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Episode 253: The Oral Histories of Video Games (with Matt Leone)

This week’s guest is Matt Leone, former Special Projects Editor at Polygon.

November 14, 2025
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Episode 252: Two Giant Men Play Super Mario Galaxy

A deep dive into an all-time classic on Wii.

November 7, 2025
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Episode 251: What We've Been Playing (Dispatch, Absolum, The Séance of Blake Manor, Ninja Gaiden 4), Mailbag + The Worst Zelda Quiz Ever

Samuel butchering a bunch of Zelda quiz questions. It has to be heard to be believed.

October 31, 2025

Episode 250: 10 Games We Enjoyed During Steam Next Fest – Plus a Handful of Duds

A deep dive on the demos we tried during Steam Next Fest, hopefully giving you a few things for your wishlist.

October 24, 2025

Episode 249: The 'Games Set in Japan' Hall of Fame (plus Absolum and Ball X Pit)

We assemble a list of the 10 key games set in Japan. Did we get it wrong? Probably.

October 17, 2025
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Episode 248: What We've Been Playing (Silent Hill f, Ghost of Yotei, Baby Steps, Expedition 33 Revisited, Plus More)

Matthew has Covid! Poor chap. At least he got through all six seasons of Justified.

October 9, 2025

Episode 247: Reassuringly Finite (with Jon Denton)

Hear about Jon’s journey from gamesTM to being pals with The Weeknd.

October 3, 2025

Episode 246: The Best Games of 2017

A massive year for games; a bleak year for at least one giant man.

September 26, 2025

Episode 245: Mailbag (Now Featuring Trace Amounts of Nutritional Value)

It’s a bloody mailbag! Please save your shrugs for the end.

September 19, 2025
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Episode 244: What We've Been Playing (Mafia: The Old Country, Shinobi: Art of Vengeance, Kirby on Switch 2, Hollow Knight, MGS Delta: Snake Eater, Shuten Order)

The stack of games we’ve been chewing through lately.

September 5, 2025