After 2 years, Mike Bithell returns to Brookago to share his experience with his latest title, Subsurface Circular. We talk about writing humor in games, experiences in VR, pricing indie titles, and Mike's podcast. Check it out!

This week, we are super happy to bring on Robin Hunicke, Co-Founder of Funomena, to talk about her new game Luna! We dig into some game theory, why treating players like people is important, and where she would love to see games go next.

Rabbi Eric Linder returns for a discussion of God, music, movies, and memory.

Cicero has been reborn as the Bourbon Baron, and Shareef has to deal with his madness.  This week features talk about scary games, VR price drops, speedrunning demos, and Short Circuit 2. Move to Brookago, and we will paint you gold and make you an american citizen.

This week, we talk loot boxes in Forza and Shadow of War, what we've been playing this week, and we dig into the Cuphead difficulty controversy.

David Sparks, a.k.a. MacSparky, joins Brett for a Top-3-Picks-only episode. And of course to talk about the new book they co-wrote.

Destiny raids, RUINER, and Cuphead all get covered in terms of what we’ve been playing. We talk about whether controllers have hit their peak and...is playing Pac-Man in the casino wrong?

Ben Haumiller, Associate Producer from EA's Madden team, joins us this week to talk about the new game and its FANTASTIC new story mode, “Longshot”. We dig into NFL politics and ask about if Madden could ever #takeaknee like Colin Kaepernick did.

We should probably talk about Apple stuff. But then lets talk about really good TV before the Emmys that Brett probably won't watch. Ok. What do you say we wrap up with talking about really old movies?

Elle Newman, a yoga teacher, facilitator, life coach, and long-time friend of Brett's is the first guest in a new series of Top-3-Picks-only episodes of Systematic where we'll let the picks and resulting conversations do the talking.