If you've been to an arcade, you know Metal Slug, and if you were on Newgrounds, you know Alien Hominid. Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, meaning the early flash game scene of the 2000s was flatter than a plateau. Bro and Murph pit these two run-and-gunners head to see which does the ultra violent gonzo action slapstick schtick better. Who reigns supreme? SNK at the top of their game, or the scrappy animators from the interwebs trying to recreate what they love about Metal Slug?

TIMESTAMPS

00:43 - The Most Put Off Head to Head.

Watcha Playin'

01:23 - Resident Evil: Requiem (2026)

24:24 - Blasphemous 2: The Third Sin & Mea Culpa (2026)

34:07 - Love Eternal (2026)

42:59 - The Adventures of Elliot (2026)

49:53 - Tomb Raider: The Last Revelation (1999)

Variety Minute

1:00:55 - Run n' Gun Games

Games of the Week

1:18:41 - Metal Slug 3 (2000)

1:34:15 - Alien Hominid (2002)

1:30:56 - Plugs & Farewells

This episode is a barrel roll of laughs and technical difficulties, but that won't stop the boys in the Satellite of Dreams from gushing about the oft-remade classic that is Star Fox 64. Combining short play times, punchy lightgun gameplay, and a branching narrative, Star Fox 64 remains one of THE games of the Nintendo 64 (and the 3DS, and the Wii U, and the Switch 2). Is there truly a secret sauce to this story of star furries? How much love does Brogan have for Bill, the dog? All this and more in the DDC episode on Star Fox 64

TIMESTAMPS

00:26 - The Coldest Open

Watcha Playin'

02:30 - Ultimate Marvel Vs. Capcom 3 (2011)

10:42 - My Hero: Ultra Rumble Season 17 (2026)

17:45 - Earthbound Zero ROMhack (2022)

24:00 - Titanium Court (2026)

Variety Minute

32:31 - Steam Nextfest 2026

33:12 - Truck-Kun is Supporting Me From Another World!?

35:35 - Rizz Dungeon

40:05 - Fright Train

43:34 - Duskfade vs. Twilight Requiem (and The Prizoner of Azkaban Equilibrium)

49:54 - Burn-9

53:10 - Retro Space

59:51 - Washington Prime

Game of the Week

1:02:51 - Star Fox 64 (1997)

1:30:56 - Plugs & Farewells

In the wake of 007: First Light, Brogan and Murph jump back to 2005 to experience the last time we were between Bonds and games had to make due. The solution for From Russia With Love was to go back to the OG martini shaker by recruiting Sir Sean Connery himself to reprise his favorite (and arguably best) performance as 007. Unfortunately, this also means that it's a 2005 video game adaptation of a 1960's spy film starring an 80 year-old man, creating one of the odder artifacts of the Bond franchise.

TIMESTAMPS

00:28 - The Perfect Sean Connery Impersonation

Watcha Playin'

02:35 - Mina the Hollower (2026)

16:04 - Mixtape (2026)

26:45 - Zero Parades for Dead Spies (2026)

35:39 - Dispatch(?) (2025)

44:57 - 007: First Light (2026)

Variety Minute

55:53 - James Bond in Gaming

Game of the Week

1:15:15 - From Russia With Love (2005)

1:45:10 - Plugs & Farewells

Murph gets his freak on with guest host Stephen so he can finally talk about the best 7/10 AAA-Mid game: Days Gone. Once a showcloser for Sony's 2018 E3 showcase, Days Gone is already slipping from public consciousness. It's a crude, generic open-world zombie survival game about a sad white man...and yet there's something special about it (at least Murph thinks that). At very least it has the Sawmill Horde fight.

TIMESTAMPS

00:41 - The Cold Open

Watcha Playin'

03:09 - Marathon (2026)

18:55 - Echo Point Nova (2024)

27:10 - Titanium Court (2026)

38:20 - 007: First Light (2026)

51:00 - Tomb Raider Minute: Tomb Raider III (1998)

Variety Minute

1:01:15 - AAA Open-World Games

Game of the Week

1:23:25 - Days Gone (2019)

2:04:28 - Plugs & Farewells

Daydreamcast is here to make your legs quake and make you go crazy. We drop into id Software's first 3D shooter following their success with DOOM. The name Quake is known far and wide in the annals of Boomer Shooterdom, but it's never enjoyed a contemporary revival like it's older siblings DOOM and Wolfenstein have. Is there a reason it's churning madness of speed, gothism, and explosions has been left behind?

TIMESTAMPS

00:41 - BTW Daydreamcast passed 100 episodes

Watcha Playin'

01:32 - Super Meatboy 3D (2026)

08:49 - Poke All Toads (2026)

11:46 - Jason Vorhees in Dead By Daylight (2026)

22:42 - Alex in Street Fighter 6 (2026)

33:03 - My Hero: Ultra Rumble (2023)

42:48 - Mass Effect: Legendary Edition (2021)

51:53 - Tomb Raider Minute: Tomb Raider II (1997)

Variety Minute

1:03:30 - Modern Boomer Shooters

Game of the Week

1:20:20 - Quake (1996)

1:53:57 - Plugs & Farewells

Murph's been acting a little funny since coming back from Antarctica (and not haha funny). Brogan decides to test his humanity by talking about The Thing video game from 2002. Yes, there is a game based on The Thing and it's the official sequel to the film as sanctioned by Gamer™ John Carpenter himself. Also being put under the microscope is the 2nd season of the Fallout TV show, Hades 2, and the introduction of the Tomb Raider Minute!

TIMESTAMPS

00:41 - Is Murph a The Thing?

Watcha Playin'

01:33 - Fallout Season 2(2025)

12:04 - Hades 2 (2025)

16:12 - Resident Evil 9: Requiem (2025)

22:51 - The Tomb Raider Minute: Tomb Raider 1 (1996)

Variety Minute

36:18 - The Thing Film (1982)

Game of the Week

55:15 - The Thing Game (2002)

1:20:03 - Plugs & Farewells

Brogan is contacted by a mysterious entity originating from the South Pole. Murph is back and he wants to talk about Mario's second handheld adventure Mario Land 2: Six Golden Coins. This charming platformer doesn't have many elements that stuck with the Mario franchise, but the most enduring is the introduction of Mario's evil doppleganger, Wario! How does the gassy game dev tycoon come across in his first outing?

In lieu of a Variety Minute or Watcha Playin', Brogan and Murph discuss their Top 3 favorite games of 2025.

TIMESTAMPS

00:30 - Murph is Back!

TOP GAMES OF 2025

8:46 - Murph's #3

11:28 - Brogan's #3

15:35 - Murph's #2

20:45 - Brogan's #2

27:48 - Murph's #1

36:55 - Honorable Mentions

45:18 - Brogan's #1

Games of the Week

55:05 - Mario Land 2: Six Golden Coins (1992)

1:20:05 - Plugs & Farewells?

Here we talk Resident Evil 9, Mewgenics, and the fascinating third dimension.

Time stamps to come

Timestamps to come

A new season means new challenges! Murph is off to a remote corner of the world researching new forms of podcasting and astral projection, Shacknews's TJ Denzer has joined the fray to talk to Bro about a variety of topics. Mostly? Mega Man.

Time stamps to come.

Timestamps to come

It's time to portal and chortle with the Daydreamcast as we look at the iconic duology of Portals 1 and 2. Both games set the internet on fire with their space-bending puzzles and lolrandom humor that formed the bedrock of 2010s meme culture and indie game design, eventually entering the hallowed halls of those "Greatest Games of All Time" lists.

But which Portal portals superior? Is there something Murph would like us to know about Portal 2? Tune in an drop out with this double-caked up episode of the Daydreamcast!

1:15 - Murph caught COVID at PAX

Watcha Playin'

03:50 - Silksong (2025)

12:25 - Firmament (2023)

24:00 -Riven Remake (2024)

Variety Minute

42:50 - Narrative Puzzle Games

Games of the Week

57:20 - Portal (2007)

1:16:00 - Portal 2 (2011)

1:48:30 - Plugs & Farewells

Brogan has been splattered into red paste on the wall and Murph doesn't know what to do about that so he calls in the Scream Team of Will and Thomas for the annual Halloween episode. This year we're leaving behind the tank controls and fixed cameras for visceral gunplay and bullet time as we look at F.E.A.R. A meticulous FPS left behind in the seventh generation that treads the line between John Woo action and Japanese-style horror.

0:33 - The Scream Team Returns! (Minus Brogan)

Watcha Playin

2:20 - Ninja Gaiden 4 (2025)

14:30 - Painkiller (2025)

26:16 - Voices of the Void 0.8 Update (2025)

35:45 - Mortal Kombat Legacy Kollection (2025)

Variety Minute

50:15 - What Will Next Year's Halloween Game Be?

Game of the Week

1:08:00 - F.E.A.R (2005)

2:01:58 - Plugs and Farewells

Halloween season on the Daydreamcast kicks off with a late night double feature of occult action titles.The Crawling Man Brendan Hesse returns to talk about Diablo 1 and Symphony of the Night. Two games about battling the forces of hell with a arsenal of magic weapons are integral to the history of Video Games. While SotN went on to name an entire genre, Diablo 1 became largely overshadowed by it's successor. Do either of these titles deserve these legacies? Or are the nomenclatures and colloquialisms of gamer culture the scariest things of all??

0:21 - Brendan's back and he's never read Goosebumps

Watcha Playin'

01:42 - Final Fantasy Tactics - Ivalice Chronicles

27:30 - Pac-Man World 2 Re-Pac (2025)

39:30 - OFF (2025)

45:30 - Baby Steps (2025)

55:45 - House of Necrosis (2025)

Games of the Week

1:10:55 - Diablo (1997)

1:45:30 - Castlevania: Symphony of the Night (1997)

2:42:15 - Plugs and Farewells

Watcha Playin'

01:48 - Everdeep Aurora (2025)

06:33 - Many Night a Whisper (2025)

15:33 - Castle Crashers: Painter Boss Paradise (2025)

19:41 - The Myst Minute: Myst (2020)

Variety Minute

31:00 - Detective Games

Games of the Week

55:15 - Return of the Obra Dinn (2018)

1:24:24 - Plugs and Farewells

Today we're gonna get *weird*. Murph and Bro cover an obscure punk rock RPG Maker game called Hylics. This sonic tale of gibberish captures the mind with it's riffs on JRPG mechanics, stop-motion animation, and ethereal soundtrack. Bro and Murph survey it's wastelands to decode a method in it's madness, perhaps even losing themselves to it's zonked-out vibes.

Watcha Playin'

01:56 - Hyper Chess (2025)

06:45 - The Eternal Cylinder (2022)

13:44 - TMNT: Shredder's Revenge-Radical Reptiles DLC (2024)

21:00 - Project Silverfish (2025)

30:36 - Metal Garden (2025)

35:42 - The Myst Minute: realMyst: Masterpiece Edition (2014) & Obduction (2016)

Variety Minute

54:10 - "Weird" Games

Games of the Week

1:12:21 - Hylics (2015)

1:42:45 - Plugs and Farewells

It's time to feel like podcasters talking about Arkham Asylum.

Bro and Murph suit up to talk about one of the landmark games for licensed titles. The game that gave us years of Batman glazing. The game that invented the shorthands "Arkham Combat" and "Detective Vision." The game that makes you something something Batman. Does this comic book caper hold up, or do we need to memory-hole it like Three Jokers?

Watcha Playin'

01:55 - Sulfur (2024)

11:08 - Decade (2025)

20:02 - Two Point Museum (2025)

30:39 - Sagat in SF6 (2025)

Variety Minute

44:23 - Modern Metroidvanias

Games of the Week

1:01:35 - Batman: Arkham Asylum (2009)

1:44:33 - Plugs and Farewells

WHOOOO It's time for the GAUNTLET! DDC episodes are about to lay it on you thick! David joins us to discuss games (or lack thereof), Murph lays out the final numerical Myst Minute, and Brogan reminds Murph of his terrible Paper Mario takes.

Intro

1:00 - David is back on the Pod and wants recommendations

Watcha Playin'

04:50 - UFO 50 (2024)

14:01 - Hole (2024)

21:3.8 - Dead By Daylight: FNAF DLC (2025)

33:00 - Ninja Gaiden: Ragebound (2025)

41:29 - The Myst Minute: Myst V: End of Ages (2005)

Variety Minute

1:03:20 - Intentional Frustration in Games

Games of the Week

1:22:50 - Super Paper Mario (2007)

1:58:54 - Plugs and Farewells

It's dangerous to go alone, so Murph and Brogan call in Brendan and HPRshredder for a retro head-to-head! 1986 introduced the world to a green tunic boy named Link and his quest for Princess Zelda, and 1987 introduced us to that exact same duo but this time from a side-scrolling perspective! Which reigns supreme: The Original Article, or the Radical Reinvention?

Intro

1:01 - Welcome HPRshredder to the Pod!

Watcha Playin'

04:57 - The Switch 2

8:30 - Mario Kart World (2025)

15:25 - Wind Waker on Switch Online (2002)

24:15 - Street Fighter II: Super Turbo (1994)

29:31 - Ao Oni: Horror of the Blueberry Onsen (2025)

40:54 - The Binding of Isaac: Repentance (2021)

49:20 - Dark Souls Remastered (2018)

58:16 - Metro Gravity (2025)

1:02:18 - The Myst Minute: Myst IV: Revelations (2004)

Games of the Week

1:25:50 - The Legend of Zelda (1986)

1:50:00 - Zelda II: The Adventure of Link (1987)

2:28:10 - Plugs and Farewells

It's a soft reboot! Not really, we're just experimenting with intros. It's just the boys today, Murph and Bro. We shoot the breeze about Doom The Dark Ages, the new media outlet named Skybox, and Murph's Myst minute. Then, we talk about the crazy week of non-E3 shows (that have already happened but did not happen at the time of recording, so laugh at us for bad predictions).

timestamps to come.