Time Slaughter is what happens when an outsider developer attempts to be as unpleasant and nasty as possible. The minds who brought us NESticle also made this parody of Mortal Kombat, complete with...
2017-07-02 00:13:54 +0000 UTC View Post
It's a technically interesting footnote in survival horror, following Alone in the Dark's act with its own strange rendering technique. And it seems like it's made for us, because everything is an ...
2017-07-02 00:13:27 +0000 UTC View Post
Our patrons have backed us into a corner. While E.Y.E. is undoubtedly a weird, inscrutable mess, it's also pretty inspired, systemically interesting, and worth a deeper dive than we could ever give...
2017-07-02 00:12:40 +0000 UTC View Post
Sometimes you're just not ready for this level of concentrated lameness. Claymation is inherently cool, so you have to try pretty hard to make it suck this bad. Shitty non-puns, lazy attempts at sa...
2017-07-02 00:12:22 +0000 UTC View Post
What is there to say about yet another wrestling game? Almost nothing! That's why we cruise through the game itself and respond to lots of miscellaneous prompts from Twitter. It's a real change of ...
2017-07-02 00:12:06 +0000 UTC View Post
Animorphs seems right on the edge of coming back as some kind of YA novel reboot, so we figured we'd get in on the ground floor by talking about this Pokémon clone. Let's dig real deep into the fr...
2017-07-02 00:11:48 +0000 UTC View Post
Heathcliff is a pale substitute for Garfield, so it's hard to know where to go with discussion about a terrible kart racer from the Wii shovelware era. That's why we veer pretty quickly into one of...
2017-07-02 00:11:31 +0000 UTC View Post
This one is on loan from the Night Trap collection, an FMV adventure game that desperately wants the word "mind pirate" to become a thing. Let's watch as community theater rejects with bad Russian ...
2017-07-02 00:11:15 +0000 UTC View Post
It's a boilerplate, mostly competent third person shooter that's obviously of its time, with lots of really neat arcade-style reward loops thrown in for good measure. But the real star here is the ...
2017-07-02 00:10:50 +0000 UTC View Post
Discussion of an exuberant advergame from Japan gives way to all of the horrifying biological niches Pepsi and other colas might fill, creating a new, upsetting, and most of all REFRESHING way of l...
2017-07-02 00:10:30 +0000 UTC View Post
It's always a good time when we discuss religious games. Except for the feedback we get, that is. Captain Bible casts the forces of good as a traditional superpower, and the forces of The Liar as u...
2017-07-02 00:10:06 +0000 UTC View Post
Star Fox Adventures represents a confluence of several factors, any of which on their own would have made it fertile ground for the show. Rare? Check. Bastard entry in a beloved series? Check. Over...
2017-07-02 00:09:47 +0000 UTC View Post
This is probably someone's favorite game. It's wacky and weird, and comes from a 32-bit era that people still look back upon fondly. But however much it reminds you of God Hand, it will never be Go...
2017-07-02 00:09:30 +0000 UTC View Post
There's a class of game that's regarded well simply because there's little else like it. Rising Zan is one of those. But repeat after us: novelty is not enough!
2017-07-02 00:09:11 +0000 UTC View Post
Join Gary and Kole as they frolic through Bearland, moralizing about how to be closer to God and not swear so damn much. Also: The disturbing origins of corn syrup, and the grizzly applications of ...
2017-07-02 00:08:50 +0000 UTC View Post
In this episode we discuss a game where you play as a magical transforming ball and his Hamburger Helper companion. Your mission is to collect musical notes using the least intuitive control scheme...
2017-07-02 00:08:27 +0000 UTC View Post
Buckle up, kids, because we're about to go on the oiliest, most musclebound, most smoke-machine laden ride of your lives. That's right: the American Gladiators are here to Eliminate your expectatio...
2017-07-02 00:08:05 +0000 UTC View Post
Somehow we ended up playing a pretty good game! The most interesting thing about Whomp'em is its botched localization... because western audiences weren't ready for Dragon Ball yet. So, stick aroun...
2017-07-02 00:07:48 +0000 UTC View Post
Another entry in our "Classics of Bad Games" chronicles, we look at the infamous Night Trap. But it turns out that it actually has a lot of good ideas hindered by a laughable execution. Listen in f...
2017-07-02 00:07:28 +0000 UTC View Post
Proving that Ursula K. LeGuin's Lathe of Heaven is nonfiction, Gary's sheer desire for skeleton warriors to be real has birthed *Skeleton Warriors* into existence. This episode is mostly about the ...
2017-07-02 00:07:12 +0000 UTC View Post
The second premium episode of Abject Suffering features a game whose very existence is more interesting than the game itself. Discussion of a misguided FPS quickly turns into grim contemplation abo...
2017-07-02 00:06:53 +0000 UTC View Post
Our first episode of the premium show "Exquisite Suffering" covers various versions of the video game adaptation of "The Last Action Hero", a crazily metatextual action movie from the early ninetie...
2017-07-02 00:06:31 +0000 UTC View Post
It was supposed to be a massive achievement in filmmaking. The premier video game studio had set its sights on making a CGI movie that would trick you into thinking you were looking at actual peopl...
2017-07-02 00:01:32 +0000 UTC View Post
This is the big one... 1993's Super Mario Bros. was the first video game movie, and it certainly set a... tone... for the quality of things to come. It's almost universally revile...
2017-07-02 00:00:54 +0000 UTC View Post
Recorded to coincide with our coverage of the original Tomb Raider game on Watch Out for Fireballs!, this episode covers perhaps the best adaptation we've seen yet. That's right, Lara Croft: Tomb R...
2017-07-02 00:00:25 +0000 UTC View Post
It had to happen eventually: we'd have to cover an Uwe Boll movie. It's probable that you've read a lot of breakdowns of Boll's ineptitude, but nothing beats getting a first hand taste. This is one...
2017-07-02 00:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post
Did you know that Maniac Mansion was adapted into a television show in 1990? Did you know Eugene Levy was in charge of it? Did you know that Gary and Kole are actually pretty into the show, by and ...
2017-07-01 23:59:11 +0000 UTC View Post
The Pokémon anime from the '90s is rightfully beloved. It was a colorful and entertaining look at this magical world chock full of monsters just waiting to be your friend.
We're not talking ...
2017-07-01 23:58:30 +0000 UTC View Post
The secret was friendship. The secret was always friendship, but we just forgot... over and over again... in this premium show dedicated to bad adaptations of video games. Or bad movie sequels to v...
2017-07-01 23:58:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Get your asses to Mars in this second episode of our premium show dedicated to bad adaptations of videos games. It's all about the 2005 movie "Doom".
We really didn't intend to do another Res...
2017-07-01 23:57:31 +0000 UTC View Post