L.O.G. Cast

L.O.G. Cast 2.0 is here! For our first episode in the new format, long time listener Zach/Captain Breegull joins us for a Community Spotlight, as well as our long overdue review of Sea of Thieves. Also, Rare Trivia and a special message from Conker himself! Don’t miss it!

David Jones, Jeph Perez and Clay Howard reunite for the first all new L.O.G. Cast since 2017.  We discus what we have been doing for the past 3 and a half years, get caught up on all the Rare & Friends covered news, and play and discuss clips taken from the past 109 episodes of the show. Stay tuned until the end for a special announcement regarding the future of the show. Don’t miss it! Our audio gear in 2021 even sounds at least 75% better!

Through much effort, David Jones has resurrected the recorded table read of the first chapter of what was going to be a Grabbed by the Ghoulies audio drama set to be released as a special series in October 2017. This series was written and conceived by Clay Howard and a table read of the first chapter was recorded in early September 2017, with fantastic narration by Jephren Perez. Some of the audio was lost and had to be restore via the magic of robot voices, but it only ends to the charm!

The long-lost episode of the L.O.G. Cast. Originally intended to be the 14th episode of our first season, this would have been the third part of our Donkey Kong Country 2, 20th Anniversary spotlight. One side of the audio was lost, and it was discarded as an episode, and latter re-recorded with 3 hosts in Season 2 with vastly different content. David has tirelessly restored the original surviving audio as best he could to give you a glimpse of what would have been.

After tirelessly spending hours shifting through all our Let’s Play’s and streams, David is proud to present this collection of highlights most suited for audio listening.  Banter, mumbling, video game noises, David sucking at Tropical Freeze and then becoming god of Perfect Dark! It is all in here!

A quick collection and commentary of most of the remaining odds and ends of our YouTube content.

We have songs, Top 5 lists, and unboxing audio from some weird reason! You are most welcome!

In today’s episode, we take a look at the Reviews With Friends videos from our YouTube channel, some of the most time consuming work we ever did. Check out the final products, as well as the never before heard original audio recording from the Jetpac review.

Ready your eardrums, today’s episode of the L.O.G. Cast is full of tinny Skype phone audio and background noise so loud you will want to pull your hair out. This episode collects the five “vL.O.G.” video episodes from the YouTube channel, bringing them to the official L.O.G. Cast audio feed for the first time ever, with brand new commentary!

A complete collection of all our E3 related content not featured in a normal episode. Plus, some brief, but brand new and rambling commentary about the whole thing. Includes both bonus E3 reaction episodes from the old feed from 2016 and 2017, plus a couple E3 videos from the YouTube channel not featured in the L.O.G. Cast feed before.

A wild Season 4 of the L.O.G. Cast appears! Kicking off an archival project to preserve Rare & Friends content, we present the three bonus MillionRare episodes from the now defunct Season 1 L.O.G. Cast feed.

Once again, an envoy from Rare and Friends has traveled to both EQX and Rare HQ. Don't miss this exciting episode!

Not only is it our 100th episode, but it’s also the shows 2 year anniversary! To celebrate, the whole staff puts their heads together to come up with definite Top 20 Best Rare Games of all time.

We try to stop playing FortuneFish's Kroko Bongo long enough to give our first impressions of it!

We play yet another round of Rare and Friends 20 Questions!

GoldenEye 007 has turned 20. We take a look at its legacy.

Our hopes and expectations for Gamescom 2017.

We play another round of Rare and Friends 20 Questions!

This week, the crew recalls their most recent voyage on the Sea of Thieves

This week, we fill up a full episode with just the news!

In this episode, we test our knowledge of Rare music and play some rounds of Rare Musical Trivia!

We pretend we work at Rare, and give make-believe game pitches for a Rare mobile game.

We go through our favorite memories of the site over the past 2 years.

We countdown our top 5 games released after the Microsoft buyout.

We interview the creative mind behind Tibbers Workshop, Kirsty Wesson!

The entire staff co-hosts the L.O.G. Cast to each offer their insights and predictions regarding E3 2017.

We continue our Yooka-Laylee level spotlight with World 5: Galleon Galaxy!

First hand impressions of the Revival: the Rivals 2017 expo, included the Rare panel with Kev Bayless, Chris Marlow, and Shawn Pile!

We continue our Yooka-Laylee level spotlight with World 4: Capital Cashino!

We continue our Yooka-Laylee level spotlight with World 3: Moodymaze Marsh!

We continue our Yooka-Laylee level spotlight with World 2: Glitterglaze Glacier!

We dive head first into Yooka-Laylee, World 1: Tribalstack Tropics!

Jeph and Clay take their turn at giving impressions of Yooka-Laylee.

Our first impressions of the long awaited Yooka-Laylee release.

We take a look at both Playtonic's and our personal journeys to the eve of Yooka-Laylee's release.

When you get into podcasting, you can’t expect or assume that you will be able to bring an episode like this to your audience, but ask anyone in the field and they will tell you they dream about it happening one day. For the L.O.G. Cast, today is that day. We bring you an exclusive like none other. Enjoy.

We take a look at The story of Free Radical Design to Dambuster Studios and all the ups and downs in between.

For Blast Corps' 20th Anniversary, we talk about... well, Blast Corps!

It is the Debate of the Century! Which Rare FPS is better? GoldenEye or Perfect Dark?

We give a breakdown of our first impressions of the Nintendo Switch and its games.

We do our best to play 20 Questions with Rare characters, plus a rundown of this weeks news!

We go through our wishlists and dreams for the far-off future of Sea of Theives.

We are joined by very special guests, Emma and Cameron from Rare’s community team! You don’t want to miss this one!

We gave a rundown of the latest news for Sea of Thieves and Yooka-Laylee.

The site staff hosts a countdown and comparison of their top five Rare games.

We take a look into the more obscure portion of the Rare catalogue and discuss "Sesame Street ABC and 123" and "Taboo: The Sixth Sense" for the NES along with "Spider-Man" for the Game Boy.

We are back for Season 3, and the Nintendo Switch Event,

Gather close, it's our 2016 Holiday Special.

Part three of our Perfect Dark Spotlight.

Part two of our Perfect Dark Spotlight.

Part one of our Perfect Dark Spotlight.

We talk about the Sea of Thieves Insiders Program.

We talk about the various DKR sequels we never really got.

Viva Pinata Series Spotlight

We Hit Record and See What Happens

We round up this weeks news.

We give our thoughts and reactions to the reveal of the Nintendo Switch.

We talk about Rare's history of taking existing genres and improving them.

We talk through Rare's technology innovations over the years.

We talk through our dream cameos for Yooka-Laylee.

We go into detail on the 'and Friends' scope of our site.

For the show's one year anniversary, we interview Rare Studio Head Craig Duncan!

We complete our spotlight on DKC2.

Months later, we finish our spotlight on DKC2.

Clay joins the staff, plus GoldenEye XBLA and Nintendo NX

We take a Look at Gamescom 2016

We look back on the last year of our lives spent with Rare Replay

Andrew went to SDCC 2016, here's his report from the con. Also featuring Adam from geekscape.net!

We give our impressions of the Yooka-Laylee Toybox.

We catch up on the news we missed over the last few weeks.

We conclude our massive coverage of Rare Trip 2016 with DK Vine's Chad and Seashell Studio's Rodrigo!

We talk to Steve from Rare Gamer and Amir from Rare Thief and RareFanDaBase!

The L.O.G. Cast and Pirate Port Radio collide as we talk to PPR hosts Abstractacas and Paladin Topaz!

We continue our coverage of the Great Rare Trip of 2016 with interviews with contest winners Alex and Olivier!

Jeph and wife Mandie give their walkthrough of their trip to Rare.

We go through past E3s year by year, Rare game by Rare game.

A new Battletoads rumor this week, we go through our wishlist of what we'd like in a new entry.

Tons of new Xbox leaks and rumors this week. We break them down.

We bid farewell to Project Spark and discuss the future of Conker's Pocket Tales HD.

We are a bee podcast now.

We take a look through the upcoming projects of the studios we cover.

We go on tons of tangents, plus the future of Retro and Donkey Kong.

The NX? Xbox 1.5? The PS4K? Are traditional console generations being replaced by smaller, incremental updates?

We go through our wishlists for Yooka-Laylee and talk some more about the NX.

We run down the last couple weeks of news and talk about the NX!

Smalltalk with Kev and Andrew.

In part two of our in depth look at GoldenEye we look at the multiplayer and the main story.

Part one of our in depth look at GoldenEye.

We take a look at Conker's past and future.

We take a look at Retro Studios entries in the series in part 2 of our look at DKC post SNES.

In part 1 of our look at DKC post SNES, we take a look at the Game Boy ports of DKC.

We take a look at the NES game Captain Skyhawk!

We take a look at the tangled web of relationships in Rare games. Don't miss it!

We give a rundown of your favorite 90's toads as we talk through every Battletoads release to date.

Ex-Rare programmer and founder of MakinGames, Nic Makin, joins us for an hour and a half to talk about his brand new game Raging Justice and his time at Rare.

This episode we go over our plans for the future and how you can be part of our team.

This episode, we have more Star Wars spoilers, as well as Project Dream analysis and a look back at 2015.

Pour some nog, pull a cracker, skip The Queens Speech and strap yourself in for a Christmas Special like no other

We broke the podcast this week.

DKC2 is 20! To celebrate, here is part two of our now three part spotlight on the classic SNES game.

DKC2 is 20! To celebrate, here is part one of our two part spotlight on the classic SNES game.

Banjo-Tooie turns fifteen! We pick up where we left off last week with part turkey of our Banjo-Tooie spotlight!

Banjo-Tooie turns fifteen! Join us as we pretend to talk about it!

This week on the L.O.G. Cast, we take a look at the grand journey that is Rare ltd.

We take a look at the Sea of Thieves trailer and engage a in ton of baseless speculation about the nature of the game. Also, the first installment of Rare And Friends' new audio drama, The Legacy of Drumstick: The Third Great War.

We go through all the most spooky moments in Rare's back catalog, as well as bring you the season final of Rare Storytime as voted by you. Plus, a sneak peek at a new segment of Kev's own creation.

On this week's episode of show, we take a walk down memory lane as we discuss our earliest Rare and gaming memories. Also, a special installment of Story Wars, Episode V: Return of the Kremlings, where YOU vote for the future!

Kev recounts his personal journey of obtaining all 330 stamps in Rare Replay, while David recounts his far saner experience of not getting all the stamps in only two months. Also, Story Wars -  Episode IV: Captain Bones Strikes Back.

We sit down with Agent Ape, whose Conker's Pocket Tales HD project is in the process of recreating the GBC game fully in Project Spark.

We take a look at the Ultimate Era Spectrum games included in Rare Replay, and present the second installment of Rare Storytime.

Kev goes to EGX! Also, the first installment Rare Diary Story-time.

Our first episode ever. Have a listen as we take a look at Perfect Dark Zero!