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Talking to My Boy About Videogames – 21 – It Was the Best of PAX, It Was the Worst of PAX
Jonathan and Ryan return from PAX East 2026 with mostly positive opinions about the show. They talk about some of the games they demoed, the merch they got, the people they met, and the cosplay they saw (and participated in!). Later, they talk a bit about Tomodachi Life, Pokopia, cats, and Food Related Entertainment Intelligent Non-Dorky Super good guys. 0:00:00…
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Review – Super Chase: Criminal Termination (Arcade)
Are you ready for some excessive force? Better get off the sidewalk, grandma, because the police are coming through, and they will literally stop at nothing to make sure the criminal is pulled from a burning wreck and brought to justis. That's Super Chase.
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Review-in-Progress – All Will Fall
Water, water everywhere, so it's time to get building. All Will Fall is a survival city-builder set in a soggy post-apocalyptic world where you have little space to build. Also, I didn't have enough capacity this month to play enough for review, so here's a preview of that.
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Maximum Utcast – 18 – The Sommeliers of Video Games
The Maximum Utcast is back with the hottest Vectorman and Shinobi news available! In a show that’s too hot for Canada, we learn about a pushy sommelier, Jonathan’s thoughts on Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie, and what the heck is going on with AI upscaling filters. Later, our old pal Tanya stops by to tell us about her…
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Skibidi Toilet – The Spin-Off Doctors Spin-Off
This post is a part of the Spin-Off Doctors Spin-Off series. In the great war between IP holders, the only people who are safe are those who achieve viral popularity and when it comes to blatantly grabbing assets and reworking them into a new artistic expression, none are greater than DafuqBoom, AKA Alexey Gerasimov, creator of the Skibidi Toilet series…
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The Simpsons – Marge Be Not Proud (with Guest Xzyliac – Spin-Offs Classic
Holiday season 1995 couldn’t have been hotter for fighting games with Mortal Kombat 3 being the highest selling home console game of the year in the United States (not to mention the achieving diamond status in the arcade according to the American Amusement Machine Association), which made the interest in the series a high enough profile target to be sent…
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Review – Retro Rewind
Mmm, the smell of old plastic and magnetic tape. We lost something special with the downfall of the rental shop. Thankfully, we have games like Retro Rewind to take us back to those days where the late fee ruled over us all.
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Currently Playing – 21 – Weather Factory Games (Cultist Simulator and Book of Hours) with Matt
Currently, Currently Playing is joined by Matt who’s been playing games from Weather Factory, notably in the form of Cultist Simulator and Book of Hours, both of which are incomprehensible to Daniel. Matt tries his best to explain rule discovery puzzle crafting card games with their emergent and dynamic gameplay. You simply must see the game in action to get…
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Two video rental retail sims launched in the same month. Which one is for you?
It's surprising, but two retail simulators centred around running a video rental store have released this month: Rewind 99 and Retro Rewind. Aside from the subject matter, they're unrelated and unique. So, if you were to pick only one of them, which should you go for?
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Resident Evil: Requiem is blatantly better than The Last of Us Part II
My colleague and friend Stephanie Sterling coined the “blatantly better” farcical-yet-sincere essay series over on Destructoid.com many years ago, and so, it feels right to do a derivative version of her features today, in order to best express my thoughts on Resident Evil: Requiem, a game that is also farcical, sincere, and derivative, but in all the right ways. That’s…
