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[WRITE-IN] Rad 2025 Games That Slipped Under the Radar | Firelink Podcast

It's been a bit of a slow news week (at least for gaming...), so we're gonna take a look back at some of the games that we've enjoyed that slipped under the radar a bit this year!

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 Thursday, September 18th

The Stupidity of Big Boss | Semi-Ramblomatic

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Hollow Knight: Silksong | Fully Ramblomatic

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[AD-FREE] Alright, Fine, Let's Chat About Silksong's Difficulty | Windbreaker Podcast

On this week’s episode of Windbreaker, Yahtzee, Marty, and JM8 dig into Silksong's difficulty, and use it as a springboard to chat about the line between the good and bad kinds of hard.

Hollow Knight: Silksong's Beautiful but Baffling Designs | Design Delve

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[COLUMN] The Mundane, Banal, Unsettling Brutality of The Long Walk | by Darren Mooney

Note: This piece contains relatively light spoilers for The Long Walk, which is maybe - give or take Doctor Sleep - the best theatrical Stephen King adaptation since The Mist. It only really spoils the movie’s first death, but if you want to go in completely blind, consider yourself warned.

It has become a cliché to repeat the argument, often attributed to François Truffaut, that “2025-09-15 14:00:28 +0000 UTC View Post

Shinobi: Art of Vengeance, Mortal Sin, Dunkadillo, and Metal Eden | Yahtzee Tries

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

[COLUMN] Foundation is About the Impotence of Great Men | by Darren Mooney

Note: This piece contains spoilers for the third season of Foundation, through to its ninth episode “The Paths That Choose Us.” Consider yourself warned. We’re not dicking around here. 

Foundation is, at its core, a show about the power and rage of men who consider themselves great. As one might expect from a series built on the pseudos...

The Price of Hollow Knight: Silksong | Unpacked

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[AD-FREE] Nintendo Direct Hopes/Wishes + Silksong Continues to Impress | Firelink Podcast

This week on Firelink, Marty, KC, and Nick chat about tomorrow's big hour-long Nintendo Direct, their continued adventures in Silksong, and everything else they've been playing.

Metal Gear Solid Δ: Snake Eater | Fully Ramblomatic

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[AD-FREE] The Conjuring: Last Rites, Highest 2 Lowest, and More | The Rewind Podcast

This week on The Rewind, Darren, Jack, and Marty chat about everything they've been watching, including The Conjuring: Last Rites, Highest 2 Lowest, Pokemon Concierge, and more.

Why Disney Struggle with Gen Z Men | The Backdrop

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

[AD-FREE] Can Games Ever Live Up to Their Hype? | Windbreaker Podcast

On this week’s episode of Windbreaker, Yahtzee, Marty, and JM8 chat about the hype leading up to a game like Silksong, and whether any piece of art can ever live up to those lofty expectations we create.

[COLUMN] The Masculine Anxieties of The Conjuring: Last Rites | by Darren Mooney

Note: This piece contains spoilers for The Conjuring: Last Rites. And also Avengers: Endgame. If you’re still worried about that.

The Conjuring: Last Rites begins with an absent father.

It opens with a flashback to the first case undertaken by paranormal experts Ed (Orion Smith) and Lorraine Warren (Madison Lawlor). The pair have been summoned by a young woman, whose father saw something in the reflection of an old mirror in their anti...

[PATREON EXCLUSIVE] Sinners and K-Pop Demon Hunters Are... Sorta the Same Movie?

KC Nwosu is here with this month's Patreon experimental video on how Sinners and K-Pop Demon Hunters are... kinda the same movie?

Hope you have fun with this one!

[AD-FREE] What the Hell Do You Want From a Sequel? | Dev Heads

This week on Dev Heads, JM8 and Mikee chat about what makes a good sequel.

AA Games Are the New AAA | Unpacked

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[AD-FREE] Cronos: The New Dawn, Hell Is Us, Metal Eden, Silksong... Oh My! | Firelink Podcast

This week on Firelink, Marty, KC, and Nick talk about Silksong, the James Bond gameplay reveal, and the many other games that have come out over the last week!

[COLUMN] Pedro Pascal is Not Over-Exposed, He's Just Seizing the Moment | by Darren Mooney

This year, Pedro Pascal was everywhere – and people noticed.

The Last of Us returned for its second season, with Pascal reprising his role as Joel Miller. Pascal was the star of The Fantastic Four: First Steps, the big Marvel Studios release of the year. He was the second lead of Ari Aster’s Eddington and the third lead of Celine Song’s Materialists. He popped up in the 50th anniversary special of Saturday Night Live and carried his own...

[WRITE-IN] Cronos: The New Dawn, Hell Is Us, Metal Eden, Silksong... Oh My! | Firelink Podcast #82

Silksong is here, Nick is back from vacation and finished a ton of new games that came out, and the James Bond game got a great gameplay reveal this week. Lot's to talk about on tonight's show!

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.

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I'm Ashamed to Admit It, I Play YouTube Playables | Semi-Ramblomatic

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YouTube Is Crushing Our Viewership

This business is so fun sometimes.

A HUGE thank you to everyone that has already signed up in the last hour. Your support helps keep things stable here when YouTube decides to change things on a whim.

Make sure to join the Discord and go introduce yourself to the community, and we'll see you at 12 PM CT for Hollow Knight Silksong and at 2 PM CT for a new episode of Semi-Ramblomatic.

We won't change what we do to please YouTube.

Our first priority is always...