Play, Watch, Listen

We promised you we'd talk about Arcane. Surprising nobody, we didn't.

This week, Troy joins us from an airport and I am very sorry about it. But also, we discuss a headline choice (and subsequent article) regarding Call of Duty fans and their purchasing decisions, before diving into a discussion about if playing games is 'required' to work in the games industry. 

This week, Austin and Alanah enthuse about Ghostbusters: Afterlife and Mike asks questions. Great interviewer, that Mike.

This week, Alanah, Austin, Troy, and Mike attempt to dissect what makes games so expensive, versus the obvious costs that contribute to the expenses of filmmaking. It's a lot of Nespresso machines, turns out.

This week, Alanah, Mike, and Austin try to figure out what on earth is most likely to win 2021 game of the year awards.

We're back from break! And a little late, due to internet problems. We discuss returning to international travel, a little bit about Dune, Chris Pratt playing Garfield, and more.

Please refer to the title.

A talk about slow burns in Midnight Mass (spoiler free, and featuring Rahul Kohli), archery (somehow?), and the combination of hard work and inherent talent. Video games are somewhat present, Alanah is not.

This week, Alanah, Troy, Mike, and Austin talk about demo disks in cereal boxes, game design, and Deathloop. An entirely gaming podcast from your favourite gaming podcast, wow. What a triumph.

Instead we talk about 9/11 and social responsibility. But there is a TINY bit of Deathloop, I really tried.

Austin and I saw John Williams live, and Troy is very excited about The Matrix.

This week, we talk about how actors view good acting, why we like the performances we do, and the 'cost' of voice acting, for the actor and indie and AAA studios. It's an almost entirely on-topic episode - you're welcome.

And also we start talking about 12 Minutes. We said we'd continue it, which means we almost definitely will not.

We're back! Troy got a cool mask, there's some controversy surrounding a game called Boyfriend Dungeon, and what does "consent" mean in video games?

Also: we're taking a break. It's not you, it's me. No, really.

A discussion of Kotaku's recent headlines that, of course, somehow ends up getting existential and profound because we can't help being who we are, okay?

We didn't make a single joke about the episode number, but we did speak at length about the future of video game storytelling and narrative design!

This week, we talk about indie studios being bought up all over the place, and discuss how feasible it is to exist without a publisher. Also, more hotel etiquette, including an excessive use of towels.

The headlining topic is at around 45 minutes, and there are some spoilers for RE8 from this point onward. Otherwise, standing desks, dogs, and player agency!

E3 is briefly mentioned but this week's episode of your #1 video game podcast mostly talks about absolutely anything and everything else.

We talk about games we haven't played and feel guilty about, and the next God of War game being on multiple platforms. I don't know what happens after that, someone please let me know.

This week, join Austin, Mike, and Alanah to talk about the progression of E3 and how it's likely to change, and influence different facets of the games industry as it does. There's only one tangent and it's about... radio broadcast. I'm not sure why either.

This week, we talk about Mass Effect, Returnal (sort of, more next week, hopefully), Resident Evil and how single-player games have to be strongest in their earlier moments. 

Honestly, I'm not going to lie to you, we mostly talk about a movie that came out in 1988.