Kaye, Dennis, Jala, and Moxie talk about House of Necrosis, The Last Train Home, Islands of the Caliph, and much more!

The Grind:

• Jala: Fire Emblem: Awakening. Final Fantasy Tactics: The Ivalice Chronicles. Aberration Analyst. Ookami Okami (Demo). Islands of the Caliph.

• Moxie: NOTHING.

• Dennis: Last Train Home. Hades II. War Thunder.

• Kaye: Junji Ito Maniac: An Infinite Gaol. House of Necrosis.

The Multiplayer:

• Gaming opinions that will start a Thanksgiving fight.

The End Boss:

• Valve hardware announcements: Steam Frame, Steam Machine, Steam Controller.

• It’s a very expensive Christmas for gamers’ parents.

• News Tower is a neat historical management sim.

• Remembering Rebecca Heineman.

We love Hitman so much, we had to see where our little, bald, perfect clone with a barcode came from. The levels are smaller, but a lot of the core concepts of what makes Hitman good are still here in the DNA of the series in a more rudimentary form.

EB Farnum-pilled for days.

The kids today don’t know the cautionary tale of Spore, Will Wright’s big gamble on a universal god sim that absolutely didn’t pay off. And even fewer kids know about the avalanche of Spore shovelware that followed EA taking a bath on the main game. It’s so fitting for a game about evolutionary viability to drown in its own ooze.

Kaye, Ben, Dennis, and Moxie talk about Baby Steps, PEAK, War Thunder, and much more!

The Grind:

• Kaye: Baby Steps.

• Dennis: PEAK. War Thunder.

• Moxie: No Man’s Sky.

• Ben: Expeditions: Rome.

The Multiplayer:

• What’s your non-live service forever game?

The End Boss:

• Grand Theft Auto VI delayed by a year. Oh well.

• Someone built a Death Star in No Man’s Sky, and it crashed the game.

• AI robot falls down, goes boom.

If any video game had enough room for a television adaptation, then it's definitely Fallout. Not directly adapting any of the stories from the game, the Fallout TV series takes many of the iconic ideas and character archetypes and creates it's own vision of the Wasteland. What we get is a love letter to one of the greatest video game series ever made.

Next month: The first two episodes of Mutant League.

[Audio Disclaimer: Gwen here. All of the OST audio I could find for Unpacking had some skips in the audio files themselves. I tried to minimize this, but I can still hear them in the finished audio. If you hear it as well, just know that I worked with the best versions I could find.]

What stories do our objects tell us about ourselves? Unpacking attempts to get the player to connect to an unseen person who's objects we become intimately familiar with. It's also a game about chores. Does it make you cry?

Featuring a brief appearance from instant fan favorite Perry Menopauz, and a fair amount of consensual Odo Play.

We thought there would be meat on something called “Action Man”, but then we found out that it’s just a re-badging of what we in America know as G.I. Joe. Which is disappointing. While we wait to talk about these exciting “Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles” next week, we also discuss the Free Willy animated series, and try to decode why kids everywhere are saying “6-7”.

Time to get the real meat of this sandwich. RICO starts the seasons-long plot of the Sandpiper case. A lot gets wrapped up in it: Jimmy's personal fortune, Chuck's return to HHM, the souls of many elderly law-abiding citizens. Jimmy thinks this is his big break, but will he be able to keep his dignity?