Podcast Episodes

102: IFComp 2016

Now in its 22nd year, IFComp (The Interactive Fiction Competition) is
an annual celebration of new text-based games. We covered last year’s competiti…

9 years, 9 months ago

101: Waking Mars

Waking Mars is the second game from Tiger Style, developers of Spider: The Secret of Bryce Manor and Spider: Rite of the Shrouded Moon. On the surfac…

9 years, 9 months ago

100: Episode 100

We apply Big Data (okay, an Excel spreadsheet) to all 434 games played or mentioned in our 100 episode run, in an effort to answer the cocktail party…

9 years, 9 months ago

99: Pocket Card Jockey

We’re rubbing the Giddyap button this week with hybrid solitaire and horse racing game Pocket Card Jockey, the surprise 3DS release from Pokémon deve…

9 years, 10 months ago

98: Reigns

This week we’re swiping right on Reigns, a kingdom management interactive fiction game with a Tinder inspired interface. This clever twist on the Cho…

9 years, 10 months ago

97: Abzû

This week we’re exploring the ocean of Abzu, the first game from Journey art director Matt Nava’s Giant Squid Studios.

We loved Journey so naturally …

9 years, 10 months ago

96: Quadrilateral Cowboy

Quadrilateral Cowboy is the long awaited new game from Brendan Chung and Blendo Games. Its precursor Thirty Flights of Loving was a brief, carefully …

9 years, 11 months ago

95: Streets of Rage 2

We’re looking back to the 90s this week as we discuss Sega Genesis brawler Streets of Rage 2.

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9 years, 11 months ago

94: Inside

The latest (second) game from Limbo developers Playdead games is finally here. Inside initially seems like more Limbo; a puzzle platformer. A mysteri…

9 years, 11 months ago

93: Wheels of Aurelia

This week we discussed Wheels of Aurelia by developers Santa Ragione. Though technically still in beta, Wheels of Aurelia is a complete experience th…

9 years, 11 months ago