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Season 18, Episode 11
March 24, 2024 14:20 - 1 hour - 90.2 MBThe amount of other games I have played since getting banned from Destiny 2 has easily eclipsed all the other games I played while I was NOT banned from Destiny 2. I’d say that I’m better off for it, but it’s something I wouldn’t have noticed or cared about had I not lost access to […]
Season 18, Episode 10
March 17, 2024 14:10 - 1 hour - 89.6 MBI really do miss arcades. I know they still exist in some form or another but, even now, they just can’t hold a candle to the arcade you can have at home. And I’m not even talking about building cabinets and such. We talk about this on the show but I’ll say it again here […]
Season 18, Episode 09
March 10, 2024 15:35 - 1 hour - 90.5 MBThe amount of people losing their jobs in this industry is staggering. I don’t have an exact number but it’s likely pushing into the five figure range. If you combine it with last year’s loss you’re easily over ten thousand jobs. And I wasn’t sure if I would use this as a topic to talk […]
Season 18, Episode 08
February 25, 2024 15:15 - 1 hour - 89.6 MBPick a card… Once this gets posted around everywhere, I plan on streaming for the first time in a while and it’s a game we talk about in the opening segment of the show. A little card game called Balatro. The idea to stream it came to me as I was trying to explain it […]
Season 18, Episode 07
February 18, 2024 16:10 - 1 hour - 89.4 MBCool. Cool Cool Cool. The PC is running again and not having any overheating issues as before. Totally something borked with the AIO. I do NOT recommend the Lian Li Galahad AIO (at least anything from 2021 or before). They actually discovered a manufacturer error in the build so avoid those AIO’s from the years […]
Season 18, Episode 06
February 16, 2024 11:16 - 1 hour - 89.4 MBOur apologies for the tardiness of this post and the complete lack of a video to accompany it. I’ve recently run into computer issues so, for now, you’ll only be getting the audio portion of the show. I’ve got all the video stuff saved and ready to go, it’s just going to have to wait […]
Season 18, Episode 05
February 04, 2024 15:05 - 1 hour - 88.2 MBhttps://youtu.be/07uOOjV37PA Lead me not into temptation… The amount of times I have said that to myself in relation to gaming. I’m currently being lulled into the new Rocksteady game. I shouldn’t be, but I am. After seeing so many previews of the game leading up to this release I was NOT on board for it. […]
Season 18, Episode 04
January 28, 2024 14:33 - 1 hour - 89.5 MBA copy of a copy of a copy. Palworld is, probably, not my thing. There are some aspects to it that I’m totally interested in. The idea of crafting materials on this assembly line like system with the Pals you capture in game. It almost looks “city builder”-ish, in a way. That and flying around […]
Season 18, Episode 03
January 21, 2024 15:20 - 1 hour - 89 MBThe things you own end up owning you. Recently the guy at Ubisoft in charge of their subscription service said that he hopes gamers can come to terms with not owning their games the same way we do with music and movies now. Where we own them digitally. Of course the guy in charge of […]
Season 18, Episode 02
January 14, 2024 14:40 - 1 hour - 89.6 MBWhere dice flows like water… Oftentimes we’ll talk about mobile games. It’s not a genre many of us are familiar with. Mostly the games I play on mobile are quick little things I can get in and out of. However, mobile gaming year over year has DOMINATED the gaming market. It’s easy to see why […]
Season 18, Episode 01
January 07, 2024 14:43 - 1 hour - 93 MBWelcome to Season 18! Right out of the gate we jump into the whole situation that happened right after we finished shows for the year – the Insomniac situation. We could have made this the whole show, to be honest, and I don’t think we’re done discussing what was released. This is information we don’t […]
Season 17, Episode 42
December 17, 2023 14:34 - 1 hour - 88.7 MBWelcome to the final show of the year. While normally this is where I tell you a bit of what we talked about and maybe go a little more into the topic, I’d rather use this time to tell you how much we appreciate you. We’re going into our 18th year of doing this show. […]
Season 17, Episode 41
December 10, 2023 15:37 - 1 hour - 88.8 MBAnother awards show in the books for gaming. Another lengthy list of issues but also game reveals as well. We give you a pretty good run down in this episode, not that you likely haven’t already seen the highlights. Or maybe read the complaints as well. We try to cover all of that as we […]
Season 17, Episode 40
December 03, 2023 15:30 - 1 hour - 89.8 MBBrace yourself…cringey awards and a MASSIVE amount of game reveals are happening this week. Including GTA 6, finally. Honestly almost feels like a snub to that awards show happening two days later. I’m curious how much thunder it steals. As for this week, we’re not really going over our Black Friday hauls because there were […]
Season 17, Episode 39
November 19, 2023 15:45 - 1 hour - 89.3 MBAs a reminder we will not be doing a show next week due to the holiday weekend here in the states. Speaking of that holiday weekend, Black Friday this year seems to have been a bust. Between the end of this episode and this post going up, Target released a few more BF deals but […]
Season 17, Episode 38
November 12, 2023 14:41 - 1 hour - 89.6 MBI was surprised by the Steam Deck refresh. Well, not surprised by the fact it exists, but just how…out of nowhere it came. Seems Valve is REALLY good at keeping their own stuff under wraps. It’s also not a bad upgrade. I remember the Deck being compared a lot to the Switch initially. But I […]
Season 17, Episode 37
November 05, 2023 14:56 - 1 hour - 87.7 MBFirst let me say that we had a technical hiccup just before we took our first break. So there’s a hard edit there in the audio and video around 26 or 28 minutes in. As for the content: it’s mainly about the situation at Bungie that took place this week. I know I don’t play […]
Season 17, Episode 36
October 29, 2023 14:28 - 1 hour - 90 MBIt seems we’re in a rare area where some games are great no matter where you play. If you’re on the Switch, you’ve had Zelda most of the year but now Super Mario Wonder is doing amazingly well in sales and the reviews are through the roof. If you’re on the PS5, same thing with […]
Season 17, Episode 34
October 15, 2023 14:11 - 1 hour - 91.6 MBUsually, it’s the big fish eating the little fish and that holds true but it feels lately like it’s the big fish eating the big fish. Or at least it’s what we pay attention to. And I don’t mean us as a show. We always bring it up when studios get bought by other companies […]
Season 17, Episode 34
October 15, 2023 14:11 - 1 hour - 91.6 MBUsually, it’s the big fish eating the little fish and that holds true but it feels lately like it’s the big fish eating the big fish. Or at least it’s what we pay attention to. And I don’t mean us as a show. We always bring it up when studios get bought by other companies […]
Season 17, Episode 33
October 08, 2023 14:10 - 1 hour - 90.3 MBCyberpunk in the sheets and Starfield in the streets. Pay no attention to the above, I just needed an opening line. So far I’ve spent 15 hours in Starfield and only near 4 in Cyberpunk. And with both I’ve not even begun to scratch the surface of what’s on offer. Still, I can’t see myself […]
Season 17, Episode 28
August 20, 2023 12:50 - 1 hour - 89.8 MBI love Max Payne 1 & 2. Absolutely love them. The first was fantastic and the second took it exactly where it needed to go and pulled it off near flawlessly. Then came Max Payne 3. I just finished that before doing this episode and while I’m not sure the setting and story were Max […]
Season 17, Episode 27
August 13, 2023 12:12 - 1 hour - 89.1 MBThe backlog is on the fire and we are cooking! I don’t know why that was the first line to come to mind, but…there it is. Point being, I’ve been going back into some old games recently and enjoying them very much. Mostly, I don’t remember playing some of these games. Max Payne 3 I […]
Season 17, Episode 26
August 06, 2023 12:32 - 1 hour - 90.4 MBFor a brief moment in the show (probably not too brief knowing how I ramble) we talk about the next thing from Nintendo. And right there live on the show I’m thinking about it. Or at least, analyzing HOW I think about a new console from Nintendo. Mainly given my history of their new systems. […]
Season 17, Episode 25
July 30, 2023 11:30 - 1 hour - 89.1 MBSometimes…there’s just nothing to talk about. This is normal for this time of the year. There’s a few of these here and there throughout the year where, well, really nothing is happening. Nothing newsworthy at the moment anyway. Kind of a lull in releases as well. So we look at our back catalog and, for […]
Season 17, Episode 24
July 23, 2023 12:27 - 1 hour - 89.5 MBA Long Time Ago… However many years ago it was when Jedi Fallen Order released. I’ve finally jumped into the game and well, not a lot to complain about from a ever how many years old game but there are some issues. Mainly the map. I mention this on the show but the level of […]
Season 17, Episode 23
July 16, 2023 10:21 - 1 hour - 90.2 MBAt long last, that poor dead horse can finally stop being beaten. Microsoft is now in the clear for buying Activision. This is likely to happen on Monday at some point or that week anyway. It’s going to be very interesting to see what happens from here on out. I mean, Microsoft will still buy […]
Season 17, Episode 22
July 09, 2023 14:05 - 1 hour - 88.9 MBOver the past two weeks I’ve been giving my Xbox console some more love than I usually do. It’s on the big TV and there’s Gamepass so there’s bound to be something worth playing or a lot of somethings, actually. Turns out while there were a few games there worth my time, I ended up […]
Season 17, Episode 21
June 25, 2023 13:53 - 1 hour - 88.6 MBJust as a note – there is no show for next week. As for this show, we dive right into everything we never got around to from the last episode. We finally cover all over what the not-E3 had to offer as well as go through all the things we’re finding out from the FTC […]
Season 17, Episode 20
June 18, 2023 12:34 - 1 hour - 97.9 MBI’ll just tell you upfront here that we didn’t get to nearly all the topics we wanted to on the show. We barely got through the Microsoft presentation. Much less ANY of the others or even Starfield. But that’s on me cause I ramble. A lot. To just sort of cover the whole thing in […]
Season 17, Episode 19
June 11, 2023 13:27 - 1 hour - 90.9 MBI really wish they’d spread this out. I’m speaking mainly of all the reveals, updates, expansions…just all the announcements. Spread out that stuff, please. It’s like overeating at a restaurant or a movie that goes on WAY too long. I know it’s an odd thing to hear, but I’m not asking them to cut back […]
Season 17, Episode 18
June 04, 2023 12:15 - 1 hour - 90.7 MBWhat do we call this now? I guess we’re in the E3 season, but we can’t really call it that anymore since E3 is all but dead at this point. So the new game announcement season? I don’t know what to call it but someone with much more creativity than me will figure it out. […]
Season 17, Episode 17
May 21, 2023 12:05 - 1 hour - 90.2 MBFreedom isn’t free. The new Zelda game is just running rampant across the internet, gaming news, reviews, whatever…it’s all over the place and a LOT of people are playing and enjoying it. I’m highly tempted to join them, except, and this is weird, I’m kind of intimidated by it. Open world games are a wonderful […]
Season 17, Episode 16
May 14, 2023 11:58 - 1 hour - 90.4 MBA PC in every port(able). A year ago if you told me that a year from then we’d have competing PC handhelds, I don’t think I would have believed you. When the Steam Deck launched I didn’t see or hear of any competitors around the corner for Valve. It was just them. A year (and […]
Season 17, Episode 15
May 07, 2023 11:33 - 1 hour - 92 MBRedfall. More like Redfail… That’s a bad joke. There’s really no reason for dogpiling on the game at this point. The whole thing is bad and you don’t have to look for very long to see that in the reviews. But I am ALL KINDS of curious as to how it got here. From a […]
Season 17, Episode 14
April 30, 2023 12:47 - 1 hour - 89.1 MBMicrosoft really wants to spend A LOT of money. But that’s actually on brand for them, however. The odd part of this whole MS buying Activision thing is the decision of the UK to not let it go forward. And to dig a bit further, it’s their reasoning for it: the cloud. It’s so kind […]
Season 17, Episode 13
April 23, 2023 12:10 - 90.3 MBHow realistic do you want your games? I’m kind of torn on this a little bit. On the one hand, I’m completely fascinated with how ultra/hyper/photo realistic we can make a game look or play. On the other hand, I’m perfectly fine with a game looking, well…like a game. Something you don’t have to question […]
Season 17, Episode 12
April 09, 2023 12:38 - 90.2 MBJust as a heads up, there will be no new episode next weekend. We’ll be back in two weeks. I’m really having a hard time coming up with something to talk about here in regards to the show. We went in so many different directions that it’s a little troublesome to focus on just one […]
Season 17, Episode 11
April 02, 2023 11:51 - 93.7 MBE3 is dead. Long live E…nah, dead’s fine, actually. E3 is likely done. I mean, it is for this year for certain, but likely in the years to come. If it comes back it would need to be massively overhauled and delivered in a much different way than it was before. But I don’t think […]
Season 17, Episode 10
March 26, 2023 12:27 - 90.6 MBGaming trends come and go. We’ve been around it long enough to see things come, go, and come back again. It’s history, as is everything really, and it repeats itself. Even with gaming. Back when the Wii released it suddenly became motion control EVERYTHING. The Wii was massive for Nintendo and the other companies thought […]
Season 17, Episode 09
March 19, 2023 12:46 - 92.3 MBThe games we love and enjoy leave a mark. And sometimes, the people involved in making those games do as well. And when we lose those people, we lose a friend. Lance Reddick may be known to you by many other characters he’s played in television and film, but for me, he was a character […]
Season 16, Episode 29
August 28, 2022 15:05 - 91.3 MBA relic appears… We’ve likely spoken about video game nostalgia before. And, for a moment, I’d like to talk about it again. And really, this is just a “me” thing or, well, an “us” thing. Destiny 2 just relaunched an activity in the game that hasn’t been there since the first Destiny. It launched in […]
Season 16, Episode 28
August 21, 2022 14:22 - 92 MBWe didn’t really hit the news so much for this show as we did just talking to folks through Discord. And to follow up on that conversation, I’d asked for help in No Man’s Sky and last night after the show did not disappoint. I appreciate DukeFrukem for giving me a hand in the game […]
Season 16, Episode 27
August 14, 2022 14:26 - 93 MBA few weeks back I nostalgically spoke of the console wars. The ol’ Microsoft versus Sony thing we all did way back when and what some still do. It was always a clash, but it was one that took place in a court of public opinion or one we measured with sales and popularity or […]
Season 16, Episode 26
August 07, 2022 15:08 - 93.6 MBThe sky’s the limit.. Been quite a while since I’ve started something new. On a large scale, I suppose. I’ve poked around some small indie titles here and there or played some demos but haven’t really set off on a large scale new game in awhile. And while No Man’s Sky isn’t new, it is […]
Season 16, Episode 25
July 31, 2022 15:29 - 92.3 MBBegun, the console war has… I don’t remember when I stopped caring about the “Console Wars”, but at some point I did. Likely when I was able to afford all the systems so I could cover all grounds of whatever was released. I can remember as a kid in school getting the magazines that covered […]
Season 16, Episode 24
July 24, 2022 13:34 - 94 MBSometimes…well, most times, really, games will get a lot of hype, then release to some very underwhelming reception from reviews, the public, or any number of different things. Point being, it doesn’t live up to the hype. Maybe it gets patched. Maybe things get fixed, but the taste has already soured and there’s little hope […]
Season 16, Episode 23
July 17, 2022 14:58 - 94.9 MBSomehow we managed to hit every single news story we’d planned on this episode and that’s pretty surprising since we mostly don’t stick to that with how far off track we get. Not something we mind, really. I do realize, however, that given we did that, it makes writing these a bit tough since we […]
Season 16, Episode 22
July 10, 2022 14:41 - 92.6 MBStop me if you’ve heard this one before. Ubisoft recently showed more of Skull & Bones. It’s their very-late-to-the-party grasp on one of the best parts of a previous Assassin’s Creed game – being a Pirate. Thing is, they showed this to us 5 years ago, or at least announced it. Most of the news […]
Season 16, Episode 21
June 26, 2022 13:59 - 92.4 MBIt’s been tough for a lot of people these past few days. And it’s only the beginning of just how tough it is going to get. This little show seems awfully trivial given the way of the world right now. We hope you’re okay.