The Starlight Megaphone

Caspius and SiliconNooB meet up for a Christmas Eve Eve discussion of the week's news, including updates to Castlevania Dominus Collection and Tetris Forever, along with the latest—good and bad alike—from Valve, Sega, Capcom, Nihon Falcom, and Bandamco.Continue reading

Caspius and SiliconNooB report on the on-going Dragon Quest III playthrough, the release of NEStris on Switch and FF7 Rebirth on PC, and the bevy of announcements, plaudits, and controversies occasioned by this year's iteration of the Game Awards.Continue reading

Caspius and SiliconNooB discuss the relative merits of Vanilla Bump Combat and Neapolitan Turn-Based Combat, celebrate English and Australian victories in the Cricket, and note the swift and profitable success of SquareEnix's Dragon Quest III HD-2D.Continue reading

Caspius and SiliconNooB discuss the splendid presentation and enormous sales success of Dragon Quest III HD-2D, marvel at Squeenix's latest insane financial analyses, and then scientifically establish the six indisputably greatest games ever sold.Continue reading

Caspius and SiliconNooB make a little headway on Dragon Quest III, before turning to news of Final Fantasy XIV Mobile, Sony's attempt to gobble up Kadokawa, and the latest F2P mobile glop, with an extended session of the Not-Elon-Musk Gaming Moment.Continue reading

Caspius and SiliconNooB launch the Dragon Quest III playthrough, and the beginning of the Erdrich Trilogy, with participants playing versions from the Nintendo and Super Famicom origins to the modern world of Square Enix's latest HD-2D technology.Continue reading

Caspius and SiliconNooB close out the end of the Autumn Classics playthrough, before discussing the Erdrick Trilogy, backwards compatibility on the Switch DS, Warcraft's 30th anniversary, and GungHo's disappointing refusal to work with Working Designs.Continue reading

Caspius and SiliconNooB conclude Castlevania III and prepare readers for the end of the Autumn Classics playthrough, before discussing the biggest news of the season: the unexpected—and allegedly impossible!—Switch port of Xenoblade Chronicles X.Continue reading

Caspius and SiliconNooB discuss the latest game in the classics playthrough, Simon's Quest, before scraping out the news mine for all of the news kibble they can find, including updates, patches, tabletop RPGs, VR helmets, and—of course—The Plop.Continue reading

Caspius and SiliconNooB discuss the first of the NES Castlevania games, before launching into a spirited defence of the sequel—Simon's Quest—as a game which was ahead of its time, despite having a lacklustre translation and some confusing mechanics.Continue reading