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For October this year, we thought we’d get REALLY spooky with it and turn to our Patrons for their very own Phobiagorias! Listen up for clowns in toilets (really), clowns in showers (yep), and the most unsettled you’ll ever hear Beau and Brandon because of an audio loop. Thanks, Patrons, for the continued nightmares! We love it! There's a lot more where this came from, so for more hop on over to o...

The spooky season ghostly shenanigans continue this week with Sweet Home, the 1989 Japan-only Capcom game for the NES that basically kicked off the survival horror genre and established many of the most-beloved elements of the original Resident Evil! We had veeeeerrrry different levels of enjoyment with this one, but between the frustrations and the praise we manage to find some common ground, as...

Spooky season has begun! This year we're sourcing ghosts, and kicking off the exploration is the 2001 film Thirteen Ghosts, a remake of the 1960 film of the (almost) same name. We talk satanic architecture, admire the lawyer-slicing doors, lament the lack of any Trunchbull to accompany Miss Honey, and share some (possibly better left unshared) lore about the ghosts Cyrus locked in his glass mansio...

And so, our own journey to the west comes to a conclusion. This week we bid the Monkey King a heartfelt zài jiàn and finish our exploration of the character by way of a deep dive on Game Science's 2024 action role-playing game Black Myth: Wukong! We've trekked through the New West, emerged from the Webbed Hollow, and are now deep in spoiler country- so for those who haven't finished the game, trea...

Turns out Black Myth: Wukong is kinda long, so we're pushing our conversation on the game to next week in order to give ourselves a few more days to finish monkeying around and collect our thoughts. But hey, this is actually good news! Because the Wukong episode is coming in a week late, we've decided to make it up to all you lovely listeners by releasing our latest Patreon-exclusive episode here...

We're still working our way through Black Myth: Wukong, but in between boss battles we're celebrating the game's release by continuing our exploration of various adaptations of its source material, the classic Chinese novel Journey to the West! In this third leg of our podcasting journey westward, we discuss the first six episodes of the original Dragon Ball series. That means a discussion about c...

Since August is spooky season in Japan, we thought we'd close out the month with a teaser for our next episode of Phobiagoria, the series all about revisiting shit that scared us as kids! This time: The Ring gets reevaluated by Beau (who's been so afraid of it since the first time he saw it that he hasn't rewatched it) and Brandon (who really doesn't get why people think this one is scary). We tal...

Black Myth: Wukong is out, and we're celebrating the game's release by continuing our exploration of various adaptations of its source material, the classic Chinese novel Journey to the West! In this second leg of our podcasting journey westward, we discuss the 2008 film The Forbidden Kingdom, starring Jet Li and Jackie Chan! Surprising no one, we find a way to pivot back to toilet humor, but it's...

Black Myth: Wukong is almost here, and we're preparing for the game by kicking off a two-month exploration of various adaptations of its source material, the classic Chinese novel Journey to the West! In this first leg of our podcasting journey westward, we discuss Monkey, the abridged version of the novel. Along the way we get nerdy with history, linguistics, and translation differences between v...

Summer is in full swing, so what better time than now to fire up the grill, pack a few brewskis in the cooler, and... roll that d20? We're building a full range of barbecue options over on our Patreon bonus episode this month, and rolling the dice to see whether the cookout fates will be serving us up the good, the bad, the ugly, or... whatever word would sufficiently describe that Swedish salad m...

We interrupt your normal podcast feed to bring you some breaking DNN headlines. As a summation to our month exploring the idea of America, this episode is all about one of the most American games ever made: Metal Wolf Chaos! Join us on an odyssey across a greatest hits of locations around these United States (and also Houston) as we take on the role of President Michael Wilson and pilot his armore...

If you're looking for some novel vs. movie comparative analysis, then we have just the episode to stimulate your brain bugs! All through July we'll be looking at media that explores the idea of America, and first up this month is a discussion about the 1959 novel Starship Troopers and its 1997 film adaptation! Along the way we talk big, broad themes, explore what it means to successfully satirize...

Our Patreon bonus episode for June is the culmination of a month spent discussing dads, and in celebration we've created a new game we like to call Magic: The Daddering! Each of us has a deck of fictional fathers we've sourced from across the media landscape, and we'll deploying them in a contest to decide whose chosen dads can best answer pivotal life questions and offer the best dadvice for tric...

June has been a month for dads, and we're closing it out with a look at one very dad hobby by way of a not-so-dad method: the video game adaptation of the bird-themed engine-building board game Wingspan! This episode has definitely earned its explicit content warning, and all it took was saying a few bird names aloud- but in the midst of ornithological obscenity we've got considered insights, earn...

Hi, how are ya! June is a month for dads, so we're pulling on our best pair of jorts, easing back in the recliner, and lazing away the afternoon with the 2005 film adaptation of Clive Cussler's novel Sahara! This is an episode about confusion: are those pounds weight, or UK currency? How did that Confederate ironclad make it across the Atlantic? Why are these enemy soldiers so bad at... everything...

May was a month for magic, mothers, and military, and that last one is coming to you by way of MachineGames' 2014 Wolfenstein: The New Order! So grab your moon shoes and make sure your hands are free, because we've got a weapon wheel full of Nazi elimination devices- and when we go Nazi hunting, we go dual wielding. Want to support our show? Pay what you can at our Patreon Want to contact us? Emai...

May is a month for moms, so in celebration we watched Mamma Mia! (And if it weren't part of the title of the movie, we'd happily remove that exclamation mark). We've got penguin-walking Teletubby choreography with packs of hunks, dippy-ti-dippity-doo melodies, and... we'd probably have more to tease here, but it seems while we were groaning and trying to avert our eyes from the mess on screen, we...

In celebration of Mother's Day, we've got a giant helping of... evil stepmother? Okay, so the baroness may not be the best representative of all the mothers out there, but hopefully she can still help us remember to appreciate ours. This version of the Cinderella tale may lack the more magical elements, but we think it more than makes up for it with the riveting tale of Countess Caribou Coffee's j...

It's May! A month for mothers, military, and... magic, because alliteration. First up: magic, by way of the 2005 film adaptation of our favorite warlock, Hellblazer's John Constantine! We gush about our love for Satan (there was probably a better way to phrase that), workshop better endings to the movie, and talk about kicking the smoking habit, which is particularly tough for magicians; they seem...

As an addendum to our exploration of Alone in the Dark, we’re closing out April with our first episode of Phobiagoria, a new series all about revisiting shit that scared us as kids! First up: Are You Afraid of the Dark? gets reevaluated on a trip through two episodes that traumatized our dumb little kid brains: The Tale of the Fire Ghost and The Tale of the Renegade Virus! We’ve got body horror an...

Our exploration of the Alone in the Dark series concludes with the 2024 reboot/reimagining of the original game! Is this the big comeback the franchise has been waiting for? Or is it better left... alone? Grab an ice pick and your best trilby, throw on a doom jazz playlist, and let's find out! Want to support our show? Pay what you can at our Patreon Want to contact us? Email us at sourcenotfoundp...

Alone in the Dark is back, and we're celebrating its return with a month-long exploration of the franchise! First up: Uwe Boll's 2005 "adaptation" of the games, an experience that may or may not have caused us both a pretty severe bout of existential dread. The plot holes in this one are basically caverns, so grab your dad’s oversized ren faire jacket, don some protective paintball body armor, and...

It’s Beau’s birthday month, so gather all your sandworm pals and let's celebrate Saturn finishing another trip around the sun (you might say our current location doesn't appear to be Saturn, but when has that ever stopped anyone). Patrons are currently enjoying a long, fulfilling discussion about Beau's favorite movie Beetlejuice, as well as our lamentations concerning the abomination that is the...

Bracket season concludes with part two of our video game console design competition! Which system will end up being crowned Source Not Found's most aesthetically pleasing console of all time? Will we choose cubes over wings? VMU over haptics? Can the Switch's functionality overcome its complete lack of curves? Do Androids Dreamcast of Electronic Sega? Get in here and find out! Want to support our...

It's the third month of the year, so you know what that means: March (insert non-trademarked term here)! As you might expect, our bracket season is completely devoid of sports, so instead we've got a two-part competition dedicated to deciding which home video game console design is the most aesthetically pleasing of all time! Along the way, we'll also consider some other age-old queries, such as:...