Not Your Mama's Gamer

This week we talk about our most anticipated games of 2025. Will there be overlap? Will Victoria list Silksong...again?

What We're Playing
Hello Kitty Island Adventure
Avowed *
Party Animals
Slay the Spire Board Game
For the King II
Streets of Rogue
Call of Duty: Black Ops 6
The Life and Suffering of Sir Brante
Lethal Company

What We're Reading
Master of Djinn by P. Djeli Clark
The Poisons We Drink by Bethany Baptiste
The Fireborne Blade by Charlotte Bond
Harpo Speaks by Harpo Marx

What We're Drinking
Garage Brewing Co. Marshmallow Milk Stout
Crangrape juice
Cherry Republic Hard Cherry Cider

*Code received for streaming and review purposes

This week we talk about the Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 campaign. Caution: SPOILERS ABOUND!

What We're Playing
Call of Duty: Black Ops 6
Luma Island
Longvinter
Balatro
Stardew Valley
FO76
Phasmophobia

What We're Reading
The Bone Witch by Rin Chupeco
Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros
Iron Flame by Rebecca Yarros
A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas
A Court of Mist and Fury by Sarah J. Maas
The Hooligans of Kandahar by Joesph Kassabian

What We're Drinking
Quinta de Infantado Ruby Port
Diet Pepsi, the elixir of the gods

This week we talk about gifts we are giving and getting this gift giving season (or any time of year).

What We're Playing
Last Time I Saw You*
Inscryption
Nobody Saves the World
Lies of P
Metaphor: ReFantazio

What We're Reading
The Echo of Old Books by Barbara Davis

What We're Drinking
Stone Imperial Seasonal Stout
Coffee and sadness

*Code received for streaming and review purposes

This week we talk about the Call of Duty series in some critical, yet random, ways.

What We're Playing
Balatro
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare III
Fallout 76
Wingspan
Papers Please
Bayonetta
Bayonetta Origins: Cereza and the Lost Demon
Metaphor: ReFantazio

What We're Reading
What the River Knows by Isabel Ibanez
From Dissertation to Book by William Germano

What We're Drinking
Mountain Dew
Sparkling Ice + Caffeine, Strawberry Citrus

*Code received for streaming and review purposes

This week we talk about short games and the purpose they serve for us as individuals.

What We're Playing
Balatro
Castaway
Critter Cove*
Spiritfarer
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare III
Fallout 76
Lies of P
PlateUp
Still Wakes the Deep

What We're Reading
Starter Villain by John Scalzii
Star Wars: Thrawn Treason by Timothy Zahn

What We're Drinking
Sapporo
Uncle Nearest and Fever Tree Ginger Ale
Water

*Code received for streaming and review purposes

We're back from hiatus and we've survived the first half of 2024.

What We're Playing
Balatro
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare III
Deep Rock Galactic
Fallout 76
Fields of Mistria
FFVII Reunion
Hues and Cues (board game)
Lies of P
Piles (card game)
PlateUp
Still Wakes the Deep
Very, Very Valet

What We're Reading
The Monsters We Defy by Leslye Penelope
Star Wars: Thrawn Ascendency by Timothy Zahn
Avatar, the Last Airbender: The Reckoning of Roku by Randy Ribay

What We're Drinking
Pineapple Monster Ultra and Sparkling Water
Orange Juice
Uncle Nearest on the rocks

*Code received for streaming and review purposes

This week we talk about the games that we are most looking forward to in 2024...maybe.

What We're Playing
Ship of Fools
Disney Speedstorm
Board Games (Sherlock Holmes, Avatar: Crosswords of Destiny, RISK: Medieval Europe)
Return from Core*
PalWorld

What We're Reading
Priory of the Orange Tree by Samantha Shannon
Star Wars Thrawn

What We're Drinking
Pineapple Monster Ultra
Sprite
Old Rasputin Russian Imperial Stout
*Code received for streaming and review purposes

This week we are talking about our favorite games of 2023 as we look forward to 2024.

What We're Playing
Dead by Daylight
Baldur's Gate 3
Palia
Born of Bread*
Bilkin's Folly*
Call of Duty*
*Code Received for streaming and review purposes

What We're Reading
Avatar Comics
The Legacy of Yangchen by F.C. Yee
Thrawn by Timothy Zahn
The Priory of the Orange Tree by Samantha Shannon

What We're Drinking
Modern Times Coffee Roasty Stout
Grapefruit Radler

This week we are talking about living our best (or worst) lives among the stars in Starfield.

What We're Playing
Starfield
Inscryption
Baldur's Gate 3
Moving Out 2,
Persona 5 Royal
Illiterati
Call of Duty
Fae Farm*
Tiny Witch*
*Code Received for streaming and review purposes

What We're Reading
Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros
Thrawn by Timothy Zahn
In Every Generation A Slayer is Born: How Buffy Staked Our Hearts by Evan Ross Katz
Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir
From Blood and Ash 1 and 2 by Jennifer Armentrout
Air Awakens 1-3 by Elise Kova

What We're Drinking
Sprite
Samuel Smith's Chocolate Stout
Grapefruit Radler

This week we are talking about the cozy aesthetic and how your faves can be problematic.


What We're Playing
Sims 4* (with Horse Ranch DLC)
Pikmin 4
Palia
Venba*
Atelier Marie
Persona 5
Tears of the Kingdom
Dicey Dungeons
Railway Empires 2
7 Wonders Duel
Diablo 4
*Code Received for streaming and review purposes


What We're Reading
Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros
Thrawn by Timothy Zahn
Avatar Legends Republic City Expansion
The London Seance Society by Sarah Penner
In Every Generation A Slayer is Born: How Buffy Staked Our Hearts by Evan Ross Katz


What We're Drinking
Cherry Limeade
Two Towns Ciderhouse- Strawberry Lemonade
Chocolate Malt