388: Cuphead

Outer Wilds is a cozy adventure game about the thrill of exploration and the triumph of curiosity. You walk in the footsteps of a long-gone civilization to find your way out of a deadly time loop, ultimately triumphing and being reborn. The game's expansion, Echoes of the Eye, ta ... Show More

Outer Wilds is a cozy adventure game about the thrill of exploration and the triumph of curiosity. You walk in the footsteps of a long-gone civilization to find your way out of a deadly time loop, ultimately triumphing and being reborn. The game's expansion, Echoes of the Eye, ta ... Show More

Bob Mackey of the Retronauts joins Kaye this week to talk about Majora's Mask, whose pitch is that you only have three days to save the world, but you have as many three days as you want. This is the bleaker and more ambitious sibling to the beloved Ocarina of Time, and it's a st ... Show More

Cartoons you can shoot with a gun! 

Playing a quick game or two 

A patron demanded that we talk about a kinda good game, played incorrectly. Virtua Cop was genuinely impressive not because of its 3D graphics, but because for the first time enemies would animate and move and not just be pop up animated gif targets. Honestly, that’s probably eno ... Show More

<p>Game Over.</p> <p>Taako makes some fashionable friends. Merle does some wordplay. Magnus remembers.</p> 

This week we go rogue and chat about a whole bunch of games — Super Mario Wonder (short to mid-length), Helldivers 2 (long!), and an assortment of “daily games” (seconds to minutes!). 

<p>This week Julius and I talk about Bullet ♥︎ and, really, Bullet ★. These games are in the style of Bullet Hell video games were bullets are flying all over the place in overwhelming quantities.  It's a really fast playing simultaneous play game with a timer.  Julius find the t ... Show More

It’s all fun and games...until someone gets hurt. This week’s stories are all about deadly games and rituals. First, we’ll play the Game of the Red Eye. Next, we’ll prank call a babysitter, learn the origins of Bloody Mary, and hear about a mysterious mascot suit at a football ga ... Show More

These boys have games, and they're going to play them! 

An 80s action movie themed beat em video game. No, you don't play as animals.