The Pitch

Poetry Corner (attempted)

Dynamite Dux is a forgotten Sega arcade beat-em-up with a profoundly cursed aura. Play five minutes of it and tell me this game isn’t haunted to hell and back. Then, come with us as we talk about the raunchy easter egg that took people 30 years to uncover.

Kaye, Dennis, Jala, and Moxie talk about Cyclopean: The Great Abyss, Warhammer 40k: Darktide, Look Outside, and much more!

The Grind:

• Jala: Alterium Shift. Banyu Lintar Angin - Little Storm. A Raven Monologue. Cyclopean: The Great Abyss.
• Moxie: Fallen London. Warhammer 40,000: Darktide.
• Dennis: Warhammer 40,000: Darktide. Burnout Paradise Remastered. Rocket League. Elden Ring.
• Kaye: Look Outside. The Hundred Line: Last Defense Academy.

The Multiplayer:

• Tell us your favorite loading screens!

The End Boss:

• Hip Tanaka wants to compose for video games again.
• Who still cares about Silksong?
• Power Rangers show up in Fortnite.
• EVO defeat goes viral.

What happens when you give the original Metroid a glow-up with the Super Metroid engine? A lot of cool stuff, and some weird stuff. It's not a perfect fit, but the result is still the second best Metroid game ever made.

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Two tired men, talking about ghosts. (No ghost.)

Are you ready for an episode about a notoriously derided Superman game hosted by two people who don’t really care for or know about Superman, and haven’t seen that new movie everyone’s raving about? We hope so!

It's time to go back where it all began. We begin with a day in the life of down-on-his-luck lawyer, Jimmy McGill and end with the single encounter that creates the entire Breaking Bad story.

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 The Hundred Line: Last Defense Academy, Witchfire, Date Everything, and much more!

The Grind:

• Moxie: Witchfire. Warhammer 40k: Darktide.
• Dennis: Warhammer 40k: Darktide. Chameleon Run. Kaizen: A Factory Story. Elden Ring.
• Ben: City of Six Moons. Dune Imperium. Date Everything.
• Kaye: The Hundred Line: Last Defense Academy.

The Multiplayer:

• Pitch some troll casting for a video game movie.

The End Boss:

• Payment processors continue crackdown on NSFW and LGBTQ+ games.
• Age verification schemes are super easy to get around.
• We may be seeing the end of console exclusives.
• CodeNames publisher faces backlash for Harry Potter version.

You are a body. In a video game, you are a body sometimes. Other times, you are a menu, representing a body. What does a game really need to get you to embody the story it wants to tell?

Upcoming Games:
August:
-Metroid Zero
-Split Fiction (Gary and Will)
-Mercenaries: Playground

September:
-Legend of Zelda: Majora’s Mask (Kaye and Bob Mackey)
-Outer Wilds: Echoes of the Eye
-Against the Storm

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(Re-upload to try to correct clipping issues that were reported.) It was a weird Saturday. [CONTAINS PUBLIC VIOLENCE, MENTIONS OF GUN USAGE, PET DEATH]