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Game Devs Lying to You is A Good Thing, Actually | Design Delve

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

[COLUMN] This Year, There's Nothing Scarier Than Pregnancy | by Darren Mooney

Note: This piece contains spoilers for Alien: Romulus, Cuckoo, The First Omen and Immaculate.

Earlier this year, the twinned releases of Michael Mohan’s Immaculate and Arkasha Stevenson’s The First Omen suggested that something was stirring in the collective unconscious. After all, two movies about nuns investigati...

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[AD-FREE] Breaking Down the Biggest Gamescom Reveals | Firelink Podcast

This week on Firelink, Marty, KC, and Jesse discuss the biggest news out of Gamescom, including Bethesda's Indiana Jones, the rad-looking Amazon series Secret Level, and the return of Peter Molyneux.

[NEW] Second Wind Shorts Channel

Hey folks,

The team has decided to launch a new Shorts channel as we don't want to overload the channel with them. We'll be releasing more Shorts on a regular basis to share funny clips from streams, segments from our shows, podcasts and eventually some original content as well.

Shorts Channel: Second Wind Shorts - YouTube

This is an experimental channel for us...

The Crush House | Fully Ramblomatic

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

[AD-FREE] Our Thoughts on Alien: Romulus | The Rewind Podcast

This week on The Rewind, Darren, Jack and Marty discuss their thoughts on Alien: Romulus.

Borderlands is a Shapeless, Formless Mess | The Backdrop

A new episode of The Backdrop is now available!

[AD-FREE] The Movies That Influenced Games the Most | Windbreaker Podcast

On this week’s episode of Windbreaker, Yahtzee, Marty, and JM8 take a look at some of the movies throughout history that've had the biggest influence on video games.

Mega Man Legends Deserved a Thousand Sequels | The Archive

In this first episode of The Archive, Marty Sliva and Javed Sterritt head back to 1998 to revisit Capcom’s Mega Man Legends, including the story surrounding its development, how the gameplay holds up today, and digging into why it’s a shame that the subseries hasn’t continued.

[COLUMN] In Space, No One Can Hear You Meme | by Darren Mooney

Note: This piece contains spoilers for Alien: Romulus. Like, full spoilers. So consider yourself warned.

There is a surreal moment towards the climax of Alien: Romulus, as Rain Carradine (Cailee Spaeny) and her synthetic brother Andy (David Jonsson) attempt to flee the eponymous space station, pursued through an elev...

Conscript, Thank Goodness You're Here, Nova Drift and Cat Quest III | Yahtzee Tries

A new episode of Yahtzee Tries is now available!

Can an NPC Feel Like A Friend? | Semi-Ramblomatic

With all the craziness, forgot to share this week's episode of Semi-Ramblomatic.

Peep the new thumbnail courtesy of Javed!

Enjoy!

[COLUMN] M. Night Shyamalan's Trap is the Ultimate Dad Movie | by Darren Mooney

Psst: You know Trap? The recent M. Night Shyamalan movie? Well, the writer heard that there were people who hadn’t seen it yet. And they might be reading this essay. This entire piece? It’s a trap. There are gonna be spoilers in here. Kinda dope, isn’t it?

If nothing else, M. Night Shyamalan’s Trap is a movie about the eternal question of...

[AD-FREE] Being Deceptively Indie (ft. Wilson Chung - Trepang2) | Dev Heads Podcast

This week, the Dev Heads crew is joined by Trepang2-developer Wilson Chung to what goes into making a game feel big, even if you're working with a small team.

'The Archive' Premieres on Monday from Marty Sliva!

Hey folks,

On Monday we're premiering our newest show, The Archive, hosted by Marty Sliva and edited by Javed Sterritt (Good Blood)!

Here's a quick tease of the show with the first episode focusing on Mega Man Legends.

We're super excited to finally get this one out there as Marty and Javed have been working on the show for the past few months, with the first season already mapped out.

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The Archive is our new retro-focused series here at Second Wind whe...