The Pitch

Kole, Ben, Jala, and David talk about Valley, the upcoming price raise for next gen games, and we ask you about character growth arcs.

• Jala: Resident Evil: Revelations. Alternate Jake Hunter DAEDALUS The Awakening of Golden Jazz. Valley.
• Kole: Rusty Lake Hotel. Death Stranding.
• Ben: The Last of Us: Part 2. Patrick’s Parabox. Mushroom 11.
• David: Dead Rising 4. No Man’s Sky. Hitman 2.

• Which character’s growth arc do you like the most?

• Next gen games will likely be $70 at release.
• Dark Souls III gets a gun mod.
• NBA Jam favored the Pistons over the Bulls.
• Harry Potter open world game likely.

Fewer stars and mothers are involved than you'd expect, but way more boats.

This wildly ambitious port of a wildly ambitious SNES game features a lot of our favorite concepts and creators. Can it stand up to the gigantic shadow cast by Final Fantasy Tactics?

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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.

This digital comic was created by Valve to coincide with the final Left 4 Dead DLC and show us how the stories of the original four survivors began and ended. Over the course of four issues, Bill, Francis, Louis, and Zoey are captured by the military and escape a horrible fate before deciding what their endgame is. It's a fun comic that integrates well with the game, and highlights how good Valve can be at storytelling when they decide to make things.

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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.

Hey, folks! Future Will here.

This is a goofy little bonus I'm tossing onto the feed to celebrate the Episode 500 milestone. It's an audiobook I've recorded of the first chapter of Hell Comes To Harkness House, the extremely silly serialized novel I write in the episode descriptions of Everything To Guppy. (Really, go back and look, it starts on Episode 373.) It's dumb and silly and I don't say all the words right, but I figured I'd put it out there for people to enjoy/etc.

This little businessman sim is actually pretty good, so we do a kind of job interview of our own.