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Castlevania, 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. Is it worth the wait? And seco

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 Wilds, but simplified from 3D t

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 a spiritual sequel to the Nin

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 sequel as far as possible, conv

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 RPG could take you 200 hours. Fo

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 ex

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. Thi

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

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

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-

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 develo

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 cal

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 go

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 moder

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

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? Nintendo? We find the answer.

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 founder of Game File and former

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 list, because the back half of

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 Besties working on different piles

Everything We Loved from Summer Game Fest

We watched all of the Summer Game Festival events and curated the upcoming releases that we think you’ll enjoy! Plus, Frushtick and Plante attended SGF Play Days in Los A