January 15, 2018: The Way We Play

Idle Weekend by Idle Thumbs

Jan 15, 201800:50:33Games & Hobbies

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 Nintendo Switch. We also get into some good questions about gender stereotypes and ga...

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