Vidjagame Apocalypse

As any toddler can tell you, nothing is more terrifying than a skeleton - except, of course, if they're on your side. And with MediEvil turning 20(!) this week, Josh Shoup (of wrestling-history podcast Pody Slam, among others) joins to help dedicate our first Halloween-themed episode of 2018 to skeletons who saved the day. We then touch on WWE 2K19, Call of Duty Black Ops 4, and Zelda's "easy mode" before taking a look at your favorite narrative-focused games.

Telltale Games may be gone, but it lives on through its legacy of redefining how games told stories, and through our memories of those stories themselves. This week, special guest and former Telltale employee Scott Butterworth joins us to celebrate the studio. And what better way to do so than by counting down our top 5 favorite moments from Telltale's library? From Batman to The Wolf Among Us, and everything in between, we recall the moments that showed why nobody could -- er -- tell a tale, quite like Telltale. And we'll just go ahead and say it now: MAJOR SPOILER ALERT on many of the best moments from these games, so consider yourself warned!

Then it's on to perhaps our biggest New Releases segment of the year, as we give our impressions of all of the amazing games we've been playing lately, including Assassin's Creed Odyssey, Mega Man 11, Forza Horizon 4, Fist of the North Star, Life Is Strange 2, and more!

Not everyone can swing a lightsaber and use the Force, and this week, the legendary Chris Baker joins us to talk about five Star Wars games whose heroes got by with little more than blasters and sheer grit. Then it's on to chat about Valkyria Chronicles 4, Telltale's surprise shutdown, and your favorite celebrity performances in games.

This month saw the passing of Burt Reynolds, a man who was no stranger to popping up in video games - and in his honor, we decided to spend this week's Top 5 looking at other celebrities who briefly played digital versions of themselves. Then we move on to talk about Shadow of the Tomb Raider, Nintendo's online service, and your favorite re-creations of real-world cities.

Spider-Man's still on our minds this week, and its beautiful re-creation of Manhattan made us nostalgic about other open-world games that re-created New York City's central island. Comics expert Chris Clow, of Comics on Consoles, joins as we talk about five of our favorites, and then we'll talk even more about Spider-Man, Dragon Quest XI, and your ideal superhero personas.