Beat of the Month: Video Game Podcast

The Beat of the Month crew role play their way through the Role Playing Games they played in January and cover the best RPGs of all time! Final Fantasy VII, Nier Automata, Mother 3, Xenoblade Chronicles...and more! And we've got to mention - we officially have a website -  www.beatofthemonth.com! Check out the site for links on everywhere you can catch our podcast every other week, and who knows w...

The Beat of the Month Crew finally make our way into Hades and live to tell the tale! We start off with a general overview of the game, get into some of our favorite strategies, and have a somewhat heated discussion on if Hades is deserving of its Game of the Year accolades. We round things off with some Hell themed trivia as well. Whether you are excited to finally be able to play on Playstation...

For this episode of Beat of the Month we're back to a traditional deep dive with a look at rhythm action game Hi-Fi Rush! Some of the crew had played this before and had a good time, others had dabbled and dropped it, and the rest had never played at all. We start by taking a look at the history of Tango Gameworks, the surprise release, and then get into the gameplay, story, and of course - th...

The moment has finally arrived - our 5 year episode anniversary celebration is here! Way back between episodes 12 and 13 we snuck in a bonus episode dealing with the origins of 'The Beats'. The purpose of bringing The Beats back was to trim down our backlog of games, and the podcast just happened to come along with it. For our 5 year anniversary we found it fitting to take a look at our ba...

For this episode the Beat of the Month crew postpone our 5 year celebration once again, this time to bring you an episode all about Boomer Shooters! What exactly is a Boomer Shooter do you ask? Well that's a good question. They're usually old, but do they have to be old? They're usually first person, but do they have to be first person? You shoot stuff...okay that point we're prett...

On this episode the Beats crew takes a look at a topic we've mentioned in passing several times before but are finally giving it the attention it deserves - the world of gaming trophies and achievements! We talk about the origins of gaming achievements (which might surprise you!) as well as discussing what makes a good trophy (or a bad one) and some of our favorites to collect. We also take a...

It's the middle of summer and what better way to celebrate than with a bunch of games that give you those sweet summer vibes? We kick things off with the official system of the summer - the Switch 2! We talk about our experiences so far with the new console and Mario Kart World before getting into some other summer vibe games like Yakuza Infinite Wealth and Reel Fishing: Days of Summer. After...

Hello! Due to some scheduling conflicts we are going to combine Muff's deep dive of RBI baseball into our next episode for Summer Vibe Games. For this episode, we are going to instead look deep into the Beat of the Month archives and find clips from old shows that have never been heard before. Some may be gaming related and some may be completely random. Some may have our "passable"...

Have you ever been so excited for a game to come out that you just couldn't stop talking about it? Have you ever played a game so good that you needed to tell everyone how great it was? Well, for Beat of the Month crew member Melbro, this happens a couple times a week. And this episode is to celebrate these games - Hype Train Games! And boy oh boy are there a lot of games to cover across all s...

The Nintendo Switch 2 is fast approaching, so we decided to take one last look at the original Nintendo Switch - the greatest video game of all time! OK maybe I'm going a bit overboard with that last statement, but the Switch has been wildly successful and it's life cycle coming to an end is a big event. First, we take a trip back to the launch and share our thoughts on the early lineup of...

For those of you who just didn't get enough celebrating over Mother's Day Weekend, we've got something in store for you - an episode all about Mom Games! 150 episodes after our debut episode dealing with Dad Games, we finally come back around to celebrate with the moms. Yeah we missed the timing a bit for Mother's Day, but better late than never. We start off the episode talking ab...

For our big 150th episode celebration we have...a regular episode. Our 5 year anniversary is coming up so maybe we'll do something special for that. But for this one - we're taking a deep dive into indie darling Outer Wilds! If you've seen this game mentioned online it usually comes with a word of caution to go in as blind as possible - and we'd agree! For the most part. We start o...

What is an Open World Game? Is it the ability to play any level in any order? Is it a multitude of missions that you can pick and choose as you wish? Is it based on camera and perspective? The Beat of the Month crew handle this philosophical debate as we cover the Open World Games that we played in the month of August.  We cover some of the biggest Open World Games around such as The Witcher 3 and...

October is here and the Beat of the Month crew is celebrating by playing some Zombie games! We look at some classic remakes with Resident Evil 1 and 3, zombie mode in Call of Duty, a more story based zombie game with Telltale Game's Walking Dead - and more! We also touch on some newer games like Resident Evil 8 and (while not a zombie game) the brand new Deathloop. As usual the crew has a large va...

This week the Beat of the Month crew jump into uncharted territory with a look at Real Time Strategy games! Most of us haven't played a whole lot of games in the genre, but we took a dive into a few games such as Halo Wars, Ogre Battle 64, and more! We also talk a bit about some new games outside the genre such as Little Nightmares 2 and Metroid Dread. Our actions per minute may be limited, but th...

Stephen King once wrote that nightmares exist outside of logic and there's little fun to be had in explanations. Well, the Beat of the Month crew are going to do their best to explain Alan Wake, the self proclaimed Psychological Action Thriller. Will we unravel this game's secrets and get to the bottom of its cryptic plot? Well there will be spoilers for sure, but we aren't sure that we have all t...

It’s a race to the end of 2021 and The Beat of the Month crew are playing racing games! We cover some of the cutting edge racers to come out recently like Forza Horizon 5, revisit some old classics like Diddy Kong Racing, and cover some non-racers with the newly released Call of Duty: Vanguard. It’s a full crew this week with all 8 members, so come join us for a wild ride!

This episode we start to wind things down in the year by playing...whatever we feel like! No theme, no rules, just more games! We play a variety of games such as some Witcher 3 DLC, Titanfall 2 campaign, Diablo 3, Kena: Bridge of Spirits, and more! We round things out with some trivia featuring games that sold 10 million or more copies.

It's the end of the year and the Beat of the Month crew are reflecting on all of the games we played in 2021. The best games we played, the worst games we played, the most over hyped games, games we really wanted to play but didn't get around to...and more! We cover the heavy hitters that you would expect - Halo Infinite, Ratchet and Clank, Metroid Dread, Deathloop. We've also got a to...

The Beat of the Month crew continue to explore the depths of DLC and unanimously decide upon the greatest DLC of all time. Did your favorite make the cut? And before we get into the deliberations, we discuss what makes DLC good in general. Is DLC better if it's integrated into the main game, or is a stand alone experience better? Should DLC continue where the main game left off in terms of difficu...

The Beat of the Month Crew take a look back at their experiences with one of the greatest horror game franchises of all time - Resident Evil! We hit on all the mainline franchise games and share our mixed opinions (everyone doesn’t love RE4?!). And Muff’s back with another round of trivia.

Happy Valentine's Day! For this episode the Beat of the Month crew play a game which features romance...among other things - Doki Doki Literature Club. We run down the entire playthrough (read through?) of this visual novel spoiling everything along the way. If you have any interest in playing this game at all, do that before listening to this podcast! Otherwise, please join us as we share our uni...

Every now and then a game comes along that shapes the rest of the industry for years to come. Games that revolutionize the entire industry or a define a specific platform for the rest of it's lifespan. And sometimes games have those lofty expectations and end up a mere footnote of disappointment. In this episode the Beat of the Month crew explore gaming's all time booms and busts! These are not ne...

It's the end of the year and The Beat of the Month crew are going all out with a full awards show! We discuss the biggest gaming story of 2022, the best character in gaming, most over hyped game, and of course the best game of the year - and more! We also reflect back on our favorite gaming moments of the year and our favorite episode. There are a lot of games to talk about from God of War: Ragnar...

Sonic - one of the icons of the gaming industry - just celebrated a 30th anniversary, so we decided to pay tribute with an episode dedicated to our memories of playing through 30 years of the iconic blue hedgehog's games. Have they all been great memories? Maybe not, but it's still fun to take a super sonic spin down memory lane. We discuss the Sonic games we played in the last month, our favorite...