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Maximum Utcast – 12 – Are Hades 2 and Fire Emblem Bootylicious Enough for Duke Nukem?
As the year comes to a close we’re opening up the floodgates of information on the lost entry in the Duke Nukem franchise, Duke Nukem: D-Day, the canceled game that nearly was and never will be. Zoey becomes an interactive Duke-ipedia of information as we dig deep into the connective tissue of the games industry, bouncing like a pinball between…
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Currently Playing – 18 – Sektori and Logic Bombs with Declan
Declan joins us to talk about gaming with ADHD and how that can impact their hobby in unique and interesting ways. While they aren’t maintaining their video gaming profile all that much, they have discovered Sektori (twin stick space shooter) and Logic Bombs (Game Boy compatible logic game) which both work overtime to keep Declan’s attention in two completely different…
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The Kongo Bongo Festival of Lights – The Spin-Off Doctors Spin-Off
This post is a part of the Spin-Off Doctors Spin-Off series. The Spin-Off Squad is booking a tropical vacation this holiday season to Kongo Bongo Island as we learn about the local customs and perhaps get to the bottom of some burning Donkey Kong lore questions that have been debated by Kong scholars for 45 years. The show’s side characters…
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Maximum Utcast – 11 – Horny Past, Personality-Free Present, Grim Future
On a freewheeling episode of the Maximum Utcast we’re talking about The Game Awards! The Industry! Puberty! Sexy Tingle! And so much more! Abram Buehner of Lost In Cult hangs out with Jonathan to talk about the role of physical media in an increasingly digital world, plus we get plenty of stray thoughts about Batman, Metroid Prime 4, Spy Hunter,…
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Changing The Game – Talking to My Boy About Videogames 17
Do you want more of the same or things to be vastly different? It’s the question central to today’s episode of Talking to My Boy About Videogames where Jonathan and Ryan look at Metroid Prime 4: Beyond and Blippo+, two games set on alien worlds that introduce the audience to their setting through exploration and perception. Elsewhere in the episode,…
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A Minecraft Movie – The Spin-Off Doctors Spin-Off
This post is a part of the Spin-Off Doctors Spin-Off series. When was the last time you played Minecraft, the best selling video game of all time? If you’re over 30, it’s probably been a long time but if you’re under 20 it may be part of your daily routine. For the Spin-Off Doctors Spin-Off collective, we’re all much too…
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Maximum Utcast – 10 – Crossing Into Alternate Worlds
We’re stepping into an alternate reality on this episode of the Maximum Utcast where Jonathan Holmes talks to John-Charles Holmes about the game Blippo+ where you watch TV from another dimension. But before that, Zoey tells us about finally beating the professional beetles in Beetle Adventure Racing. Then we debut our new permanent segment on the show, The Duke Nukem…
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Joysticks – Spin-Offs Classic
On this Blackest of Fridays, let’s turn our attention to the darkest corner of depravity the human mind can conceive–an arcade from 1983. Revisiting older media is often problematic for a variety of reasons, but perhaps there is no other piece of old videogame media more problematic than 1983’s Joysticks, an 80’s sex-comedy in the vein of Ski School or…
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Currently Playing – 17 – Marvel Rivals with Aisling
Currently Playing returns with Aisling (pronounced Ash-lyn) to talk about her time spent rivaling in the Marvel-verse in Marvel Rivals. We go deep on the roster of this hero shooter and learn about the thigh physics keeping this game afloat. Plus: what’s the deal with Wolverine? How many sisters does Thor have? And what happens to Gambit’s package? We also…
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Maximum Utcast – 09 – Rolling Up Rock Man
On this Mega episode of the Maximum Utcast, we’re talking all things Mega Man with our resident Mega Man expert, Tony Ponce. But first, a quick stop off to the world of Katamari for Once Upon a Katamari…in our new segment “Good Feels.” We also learn a bit of behind the scenes drama with regards to the official Destructoid Top…
