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What is EA doing lately...? - Crubcast w/Pre and Post Shows

3 main topics for tonight

1. What is EA doing lately?

2. Kojima, bad, or bad? (M's take)
3. Furry or monster-fucker? (Sean explains, kind of)

The one and only OTHER Jak 2 tierlist for every mission (scientifically determined)

When I sat down, I was a tired man ready to turn the night around by talking some Spyro 3.

Brody...Brody tricked me. I left with no soul remaining.

Here is a testament to my torture.

-Chris

What grinds our gears about Mario Kart World - Crubcast audio version

(I thought I had uploaded this and didn't...please forgive us)

SHOW NOTES

Mario Kart World's development length:

https://www.polygon.com/news/600439/mario-kart-world-development-nintendo-switch-2

CHAPTERS

00:00 This episode is about Mario Kart World

10:21 You're not meant to complete these games, but...

23:13 On the expectatio...

Ironically unironically playing Zero Build

Nicco's AC broke, and we weren't sure until the last minute if anyone but me (Chris) and him could show up

So M appeared and we played zero build Fortnite

now THAT'S content

Podcastémon Episode 025

HULLLOOOO EVERYBODY, JTARTIPLIER9 HERE

Happy 25th episode! What a milestone. We're so honored and proud and happy to be approaching 10% of being done with this series. We have like 30 episodes of our podcast left to be done with Johto. Please be excited. PLEASE, be excited.

This time we're talking about episodes 122 "Flower Power", to 126 "Chikorita Rescue".

Next time...EPISODES 127 TO 130, "Once in a Blue Moon" to "A Bout With Sprout".

The episode guide we're followi...

What grinds our gears about Mario Kart World - Crubcast w/Pre and Post Shows

We're sorry, Switch 2 fans

Ranking Every Realm in Spyro 2: Ripto's Rage

Just what it says on the tin, for the record there are 6 less levels in this game than the first... and about 85 more minutes worth of incoherent babbling to show for it on our end. Trouble with the socialists, eh?

SHOW NOTES

The digital photographers Brody sourced for some of these screenshots: https://x.com/SpyroAesthetics

htt...

We watched EVERY Summer Games Fest conference - Crubcast audio version

SHOW NOTES

Avatar: Realms Collide

https://avatarrealmscollide.com/

Bahamut and the Waqwaq Tree:

https://bahamutgame.com/

Azooma Escape:

https://www.ashgamesstudio.com/

King of Meat:

2025-06-12 10:36:37 +0000 UTC View Post

CRANKIN OUR HOGS #2: Exploring Playdate's Season 2, Week 2 Games

This week on CRANKIN OUR HOGS, Kevin and Nicco check out The Whiteout and Wheelsprung. The Whiteout is about exploring the world after society has collapsed, and Wheelsprung is about biking through fun environments with actual physics simulation.

If you'd like to check out Week 1's games, 2025-06-11 19:34:29 +0000 UTC View Post

We watched EVERY Summer Games Fest conference - Crubcast w/Pre and Post Shows

BRODY WATCHED EVERY SINGLE SUMMER GAMES FEST CONFERENCE, WHY

Crubber Games Fest - Early June Crubletter

Welcome to Crubber Games Fest. I've always dreamed of being able to write this newsletter...and...sniff...it's just, such an honor to finally be able to bring this content to you. For our first announcement, there will likely be Odd Scheduling this week. Yesterday we released a Crubcast deepdive on the Japanese gaming industry, but tomorrow we'll be livestreaming an episode breaking down Summer Games Fest. To keep it as timely as we can, we'll almost certainly be releasing the video version o...

Podcastémon Episode 024

IT'S THE START OF JOHTO! Totodile? Yup! Chikorita? Well. Cyndaquil? Maybe in the intro. It's the beginning of the end for us based on what people say. We have around 158 episodes of Johto to go through, so...let's get it started.

Next time...episodes 122 TO 126. Some of these are marked as our "filler" episodes to skip, but since we're so early on we went ahead and watched these.

The episode guide we're following is here: 2025-06-09 14:00:13 +0000 UTC View Post

Crubcast: Nicco x Sekiro VOD

Nicco was the only one around to man the show this week, so he booted up Sekiro and did a solo Crubcast. This Will Be An Official Episode, Probably, Maybe*

Trying to guess entry #100 on top 100 lists - Crubcast audio version

Justin approached us with a devious game. We're all familiar with top 100 lists, but we never focus on the bottom end of them. So what if we tried to guess as close as we can to #100? Dreamcast, PS3, Spotify, passing yards...we...we spent 10 minutes trying to guess ANY song from Spotify...

SHOW NOTES

If these are wrong, yell at Justin please.
Top 100 Dreamcast games:
https://www.meta...

CRANKIN OUR HOGS #1: Exploring Playdate's Season 2, Week 1 Games

Hello! As thanks to anyone who knows what a crub is, we've decided to put out a free video for everyone over the next few Wednesdays. The Playdate's second season just started releasing (if you don't know what a Playdate is, click here), so Kevin pulled in Nicco to do a weekly book club kind of deal to show off each week's 2 new games.

Maybe you have a system and are on the fence about buying season 2, or maybe...

Boolatro - Episode 4 (feat. Wolfkaosaun)

It's card games and chill, baby. Nicco wants to play Balatro and learn a bit more about the Crubbers, so he's pulled some cards from https://itskindofafunstory.com to get them to open up. This time it's Wolfkaosaun. I hope he talks about Dragon Ball Z...

Console warriors and fans not knowing what they want - Crubcast audio version

SHOW NOTES

It's true, go look:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mykonos

Kevin's Ape Escape video that we mention:

https://youtu.be/YeYjWZOn_7c

Yummy Boy:

https://www.youtube.com/@yummyboys

CHAPTERS

00:00 We prepare for our sho...

Japan's Gaming Revival - Crubcast audio version

SHOW NOTES

Shuhei Yoshida talking about why the Vita failed:

https://gamerant.com/ps-vita-failed-why-shuhei-yoshida/

minimme's videos on Australian Football:

https://youtu.be/c5WmLtKpAIw

CHAPTERS

00:00 Background leading into the main topic

08:08 The shift in 2000's development structu...

Which US States should have a video game? - Crubcast w/Pre and Post Shows

Kratos Ohio

Podcastémon Episode 023 - End of Orange Islands

IT'S THE END OF THE ORANGE ISLANDS! Holy moly. We're talking about episodes 111 to 116 today. Also, here. Let me just help you out.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Trophies/comments/11b37ep/hot_shots_golf_2_that_albatross_trophy_is_a_bitch/?rdt=49468

Next time...EPISODES 117 TO 121

The episode guide we're following is here: 2025-05-26 14:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post

Crubcast #105 audio version

SHOW NOTES

VA-11 Hall-A, the bartending game:

https://store.steampowered.com/app/447530/VA11_HallA_Cyberpunk_Bartender_Action/

CHAPTERS

00:00 Justin hates independent games, Nicco hates jumping

09:49 The pain of replaying a long game for a "true" ending

16:24 Nicco versus The Big Guy in Elden Ring

20:31 When should a game be kic...

CRUB'S 2 YEAR ANNIVERSARY STREAM

We made Sean experience Kingdom Hearts

I also fix the mute thing at the beginning a minute or two in

Brody and Chris rank every realm in Spyro the Dragon

Brody and I sat down with a simple idea. Let's rank every level from the original Spyro trilogy. As time marched on we realized the folly of our mission and split this into 3 separate tier lists. We may reconvene at the end to realize our initial vision.

For now...tell us how correct we are.

Reacting to YOUR Switch 2 Hot Takes!

Video version is up on the YouTube channel, audio version will be going up publicly tomorrow. Wanted to throw this here as a bonus for your feed early.

We polled you in our Discord and our BlueSky for YOUR hottest Switch 2 takes, then brought them home to discuss. Let us know how wrong or right we are. Just, if we're wrong, word it in such a way that implies that we're still kind of right though.

CHAPTERS
00:00 Hot take, Jtart9 is in rent-controlled Wumpus Ci...

Crubcast #104 audio version

Listen to this while you game

SHOW NOTES

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/bifurcated

CHAPTERS

00:00 Say hi to Nicco in the comments or else

06:16 This podcast has addictions

12:55 The gang learns a new word

16:03 #Curvepilled

26:48 What is it about Bloodborne that sucked Nicco

34:52 We finally delve into The Click Issue

41:34 On tr...

The folly of being a console warrior - Crubcast w/Pre and Post Shows

Come get your new pod and The Charity Room scoops

We're Turning 2 - Mid-May Crubletter

That's right, our weird little podcast baby is turning 2 on the 26th. It's catching us at a fun time, a good portion of us have been busy sorting (positive) personal affairs and taking on more work to keep our output coming as we navigate those things behind the scenes. All of this with most of us also prepping to attend TooManyGames in a month's time. We're busy! We're still making some time to celebrate though, don't worry. Tentatively we're planning to do a celebratory stream on May 20th a...

Trav, MRIXRT, and The Golden Bolt's Creator Journeys

Hello Crubscribers(TM) (Patent Pending). A few months back these 3 chuckleheads sat down to interview each other about their journeys. This will release as one entire audio episode later in the month, and as 3 separate video versions publicly on the channel over time. But we wanted to go ahead and get this to you here ahead of time. The full audio version will already be up on the Patreon RSS feed. Enjoy!

Crubcast #106 audio version

Hey gang. We've mentioned this on preshows and we'll run it by you again on the Crubletter on Monday. On our 2nd anniversary on the 26th, though, we plan to begin staggering our episode cadence so that the audio version and video version are different episodes within the same week. This is prone to exceptions, like maybe if something timely or relevant happens like a Summer Games Fest or a new release we're excited to cover. What this means is that we'll soon be releasing audio episodes for t...

Crubcast #103 audio version

this one's about genre names, strap on in

CHAPTERS

00:00 We're a runbased roguelite deckbuilding podcastvania

16:35 You aren't ready for this one, I promise

27:41 The RPG pandora's box is opened

38:24 Nicco has to guess what an expressive platformer is

46:50 Is Sonic 06 an immersive sim?

1:00:02 The1TrueBlue's Crubscriber Question of the Week