Podcast Episodes

Special Ep: Never Been a Better Podcast 003: Like a Sippy Cup?

We're taking a pause on the regular show this week to bring you another banger from the Patreon archive, in which Abby Russell and Austin Walker join us to talk about pottery, Legally Blonde, and scr…

Published on 2 years, 3 months ago

Needs to Be Played

Episode 116

This here is a podcast about our further adventures in Starfield, Trine the Fifth, Shadow Gambit, the abrupt closure of Volition, the looming SAG-AFTRA video game industry strike, Charles Martinet's …

Published on 2 years, 3 months ago

Oxygen Is the New Stamina

Episode 115

Yep, this is the one where we talk about Starfield for like 90 minutes. It's a pretty big game! The Making of Karateka is also just great, Armored Core VI has inspired some mech fever, PlayStation Pl…

Published on 2 years, 4 months ago

Mario Emeritus

Episode 114

Games! Bomb Rush Cyberfunk, Like a Dragon Gaiden, Persona 5 Tactica and the Persona 3 remake, the new Madden, Fort Solis, and more. News! The Xbox 360 Marketplace closure, remakes of 7th Guest, Star …

Published on 2 years, 4 months ago

User Reported for Gamerpic

Episode 113

This week, somehow we're all spending a lot of time with 2023's hottest game, Vampire Survivors (except together this time!?), Baldur's Gate 3 with friends is a high old time, the identity of the $2 …

Published on 2 years, 4 months ago

Top-Ten Skeleton

Episode 112

It was hard to resist the dark urge to keep playing Baldur's Gate 3 long enough to go on this podcast and talk about Baldur's Gate 3, but we pulled it off, plus WrestleQuest, a long-overdue Red Dead …

Published on 2 years, 4 months ago

The Jedi Experience

Episode 111

Author Jordan Minor joins us this week to talk about charting the last 45 years of video game history in his new book Video Game of the Year, plus a bunch of other stuff including Disney Illusion Isl…

Published on 2 years, 4 months ago

Family-Appropriate Innuendo

Episode 110

It's a new podcast! about video games! and those video games include! Remnant II, Pikmin 4, The Banished Vault, Oxenfree 2, and Viewfinder, plus the news! about Tencent buying most of Techland, Ubiso…

Published on 2 years, 5 months ago

Some Definition of "Some"

Episode 109

You could just go play Viewfinder right now instead of listening to us tell you to go play Viewfinder... but you could also listen on for chatter about Exoprimal, Oxenfree 2, new Switch hunger, Blizz…

Published on 2 years, 5 months ago

WHAT'S ON THE TAPES??

Episode 108

Friend of the show Danny O'Dwyer joins us this week to talk about Noclip's new archival video project, the tricky nature of publishing old footage, and a bunch of other production reminiscing. Also, …

Published on 2 years, 5 months ago