The Witcher, But With Vampires? Yes, Please!
The Blood of Dawnwalker proves the old adage, “The worse the name, the better the game.” The debut from Rebel Wolves, a studio composed in p...
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20 of 517 episodesBlood Dungeon Takes Us to Bullet Heaven
Blood Dungeon is a spectacular evolution of the Vampire Survivors formula. Developer Messhof plops the auto-shooting, upgrade-building bulle...
Stardew Valley vs. Fields of Mistria? Everybody Wins
Fields of Mistria has finally hit 1.0 after a couple of years in Early Access on Steam. Does the “official” release rise to the level of Sta...
A Spoiler-Free Big Walk Bonanza
Big Walk is the game everyone wanted during the pandemic. Not-so-coincidentally, that’s when the project began development. The multiplayer...
The Pokémon Studio Tries Something New
Beast of Reincarnation is the new game from Game Freak, the studio that creates every mainline Pokémon game. But friends, this is nothing li...
Splatoon Raiders Might be the Most Fun Switch 2 Game Yet
The guys are back again to talk about the magic and wonder of Splatoon Raiders, a game that finally made us all agree that Splatoon is reall...
The Halo Remake Is a Metaphor for the Xbox Mess
In the back half of this week’s episode, we chat about Halo: Campaign Evolved, a video game that has the misfortune of representing everythi...
Assassin's Creed vs. a Train That Does Backflips
This week’s games represent two ends of the video game spectrum. On one side, we have Denshattack, an indie game about a train that performs...
Nintendo Is Playing the B-Sides
Rhythm Heaven returns after an eleven-year hiatus with Rhythm Heaven Groove. It’s a fun game, but something’s changed. The series? The boys?...
Sony Kills Discs, Nintendo Revives Star Fox
Griffin needed to take this week off, but our guest was more than prepared to talk about the week’s huge gaming news. Stephen Totilo, the fo...
2026's Best Games (and What's Still to Come)
Midway through the year, The Besties share their top contenders. However, don’t make any bets on these being our final picks for our GOTY li...
Uh Oh! We're Drowning in Games Again
This week, we throw our own summer festival of video games by opening the grab bag! There was so much stuff to play, it took all three Besti...
Everything We Loved from Summer Game Fest
We watched all of the Summer Game Festival events and curated the upcoming releases that we think you’ll enjoy! Plus, Frushtick and Plante a...
007 First Light Is Like a Great James Bond TV Series
007 First Light is the new game from IO Interactive, the developers of the beloved stealth series Hitman. So you’d be forgiven for assuming...
Mina the Hollower Is GOTY Quality
Mina the Hollower is a delicious 7-layer dip of beloved video games. It looks and feels like a gothic Zelda, but its influences stretch far...
Forza Horizon 6 Wants You to Love It
Forza Horizon 6 wants you to be happy forever. It features a colossal open world that reimagines Japan, stuffed with more free cars than you...
Mixtape Is a Musical Magic Trick
Mixtape arrived alongside a flood of euphoric reviews and a variety of discourses across various social media platforms and gaming groups. W...
Saros is More Bullet Heaven Than Bullet Hell
Saros is the continuation of decades of bullet-dodging action games from Housemarque. But it has most in common with the team’s previous gam...
Vampire Crawlers and a Big Besties Update
This is a big week of change at The Besties. But before we get to the news, we all want to chat about one of the strangest spinoffs in indie...
Tomodatchi Life and the Magic and Wonder of Super Nintendo World
This week we're diving into Nintendo's bizarre life sim, Tomodatchi Life: Living the Dream, which allows a bunch of Miis to eat cigarettes f...