Podcasts · Leisure · Comedy

Button Boys

Glenn Moore, Sarah Keyworth and Pierre Novellie

68 episodes

Friends, comedians and avid gamers Glenn Moore, Sarah Keyworth and Pierre Novellie sit down each week to discuss gaming. Button Boys offers unheard of recommendations, their worst gripes, nostalgia and much more in each episode plus bonus content for their dedicated Patreon supporters. If you love gaming and comedy you've come to the right place.

Episodes page 1 of 2

  1. Terrible Times: Who’s Got it the Worst?

    · 59 min · S1 E66 · Explicit

    We've all had one of those days: just missing the bus, stepping in a deep puddle, pissing ourselves a little bit. But none of us have had the kinds of days that gaming protagonists routinely face. From severed limbs to…

  2. Side Quests Vol. 1

    · 50 min · S1 E65 · Explicit

    Much like side streets, side arms, side tables, side dishes and sidemen, can provoke surprisingly strong feelings. This week we're going off the beaten track, ignoring the main objective and tackling the good, the bad…

  3. The Eras Tour: Best Historical or Futuristic Setting

    · 52 min · S1 E64 · Explicit

    This week the Boys try to settle the debate raging across the country: which historical or futuristic period makes the best setting for a game? From early symbolic thought through to space travel across the outer…

  4. Non-Fatal Flaws: Bad Bits in Good Games

    · 1 h 00 min · S1 E63 · Explicit

    This week's topic is all about the maggot in the apple, the flaw in the diamond, the suspicious stain on the clean-smelling underwear. That's right, it's the parts of otherwise great games that we hate. Disgusting…

  5. The Worst Game Pitch-Off

    · 1 h 04 min · S1 E62 · Explicit

    If you missed out on the first ever Button Boys LIVE, don't worry, we remembered to record it! This week, the Boys had to pitch their worst-ever game ideas to an audience at Leicester Square Theatre. After a few minor…

  6. August Annals: What We've Been Playing

    · 56 min · S1 E61 · Explicit

    I'll let you into a secret. We've been lying to you all this time. Every week, when you think you're listening to the latest video game content your podcast app of choice has to offer, we've been pulling the wool over…

  7. First Impressions: Tutorials and Intros that Stick

    · 48 min · S1 E60 · Explicit

    This week we're getting to grips with the age-old tutorial. Whether it's boot camp, prison or simply being born every game takes its time to show you the ropes. The Boys look at the seamless, the absurd and the…

  8. Getting the Ick: How to Ruin a Game

    · 49 min · S1 E59 · Explicit

    Have you ever found yourself enjoying a game and then BAM... you hit an ick? Something so minor but so off-putting that you just have to put the controller down and walk away. This week's episode is all about those…

  9. You've Got to Be F***ing Kidding Me

    · 50 min · S1 E58 · Explicit

    We've all had those moments. You put down the controller, take a long, measured breath and express your absolute shock/consternation/contempt/awe (delete as applicable) with the phrase, 'You've got to be f***ing…

  10. Button Boys Presents: Hell Let Loose Vietnam (Sponsored)

    · 52 min · Bonus · Explicit

    *Cues Fortunate Son* Bone spurs will not save you from this very special episode of Button Boys, brought to you by Hell Let Loose: Vietnam. So don your warpaint and load up the Huey because we're in for a wild ride.…

  11. One and Done: Games We’d Never Play Again

    · 51 min · S1 E57 · Explicit

    The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there. And we don't like different. Or too much of the same. And that's why this week's episode is all about the games you play once and have absolutely no…

  12. Food, Glorious Food (and Drink)

    · 51 min · S1 E56 · Explicit

    Pop on a bib and bring out your best dinnerware, as this week's theme is food and drinks. From phone booth chicken to liquid burgers for two, the Boys discuss the entire range of video game F&B. Mouthwatering meals and…

  13. The Future is Now: Times When Our Minds Were Blown

    · 1 h 01 min · S1 E55 · Explicit

    Every person who plays video games has had a moment when their jaw drops, their eyes widen and they find themselves dribbling onto their laps the sheer effort of comprehending the paradigmatic shift in front of them.…

  14. From Rags to Rupees: Money in Games

    · 52 min · S1 E54 · Explicit

    Unzip your wallets and loosen your coin pouches because this episode's all about the most filthy of lucre: money. From septims to souls, in-game currency has been integral to countless RPGs, platformers and Glenn's…

  15. Good Boss, Bad Boss

    · 55 min · S1 E53 · Explicit

    This week's episode is all about bosses, from the good ones to the bad ones to the really, really old ones. The Boys recount the most annoying boss mechanics, challenging fights and memorable final encounters. Before…

  16. Heartbreak

    · 54 min · S1 E52 · Explicit

    The rage, the desperation, the cries of "Why, God, why did you do this to my beautiful boy?" This week's episode is all about gaming heartbreak. Hundreds of thousands of hours of gaming time are lost every year to…

  17. Time Enough at Last: Games to Play When the World Stops

    · 47 min · S1 E51 · Explicit

    There is never, ever enough time to game. This week's episode dares to dream of a world in which we have nothing to do: no obligations, no commuting, no structure. Basically, 2020. If the world were to shut down…

  18. Slop Til You Drop: Shovelware, Clones and Cash Grabs

    · 55 min · S1 E50 · Explicit

    In this week's episode, the Boys scrape up the fetid sludge from the bottom of the barrel to see what absolute slop they can find. From clones to cash grabs, smut to even smuttier smut, they've braved the worst so you…

  19. The Prediction Game: Half-Time Report

    · 52 min · S1 E49 · Explicit

    Cast your minds back to the start of the year, in the dank, dark depths of winter, when our intrepid hosts, full of hope and joy, set out their stalls with their most hotly anticipated games of the year and risked it…

  20. The Last of Us: A Button Boys Special

    · 56 min · S1 E48 · Explicit

    With Pierre off in Japan and Sarah still salty about their recent loss over on Patreon, we decided to dedicate a whole episode to The Last of Us games. And who better to join us than the award-winning journalist,…

  21. Til Death Do Us Restart

    · 52 min · S1 E47 · Explicit

    NEWS FLASH! Button Boys is going LIVE. September 15th, Leicester Square, 7pm. Tickets go on sale 15th June with a pre-sale for our Patreon members. Head over to Patreon to find out more information and follow the link…

  22. Empty Calorie Gaming

    · 52 min · S1 E46 · Explicit

    This week's topic, as kindly suggested by BirdsNest on the Discord, is the vacuous, time-wasting, mind-numbing empty-calorie games that we just can't get enough of. As always, we catch up with what the Boys have been…

  23. Hate to Love: The Games that Converted Us

    · 58 min · S1 E45 · Explicit

    The Button Boys are back to defy all expectations, turn everything on its head and redefine everything you hold dear. Or talk about games they thought they didn't like and now they do, whichever's easiest. This week…

  24. CEX Appeal: The Gift Game

    · 1 h 02 min · S1 E44 · Explicit

    Fresh episode, come get your fresh episode! You'll pay how much? Practically robbing me at that price. Go on then, fill yer boots. If you hadn't guessed already, this week the Boys have headed off to the market on the…

  25. Guns, Worms and Steel: Gaming’s Best Weapons

    · 1 h 00 min · S1 E43 · Explicit

    Slap on your scabbards and cock your pistols, it's another episode of Button Boys. This week we're rummaging around the gaming arsenal to find our most beloved weapons. From battle axes to bazookas, howitzers to holy…

  26. O Captain! My Captain Price: What We've Learned from Gaming

    · 54 min · S1 E42 · Explicit

    Take out your textbooks and turn to Button Boys. It's officially the Winnie-the-Pooh episode (because of the bingo call, not because the Boys have no clothes on from the waist down). This week, it's time for a spot of…

  27. The Great Game Pitch-Off

    · 57 min · S1 E41 · Explicit

    Say bye-bye April and hi-hi to this week's episode of Button Boys, not to be confused with the global smash-hit podcast Bunting Boys, who claim to "put the bants in bunts". Back from the far reaches of the globe the…

  28. ABBA: You Ask, We Answer

    · 47 min · S1 E40 · Explicit

    Welcome to our inaugural Ask Button Boys Anything episode, where we take gaming-related questions, and I cannot stress enough, *gaming-related questions* from you, the listener. Questions we won't be answering: •…

  29. Unfinished Business: Browsing the Backlog

    · 53 min · S1 E39 · Explicit

    Fling wide your windows and turn your stereos up to ten because it's a brand-spanking-new episode of Button Boys and everyone needs to know about it. We live in the busiest era in human history*, constantly distracted…

  30. Gaming Highs

    · 56 min · S1 E38 · Explicit

    It's another episode of Button Boys, kicking down your door, fist-pumping, screaming "woo" in your face and celebrating its own release. That's right, the Boys are amped this week, reliving their greatest gaming highs.…

  31. Yes Please Moments: Volume 2

    · 58 min · S1 E37 · Explicit

    It's Button Boy time, gather round. This week the Boys are returning to their favourite topic, not poo, but "yes please" moments: satisfying game design, thoughtful additions and quirky bonuses that just do it for you.…

  32. State of the Art: Visual Design

    · 1 h 01 min · S1 E36 · Explicit

    It's canapé and sparkling wine time here at La Gallerie Bouton, as we unveil our latest episode to audible gasps. This week's theme is visual design, from standout box art to beautiful backgrounds: the Boys don their…

  33. Invite to Party: Group Gaming

    · 45 min · S1 E35 · Explicit

    From house parties to hen dos, weddings to wakes, there's never an inappropriate time for gaming, but good lord how the experience differs. This week the Boys are coiffing their hair and drenching themselves in perfume…

  34. Press to Unpause: Getting Back into Gaming

    · 51 min · S1 E34 · Explicit

    If my eyes don't deceive me, I do declare it's another episode of the slowest-starting true crime podcast ever released. What's the crime? Keep listening for the reveal. In the meantime though, the Boys have been…

  35. Weak Spots: Games You Suck At

    · 55 min · S1 E33 · Explicit

    Stop what you're doing and pay attention, because it's Button Boys time, capeesh? This week's episode is all about the games we're inexplicably terrible at. Crap at CoD? Feeble at FIFA? Deplorable at Dark Souls? The…

  36. The Sound Effect: The Best and Worst Game Audio

    · 54 min · S1 E32 · Explicit

    Banging on your eardrums and vibrating your vestibular nerves, it's this week's episode of Button Boys so listen closely, as the topic is sounds. Sounds good, sounds bad, sounds you'll never forget. There are…

  37. Mobile Ports: Phoning It In

    · 58 min · S1 E31 · Explicit

    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…

  38. Valentine’s Special: Eat, Play, Love

    · 54 min · S1 E30 · Explicit

    Slipped into your podcast inbox like a letter from a secret lover, it's Button Boys Valentine's Special. This one's for the lovers, not the fighters, as the Boys tackle the topic of romance in video games. From wet…

  39. The Things In Games You’ve Never Done IRL

    · 47 min · S1 E29 · Explicit

    Dumped surreptitiously into your podcast app, it's another episode of Button Boys, the world's only gaming podcast hosted by Glenn Moore, Sarah Keyworth and Pierre Novellie. This week the Boys are on the hunt for game…

  40. Demo Discs: Just the Tip?

    · 57 min · S1 E28 · Explicit

    It's Button Boys time again and this week the topic is demos. The evocative sounds of CDs being peeled off magazine covers, the joy of exploiting every last bit of the free level included and the overall disappointment…

  41. Cheats and Cheeses: Are They Ever Justified?

    · 56 min · S1 E27 · Explicit

    Back once again by semi-popular demand, it's Button Boys, one of the top alliterative gaming shows of 2026. This week it's all about cheats and cheeses. Ever been stuck on a level and typed in a quick console command?…

  42. Gaming Gaps 2: The Reckoning

    · 57 min · S1 E26 · Explicit

    Welcome back to another episode of Button Boys, voted UK's most likely podcast to be misheard as Mutton Toys. This week the Boys cast their minds back to the sweltering summer months and the second ever episode, where…

  43. The Prediction Game: 2026 Edition

    · 1 h 10 min · S1 E25 · Explicit

    Welcome back and Happy New Year to all the Buttons out there. The Boys are back with a vengeance after their Christmas break. And what better way to kick things off than by looking back at how their Metacritic…

  44. Hidden Cache - The Butties Afterparty

    · 33 min · S1 E23 · Bonus · Explicit

    As we're away this week we'd thought we'd put out a normally Patreon-exclusive episode of Hidden Cache. We'll be back next week with brand-new, box-fresh content. After the excessive blowout of the main awards show,…

  45. A Very Button Boys Christmas

    · 47 min · S1 E24 · Explicit

    Ho, ho, holy moly it's Christmas and it's time to unwrap this week's episode of Button Boys. And boy, what a trip down memory lane it is, with tales of Christmas consoles, Pokémon peccadillos and grand theft gifts to…

  46. The Butties 2025 Award Ceremony

    · 1 h 00 min · S1 E23 · Explicit

    Welcome to the inaugural Button Boys’ End of the Year Awards Ceremony, or Butties for short. Glenn, Sarah and Pierre have their glad rags on and vocal cords warmed to present one of the finest awards shows on the…

  47. Resurrect, Reboot and Remaster: The Series Crying Out for a Revival

    · 43 min · S1 E22 · Explicit

    We gather here today to pay respect to the game series of yore, that thrilled, entertained and moved us, and to shout at the top of our lungs, "I WANT MORE." That's right, Button Boys is back, and this week it's all…

  48. Virtually in Love: Our Biggest Gaming Crushes

    · 1 h 00 min · S1 E21 · Explicit

    It's time to get all hot under the collar, red in the face, heart a-fluttering and delve into the sauciest episode of Button Boys to date. This week it's all about the video game characters the Boys crush hardest for.…

  49. Gateway Games: How to Wololo

    · 54 min · S1 E20 · Explicit

    After revealing their deepest gaming insecurities last week, the Boys are back and they're here to convert. This week they'll be discussing the games they use to get the uninitiated through the door, and what not to do…

  50. Game Shame: How it Feels and What to Do About It

    · 46 min · S1 E19 · Explicit

    Come one, come all to the latest Button Boy offering. This week the Boys are opening up about a deeply personal feeling: game shame. Ever had your flatmate, partner or work colleague stumble in on you in the throes of…

Shows are listed from Apple Podcasts' charts and directory, and Podcast Index where it is used. Every show and episode belongs to its publisher and plays from the publisher's own feed; this site hosts none of them. Explicit shows are for adult profiles only, and children’s profiles hear only children’s shows. More about this list.