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The Triple Click gang opens up the mailbag to answer some of your best questions. What are our video game habits? What books would make for good video games? And does Wolverine's hand-holding go too far?

One More Thing:

Kirk: The Count of Monte Cristo (Alexendre Dumas)

Maddy: Dolly Parton’s America (Radiolab limited series podcast)

Jason: Echo Weaver

LINKS:

Game File interview with the director of Echo Weaver: https://www.gamefile.news/p/indie-developer-has-a-plan-to-keep

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The Triple Click gang dives into Fire Emblem: Fortune's Weave, the new Switch 2 exclusive that blends grid-based strategy combat with... a whole lot more. They talk about the sprawling story, the tactical battles, and whether the whole thing is just Too Much.

One More Thing:

Kirk: Fields of Mistria

Maddy: “Sex, AI, and the apocalypse” by Ian K. Duncan

Jason: Tokyo Game Show

LINKS:

Into the Aether’s excellent recent episode on Fire Emblem: Fortune’s Weave

Time article about Effective Altruism and sexual abuse

Tressie McMillan Cottom's AI reading list and her New York Times column about same

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Jason's on assignment, so Kirk and Maddy are joined by guest host Lucy James of the lookingfor.game newsletter and the FPS podcast! They share some early impressions of Fire Emblem: Fortune's Weave, some final thoughts on Marvel's Wolverine, along with a (well signposted) spoiler discussion, and Kirk and Lucy also share some bonus early impressions of Control Resonant. 

ONE MORE THING

Kirk: Control Resonant
Maddy: The Guy She Was Interested In Wasn’t A Guy At All (ongoing manga, soon to be anime)
Lucy: Ride Lonesome by Beck

LINKS & REFERENCE:

The timestamp for the Wolverine spoiler jump: 1:03:39

Lucy’s newsletter lookingfor.game and her podcast, Friends Per Second

Friends Per Second’s episode on Marvel’s Wolverine

Game File’s 2024 reporting on the Wolverine leadership change 

Kirk’s 2017 Kotaku re-review of Batman: Arkham Knight

“Ride Lonesome” by Beck from Ride Lonesome, 2026

WhiskeyClone.Net - A Beck Fansite

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Kirk, Jason, and Maddy open up the mailbag to tackle listener questions about the expectations surrounding Nintendo surprises, what Valve's 30% Steam sales cut means for studios, Wikipedia's "list of video games listed among the best," one listener's Triple Click Dream, and more.

One More Thing:
Kirk: Marvel’s Wolverine
Maddy: The Rehearsal S2 (finally)
Jason: Sleep Deprivation (AKA: The NFL Is Back, Baby)

LINKS

One listener's Claude-assisted database of Triple Click One(s) More Thing(s)

List of video games listed among the best (Wikipedia)

Kirk’s 2018 review of Red Dead Redemption 2

Tim Rogers’ Kotaku review of Football

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Kirk, Maddy, and Jason dive into Star Wars: Zero Company, the wonderful new strategy game that's best described as a cross between Star Wars and XCOM. They talk about the strategy, the characters, and what a bummer it is that the development team was furloughed before launch. This episode has a 95% chance to hit! 

One More Thing:

Kirk: Silo Season 3 (Apple)

Maddy: On Together (update)

Jason: Big Walk

LINKS:

Totilo’s Game File story on the Bit Reactor furloughs

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Jason, Maddy, and Kirk talk about The Blood of Dawnwalker, a new vampire game from ex-Witcher 3 developers. They talk about the game's unique time system, the brutal story, and how it all compares to The Witcher 3.

One More Thing:

Kirk: Reading out loud to someone

Maddy: Monsters of God (HBO docu-series)

Jason: The Wedding People (Alison Espach)

LINKS:

Check out Kirk’s new podcast, Definitely Fiction! 

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The Blood of Dawnwalker theme by Nikola Kołodziejczyk, Piotr Musiał, Mikolai Stroinski

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The Triple Click gang convenes for a long-awaited update on the Triple Click Picks — our list of games we highly recommend — with some surprising new additions and removals.

One More Thing:

Kirk: Mean Streets (1973)

Maddy: Ludwig (Britbox)

Jason: Time to Burn (Ellery Lloyd)

LINKS:

Triple Click Picks Update History

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Welcome to Big Walk, a Triple Click corporate trust exercise that has made us all better co-workers and better people. Kirk, Jason, and Maddy break down the new hit game from House House and talk about their experiences playing it together... and falling off cliffs.

One More Thing:

Kirk: Martyr! (Kaveh Akbar)

Maddy: The Other Bennet Sister (Amazon Prime/Britbox)

Jason: Homeland (2011)

LINKS:

Daniel Dennett on Wikipedia, and a cool Big Think video featuring him and his work

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The Triple Click gang talks about SOMA, the 2015 sci-fi horror game that tells a riveting story about brain scans. They talk about the game's strengths (the story!) and the flaws (the voice acting...) as they prepare to send their consciousnesses into space.

One More Thing:

Kirk: Lovers in a Dangerous Spacetime

Maddy: Savant-Garde (podcast)

Jason: Heather (Caitlin Mullen)

LINKS:

A recent (fairly harrowing!) WSJ article about the “jury duty” scam

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Jason, Kirk, and Maddy open up the mailbag to answer some more listener questions. Why do we love replaying games? Why don't indie games cost more? And why are there so many remakes??

One More Thing:

Kirk: The Message from Deep Space

Maddy: Spider-Man: Brand New Day

Jason: Spider-Man: Brand New Day

LINKS:

ScrapMan’s playthrough of Cairn

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