Alan Wake - Session 7

At long last, tonight at 7pm ET begins the thrilling conclusion of Alan Wake!

Alan has shut himself in the Dark Place to save his wife, and with only his typewriter and Thomas Zane as a guide, he must fight and write his way back out again with a fitting conclusion that will lock the Darkness away forever.

This is not a Let's Play; it is merely the idea of a Let's Play.

However, this will not be nearly enough to fill out the episode, and all our prior plans for following it have been dashed by technical difficulties. So, dear viewers, we shall be calling upon you to help us decide what we will be playing next. Watch the stream live, join us in IRC here, in your browser, or just in the built-in chat on the Twitch page, and let us know what you want to see! We have a few choices, but not enough time to make a decision we're confident in, which is why we're asking you to pick your poison.

Our (somewhat) prepared selections:

• Psychonauts: an item-collecting 3D platformer (a la Banjo Kazooie) from Double Fine, set in a summer camp for the psychically gifted. Full of great writing, strange humor, and just really fun all around.
• Sonic Generations: what many call a return to form for Sonic the Hedgehog, this game is total fanservice, filled with classic stages reimagined in the style of Sonic Adventure, and vice versa. Gotta go fast!
• Odin Sphere: a 2D beat-em-up RPG set in a Norse mythology-inspired world, with several stories occurring simultaneously in parallel. A quite successful experiment in storytelling, and some of the most beautiful sprite art and animation in any game, before or since.

I'm sure excited about tonight, and I hope you are too! See you all there!

Chulip - Session 5

Throne of Games is back to our regularly scheduled playing! Chulip returns tonight at 7pm ET on the Radio PSI TwitchTV channel.

Last time in Chulip, we visited Scarecrow Field and Funny Bone Factory, and towards the end just had a whole lot of really bad timing. Hopefully, today, we can power through all that and actually get things done.

As always, our primary chat host is #radiopsi on Thinstack, which you can access here with your browser, or here with your IRC client, but the chat bridge will connect that to Twitch's built-in chat, so you can use that if you prefer.

Filler is Popular - Who Knew?

As it turns out, due to co-hosts having difficulty being here, we need another week of filler before we get back to our regular schedule. Since last week's visit to Vana'diel was so popular — we had better viewership than on any other episode to date! — we've decided to take this opportunity to play Final Fantasy XI again this week. Daniel and I are in, as every week, and Swavely and the Limey are back to join in the continuing adventure.

If you saw last week's episode, you'll recall we had to cut off in the middle of a rather long cutscene. I'll try to be prepared to replay that scene at the beginning of tonight's session, so y'all won't miss a thing!

As always, we begin at 7pm ET on the Radio PSI TwitchTV channel. Your best bet for chat is #radiopsi on Thinstack IRC — for your convenience, you can point your favorite client here, or you can use the browser-based client here. But Cyan has (and hopefully, will have running) a chat bridge, so you can still participate on the built-in chat on Twitch. Options!

Not So One-Off

So, the last time we had a one-off, we played some story missions in Final Fantasy XI. Now that I have need of a filler week again, we'll be returning to the land of Vana'diel with Daniel, Swavely, and this time, we'll be joined by the Limey, too. We'll be continuing in the "Chains of Promathia" storyline from where we left off last time, so if you caught that episode, you won't have missed a thing — except for everything that came before it.

Throne of Games begins at 7pm ET on the Radio PSI TwitchTV channel. Join our chat by popping this open in your browser, or this in your preferred IRC client.

Chulip - Session 4

Since Brendan and Mabry couldn't make it this week, we're back to Chulip again! Sadly, we're also down a Melissa.

Last week, we kissed the monk, and then got him possessed by the spirit of the temple bell — oh no! Somehow, we must break this curse. More weirdness incoming on tonight's Throne of Games!

Tune in to the Radio PSI TwitchTV channel at 7pm ET, and join our live chat — browser link here, client link here.

Chulip - Session 3

It's Saturday again, and we played Alan Wake last week, so that means it's time for more Chulip! Tune in at 7pm ET on the Radio PSI Twitch TV channel to catch all the strangeness live.

When last we left our protagonist, he'd made his way to Long Life Temple, where he witnessed his promised Love Letter Set being split into its three component parts by a gang of retired teachers. Can he recover the love letter set? Can he kiss everybody while he's at it? Watch tonight to find out!

As always, if you want to join our live chat, you can point your favorite IRC client here, or use the browser-based client here.

Alan Wake - Session 6

Tonight at 7pm ET on the Radio PSI TwitchTV channel, Throne of Games will continue Alan Wake.

If you were around for the last session of this game, you'll recall a very strange ending, followed by the credits roll. Tonight, we dive into the DLC epilogue, and hopefully answer some of the nagging questions left by the game's ending.

As always, if you want to join the live chat, we're using #radiopsi on Thinstack IRC — here's a link you can open in your preferred client, and here's the one for the browser-based chat.