Pay attention to any non-progress phrases that sound like rewarding secret paths as Andy, Flask, John, and Vito discuss REANIMAL, A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms, Another Crab's Treasure, Akimbot, Steam Next Fest, Armored Core VI, Metal Garden, KLETKA, Mewgenics, Star Citizen, Highguard, Saints Row, Smiling Friends, and more!

0:00 - Intro

0:58 - BC YouTube update

2:09 - Flask (Roundtable)

• 2:20 - Silent Hill revelations
• 14:11 - A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms: The Hedge Knight
• 25:05 - Another Crab's Treasure
• 33:38 - Akimbot
• 43:19 - REANIMAL

43:59 - Vito (Roundtable)

• 44:03 - REANIMAL (cont.)

1:07:24 - BREAK

• 1:07:29 - REANIMAL replays, hats, endings

1:11:35 - Andy (Roundtable)

• 1:11:50 - Steam Next Fest
• 1:12:06 - Slap your homies
• 1:13:15 - Pratfall
• 1:14:06 - Goblin Company
• 1:17:15 - Airframe Ultra
• 1:19:26 - Sledding Game
• 1:22:57 - John Carpenter's Toxic Commando
• 1:33:15 - Armored Core VI
• 1:43:32 - Blood West

1:44:06 - John (Roundtable)

• 1:44:23 - Metal Garden
• 1:46:17 - KLETKA
• 1:56:53 - Mewgenics
• 2:01:09 - Star Citizen

2:18:22 - NEWS

• 2:18:38 - Highguard development history
• 2:27:31 - 1/3 of U.S. video game workers laid off in the last 2 years
• 2:29:29 - Microsoft leadership shake-up
• 2:35:00 - Saints Row design director thinks the franchise is dead
• 2:38:44 - The Finals e-sports controversy
• 2:54:54 - Smiling Friends cancelled abruptly

2:58:19 - Outro

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From the banished realm come the final choking gasps of Andy, Flask, Greg, John, and Vito , barely discernable as regarding Kingdom Come: Deliverance II, One Piece: Pirate Warriors 4, Vampires: Bloodlord Rising, Bogos Binted, Nioh 3, Resident Evil Village, YAPYAP, Armored Core 6, Burglin' Gnomes, Begraved, Colony Ship: A Post-Earth Role Playing Game, Fallout season 2, Return to Silent Hill, Eriksholm: The Stolen Dream, Escape Simulator 2, the latest PlayStation State of Play announcements, and more.

0:00 - Intro

1:47 - Greg (Roundtable)

26:20 - Andy (Roundtable)

38:47 - John (Roundtable)

58:44 - BREAK

1:01:07 - Flask (Roundtable)

1:32:42 - Vito (Roundtable)

1:43:39 - NEWS

2:18:30 - Outro

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Do you still possess whimsy and joy? Andy, Flask, John, and Vito can help you get rid of whatever you have left by talking about Ghost Trick, Escape Simulator, Resident Evil, Valheim, Small World, Skate Story, Marty Supreme, Dispatch, Tabletop Simulator 2.0, Highguard('s lack of promotion), the question of who gets to vanquish mods from this earth, and more!

0:00 - Intro

2:33 - Vito (Roundtable)

• 4:16 - THE FINALS (vs. ARC Raiders)
• 7:16 - Ghost Trick: Phantom Detective
• 14:07 - Escape Simulator

24:11 - Andy (Roundtable)

• 24:17 - Resident Evil 2 Remake

• 26:19 - Resident Evil 7

• 26:36-43:32 - Spoilers

43:55 - Resident Evil 7 VR Mod

50:30 - Andy (Roundtable cont.)

• 50:51 - Resident Evil Village

52:11 - John (Roundtable)

• 51:30 - Valheim (cont.)
• 1:06:14 - Small World
• 1:08:08 - Skate Story
• 1:12:21 - Marty Supreme

1:15:23 - BREAK

• The Smashing Machine/WINTER

1:19:55 - Flask (Roundtable)

• 1:20:14 - Viewfinder
• 1:25:25 - Dispatch

1:40:17 - NEWS

• 1:40:32 - Deus Ex owners are "psychopaths", says Elias Toufexis
• 1:42:43 - Tabletop Simulator 2.0 roadmap
• 1:53:31 - Highguard is one week away…
• 1:58:08 - The Witcher 3 new DLC
• 2:02:37 - Cyberpunk 2077 mod taken down after strike
• 2:10:07 - Red Dead Redemption 2 spiderweb mystery

2:20:28 - Outro

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In a year with too many titles to mention and too few subtitles to distinguish them, Andy, Flask, Greg, John, and Vito namedrop things like Pluribus, Project Zomboid, multiple PlayStation 2 games, Avatar: Fire and Ash, Cronos: The New Dawn, Dark Hours, ROUTINE, Jurassic World Evolution 3, Baby Steps, Valheim, Song Sung Blue, South of Midnight, and more. And as if those weren't enough names, so too do they drop 5 recommendations and 1 un-recommendation from 2025, in the annual 5 Up 1 Down tradition. Would it be a little awkward if multiple people dropped the same titles?…

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In this entirely A.I.-prompted podcast episode, Andy, Erik, and Flask give pat auto-takes on Predator, The Running Man, Frankenstein and more movies, Darkenstein 3D, Little Locked Rooms, ARC Raiders, Valheim, Haha, You Clowns, Old School Runescape, Project Zomboid B42, Fallout, the announced Silksong expansion, numerous news stories about A.I. in the gaming sphere recently, and more.

0:00 - Intro

2:59 - Flask (Roundtable)

• 3:27 - Movies
• 3:56 - Predator: Badlands
• 10:24 - Indiana Jones
• 14:14 - The Running Man
• 17:14 - Frankenstein
• 22:09 - Black Phone 2
• 23:46 - Wake Up Dead Man
• 27:41 - Strange Antiquities
• 33:59 - The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered
• 42:56 - Darkenstein 3D
• 47:23 - Little Locked Rooms

53:09 - Andy (Roundtable)

• 53:21 - ARC Raiders
• 54:36 - Helldivers 2
• 56:50 - Valheim
• 58:18 - Hades II
• 1:00:16 - Haha, You Clowns
• 1:02:22 - Smiling Friends S03
• 1:02:28 - Bugonia

1:04:24 - BREAK

• Steam Winter Sale

1:06:22 - Erik (Roundtable)

• 1:06:56 - Old School Runescape
• 1:09:08 - Hardcore World of Warcraft
• 1:10:03 - Project Zomboid B42
• 1:23:35 - Terminator 2D: No Fate
• 1:36:05 - Fallout S02

1:26:56 - NEWS

• 1:27:16 - Silksong: Sea of Sorrow expansion
• 1:29:08 - Larian CEO comments on Generative A.I.
• 1:29:47 - Clair Obscur A.I. texture controversy resurfaces
• 1:30:13 - ARC Raiders was in the news for text-to-speech
• 1:30:39 - Dan Houser doesn't think A.I. is that useful
• 1:41:12 - Metroid Prime 4 datamining uncovers a lot more NPC dialogue

1:44:40 - Where Winds Meet

1:50:54 - Outro

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Raiding your podcast feed for upgrade materials, Andy, Flask, John, and Vito proximity chat about ARC Raiders, Strange Antiquities, Hades II, Predator: Badlands, Megabonk, The Chair Company, Peak, Restaurats, Primitive War, BALL x PIT, Bye Sweet Carole, Hypogea, Keeper, the new Steam hardware, and more!

0:00 - Intro

2:13 - Vito (Roundtable)

• 3:12 - ARC Raiders
• 14:41 - Strange Antiquities
• 22:26 - Split Fiction/A Way Out
• 23:09 - Hades II
• 26:43 - Predator: Badlands

30:42 - Andy (Roundtable)

• 31:27 - ARC Raiders

• 1:02:22 - Hollow Knight: Silksong

• 1:03:06 - Megabonk

• 1:13:00 - The Chair Company

• Spoilers - 1:18:53-1:28:15

1:30:13 - BREAK

• 1:30:18 - Scream-off

1:31:25 - John (Roundtable)

• 1:31:49 - Peak
• 1:39:34 - Restaurats
• 1:42:10 - Fallout 4 update

1:51:18 - Flask (Roundtable)

• 1:51:37 - Primitive War
• 1:53:53 - BALL x PIT
• 1:58:40 - Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2
• 2:07:59 - Bye Sweet Carole
• 2:10:54 - Hypogea
• 2:14:18 - Keeper

2:24:36 - Steam Machine/Steam Frame/Steam Controller

2:35:08 - Outro

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Here in the podslop equivalent of friendslop, Andy, Flask, Greg, John, and Vito can't stop slopping about the Steam Next Fest, RV There Yet?, The Chair Company, Age of Wonders 4, The Long Walk, Dead Reset, BALL x PIT, Hades 2, Strange Antiquities, One Battle After Another, Vampire the Masquerade: Bloodlines 2, Steam games that didn't make back their investment, some industry retirements, and more.

0:00 - Intro 2:01 - Andy (Roundtable)

• 2:07 - Steam Next Fest
• 2:50 - YAPYAP
• 7:05 - Upstairs
• 8:56 - Tears of Metal
• 10:50 - Storebound
• 12:33 - Species Unknown
• 15:09 - Star Trek Voyager: Across the Unknown
• 20:25 - SPLASH - Paintball
• 27:55 - Mainland
• 32:40 - Final Sentence
• 34:07 - Car Service Together
• 35:43 - Restaurats
• 40:51 - ARC Raiders
• 42:01 - RV There Yet?
• 46:21 - The Chair Company

49:40 - Friendslop Fall

• 52:58 - Futurama: Hit & Run

53:01 - Greg (Roundtable)

• 53:08 - Misery
• 58:30 - World of Warcraft - Legion Remix
• 59:14 - Age of Wonders 4

1:05:36 - BREAK

• A.I. videos

1:22:10 - Flask (Roundtable)

• 1:07:27 - Moon Mission Recordings
• 1:10:58 - Scared Shitless
• 1:13:40 - The Long Walk
• 1:20:30 - Dead Reset
• 1:23:11 - BALL x PIT

1:31:07 - Vito (Roundtable)

• 1:31:47 - The Finals
• 1:31:56 - A Way Out/Split Fiction
• 1:36:18 - Hades 2
• 1:37:12 - Strange Antiquities

1:41:40 - John (Roundtable)

• 1:41:45 - One Battle After Another
• 1:45:47 - Vampire the Masquerade: Bloodlines 2

2:02:55 - NEWS

• 2:03:02 - GOG hires private investigators to hunt down rights holders
• 2:04:25 - Over 5,000 games released on Steam this year did not make back their $100
• 2:06:34 - Gregg Mayles leaves Rare after 36 years
• 2:08:06 - Doug Bowser retires as NOA President/COO

2:09:57 - Outro

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Scant months before the podcast is cancelled online for accidentally still playing an EA game even after their buyout, Andy, Flask, and John get heated about Hollow Knight: Silksong, Arena Breakout: Infinite, A Way Out, Shift At Midnight, TerrorBytes, The Knightling, Silent Hill f, the Game Pass price hike, ARC Raiders, skate.'s skin issues, and more.

0:00 - Intro 3:35 - Andy (Roundtable)

• 3:39 - Hollow Knight: Silksong
• 24:38 - Cosmic Encounters: Cosmic Odyssey
• 32:30 - On Cinema at the Cinema season 16
• 33:46 - Arena Breakout: Infinite

39:54 - John (Roundtable)

• 40:07 - A Way Out
• 43:39 - Shift At Midnight
• 46:41 - Waxworks
• 49:06 - Superman/Fantastic Four

56:31 - BREAK

• Waxworks confirmation and Supes/FF rating

58:37 - Flask (Roundtable)

• 59:04 - October Brew on Healing Flask
• 59:29 - Megabonk
• 1:01:11 - MandaloreGaming's SOMA review
• 1:01:51 - Alice in Borderland season 3
• 1:03:38 - TerrorBytes
• 1:08:34 - The Knightling
• 1:17:59 - Silent Hill f

1:37:56 - NEWS

• 1:38:02 - Xbox price hike for Game Pass and Call of Duty sales
• 1:44:46 - "ARC Raiders" censored in BLOPS 7, but not "Battlefield 6"
• 1:45:47 - ARC Raiders was "not fun" after its reveal trailer
• 1:47:39 - Pico Park accidentally made permanently free on Steam
• 1:50:10 - skate. charging $40 for cardboard Dead Space skin
• 1:52:25 - Nintendo issues denial about governmental generative A.I. claim
• 1:53:58 - EA buyout

1:56:17 - Outro

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You! Yes, you! Remember video games? Well FORGET 'em. This episode is all about the AUDIO games, played here in episode 201 of the podcast to celebrate the previous 200. You will enjoy such puzzling contests as 'Lore Lie and the Lazy Guys', 'My Friends Are in Jeopardy', and 'Retro Review Recognizer'. That's it, actually. There were only enough points in the bank account for those three games. And actually, you should probably remember those video games again real quick, because the audio games are all about video games.

0:00 - Intro 3:03 - Lore Lie and the Lazy Guys setup 7:44 - Lore Lie and the Lazy Guys game start

• 7:52 - Flask Question 1
• 9:02 - Answer
• 10:30 -  Flask Question 2
• 12:44 - Answer
• 16:52 - Flask Question 3
• 18:28 - Answer
• 19:25 - Flask Question 4
• 20:53 - Answer
• 23:33 - Answer Rundown
• 27:34 - Andy Question 1
• 30:17 - Andy Question 2
• 31:56 - Andy Question 3

35:22 - My Friends Are in Jeopardy! (Andy Edition) 1:10:31 - Retro Review Recognizer

• 1:12:16 - Excerpt 1
• 1:13:35 - Answer
• 1:14:53 - Excerpt 2
• 1:17:10 - Answer
• 1:18:28 - Excerpt 3
• 1:21:26 - Answer
• 1:23:10 - Excerpt 4
• 1:26:20 - Answer
• 1:28:02 - Excerpt 5
• 1:30:17 - Answer
• 1:31:40 - Excerpt 6
• 1:33:08 - Answer
• 1:35:58 - Bonus review

1:38:02 - Conclusion

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