The Pitch

Join your favorite Angry Birds characters: Red! Bomb! Poopy flame bird! As they rescue their eggs from immigrants.

It's bad!

In which a series of useful hypotheticals about self-improvement are considered.

One of our least favorite game coverage schticks is pretending that a game’s concept is so wacky that you can’t understand it. You play as a mosquito who’s tormenting a family, and it’s a flight sim? Okay, cool, I get it. A domino wants to run little courses? Sure, why would I try to stop him? A studio’s whole deal is putting aquatic life in strange situations? This can totally fit in my brain and it would diminish us all to pretend that’s not the case.

Dare you accept the dark gift? What will you do to hold onto your humanity? What secrets await you in Real Lich Hours Season 2? Come find out, if you dare.

Walter is tricked by Hank. Hank is tricked by Walt. Nobody tricks Jack.

We would like to thank Gwen Static for composing our theme song, and Trent Peters for creating our great podcast art.

Kaye, Ben, Dennis, and Moxie talk about Half Sword, Auridia, Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, and much more!

The Grind:

• Moxie: Fallen London. Borderlands 3.
• Kaye: Auridia.
• Dennis: Clair Obscur: Expedition 33.
• Ben: Clair Obscur: Expedition 33. Half Sword.

The Multiplayer:

• What games do you need to play all the way to the end?

The End Boss:

• Grand Theft Auto 6 delayed to 2026.
• Xbox prices are going up.
• Rogule.com is a neat daily roguelike generator.

How many zombies is too many zombies? Probably about one campaign of Resident Evil 6. Prepare to be worn down until you don't like this pretty good game with the sheer amount of content it offers.

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One monster, 200 angry faces and you. (I feel like I've used that one before but there was a lot of Ben Folds talk in this one.)

Listen, Mercenary Force isn’t a bad game at all. It’s actually quite interesting, if a bit too hard. A side scrolling shooter where you control four feudal Japanese warriors? It’s a good premise! Nobody knows what Gary was thinking when he brought this one.

“Why is one of the hosts named differently? What happened!?” Kaye is transitioning! Find out more here.

Kaye, Ben, and Dennis talk about Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, The Last of Us Part II Remastered, The Blue Prince, and much more!

The Grind:

• Dennis: Clair Obscur: Expedition 33.
• Ben: Clair Obscu: Expedition 33. The Blue Prince.
• Kole: The Last of Us Part II Remastered.

The Multiplayer:

• Let’s talk about when the story doesn’t match up with the play.

The End Boss:

• Flapper Bird revival drops all of the scammy Web3 stuff.
• Moldwasher is a very cute pixel art powerwashing game.