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Kick off the weekend as Danielle Riendeau and Rob Zacny bring their unique perspectives to video games and pop culture.
It’s been a little while since we Idle Weekended, but for good reason! Your fearless hosts have been going through some *life stuff* and pla...
We consider a favorite archetype of ours in sci-fi: the sensitive badass! Rob and Danielle talk gender in sci-fi, the ways in which Farscape...
It’s been too long, friends. But we have a solid, meaty Idle Weekend for you, ripe with discussions of long-running franchises we have a lon...
On this belated episode of Idle Weekend (Danielle is sorry for the wait), we discuss the things that really just do it for us—and the altern...
Rob and Danielle take some time from playing the latest and greatest to do things they enjoy even more: play old games that actually scratch...
Rob and Danielle regale one another with tales of TV shows (and movies, and books, and games!) that they weren't too keen on at first, but t...
This week, we welcome freelance writer Dia Lacina to the Idle Weekend world in order to discuss lesser entries in franchises or series that...
What dark depths lie under bright futures we like to imagine? That, and other lofty questions, are addressed on this episode, where we look...
with copy! Idle Weekend 1/21/18 It’s Back, Baby! This weekend, we talk about what it takes to make a game come back into the conversation, e...
This weekend, we extol the virtues of consoles and games that change our relationship to games, in honor of Rob’s newfound love of the Ninte...
In the extreme(ly bad) weather, it’s important to note one thing: we all have to work together to survive. Hence, we recount our favorite ga...
The Idle Weekenders bid this crappy year adieu with the help of friend and colleague Cameron Kunzelman. They talk home settings in games, fr...
Rob and Danielle survived a truly, comically terrible fall to podcast again! We chat about the too-realness of Night in the Woods, going hom...
Danielle and Rob are here, in Idle Weekend-land, a very good place, to discuss... The Good Place (spoilers abound), and many other games, sh...
Rob and Danielle both had delightful woodland experiences to recount this weekend, as well as stories about gaming happy places (like Prey)...
Sometimes, you have to pay to play. Danielle returns from glorious Scotland to regale Rob with tales of sightseeing, martial arts, and Mario...
Idle Weekend is back! After a too-long lapse where PAX happened and we all worked too much, Rob and Danielle return to what they know best:...
In this fine installment of Idle Weekend, we get really excited about (GOTY) Prey, the finest damned immersive sim this side of the solar sy...
In honor of the Mooch, we go through our gaming torrid affairs: games we had a very brief, very intense love affair with. Sometimes, these t...
This weekend, we wade into the game engine kerfuffle with opinions, context, and that characteristic Idle Weekend spice. Then, we go hard in...
Rob and Danielle meet for an overdue weekend after a Rob's cross-country move. Rob's been getting re-acclimated by playing a lot of MLB The...
We survived E3! That's reason enough to do a horror-themed episode this weekend, thanks to a nifty demo for Distrust. We take a lovely tour...
This weekend, we're all about going really fast in pretty places. We discuss our favorite racing games, spurned on by a couple of recent hum...
This weekend, we decided to talk about hard-stops in games. The things that make us look a game in the face, in disbelief or exasperation, a...
This weekend, we are still obsessed with Prey, the Immersive Sim in Space that could. We also chat about other fine games: like Dishonored 2...
This episode is either really early, or really late, and either way, you can place the blame entirely on Prey for being so goddamned awesome...
This weekend, we're talking about games that are old... but despite our approaching them with the trepidation befitting older, jankier softw...
This weekend, we are exploring our other selves. Our gaming selves, silly, not some Jungian archetype business. When is role-playing not eve...
How much do game players know? Do they know things? Let's find out! We wade into a minor kerfuffle online about how much devs like to disclo...
This weekend, we get good and mad about genres that just happen to be from the decade when we were kids/teens, that get stomped all over. Ge...
Yes, this is something of a make-up episode, since we have been tardy lately. Comically so! But that won't stop us from discussing things th...
Danielle would like to apologize for the tardiness of this episode. But! There is a lot of good stuff here, as we discuss games that have ma...
Both Rob and Danielle are playing a LOT of games: so many that there aren't even any letters in this episode. This week features a freewheel...
It's a very special Idle Weekend, because, not only is Danielle at PAX, but Rob is finishing his first week as an editor at Waypoint! We tal...
Today, we are joined by Waypoint Editor in Chief, mech enthusiast and friend of the show Austin Walker, for a whopping 2+ hour idle weekend...
This weekend, we welcome special guest Evan Narcisse to the show, to talk comics, games and books. We're especially interested in conflict i...
This weekend, we talk about our fatal flaws in gaming: sometimes, we need to learn to just use our goddamn BFGs. In other media, we're both...
This weekend, we get too real about aging, athleticism, and the brutal pain of stat decay, in games and in real life. But don't worry, we ma...
It's time to talk Batman! Well, sort of. Rob is having second thoughts about Batman: Arkham Origins, which prompts a discussion on games tha...
Rob is protesting the unlawful executive order on travelers from Muslim countries, so I'm doing a short mailbag episode centered on self-car...
Games are fun to play and all, but watching—that's where it's at. At least, for some games. This weekend, we're all about the spectator spor...
There's a lot of existential dread in the world right now, and I think we're all feeling it. It even seeps into our favorite escape, in the...
This weekend, we chatted about the worst—and best—frustrations we've experienced in games, inspired by recent explorations of the great-but-...
This weekend, we're talking about self-care games: what we play when we need to chill out, ease our anxieties and have a breather. So what d...
The Weekenders are here to wish you a very merry Whatever You Celebrate! And also, to count down their most favorite games of 2016. Enjoy! D...
Danielle apologizes for making this episode more of an Idle Monday than an Idle Weekend. Even though we're late, we have an exciting episode...
It's a ridiculous holiday season, which means Danielle is doing a dip into the ol' mailbag before going on her merry way. Don't worry, Rob w...
This weekend, we're talking about the pleasure and queasy terror of games that make us want to find every last drop of #content. Based on ou...
It's a holiday weekend! Which means we're finally getting to catch up with our beloved games, including Dishonored 2, which everyone is curr...
Hey listeners! This was the first Idle Weekend episode we recorded after the 2016 presidential election, and we talk about politics, a lot....