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One Quarter Broadcast On Location from a Miniature Golf Course. Questions this week: Video Game Legends Console Buying Games Old and New Motorcycle Gang Best Fashion Game Developer How To Ensure Zero Sales of a Game Which Games Have Changed Design for the Better Most Radically Redefined Public Image Video Game DJ Mock Market LIGHTNING ROUND: Best To Worst Edited by Blaine Brown. Music ‘Bonus Level...

Who Are You Callin’ a Flappy Bird? Questions this week: Exclusivity Harm Design the Godzilla Tie-In Game Title Insults Should FPS or Shmup Games Be Called ‘Shooters’ Underutilized Real World Physics Psychiatrist Games New God Game Concepts Video Games as Rewards Smart Bad Video Games LIGHTNING ROUND: Team Battle Edited by Blaine Brown. Music ‘Swear’ from Mr. Driller, ‘Main Theme’ from From Dust, a...

Insert Credit Is The Prequel to Die Hard. Questions this week: PAX Best Debut Games Why Was the Halo Composer Fired from Bungie? Game Most Interesting to Lose Most Dreamy Games Do You Fight for Fun or for Glory? Six Universal Emotions Can Someone Please Explain Goat Simulator? Favorite Game Makers (It’s Spelled ulillillia) LIGHTNING ROUND: Title Design Tim McGraw Games Edited by Blaine Brown. Musi...

Insert Credit Knows Nobody Cares About Robin. Questions this week: Saving Video Game History with Frank and Brandon GDC Recap Best 3D Single Player Hand-to-Hand Combat FFVI – Name All Party Members and Add a Fifteenth Games Other Than Dark Souls 2 Lowest Percentage Completion Single Player Game Restaurant Staffed by Video Game Professionals Worst and Most-Listened-To Song in a Video Game Did Faceb...

We determine the Best Competitive Game of All Time. Edited by Blaine Brown. Music ‘Rainbow Road’ from Mario Kart 7 Performed by YouTube User DSCAccount.

Insert Credit Has Got That Bad’un. Questions this week: Good Postmortem Discussion Chronotrigger Recruiting Largest Critical Blindspot Akira Toriyama Dragon Quest Taking Smartphones Seriously Themed Arcade Design a Non-Violent Video Game Using the Doom IP How to Become a Better Level Designer Redesign a Video Game Character LIGHTNING ROUND: The Crichtoning Round Edited by Blaine Brown. Music ‘Soni...

Insert Credit is Both the Sin and Punishment. Questions this week: Less Blank and More Blank Most Fun Projectile Catching Custom Soundtrack Video Game Olympic Representatives Improv Zone Most Unpleasant Console Game to Work On Personalities to Create a Game Microtransactions in Nintendo Games Willy Wonka and the Video Game Factory LIGHTNING ROUND: Rank the Devil May Cry Games Edited by Blaine Brow...

Insert Credit Has Zoop and It’s Jaffe’s Fault. Questions this week: Great Ideas Already Done Irrational Games Twitch Plays Pokemon Monthly Video Game Comic Books Most Back-Handed Compliment Your Video Game Boss Lightning Round Bottom Line Review Arcade Edition Lightning 2 Who Would Win in a Fight LIGHTNING ROUND: Lightning Returns Returns Elevator Pitch Co-Op Edition Edited by Blaine Brown. Music...

Insert Credit Celebra las Consolas de los Muertos. Questions this week: Brandon at D.I.C.E. Save Nintendo Successful Breaks Out of the Comfort Zone Mobile Birds Fictional Vehicles Video Game Holidays Good Castlevanias Nullify One Trademark, Copyright, or Patent Smash Mouth’s All Star of VGM LIGHTNING ROUND: Best to Worst Edited by Blaine Brown. Music ‘Terra’s Theme’ from Final Fantasy VI Performed...

Insert Credit is the Opposite of Cool Spot (That’s a good thing, trust us). Questions this week: Disparate Worlds Tactics The Series for WayForward Dreamcast VMU Accidental Greatness Surprises in Games Edutainment LIGHTNING ROUND: Opposite Day Edited by Blaine Brown. Music ‘In The Mountain’ by Yuzo Koshiro from Stickman Is Back Genesis, ‘Title Theme’ from Forever Kingdom (Evergrace 2), ‘Wild Child...

Insert Credit would win in a fight against Past, Present, and Future. Questions this week: Easily Fixable Game Ruiners No More Localization Best to Worst Three Laws of Video Games Favorite Stage One Boss Themed Arcade Cover Stories for a Video Game Celebrity Magazine LIGHTNING ROUND: Title Design Edited by Blaine Brown. Music “Boss 3” and “Stage 4” from Gunhouse. Gunhouse is available now for PS V...

The second installment of an annual series wherein we determine what may be empirically be considered the Best Game of All Time. The List: P anzer Dragoon II Zwei NiGHTS into Dreams Castlevania : Dracula X Gunstar Heroes Super Mario Brothers Manica Mansion: Day of the Tentacle Lufia II: Rise of the Sinistrals Phantom Dust Sonic & Knuncles Ghosts in the Shell Gears of War II Breath of Fire: Dra...

We rank the best games of 2013. The List: The Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds Gone Home Attack of the Friday Monsters Ridiculous Fishing 868-Hack The Last of Us Shin Megami Tensei IV Kokuga Paper Please Antichamber Dive Kick Kentucky Route Zero The Stanley Parable Super Mario 3D World Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons Fire Emblem: Awakening Candy Box! Pokémon X and Y BioShock Infinite Metal Gear...

Broadcasting a podcast broadcast pre-recorded live from development heck. Questions this week: What's the best fake language in a video game? Why do so many games that escape development hell end up a disappointment, and which games escape that fate? Which third-party developers would you most like to see making the next Zelda game? Design a game that takes into account the player blinking. How em...

Insert Credit Doesn't Wanna Be The Guy. Questions this week: What games would you want to do a single credit run on? How much are video games like what you imagined they would be like in the future when you were a kid? What are your "sick day" video games? What are the best games that can no longer be played or acquired? Custom Soundtrack: Final Fantasy VII What is needed to make a good masocore g...

Trying to Make the Bleak Future a Little Bit Better. Questions this week: If a plague killed everybody in the game industry except you, your friends, and five people of your choice, who would be safe? Has a game series ever produced a better sequel for less money? Design a video game to be played for 24 hours straight without stopping. Complete this sentence -- "There are two kinds of people who p...

Tim Rogers Hosts The Jerry Bruckheimer Michael Bay Double Funeral. Questions this week: What's your favorite video game format? What are you most thankful for re: video games? When did you get your first television? When is a Batman game "Batman enough"? Is video game music dead? Theme Arcade Who do you take a heart, liver, and kidney from: Mario, Sonic, Bonk? LIGHTNING ROUND: Rank The Series Edit...

Insert Credit Is A Crate Full of Mysteries. Questions this week: What IP based on its name alone could raise $200,000 on Kickstarter regardless of team? Why would anyone need a machine that you connect to a TV and control with physical buttons? How have video games manifested in your dreams? A genie transforms the entire world to have the aesthetic of a video game, but you get to choose which one....

Insert Credit Is Chock-Full of Fruit Ions. Questions this week: What would it take to get you to back a Kickstarter and retain interest in it? What would you do if you got a new console one week earlier than everyone else? What can we say to our dads when they insist video games are a waste of time? Who are the Mozart and Salieri of video games? What innovative evolution conditions would you inclu...

Insert Credit Presents Boobs in the Sand - Championship Edition. Questions this week: Who's your favorite c-list villain from a video game? Design the free-to-play game that makes everyone get over their hatred of free-to-play games. Why are video games fun? How would you define your relationship with video games? What video games are the most personally empowering? What is the biggest argument yo...

Insert Credit Loves a Good Lady in a Shirt. Questions this week: What video game are you the most baffled actually got made? What were the best looking games of the pre-NES era? When is a video game remake or remaster different enough from its predecessor to be eligible again for award consideration? Your publisher has demanded that you punch up the dialogue for your 3D platforming game, and have...

Insert Credit Makes You a Jill Sandwich. Questions this week: Does the intended commercial reach of a game has any meaningful impact on it as a creative product? What are some topical video game costume ideas for Halloween? What are the differences between the European and the American video game scenes? Who or what is the Yoko Ono of video games? Could a non-massively multiplayer video game put o...

The Best Super Nintendo Games of All Time. The List: EarthBound Chrono Trigger Super Mario World Dragon Quest V Lufia II: Rise of the Sinistrals Secret of Evermore Mega Man X Final Fantasy IV Super Metroid Metal Combat: Falcon's Revenge Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island Metal Warriors Final Fantasy VI The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past Contra III: The Alien Wars Super Mario RPG: Legend of t...

Insert Credit Welcomes First Time Listeners. Questions this week: Did anything actually happen at TGS? What have you gained from this latest excursion to Japan? Who should be the most excited about the Steam controller? What adjustments should be made to the Legend of Zelda formula? How can smaller game companies fight back against the giants? IMPROV ZONE: Frank and Brandon are meeting for their f...

We talk GTA V. Questions this week: What's the closest we've gotten to the Holodeck from Star Trek? Create a compelling narrative and background for a female protagonist in an add-on to GTA V. How would you compare the GTA franchise to the Yakuza franchise? What honest jobs would you like to see in the next GTA? If you and your friends were playing GTA in elementary school, what myths and exaggera...