Basement Gaming

We have risen from the dead! Basement gaming returns with a player 3, John! Join as we discuss the 2025 Game Awards and our thoughts on the future of gaming consoles.

Welcome back to the basement! We decided the best way to come back from a long break is to look back and reflect on the  best and worst of video games of 2022. Come listen to the Basement Gaming Awards(TM) as we give out our accolades for best game of 2022 and much more!

On this special episode we have another side quest! We test our trivia knowledge with special guest from Trivia Rewrites, David! David prepared a gauntlet of video-game related questions to see who is the biggest bank of useless knowledge.

Link to Trivia Rewrites  - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/trivia-rewrites/id1497590399

This week we discuss our history with LAN parties, and give the next generation important tips on how to throw the most memorably LAN parties. Snacks, games, ambience, we cover it all!

As the once great Staind once said, it's been a while. Welcome back! This week we discuss IGN's top 100 games of all time. How accurate is the list? Is it even possible to make a list like this without the rage of 1000 nerds coming after you? Tune in to find out!

Herb has taken a sip of the Xbox Kool-Aid and purchased a 3-month subscription of Xbox Game Pass for PC! What does he think about it, and what are our thoughts on other subscription services like Sony's PlayStation Now? 

This week we give our opinion on Sony's most recent State of Play, and discuss how June just doesn't feel the same without E3. Listen to us talk about our favorite E3 and gaming convention memories, and why we think E3 and the hype machine it created has died.

We are at the height of the Games as a Service (GAAS) era of gaming. Why does it seem like companies still can't stick the landing? For every Bungies there seems to be 5 Anthems. We discuss why we think GAAS is having a rough launch, and what kind of business models we prefer for our video games.

The Overwatch 2 beta has launched, and it looks and feels just like Overwatch 1! This brings up the question, when should games be a sequal vs just an expansion to an existing game? Which do we prefer more? We discuss the philosophy of Sequels vs DLC and who gets it wrong or right in the games industry.

Blizzard revealed the next World of Warcraft expansion, Dragonflight. Will it be good enough to bring WoW back from the grave, and will it convince Herb to come back to the game?