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Hey Cubies! With the video game awards finished and the winners chosen we are left with the gift of upcoming gems in the world of video games. There were many games announced and some that were down right surprising. With the rebooting of old franchises and sequels that no one saw coming there is something for everyone in this line up. Death Stranding 2, Transformers, Earthblade, Armored Core and...

Hey Cubies! We dive through more lore and mythos in this weeks episode. This time we are looking at India. When doing research for this episode we learned some rather interesting things about the portrayal of gods in games. And it explains why there might not be more games with the stories of the gods themselves. Despite that we have some fun games to discus like Raji: An Ancient Epic, Asura's Wra...

Hello Cubies! Welcome back to another mini-series here! We are diving into the mythos and lore used in video games. Looking at how accurate they are, and why they might be used as often as they are. To kick out this series we are diving into the mythos of Greece. Greek mythology is rather well known and understood by many. It is easy to latch onto and give game designers plenty of inspiration to s...

Hey Cubies! There has been a lot of changes in video game journalism since the 70s when the first magazine was published. We have seen how things change and evolve through printed word, to early internet blogs, to reader feedback fueled forums and video format reviews. When looking back it is really amazing how much things have changed, especially when you start to think that there has never been...

Hey Cuubies! We are back again to celebrate all of the amazing games that are coming out at the end of this year. These last two months are so stacked it is rather overwhelming and made it impossible to just talk about them in one episode. So enjoy this conclusion to our celebration of games coming soon! -------- Follow the link bellow to go to our various socials and be sure to join the Discord t...

Hello Cubies! We are quickly. approaching the end of the year and that means awards and looking back at all the titles that were released this year to determine who is the best of the best. While we have had some amazing titles already the game industry is not done with us yet! November and December are jam packed with games that look amazing so let's talk about it! And actually the list is so lon...

Hello Cubies! Here we are once again spinning the wheel of the random game generators to bbring you some new and exciting hypothetical games! This is always an exciting mental game when we make these episodes. And like always if there are any ideas that you like that you want to make fan art out of or even try to make them into real life games please do! And send them our way! -------- Follow the...

Hello Cubies! Happy Halloween everyone! We are capping off our spooky month with our own personal favorites in horror and halloween games. We reminisce some childhood memories of early play throughs of some spooky games and talk about how our tastes have evolved over time. And as an extra special treat we chat about a game that embodies the Halloween spirit whenever you need a break from all the s...

Hello Cubies! Welcome back to another week of spooky month! This week we are diving into another genre that is sure to scare the pants off of you. That is of course the psychological horror genre. These games will scare but then haunt you long after you have finished these titles! Games like Detention, Omori and Silent Hill. So sit back and enjoy! -------- Follow the link bellow to go to our vario...

Hello Cubies! It is spooky month and we are kicking it off with a genre that is really starting to pick up steam. That is the found footage horror games.  We have seen this idea played out in films countless times ever since Blair Witch showed us just. how terrifying it really can be. But something interesting happens when its a video game rather than a movie. It becomes so much more intense. As a...

Hello Cubies! We recently did an episode where we dove into some fantastic GameBoy games. But there was one game on our list that we did not get a chance to really play. So we decided to play some more and talk about it now. That game is Mother 3, it is the final installment in the Earthbound series and what an amazing game it is. The story is fantastic and really tugs at your heart strings in som...

Hello Cubies! We have a bit of a bite sized episode for you today. We wanted to talk about the gaming phenomenon known as randomizers. A randomizer takes your favorite game and shuffles locations, items and enemies to give the player a unique new experience. This is an amazing tool for players that know these games like the back of their hands, it breaths new life into these games and creates situ...

Hello Cubies! Failure is something that we all fear. We think that if we fail then there is no progression forward. But is that really the case? ET is known as the worst game in history and is even blamed for the video game crash of 1983. How can one game bring down an entire industry? Or is it just a scapegoat for poor decisions made by Atari at the time. We dive into the designer, the lore and t...

Hello Cubies! This week we wanted to take a look back at the Gameboy and all of it's glory. Looking back at the games made for these consoles, there are so many classics and just down right surprising games. So we decided to play two games, one was a game we played in the past to see if it still holds up and the other is one we always wanted to play but never got to. And we were both shocked by so...

Hello Cubies! This week we dive into the world of cult games. And we are not talking about cult classics, we are discussing the games that have cults as their central theme. Each one of the games we discuss take this theme and present it in a very different way. From roguelikes like Cult Of The Lamb,  to card games like Cultist Simulator themes can be presented in some amazing ways. So, sit back a...

Hello Cubies! Welcome back to another fun episode. This week we continue our discussion from two week ago. We began to talk about the philosophy that inspired the Bioshock series. We conclude that conversation here with Bioshock 2 and Bioshock Infinite. It is clear that when 2 was created they wanted to have a perfect mirror to the original title. After the events of the first game we see what ide...

Hello Cubies! We did it! We have made it to episode 100! This week we are celebrating this milestone for us and look back at what podcasting has done for our lives. Thank you so much for the questions that we got to answer on this weeks show. It has been so much fun reaching 100, and here is to 100 more!!! -------- Follow the link bellow to go to our various socials and be sure to join the Discord...

Hello Cubies! Welcome back to another fun and exciting week. We are continuing our dive into philosophy with the Bioshock franchise. Not only are these games great, they actually teach us about objectivism and the creator of this branch of philosophy Ayn Rand. There is so much to discuss here that this  will be split into multiple parts so be on the look out of part 2 of the philosophical dive.  -...

Hello Cubies! Welcome back to another fun filled week! In celebration of the mini series we are doing on our other show The Murder Of Gray Podcast, we are diving into the world of philosophy. When looking at themes in games we can see different philosophical lessons being fed to us in ways that we can easily digest. Not only are games entertaining to play but they allow us to be fully immersed in...

Hello Cubies! We are back another week with an interesting episode for you. Through out games there are many titles that have the same theme or driving force behind them. It has gotten to the point for some titles that the main reason for the quest is not interesting or is almost an after thought for most players. The question here is, is this a bad thing? Or is it important to have a simple story...

Hello Cubies! We have discussed some interesting ideas over the past couple years but there are a couple that have really stuck out to us. Those being the ones that we talk about social situations in gaming. It. is always interesting to dive into these topics because they are so misunderstood, or mis-represented. VR meet ups are becoming more and more popular and are falling to the scrutiny that c...

Hello Cubies! It has been a crazy week for the two of us. So we decided to do something pretty light hearted and just check in with each other. Christian has been swamped at work due to Summer Camp and Chris is HAVING A BABY!!!! Actually as of the the day this releases his beautiful baby girl is born! Be sure to send some congrats to him! So sit back and enjoy this episode as we talk about what we...

Hello Cubies! We are back again with some more improv and randomness! This is one of our favorite things to do, wee make games! We have pulled up our randomizers and talk out how these games may look and play. Gotta say this was a really great batch and RNG-Jesus was smiling down on us with these ones. From fruit car racers to alternate realities breaking off light through a prism these are really...

Hello Cubies! Welcome back to another fun and exciting week of games! This time we hop into our time machine to revisit some forgotten gems from the original Xbox. From the massive Duke controller to all the shooters on the platform this was not a system that we really dove into in our youth. But there are some amazing titles that were looked over and deserve their recognition. Games like Otogi, A...

Hello Cubies! This week we tackle a statement that we say at the start of every episode. In our intro we discuss "the art of games" but there are those that would disagree with that statement. One of those individuals is Roger Ebert, a critically acclaimed critic. Many will know his name, but some may not know that he had a very strong view point when it came to video games. His claim is that game...