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!
2025-02-07 16:09:52 +0000 UTC View Post
This week's episode of Unpacked is now available!
2025-02-07 16:09:52 +0000 UTC View Post
It was announced last week that Disney was working on a relaunch of the beloved 1990s television series Buffy, the Vampire Slayer, with the premiere to be directed by Oscar-winner Chloé Zhao and featuring Sarah Michelle Gellar reprisin...
2025-02-07 15:00:19 +0000 UTC View Post
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.
2025-02-06 20:44:14 +0000 UTC View Post
This week's episode of Semi-Ramblomatic is now available!
2025-02-06 16:29:34 +0000 UTC View Post
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.
2025-02-06 16:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post
This week's episode of Fully Ramblomatic is now available!
2025-02-05 17:05:05 +0000 UTC View Post
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 topical, safe for work and not huge walls of text.
Submissions close at 3 PM CT on Wednesday, February 5th.
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.
2025-02-05 01:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post
“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 ear...
2025-02-04 15:00:12 +0000 UTC View Post
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.
2025-02-04 01:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post
Note: This piece contains spoilers for the end of the first episode of Paradise, but it’s really just the premise of the show.
Paradise premiered 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 Secret Service Agent Xavier C...
2025-02-03 15:00:17 +0000 UTC View Post
This week's episode of Yahtzee Tries is now available!
2025-02-02 17:54:56 +0000 UTC View Post
Note: This piece contains spoilers for A Complete Unknown. And Bob Dylan’s career, I guess.
James Mangold’s A Complete Unknown is 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 storytell...
2025-02-02 15:00:11 +0000 UTC View Post
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 money lying around has been a worrying prospect, and there isn't a mattress in the world big enough to hide it under.
2025-02-01 16:11:47 +0000 UTC View Post
This week, the Dev Heads crew explore where games find their inspiration from.
2025-02-01 01:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post
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 is now available in Podcast format!
This includes every episode individually AND the compilation AND we 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 your support as always and expect even more exciting announcements from Second Wind as we roll into a very stac...
2025-01-31 17:29:26 +0000 UTC View Post
This week's episode of Unpacked is now available.
Thanks for all the feedback provided last week!

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-Man premiered this week on Disney+, a fresh and exciting take on the wall-crawling, web-slinging wonder that offers a bold reimagining of the Spider-Man mythos...
2025-01-31 15:00:17 +0000 UTC View Post
Here's a new one-off short essay about Hyper Light Breaker from Jesse Galena!
2025-01-30 16:02:58 +0000 UTC View Post
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.
2025-01-30 16:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post
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!
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 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.
Submissio...
This week's episode of The Backdrop is now available!
2025-01-28 16:04:14 +0000 UTC View Post
Xbox walked into the first major showcase of 2025 with a lot to prove, and 45 minutes later walked out with an incredibly impressive showing of 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...
2025-01-28 15:23:07 +0000 UTC View Post
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.
2025-01-28 01:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post
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.

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 esoteric in its tastes and its attitudes. Certainly, the past few years have se...
2025-01-27 15:00:14 +0000 UTC View Post
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 Me met with a harsh reception on its initial release back in 1992.
The film was “2025-01-26 15:00:12 +0000 UTC View Post
This week on Unpacked we're looking more cancelled games from PlayStation, a new game called The Blood of Dawnwaker that has some unique features in-store, and a quick look at Assassin's Creed Shadows after spending four hours with it this week!
Hope you enjoy the new format and a new episode will now be available every Friday at 10 AM CT going forward.