Videogame-industry veterans Mikel Reparaz and Chris Antista rally their colleagues for weekly discussions about games, the industry, and the circus of egos and information that surrounds it all.
With the legendary Okami turning 10 in North America this week, Michael Grimm joins us for a look at five cel-shaded games that – partly because of their graphics, and partly because of their forward-thinking design – still hold up… Read more
This is a big week for current-gen remasters of last-gen games, with Bioshock and Dead Rising re-releasing on PS4 and Xbox One, so let’s start with a look at five of the best, most feature-rich remasters to hit current-gen consoles…. Read more
In honor of this week’s episode number, our erstwhile co-host Henry Gilbert (now of Fandom) rejoins the show to talk about games that did a 180 in the minds of the gaming public – that is, games that went from… Read more
After all the recent furor over Metal Gear Survive and Metroid Prime Federation Force, we for some reason decided it’d be a good idea to delve into five other games that turned traditionally single-player series into four-player co-op-fests, sometimes with… Read more
The Super Nintendo Entertainment System celebrated its 25th anniversary this week, so Heidi Kemps of gaming.moe joins the regulars this week to talk about key moments that created huge shockwaves not just for the SNES and Nintendo, but for the… Read more
This week, we enlist Retronauts host Bob Mackey to help us navigate an ancient landscape of games that were based on movies, TV shows, and cartoon characters… until they came to the US, at which point that was all stripped… Read more
We’ve got spaceflight on the brain this week with the release of No Man’s Sky, so before we start in on the game everyone’s talking about, Brett Elston joins us to look back at five of the most iconic spaceships… Read more
Who wouldn’t want to experience dangerous situations as a soft, helpless infant? Inspired by their recent playthrough of Baby’s Day Out, the VGA crew invite Michael Grimm to join this week for a look at games that let you play… Read more
Erstwhile host Henry Gilbert rejoins the show this week, just in time to help us talk about multi-platform games that. for a variety of reasons, were completely different experiences on old-gen consoles. With that out of the way, we move… Read more
Heidi Kemps of gaming.moe joins us fresh off last week’s EVO championships – and with fighting games on everyone’s minds, we take a look at some of the weirdest guest characters ever to grace games about people hitting each other… Read more
Friend of the show Bob Mackey (of Retronauts and USGamer) joins us this week to count down five games that took clear inspiration from an established series, but recaptured what made the originals great instead of being pale imitations. Then… Read more
Michael Grimm returns to the show this week to help us talk about five games that flashed back to their heroes’ childhoods, letting us experience their most important formative memories firsthand. Then it’s on to thoughts on Inside, Furi, and… Read more
We’re at the midpoint of 2016, so it’s time to look back at the last six months and assemble a non-definitive, highly subjective list of our favorite games of the year so far. If you haven’t rage-quit by the end… Read more
A show number with “69” in it only comes around every 100 episodes, so we take full advantage this week, as Michael Grimm joins us for a somewhat NSFW show about games that used the (sometimes-dubious) talents of former and… Read more
With E3 2016 in our rear-view mirror, Dave, Hank, Brett, and special guest Aziz Twaijri count down their favorite games from the big show before breaking down each press conference and seeing how our listener predictions panned out.
E3 is coming fast, so let’s distract ourselves just a little before the show starts with a Top 5 about (surprisingly competent) games based on “unscripted” television shows about “real” “people” who are “not entertainment lizards in hu-man guise.” The… Read more
In belated tribute to the PS2 “classic” Jaws Unleashed‘s 10th anniversary last week, this episode focuses not on the triumph of being a shark, but the terror of being its victim, with a Top 5 about the most stressful games… Read more
We begin this week’s show by exploring the theater of the mind, with five games that take place entirely in their characters’ heads and/or dreams. We then weigh in on the the Overwatch mania currently driving the internet bonkers, along… Read more