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Alex, Tom F and Graham muse on the eternal E3 news, marvel at itchio’s BLM bundle, lament pyromantic stealth game Wildfire, adore deck-builder Monster Train and flail further in Half-Life: Alyx.

• IGN’s eternal E3.
• The Escapist’s indie stream.
• Sony’s PS5 stream. I found it unconscionably boring, to my surprise and dismay.
• Undaunted: The Heretic One is, you know, the Heretic one.
• And Trepang2 is the FEAR one.
• The incredible Black Lives Matter bundle.
• John Walker has been doing a good job of picking out gems from the bundle.
• Wide Ocean Big Jacket, aka My Big Wide Open Morning Jacket. It’s in the bundle.
• One of the previous games from the same dev, Little Party.
• Be a cutesy teen bird in A Short Hike, and enjoy it, just to spite Alex. It’s in the bundle.
• Not mentioned on the pod, but puzzle game Ethereal is really interesting. It’s in the bundle.
• If Found is not in the bundle, but it’s nice.
• Quadrilateral Cowboy. It’s in the bundle.
• Pen and paper RPGs are to be found in the bundle too: e.g. the EXCELLENT Band of Blades (and the fantastically loopy Troika).
• Kids, Minit, Celeste are also games that are in the bundle. But why not look for yourself? In the bundle.
• Wildfire a sneaky, flamey game that is, alas, a bit of a damp squib.
• Comparable 2D stealth game, Tony of the Ninja.
• Tom’s fab post about Metal Gear Solid 5’s failure spectrum.
• Have you played Tom’s games, Gunpoint and Heat Signature?
• Choo choo, motherfuckers.
• Is Monster Train too much fun?
• Your strict and loving parent, Slay the Spire.
• The Peggle of Slay-the-Spire-likes, Overdungeon.
• Flamboyant exercise in cultural obscurantism: Half-Life: Alyx.
• Here it is rendered as a video performance by a Youtube Person.

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