Let's get back to nature with someone fresh from the cast of Mad Men.Relevant links!From "Irritable Heart" to "Shellshock": How Post-traumatic Stress Became a Disease (via Gizmodo)The theme this week is Linker, by our very own Pauly!

The Beginner's Guide (2015)

Feb 13th, 2017 1h 26m

Join us for a discussion of The Beginner's Guide. This game is so complicated and so deep and so oddly emotional - whether funny or brutally devastating is really up to you, apparently - that we bring in a psychiatrist to help us sift through

The Stanley Parable (2011)

Feb 4th, 2017 1h 1m

Join us for a discussion of The Stanley Parable, a game entirely focused on turning negative possibility spaces into positive possibility spaces. Game design theory and meta-commentary abound in this episode about the utterly-hilarious Half-L

Persona 4 (2008)

Jan 11th, 2017 3h 32m

Warning: This is an early podcast of ours and is long! You have been warned.Join us for a discussion of Shin Megami Tensei: Persona 4. This week, we talk about the differences between the base game and the glorious PS Vita port, Golden, and wh

Mass Effect 1 (2007)

Dec 30th, 2016 2h 5m

Nine years out from its release, we return for some thoughts and critical analysis of Mass Effect. This is almost a companion podcast to our bookclub on Drew Kapyrshyn's first Mass Effect novel, Revelation, and in this podcast we hear Nate bei

Bookclub – Mass Effect: Revelation (2007)

Dec 19th, 2016 1h 10m

Join the text version of a single Mass Effect side-mission, Mako-free, here in Drew Karpyshyn's debut prequel to Mass Effect.The theme this week is "Cracks" by Clamm, a free album download from chipmusic.org.

Papers, Please (2013)

Dec 4th, 2016 58m 16s

Papers, Please is aptly summed up by its marketing tagline: "A dystopian document thriller". Everything that can go wrong will go wrong in this 'simulation' of being a border crossing agent in the clearly-Soviet-in-all-but-name Arstotzka.Mora

PixelJunk Eden (2008) vs. Electronic Super Joy (2013)

Oct 9th, 2016 37m 42s

It's a very intimate show tonight, as Will and Nate venture deep into electronic music territory in two distinctly different approaches to the musical platformer. Electronic Super Joy is a pixel graphic-styled brutal platformer's chase (the di

Pokémon Go (2016)

Jul 25th, 2016 32m 23s

In our most up-to-date episode ever, some of us sit around and chat about that rehashing of the '90s phonomenon of Pokémon. Remember that? Yep, so does everyone gathering in your local civic area either rejoicing the human condition together,

Lovers in a Dangerous Spacetime (2015)

Jul 17th, 2016 38m 3s

Here we have a very strange experience that you might or might not share with your boy/girlfriend. The thing about Lovers in a Dangerous Spacetime is... well, okay, the first thing is that its name is ridiculous and rad. But the second thing i

HackNet (2015)

Jun 16th, 2016 1h 10m

This podcast is part 2 of 2 in our Hack and/or Net series. This week's title comes 13 years after the original magnificent Uplink that really forms part 0 of the hacking series, but that's not what's important because what is important is gam

NetHack (1987)

May 29th, 2016 32m 29s

NetHack is a 1987 text adventure game that's stood the test of time, surviving countless ports and interface changes. How does it hold up, and what is its depth? Each of us will give a dramatically different answer to that. Join us today aroun

Evolution Studios Retrospective (Driveclub & MotorStorm)

Apr 12th, 2016 1h 45m

Active from 1999 to March of 2016, we (Craig and resident racing nut Nate) hope you haven't forgotten the contributions of famed British racing developer Evolution Studios. And to wit, we've reviewed 3 MotorStorm titles, and the infamous Drive

Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception (2011)

Mar 29th, 2016 1h 51m

This week, we take a look at Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception, the third title in the series, and one we found somewhat forgettable - until we took a second look, some of us in the Uncharted Collection on the PS4. This time, we're heading to the

Ni no Kuni: Wrath of the White Witch (2013)

Mar 8th, 2016 1h 30m

This week, one bold host claims this is the best JRPG ever and that all others are stupid. The entire cast disagrees with both points.Okay seriously though. Ni no Kuni: Wrath of the White Witch is a lengthily-titled Studio Ghibli (yes, the Spi

Game Of The Year 2015

Jan 18th, 2016 6h 32m

Join us this week for an unpredictably-temporally-allocated game of the year discussion spanning unpredictable bounds of time - for here, we aren't reviewing games released in 2015, but instead games we've uploaded podcasts about in 2015.Ther

Until Dawn (2015)

Nov 17th, 2015 1h 26m

There's a lot to talk about this week as we inspect Supermassive's wild horror adventure, Until Dawn. This game is fun and only mildly quick-time-event-driven, but we come away feeling a lot more positive than you'd expect if you'd listened to

Uncharted 2: Among Thieves (2009)

Nov 10th, 2015 1h 48m

There really isn't enough space to talk about Naughty Dog's Uncharted 2, the (spoiler alert) fantastic sequel to Nathan Drake's first adventures through the (spoiler alert/debatable conclusion) wendigo worlds. This game sees Naughty Dog and wr

The Vanishing of Ethan Carter (2014) vs. Everybody's Gone to the Rapture (2015)

Oct 27th, 2015 2h 12m

What do these two games have in common? More than you'd think, and that's their abstract surrealism, the magicality of their wonderful worlds, and the gorgeousness of their graphics. Seriously, play both of these games and join us this week as

Sins of a Solar Empire (2008-2011)

Sep 29th, 2015 1h

This week, we all sat down to play each other (or mostly, to collectively fend off expert Will) in Ironclad Studios' Sins of a Solar Empire: Rebellion, which is a hybrid 4X and realtime ("RT4X") strategy game all about managing a spacefaring e

Bastion (2011)

Sep 22nd, 2015 1h 23m

This week, we're coming up roses as we review Supergiant's 2011 double-A (?) indie darling, Bastion. This game has been around forever, and it has made its way onto so many platforms, it's almost difficult to keep track - but it began life as

South Park: The Stick of Truth (2014)

Sep 15th, 2015 1h 18m

This week, we turn our attention to the flawlessly-animated but badly-loading South Park: The Stick of Truth, a game written by South Park creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone, designed by Obsidian Entertainment (that's right, the guys behind F

Fallout Shelter (2015)

Aug 11th, 2015 35m 54s

Get down in the dirt with us as we talk about Fallout Shelter, the hip game that literally attaches to your hip (it's a mobile game, is the joke I'm making here) and nags you incessantly but is so charmingly styled with that one Pip-Boy guy an

Her Story (2015)

Aug 4th, 2015 1h 14m

This is a super-spoilery kind of episode, even more than normal, possibly even moreso than our Spec Ops: The Line cast. Which you should totally check out because it had a social worker dad in it. Ok so yeah, only listen if you're immune to sp

Frog Fractions (2012)

Jul 28th, 2015 28m 18s

URL OF THE YEAR EDITIONPlay this (Flash) game now here before continuing.Seriously, play this game.It's about 5 to 10 minutes long,it's free,and it plays in your browser.(Don't play on your phone though, it's Flash and Apple killed that.)Defin