Watch Out for Fireballs! is a game club podcast that covers video games from every era, from retro to newer releases, indie to AAA. Each week we dive deep into the game's mechanics and narrative to figure out what works and what doesn't. Hosted by Gary Butterfield and Kaye Ross, this show has been going since 2011. New episodes every Thursday. For full versions of our premium episodes, back us at patreon.com/duckfeedtv!
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Watch Out for Fireballs 532: Stone of Madness (Part 2)
Second verse, nearly the same as the first! Stone of Madness’s second and notionally longer campaign, “The Gate of St. Jerome” starts out with a promise that it will be s
Oct 15 51 min
Watch Out For Fireballs 531: Stone of Madness (Part 1)
Things are not going well at a secluded monastery in the Pyranees mountains of Spain. The Inquisitor and the Mother Superior treat the mentally ill people in their care l
Oct 8 1 h 54 min
Watch Out For Fireballs 530: Cultic
Cultic is a boomer shooter unlike any that we’ve played, being equal parts Blood and Resident Evil 4. You play as the Detective, who woke up in a cult’s mass grave and mu
Oct 1 1 h 17 min
Watch Out for Fireballs Dispatch: A Moment of Reflection
As we answer your questions and read your responses about Fallout: Brotherhood of Steel, The Saboteur, and Pacific Drive, we take some time and use our topic slot to refl
Sep 24 1 h 45 min
[PREVIEW] Watch Out for Fireballs! 529: Pacific Drive (Premium)
Do you love cars? Are you ready to be forced to love a very specific car? That’s what Pacific Drive is all about, you and your car against a bizarre zone of anomalous cha
Sep 17 5 min
Watch Out for Fireballs 528: The Saboteur
Pandemic Studios really knew what they were doing, and it’s a real shame their style of destruction-based open world games didn’t become the norm. That’s how you’ll feel
Sep 10 1 h 46 min
Duckfeed is Evolving
Hey folks! This will be a longer post detailing some changes that are coming up for Duckfeed in the next few months. When we ask listeners what they like about the networ
Sep 10 32 min
Watch Out for Fireballs 527: Fallout: Brotherhood of Steel
We’re running out of Fallout games to cover! Which means we’re scraping the bottom of the barrel to bring you a close look at the memory-holed PS2 and XBox entry into the
Sep 3 1 h 34 min
Watch Out for Fireballs! Dispatch: Inventory Systems
Uh oh! Both Gary and Kaye have COVID! So please forgive our voices and our absolute flightiness as we answer your questions, read your responses to Ogre Battle 64 and Dis
Aug 27 1 h 40 min
Watch Out for Fireballs 525: Ogre Battle 64 (Part 2)
This week we continue our discussion of Ogre Battle 64, a sprawling and mysterious strategy game that eventually sheds the need for using strategy all together. It’s also
Aug 13 1 h 44 min
Watch Out For Fireballs 524: Ogre Battles 64 (Part 1)
Ogre Battle 64: Person of Lordly Caliber was a big game that many, including us, missed out on. It’s a followup to a cult classic RTS for the SNES, and it follows Magnus
Aug 6 2 h 16 min
Watch Out For Fireballs Dispatch July 2026
We read your responses for Neon White, Grunn, Parodius and Super Mario Bros. Wonder.
Upcoming Games:
August:
Ogre Battle 64
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Pacific D
Jul 30 1 h 32 min
Watch Out for Fireballs Dispatch: Q3 Roundup
We spilled these answers everywhere. What a mess. Somebody is going to have to clean this up.
Jul 30 58 min
[PREVIEW] Watch Out For Fireballs 523: Super Mario Bros. Wonder
But what if Mario were... surreal? Going back to the original design intentions of the Super Mario Bros., Nintendo delivers a game where Mario gets... a little weird. The
Jul 23 5 min
Watch Out For Fireballs 522: Parodius
Specifically, Parodius! From Myth to Laughter. We've been itching to revisit the Schmup genre and this seemed like a perfect fit. Originally a parody of Gradius, it reall
Jul 16 1 h 13 min
Watch Out For Fireballs 521: Grunn
If it looks like a horror game and quacks like a horror game, it's probably a horror game. Disguising itself (slightly) as a cozy simulator, Grunn is a gardening time loo
Jul 9 1 h 05 min
Watch Out For Fireballs 520: Neon White
They're called neons, sinners plugged from hell to do God's dirty work. But it's hard to believe they're in heaven. Old friends, ex lovers... only one of them can stay in
Jul 2 2 h 20 min
Watch Out For Fireballs Dispatch: June 2026
Questions, questions, questions! You never stop questioning us. So we will never stop answering you.
Upcoming Games:
July
Neon White (Kaye with Producer Gwen)
Grunn
Jun 25 1 h 31 min
Watch Out For Fireballs 518: Loop Hero
You make your decision to listen a podcast, you listen while you do not move, you die. You make another decision to listen to a different episode. Yet again, you do not m
Jun 11 1 h 16 min
Watch Out For Fireballs 517: Arcade Special 4
Ah, the arcade. The once-only home of video games has become a nostalgia center for the old at heart. We explore the still extant arcade scene and see what's out there th
Jun 4 1 h 40 min
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Thoughtful and detailed analyses of both retro and more recent games. These guys are easily my favorite pod casting duo — check out this show and others they do on Duckfeed.tv. Their Baldur’s Gate 3 series (Real Lich Hours, season 1) was AMAZING and what initially got me hooked. Well worth your time!
SemperAudientis · Nov 2025
I listened to this podcast during cancer treatments because it pulled me in no matter how scattered I felt that day. Empathetic storytelling and intelligent analysis.
And I haven’t even played most of these games, :).
Soulaco · Oct 2025
Thorough game analysis that goes further into the philosophy of culture in our lives, and always from a place of respect and solidarity for human rights. Essential and necessary.
1988abe · Jan 2025
Gary and Kole’s content is always enjoyable. They make games far more fun for me to play through for many reasons. They are such stand-up guys, and they add a satisfying amount of depth and breadth for the topics they cover. Even when I occasionally disagree with something one of them thinks, they’re just so pleasant to listen to.
S Johnson 419 · Jan 2024
I personally play Metroidvanias almost exclusively and this is the first gaming podcast I ever tried. I thought content was ok (ocassionally an interesting comment or context), but I listened to three episodes (Aria of Sorrow, Ender Lillies, Tunic or at least the public part) and in all three they just complained about the combat (or bosses) being too hard. I should probably have tried to find one game they liked to see what they're into. But if you want a podcast that complains about combat a lot, this one is for you. (Honestly, happy they're doing something that people like - just trying to give context to people who haven't listened yet).
OdedGu · Apr 2026
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