This week we drop some hot fire on ska, Ja Rule, Uwe Boll, and Billy McFarland in our first-ever Monday sode. We undergo relationship therapy to get over some past relationships we've had with games, Explain the Hype behind Anthem, then we build our very own Fyre Festival video game.

This week we invited Lynn back on to talk about romance in video games and there was free booze so we all got a little rambunctious. We dole out some helpful tips in case you forgot Valentine's Day, discuss the good, bad, and ugly of love in games, and compare video games to relationships. And stick around because Peterson and JD are playing Apex Legends and gush all about it in Explain the Hype.

This week we invited Aaron Walth back to talk tabletop games and Frosted Flakes. We talk about what we're playing, which tabletop games should be digitized, and what goes into pimping out your games. Oh and of course we dig into the effects various food colorings have on jr. high manhood - it's very informative.

This week is all about how AAA studios are killing the gaming industry. We discuss which devs would benefit from decoupling from their publishers, talk about what studio we want to make a Star Wars game, and then break down why indie developers are the only hope to save video games. And JD makes an argument that Hideo Kojima is the Yoko Ono of the games industry.

This week we welcome back Dani Powers to take your listener questions! We talk about some amazing video game mashups, our biggest gaming regrets, adapting games into TV series, and Dani tells us about the alternative controller game she's working on (spoiler: it's set in space).

You listened, you laughed, you voted, and 2018's Blursties results are in! After bidding farewell to 2018, we make some insane predictions about 2019 and talk about what has us most excited for the upcoming year.

This week is all about the most under appreciated part of video games - animation! We invite on Ubisoft Sr. Gameplay Animator Tyler Hamill to learn us all about what goes into animation in games. We talk about falling off brooms in The Sims and why Hamill spends so much time staring at his hands. And JD makes a Dice of Destiny MOBA pick!

This week we prepare for the new year by talking about our 2018 GOTYs and our 2019 New Years resolutions. JD reviews Last of Us after beating it in under a week, and Peterson gushes over his Dice of Destiny game.

This week we wrap up our annual worst of the year awards show with our nominations for worst studio, sequel, decision, writing, launch, and gamer rage. Peterson gets kudos for a new cereal recommendation, Spencer puts the podcast on blast, and JD sings Smash Mouth - it's the perfect way to end 2018.

It's the most wonderful time of the year, so of course we've gotta talk about the worst of the year in our annual Blursties awards. For part 1, we invite on comedian Jay Whittaker, who tries valiantly to resist our natural negativity. We nominate our biggest disappointments, worst names, most overrated games, and our least favorite characters of 2018.