May 13-19: Triumph the Insult Comic Dog takes on nerds, Sasha Baron-Cohen is a dictator, hearts get achy and/or breaky, Hugh Grant makes a friend, the X-Files close, Dan Quayle hates on Murphy Brown but loves democracy, SimLife will be… Read more
With this week’s release of Eiyuden Chronicle: Rising — a side-scrolling prequel to the upcoming JRPG Eiyuden Chronicle: Hundred Heroes — we’ve invited Anthony Abatte on for a look at five other times big games gave players a little taste… Read more
Some (mostly older) game consoles launched with generation-defining games packed into the box; others found them a little later down the line. This week, we’ll take a look at five of the best games ever to be added as a… Read more
May 6-12: Drew Barrymore is an evil Lolita, Bill Paxton’s making one false move, soldiers vs. werewolves, Robert Altman comes back yet again, Diane Lane is unfaithful, a trip to the Greendale Insane Asylum, sad TV deaths on ER and… Read more
DOWNLOAD Unlike the PlayChoice-10 we won’t charge you a quarter for every 300 seconds that you listen (which would be about $11.00 for this episode) but we sure will talk about it and the SNES counterpart – the Nintendo Super… Read more
April 29-May 5: The two superhero movies that changed Hollywood, Pierce Brosnan explodes, L.A. burns, Tom Selleck hates his dad, a Citizen Kane prequel, Stephen Dorff is a street tough, Mel Gibson goes to Mexican prison, mountain climbing: Is it… Read more
Dune: Spice Wars hit early access on PC this week, and its based-on-the-movie-based-more-closely-on-the-book status inspired us to invite Ryan Harig of Conspiracy Therapy on for a chat about five games that directly adapted novels and short stories. Then we’ll get… Read more
April 22-28: Jack Black’s best role, Ethan Hawke fights Nazis, we vote for Julia Louis-Dreyfus. Willem Dafoe is in the desert, Angelina Jolie is in a rom-com, Edgar Allen Poe stalks a killer, Jason Segal gets engaged, and 30 Rock’s… Read more
With The Batman hitting streaming this week, our dormant interest in The Caped Crusader has been rekindled, and we’ve invited Dan Amrich on for a chat about five of the best (non-Arkham) Batman games. Then we’ll get into the Ghostbusters… Read more
DOWNLOAD It’s our unrequited love letter to one of the best arcade cabinets ever made in an episode that doesn’t focus just on a game or a series, but an entire system – the Nintendo Vs. System. How did Nintendo… Read more
April 15-21: We bend it like Beckham, Laurence Fishburne is undercover, a mouth-watering romance from Mexico, John Turturro is Groucho Marx, Patrick Swayze goes to India, Sandra Bullock solves a murder, a Futurama/Star Trek crossover, a big garish documentary, and… Read more
Even the best games aren’t flawless; some even have moments that can (almost) derail the whole experience. PNB’s TL Foster joins us this week for a look at five of the most glaring examples, after which we’ll get into Chinatown… Read more
April 8-14: Christian Bale sings about newspapers, the return of Sideshow Bob, Ferngully saves the rainforest, Stephen King’s energy vampires, Bill Paxton is a serial killer, Cameron Diaz is the sweetest, and we find out the secret of the cabin… Read more
DOWNLOAD We’re heading into the sewers to clean out the pipes with the Mario Bros. in the game that gave us their ultimate occupation. So join the Podouken crew as we explore how Mario Mario and Luigi Mario take on… Read more
Not only did this week’s launch of Lego Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga pleasantly surprise us — it inspired us to invite Greg Moore on for a Top 5 about lightsabers in non-Star Wars games. Then we’ll mourn E3’s cancellation,… Read more
There’s an argument to be made for videogame graphics being TOO detailed when that detail starts to include rendered, clearly visible buttholes on little dogs, giant pigs, and other things we won’t mention here. But we WILL mention them in… Read more
April 1-7: Tim Allen has big trouble, Kerry Washington fights a scandal, Dolly Parton gives advice, Val Kilmer goes to tribal land, Charles Grodin vs. a giant dog, Barney loves you, Bobcat’s shooting spree, Greendale Community College’s civil war, and… Read more
The reappearance of a certain recurring deceiver in Elden Ring inspired this week’s Top 5, in which we take a look at some of gaming’s most prolific, remorseless, and – inevitably – successful liars ever to repeately pull a metaphorical… Read more
