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We welcome back past beloved guest Jack King-Spooner (Dujanah; Mashina; Judero) to talk about his new game Abide and extreme media, specifically the oft-banned videogame Horses. A wide-ranging, philosophical conversation I think is well needed and timely! Keep your eyes peeled for the kickstarter for Abide! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We welcome Jacob of Workers' Lit on to talk about the best games we've played in 2025! A fantastic run of beautiful work released in this year and others as well brought to you by two handsome, intelligent, aesthetic gurus...what could be better? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We welcome the wonderful Aysha from Workers' Lit and All My Maidens podcasts to talk Sekiro, lore, beauty, intention, and much much more! Find out why this game is probably the Souls game I most remember and Aysha most cherishes! Links to both Dia Lacina articles referenced in today's episode are: here and here. Follow Aysha at ayshaufarah.bsky.social, and find my work anywhere you find No Cartrid...

Liv and Trev reconvene to put two totems of their respective forms in conversation with one another: Mark Z. Danielewski's House of Leaves and Giant Sparrow's What Remains of Edith Finch; two works with many commonalities outside of the core premise of "what if a house was fucked up" (sorry I don't know how to do the blue text thing on here). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/ad...

This week we have Alex Haus from Haus of Decline talking about just about everything under the sun, but also video games, art, music, queer artistry, the golden age of webcomics, Sluggy Freelance and more more more. She was a fantastic guest and y ou should go check out her patreon at patreon.com/hausofdecline ! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We finally get our stuff together and welcome Cameron Kunzelman of The World is Born From Zero, and Ranged Touch, and games journalism, and the upcoming Everything is Permitted to the show! We kind of have a lot of fun with this one, and I'm hoping you all have as much fun as us -- stick around to the end to hear some more about Cameron's new book on the Assassin's Creed series, and pop in up top...

Liv and I link up to talk about the biggest cinematic event in the 8-13 set in Five Nights At Freddy's! For the first time ever, we expect horrible work and get...perfectly fine work? Enjoy watching our brains twist around this one and how much Henson puppets can make the difference! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Liv and I are back covering some of our favorite things in the world: indie video games! The creators of Smile for Me are back with a new one in Great God Grove and Liv and I cover it happily here. How's it compare? How's it play? What do we think? You must listen...to find out! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We welcome the wonderful Will Jobst to the podcast to discuss their new TTRPG framework and homage PLASMODICS. And we talk game design, play, DMing, and so so much more. This is a classic folks, dig in please!! Will's work can be found at https://willjobst.itch.io/! Buy Plasmodics, it's amazing. Art by Zach Hazard! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We welcome Santo (Santo.bsky.social), of Cosmo Champs, CybeRRRevolution, and more! They talk with us about games writing, writing about imperialism, the importance of mechs and magical boys, and even more! If you love queer mech stories, Saint Seiya, or both, this one’s for you! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Liv and I review the absolutely lovely, relaxing, dare I say ARIA-ESQUE Animal Crossing film! Gekijōban Dōbutsu no Mori, released in Japan only, is available through the magic of the internet, and boy is it lovely. Kick back with us and reevaluate the joy of ol Tom T Nook. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Hello! Sorry for being a bit absent this month, but we are back and recharged, and ready to tell you all about what we're planning to do with our podcasting talents in the near and far future. Enjoy hearing some previews about the future (the long future!) of No Cartridge! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Liv and Trevor dig into the delisted but wonderfully dark and intriguing HEATWAVE by DeadDeadDeath -- check out the rest of their work, free to download at https://deaddeaddeath.neocities.org/index.html. This is a fantastic glimpse into a wonderful visual novel that is dark, sexual, political, and intensely different. Trigger warnings abound, so if you're at all triggered by sexual violence or abu...

On the eve of the second ending episode posting on the patreon, this solo episode drops on the main feed! A thorough examination of visual novels, the nature of 100 line as an intervention into the genre, and what I expect from finishing 100 endings bit by bit. Enjoy! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Liv and Trevor wade into the extremely disappointing but also kind of promising but mostly disappointing WING COMMANDER. Thrill at Matthew Lillard and Ginny Holder (of Death in Paradise fame) being asked to save an entire movie's plot! It's all here! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

I welcome DCELL's RJ Spellman on the show to discuss the studio's upcoming rhythm/minigame/anime/critique extravaganza UNBEATABLE. We talk about the demo, the struggles of making a game, what we can expect from the full piece, how a project changes over time, and we go off on hundreds, if not thousands, of tangents. It's good radio folks. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoi...

Liv and I cover Nnedi Okorafor's Death of the Author and Hazelight Studio's Split Fiction for this installment of GG No Reread! A robust discussion of mind versus body, author versus text, and the manifold properties of reception and interpretation. Seriously go listen! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On the main feed due in part because me and Liv get in the weeds (positive) about games and leisure and commitment, and part because I want everyone to know what they're missing not being on the patreon. Go subscribe to the patreon at patreon.com/nocartridge, you are MISSING OUT. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We welcome Emily (Spacequeenemily on bluesky) back to talk us through the final, very serious episodes of Miami Guns! Well okay, *kind* of serious. For this show. Anyway! We finish up a wonderful journey with our bizarre cast of characters and gear up for our next series today. Once again justice is served! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Graham and I are back! And we are talking about some Homicide episodes that are kind of committed to weird 90s things, specifically poetic interludes with Edgar Allan Poe and "straight guys having to find out what gay people do and they're soooo uncomfortable!" Let's say its a mixed bag. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Liv and Trev link up to talk about the engaging and encompassing Blue Prince! What does today's MYST have to say? And is it as much Myst as it is the sort of strange cockeyed adventure game that still sticks with you til today? Find out! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We welcome Charles Star of ALAB and City Saint Country Saint fame to discuss the most recent lashing of Apple in court, in their continuing battle against Epic Games. This one is exciting because someone who knows more than me tells me how the law works and I keep responding with "daaamn, really?" and he then blows my mind further. A must listen. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.f...

Liv and I review the delightful Venba on today's episode! A cooking, parenting, and growing story that taps the much-used bond between place and food to tell an immigrant's multi-generational story in a fresh and compelling way. Really phenomenal stuff, and a lot of discussion to boot! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Liv and Trev talk about the very weirdly designed and produced 1990s film Double Dragon! Is it DOOM? Is it Super Mario Bros? Neither, but both? It has short haired Alyssa Milano though so let's see how far that gets us!! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We rejoin Emily to talk about our favorite duo of dumb American cops who are also Japanese and often smart. The MIAMI GUNS ride again as this No Wall Scroll commences our leap into the latter half of this wonderful little series as we join slashers, beauty pageants, and much and more. Please enjoy! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices