Épisodes

  • The Oral Histories of Video Games (with Matt Leone)

    The Oral Histories of Video Games (with Matt Leone)
    Nov 14 2025
    This week's guest is Matt Leone, former Special Projects Editor at Polygon. Hear all about his new website Design Room, and his work on the oral history of Final Fantasy VII and and Shadow of the Colossus.

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    1 h et 13 min
  • Two Giant Men Play Super Mario Galaxy

    Two Giant Men Play Super Mario Galaxy
    Nov 7 2025

    A deep dive into an all-time classic on Wii. We'll do this again on Monday for Super Mario Galaxy 2, exclusively for Patreon XL Tier members!


    This week's music is from the Super Mario Galaxy soundtrack by Koji Kondo and Mahito Yokota.

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    2 h et 2 min
  • What We've Been Playing (Dispatch, Absolum, The Séance of Blake Manor, Ninja Gaiden 4), Mailbag + The Worst Zelda Quiz Ever

    What We've Been Playing (Dispatch, Absolum, The Séance of Blake Manor, Ninja Gaiden 4), Mailbag + The Worst Zelda Quiz Ever
    Oct 31 2025

    Games discussed: Dispatch, Absolum, The Séance of Blake Manor, Ninja Gaiden 4, Hell is Us.


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

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    1 h et 51 min
  • Episode 250: 10 Games We Enjoyed During Steam Next Fest – Plus a Handful of Duds

    Episode 250: 10 Games We Enjoyed During Steam Next Fest – Plus a Handful of Duds
    Oct 24 2025

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


    Samuel's games: Reanimal, Birdcage, Lumines Arise, The Killing Stone, Evil Egg, Skate Story, Ambrosia Sky, Cairn.


    Matthew's games: CiniCross, No More Work For Ito, Opus: Prism Peak, The Remake of the End of the Greatest RPG of All Time, The Seance of Blake Manor.


    We won't list the duds, but one was Bubsy 4D.


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    1 h et 58 min
  • The 'Games Set in Japan' Hall of Fame (plus Absolum and Ball X Pit)

    The 'Games Set in Japan' Hall of Fame (plus Absolum and Ball X Pit)
    Oct 17 2025

    Following our moderately good episode about games set in Britain earlier this year, we assemble a list of the 10 key games set in Japan. Did we get it wrong? Probably. Plus: a mini 'What We've Been Playing' episode about two recent download games we've been digging!


    This week's music is from the Persona 4 soundtrack by Shoji Meguro.

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    1 h et 40 min
  • What We've Been Playing (Ghost of Yotei, Silent Hill f, Baby Steps, Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Revisited)

    What We've Been Playing (Ghost of Yotei, Silent Hill f, Baby Steps, Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Revisited)
    Oct 10 2025
    Matthew has Covid! Poor chap. At least he got through all six seasons of Justified while recovering. Here are the games discussed this week: Silent Hill f, Ghost of Yotei, Baby Steps, No, I am not a human, Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 and the latest Golden Idol DLC.

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    1 h et 42 min
  • Reassuringly Finite (with Jon Denton)

    Reassuringly Finite (with Jon Denton)
    Oct 3 2025

    Music podcaster and former games journalist Jon Denton is our guest this week! Hear about Jon's journey from gamesTM to being pals with The Weeknd.


    This week's music is from the Super Mario World soundtrack by Koji Kondo.

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    2 h et 2 min
  • The Best Games of 2017

    The Best Games of 2017
    Sep 26 2025

    A massive year for games, a bleak year for at least one giant man. One of our oldest and most popular podcast formats is back, more than two years after our 2016 episode!


    This week's music is from the Yakuza 0 soundtrack by Kensuke Inage and Yoshihiro Arai.

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    2 h et 57 min