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Blades of Fire | Fully Ramblomatic

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

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Fantasy Life Is 2025’s Most Dangerous Game

Marty's fallen dangerously in love with a new game.

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How Prey Saved the Predator Franchise | The Backdrop

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

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[AD-FREE] What Even Is a "Cozy" Game? | Windbreaker Podcast

On this week’s episode of Windbreaker, Yahtzee, JM8, and Marty dig into the biggest sub-genre of the past few years, and try to figure out what separate as a good cozy game from a bland imitator.

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Rematch Combines Soccer and Rocket League for Addictive Results | Discovery Queue

A new episode of Discovery Queue is now available, this time taking a look at Rematch!

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The Curse of Needlessly Copying Dark Souls | Design Delve

This week's episode of Design Delve is now available!

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[COLUMN] The Lost and Found Children of Russell T. Davies' Doctor Who | by Darren Mooney

Note: This piece contains spoilers for the recent season of Doctor Who, including its final moments. So consider yourself warned.

At the end of “The Reality War”, the fifteenth season finale of the revival of Doctor Who, the Fifteenth Doctor’s (Ncuti Gatwa) journey concluded how it began, with the character saving a lost child and reconnecting t...

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[PILOT] Retro Dino Horror, Dredge but Trucks and Bustling Taverns | Wishlist

As mentioned in Unpacked this Friday, here's a new little thing we've been working on that is simply designed around highlighting upcoming games we're interested in.

There are so many games to discover out there and never enough time to get to them all, and one of my personal favorite things about games media is just finding new games to keep an eye on.

Hope you like this video and if the response is good over the next few episodes we'll keep making them!

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A Jerky Education | Adventure Is Nigh! - The Cat's Paw | Ep. 8

This week's episode of Adventure is Nigh is now available!

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[PATREON EXCLUSIVE] Let's Rewatch Nintendo's E3 2004 Presentation

Hey folks! As promised, here's the first of our new group videos exclusive to the $10 tier on Patreon.

Hey folks!

As promised, here's the first of our new group videos exclusive to the $10 tier on Patreon.

There will be a variety of these over the coming months and we hope you enjoy them!

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The Big Games Discoverability Problem | Unpacked

This week's episode of Unpacked is now available!

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[AD-FREE] Summer Game Fest 2025 Hopes, Dreams, and Fears | Firelink Podcast

This week on Firelink, KC, Marty, and Nick chat about what they hope to see at next week's Summer Game Fest shenanigans.

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[COLUMN] Karate Kid: Legends Collapses Under the Weight of Its Own Mythology | by Darren Mooney

Karate Kid: Legends is a movie in conversation with itself, effectively a feature-length debate about what exactly makes a Karate Kid movie a Karate Kid movie.

The first half of the movie argues for the Karate Kid as a reliable formula. It is a storytelling structure built around nice clean character arcs, a narrative pattern that connects the 1984 original t...

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PaperKlay Is a Simple and Delightful 3D Platforming Collectathon | Discovery Queue

A new episode of Discovery Queue is now available!

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[WRITE-IN] Firelink Episode #69 (Nice)

Next week is the biggest week of the year for games media with both Summer Games Fest, Steam Next Fext and more happening. It's time for our annual predictions episode of what we expect to see this year coming out of these events.

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 topical, safe for work and not huge walls of text.

Submissions close at 6 PM CT on Thu...

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Why Are Modern Games Obsessed With Parrying? | Semi-Ramblomatic

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

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Promise Mascot Agency | Fully Ramblomatic

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

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[AD-FREE] Andor Isn't Just Top-Tier Star Wars, It's Top-Tier Television | The Rewind Podcast

This week on The Rewind, Darren, Marty, and JM8 chat about Andor season 2, Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning, and other stuff they've been watching.

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Tainted Grail: The Fall of Avalon Is a Solid Alternative to the Elder Scrolls | Discovery Queue

A new episode of Discovery Queue is now available!

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[AD-FREE] Game Advertising That Actually Worked on You | Windbreaker Podcast

On this week’s episode of Windbreaker, Yahtzee, JM8, and Marty celebrate the start of "E3" season by chatting about the advertising -- trailers, print ads, features, interviews, demos, and more -- that actually worked on them in the past.

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[COLUMN] Fantasy Life i: The Girl Who Steals Time Is 2025’s Most Dangerous Game | by Marty Sliva

It dawned on me at some point around 2am, in the middle of going through my mental checklist of tasks that I could currently be completing in Fantasy Life i: The Girl Who Steals Time. My woodcutter life skill was finally high enough to chop down that new type of tree, which I could use the wood from in conjunction with my blacksmith skill to craft a powerful new bow for my hunter life, meani...

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[COLUMN] What the Lilo & Stitch Remake Doesn't Understand About the Original | by Darren Mooney

Note: This piece includes discussions of adaptational changes between the original Lilo & Stitch and the remake. This includes a discussion of the third act and the ending.

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Promise Mascot Agency, The Midnight Walk, The Precinct, and Nitro Express | Yahtzee Tries

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

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[5/24 @ 11 AM CT] Six Hours of Dokapon Kingdom Madness w/ KC, Jess, Jesse, and Marty

We've brought funding goals back to our livestreams and last month the community met the goal and unlocked a mega Dokapon Kingdom stream which is happening tomorrow!

Tune in at 11 AM CT for a day full of goofs with the Dokapon crew!

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Marathon Needs to Be Delayed to Avoid Disaster | Unpacked

This week's episode of Unpacked is now available!

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[AD-FREE] "If You're a Real Fan..." | Firelink Podcast

This week on Firelink, KC, Marty, and Nick chat about Randy Pitchford's ridiculous comments regarding the price of Borderlands 4, Lies of P getting easier, and surprising Street Fighter movie casting.

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[COLUMN] Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning is the Dying Dream of the Last Movie Star | by Darren Mooney

Note: This piece contains spoilers for Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning, which is in cinemas this weekend. Despite a frankly unforgivable first hour - which is a serious problem in any film that can be said to have “a first hour” - it evolves in its final two hours into a much weirder and more interesting film; Buster Keaton by way of Stanley Kubrick and Chr...

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Monster Train 2 Is The King of the Roguelite Deckbuilders | Discovery Queue

In this episode of Discovery Queue, Nick and Marty are checking out Monster Train 2.

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DOOM: The Dark Ages | Fully Ramblomatic

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

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Doctor Who Is About the Power of Television | The Backdrop

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

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