This in an episode of Gamewank starring... everyone! Well, not everyone, but a bunch of people from the Exclusive Gamewank Discord got together with Jim to record Community Gamewank, a mad experiment that actually worked!

In this we discussed:  

Trekkies and Trekkies 2: the most tragic documentaries of all time

Why are Square Enix betting the farm on crypto?

Who are Embracer and why are they buying everything?

Who cares, as long as we get new Deus Ex and Tomb Raider?

What Marvel Midnight Suns reviews got wrong!

Also: does Richie really hate Jim's cat? And the SHOCKING truth about the infamous "Star Trek t-shirt and a hot girl in a lift" story.

Thank you so much to Victoria! Bickmore! Fish Balloon! El Raginho! Gregamiah! PJams! Kyun! Truls B! And all of you for listening! We'll be back again for easter.

It's Gamewank! We're back for Xmas! Inside we discuss, I dunno, a bunch of stuff. Star Trek, obviously. Video games. Being a pair of decrepit auld guys who have to do this just to socialise now.

After almost a decade and two remasters, Richie finally discovers GTA V.

After over a decade and about 600 re-releases, Richie finally discovers Skyrim.

Merry Christmas! Stay tuned for Community Gamewank next week!!!

***MILD PICARD SPOILERS FROM 20:00 - 30:30***  Joining us this week, Owen O'Donnell of The Infinite Review! We talk about Picard, Sonic 2, Chinatown Detective Agency, Karl Urban's Dredd, and Elden Ring. Also, Richie is very rude about Jim's cat.

Gamewank is back! Join Jim and guest host Ian for a big Chat Sandwich about Ghostwire Tokyo, PlayStation Plus Extra, Halo The TV Show, Elder Scrolls The TV Show and Judge Dredd The TV Show, as well as the usual crap. Jim and Richie will return later, and Ian will too because he's basically a regular now. Fine. 

Ian Dransfield has had the sort of career in games media that's long and varied enough for him to be referred to as a 'veteran' despite having never been in a war. He's written for such illustrious publications as the complaints form for his local council, someone else's MySpace page, and LiveJournal. He's also done loads of other things that are frankly none of your business.

Ric & Jim get together for a new episode and decide ten minutes in that it's the Christmas one. Jim gets excited about playing Sherlock Holmes: Chapter One over the winter break, Richie fondly remembers getting The Dizzy Collection on ZX Spectrum one christmas, and Danny Eccles performs a brand new Christmas Cover.

E3 is great, but have you considered ZZ Top 

Richie is joined by Owen, Sean, and Gav to lust after Vienetta and/or Irish Ice Creams, fighting bots in Fortnite, the Eurogamer Expo (mind that?), their earliest memories of, uh, wanking, and of course the seminal PS2 title Tak and the Power of Joo Joo. Jim's no in it because he had an argument with Richie about rice cookers. 

He's also moving house, but he'll be back next month. 

Thanks to Owen of The Infinite Review, Gav of Geshcast and Sean of Paperbag Animator for making sure Richie didn't have to do this on his own (god, can you imagine?)

• Point & Click design through the ages
• Resident Evil  classic design vs modern
• Virginia Madsen
• The first audio recorded on Mars
• Auteurs who've put out shiters
• Dune 2
• Hob nobs
• Good 6/10s are better than iffy 8/10s

• Making stupid stuff together over the years
• Jobbie vapours
• Why Batman Forever is the best Batman film
• The late Joel Schumacher's brilliant legacy
• Mike Judge's 'Tales from the Tour Bus'
• The Livingston music scene in the mid-2000s 
• A guy called Kev with a stool in his bathroom
• A guy called Kev who pissed himself in a strip club
• A guy called Dirty Kev who Jim confused with another guy called Clarty Marty
• English people can't say "boaby"
   

Ric and Jim resurrect Gamewank, the gaming podcast that's mostly about Riker and bums. Nobody asked them to do it and they don't know why they did it. To kick off a new gen we discuss what's great about the PS5 and Xbox Series X, Game Pass, Spider-Man in 60fps, Riker, bums, Riker's bum, willies, forecourts, being old,