Podcast Episodes

What Are We Looking Forward To in 2023?

Episode 298

With last year's best games played and adjudicated, we look forward to some of our most anticipated releases of 2023. Sure, you got your Zeldas and y…

3 years, 8 months ago

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Besties 2022 GOTY Extravaganza - Part Two

Episode 297

We continue the ritual of making the ritual slightly different every year, when we bring the final eight down to the final four, and then introduce a…

3 years, 8 months ago

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Besties 2022 GOTY Extravaganza - Part One

Episode 296

IT BEGINS. Well, it ends. Okay, actually, both. This week, we're taking our top 16 games of the year and pitting them against one another in arbitrar…

3 years, 9 months ago

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The new Need for Speed is a fun surprise [The Resties]

Episode 295

Need for Speed: Unbound deserved a better launch than this. After a decade of middling entries, EA has returned NFS responsibilities to the exception…

3 years, 9 months ago

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Smashing the Gooey Guys of Warhammer 40K: Darktide with Ron Funches

Episode 294

This week, we're joined by beloved Besties guest host Ron Funches as we discuss the gory extravaganza called Warhammer 40K: Darktide. Is Left 4 Dead …

3 years, 9 months ago

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Gone Fishin' with Blade in Marvel's Midnight Suns

Episode 293

Marvel's Midnight Suns is a tactics game from XCOM developer Firaxis, only instead of shooting aliens a hundred times from behind cover, you play car…

3 years, 9 months ago

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The Video Game Required Reading List: 2010-2014 [The Resties]

Episode 292

The Resties Required Reading List strikes again! Our goal is to curate a "must-play" list of 25 games released between 1980 to 2020. Think of it like…

3 years, 9 months ago

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Seeing Pokémon Scarlet and Violet Through the Eyes of a Child

Episode 291

It's one of the biggest releases of the year and Justin paid his daughter, Charlie McElroy, to play it for him. Yes, it's Pokémon time once again and…

3 years, 9 months ago

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Boldly Going Where No Hedgehog's Gone Before in Sonic Frontiers

Episode 290

Sonic Frontiers, the open-world iteration of Sega's fast rodent simulator, is kind of a mess. But is it the fun kind of mess, like when a can of spra…

3 years, 10 months ago

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One huge indie and one tiny one [The Resties]

Episode 289

We are being bombarded by awesome games. This week, we brought two must-try adventures. The first, Somerville, is the spiritual sequel to indie mega-…

3 years, 10 months ago

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