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The Besties
By Russ Frushtick, Chris Plante, Griffin McElroy, Justin McElroy
It's Game of the Year meets King of the Hill as four of Earth's best friends – Griffin McElroy, Justin McElroy, Chris Plante, and Russ Frushtick – rank and review their favorite video games. Because shouldn't the world's best friends pick the world's best games?
Latest episode
Wolverine Is a Disaster
57 min
- Cadence
- Weekly
- Typical length
- 58 min
- Latest release
- Sep 18
- Language
- EN
- Activity
- Current — released within 30 days
Podcast Classification
Topics
Gaming Industry
Game studios, publishers, platforms, business models, releases, and industry developments.
Game Design
Mechanics, systems, storytelling, player experience, and interactive design.
Product Reviews
Evaluation, comparison, recommendation, and practical assessment of technology products or media.
Formats
Panel & Roundtable
Recurring multi-host or multi-guest discussion and debate.
Commentary & Analysis
Interpretation, opinion, debate, review, and analytical discussion.
Audience level
Introductory
Accessible to an informed general listener without professional technology experience.
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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 so often, a game with high expectations ends up being a colossal disappointment. Wolverine, we’re sad to say, is one of those games. And yet, we’re making lemonade from lemons.
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 series never missed a beat.
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 part of CD Projekt Red veterans, is a grim fantasy RPG set in the Carpathian mountains in the thick of the Black Plague.
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 bullet-heaven genre into something a bit more strategic and conscious of your time.
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 Stardew Valley? Or is this anime-inspired small town simulator doing something different? And is 1.0 just a new beginning? We discuss all of that and the hot new handheld!
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 open-world adventure is developer House House’s follow-up to Untitled Goose Game.
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 like Pokémon. The action-RPG calls to mind series like Dark Souls and Onimusha. Is it… good? Guest Ron Funches joins to help us find out. Want more episodes?
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 really kinda awesome. We've also got some reader mail to dive into and whether we can actually find someone who inverts their horizontal axis. Want more episodes?
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 everything infuriating about the modern Xbox strategy. Fortunately, other games exist.
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 skateboard-style tricks in a fantastical version of Japan.