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Welcome back folks! This week we're covering THREE episodes of Avengers: United They Whatever. The quality range is all over the place, but the episode is in the middle is easily my favorite out of this entire series. EGGHEAD4LYFE.

Kole, Ben, and Jala talk about Donut County, the atlas of video game cities, and we do a Free Play Multiplayer.

• Subnautica expansion announced.
• Spelunky 2 announced.
• Virtual Cities is an atlas of noteworthy video game cities.

• Free play!

• Ben: Donut County. Black: The Fall.
• Jala: Shin Megami Tensei IV.
• Kole: Amnesia: The Dark Descent.

The Big D makes his grand debut.

This month's theme is "Auteur Adventure Games", and we decided to open it with a beloved game by Corey and Lori Ann Cole. Quest for Glory II: Trial by Fire continues our hero's journey as he heads to the Arabian-inspired realm of Shapeir. The Coles had a specific vision for how to combine adventure games and role playing, and also had a very specific kind of light and humorous voice. Large parts of this game are a mess, but it's a very interesting specimen to look at closely.

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It's a long-running question that we're pretty much done with: can a unique concept make up for terrible execution? Yes, there can be a game about herding creatures. Shepherd sims are pretty rare, outside of Mass Effect. But Herdy Gerdy is a real mess that tries to take the worst aspects of Zelda and make them its own. Put simply: we don't like the meat, and we sure don't like the bone.

Sometimes you just want a quiet night in to contemplate how all of your friends are getting on with their lives and sending out digital wedding invitations then some weirdo shows up and wants to play tapes and dance in your apartment. Life is rough.

Somebody saved Donald Callahan's life tonight. Jeremy Greer joins me to learn who, and how. As the ka tet settles into the Calla and tries to learn more about the impending conflict, the Father settles in and shares the remainder of his story... talking about how he hit rock bottom, was attacked by the Hitler Brothers, and saved by some very familiar people.