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This week on Thumb Cramps, it’s the final week of Threebuamecube and to help say goodbye they’re joined by Studio Folly’s Darcy Smith to look at Super Smash Bros. Melee for the Nintendo Gamecube, Teardown DLCs for the PC and Marvel Rivals for the PC. Plus, a round of Real Bird, Fake Bird and a reminder that Thumb Cramps can get you in real life.  Play Real Bird, Fake Bird Here Email us at Thu...

This week on Thumb Cramps, the Threebuamecube hype continues as your video game boyfriends are joined by Adam Carnevale to look at Geist for the Nintendo GameCube, A Game About Digging A Hole for the PC and BirdGut for the PC. Plus an unbelievable amount of Doom talk, a tease for upcoming Thumb Cramps content and a plea for the hosts of Talking Talk Tuah to come on the podcast. Email us at ThumbCr...

This week on Thumb Cramps, Threebuamecube continues to break records as they’re joined by Chloe Appleby and Ruby Innes to look at Mario Kart: Double Dash for the Nintendo GameCube, Sulfur for the PC and Infinity Nikki for the PS5, the PC and the phone. That’s right, there’s not one but TWO beautiful guests this week! It has never been better to be a gamer.  Email us at ThumbCrampsPod@gmail.co...

This week on Thumb Cramps, Viewtiful Joel and Peter Jackson’s Bing Bongly are joined by one of the biggest gamers of all time, Andrew Levins, to help celebrate the start of Threebuamecube by looking at Viewtiful Joe for the Nintendo Gamecube, Glover for the Nintendo 64 for the PC and Blade Chimera for the PC. Plus Glover 2 news for all the Glover fans out there. Email us at ThumbCrampsPod@gmail.co...

This week on Thumb Cramps, it’s the second ever first ever live episode of Thumb Cramps, recorded live at Nighthawks Bar on Wednesday Jan 22 2025 with very special guest host Ruby Innes as part of Januwe’reinperson2020fliveuary 2025 live. This episode they talk all about games they’ve been playing in the holiday break as well as bold Nintendo Switch 2 predictions. Thumb Cramps can’t stop breaking...

This week on Thumb Cramps, it’s the first ever live episode of Thumb Cramps, recorded live at Nighthawks Bar on Thursday Jan 23 2025 with very special guest host Ruby Innes as part of Januwe’reinperson2020fliveuary 2025 live. This episode they talk all about their Games of the Year 2024 and a prediction for a game that will be on their Game of the Year 2025 list. Plus, spaghetti alarms and the wor...

This week on Thumb Cramps, it’s the final episode of the year and to celebrate the year that was, Thumb Cramps are counting down the Top 5 Moments in Thumb Cramps in 2024. A walk down memory lane that serves as both a listenable experience and a great first episode for new listeners to catch up on the last 49 episodes of the podcast. Thank you again to XZ Neal for the Thumb Cramps Wrapped report a...

For the second time this week, it’s a brand new episode of Thumb Cramps and they’re looking at all the big announcements from Geoff Keighley’s night of nights, The Game Awards. To ensure that they don’t lose touch with the audience, Thumb Cramps have also invited Cass Paige to join them and hear all about video games! She loved being there! Check out the full breakdown on GamesHub here Email us at...

This week on Thumb Cramps, it’s the first episode of season three and they’re joined by GamesHub’s very own Steph Panecasio to celebrate Weezercember to take a look at Wave Break for the SteamDeck, Get to Work for the PC and Seducing Death in The Sims 4: Life & Death and A Date With Death on two screens simultaneously. Plus a potential new favourite dad and soaking innovation. It’s good to be...

This week on Thumb Cramps, it’s time to celebrate the most festive time of year Weezercember and to help with the celebrations they’re joined by Joel Zammit and Adam Carnevale to look at The End of the Game the Game for the PC, Marvel’s Midnight Suns for the Steam Deck, Pirates Uber Alles for Total War 2 for the PC and Having Johnny Baby for real life. Find out what games are giving Weezer and jus...

This week on Thumb Cramps, it’s the final week of Novemberween and to celebrate the end of such a spooky month, they’re joined by the only guest to die mid episode of Thumb Cramps, Hayden Bleechmore, to look at Lost in Vivo for the Steam Deck, Home Safety Hotline: Seasonal Worker for the PC and Inside for the Nintendo Switch. Plus a lot of jeans talk and begging for tickets to Japan. Spooky episod...

This week on Thumb Cramps, it’s time for red hot video game reviews to shoot up your butthole as they’re joined by James Clement AKA Mr Sunday Movies to take a look at Silent Hill for the PS Vita, Iron Meat for the PC and Star Wars Outlaws for the PS5. Plus the announcement of a second live show! Are tickets sold out by the time you’re seeing this? We do not know. Hope that helps! THUMB CRAMPS: JE...

This week on Thumb Cramps, your video game boyfriends are joined by everyone’s favourite gamer Ruby Innes to look at Hrot for the PC, I Am Your Beast for the Steam Deck and The Rise of the Golden Idol for the iPad. All of them are spooky games for Novemberween if you think that murder is scary and i think we can all agree it is. OoOoOoOo. Also come to the live show please. THUMB CRAMPS: JEFF IT WE...

This week on Thumb Cramps, it’s the spookiest time of the year NOVEMBERWEEN and to continue the thrills they’re joined by Mr. TikTok himself, Andrew Levins, to look at Cursed to Golf for the Nintendo Switch, White Knuckle for the PC and Fallen Leaf for the Steam Deck. Plus some breaking news, ventriloquist deep dives, normal emails and a wonderful update to an old classic. Another terrifying episo...

This week on Thumb Cramps, it’s the spookiest time of the year NOVEMBERWEEN and to celebrate Thumb Cramps are joined by Ethan Taylor from Summerfall Studios and Lily from Beethoven & Dinosaur (formerly of Summerfall Studios) to look at Silent Hill 2 (Remake) for the PS5, The Lake House DLC for Alan Wake 2 for the PC, Fear the Spotlight for the PC and Mouthwashing for the PC. So many spooky gam...

This week on Thumb Cramps, it’s the last week of PAXtober and while the convention might be in the past, the essence of PAX (making the video games) is in the now so who better to join your video game boyfriends than real life actual full on video game creators Darcy Smith (Studio Folly) and Woody (Beethoven & Dinosaur). Join them this week as they look at Super Mario Party Jamboree for the Ni...

This week on Thumb Cramps, it’s time to break another world record by recording the first ever third ever podcast recorded live from the floor of PAX and look at Sonic x Shadow Generations, Metaphor: ReFantazio, Footy Bash, Game Over: A Musical RPG, The Crew Motorfest, Hexaquest, My Arms Are Longer Now, Matchmaker, Isopod, 420 Blaze It 2, Paraglock, Shelf Life, Ascending Inferno, Dumb Ways to Die:...

This week on Thumb Cramps, it’s PAXtober! PAX Australia starts TODAY and to celebrate they’ve invited the most important member of video game journalism in Australia, Ruby Innes, to join them in the studio to look at Lorn’s Lure for the PC, Ratchet and Clank for the PS Vita and Parappa The Rapper for the PS One. New segments, new themes and new ideas are all present in this very normal edition of...

This week on Thumb Cramps, it’s PAXtober! PAX Australia is this month and to celebrate Thumb Cramps is dedicating all of October to those involved with panels, games and related activities. To kick the month off, Thumb Cramps are joined by Joel Zammit and Adam Carnevale from D&D is for Nerds to look at The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom for the Nintendo Switch, Blood West for the PC and Aga...

This week on Thumb Cramps, it’s the final week of No More Guests ‘Til September Ends but yet again your video game boyfriends have TOTALLY blown it by inviting James Clement (AKA Mr Sunday Movies) to join as they look at Marvel vs Capcom Fighting Collection for the Nintendo Switch, Duolingo for the Phone and Robocop: Rogue City for the PS5. Plus they’re ranking meats and meeting a dangerous charac...

This week on Thumb Cramps, we are so sad to report that the rules of No More Guests ‘Til September Ends are broken as Joel and Jackson are joined by their tour mate, friend and huge gamer James Clement (Mr Sunday Movies) to look at Thank Goodness You’re Here for the Nintendo Switch, Mad Max for the PS4 and Deadly Premonition Origins for the Nintendo Switch. This episode was recorded live from a ho...

This week on Thumb Cramps, No More Guests ‘Til September Ends continues with Joel and Jackson alone in the studio on the eve of their UK tour as they look at Astrobot for the PS5 and Chop Goblins for the PC. Plus a lot of listener’s fridges and Donkey Kong talk. They love looking at all these fridges. Normal video game podcast. Plumbing the Death Star and The Weekly Planet UK live shows are here!!...

This week on Thumb Cramps, it’s No More Guests ‘Til September Ends as your two gamer boyfriends go at it alone to review video games and remain normal while looking at Pizza Tower for the Nintendo Switch and Omochapon for the Nintendo Switch. Will this isolation make Thumb Cramps better or worse? Only time will tell.  Plumbing the Death Star and The Weekly Planet UK live shows are here!! Buy...

This week on Thumb Cramps, it’s the final week of Pile of Shamegust and unfortunately host Joel Duscher has been struck down with an illness so it’s up to co-host Jackson Baly to team up with his good friends/gamers Adam Carnevale and Hayden Bleechmore to look at Penny’s Big Breakaway for the PC, Little Kitty, Big City for the PC and Luigi’s Mansion 3 for the Nintendo Switch. Also cucking. This go...

This week on Thumb Cramps, your video game boyfriends are still digging into their pile of shame to celebrate Pile of Shamegust. Joining them for the ride is Cass Paige to look at The Evil Within for the PS5, Shadows of Doubt for the PC and New York Times Word Games for the phone. If video games aren’t for you, don’t worry, they’re also ranking meats and looking at a fridge. Truly something for ev...