune into to...

Challenge week. The guys sat round to chat Double Kick Heroes and a load of time spent playing Outriders together. Coffee, entitled game directors and Sony flip-flopping are all on the menu in this episode.

What games really disappointed you in the last generation? That's the question Lee poses to the group in this latest episode as the guys chat about the games that annoyed them in the Xbox One/PS4 era. Outside of that, it's chatting about the delay-loop that Deathloop appears to be in, a digital E3 and Streets of Rage 4 DLC. All before we get to the list of stuff we've been playing.

It's monthly game challenge week. So the boys come together to talk about Brooker's choice for March, Call of the Sea. As well as Avengers DLC, Destiny, The Medium and the Square Enix presentation that announced a whole load of stuff. Come listen in, won't you?

It's March. There's nothing new out. The boys have pretty much given up and are sat playing the same stuff they've been playing all year. So, they shook it up. And instead of talking about the games they are playing, they spend a bit of time chatting about those games that you can go back to over and over again. Those games that you can jump on because you don't know what else to play, or you've got an hour to kill. Come join us.

A ton of stuff to get through this week. From New PSVR to GT7 delay, to Vampire The Masquerade woes and Sony games on PC. Oh, and apparently it's Pokemon day soon. Who knew? Along with that we played some games, and all suffered through Lee's choice of game for February

Who's down for a digital E3 this year? No? How about buying the source code off of someone that can't spell and uses the phrase "Epically Pwned"? Ok, then come listen to us talk shit about the games we've been playing over the last couple of weeks. Planet Coaster and Dead Cells join returning hits Cyberpunk 2077 and Hitman III as well as Dora The Explorer beatboxing! Intrigued?

Didn't even get a a full month into 2021 before the gaming industry did something to piss us off. From more Control Ultimate Edition nonsense to broken games and pants launches, it's a bumper week for the boys' anger. Join us...