This week we're all back together (metaphorically) and talking games, with lots of Kingdom Hearts III, lots of Apex Legends, lots of Crackdown 3, and some Eco, Astroneer, and Rainbow Six: Siege to boot. This week's music: Karen O - Bullet with Butterfly Wings

This week it's just two of us but we somehow manage to talk for longer than we probably should about below the belt selfies, Apex Legends, Resident Evil 2, some next-gen gossip, and more! This week's music: Billie Eilish - bury a friend

This week we talk about two new games in Resident Evil 2: Remake and Anthem! And we also talk about a lot of older games like the Dead Spaces and Thimbleweed Park and shenanigans in Eco! It's Friday! This week's music: Florence and the Machine - Moderation

This week we're mostly playing old crap, so we spend some time looking forward, discussing the games coming out in 2019 and what we're looking forward to - and speculate a bit on things that might be announced as well. This week's music: Tender - Fear of Falling Asleep

We're back after a holiday, and just in time to feel super weird about this, our 400th episode, and the 10th anniversary of the event that started it all. We talk a bit about the last 10 years, the Activision/Destiny divorce, our non-game holiday distractions, the Resident Evil 2 Remake demo, and more. This week's music: Cave in - Joy Opposites…

It ... is ... time ... ... for us to talk about our favorite game music from the year 2018, and, appropriately for a year that was 15000 months long, it's our longest Game Music Spectacular ever! Five assholes! 30 games! 76 songs! FIVE HOURS OF PODCAST. You ask for it all year, and here it finally is, upon the altar of our desiccated husks. We' ...…

In what is *probably* the last regular episode of the year, we talk about the wave of big-ish releases in December, and ... a lot of other things with a very special guest. This week's music: Josh Homme, C.W. Stoneking - Silent night

This week there's a lot going on as we talk about the Game Awards, Steam and the Epic Games Store, the disappointing difficulty curve and structure of Mutant Year Zero, how and why it's a terrible time to build a new PC, and a lot of other stuff to boot. This week's music: AFI - Trash Bat

This week we're back from eating too much to talk about Darksiders 3, Artifact, Deep Rock Galactic, Black Friday underpants, and quite a bit more actually! This week's music: Alessia Cara - Nintendo Game

Happy Thanksgiving, if you celebrate that kind of thing. This week it's just a couple of us talking memories of the Xbox 360 launch, Battlefield V, Parkasaurus, The Raft, some early thoughts on Artifact and the Dota 2 patch, plus a lot more. This week's music: Wax Idols - Stare Back

This week we gather in the Area 5 offices to avoid toxic smoke. Meanwhile, after gorging on pizza we talk about The Quiet Man, Hitman 2, Artifact, Overkill's The Walking Dead, and some pretty neat board games. Look, it's a shorter episode but at least you got something. DUDE.

This week it's an intimate, wildfire adjacent show as two of us dive deep into Hitman 2, Call of Cthulhu, The Quiet Man, give some early impressions of Battlefield V, and more! This week's music: She Wants Revenge - Big Love

This week we're back, and live! As in, well, we recorded this live, while streaming for Extra Life! We talk Red Dead, Diablo for Switch, and honestly a lot of other stuff for a pretty long show — including many letters. This week's music: Slipknot - All Out Life

This week we're back together to talk about Black Ops IIII, Halo CE and the MCC, the Xbox One X update to The Orange Box, Onrush, Destiny 2's new raid, Viscera Cleanup Detail and more! This week's music: Metric - Art of Doubt

This week we've got a three person cast as we talk about Jettomero: Hero of the Universe, have a final bit of discussion after finishing Assassin's Creed Odyssey three main quests, Into the Breach, Soma, and more! This week's music: Royal Thunder - Time Machine

Hello! This week we talk more about Assassin's Creed Odyssey, Destiny 2, the myth and compulsive behavior of the backlog, the prospect of a new Switch, Nimbatus, the experience of Rainbow Six Siege with randoms and Captains Mode, the state of battle royale and esports, your letters, and more! This week's music: Kim Petras - Close Your Eyes…

Hello! The world is a rage-inducing nightmare, but, video games, we guess! This week we talk Destiny 2: Forsaken's continuing content onslaught, some early impressions of Forza Horizon 4, Assassin's Creed Odyssey, Alien Isolation (I know!), Black Ops Blackout, Rainbow Six Siege, and more! This week's music: Emma Ruth Rundle - Dark Horse…

This week, everybody's here to talk about Spider-man, Black Ops 4's battle royale mode, Destiny 2's DLC, and a lot more. This week's music: Architects - Hereafter

This week we're down a James but still manage to talk about a LOT of stuff for a LONG time, with Two Point Hospital, Artifact's week of drama, Rainbow Six Siege, Rust, Strange Brigade, Destiny 2's Forsaken expansion, Battlefield V's multiplayer beta and more! This week's music: Against Me - Borne on the FM Waves of the Heart…

This week we're all back, albeit remotely, to talk about games! Games like The Messenger, Rust (seriously), The Walking Dead: The Final Season, Cyberpunk 2077, MCC, WoW, Guacamelee 2, The Kings Bird and more! Apologies for audio issues - some people don't turn down their headphones when they record : | This weeks' music: Bring Me The Horizon - ...…

It's only Matt and Anthony this week as the rest of the cast is off sacrificing babies to the Dota 2 gods, their prayers going unanswered as they ask to be relieved of their mortal coils so they can stop playing the same game for thousands of hours in a futile attempt to git gud. This week we talk new R6 Siege Operators, Not Tonight, Gamescom s ...…

This week, we're not sure if we have very little to talk about, or a decent amount, but either way, we talk. About stuff. This week's music: Carah Fayes - Watch ME

It's a game-light week, but we still manage to drag out for a while talking ranked multiplayer, Resident Evil 6, Chasm, Artifact, and quite a bit more, including some of your (strange) emails. This week's music: Strawberry Girls - Shadow of the Moon (feat. Sarah Glass, Jenna Fournier & Kathleen Delano)…

This week despite having just three hosts, we drone on for quite a while, talking more Astroneer, Warframe, the complication of multi-generational digital game libraries, No Man's Sky, esports, and a lot more. This week's music: Gunship ft. Tim Cappello, Indiana - Dark All Day

This week we've got a collection of old and new as we talk Astroneer, Mothergunship, the continuing adventures in Warframe, the tragedy and redemption of No Man's Sky and a lot more. This week's music: Alkaline Trio - Blackbird

This week we're back and talking about a menagerie of random crap, as Anthony finally tries Destiny 2, James is ass-deep in Warframe, we examine whether Red Faction Guerilla holds up, and a fair bit more. This week's music: Architects - Doomsday (Piano Reprise)

We're back to close out June and a terrible week of news by ignoring most of it and talking Splinter Cell: Conviction, Mutant: Year Zero, The Hunter: Call of the Wild, Squad, Oxygen Not Included, Lumines, Destiny 2's Warmind content, plus some letters and a fair bit more. This week's music: HIM - Pretending…

This week we're all back and ready to blow out E3, Cyberpunk 2077, why stuff at E3 is behind closed doors, how Sony's press conference was weird when it wasn't good, how fantastic Resident Evil 2 Remake is, and a LOT more. This week's music: Florence and the Machine - Big God

This week it's a more intimate show as we talk E3 leaks, Vampyr, Yoku's Island Express, Trailmakers, Realm Royale, and a few more things too. This week's music: Thrice - The Grey

This week we start out with a long talk about the realities of E3, then move on to talk about games like House Flipper, State of Decay 2 (probably for the last time for a while!), Matt's opening thoughts on God of War, some big Dota 2 competitive scene drama and the nature of rooting for esports teams, Bloodstained: Curse of the Moon and more! ...…

This week we're a three-man crew as we talk Wizards of Legend, Far: Lone Sails, Quarantine Circular, World's Adrift, State of Decay 2, Deadpool 2 (no spoilers), Battlefield V and more! Also some letters! This week's music: Ghost B.C. - Dance Macabre

This week we're talking about Frostpunk, State of Decay 2, Conan Exiles, Call of Duty's big announcements this week and a lot more. This week's music: Now, Now - Set it Free

This week we're all back, and we're talking about Subsurface Circular, City of Brass, The state of Rainbow Six: Siege, the new battle pass for Dota 2 (and speculation about the game's upcoming battle royale mode), a new update for Slay the Spire, and honestly a lot more because it's a long episode with long outtakes and a bit of E3 chat. No, se ...…

This week we're all back and we're here to talk about games, like Battletech, God of War, Prey, The Forest, the likelihood of a return to Destiny 2, and a lot more - including an "outtakes" section consisting entirely of 40 minutes of Infinity War spoiler talk (with lots of warnings). This week's music: Meg Myers - Numb…

This week we talk about a lot of stuff, including Maelstrom, the likelihood of a new Halo this year - we and also put a finger on the key differences between Sony and Microsoft's first party offerings this generation (it's not what you're thinking) - the last take on Far Cry 5 you're probs going to hear from us, more on God of War (spoiler-free ...…

This week, somehow, we've got a really long show for you as we talk about Far Cry 5 and Far Cry Arcade, Radical Heights, and there's a LOT of (generally spoiler-free) discussion about God of War. Also some emails! This week's music: Chvrches - My Enemy

This week we've got a surprising amount of video games to talk about - from Far Cry 5 (a LOT about Far Cry 5), more about Sea of Thieves, A Way Out, the grievous deficiencies of PC Building Simulator, and more. This week's music: Nirvana - Pennyroyal Tea

This week we're still down a Matt, but we manage to talk about big GDC tech developments, Vermintide 2, Below (it exists! We played it!), Sea of Thieves and more! This week's music: The Raveonettes - Ghost

This week we've got more games than we expected to talk about, including Surviving Mars, Eco, H1Z1 Auto Royale, The Bonfire and more - and we find time to talk Fortnite's trajectory and big changes coming to Valve's International Dota 2 Championship as well. This week's music: Evanescence - Going Under…

Miraculously the four of us are all back in a room together and it's right in time for too many goddamned games. We talk Deep rock Galactic, Fortnite: BR, Into the Breach, Eco, Civilization VI: Rise and Fall, Titanfall 2 (it was on sale!) and a whole lot more. This week's music: Halsey - Angel on Fire…

This week we're talking Black Panther and Marvel movies this year, The Station, Rainbow Six Siege's big invitational and business model changes, the origin of Anthony's love of handheld games, whether we'll get a Halo game this year, Dandara, your letters and more! This week's music, in order of appearance: Janelle Monae - Make Me Feel; She Wan ...…

Matt, James, and Anthony streamed a live show, answering your questions and talking about games like Subnautica, Steamworld: Heist and more!

This week we spend some time lamenting the current game release calendar but still manage to talk Regions of Ruin, Laser League. some of our other usual suspects, and even make time to complain about Netflix's shoddy adaptation of Altered Carbon. This week's music: Femme - S.O.S. (NZCA Lines Remix)

This week we've managed to get all four of us back into a room, miraculously, and the result is a long show with a lot of games! We talk Monster Hunter World, The Hunt: Showdown, Celeste, Slay the Spire, and quite a bit more. This week's music: Chvrches - Get Out

This week we're down a James but we've regained a Matt as we talk Sea of Thieves, Celeste, and a fair bit more. This week's music: Zola Blood - Islands (Throwing Snow Remix) At the Drive-In - Point of Demarkation

This week we've got a few games to talk about, including They Are Billions, before we get into how incredibly, mind-bogglingly weird it is that this podcast has now been running for nine years. Nine! This week's music: Circa Waves, feat PVRIS - Fire That Burns

This week it's all about leftovers - specifically, the games from last year (or even before!) that we played over the holiday, including Horizon Zero Dawn, Rainbow Six Siege, Divinity: Original Sin 2 and more, as well as the books, shows, and movies we used to pass the time. This week's music: Marmozets - Major System Error…

At the end of a hard year and in search of some normalcy, we bring you holiday greetings and well wishes, and, of course, our annual year-end tradition: a review of some of our — and your — favorite music in games this year. See you in 2018! This week's music, in order of appearance: Manaka Kataoka/Yasuaki Iwata - Main Theme - The Legend of Zel ...…

This week we talk a lot of games after quite a few redacted observations about The Last Jedi (hilariously spoiler free, don't worry), including Battlefront 2's tie-in DLC, the most recent updates to Rust, Dean Hall's new game Stationeers, Ghost Recon Wildlands, Assassin's Creed Origins and Syndicate, Echo, Doki Doki Literature Club and more! Th ...…

Hello! This week there's not much in the way of show notes because it's getting published like we're being chased by the cops, but we talk about games, read your emails about top 500 lists, and so, so much more. This week's music: Now, Now - SGL; A Perfect Circle - The Doomed