This week, we remember the halcyon days of when we cared about Final Fantasy 14, experience what it’s like to watch a gaming awards show that doesn’t make you want to claw your own eyes out, and discover that every once in a while a lesbian with a sword isn’t enough to make your game good.

Timestamps:

(00:15) It’s all great over here

(01:45) Remember when we cared about Final Fantasy 14?

(07:40) The IGF Awards

(21:15) No Games for Genocide

(24:55) 1348 Ex Voto

(56:10) What else have Willa and Robin been up to this week? (feat. getting a camera, Dragon's Dogma Online)

Mentioned this week:

FFXIV Live Letter

IGF Awards

Indie deckbuilder All Will Rise's dev joins No Games For Genocide boycott and plans to hand back funding it received from Microsoft

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Just because we haven't played Resident Evil: Requiem doesn't mean we can' talk about the discourse surrounding it and the franchise's odd position of rewriting vs reckoning with its past. Also: Silksong and Willa educating Robin on the Tom Cruise cake.

Timestamps:

(00:26) Daylight saving time kicks our ass (and then a weird rabbit hole of tangents)

(05:56) Resident Evil… Requiem… discourse (lightest of spoilers throughout)

(38:09) Resident Evil 2 Remake

(45:35) Robin finally likes Silksong

(56:10) What else have Willa and Robin been up to this week? (feat. getting a camera, Dragon's Dogma Online)

Mentioned this week:

Kimimi The Game-Eating She-Monster on Resident Evil: Requiem

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We talk about Marathon and the state of live-service titles in this one, and we could not have predicted Highguard would announce its shutdown between recording and release. Then it's to the Spencer Mansion for Willa and to Next Fest for Robin.

Timestamps:

(00:18) Resident… Evil?

(01:24) Marathon

(15:14) Resident… Evil!

(25:40) Robin's selected Next Fest picks

(36:07) What else have Willa and Robin been up to this week? (feat. Bridgerton season 4, putting yourself out there and making friends)

(37:00) Bridgerton spoilers start

(38:35) Bridgerton spoilers end

Mentioned this week:

Kaile Hultner on Marathon

SNL Iran cold open

Dotzip on Next Fest

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This week, everything is bad in the world of AAA, and not just for the usual reasons. After running through the latest disasters at PlayStation and the sinking ship that is Xbox, Willa once again puts on clown makeup to await the next game from Yoko Taro, and Robin takes solace in games that are just okay.

Timestamps:

(00:30) The Olympics, etc.

(08:50) Finally some gaming talk (it’s all bad)

(17:15) RIP Bluepoint

(30:10) A bunch of Yoko Taro news

(44:10) Robin self-medicating with 7/10 games

(57:33) What else have Willa and Robin been up to this week? (feat. Love Story, A Year of Springs)

Mentioned this week:

The biggest gaming series are going indie

Phil Spencer Retiring, etc.

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This week, we do a quick Olympic check-in before running through the State of Play and its many (un)interesting announcements. Robin and Willa do, however, come up with a groundbreaking idea to fix 007. Then it's a pair of games, one new and one old.

Timestamps:

(00:38) More olympic talk

(03:25) State of the State of Play

(34:20) What else have Willa and Robin been up to this week? (feat. Love Eternal , Verho - Curse of Faces)

Mentioned this week:

Willa's Love Eternal review

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This week, we talk almost as much about the Olympics as we do about video games.

Timestamps:

(00:35) Video games? More like Winter Games

(16:20) Nintendo Direct happened this week

(25:45) Close enough. Welcome back, Dauntless.

(28:40) More Bioshock talk somehow

(35:00) Elden Ring with Seamless Co-op rips

(37:55) What else have Willa and Robin been up to this week? (feat. The Starving Saints, Nothing)

(45:10) Olympics talk reprise

Mentioned this week:

Harvestella Review: Sometimes the best gourmet meals are the simplest dishes

Gore Verbinski's BioShock Movie Would Have Somehow Included Both of the Game's Endings

The Korrasami fic Willa likes

The Aerti fic Robin likes

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Somehow Willa and Robin eventually get through the many detours of this episode (hand injuries, bisexual Zohran, etc.) to talk about some games. There is a report on Zoe saving the galaxy and heading to Rapture as well as Robin going up in Valkyrie Saga and Cairn.

Timestamps:

(00:11) Willa’s housewife injury

(03:06) Cursed blades RANKED

(04:06) Talking about not talking about critical discourse

(06:21) More detours, this time about Zohran Mamdani

(07:26) Mass Effect and BioShock in 2026

(27:37) Valkyrie Saga and Cairn

(46:10) What else have Willa and Robin been up to this week? (feat. Recovery of an MMO Junkie , Journal with Witch)

Mentioned this week:

The Toxic Positivity Problem by Critical Error

If You Ask Nicely by Autumn Wright

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After taking a break for the longest week in human history (and the customary annual lay-off of one of our hosts), we’re back to talk about two interesting games: one we like and one we don’t. How novel.

Timestamps:

(00:10) The Gay Bachelor, etc.

(04:50) TR-49 (mechanical and light story spoilers start)

(23:30) TR-49 story spoilers start for real

(26:30) TR-49 story spoilers start for real for real

(40:05) Perfect Tides: Station to Station

(50:50) Spoiler for a very fun moment in Station to Station

(53:20) Spoilers end

(56:25) What else have Willa and Robin been up to this week? (feat. Dolls Nest, Love Through a Prism)

Mentioned this week:

Meredith Gran on Post Games

Meredith Gran AMA

Willa on TR-49 and Perfect Tides: Station to Station

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