2019 has been a great year for new and original games, and it’s introduced a ton of fresh characters to the gaming canon. This week, Leif Johnson of MacWorld.com joins us to talk about five (OK, six [OK, seven]) new… Read more
Dec. 13-19: Paul Newman’s horny, Dustin Hoffman’s named Vito, Hanukkah Harry has socks – 8 pair!, Robin Williams is a robot, Stuart Little saves his family, Buffy gets quiet, Viggo Mortensen hits the road, and Chris picks a billion-dollar blue… Read more
The smoke has cleared, the second ring has been disassembled, and the survivors from NXT TakeOver WarGames and Survivor Series 2019 live to wrestle another day. Matt and TL are here with full reviews of both events, as well as… Read more
PlayStation turned 25 this week! To celebrate, we invited PNB Podcast‘s TL Foster and Kayla Zumbaum to join us for a dive into the past and a look at five much-loved PSOne exclusives that never made the jump to later… Read more
Dec. 6-Dec. 12: Peter Jackson gets dirty with puppets, Morgan Freeman is finally Nelson Mandela, a bad sequel, Nicolas Cage has a port of call, Santa’s prepped for landing, Disney ends an animation era (brilliantly), Ninja Warrior does America, Harry… Read more
Finish Him! Our Fighting Game Wars miniseries wraps up with Arcade Obscura. Each host presents a little-known, underappreciated, or underrated fighting game to the audience. The other hosts make fun of their love for it! This episode also includes discussion… Read more
Tis the season for spooktacular thrills, and Laser Time is tackling yet another horror subgenre and it’s a surprisingly robust one! It might surprise you that the killer do staggering amount of straight-to-video imitators. If you grew up watching schlock… Read more
Nov. 29-Dec. 5: Sisqo discusses underwear, Norm has a special guest, Hank Azaria spends Tuesdays with Morrie, Patrick Stewart says bah humbug, two modern war movies worth watching, Monk says goodbye, and two modern classics go inside Christmas and John… Read more
All litigious hell breaks loose as Capcom takes on Data East’s game, Fighter’s History, on the biggest stage of them all – the United States District Court. What was it about Fighter’s History that caused Capcom to sue? Why… Read more
SNK doubles down on Neo Geo fighters with the release of Art of Fighting. It has all the things you love from other fighting games, but less! Why are these characters so big? Why are some of these characters… Read more
Shenmue 3 is just the latest example of crowdfunding as a way to bring back series and genres long thought dead – or to create new ones. This week, Steve Guntli and Woody Ciskowski of Ultra 64 join us to… Read more
Prequels can be tricky. Fans already know what happens next, so if you wanted to tell the story of doomed heroes on an ill-fated mission, they might be able to guess how it ends before they even start playing. TL… Read more
Nov. 22-28: Sally Field is Southern steel, Beck defies sex laws, Hover Boards get banned, Toby Maguire rides, Arnold dies at the end, George Costanza is Larry David is George Costanza, David Cross makes poor decisions, bonding with Emperor Zurg,… Read more
This week, Jorge Albor of Experience Points Podcast returns as we take a look at five examples of a strange modern gaming trend: semi-interactive sequences that make you stagger, stumble, or crawl helplessly while dramatic things happen around you. We… Read more
Nov. 15-21: Eddie Murphy and Richard Pryor together at last, Disney goes under the sea, dogs go to heaven, Lisa Stansfield can’t find her baby, Christopher Walken can’t find his head, Christmas comes for James Bond, Liev Schreiber makes Citizen… Read more
Does Death Stranding really represent the arrival of a whole new game genre? To find out, we invited USGamer’s Kat Bailey to tell us about the “strand” genre and to look back at five other games that defied any conventional… Read more
Nov. 8-14: Communism starts falling apart by accident, Phil Hartman gets fiber, Fiona Apple is bad at brevity, Milla Jovovich and Kevin Smith get religious, Susan Sarandon is an embarrassing mom, the first lady visits Sesame Street, and “Dad” has… Read more
Nov. 1-7: Blackadder fights the great war, Chris O’Donnell remakes Buster Keaton, Woody Allen looks at crime, Will and Grace have bra issues, Ron and Tammy 2 get crazy, George Clooney stares at goats, yet another Christmas Carol, and Christopher… Read more
