Note: This piece contains full spoilers for Ironheart, which is now streaming on Disney +. It’s… fine. It is another meeting that could have been an email, a pretty good two-hour film stretched to six hours of content. It’s also very back-heavy, with the best stuff in the home stretch and a lot of the opening four hours feeling like wheel-spinning and empty fan ser...
2025-07-04 14:00:14 +0000 UTC
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Xbox made more layoffs, cancellations and is also doing better than ever... apparently. Lot's to discuss tonight.
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, July 3rd.
2025-07-03 19:52:47 +0000 UTC
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A new essay from Marty about the Nintendo Switch 2 is now available!
2025-07-03 19:06:22 +0000 UTC
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It's finally time to choose which game Yahtzee reviews for this Summer's Drought Vote!
We got a ton of suggestions from the Discord and by a process only known to us, we have chosen these six titles from the suggestions.
May the odds ever be in (not the weebs) favor.
Have fun!
2025-07-02 16:00:56 +0000 UTC
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This week on The Rewind, Darren, Marty, and Jack chat about 28 Years Later, the news that Denis Villeneuve is directing the next Bond movie, and whatever else they've been watching.
2025-07-02 00:00:08 +0000 UTC
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In today's episode, J & Ludo delve deep into Dune: Awakening to see if the spice is as good as people are saying it is (spoilers: it is).
2025-07-01 20:07:12 +0000 UTC
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Note: This column contains some minor spoilers for the opening few chapters of Death Stranding 2: On the Beach. It’s a good video game.
Inside of me are two wolves as I play through Death Stranding 2: On the Beach. The first is enthralled by the story, and wants to see how Sam, Fragile, Tomorrow, Rainy, and Neil all tie together before being inevita...
2025-07-01 14:00:20 +0000 UTC
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On this week’s episode of Windbreaker, Yahtzee is on vacation, so JM8 and Marty are joined by Jack to chat about their own personal gaming backlogs, especially in the face of the current Steam Summer Sale.
2025-07-01 00:00:09 +0000 UTC
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A new episode of Bytesized is now available from Nick!
2025-06-30 22:32:34 +0000 UTC
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A new Patreon exclusive video is now available as part of our monthly "group" video series we're doing.
If you wanted chaos... well, you've got Sonic instead.
Enjoy!
2025-06-30 20:22:14 +0000 UTC
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This week's episode of The Backdrop is now available!
We're switching Design Delve tomorrow for an extra day of editing.
Enjoy!
2025-06-30 15:02:52 +0000 UTC
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Note: This post contains spoilers for F1: The Movie, and also for Oblivion. If you haven’t seen either, they’re solid. F1 is in theatres this weekend, and is worth seeing on as big a screen as possible with as good a sound system as possible. It doesn’t have a lot of surprises, and does largely what one expects a racing movie to do, but it’s a good time. That sai...
2025-06-30 14:00:16 +0000 UTC
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A new episode of Wishlist is now available!
2025-06-29 15:45:48 +0000 UTC
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This week's episode of Adventure is Nigh is now available, and if I can make one suggestion... don't skip the ad at the front.
Enjoy!
2025-06-28 16:52:03 +0000 UTC
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This week on Dev Heads, JM8, Tina, and Mikee are joined by developer Laura Shiraishi to chat about the differences in development between studios across the world.
2025-06-28 00:00:09 +0000 UTC
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A new episode of Bytesized is now available from Jenna!
2025-06-27 22:55:34 +0000 UTC
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This week's Unpacked episode is now available!
2025-06-27 15:07:52 +0000 UTC
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This week on Firelink, KC, Marty, and Nick chat about a flood of good new games, including Death Stranding 2, Rematch, Ruffy and the Riverside, and Persona 5: The Phantom X.
2025-06-27 15:00:17 +0000 UTC
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Note: This piece contains a discussion of the ten episodes of the second season of Poker Face that have aired to this point. None of these are major spoilers, but if you want to watch completely blind, feel free to bookmark and come back. It’s a great show.
The second season of Poker Face is a love letter to “third places” and the increasingly d...
2025-06-27 14:00:16 +0000 UTC
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KC spent a bunch of time with REMATCH, and came away thinking that it could be the start of something big.
2025-06-26 20:01:39 +0000 UTC
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Hey all! Today's podcast is going to be all about the deluge of good new games that've hit over the past few days -- Death Stranding 2, Rematch, Persona 5: The Phantom X, and Ruffy and the Riverside.
Send in your thoughts/questions on those games, or whatever the hell else you might want us to chat about, and we'll pull some of them to read on the show.
Submissions close at 5pm CT on Thursday, June 26th.
2025-06-26 18:04:06 +0000 UTC
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This week's episode of Fully Ramblomatic is now available!
2025-06-25 16:04:53 +0000 UTC
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Marty's gone full conspiracy theorist in this new video essay!
2025-06-24 15:02:21 +0000 UTC
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You might already know about MindsEye. It was the highly publicized first game from Build a Rocket Boy, the new studio founded by former Rockstar folks, including Leslie Benzies. The game was initially conceived as a free-to-play experience couched inside of the metaverse/user-generated content (UGC) platform Everywhere. But plans changed, Everywhere seems to be going nowhe...
2025-06-24 14:00:15 +0000 UTC
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On this week’s episode of Windbreaker, Yahtzee, JM8, and Marty chat about the use of time as a central mechanic in video games.
2025-06-24 00:00:06 +0000 UTC
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Note: This piece contains spoilers for 28 Years Later, which is just tremendous and absolutely worth seeing blind, if you can. It’s a strange, melancholy meditation on the long slow death of a world, and one of the better films of the summer. If you want, you can bookmark this piece and come back to it like 28 hours later.
28 Years Later is a film a...
2025-06-23 14:00:14 +0000 UTC
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This week's episode of Yahtzee Tries is now available!
2025-06-22 16:14:57 +0000 UTC
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This week's episode of Unpacked is now available!
2025-06-20 15:03:03 +0000 UTC
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This week on Firelink, Marty and Nick chat about the WB restructuring their games division around four core franchises, the Gex Trilogy being literally unplayable on Switch 2, and why you should immediately play The Alters.
2025-06-20 15:00:20 +0000 UTC
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Note: This piece contains spoilers for Predator: Killer of Killers, now streaming on Disney+. But it’s great, and you should watch it.
One of the best things about Predator: Killer of Killers, a new animated anthology from Dan Trachtenberg and Joshua Wassung, is that it understands the most fundamental truth about alien big game hunters at the heart...
2025-06-20 14:00:17 +0000 UTC
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