This week I'm answering your many questions from how to make potatoes, to thoughts on Heated Rivalry, to Nintendo of America's relationship with Nintendo of Japan and so much more. Come along, will you?

Also: Huge solidarity to those in the streets of Minneapolis this month. Your bravery means everything, for real.

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I was very glad to be joined by my good friend Will LaPorte for a lengthy episode about our favorite albums and films of 2025! I hope you enjoy it, and I'll be back next week with (gasp) more stuff about video games!!

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0:00:00 - Welcome to Wavelengths!

0:02:50 - Intro Will

0:04:22 - Will Album 10

0:09:54 - Brendon Album 10

0:16:41 - Will Movie 10

0:19:26 - Brendon Movie 10

0:23:48 - Will Album 9

0:27:50 - Brendon Album 9

0:31:22 - Will Movie 9

0:34:36 - Brendon Movie 9

0:39:04 - Will Album 8

0:41:29 - Brendon Album 8

0:43:09 - Will Movie 8

0:46:17 - Brendon Movie 8

0:52:02 - Will Album 7

0:54:11 - Brendon Album 7

0:57:42 - Will Movie 7

1:01:45 - Brendon Movie 7

1:04:48 - Will Album 6

1:07:22 - Brendon Album 6

1:08:52 - Will Movie 6

1:10:35 - Brendon Movie 6

1:17:20 - Will Album 5

1:23:36 - Brendon Album 5

1:27:17 - Will Movie 5

1:34:47 - Brendon Movie 5

1:42:39 - Will Album 4

1:46:52 - Brendon Album 4

1:49:25 - Will Movie 4

1:54:21 - Brendon Movie 4

2:03:14 - Will Album 3

2:09:18 - Brendon Album 3

2:13:32 - Will Movie 3

2:16:41 - Brendon Movie 3

2:29:00 - Will Album 2

2:33:12 - Brendon Album 2

2:40:10 - Will Movie 2

2:46:45 - Brendon Movie 2

2:56:07 - Will Album 1

3:04:06 - Brendon Album 1

3:14:40 - Will Movie 1

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Turns out they made a lot of good video games last year. So many, in fact, that I felt the need to continue last year's move of celebrating 50 of them in an extremely chill manner!!

Thank you all for a great first (partial) year of Wavelengths, I hope you're as stoked for 2026 as I am!

Note: Wish I'd known about the Level5 CEO showing his whole tuchus before I said all those nice things about Fantasy Life i... a game that might have been made by artificial intelligence for all we know!!

Also note: Count the number of times I say “pound for pound” or “it’s a fascinating thing” or “check it out!!"

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Trans rights are human rights.

Additional links:

People Make Games on the BDS movement: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ybj10537yi4

No Games for Genocide: https://nogamesforgenocide.com/

Today's all about 2025's Game Awards! Who won, what got announced, and why was Divinity so disgusting? As I mention in the episode: I think going into this year's show treating it like "Winter Game Fest" was a much better move for my own enjoyment — and it created a show I felt generally decent about all things considered. There's still a lot to be critical of, but I found myself digging the show for the first time in years!

Additional Reading:

VGC on the Winners: https://www.videogameschronicle.com/news/the-game-awards-2025-complete-list-of-winners-as-clair-obscur-wins-game-of-the-year-and-sets-a-new-record-for-awards-won/

Gio's Interview with Bruce Straley: https://www.polygon.com/coven-of-the-chicken-foot-game-awards-announcement/

Hello and welcome back to the show! It's been a light few weeks news-wise so I wanted to dig into some thoughts about Sektori and my first 90 minutes of the long-anticipated Metroid Prime 4: Beyond through the lens of game analysis and crit.

Before the end of the episode, we'll all be PC gamers.

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Hello! Thank you so much for being here, I am grateful for you. This week's a shorter one because my body won't let me talk for more than 15 minutes, but I wanted to shout out two GOTy-contender games I've been absolutely loving this week:

The first is Sektori, — a twin-stick arcade shooter with the aesthetic of Geometry Wars by an ex-Housemarque alum.

The second is Detective Instinct: Farewell, My Beloved — a Famicom Detective Club-inspired mystery with gorgeous art, music, and stellar writing.

Both have been healing me.

Welcome back to Wavelengths! This week's main topic is about the nominees for 2025's TGAs, how weird they are, and how weird my feelings about the award show have become over the years. I also talk a bit about my own GOTY prep, some games I've been playing recently, and my thoughts a week out from the reveal of the Steam Machine.

Additional reading: https://www.theguardian.com/games/2025/nov/11/future-class-gamings-oscars-game-awards

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Valve announced three products this week: A new controller, a new VR headset, and a new gaming console. This week's episode of Wavelengths is all about the interplay between these three devices and the thing that not only literally links them all together, but makes Valve's decade-long push towards making the PC gaming experience more approachable even work in the first place.

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Hello and welcome back to Wavelengths! This week my guest is Stephen Hilger — my co-host on Into the Aether, a great artist and writer, and creator of the YouTube channel Memory Card Manuscript. I brought Stephen on to discuss a question sent in by a listener about the current hyper-polarization of video game discourse, from how to navigate algorithm-led spaces to not letting the media consume define your authentic being.

It's a far-reaching conversation, and I hope it's as interesting, thought provoking, and engaging for you as it was for me.

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