With another Wrestlemania in the can, we’re looking back at the weird and wonderful celebrities brought on board to entice anti-wrestling normies into the festivities. Speaking of people who don’t like wrestling, this episode is perfectly safe for you!
We don’t usually let real-world tragedy make it into VGA, but the destruction at Notre Dame hit hard for us – and with medieval scholar (and Macworld editor) Leif Johnson joining us this week, we took the opportunity to honor… Read more
Wayne Gretzky retires, Matthew Perry dies and is then reborn as Zac Effron, Grey Gardens gets a prequel, Gooby is weird, a much different Titanic movie, and Martin Lawrence and Eddie Murphy teaming up should’ve been much more remarkable. All that… Read more
Game of Thrones is back this weekend, and if you don’t watch it, too bad! This week starts off with the Top 5 Game of Thrones games, with help from Thirty Twenty Ten’s Diana Goodman, so expect a healthy amount… Read more
Just when you think you’ve heard every showbiz story worth hearing, special guest Mallory O’Meara joins us for the strange, infuriating tale of the uncredited woman behind The Creature From the Black Lagoon. Detailed in her new book, Lady From… Read more
Major League scores, Dragonball gets its worst movie while Seth Rogen gets his best, Parks and Recreation debuts, Robert Guillaume was ahead of his time, we don’t know anything about Hannah Montana, Drew Barrymore has never been kissed, and will… Read more
Another April Fool’s Day is behind us, and this year brought a few fun, playable surprises our way, either showing up in familiar games or rolling out as entirely new ones. With PC Gamer’s Tyler Wilde in attendance, let’s take… Read more
Pop culture is riddled with fictional musical groups that miraculously managed to churn out hits that became very real. And, yes, some hilarious garbage. So come with us on an auditory journey through the finest fake bands in the history… Read more
Lady Gaga debuts her poker face while TLC comes out against scrubs, The Matrix roots itself permanently in 1999, Heathers becomes the most underrated movie of the 1980s, the family is back for a fourth Fast, Sinbad becomes an early… Read more
With Mortal Kombat 11 revealing the return of Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa as (old) Shang Tsung, Jorge Albor of Experience Points rejoins us this week to talk about videogame heroes who’ve aged dramatically over the years, going from young rookies to old… Read more
Now that Uncle Mickey has its four-fingered gloves on all that was 20th Century Fox, what is the fate of X-Men, Home Alone, The Simpsons, Avatar, Die Hard, Planet of the Apes, Aliens, and more? To answer our questions and… Read more
With GDC in full swing this week, the core VGA cast assembles for a look at games that let you make their worlds visibly worse, twisting the landscape through your own misdeeds, apathy, or sheer force of personality. We then… Read more
Exxon spills some Oil, Flight of the Conchords concludes on HBO a decade before Tenacious D debuts, Troop Beverly Hills is an underrated classic, Betty White loves opioids, Doug’s first and last movie, and John Cena goes a dozen rounds… Read more
Michael Jackson has been in the news again… but we’re not talking about that! Not entirely, anyway. The specific focus of this discussion is The Simpsons’ response to pull Jackson’s episode, the public response and pop cultural repercussions. We’ll also… Read more
With The Division 2 taking players to Washington, D.C., this week, we roped in Gamesradar+’s own Lucas Sullivan for a look at five other games that challenge you to literally fight for control of the White House. Then we switch… Read more
Farscape debuts while Battlestar Galatica concludes, Cher becomes the world’s oldest hit-maker, Pokemon snaps back, Everquest begins recruiting, Party Down arrives, Fletch lives, but not for much longer, Ravenous is really cool, the mom from Full House makes a rare… Read more
We all gotta go some time… let’s just hope it’s not bleeding from the eyes, from an act of bio terrorism, or even zombification. Oh yes, in this episode we’re discussing an oft overlooked subgenre: Plague Movie! Get inoculated and come… Read more
Reboots happen pretty frequently in entertainment; what’s much rarer is the “reboot” that later gets pushed aside so the original story can continue. This week, we’ll look at five of the best (and one of the worst), with help from… Read more
