This Saturday (11/16) we're extremely excited to be celebrating our one-year anniversary with the Second Wind community!
The festivities will be starting at 11 AM CT with announcements, looks at upcoming works, new merch and some additional updates on new perks coming to our Patreon for 2025.
Our goal with this event is to drive new subscribers to Patreon, so we'll be doing some fun milestone goals that may result in certain... things happening.
We'll be playing Fall ...
2024-11-12 23:34:38 +0000 UTC
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This week's episode of The Backdrop is now available!
2024-11-12 16:04:50 +0000 UTC
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On this week’s episode of Windbreaker, Yahtzee, JM8, and Marty chat about the games of 2014, and how the modern landscape compares to a decade ago.
2024-11-12 16:00:16 +0000 UTC
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Sometimes, you play a game that feels like it somehow became unglued from time and arrived from a different era entirely. This is often done purposefully in the indie space to recall a very specific moment in gaming history, as we’ve been seeing recently with the wave of survival horror throwbacks like Crow Country&...
2024-11-12 15:00:16 +0000 UTC
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Note: This piece contains spoilers for The Penguin, which wrapped up last night. All episodes are currently streaming on Max.
The Penguin wrapped up its first season last night, closing on the image of Oswald “Oz” Cobb (Colin Farrell) wearing a tuxedo, dancing in his lavish penthouse apartment with his companion Eve Karlo (Carmen Ejogo). It...
2024-11-11 15:00:15 +0000 UTC
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Earlier this week, it was announced that Simon Kinberg had been hired by Lucasfilm to write and produce a new trilogy of Star Wars films. This is, to put it mildly, a very strange announcement.
This decision is peculiar on a number of different levels. Most superficially, Kinb...
2024-11-10 15:00:12 +0000 UTC
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This week, the Dev Heads crew are joined by Adam Engels, project lead at Black Mesa to talk about what it's like to hunt for a publisher.
2024-11-09 01:00:06 +0000 UTC
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Note: This piece contains some hefty spoilers for the plot of Heretic, which is well worth seeing as blind as possible. So feel free to bookmark and come back after you’ve seen it.
From its opening moments, Heretic is preoccupied with talking.
The film’s credits play out over a gentle conversation between two Mormon missionaries, Sister...
2024-11-08 15:00:15 +0000 UTC
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A new episode of Bytesized is now available from Jess Hoops!
2024-11-07 21:18:10 +0000 UTC
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This week's episode of Semi-Ramblomatic is now available!
2024-11-07 16:07:05 +0000 UTC
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This week's episode of Fully Ramblomatic is now available!
2024-11-06 17:02:27 +0000 UTC
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This week's episode of Unpacked is now available!
2024-11-05 16:19:47 +0000 UTC
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On this week’s episode of Windbreaker, Yahtzee, JM8, and Marty chat about the best, worst, and weirdest leaders in video games.
2024-11-05 16:00:10 +0000 UTC
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I have a weird relationship with the Metroid franchise. Super Metroid is one of my favorite games of all time, and I replay it on a near-annual basis. The atmosphere, player freedom, and intricate design are mind boggling for something from three decades ago. It’s one of those rare games that birthed a genre and arguably hasn’t been topped since.
But despite my d...
2024-11-05 15:00:09 +0000 UTC
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A new episode of Bytesized is now available from Jenna Stoeber, reviewing Wilmot Works It Out.
2024-11-04 16:34:54 +0000 UTC
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Note: This piece contains spoilers for Clint Eastwood’s Juror #2, which is playing in 50 theatres in the United States. There’s a separate piece to be written about Warners’ handling of the film. This guy really was railroaded. It’s worth seeing, if you’re fond of Eastwood, A...
2024-11-04 15:00:15 +0000 UTC
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This week's episode of Yahtzee Tries is now available!
2024-11-03 17:20:31 +0000 UTC
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Note: This piece contains spoilers for Interstellar. If you haven’t seen it, it’s on Paramount+, but also there’s tenth anniversary screenings taking place, so check those out.
Released ten years ago this week, Christopher Nolan’s Interstellar defied expectations.
The film opened to polite-but-sniffy reviews. In The Boston Glob...
2024-11-03 15:00:14 +0000 UTC
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It's finally time for a Side Quest! Tune into the first episode of Adventure is Nigh - Side Quest now!
2024-11-02 16:45:36 +0000 UTC
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Piece by Piece is a fairly conventional music documentary from veteran director Morgan Neville. It is, on paper, familiar ground for the documentarian, who had previously directed the Oscar-winning 20 Feet From Stardom, a portrait of the unsung back-up vocalists who provide so much to the music industry. Piece by Piece is a study of musician Pharrell Williams, ch...
2024-11-01 14:00:19 +0000 UTC
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This week on Firelink, Marty, Nick, and KC chat about Black Ops 6's wild campaign, in a time where do don't see a lot of them in the AAA space.
2024-11-01 00:00:15 +0000 UTC
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This week's episode of Fully Ramblomatic is now available!
2024-10-30 16:04:12 +0000 UTC
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This week on The Rewind, Darren, Marty, Jack, and Jesse S chat about their own personal recommendations for what to watch this Halloween.
2024-10-30 15:00:09 +0000 UTC
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On this week’s episode of Windbreaker, Yahtzee, JM8, and Marty chat about some of their favorite horror games from throughout the years that are bit off the beaten path.
2024-10-30 00:00:08 +0000 UTC
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A new episode of Bytesized is now available from KC Nwosu checking out MechWarrior 5: Clans!
2024-10-29 20:44:53 +0000 UTC
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A new episode of The Backdrop is now available from Darren Mooney!
2024-10-29 15:04:22 +0000 UTC
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“2024 has been a boring year for games.” It’s something I hear every so often in chat and comments across both Second Wind videos and my personal Twitch streams.
And on one hand, I get it. This year hasn’t seen the kind of totemic release that we saw in 2023 with The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom and Baldur’s Gate 3 or in 2022 with Elden Ring
2024-10-29 14:00:10 +0000 UTC
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Hey folks!
Welcome Jenna Stoeber to Second Wind's freelance roster with her first Bytesized review on Mouthwashing! Expect to see more work from her on Bytesized and she'll be joining us on livestreams too.
2024-10-28 20:07:08 +0000 UTC
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The next episode of Battle Masters is officially here! Join us in just under 30 minutes as we watch it together.
2024-10-28 14:33:53 +0000 UTC
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Note: This piece contains spoilers for Rob Zombie’s Halloween II, which turns 15 this year. If you are going to watch it, watch the Director’s Cut. It’s a cut above.
In Rob Zombie’s Halloween II, people take a long time to die.
Throughout the film, Zombie’s camera lingers on the final moments of life for the victims of slasher villain ...
2024-10-28 14:00:14 +0000 UTC
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