The Pitch

Kole, Ben, Dennis, and David talk about Monster Train, the recent Mario news, and we ask you about your favorite drinking video games.

• Ben: Paper Mario: Origami King. Among Us. Monster Train.
• Dennis: Minecraft Dungeons. Remnant: From the Ashes.
• David: The Division 2. Into the Breach.
• Kole: Crusader Kings III. Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 1+2.

• What’s your favorite drinking video game?

• Madden NFL 21 adds Colin Kaepernick as a free agent.
• Stories from Nintendo’s Mario event.
• Red Dead Online near dead.
• New nVidia graphics cards announced.

If you ever told someone what to do in the Dreamlands, you're officially a god.

Assembled well-wishers, welcome to the land of crunch. Lords of Magic is a 1997 strategy game that is unlike anything we've covered for the show. It takes a high fantasy medieval theme and stacks a bunch of different strategy and RPG game types on top of each other, creating a complex and interlocking set of systems and levels of zoom. You play as one of the faiths of Urak, amassing an army of allies and conquests to defeat Balkoth, the Lord of Death... but not before reading the manual!

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Kranky Kratos takes his vengeance quest to a brand new pantheon: the pantheon of fatherhood. Kole and Gary take an axe to the skull of this 2018 prestige game, and by take an axe to the skull, I mean we give a careful, considered look to this very good but still flawed cinematic game. 

Everything To Guppy is a bite-sized, four-times weekly comedy/gaming podcast in which Gary Butterfield (Watch Out For Fireballs) and William Hughes (The A.V. Club) attempt to analyze every single item, boss, character, and concept in the rogue-lite video game The Binding Of Isaac. They manage to pull it off only slightly less than 50 percent of the time.

August Derleth is lucky he could rip us in half if he wanted to.

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Everything To Guppy is a bite-sized, four-times weekly comedy/gaming podcast in which Gary Butterfield (Watch Out For Fireballs) and William Hughes (The A.V. Club) attempt to analyze every single item, boss, character, and concept in the rogue-lite video game The Binding Of Isaac. They manage to pull it off only slightly less than 50 percent of the time.

Swords & Darkness, a game you've never heard of, is a very poorly made side scrolling Demon's Souls game released on the 3DS eShop. It's broken in some pretty entertaining ways, so give this a listen and save yourself the $7!

Its throne is an entire planet, but he'll only need the edge.