We’ve mentioned this at the Bar previously, and look out for a Plays Badly in due course, but it was announced yesterday that Fall Guys: Ultimate Knockout, the battle royale video game inspired around knockabout physical gameshows like Takeshi’s Castle, Wipeout et al launches August 4th. You can pre-order it now on Steam for £15.99. It’s also coming to PS4.

We really want this to be very good.

I’m 39 now, is Minecraft still A Thing? No matter, some enterprising Russians have decided to make an entire episode of Fort Boyard in Minecraft. It’s the return of popular Bother’s Bar subseries Amateur Adventure Hour! You can turn English subs on.

And it couldn’t be better timed! Fort Boyard returns to France 2 for its 31st season Saturday night and you can chat about it on our FB2020 page.

The BBC has commissioned its very own version of Korean hit I Can See Your Voice, where teams have to try and determine which of a group of people can or can’t sing based solely on everything else except for actually singing.

“Mystery music gameshow” is going to be the buzzphrase of choice going forward isn’t it? Also it’s promising to be “immersive”.

In other news I’m moving flat in the next few days (and it’s also my birthday tomorrow, 39, thanks in advance) but fingers crossed I should be online again properly (i.e. not on mobile data) for Fort Boyard‘s 2020 premiere on Saturday. Exciting!

Premieres tonight at 10pm.

We discussed it yesterday afternoon, but in case you missed it, I was asked if the BBC did their own Epic Gameshow/Gameshow Marathon, what six shows would be in it?

My personal conclusion is that it would be something like Wipeout, Every Second Counts, The Weakest Link, Bob’s Full House, Big Break and Winning Lines, although you could probably substitute Going for Gold or Pets Win Prizes for the latter.

Edit: Here’s an entertaining post on how terrifying the Knightmare Life Force skull was.

Talent. Some people have it. Most people don’t.

Using just the remarkable power of his own voice, The Flying Brig-et presents another pitch-perfect recreation of your favourite gameshow sounds. Close your eyes – can you tell the original from the impression? Remarkable.