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Frank, Ash, and Brandon answer questions about episodic games, the ever-changing “average gamer,” and full-frontal Mario.

Hosted by Alex Jaffe, with Frank Cifaldi, Ash Parrish, and Brandon Sheffield. Edited by Esper Quinn, original music by Kurt Feldman.

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SHOW NOTES:

1: When should a game be released in chapters as opposed to all at once? (04:28)

2: How old should a game be before it gets a remake? (09:54)

3: What would you consider the worst timed video game releases in history? (15:18)

4: What is an uncle game? (20:06)

5: Room Check! (29:39)

6: SuperDQP asks, which game franchise should get a “the movie the game” treatment? (38:45)

LIGHTNING ROUND: Pride or Die (46:12)

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The panel you know and love discusses the video game industry crash, Grand Theft Auto VI expectations, and the human body’s fun port. Hosted by Alex Jaffe, with Frank Cifaldi, Ash Parrish, and Brandon Sheffield. Edited by Esper Quinn, original music by Kurt Feldman.

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SHOW NOTES:

1: Are we in a video game industry crash? (06:47)

2: Is there any scenario where Grand Theft Auto VI is a flop? (11:18)

3: What are the biggest tells that a once ambitious game developer is beginning to rest on their laurels? (15:22)

4: What QA notes do you have for the developers of reality? (21:33)

5: Dillson asks years ago, who will the next developer or publisher or voice actor to announce an NFT project? (27:35)

6: On a personal level, what video games most engage your imagiation? (34:16)

7: What are the best games to have on your phone when kids ask if you have games on your phone? (39:47)

LIGHTNING ROUND: Game Namers (44:20)

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Your Insert Credit panel covers the rest of the news from Summer Game Fest, where games come from, and Mortal Kombat fetishism.

Hosted by Alex Jaffe, with Frank Cifaldi, Ash Parrish, and Brandon Sheffield. Edited by Esper Quinn, original music by Kurt Feldman.

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SHOW NOTES:

1: Anything interesting at the other summer game events we didn’t cover last time? (05:36)

2: What are we going to do when every triple-A new game has AI? (19:37)

3: What other Final Fantasy characters should be distributed to fighting games? (21:14)

ONLINE MULTIPLAYER: What do YOU think the John Waters’ Pink Flamingos (1972) of video games is? (29:48)

4: Connrr asks, where do video games come from? (32:28)

5: If you were programming a video game orchestral concert, what obscure track would you drop in there? (38:45)

6: What is the One Piece of video games? (45:15)

LIGHTNING ROUND: Name Design - AFI’s Top 100 Film Quotes (50:47)

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Our heroes confront Summer Game Fest, questions of manners when talking to swords, and another trip to the Omegaverse.

Hosted by Alex Jaffe, with Frank Cifaldi, Ash Parrish, and Brandon Sheffield. Edited by Esper Quinn, original music by Kurt Feldman.

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SHOW NOTES:

1: What did you think of the PlayStation State of Play? (05:19)

2: Why do we do these and who are they for? (16:47)

3: If you could insert one sentence into Geoff Keighley’s teleprompter at Summer Game Fest this year, what would it be? (21:10)

4: CaptainNAC asks, which game would you pick as the secret handle to open a hidden passageway behind a false wall? (26:45)

5: What would you guess are the first five mods a community typically makes for a video game? (35:27)

6: What is the John Waters’ Pink Flamingos (1972) of video games? (40:03)

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LIGHTNING ROUND: Omegaversus (44:42)

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Podcaster and Summer Games Fest host Lucy James joins the panel to cover Hideo Kojima’s AI use, playing as a cat in games, and GamemasterAnthony’s pride parade.

Hosted by Alex Jaffe, with Frank Cifaldi, Ash Parrish, Brandon Sheffield, and Lucy James. Edited by Esper Quinn, original music by Kurt Feldman.

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SHOW NOTES:

1: What’s the most ludicrous video game press release you’ve ever seen? (05:28)

2: How is AI viewed in Japanese development? (11:27)

3: What’s your favorite thing to be in a video game? (14:25)

4: How would you explain Minecraft to Zohran Mamdani? (20:41)

5: Catherine asks, which video game characters would you expect to show up at Pride? (28:10)

6: What lines from or aspects of video games have permeated your real life? (34:39)

7: What is The Mandalorian and Grogu (2026) of video games? (43:43)

LIGHTNING ROUND: OC Remix (49:09)

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Editor and media critic Esper Quinn joins Ash and Brandon in answering more questions from the insert credit forum.

Hosted by Alex Jaffe, with Ash Parrish, Brandon Sheffield, and Esper Quinn. Edited by Esper Quinn, original music by Kurt Feldman.

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SHOW NOTES:

1: marurun asks, who is the most pointlessly bland fighting game character? Moreso than “guy in a karate gi”. (03:17)

2: ana asks, what’s the most common hidden gem? (05:55)

3: yeso asks, has anyone ever cried at one of the Leisure Suit Larry death scenes? (07:48)

4: SteveWithaB asks, is it time to retire the term “gamer”? (11:06)

5: Tradegood asks, if Xbox is Mountain Dew and Doritos, and Nintendo is Coca-Cola and Pringles, what is Sony? (13:40)

6: Death_Strandicoot asks, who should be the first recipient of the Nobel Prize for Video Games? (16:16)

7: Mnemogenic asks, how would you adapt a 10 yen game into a big budget AAA video game? (18:24)

8: Taliesin_Merlin asks, design an Amy Rose video game based on one of the following novel premises. (20:41)

9: Tom asks, what are the seven basic game genres? (23:33)

10: mtvcribs asks, what happened to thong-era final fantasy (26:19)

11: mack41 asks, is Google Maps cop warning alert a strand game? (29:07)

12: beets asks, if you were going to make a table from videogame hardware, what would you use? (30:53)

13: rootfifthoctave asks, is sega the company that gets the most “[not-sega game] feels like a [sega] game” comments spoken about it? (32:24)

14: KingTubb asks, how often do the following characters change their bed sheets: (35:11)

15: PassionQuotient asks, what’s the video game equivalent of reading all of Shakespeare? What about James Joyce? (38:26)

16: Kiki asks, what’s Jollibee? (41:07)

17: YellerDog asks, what game is the most fun with the worst graphics? What game is the least fun with the best graphics? (42:58)

18: adashtra asks, What is the “telling your puppy to stop biting your feet, but he’s so dang cute you don’t wanna yell at him” of video games? (45:20)

LIGHTNING ROUND: Arcade of Our Own (48:58)

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The finest minds in video games discuss flying in games, retaining players over the course of a series, and self-lubricating anuses.

Hosted by Alex Jaffe, with Frank Cifaldi, Ash Parrish, and Brandon Sheffield. Edited by Esper Quinn, original music by Kurt Feldman.

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SHOW NOTES:

1: How do you make flight feel good? (05:48)

2: What makes a good shop theme? (10:22)

3: What are good ways games can reward you for playing the previous entry in a series? (16:48)

4: How could you “walk the room” giving a talk at a video game conference? (21:29)

5: Yeso asks, what is the soda vs. pop of video games? (30:41)

6: What’s the difference between a director and a lead designer in video games? (37:33)

7: What stats would you add to fighting game character bios? (40:14)

LIGHTNING ROUND: 21 Questions (45:51)

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Frank Cifaldi, Ash Parrish, and Brandon Sheffield cover GameStop making an offer for eBay, the hotness of the new StarFox designs, and dead rabbids.

Hosted by Alex Jaffe, with Frank Cifaldi, Ash Parrish, and Brandon Sheffield. Edited by Esper Quinn, original music by Kurt Feldman.

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SHOW NOTES:

1: GameStop isn’t gonna buy eBay, right? (08:56)

2: What are the level 1 magic spells you want to make available to a player in a game? (14:00)

Hang on. Is Indiana Jones’s hat a fedora?

Okay back to Question 2.

3: Are the Star Fox characters hotter now or not? (18:41)

4: Write five clues for a Jeopardy! video game category (24:18)

5: LeFish asks, what is the best French thing in video games, and what is the best fish? (28:57)

6: What is a more useful aggregation tool: Metacritic, which averages scores, or Rotten Tomatoes, which averages positive vs. negative reviews? (33:53)

7: What is the Pee-wee’s Big Adventure (1985) of video games? (37:10)

LIGHTNING ROUND: User Reviews (43:14)

Credit Corner (56:54)

Recommendations and Outro (57:19):

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Our heroes share thoughts on twenty years of achievements, developers responding to player feedback, and whether nail bats count as blunt weapons.

Hosted by Alex Jaffe, with Frank Cifaldi, Ash Parrish, and Brandon Sheffield. Edited by Esper Quinn, original music by Kurt Feldman, episode art by Gilbert Smith.

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SHOW NOTES:

1: When has the appeal of a popular game eluded you? (05:24)

Credit Report (11:40)

2: How have trophies and achievements impacted video games over the past 20 years? (13:39)

3: Let’s talk about that MindsEye DLC (20:21)

4: Give me your dream video game blunt rotation (which is to say, three items to cycle through as blunt weapons in a video game) (25:31)

5: Issac asks, what makes a good sick game? (32:47)

6: To what extent should a studio consider the feedback of their playerbase, and when should they ignore it? (39:34)

7: What is the realizing you’ve been to a restaurant too many times because the workers know who you are by sight of video games? (44:51)

LIGHTNING ROUND: Circle K Corral (51:11)

Recommendations and Outro (59:34):

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Your Insert Credit Panel discusses the future of Xbox, the difference between dad games and mom games, and weird little guys. Hosted by Alex Jaffe, with Frank Cifaldi, Ash Parrish, and Brandon Sheffield. Edited by Esper Quinn, original music by Kurt Feldman.

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SHOW NOTES:

1: When are you convinced to go back to a particular game after putting it down? (02:51)

2: Through video game history, how has the job of level designer evolved? (07:44)

3: What are the differences between a dad game and a mom game? (12:59)

4: Design a video game trilogy intended to grow up with the player base (19:39)

5: Death_Strandicoot asks, is Xbox a third party now? Is there still a Big 3? (28:01)

6: What are some new ways to torture players in masocore games? (33:42)

7: What is the McDonald’s Sprite of video games? (38:42)

LIGHTNING ROUND: GameFAQ&As - Roblox Mobile (43:51)

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