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Welcome to Party Select, where two dudes and a guy who’s their friend talk about the best thing there is: video games. It's that time of year! Against our better interests, we decided to hash out our collective top five video games of 2025. The fact that it was so hard to do proves what an amazing year for video games this was. Leave your favorite games in the comments below! Enjoy! GAMES DISCUSSE...

Welcome to Party Select, where two dudes and a guy who’s their friend talk about the best thing there is: video games. In this episode, we're trying to play as many games as we can before our 2025 Game of the Year deliberations begin later in December. The Outer Worlds 2 may come up again but Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 definitely will not. We also talk some random retro game bullsh*t before looking...

Welcome to Party Select, where two dudes and a guy who’s their friend talk about the best thing there is: video games. In this episode, Ghost of Yōtei and Pokémon Legends: Z-A face off in a very unfair battle. We also catch up on some of the biggest indie releases of the last month in Dispatch and Ball x Pit. Battlefield 6's single player campaign is certainly one of the shooter campaigns of all t...

Welcome to Party Select, where two dudes and a guy who’s their friend talk about the best thing there is: video games. It's 2004! Spider-Man 2 is in theaters, Nintendo just launched the DS, and Janet Jackson's nipple is the highlight of the Super Bowl halftime show. Also there were good video games! Join us for an always contentious discussion narrowing down to our collective top five video games...

Welcome to Party Select, where two dudes and a guy who’s their friend talk about the best thing there is: video games. Consoles are too expensive! Xbox Game Pass is too expensive! Everything is too expensive! And yet, we still be gaming. CHAPTERS (00:00:00) Welcome to Party Select (00:05:13) Quick Question (00:10:02) Episode Agenda (00:13:58) September Game Select: Indiana and the Great Circle: Th...

Welcome to Party Select, where two dudes and a guy who’s their friend talk about the best thing there is: video games. We're two-thirds through 2025 and it's been quite the year. Great video games, weird video games, weird and not so great state of the video game industry. The trend continues this month with Sword of the Sea, Is This Seat Taken, and Mafia: The Old Country. And we've got plenty mor...

Welcome to Party Select, where two dudes and a guy who’s their friend talk about the best thing there is: video games. It's 2003! Peter Jackson's epic The Lord of the Rings trilogy comes to a close as The Matrix and X-Men get solid sequels. Fantasy, sci-fi, and comic books nerds are happy. But what about video game nerds? Well, as our list proves, we were pretty happy too. Come along with us for a...

Welcome to Party Select, where two dudes and a guy who’s their friend talk about the best thing there is: video games. We're into August and there doesn't seem to be a whole lot of summer slump going on. That is, besides the bummer of a time you experience when playing Destiny 2. We've also got conflicting thoughts on DK Bananza, a few new indies that are bringing the vibes, an update on our favor...

Welcome to Party Select, where two dudes and a guy who’s their friend talk about the best thing there is: video games. In this episode, the boys travel back to 2002, when developers still had not figured out how to do 3D action games (or make good licensed games on Game Boy Advance). Here are the worst games of 2002! Games Discussed: Antz Extreme Racing, Blade II, Gungrave, Ice Age, Metal Dungeon,...

Welcome to Party Select, where two dudes and a guy who’s their friend talk about the best thing there is: video games. We are at the quarter century mark (big yikes) so let's take a look back at the best games to come out in the last 25 years! Rather than make a collective list like we usually do with Game of the Year, this time we're just celebrating our individual Top 25s with a countdown. Games...

Welcome to Party Select, where two dudes and a guy who’s their friend talk about the best thing there is: video games. The state of the world and the state of the video game industry continue to be pretty dire, so let's all disassociate together and chat about some fun (and not so fun) video games! We also go deep on the ROG Xbox Ally X and what it means for the future of Xbox consoles, talk throu...

Welcome to Party Select, where two dudes and a guy who’s their friend talk about the best thing there is: video games. In this episode, the boys travel back in time to the era of The Two Towers, Chamber of Secrets, Sam Raimi's Spider-Man, and Tom Brady's first Super Bowl win (gross). It's 2002 and there are also good video games. Games discussed: Animal Crossing, Battlefield 1942, Crimson Sea, Ete...

We watched all the Summer Game Fest conferences and only some of them were a waste of time! Hear our thoughts on the biggest games shown at PlayStation State of Play, Xbox Games Showcase, Future Games Show, Wholesome Direct, PC Gaming Show, Day of the Devs, and Summer Game Fest proper! *** Join our party for game reviews, retrospectives, rankings, reactions, rants, and a bunch of other random stuf...

Welcome to Party Select, where two dudes and a guy who’s their friend talk about the best thing there is: video games. Cody is back from his European honeymoon and the boys have a lot to yap about: the biggest May releases (and plenty of older games), predictions and (low) expectations for Summer Game Fest announcements, an important update on our Fantasy Critic league, the biggest gaming releases...

Welcome to Party Select, where two dudes and a guy who’s their friend talk about the best thing there is: video games. In this episode, the boys travel back to 2001 when the video game chicks were thicc and the video game dudes were thicker. The attitude era of the 90s was over but some of the hardcore angsty names remained. Here are the worst video games of 2001! Games discussed: Batman: Gotham C...

Welcome to Party Select, where two dudes and a guy who’s their friend talk about the best thing there is: video games. Cody is on his honeymoon so it's a throwback to The Shea Hates Everything Podcast! Shea and Kyle catch up on some of the biggest April releases, chat about Microsoft matching Nintendo's game price increases, wax poetic about the sorry state of legacy games media, and highlight som...

Welcome to Party Select, where two dudes and a guy who’s their friend talk about the best thing there is: video games. In this episode, the boys take a trip back to middle school in 2001 and discuss the absolute best games of the year. Games discussed: Advance Wars, Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance, Black & White, Burnout, Conker's Bad Fur Day, Dark Cloud, Devil May Cry, Dynasty Warriors 3, Final...

Welcome to Party Select, where two dudes and a guy who’s their friend talk about the best thing there is: video games. In this episode, Shea, Kyle, and Cody have opinions about that Nintendo Switch 2 Direct and some of the pricing info that's come out in the wake of the event. But besides shattering Nintendo fanboy dreams, the guys catch up on some of the big releases from March, take a walk down...

Welcome to Party Select, where two dudes and a guy who’s their friend talk about the best thing there is: video games. In this episode, we're taking a look back at our favorite video games of the 90s and determining which ones go down as the all-timers. As we say in the video, every game we talk about here is amazing, so please don't hate us if we cut one of your favorites! Games discussed (in alp...

Welcome to Party Select, where two dudes and a guy who’s their friend talk about the best thing there is: video games. In this episode of Party Select, Shea, Kyle, and Cody introduce a few new segments: Game Select, where the guys dive deep on a game they've all been playing each month; Playlist, where they catch up on everything else they've been playing; Critical Hits, where each of them brings...

Welcome to Party Select, where two dudes and a guy who’s their friend talk about the best thing there is: video games. It's our first episode! Shea, Cody, and Kyle introduce themselves by talking about their earliest gaming memories, biggest gaming achievements, favorites types of games, and what you can expect from the Party Select Podcast. It's gonna be a fun time! CHAPTERS 00:00:00 - Intro and...

(not clickbait) Shea and Kyle are back for one final episode of the Shea Hates Everything Podcast, but don't worry, we've got big things in the works! This isn't the end.   CHAPTERS (00:00:10) Intro and Today I Hate (00:01:19) Podcast Update (00:17:16) Animal Well (00:27:41) Dynasty Warriors Origins (00:40:54) Sulfur (00:44:39) Ratchet and Clank Future: Tools of Destruction (00:47:57) Killzone (00...

Some games are good. A lot of games aren't. Shea and Kyle depart on a podcast journey through time and space (mostly time) to tell you, with an unearned level of authority, which 2024 video games do not suck. In this episode, the brothers are pleasantly surprised to learn they played a lot of the same games for once!    CHAPTERS (00:00:00) Introduction (00:05:35) 7 Days to Die (00:12:07) Alan Wake...

As a lead-in to our actual Game of the Year podcast, Games That Don't Suck 2024, Kyle and Shea are breaking down their favorite games (and some of their not favorite games) in a variety of categories. This episode focuses in on the best surprise games, best astro bots, best games delayed out of 2024, and best styyyyyle. Games discussed (in alphabetical order): Abiotic Factor, Assassin's Creed Shad...

As a lead-in to our actual Game of the Year podcast, Games That Don't Suck 2024, Kyle and Shea are breaking down their favorite games (and some of their not favorite games) in a variety of categories. This episode focuses in on the best old games we played in 2024, the best writing, the best music, and the worst characters of the year. Games discussed (in alphabetical order): Alan Wake 2: The Lake...