All Seasons

Season 2019

• S2019E01 Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order is ALMOST a good game.

  • December 19, 2019
  • YouTube

  For our very first episode of this actually not Star Wars-themed podcast, Alanah, Troy, Austin, and Mike dive into Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order and The Mandolorian.

• S2019E02 Are Game Awards Completely Pointless?

  • December 27, 2019
  • YouTube

  After The Game Awards (but before Rise of Skywalker), Alanah, Troy, Mike, and Austin sat down to talk about the purpose of 'Game Awards', including their perspectives as recipients and voters.

Season 2020

• S2020E01 Why game delays REALLY happen

  • January 31, 2020
  • YouTube

• S2020E02 SONIC: should creators cave to fans?

  • February 28, 2020
  • YouTube

• S2020E03 4 Games Industry Pros vs. Pandemic: what’s going to happen?

  • March 21, 2020
  • YouTube

• S2020E04 Does YouTube screw over game devs, too?

  • March 27, 2020
  • YouTube

• S2020E05 Are Game Trailers Tricking You?

  • April 3, 2020
  • YouTube

• S2020E06 The games that saved us.

  • April 11, 2020
  • YouTube

• S2020E07 What do "game directors" ACTUALLY do?

  • April 17, 2020
  • YouTube

• S2020E08 The RULES of making games

  • April 23, 2020
  • YouTube

• S2020E09 Is new Final Fantasy 7 REALLY a "remake"?

  • May 2, 2020
  • YouTube

• S2020E10 DOOM Eternal v Mick Gordon Controversy

  • May 8, 2020
  • YouTube

• S2020E11 Dev explains the PS5 UNREAL DEMO

  • May 15, 2020
  • YouTube

• S2020E12 Ghost of Tsushima's Kurosawa mode

  • May 22, 2020
  • YouTube

• S2020E13 Troy Baker talks The Last of Us Part 2

  • May 29, 2020
  • YouTube

• S2020E14 Devs react to PS5 conference

  • June 12, 2020
  • YouTube

• S2020E15 Game Devs talk Review Scores

  • June 20, 2020
  • YouTube

• S2020E16 Devs talk The Last of Us Part 2 (DESIGN)

  • June 28, 2020
  • YouTube

• S2020E17 Are Video Games “Too Long"?

  • July 3, 2020
  • YouTube

• S2020E18 Should PS5 games be $70?

  • July 10, 2020
  • YouTube

• S2020E19 Is Assassin's Creed the "Transformers" of games?

  • July 17, 2020
  • YouTube

• S2020E20 Why Ghost of Tsushima's Lip-Sync Is Of

  • July 24, 2020
  • YouTube

• S2020E21 Devs discuss GamePass: Good or Bad?

  • July 31, 2020
  • YouTube

• S2020E22 The Last of Us 2 & "Politics" in Games

  • August 7, 2020
  • YouTube

• S2020E23 Game Leaks: Should Journalists Cover Them?

  • August 16, 2020
  • YouTube

• S2020E24 Fortnite v Apple could be REALLY BAD for Devs

  • August 22, 2020
  • YouTube

• S2020E25 Robert Pattinson's THE BATMAN (& death)

  • August 29, 2020
  • YouTube

• S2020E26 Does PlayStation 5 Need Backwards Compatibility?

  • September 5, 2020
  • YouTube

• S2020E27 Our PlayStation 5 Price Predictions | Play, Watch, Listen ep. 29

  • September 12, 2020
  • YouTube

• S2020E28 Why do people like DUNE

  • September 18, 2020
  • YouTube

• S2020E29 Devs Talk Game Releases in 2020

  • September 26, 2020
  • YouTube

• S2020E30 How Game Devs ACTUALLY Take Feedback

  • October 2, 2020
  • YouTube

• S2020E31 How Devs Decide New Game Releases Went Well

  • October 10, 2020
  • YouTube

• S2020E32 PlayStation 5 & Xbox Series X: are people excited?

  • October 16, 2020
  • YouTube

• S2020E33 How to work in the Games Industry

  • October 23, 2020
  • YouTube

• S2020E34 What makes "Good" horror?

  • October 30, 2020
  • YouTube

• S2020E35 Video Games are "Empathy Machines"

  • November 7, 2020
  • YouTube

• S2020E36 How Open World Games Actually Function

  • November 13, 2020
  • YouTube

• S2020E37 Game Awards and... toilets

  • November 21, 2020
  • YouTube

• S2020E38 We're thankful for Video Games

  • November 24, 2020
  • YouTube

• S2020E39 How PS5 & Xbox Series X Scalpers Work

  • December 5, 2020
  • YouTube

• S2020E40 Our Reactions to The Game Awards

  • December 12, 2020
  • YouTube

• S2020E41 Let's *try to* talk about Cyberpunk 2077

  • December 19, 2020
  • YouTube

Season 2021

• S2021E01 4 Very Different Opinions on Pixar's "Soul"

  • January 1, 2021

• S2021E02 is The Mandalorian "Good" Fan Service?

  • January 8, 2021

• S2021E03 Lucasfilm Games Returns (with Indiana Jones on Xbox?)

  • January 16, 2021

• S2021E04 We need Hitman devs' James Bond game

  • January 23, 2021

• S2021E05 TLOU 2 Won the Most Awards Ever

  • January 29, 2021

• S2021E06 Voice Acting as Monsters (Troy in The Medium) & Video Game Physics

  • February 6, 2021

• S2021E07 Let’s talk CD Projekt’s Data Breach

  • February 12, 2021

• S2021E08 We Are (not) Scientists

  • February 19, 2021

• S2021E09 Why video games use Motion Blur

  • February 27, 2021

• S2021E10 Reacting to the BAFTA Awards Nominees

  • March 5, 2021

• S2021E11 Fake Video Game Languages & Star Trek

  • March 12, 2021

• S2021E12 Devs talk "bad" Game Design

  • March 19, 2021

• S2021E13 Ubisoft reskins = "lazy" devs?

  • March 26, 2021

• S2021E14 How to Audition (Voice Acting in Games)

  • April 2, 2021

• S2021E15 What QA Game Devs Actually Do (& VR Porn)

  • April 17, 2021

• S2021E16 What Makes a Good Performer (& Kaplan leaves Blizzard)

  • April 23, 2021

• S2021E17 We love Mortal Kombat (but not the movie)

  • May 1, 2021

• S2021E18 Where Games and Movies Overlap

  • May 7, 2021

• S2021E19 Troy Baker, Austin Wintory, & Mike Bithell Interview Each Other

  • May 14, 2021

• S2021E20 Are Returnal & Mass Effect Competing?

  • May 21, 2021

• S2021E21 Let's Talk About E3

  • May 29, 2021

• S2021E22 New God of War on PS4 AND PS5!?

  • June 11, 2021

• S2021E23 Troy moved house, and that's the title of the episode

  • June 19, 2021

• S2021E24 Is Resident Evil 8 Badly Written?

  • June 25, 2021

• S2021E25 Can indie game studios STAY indie anymore?

  • July 2, 2021

• S2021E26 When writing is too "videogamey"

  • July 16, 2021

• S2021E27 Let's talk about Kotaku's recent headlines

  • July 23, 2021

• S2021E28 Tencent, Video Game Censorship & Elaborate Setups

  • July 30, 2021

• S2021E29 the Boyfriend Dungeon controversy

  • August 20, 2021

• S2021E30 Austin scored Aliens: Fireteam Elite!

  • August 28, 2021

• S2021E31 The 'Cost' of Voice Acting in Video Games

  • September 3, 2021

• S2021E32 Games need to do trailers like THE MATRIX

  • September 10, 2021

• S2021E33 9/11, Anger, and almost Deathloop

  • September 17, 2021

  Original Title: I just want to talk about Deathloop

• S2021E34 Let's actually talk about Deathloop (& demo disks)

  • September 25, 2021

• S2021E35 Hard Work vs Talent (& a little Midnight Mass)

  • October 2, 2021

• S2021E36 let's talk about Midnight Mass

  • October 15, 2021

• S2021E37 Chris Pratt is in Everything (says Troy Baker)

  • November 5, 2021

• S2021E38 wtf is 2021's Game of the Year?

  • November 13, 2021

• S2021E39 what makes Games so Expensive?

  • November 19, 2021

• S2021E40 We loved Ghostbusters: Afterlife (sorry, critics)

  • November 27, 2021

• S2021E41 IGN's "Call Of Duty Fans Reveal Why They Aren't Buying Vanguard"

  • December 4, 2021

• S2021E42 i'm sorry about this episode

  • December 10, 2021

• S2021E43 Do Game Awards = Respect?

  • December 17, 2021

• S2021E44 Devs talk NFTs in Video Games

  • December 24, 2021

• S2021E45 Our Favorite Games of 2021

  • December 31, 2021

Season 2022

• S2022E01 Let's talk about The Matrix Resurrections

  • January 7, 2022

• S2022E02 Talking to Troy Baker about his NFT tweet

  • January 15, 2022

• S2022E03 Pros & Cons of Microsoft buying Activision Blizzard

  • January 22, 2022

• S2022E04 do Console Exclusives even sell?

  • January 29, 2022

• S2022E05 I'm not going to lie to you, this episode is about old movies

  • February 5, 2022

• S2022E06 Does Nintendo Need a new Mario Kart?

  • February 18, 2022

• S2022E07 we're IN PERSON for the games industry's DICE Awards!

  • February 26, 2022

• S2022E08 Why Did Epic Games Buy Bandcamp?

  • March 4, 2022

• S2022E09 Journey's 10 Year Anniversary

  • March 18, 2022

• S2022E10 I don't know, GDC or something (...religion, mostly)

  • April 1, 2022

• S2022E11 Are Game Devs Forced to Make Games Longer?

  • April 23, 2022

• S2022E12 EPISODE 100 of Play, Watch, Listen!

  • April 30, 2022

• S2022E13 Gotham Knights & Games Industry Contracts

  • May 15, 2022

• S2022E14 Elden Ring & the point of Play-Testing (but mostly feet?)

  • May 20, 2022

• S2022E15 Obi-Wan and the problem with Canon

  • June 3, 2022

• S2022E16 Troy Baker talks Love, Death + Robots' episode Bad Travelling

  • June 10, 2022

• S2022E17 Fort Solis, Summer Game Fest, and Career Progression

  • June 18, 2022

• S2022E18 New Ninja Turtles Game & The Cost of Pixel Art

  • June 26, 2022

• S2022E19 BioShock Infinite, Floppy Disks, and Actors

  • July 1, 2022

• S2022E20 God of War Rangarok Got A Release Date!

  • July 10, 2022

• S2022E21 Let's Talk THE BOYS season 3 (no spoilers)

  • July 15, 2022

• S2022E22 The Offer & how do you know your game is GOOD?

  • August 8, 2022

• S2022E23 Let's talk about PREY (Hulu's Predator movie)

  • August 13, 2022

• S2022E24 Batgirl-style Cancellations Happen in Games, too

  • August 19, 2022

• S2022E25 We Saw Obsidian's Pentiment + GamesCom & House of Dragons

  • August 26, 2022

• S2022E26 This Episode Is About Nothing

  • September 3, 2022

• S2022E27 We Can Finally Talk About Tron: Identity!

  • September 17, 2022

• S2022E28 Austin scored Thai Cave Rescue

  • October 1, 2022

• S2022E29 A Mike & Austin Special

  • October 8, 2022

• S2022E30 Andor is different for Star Wars (NO SPOILERS)

  • October 29, 2022

• S2022E31 God of War Ragnarok Review Scores

  • November 8, 2022

• S2022E32 this is definitely an episode of this show (allegedly)

  • November 20, 2022

• S2022E33 why games don't let you pause/rewind cutscenes

  • December 5, 2022

• S2022E34 Game Awards + the Mick Gordon Doom Eternal Situation

  • December 9, 2022

• S2022E35 AI Art in Games & The Last of Us TV Show

  • December 18, 2022

Season 2023

• S2023E01 Troy talks The Last of Us TV Show!

  • January 14, 2023

• S2023E02 Programming, The Menu, & we love The Last of Us

  • January 21, 2023

• S2023E03 Fine Dining, Oscars Nominees & The Last of Us Episode 2

  • January 30, 2023

• S2023E04 Troy talks The Last of Us ep. 3 & Storytelling in Games vs TV

  • February 4, 2023

• S2023E05 Austin on Why Assassin's Creed Won at the Grammys

  • February 11, 2023

• S2023E06 Games Industry Networking & Rocksteady's Suicide Squad

  • March 5, 2023

• S2023E07 Troy talks The Last of Us episode

  • March 10, 2023

• S2023E08 Let's talk about Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom's Physics (& E3)

  • April 3, 2023

• S2023E09 Making Games w a "Billion" Choices - Stray Gods & Tron: Identity

  • May 6, 2023

• S2023E10 Zelda & Players Over-Thinking Puzzles

  • May 30, 2023

• S2023E11 Let's Talk About the Apple Vision Pro

  • June 10, 2023

• S2023E12 Austin made FOUR ALBUMS since our last episode

  • July 30, 2023

• S2023E13 Taylor Swift, Baldur's Gate 3 & Stray Gods

  • August 12, 2023

• S2023E14 The games industry has a Communication Problem

  • August 18, 2023

• S2023E15 Devs explain the Unity (Game Engine) Drama

  • September 19, 2023

• S2023E16 We have Questions about Starfield's Design

  • September 25, 2023

• S2023E17 An update on the Unity drama

  • October 15, 2023

• S2023E18 The Fall of the House of Usher ft. Rahul Kohli & Andy Grush!

  • November 19, 2023

• S2023E19 What’s causing all the games industry lay-offs?

  • December 10, 2023

Additional Specials

• SPECIAL 0x1 ANNOUNCEMENT: My New Gaming Podcast!

  • December 24, 2019
  • YouTube

• SPECIAL 0x2 Episode for Friday June 5th, 2020

  • June 5, 2020
  • YouTube

• SPECIAL 0x3 BONUS EP: Politicians & Social Media

  • November 9, 2020
  • YouTube

• SPECIAL 0x4 Games, the Stock Market, & Bitcoin

  • March 6, 2021
  • YouTube