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This week the gang is getting deep into the B-sides, with our game of the month being Cassette Beasts! We discuss this pokemon-like, what we liked, how to break it, and a bunch of spoiler-y details. Also, next month's game of the month is the boomer shooter king, Dusk! Hey, come chill with us at our discord: bit.ly/hoppedupdiscord Beer of the Week: Quarantine Beers Hosts: Chris Norris, Jack Shirai...

This week, Norris doesn't know what's in his drink. Also, the gang talks about Warhammer 40K Boltgun, the most valuable Gamecube games on the open market, Age of Wonders 4, and the best road trip strategies. Hey, come chill with us at our discord: bit.ly/hoppedupdiscord Beer of the Week: Quarantine Beers Hosts: Chris Norris, David Beebe, Mike Parker Music by David Beebe (@norwegianvowels)

Listen, Link needs to do *something* to get those rupees in. Might as well be war crimes. This week, the gang joins up with a special guest, Fake-British tabletop nerd Conor Rooney, to talk about Tears of the Kingdom, Civ 6, Casette Beasts, Darkest Dungeon, some Warhammer 40K, and the current state of video game remakes. Hey, come chill with us at our discord: bit.ly/hoppedupdiscord Beer of the We...

This week the gang discusses the podcast's AI future, the stations of the Korok in Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom, Far Cry 6's intriguing politics, and how to prep for a big warhammer tourney. Hey, come chill with us at our discord: bit.ly/hoppedupdiscord Beer of the Week: Quarantine Beers Hosts: Chris Norris, David Beebe, Mike Parker Music by David Beebe (@norwegianvowels)

Good to drive, Yoda always is. This week! Norris is getting soldering poisoning, Dave is playing some honkey-tonk star rails, and Jack knows a thing or two about force ghosts. Hey, come chill with us at our discord: bit.ly/hoppedupdiscord Beer of the Week: Quarantine Beers Hosts: Chris Norris, David Beebe, Jack Shirai Music by David Beebe (@norwegianvowels)

The gang reels in a big one this week as we do a deep dive into Dredge, the coziest Cthulhu game in town! Hey, come chill with us at our discord: bit.ly/hoppedupdiscord Beer of the Week: Quarantine Beers Hosts: Chris Norris, Steph Fan, Mike Parker, Matt Emery, David Beebe, Jack Shirai Music by David Beebe (@norwegianvowels)

The title is actually based on a conversation we had after the pod. Ask Matt in the Discord to share the video. Also this week we talk about Dead Space, Darkest Dungeon, Warhammer 40K, and a whole bunch of other stuff. It was fun you should listen. Hey, come chill with us at our discord: bit.ly/hoppedupdiscord Beer of the Week: Quarantine Beers Hosts: Chris Norris, Matt Emery, David Beebe, Jack Sh...

This week we find out about cookie dopplegangers, Italian beer excellence, and which extraction shooters are the best. The gang also determines their callsigns, realizes that being a bank teller is the same thing as playing Papers Please, and asks what would happen if Kirby swallowed Donald Trump. Hey, come chill with us at our discord: bit.ly/hoppedupdiscord Beer of the Week: Quarantine Beers Hos...

This week the gang discusses their plans to put together the Bad News Bears of Warhammer 40K, Jack admits his extraction shooter problem, Norris talks on the Resident Evil 4 remake, and we discuss The New Donk City Conundrum inherit to the Super Mario Bros movie. Hey, come chill with us at our discord: bit.ly/hoppedupdiscord Beer of the Week: Quarantine Beers Hosts: Chris Norris, Steph Fan, Mike P...

Momma mia! That's a spicy meatah ball! Fuhgeddaboutit! Spaghetti! Hey folks Pizza Tower is pretty cool and you should check it out. ...Carbonara! Hey, come chill with us at our discord: bit.ly/hoppedupdiscord Beer of the Week: Quarantine Beers Hosts: Chris Norris, Steph Fan, Mike Parker, Matt Emery, Jack Shirai Music by David Beebe (@norwegianvowels)

You just gotta pursue Lu Bu. This week the gang's all about the god's being crazy, with some deep diving into Pillars of Eternity 2. Norris also gives his early review on RE4 Remake (pretty good!), Dave updates us on his time in The Lands Between, and Jack explains to us that Sea of Thieves is actually an extraction shooter. All this and some hardcore Dilbert on the pod! Hey, come chill with us at...

It's a small crew this week, and so the gang just goes wild with whatever we want to talk about. So there's sports! Gamecube games! Game preservation! And a whole bunch more! Hey, come chill with us at our discord: bit.ly/hoppedupdiscord Beer of the Week: Quarantine Beers Hosts: Chris Norris, Steph Fan, Mike Parker Music by David Beebe (@norwegianvowels)

This week the gang figures out a hot new way to make money, some hot new strats for Vampire Survivors, some hot old enemies in Elden Ring, and some hot deflections in Wo Long: Fallen Kingdom. Hey, come chill with us at our discord: bit.ly/hoppedupdiscord Beer of the Week: Quarantine Beers Hosts: Chris Norris, David Beebe, Bill McDonnell, Matt Emery Music by David Beebe (@norwegianvowels)

We celebrate International Women's Day this pod, by discussing the great women in the Donkey Kong family tree. We also discuss finishing Fromsoft games, what our first multiplayer games  were, and honestly just a whole mess of stuff. Finishing FromSoft games, the DK family tree, first multiplayer games Hey, come chill with us at our discord: bit.ly/hoppedupdiscord Beer of the Week: Quarantine Beer...

Seriously can someone ship me a bottle of Peepsi? I'll pay for it. This week we find out which of us don't have rhythm on the pod (spoilers: it's the white boys) as we talk about our game of the month, Hi-Fi Rush! Hey, come chill with us at our discord: bit.ly/hoppedupdiscord Beer of the Week: Quarantine Beers Hosts: Chris Norris, Matt Emery, Mike Parker, Steph Fan, Jack Shirai Music by David Beeb...

But who can? This week the gang learns about sparkling wine, custom keyboard keys, and radio shock-jock voices. On the video game side, we talk about Vampire Survivors addiction, DMZ/Warzone addiction, and some Dark Souls 3 time. Hey, come chill with us at our discord: bit.ly/hoppedupdiscord Beer of the Week: Quarantine Beers Hosts: Chris Norris, Matt Emery, Mike Parker, Steph Fan, Jack Shirai Mus...

Applebees needs to bring back the $1 drink menu or this entire world is going to burn. This week, the gang discusses casual chain dining, Dark Souls 3, getting COVID, Modern Warfare DMZ, and what to watch on netflix before cancelling your subscription! Hey, come chill with us at our discord: bit.ly/hoppedupdiscord Beer of the Week: Quarantine Beers Hosts: Chris Norris, Steph Fan, Jack Shirai Music...

The S stands for vodka this week, as we get in deep on the eldritch spooky that is Signalis. We break down this great indie survival horror, and talk about whether sticking too close to convention is a positive or negative. Hey, come chill with us at our discord: bit.ly/hoppedupdiscord Beer of the Week: Quarantine Beers Hosts: Chris Norris, Mike Parker, Steph Fan, Jack Shirai, Matt Emery Music by...

Let's finish the fight! For part two of our GOTY session, we take last week's individual favourites and yell about them, in the process of determining our true Top Ten games of 2022. Hey, come chill with us at our discord: bit.ly/hoppedupdiscord Beer of the Week: Quarantine Beers Hosts: Chris Norris, Mike Parker, Steph Fan, David Beebe, Jack Shirai, Matt Emery Music by David Beebe (@norwegianvowel...

It's time! Where the greatest minds in video games come together to reveal their favourites of 2022. Come hang out with us during the annual 2-episode special, where we discuss our personal favourites, and then violently argue over a general top ten! This week we'll be going through everyone's individual lists, and give our favourite games of the year their spotlight. Hey, come chill with us at ou...

Gotta do it, it's on the Reward Board. This week we get into the heart of what all good video game podcasts love: local politics and public transportation! We also get into some more DMZ, and talk a bit on Chained Echoes, Signalis, Factorio, and some more gushing on the Steam Deck. Hey, come chill with us at our discord: bit.ly/hoppedupdiscord Beer of the Week: Quarantine Beers Hosts: Chris Norris...

And it's trying to kill us. This week, Norris explains his newest embarrassing addiction (water enhancers), Matt explains *his* newest embarrassing addiction (Factorio), Jack explains *his* newest embarrassing addiction (DMZ), and Dave's all good! Also some talk on God of War Ragnarok, Signalis, the concept of Forever Games, and a whole host of stuff I'm forgetting as I write this up.   Hey, come...

Hail and well met, traveller! Take up the fire with us as we spin you a tale about...roads! And the wardening thereof! For this month's Game of the Month club we're playing Roadwarden, a wonderful narrative text RPG that manages to do a hell of a lot with a little. And for those of you following along at home, our Game of the Month for January is Signalis! It's available on Steam and all major con...

This week we look forward to the year 2023. Surely it can't get any worse, right? Right? We celebrate Matt's completion of Elden Ring by discussing level-scaling, and Jack lets us know Midnight Suns knows her all too well. We also talk about some New Year's resolutions, some games coming out in 2023, and Matt decides to buy a Steam Deck live on the pod. Hey, come chill with us at our discord: bit....

We go all out this week celebrating that most wonderful time of the year! With some discussions on Seinfeld, Roadwarden, Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2: Warzone: DMZ, Darktide, Midnight Suns, and High on Life. Hey, come chill with us at our discord: bit.ly/hoppedupdiscord Beer of the Week: Quarantine Beers Hosts: Chris Norris, Mike Parker, Jack Shirai, David Beebe Music by David Beebe (@norwegianvo...