Time to do what Gary and Will do best: A completely normal Monster Blitz episode of Everything To Guppy.

Our search for Ravel Puzzlewell takes us to the Civic Festhall, the home of the Society of Sensation. Here we listen patiently to lectures, taunt some statues, and go into the stone zone.

Other Topics:

• Up on a Soapbox: Alignment

• Character Close-Up: Anna

Gus teaches his employees about the American way.

Kaye, Ben, and Moxie talk about Reanimal, Hozy, Quasimorph, and much more!

The Grind:

• Ben: Slay the Spire 2. REANIMAL. Mewgenics.

• Moxie: Quasimorph. Marathon.

• Kaye: Marathon. Hozy.

The Multiplayer:

• What game’s aesthetic works for you, even if you don’t play it?

The End Boss:

• They’re making a Backrooms movie.

• Elden Ring movie set photos published.

• Chris Pratt doesn’t know very much about Mario.

• The Rooks are unionizing.

It's true, we loved Katamari! And now it's back, bigger and more sticky than ever. Gary is joined by Liv Butterfield (no relation) this week to discuss the direct sequel to the beloved Katamari Damacy.

Finally, the show Gary and Will have been dying to do for years: An in-depth exploration of what Will would rather do than go to a stranger's house party on his birthday. Also we talk about the music/popular movie scenes annotation site Genius.

Haven: Call of the King is a PS2 platformer that doesn’t want you to think it’s a platformer. It wants you to think it’s anything and everything all at once. That’s why they don’t want you to call it a “platformer”, they want you to call it a “FreeFormer”. Which is… hey listen, we’re really sorry about this one, a lot of the episode is dedicated to trying to figure out how to get Gary a wheelbarrow. We fucked it up. Give us a chance again next week.

Don't worry everybody, Mike has a very complicated plan. Jimmy gets arrested.

Kaye, Ben, Dennis, and Jala talk about Super Battle Golf, Expelled!, The Drifter, and much more!

The Grind:

• Jala: Cyclopean II: The Dreamlands and The Bagman (demos). The Dark Queen of Mortholme. Expelled!. The Drifter.

• Dennis: Marathon. Slay the Spire 2. iRacing.

• Kaye: Marathon. Super Battle Golf. Fatal Frame II: Crimson Butterfly Remake.

• Ben: Mewgenics.

The Multiplayer:

• What kind of game do you like even though you’re bad at it?

The End Boss:

• PlayStation price hikes hurt everyone.

• Star Wars: Zero Company looks neat!

• Fan makes Buffy text adventure in attempt to revive revival.

• MindsEye studio CEO blames terrible game on saboteurs.

Everyone's favorite sci-fi idiot is back and this time there are MORE zombies or whatever. Dead Space 2 iterates on the rough edges of Dead Space 1, but it does it ultimately move the needle? The game remains as dedicated as ever to it's third-person in-world HUD, but we must question whether that actually makes things any scarier.