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Somehow, The Funcast has returned. And just in time for Game of The Year season! A totally normal check in with friends old and new about what gosh dang video games we've been playin. Join us wont you?

Another year has gone missing, and the Fungineer gang is on the case! We go over the whole first half of 2023 in Video Games to see what we remember. We remember a lot as it turns out, cause boy howdy did some real bangers release early and often. Join us wont you? A great video about MyHouse. WAD from Power Pak (that I hopefully remembered to mention in the show): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=...

It's TGA Season, the most important holiday season of the year! What will take home the coveted prize of Best E-Sports Event? Which giant company will win for Best Indie Game? Can there only be one winner of Best Game Direction? What the hell even is an Action Adventure game in 2023? All these questions - and more! - are totally not going to be answered here in this podcast. Sorry. You'll...

The spooky season means an unholy return to life! It's a good thing that nothing happened, and no new video games came out in the summer months everyone got busy with life stuff in. What's that? Way too many video games came out? Oh. Oh, no. We have a retooled website now! - ⁠http://fungineers.net/⁠ Tweet us while you can: ⁠@fun_gineers⁠ Mastodon Us(?): ⁠@fun_gineers@mastodon.social⁠ Email...

Nintendo Direct! Announced the night before it aired, it turned out to be something of a banger, with games both new and old. Andrew loses himself in the music from a Mario RPG remake, Daniel is very excited about Pikmin 4, and Dean watches the trailer for the new Mario game live! Oh, we also have all been playing Diablo 4, so we talk about that a bit too! We have a retooled website now! - http://...

Video Game Announcement Month has commenced, and today we take a look at the incredibly long and incredibly dense Xbox conference! Mostly, because some of it did spill over into the Ubisoft event, and carried forward from the Summer Games Fest show. So really it's only a mostly Xbox/Microsoft episode. But boy, what a conference - and that doesn't even count the near hour long deep dive int...

Our unplanned break ended up being a great boon, because it gave us, like, two whole weeks to play the new Zelda! We have a lot to say, but for your benefit, we kept it to only 80 minutes, almost entirely focused on things as they are in the world before you do a dungeon. There are some minor spoilers for that stuff, and for a couple of the things outside this scope (but they are pretty contextles...

Nintendo did us a favour by dropping an incredibly dense indie direct on us, so now we have *a lot* to talk about! Cat Games, Farming Games, Weird Puzzle Games, Cool Puzzle Games, Cozy Puzzle Games with Cats, and the Store Brand Jet Set Radio that daddy Sega won't give you. Then it's on to the news, where Halo keeps dying, Daddy Sega buys Angry Birds, NDAs become suggestions, Dreams are de...

Welcome to what is a surprisingly Movie And/Or TV Show focused episode of the Funcast. Weird how that worked out, but someone we managed to unearth some truly terrifying horrors from the deep dark. Daniel also played Dredge for a bit, and It's really quite good. No Mario movie, but how about some Dungeons and Dragons instead? Or perhaps the two weeks of Stuff Getting Cancelled? Been rough out...

It's the reached the point where putting your social security number into a random piece of software with a Waifu in it seems like not the worst idea. Things that actually seem like bad ideas include: EA delisting a bunch of gold games, Atari buying studios, Asset Packs filled with stolen goods, and making mobile phone only semi-sequels to Persona 5. Good Ideas include listening to us talk abo...

Its episode fifty! Five Zero! That's kind of a lot, so first up, thanks for listening <3 Second of all, holy cow, we have some news! And by news, we *mostly* mean companies stepping on rakes for our enjoyment(?). Square Enix's president is going to go join his Apes, Starfield has a release date, Suicide Squad might not be killing the Justice League anytime soon, GameStop can't sell...

It is happening again. Tim's back! And we've got a bit of a light load of news because of a kinda bland Playstation State of Play, which just means more time to speak about matters of the heart, of both the Atomic and Wild varieties. Tim is going to tell us all about the newest entry in the modern 360 B-Game Genre, Wanted: Dead, and gets to contrast it with Hi-Fi Rush. Daniel is all about...

A long show is the only way to do justice to a frankly incredibly dense Nintendo Direct! Its literally made just for me, with all the hottest hits like Gameboy Games and Baten Kaitos, and I guess Metroid Prime and stuff too.  Seriously, it was so much *stuff* that I don't really want to list it all out here in the description, so you better listen to us break it all down, ok? Oh, and then we w...

January is drawing to a close, which means that holy cow, it's time for the news machine to kick off its cobwebs and get to work. Dungeons and Dragons (And Coastal Wizards), Blizzard hoists themselves by their own petard *again*, and Microsoft announced some video games? Huh, yeah they sure did, that's a new one. One of them even came out right away, and Daniel seems pretty freaking in to...

It's pretty amazing to be here in an entirely new year, completely unburdened by the past.... except for a bunch of games we played at some point during our seasonal break that all came out last year. Old games, soon to be replaced with new games! Hopefully!! Games Discussed: Infernax, Star Wars: Jedi Fallen Order, High on Life,  Gunner, HEAT, PC!, Marvel's Midnight Suns, Ready or Not.  We...

It's the dwarfiest time of the year here at Funcast HQ, and we built an entire gallery to fill with wondrous video games of the future! A whole lot of games have totally real release dates in the totally real year of 2023, at least up until June. After that, I think there are no more games. Which is good, because there are *so many to talk about*. Like Dwarf Fortress! And the new World of Warc...

Sure was a lot of the VG and As huh? Probably more than we needed considering how much stuff was hurrie-WORLD PREMIER It's our full coverage of the E3 Extension/Awards show today, and yeah, we have some stuff to say! From winners to the losers to the stuff in between, wWORLD PREMIER Join us, won't you? We have a retooled website now! - http://fungineers.net/ Tweet us: @fun_gineers Email us...

It's Awards Season! Which means it's also time for an Exxtra Thicc podcast about all the categories in the upcoming Keighlies. Yes, all the categories. All *five* E-Sports ones, the four or five Indie Game categories that really could be three different ones, the bizarre choices and infuriating exclusions, all here! For some reason. We even find some time to get in some thoughts about the...

We're back! And its a real normal episode! Finally. Greeting us this normal day is a lot of back and forth industry drama, a feast of little guy vs big guys. Old games get working again after a long hiatus, and sequels get really, finally, truly, announced! Andrew brings back his 7/10 gameshow, and then tells us about his first bit of time with the new God of War. Daniel finally gets to talk a...

A grave misfortune wiped out the first half-ish of the original recording, so enjoy an abbreviated episode! We finally get to talk about how great Yakuza: Like A Dragon is, Dean talks about how not great Gotham Knights is, and a new GamePass GameClub game is chosen, that everyone might have played already! How different will it be years later? Find out in a couple of weeks! Games Discussed: Gotham...

The summoning circles I set up every year finally worked, and out from it emerged Bloober Team, the scariest choice for a remake of Silent Hill 2! The whole rest of the Silent Hill direct was also a surprise, and goes to show that when it comes to compressing and storing content, demonic seals are top tier. Blizzard has also been up to some spooky business, Bayonetta Voice Actor drama is being sup...

Tim is out on assignment, and that's ok because Tired Guy Mario is finally off on his adventure in the Tenacious D Kingdom, and all its strange and concerning scenery. That Super Mario Movie trailer shepherded us all the way into a week full of news! A lot of it isn't great, especially if you are a server for Overwatch 2, or a server for Stadia. Sorry gang, it's time to take the racks...

Soda! It's the lifeblood of society. So is finally getting to talk about We Happy Few, an open world survival roguelite immersive sim thing, with some hot 60s ~Style~, and a real weird launch. Also on the docket: News! They still make that stuff, it turns out, and boy howdy Overwatch sure makes a lot of it.  Andrew is back with his wacky quiz show and a roguelite about a knight that likes digg...

Jughead opened a portal to the News Dimension and all the video games fell out. Seriously, it's very rude to have a second? Third? E3 in the middle of the week like that. Shame on you Video Games. Nintendo Direct! Sony Thing! TGS! A lot of cool stuff, farming sims, and a God of War. Major GTA 6 leaks that lead to some fun surprises, and Diablo 4 decided to join the leaky boat party as well. We...

Hey, so first things first: we do talk about that jerk dingus that made a game and turned his patch notes into a portal to hell. We dunk on him pretty good, but if you don't want to hear it, skip from ~8m10s til ~14m40s, and I think you should be good. We got Xbox Controller news! Lighter, Leaner PS5s! Weird, cut back Cyberpunk news! NFTs go wrong (shock, horror)! Also, Temtem is finally out,...