You Like the Worst Stuff

We've all seen it... the Switch 2 is real, and it's exactly what you would expect. Which has some folks a little disappointed. How do your Worst Pals feel about it? Also in this episode... – NOT LIKE THIS: The Better eShop. – AND FOR YOU: a free Steam code! – PLUS: Tony mentions a book again! This podcast is mixed by Joe Fourhman and includes Joe Haygood, Tony Sadowski, Joe Fourhman and Ka...

First recording of 2025, and it's both a look back (our failed 2024 resolutions) and a look forward (our admission of failing at resolutions in 2026.) Also in this episode... – CHRISTMAS GIFT REVEALED: What did Fourhman buy with Haygood's gift money? – AND FOR YOU: a free Steam code! – PLUS: Cryptmaster, WWE 2K24, Life is Strange! This podcast is mixed by Joe Fourhman and includes Joe Haygood, Ton...

RECORDED AT THE VERY END OF 2024!!!! Your Worst Pals are looking back at a terrible year and keeping our eyes closed as 2025 begins. We'll go through our personal Yeahs and Un-Yeahs for the year, and we'll reveal our Game(s) of the Year! We'll also look back to our 2023 picks on what we thought 2024 would deliver... and make the same baseless predictions/requests for 2025! See you all nexCONTROL-D...

It's time for another You Like the Worst Stuff holiday special! This year we look forward with furrowed brows and red-rimmed eyes as we contemplate 2025. Who can save us? Die Hard? Blind Melon? PlayDate? John Madden? This podcast is mixed by Joe Fourhman and includes Joe Haygood, Tony Sadowski, Joe Fourhman and Kat Riley on vocals. You can download the podcast directly from here or click on one of...

Following up on our Game Awards voting show, Haygood and Tony swing in with eight correct predictions... but Kat is the real winner with her support of Astro Bot! In this week's show, we talk about the winner lineup and the show in general. And how about those third-party accessory Switch 2 leaks? – AND FOR YOU: a free Steam code! – PLUS: Visions of Mana, Cozy Grove, Indiana Jones! This podcast is...

On this week's episode, we're talking about our favorite video game soundtracks... but not the usual dusty old classics, we're not mooning over NES DuckTales or those Donkey Kong games. We're picking the best of the past ten years! (With a couple asterisks for re-releases. Hey, if DLC can win a Game of the Year award, we can give a remaster a listen!) Also in this episode... – AND FOR YOU: a free...

Settle down with your low-fi pals and enjoy a live voting session for The Game Awards! We're goofed up on hop balls and making our picks in such categories as "Most Anticipated Death Stranding Sequel" and "Best DLC Even Though We Made It So DLC Could Win The Whole Thing." You're going to hear a lot of Balatro, Metaphor and Astro Bot partisanism... and oddly enough, a lot of Casino Night Zone? This...

Big holiday weekend in the USA, including the most important holiday of all: Black Friday! This year we're talking about Black Friday before it happens, and it's only about 10% less boring than when we talk about it after it happens. Also in this episode... – NAHVERBS: Fourhman's Proverbs save is gone. – ASTRO BOTS, ROLL OUT: Yes, Astro Bot is that good. – AND FOR YOU: a free Steam code! – PLUS: A...

It's game awards season, and in this episode (recorded before nominees were announced) we point and laugh at the reveal that DLC is now eligible in all categories. Gee, what do you think is going on there? Also in this episode... – WELLNESS CHECK: Is Phil Spencer ok? – HELLNESS CHECK: Mobile is the future of gaming! – AND FOR YOU: a free Steam code! – PLUS: Legend of Zelda, Agatha All Along, Beast...

Tony and Kat get together to talk about how they slogged through the post-election week after America voted the way it did. Right now, we need community. What better community is there on this planet than podcast pals? – RESIST: Get your bearings. Get back up. Get involved. – IRRESISTIBLE: Get a free Steam code! – PLUS: The Onion. Taylor Swift. Pocket Camp's $10 rebirth. Nintendo Music again. Hell...

The Nintendo Music app is real...and it's nostalgia-tacular! Haygood and Tony blast into your earholes with a two-player episode packed with Wii Channel music beds, a soothing balm for the (old) gamer's soul in trying times. Once the pop-pops finish their hobble down Memory Lane... – SONOPOLY: Sony shutters two studios and draws criticism for anti-competitive practices. – IT'S A DATE: But only a v...

Steam Next Fest just wrapped up, and you can see the long shadow of Balatro taking shape! And how about this amazing giant Minesweeper game!?!?! Also in this episode... – ALL ABOUT THE MALL: We talk longer than you would think about the Mall of America. – (NOT)EXCLUSIVE: Xbox did a thing. – AND FOR YOU: a free Steam code! – PLUS: DC Vertigo, Bodies Bodies Bodies, Couplets This podcast is mixed by...

Every time an Alarmo rings, an angel named Nintendo gets another $100! This week, we discuss just how uncomfortable Alarmo makes us, and also confess who ordered it anyway. Also in this episode... – IN POG FORM: Halo has, apparently, returned. – CEL-SHADE: Haygood watched the Borderlands movie. – AND FOR YOU: a free Steam code! – PLUS: Visions of Mana, Tiny Terry's Turbo Trip! This podcast is mixe...

Sony came out swingin' with a meaty State of Play presentation and Your Worst Pals come out swingin' with hot and cold takes on the games and chrome face plates they showed off! Also in this episode... – GAME OF THE YEAR: Balatro hits mobile! – BOOK OF THE YEAR: The Plucky Squire hits Switch! – SHOCK OF THE YEAR: Haygood finished a game! – AND FOR YOU: a free Steam code! This episode was mixed by...

The PS5 Pro has been announced and people are mad! And why? Of course it's expensive, but what do any of you care of Sony takes a bath on it? Also in this episode... – OUR VOTING ERA: Taylor Swift is registering voters. – OUR FUNKO ERA: Haygood is playing Funko Fusion. – AND FOR YOU: a free Steam code! – PLUS: Assassins Creed Origins, Summer Reading Club, Astro Bot! This podcast is mixed by Jo...

Time to spill a little more audible ink about Concord, as your Worst Pals sit stunned over the game's ignominious removal. This is how audiences should have reacted to the first Guardians of the Galaxy movie! Also in this episode... – DISTASTE TEST: Haygood tries out the latest ridiculous potato chip flavor, LIVE. – SHOWCASE MESS: Why did Nintendo do a Partner Showcase and an Indie World back...

Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp, is the longest supported Animal Crossing game... but not for much longer. The 2017 release is transitioning to a fully offline version this November. How does that work? This thing was all timers and in-app purchases and junk??? Also in this episode... – DISCORD: What if they release a hero shooter and nobody came? – AND FOR YOU: a free Steam code! – PLUS: T-Swift, Sh...

The Xbox 360 is finally gone. Perhaps the last mostly successful thing ever to come out of Xbox no longer has a functioning storefront. Our own Joe Haygood had an eleventh hour spending spree, so let's see what he picked up and should have put down. Also in this episode... – DISSEQUELS: D23 brings more of the same, because something has to sell action figures. – AND FOR YOU: a free Steam code!...

Marvel is so back. Sort of. Deadpool x Wolverine is a hit, and we've got our Dr. Doom in a very low effort kind of way. Mr. Haygood is fresh from seeing the Deadpool movie, so we're having a (appropriately warned) spoiler filled discussion about it! Also in this episode... – SANS ANDREAS: Voice actors on strike, but not for GTA? – AND FOR YOU: a free Steam code! – PLUS: Miles Morales, Wher...

Haygood and Tony dig into the list of the 100 Highest-Grossing Animated Films, inspired by the success of Inside Out 2 . A little trivia time starts us off - do you think YOU can name the Top 5? Then, they reveal their personal favorite animated movies and some underrated gems. PLUS: There's a free Steam game code for the first lucky listener to cash it in, some real talk about the Xbox Game P...

Haygood and Tony team up for the long-awaited return of this very podcast after some...technical glitches. When that summer breeze hits and makes us feel fine, mistakes are bound to happen. What was lost? What's still worth talking about? Honestly, being worth talking about has never stopped us before! – HERO SWITCH: Zelda takes the lead at long last! – BEYOND COMPREHENSION: New content in BG&...

We said it couldn't be done, but the mad lads did it, and MultiVersus is back! Haygood and Fourhman are playing it, so we have a little rundown of what's new, what's lousy, and what utterly confuses us. Also in this episode... – NEVER-ENDING: Kat clues us in to a new movie! – PLAYSTATION HIVE: What did we think about the new State of Play? We're Astro Bot fans... but Concord? – AND...

Big, big rumor week as Microsoft gets bad press over something they did not even do. Those guys can't win for trying these days! Also in this episode... – IGN+: More consolidation, and it ain't pretty. – AND FOR YOU: hold on to your butts, here's FOUR free Steam codes! – PLUS: Playdate, Summit, Tunic! This podcast is mixed by Joe Fourhman and includes Joe Haygood, Tony Sadowski, Joe Fo...

We're still trying to understand what's going on at Microsoft, but we're coming around to the idea that Xbox is doomed. Again. Tango, Arcane, Game Pass, Phil Spencer what are you doing? Also in this episode... – SOCIAL TEDIOUS: Nintendo dumps Twitter integration, finally. – BIG STRETCH: We're all-in on Little Kitty Big City. – AND FOR YOU: a free Steam code! – PLUS: Spec Ops: the L...

First up this week, a Video Game Current Event that already folded! At recording time, we talked about the utter mess of Helldivers 2, but Sony has already backpedaled so this episode is now just grist for somebody's future graduate studies project. Also in this episode... – SPECIFIC DRIVE: We maybe feel a little bad about how Pacific Drive operates. – BETTING ON DIG-DUG: Dave & Busters em...