The fall is upon us, and so are the games - games like Space Marine 2, Astro Bot, The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom, and plenty more!

This week's music: 

Linkin Park - The Emptiness Machine

This week we're surprised to find ourselves talking about the Black Ops 6 multiplayer beta, but we've also got chat about Squirrel With a Gun, Tetris, and plenty of other stuff too. 

This week's music: 

PLAIINS - Slow Rotting, Fast Decay

We're finally back, and we've got lots to talk about from Summer Game Fest and the Xbox Showcase, including everybody's surprises from the show, impressions of Star Wars Outlaws, Astrobot, Assassin's Creed Shadows, Dragon Age: The Veilguard, and so, so, so much more. 

This week's music: 

Tanerelle - Let Me In

This week we're back to a throuple as we talk about Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous's new content, Sniper Elite 4, Iron Lung, Insurmountable, and a lot more, along with impressions of The Northman and an email or two. 

This week's music: 

Bat for Lashes - Strangelove

So right off the bat: we've got audio issues this week. There was a mic snafu, and somebody recorded on a headset rather than their usual microphone. The audio isn't terrible, but it's not amazing. So, there's your warning. If you can get past the audio stuff, two of us are here this week to talk lots about Anger Foot, Prodeus, Switch Sports and plenty more. 

This week's music: 

David Bowie - I'm Afraid of Americans

This week we're back from our travels and talking about the hottest new releases and ... also board games? Like Dead Reckoning, Awkward Guests, Reckoners and more, along with, you know, video games like Weird West, Kirby and the Forgotten Land, and plenty more. 

This week's music: 

Foo Fighters - Times Like These

This week we've got some new stuff to talk about (and some stuff we've talked about already) with Tunic, The Captain, Orbital Bullet and more (yes Elden Ring) before closing with some letters!

This week's music: 

Hole - Violet

This week it's a three person show again as we go on for a while talking Destiny 2: The Witch Queen, Elden Ring, Will You Snail, Corekeeper, Super Catboy and a lot more. 

This week's music: 

Ghost - Watcher in the Sky

This week we talk more about Elden Ring and whether or not it's actually something new fans can jump into, The Batman and an awkward Bruce Wayne, Far Changing Tides, Zombie Rollerz, and more!

This week's music: 

Zola Jesus - Exhumed

This week we range the gamut from the biggest new little games in Steam's Next Fest, like Tower Princess, Potion Tycoon, Core Keeper, and Card Shark! Then we talk about a couple of smaller games you might have heard of, including Horizon Forbidden West and some game called Elden Ring. 

This week's music: 

Coheed & Cambria - The Liars Club

This week we're talking about all sorts of things, like how movie theaters have gotten out of control, what people should expect out of Summer Game Fest (and PlayStation next week), Hellblade 2, Fabledom, the Fortnite patch, and more!

This week's music: 

Coheed & Cambria - Deranged

This week we come to you from under a blizzard to talk about a lot of games, including Moncage, Gladiator Guild Manager, Paint the Town Red, Serious Sam: Siberian Mayhem, Generation Zero, and more!

This week's music: 

Mothica - Casualty

Lingua Ignota - Wicked Game

This week we reunite and talk about a menagerie of things old and new, including Horizon Zero Dawn, Monster Hunter Rise, The Anacrusis, World Box, Wanted Raccoon and more!

This week's music: 

Muse - Won't Stand Down

This week's music: 

Future Palace - Heads Up

2021 is just about wrapped, but before it goes, we're dragging it kicking and screaming into a room to take some music it managed to bless video games with. Happy new year to all, and may 2022 be ... improved, somewhat. 

Hitman 3
Niels Bye Nielsen - Death Awaits (Main Theme)
Niels Bye Nielsen - End of an Era
Niels Bye Nielsen - New Deal

Cyber Shadow
Enrique Martin - Stage 1 - tower
Enrique Martin - Boss - Apparator

Olija
Thomas Olsson - Dance of leaves and blades
Thomas Olsson - Olija

Haven
Danger - The beginning of something
Danger - still free
Danger - kusa makura

Loop Hero
Blinch - Lich is Unbreakable
Blinch - Cosmic Temperance

Life Is Strange: True Colors
Novo Amor - Haven

Subnautica Below Zero
Ben Prunty - Below Zero
Ben Prunty - Twisty Bridges

Narita Boy
Salvinsky - Narita Boy Theme
Salvinsky - Pirate

Chivalry II
J.D. Spears - Duty and Honor II
J.D. Spears - For the Glory of Agatha (with Ryan Patrick Buckley)

Returnal
Bobby Krlic - Murals
Bobby Krlic - Motionless

Resident Evil Village
Shusaku Uchiyama - Ripples in the Calm
Nao Sato - Out of Control
Shusaku Uchiyama - Rose

Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart
Wataru Hokoyama and Mark Mothersbaugh - Rift Apart
Wataru Hokoyama and Mark Mothersbaugh - Glitch in the System

Death's Door
David Fenn - Hall of Doors
David Fenn - Grandma

The Ascent
Paweł Błaszczak - Aeon Travel
Paweł Błaszczak - Turbo Riots
Paweł Błaszczak - everything has a price

Humankind
Arnaud Roy - Astrea Fled
Arnaud Roy - Oracles

Psychonauts 2
Peter McConnell - Title and Prologue
Peter McConnell with Jack Black - Cosmic I/Smell the Universe

Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous
Dmitry V. Silantyev - Those Who Stand Against Evil
Dryante - Ode to the Armored Armadillo

Death Loop
Sencit Music feat. FJØRA - Déjà Vu
Tom Salta - Welcome to Blackreef
Tom Salta (as Frank Spicer) - You have No Class

Sable
Japanese breakfast - Better the Mask
Japanese Breakfast - Ewer

Metroid Dread
Kenji Yamamoto, Soshi Abe and Sayako Doi - Opening Theme
Kenji Yamamoto, Soshi Abe and Sayako Doi - Burania Theme

Outer WIlds - Echoes of the Eye
Andrew Prahlow - The River
Andrew Prahlow - The River's End

Inscryption
Jonah Senzel - The Moon
Jonah Senzel - The Trapper

Exo One
Rhys Lindsay - Dead Metals
Rhys Lindsay - Meteor Shower

Chorvs
Pedro Comacho - Main Theme

Aliens: Fireteam Elite
Austin Wintory - Into the Hive

Marvel's Guardians of The Galaxy
Star-lord Band; Steve Szczepkowski; Yohann Boudreault - Zero to Hero
Richard Jacques, Steve Ouimette - Gardeners of The Galaxy

The Gunk
Ratvader - Gunk (II)
Ratvader - Dreams, Lucid (I)

Halo Infinite
Curtis Schweitzer - Zeta Halo
Gareth Coker - Echo 216
Gareth Coker - Judgment

Halo Infinite Multiplayer Suite
Alex Bhore and Eternal Time & Space - Forged in Fire
Alex Bhore and Eternal Time & Space - Legacy of Generations

This week we talk plenty about Ready or Not and The Controversy around it, as well as Halo Infinite's collectible issues, the Gunk, Dota 2's holiday roguelike extravaganza, our opposing takes on the Matrix Resurrections and a fair bit more as we bestow upon you this slightly early Christmas gift. Happy holidays!

This week's music: 

August Burns Red - All I Want For Christmas

This week we've got a packed show as we talk about all the announcements of the Game Awards, then move on to Warhammer Age of Sigmar: Tempestfall, Star Trek: Bridge Crew, Archvale, Mindscanners, Halo Infinite, The Matrix Awakens, Heavenly Bodies and more!

This week's music:

Andrew W.K. - Babalon

Halo Infinite is finally here, and we're joined by IGN's Miranda Sanchez to talk all about the campaign - without spoilers, of course. 

This week we're joined by a special guest - IGN's Miranda Sanchez, who explains to us exactly what the hell the deal is with Genshin Impact, and we also talk about the new space-bound shooter Chorvs (that's "Chorus," not "chorv-s"), Animal Crossing's expansion, Exo One, and a lot more. 

This week's music: 

FKA twigs (feat. Central Cee) - Measure of a Man

This week we're here to gently accompany you through a holiday weekend as we dive deep into Halo Infinite's multiplayer and a couple of other things, including the bizarre beaver-society simulator Timberborn, then we move on to many letters. 

This week's music: 

Donna Missal - (to me) your face is love

This week we go into service games and what success might look like and how Diablo 4 is maybe, finally, thankfully moving away from the forever game mentality with its new update, plus we talk about Mullet Mad Jack, Sunshine Heavy Industries, the Werecleaner, and more!

This week's music: 

The Plot in You - All That I Can Give

We're back after Extra-Life with a lot of games to talk about pretty quickly, including Guardians of the Galaxy, Forgive me Father, House of Ashes, Battlefield 2042, and a LOT more (along with a separate, end of episode spoiler-filled discussion of Inscryption, which has plenty of warning so you can back out before anything gets too spoiled). 

This week's music: 

Korn - Start the Healing

We're back for a shorter-ish show this week but have still got a lot of games to talk about, including Darkest Dungeon 2, Guardians of the Galaxy, Song in the Smoke, and more!

This week's music: 

At the Drive-in - Arcarsenal 

This week it's a show that isn't quite two hours (good news? bad news?) as we talk Nuclear Blaze, They Always Run, Inscryption, Vagrus - The Riven Realms, Gamedec, Sacred Fire, Crysis 2 Remastered, Dune, the Uncharted trailer and more!

This week's music: 

AURORA - Under the Water

We're here and talking for way too long about the Riftbreaker, Back 4 Blood, Rebel Inc, Pathfinder, and more, as well as an end-episode (and thus easily avoidable!) spoiler discussion about what we thought of Halloween Kills!

This week's music: 

Health - Feel Nothing

We're here and so is the Fall games season, as we go on at length about Metroid Dread, Far Cry 6, Battlefield 2042, Exhausted Man, Where is My Parking Spot, Peglin, Jett: The Far Shore, Medieval Dynasty, and a lot more!

This week's music: 

Marissa Nadler - Couldn't Have Done The Killing

This week we're bombarding you with games talk as we dive into Metroid Dread and the OLED Switch, Inscryption, Blub Emporium, Tokyo Rogue, Instruments of Destruction, Ari's Journey, Dextram, Human Fall Flat, World War Z, New World, and more!

This week's music: 

Mastodon - Teardrinker

We're back despite the machinations of technical difficulties to talk about Deathloop, Diablo 2 Remastered, Halo Infinite multiplayer flight, No Man's Sky, Super Mario Bros. 3, Dagon, Burgers & Frights, Experience Share in Alameda, and more!

This week's music: 

VV - Salute the Sanguine

We're back with just a few games to talk about, including 8-bit Marios, 8-bit Castlevanias, I Am Fish, and a little game called Deathloop (then we read some emails). 

This week's music: 

Meg Myers feat. All The Damn Vampires - Breaks my Back

This week we're talking about a lot of old games, in various ways, from "classic" NES titles to Sonic Colors Ultimate, and we also get way, way into that PlayStation event, and more! 

This week's music: 

Ghost - Enter Sandman

This week we're back and talking about the games we're playing — like Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous, Psychonauts 2, Nine Witches: Family Disruption and more — as well as the reasons we're not playing more, like, say, moving. 

This week's music: 

Banks - Skinnydipping

We're once again forced to dive deep into the why of video game layoffs and studio closures, and go into the unpleasant realities of video game development and funding in 2024 ... but also there are video games, like Crow Country, and Animal Well, and even the first Hellblade. 

This week's music: 

Ari Abdul - Don't

We're back, and this week we've got a lot of games to talk about, including Aliens: Fireteam Elite, Psychonauts 2, Icarus,  12 minutes, Humankind, Destiny, and more!

This week's music:

Halsey - 1121

We're back! Finally! After a cross country move and a bit of a break, we're back to talk Quake, Diablo, Humankind, Ender Lillies, and a lot more!

This week's music: 

Mutoid Man - Bandages

This week we go deep (high? what's the adjective here?) on The Ascent, wrap up Death's Door, talk Halo Infinite, HighFleet, Picross, and a lot more. 

This week's music: 

PVRIS - Monster

This week we've all miraculously played Death's Door and have a lot of things to say about it both positive and negative, plus we talk Samurai Gunn and go deep on a bunch of your emails. 

This week's music: 

Coheed & Cambria - Shoulders

This week it's another two-person show as we dig deep into what the hell the Steam Deck is, who it's for, and how long it will last as a AAA game machine, talk about the Company of Heroes 3 technical alpha, discuss the highs and lows of A Plague Tale: Innocence, and more!

This week's music: 

Fraunhofer Diffraction - Kvrt in Space

This week we kick things off talking Black Widow and how the hell it fits into the MCU's future (or past), then talk about a ton of games, including Boomerang X, King Oddball, Wyldermyth, Heroes of Hammerwatch, Tetris Effect, Blade & Sorcery, AD 2047, Stride, Dishonored 2, and even a little bit of Deaths Door!

This week's music: 

Battle Tapes - Graveyard Shift

This week it's a duo queue as we talk about Chicory, Dishonored/Dishonored 2 and what they make us want from Red Fall, Arid, Pulsar: Lost Colony, and the Peggle-like delights of Roundguard, then answer some kind of heavy emails? 

This week's music: 

Metallica - Nothing Else Matters

We're back, and arguing about the Fast and the Furious - specifically F9! But also we chat more about Sable, Terra Nil, and Wildermyth, chat about the appeal of the new Pirates of the Carribean-themed Sea of Thieves DLC, and go deep on Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart before answering some of your emails!

This week's music: 

Donna Missal - sex is good (but have you tried)

We're all back together this week to decompress and discuss our thoughts and reactions to E3, including lots of talk about what kind of game RedFall actually, probably is, how underwhelming some of the showings were, and just how long we can expect covid to disrupt the video game industry (spoilers: it's gonna be a while). 

This week's music: 

Banks - The Devil

Don't let the episode number fool you - we crossed 500 episodes a while back. But there's still plenty to get excited for, like Heroes of Hammerwatch, Slipways, Psychonauts, Returnal, Ghost of Tsushima, Necromunda: Hired Gun, Griftlands, Overboard, Hitman 3, and a lot of talk about this year's E3, including your questions and hopes and dreams for it!

This week's music: 

Light the Torch - Wilting in the Light

This week it's hard not start off by talking about the Helldivers/PSN/Steam cavalcade of miscalculations, but we also make time to talk about games like Indika, Rotwood, and more. 

This week's music: 

Bad Omens W/ So Wylie - The Death of Peace of Mind (So Wylie Patch)

This week we're back with a couple of things to talk about, including SNKRX, Siege Survival, Biomutant, Mass Effect, Psychonauts, Destiny. our return to theaters with A Quiet Place 2, and more!

This week's music: 

Bronze Avery - Ready This Time

This week it's just a duo queue as we chat about Mass Effect's rebirth in the new legendary edition, the weirdness of grand casino tycoon, the Pikmin-like appeals of The Wild at Heart, debate what kind of movie Army of the Dead is, and also start to ponder what it's going to mean to go back out into the world again! Fun!

This week's music: 

Sharon Van Etten & Angel Olsen - Like I Used To

This week we go back to the movies with Wrath of Man before chatting Hood: Outlaws and Legends, more Resident Evil Village, Death Stranding, and more.

This week's music: 

Ché Aimee Dorval - The Widow