Show Notes
Take your phone off silent and pump up the volume on those tinny speakers, it's another episode of Button Boys, the only podcast that guarantees you 10,000 crystals within the next three years.
This week the Boys are putting down their controllers and picking up their phones as they discuss the world of mobile gaming, from fat-fingered frustration to seamless, singular experiences. Pierre freshens up but finds himself unwanted, Sarah gets into ritual sacrifice and Glenn plays a game where you can literally blink and you'll miss it.
Elsewhere, Sarah's finally completed the final instalment of the Uncharted series and has some thoughts and Glenn's been clinging on to his pick of the week for dear life. Shame that can't be said about his bannister.
To follow along with the Button Boys outside the podcast:
Pierre - You Sit There, I’ll Stand Here
Glenn - Please Sir, Glenn I Have Some Moore
Glenn and Producer Ben - The Audience VS
Sarah's Melbourne Show
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Games Mentioned in this week's episode:
Uncharted 4: A Thief's End
The Last of Us
The Last of Us: Part II
Cairn
Baby Steps
Terra Nil
Dorfromantik
PowerWash Simulator
Balatro
Angry Birds
Flappy Bird
Doodle Jump
Fez
Angry Birds Star Wars
Fortnite
Call of Duty: Warzone
Chrono Trigger
Bully
Cult of the Lamb
Hades
Red Dead Redemption
Spiritfarer
Before Your Eyes
The Case of the Golden Idol
Rise of the Golden Idol
Alien Isolation
Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas
Grand Theft Auto: Vice City
Hitman: Absolution
Hitman: GO
Castlevania: Symphony of the Night
Disco Elysium
Gibbon: Beyond the Trees
Dream Daddy
Dredge
Stardew Valley
Forge of Empires
Civilization
Age of Empires
Cossacks
Immortality
Octopath Traveler II
Her Story
TR-49
Produced and edited by Ben Drayton
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