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Maximum Utcast – 33 – Spurgles 2: The Spurgles Cum Back
This week the Utcast invents the hottest new IP that will sweep the nation in the summer of 2027, so run, don’t walk, to your nearest theater and demand a ticket to Spurgles 2: The Spurgles Cum Back. Later we talk at length about Castlevania, both with regards to the new one and more broadly about what makes a Castlevania…
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The X-Files: ‘First Person Shooter’ (with guest Marcy) – Spin-Offs Classic
Incoming X-level data burst… CIA L33T gaming confirmed… the bloodlust is unquenchable. What if you could go into your computer and when you die in your computer, you die for real? What if the X-Files, at the height of their powers, did basically a beat by beat pastiche of the Matrix almost a year after the Matrix had been out?…
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Maximum Utcast – 32 – Loving Castlevania, Loathing Minefields, and Learning About Pinblast Neon
With the new Castlevania game (Belmont’s Curse) right around the corner, what does Jonathan think of the demo? Can he scream about it with his working mouth or will he just politely chat? And how much overlap is there in the interests of our hosts? We go in depth on Castlevania discussions before hopping around to the Legend of Zelda:…
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Computer Chess – The Spin-Off Doctors Spin-Off (with actor Patrick Riester)
In a world where nerds aren’t cool…where computers play chess and their technicians debug them…can this ragtag group of superstar programmers defeat the secret Russian plot to overthrow the world while simultaneously avoid triggering the AI Singularity? Can an algorithm predict which hotel room you’ll sleep in days in the future? What happens if swingers want to fuck? Will a…
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Currently Playing – 28 – BlazBlue Entropy Effect X with Elsa
This month, Elsa Returns. We’re talking hot dogs and anime titties on Currently Playing where Elsa points out some of the absurd character designs and recounts some of the lore of the BlazBlue series where she’s been focusing on the latest spin-off in the franchse, BlazBlue Entropy Effect X. From its humble beginnings as a roguelite action phone game to…
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Talking to My Boy About Videogames – 27 – The Windmills Are Coming For Me
Jonathan and Ryan are professional podcasters on this episode of Talking to My Boy About Videogames where there is a coherent outline of topics and they actually stick to that outline (with a few divergences). Along with hearing about games like Blood Dungeon, Pokemon: Legends Z-A, and Tetris Effect, we hear an idea for a new Pac-Man game from Ryan,…
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Maximum Utcast – 31 – She Chibi-in’ on My Robo til I O-carina
It’s two weeks of back to back Utcasts as we mix things up to go goofy-mode on your asses. We’re talking about the Ocarina of Time Remake, Torneko’s Mystery Dungeon, Chibi Robo, Mega Man, and more. Later, CurtDogg stops by to reminisce about old times with Destructoid live events plus tell us a bit about his own live events and…
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Maximum Utcast – 30 – It’s OK to Be Weird
This episode, we’re carrying forward things that you’re thinking about, which is to say we’re talking about a bunch of old weird stuff. Remember when the rights to Dick Tracy were the hottest topic of the day? How about when Final Fantasy became a gacha phone game but then removed all of that stuff? We also reminisce about when video…
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Currently Playing – 27 – Monster Train 2 with Carson Anderson
It’s the 2nd anniversary of Currently Playing and this month, Daniel talks to Carson Anderson, a software engineer who gives talks about the technical aspects of coding on YouTube. Today he’s telling us about his “monogame” which is Monster Train 2, a roguelike deck-builder in the vein of Slay the Spire. We get into the weeds about what makes Monster…
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Maximum Utcast – 29 – The Purple Episode
On this most Maximum of Utted-casts, Jonathan takes us on a grand tour of random pop culture before opening the discussion to a case of covering up potential bigotry in the video game world. Is the purple Pikmin racist or beloved? Later, our friend Lily Valeen stops by to talk about how her identity informs her work on her games…
