Nintendo Gets Switch Sports Right on Its Second Try
Only four years after Nintendo Switch Sports (and only two years after that game’s final update), the series returns with an upgrade/sequel:...
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It's Game of the Year meets King of the Hill as four of Earth's best friends discuss the week's new releases and decide if any will topple whatever game currently holds the honor. Will Kills...
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20 of 525 episodesCastlevania, Ace Combat, and Ron Funches. What More Can You Want?
Ron Funches joins us for a double header! First, Castlevania: Belmont’s Curse is the first new side-scrolling Castlevania in over a decade....
Echo Weaver Is Like Outer Wilds in 2D
Even though we were traveling for the live show, we still made time to play new games! Echo Weaver is a Metroidvania in the style of Outer W...
The Star Wars Game Renaissance Is Here!
Sure, we expected Star Wars: Galactic Racer to be good off the pitch alone. A new studio, featuring members of the Burnout team, is creating...
Control Resonant Rewards Your Patience
Control Resonant is technically a sequel to 2019’s Control. But developer Remedy has (as they often do) opted to stretch the definition of s...
With Fire Emblem, Is It Finally Time to Buy a Switch 2?
Fire Emblem: Fortune’s Weave is the biggest exclusive for the Nintendo Switch 2 — quite literally. A completionist run of the new tactics RP...
Wolverine Is a Disaster
Most of the time, we chat about games we enjoy. So many games debut every week, and picking promising new ones is relatively easy. But every...
Onimusha: Or, Capcom Refuses to Make Bad Games
The last time Capcom made a new Onimusha game, George W. Bush was President. But Onimusha: The Way of the Sword would have you believe the s...
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...
Blood 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...