Garbage Game Night

The gang dives into Apple Arcade Games trying out Fox's Warped Kart Racers and Hello Kitty Island Adventure. Frank Hosts this week's two-fer episode!

In the quickly growing field of extraction shooters, The Cycle: Frontier was an exciting newcomer. Once one of the most wishlisted games on steam, just 12 months after launch it announced it's sunsetting. What happened? And can Tom and Bob make friends in the game? We check it out on this shallow dive. 

Do you want to be a filthy creature moving who fails at everything and travels from jail to jail? Lord of the Rings: Gollum might be for you. Shortly after recording this, Daedelic Entertainment announced they are no longer developing games. 

Launched in 2021 and scheduled to shut down in June of 2023, Knockout City is a frantic play 'dodgebrawler'. In this episode we check out what the game is all about, it's struggles to retain a player base and how it plans on going out with a bang. See you in the tournie!

It was 1993 and rodents with attitude were all the rage. In this episode of GGN we take a look at 3 of the brand mascot characters that never quite took hold. We reviewed 'Awesome Possum Kicks Dr. Machino's Butt', 'Rocky Rodent' and 'Rocket Knight Adventures' in this week's episode of Garabage Game Night. For episode citations and more information visit GarbageGameNight.com

A mere 200 days after launch the world's best (?) Melee-focused, Wrestling-themed BR is shutting down. Did it deserve it? We do a deep dive, from the rafters, on Iron Galaxy's Rumbleverse and try to unpack why it would be pulled from Epic stores after a mere 6 months. 

In 1994, at the peak of the 90s NBA-mania, EA had a simple idea: take the most popular big man in the league and put him in a street fighting game. The game was met with confusion and criticism, but maybe it was before it's time? or maybe it's just garbage! We check it out this week. 

It's our second annual Garbage Gift Night! We've picked out each other games available for under $5. Streets of Rogue, Banners of Ruin, Rounds, Egg-k-47, and 'A game that saves the muscles caught in the ceiling of the gymnasium'. We talk through each of these games and whether we recommend them!

On this special episode filled with Holiday Hijinks Frank explains the entire plot to the hit 1995 film Jingle All The Way and we try out the officially licensed card game, in person, in one tiny room. Make sure to check out the YouTube version for Victor's recreation of the film in front of a greenscreen!

"IT LOOKS LIKE BIOSHOCK!" everyone said as they set their expectations far too high for a indie studio game. Compulsion Games took that as a challenge and stepped up their development, partnering with Gearbox to turn a $30 survival game into a premium title with a story driven narrative. How did it work out and why did it drop off everyone's radar? We explore this game and other dystopian worlds i...

Coming out days before the second Zombieland movie, the dev's managed to snag 1 of the 4 main cast members and created a twin stick shooter using the characters signature moves such as... manipulating time and space... and spinning around like a tornado punching things... join us as Frank Hosts and does a 5 minute film with the Zombieland movies and we doubletap our way across the country!

Chess 2 is finally here. Your loyal subjects have abandoned you and you've taken down your royal shotgun. Rapid arcade developer PUNKCAKE Delicieux created this game within 72 hours and dropped it on Steam within a month. Is it good? We put it to the test on this episode of Garbage Game Night!

We let Frank host again, for episode 69. Frank takes us through the saucy history of adult video games and manages to make the time fly while we unlock these anime girls from their prisons. 

Spellbreak is the latest, and perhaps best Battle Royale-focused game to announce they're calling it quits, so you know the GGN crew is sweeping in to pick up the scraps. We check out Proletariat's 2020 release and talk what went wrong and what went right as we discuss wizards and witches. 

AAA developers set the bar high with expecyations and flop, but what if a developer doesn't have a bar at all? Havishamone Games presents Candice Debebe an incomprehensible character and world of lore backed by some of the most confident and bold story telling and original music GGN has ever encountered.

The groundbreaking franchise Battlefield is back with it's newest entry and things are... not going well for them. The garbage gang checks out this massive online FPS, that is, if our computers can run it...

Resident Evil, beloved father of the survivor horror genre has spawned a monster. In this 20th anniversary game for the franchise, Capcom attempts to turn the game into an e-sports shooter. How did it go? Well, we're covering it on GGN. We talk RE franchise, dead online games and recent video game news this week!

After nearly 7 years in development, the SEGA published Aliens game developed by Gearbox emerged from it's incubation in 2013. The world did not like what it saw. It was savaged in reviews after perhaps overpromising with demo footage and such a long development window. We're taking a look at what happened in development and whether it's possible to enjoy this co-op campaign adventure by packing 6...

Be All You Can Be, specifically, an army recruit! On the eve the official AA servers shutting down, we give America's Army a whirl and talk about how tax dollars ended up funding a video game, whether it's any good, the concerns about video games as a recruiting tool and whether they are the ultimate measurement of a super soldier! We also talk about Pentagon involvement in Hollywood and get absol...

Frank hosts in this look at everyone's favorite and most lovable IP, Popeye. Who could forget the classic characters such as Bluto, Olive Oyle, Swee'Pea, and Wimpy. Well, we had, so Frank takes us through a 5-minute-film w/ Frank covering the entirety of 1980's Popeye starring Robin Williams and Shelley Duvall. Then we launch into the game and discover platforming style gameplay without jumping, F...

Georgio Manos is the worlds first revolving limousine driver, what is that? It's exactly what it sounds like. This week the gang checks out No Goblin's debut game, an arcade puzzle game that might just be cringey enough to be endearing.

Using the power of video games Raya Systems (later, Health Hero Network) was on a mission to teach kids about Diabetes, Cigarettes, Asthma and Diabetes again. We cover the entire library of games from this developer as we talk about efficacy of games as a learning tool and potential plot holes with asthmatic dinosaurs.

Hatoful Boyfriend, otherwise known as the pigeon dating simulator has got us egg-cited. Let us take you under our wing as we explore this world of drama, mystery and egrets. Fortunately, there's nothing too unpheasant in the content, but will it be impeckable enough to make the grade, or just be...hawkward.

Ubisoft has announced that their 1.5 year old Battle Royale, Hyper Scape is closing down. Have you have heard of it? Most of us hadn't! We take crack at it and talk about how this game flopped and what lessons can be learned from forgetting to put personality into a game.

Spore, the 2008 Maxis game from famed developer Will Wright has a simple scope - ALL OF LIFE. With the largest scope of any game how could they possibly fail? The hype for this release was huge and the critic scores were pretty good, yet, in 2022 the idea that the game we got had been 'ruined' is everywhere. We played SPORE and have opinions! Chris, Frank, Tom, Carley and Hunter tackle life itself...