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Mass Effect Is BioWare’s Last Chance + Kingdom Come: Deliverance II Is a Big Hit | Unpacked

This week's episode of Unpacked is now available!

[COLUMN] Maybe We Don't Need a Buffy, the Vampire Slayer Relaunch | by Darren Mooney

It was announced last week that Disney was working on a relaunch of the beloved 1990s television series Buffy, the Vampire Slayer, withthe premiere to be directed by Oscar-winner Chloé Zhao and featuring Sarah Michelle Gellar reprising her role as Buffy Summers.This is somehow both a little surprising and completely i...

I Can’t Stop Thinking About Citizen Sleeper 2 and Its Impossible Choices

Citizen Sleeper 2: Starward Vector is one of the best-written games in a long time, and a must-play for anyone who likes a great sci-fi story. It's available now on PC, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X/S, and Nintendo Switch.

My Big Dumb Nintendo Switch 2 Predictions | Semi-Ramblomatic

This week's episode of Semi-Ramblomatic is now available!

Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 Is 2025's First Massive Hit | Firelink Podcast

This week on Firelink, KC, Nick, and Marty chat about the big release of Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2, as well as the rocky news coming out of BioWare.

Kingdom Come: Deliverance II | Fully Ramblomatic

This week's episode of Fully Ramblomatic is now available!

[Write-in Thread] Firelink Episode #53

This week on FIrelink we'll be discussing the current fate of BioWare, Kingdom Come: Deliverance II and what else we've been up to this past week!Send in your thoughts, questions, or topics you'd be interested in us discussing! We won't have time to read and discuss everything, and please keep posts top...

[AD-FREE] How the Hell Do You Market Movies & TV in 2025? | The Rewind Podcast

This week on The Rewind, Darren, Marty, and Jack use the new Fantastic Four: First Steps trailer as a jumping off point to chat about the difficulty in marketing a movie or TV series in 2025.

[COLUMN] 25 Years Later, Crazy Taxi Still Rips | by Marty Sliva

“Okay…YEAH YEAH YEAH YEAH YEAH.”There are two types of people in the world. Most of you are the first kind, where that opening string of words didn’t make a lick of sense. The second type are immediately hearing the opening seconds of The Offspring’s “All I Want”in their head, a fitting earworm considerin...

[AD-FREE] The Five Games We'd Take With Us on a Desert Island | Windbreaker Podcast

On this week’s episode of Windbreaker, Yahtzee, JM8, and Marty discuss which five games they'd pick as their personal desert island discs. Think of it as a kind of companion to last week's episode on the video game syllabus.

[COLUMN] Why Are There So Many Shows About Apocalyptic Bunkers Right Now? | by Darren Mooney

Note: This piece contains spoilers for the end of the first episode of Paradise, but it’s really just the premise of the show.Paradisepremiered on Hulu this week. On the surface, it is a fairly standard streaming event series, an eight-episode blend of trashy and prestige television starring Sterling K. Brown as Secr...

The Roottrees Are Dead, Helskate, Mika and the Witch's Mountain and Tails of Iron 2 | Yahtzee Tries

This week's episode of Yahtzee Tries is now available!

[COLUMN] A Complete Unknown Challenges Its Audience | by Darren Mooney

Note: This piece contains spoilers for A Complete Unknown. And Bob Dylan’s career, I guess.James Mangold’s A Complete Unknownis a fairly conventional and straight-down-the-middle musical biopic for most of its runtime, which makes its third act so interesting.A Complete Unknown is certainly less experimental in its...

The Platinum Resolve | Adventure Is Nigh! - Season 4 Prelude

When not out saving the world, our heroes have had another pressing matter on their minds... what to do with all their cash! Ever since they dealt with the mad King Fuzzyhug, their pockets have been absolutely bursting at the seams with the shimmering spoils from the creature's colossal platinum heart. But all that...

[AD-FREE] Where Games Find Their Inspiration | Dev Heads

This week, the Dev Heads crew explore where games find their inspiration from.

Adventure is Nigh - Season 4 Release Date Trailer

You've waited long enough.We'll see you tomorrow for The Platinum Resolve as we kick off the road to Season 4. Next weekend will be the level-up episode before the premiere!

Fully Ramblomatic Now Available on Podcast Platforms

Fully Ramblomatic is now available in Podcast format!This includes every episode individually ANDthe compilation ANDwe will be releasing every new episode in audio format alongside the video format going forward. Should be available now on Apple Podcasts / Spotify with more platforms coming online soon.Thanks for all y...

The Follow-up to Celeste Has Been Cancelled + Incredible Mod Ports Vice City into GTA 4 | Unpacked

This week's episode of Unpacked is now available.Thanks for all the feedback provided last week!

[COLUMN] Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man Remixes the Marvel Hero for a New Era | by Darren Mooney

Note: This piece contains very light spoilers for the first two episodes of Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man, now streaming on Disney+.Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Manpremiered this week on Disney+, a fresh and exciting take on the wall-crawling, web-slinging wonder that offers a bold reimagining of the Spide...

Hyper Light Breaker Fumbles Its Opening

Here's a new one-off short essay about Hyper Light Breaker from Jesse Galena!

[AD-FREE] Favorite First Games From Developers | Firelink Podcast

This week on Firelink, KC, Nick, and Marty chat their favorite first games from a developer/studio, and why it's always good for teams to have to chance to iterate and build upon in a sequel.

Eternal Strands | Fully Ramblomatic

This week's episode of Fully Ramblomatic is now available!PS: Sorry for the late post, totally got caught up on other projects and literally forgot to click publish!

[Write-in Thread] Firelink Episode #52

This week on Firelink we're discussing our favorite first games from new studios, and why it's always good for teams to have to chance to iterate and build upon a sequel.The second half of the podcast will be dedicated to your topics and questions!Send in your thoughts, questions, or topics you'd be interes...

Skeleton Crew Is Star Wars About Star Wars Under Disney | The Backdrop

This week's episode of The Backdrop is now available!

[COLUMN] Okay Xbox, You Knocked It Out of the Park | by Marty Sliva

Xbox walked into the first major showcase of 2025 with a lot to prove, and 45 minutes later walked out with an incredibly impressive showingof what they have in store for the first half of the year and beyond.It feels like we’ve been talking about how “Xbox is almost there” for years. The promise of a major first...

[AD-FREE] Building the Video Game Syllabus | Windbreaker Podcast

On this week’s episode of Windbreaker, Yahtzee, JM8, and Marty chat about the five games that each of them would pick to help represent the medium to someone who'd never even heard of video games before.

[PATREON EXCLUSIVE] Yahtzee Reads the Kingdom Hearts Lore

This month's Patreon exclusive video is a lovely reading of the Kingdom Hearts lore from Yahtzee.This is something you never you knew you wanted... or needed.

[COLUMN] The Oscars Haven't Abandoned the Mainstream; The Mainstream Abandoned Them | by Darren Mooney

Even in the midst of the Los Angeles fires, last week’s Academy Award nominations sparked a familiar debate about the role of the Oscars in mainstream American life.It has become a common refrain in recent years to protest that the Academy has lost touch with mainstream movie-goers, that the voting body has grown eso...

[COLUMN] Fire Walk With Me Still Burns Bright | by Darren Mooney

Note: This piece contains spoilers for Twin Peaks and Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me.It is something of an understatement to suggest that David Lynch’s Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Memet with a harsh reception on its initial release back in 1992.The film was “released without press screenings to protect Lynch from the...