Vidjagame Apocalypse

With Hugh Jackman confirming his return as Wolverine for Deadpool 3, we’re going topical this week and inviting Steve Guntli of Wii Universe for a look at the five “best” games to star Logan by his lonesome. Then it’s on… Read more

Return to Monkey Island hit this week, and its opening inspired us to bring Tony Wilson aboard for a look at five games that start you off as someone who’ll shortly exit and won’t be playable again for the rest… Read more

After seeing more of God of War Ragnarök at Sony’s State of Play this week, we felt inspired to look at other series that told their stories across (or were abandoned after) just two games, something that’s only really strange… Read more

With Amazon debuting the absurdly expensive Rings of Power series last week, we decided it was as good a time as any to chat about five of the best Lord of the Rings games, with special guest Anthony Abatte. Then… Read more

Everybody’s familiar with scary videogame clowns, from Sweet Tooth to Generic Zombie Clown #27, but how many pure, unironic clowns can you think of? This week, the legendary Chris Baker joins us to talk about five of them, after which… Read more

This week saw the return of Saints Row after a nine-year hiatus (or five, if you count Agents of Mayhem), so we’re honoring its hero’s journey from so-so GTA-like to ridiculous fantasy with a Top 5 about game series that… Read more

Madden’s out this week, but it’s been a big week for games about made-up sports as well, what with Rollerdrome and Rumbleverse busting onto the scene with their improbable competitions. So let’s take a look at five other games entirely… Read more

Light-gun games have all but disappeared from relevance, but there was a time when they were everywhere — and in those days, it was possible for some real gems to be overlooked. Dan Amrich joins us for a look back… Read more

With this week’s release of Frogun and its titular talking weapon, we welcome back Tony Wilson of Framework for a chat about five of our other favorite talking implements of destruction. Then it’s on to Xenoblade Chronicles 3, Hooked on… Read more

Bringing an enemy around to your way of thinking can be a powerful thing – and in games, adding a former nemesis to your ranks can be a lot cooler than offing them. TL Foster joins us to talk about… Read more

Live A Live’s launch this week is a reminder that even if a Japanese game doesn’t come to the US for decades, that doesn’t mean it never will. With localization expert Greg Moore in the guest-host chair, we chat about… Read more

“1980s kids in peril” has been pretty thoroughly mined as a concept by now, and yet relatively few games have tried to recapture the (heavily idealized and romanticized) experience of being a kid in that strange decade — so let’s… Read more

We’re pretty big suckers for Super NES nostalgia, to the point where we decided it’d be a good idea to grab Greg Moore and talk in a non-visual medium about five games that made incredible use of the 16-bit console’s… Read more

We’re at the halfway point of another year, which means it’s time to look back and anoint our five favorite games of 2022’s first six months, with help from TL Foster! Then we’ll get into the Capcom Fighting Collection, Cuphead’s… Read more

One of humanity’s greatest regrets is that we never existed at the same time as dinosaurs, and therefore never got to fight them in a planetwide Thunderdome for control of existence. So instead, we imagine the conflict over and over… Read more

Videogames aren’t always the most welcoming medium for newcomers, and one way they can confuse is through their titles; some series are easy enough to decipher, while others are Byzantine jumbles of numbers and subtitles. With game-industry legend Chris Baker… Read more