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Girl Mode
by Girl Mode Podcast
Girl Mode is a podcast (mostly) about video games by two trans women and gaming journalists where we talk about the latest news in the industry, our takes, weekly topics, and more about the Mets than you're probably expecting. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Episodes
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Episode 189 - You Will Never Make a Digital Tom Cruise
After a plaintive plea to support our good friend Tom Cruise, we once again dive into some great reporting by Rebekah Valentine. Then for this week’s games, Robin takes a look at two extremely idiosyncratic Early Access releases, and we briefly look forward to a couple of games about hot…
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Episode 188 - Stay Pure
Robin doesn't know who The Savannah Bananas are. Anyway, Willa doesn't find Scotland scary in Silent Hill and thinks Ace Combat 8 needs to be gayer. Meanwhile, Robin gets sewing in Dressmaker. Timestamps: (00:44) Talking recent bad news (CW: sexual violence) (08:06) Zoe goes to the Metaverse...
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Episode 187 - Mulholland Mega Drive
After a short news segment on layoffs we could have had basically any week this year, Willa continues to explain why Control Resonant failed to resonate. Then Robin relives the worst parts of her barista days in Roman Sands RE:BUILD, and Willa contends with vampires and the even more monstrous...
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Episode 186 - Hold for Joke Intro
This week, Willa and Robin talk about two big releases: Wolverine and Control Resonant. You will be shocked to hear which one they have more nice things to say about. Then it is on to vampires in Nighthawks, collected criticism, and Cold Stone Creamery. Timestamps: (00:45) Wolverine first...
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Episode 185 - My Wife The Amiibo
This week, Nintendo tests our patience with two Directs that should have been one email. Timestamps: (01:00) At least the music was good (12:46) Another fucking Direct (34:15) What else have Willa and Robin been up to this week? (feat. Furious, Isle of Reveries, the idea of Drakengard 3) Support…
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Episode 184 - Save Rooster
This week Robin and Willa play catch up with the many showcases that happened when we took a week off. That means GTA VI, Gamescom (but mostly the Witcher), and State of Play. Also, some Control talk and our usual antics. Timestamps: (00:30) And now, the weather (01:16) GTA VI lets you hold hands...
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Episode 183 - Lesbian Escape Room Island
Tune in to hear two hot women with problems talk about two games with hot women and problems. Timestamps: (02:50) Plague Tale 3: Resonance: A Plague Tale Game: Legacy (28:10) Fields of Mistria (45:47) South of Midnight and making combat optional (48:55) A little more Fields of Mistria (51:00)…
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Episode 182 - Gun Violence Isn't Fun Violence
This week, Robin isn't a fan of the nun with a gun in Fire Emblem: Fortune's Weave. We also talk about the X-Men (typical), baseball (typical), Spider-Man, and Big Walk. Timestamps: (00:19) Direct from Netflix, it's Girl Mode (01:27) X-Men news (06:32 ) About the WPBL opening weekend (21:35) Fire...
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Episode 181 - Continuing Adventures in Problematic Women
What do baseball and D&D have in common? I don’t know but we’re playing games inspired by both. Listen in this week for lots of RPG and VN talk and let’s go Firebells! Timestamps: (01:50) Toxic Yuri VN Jam 2 redux (9:55) Esoteric Ebb (24:16) Original Sin 2 (33:10) What else have Willa and Robin...
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Episode 180 - A Good Gathering Place for Miserable Girls
It's Toxic Yuri VN Jam season! Willa and Robin talk about a handful of selections from the latest jam. Then it's on to the Incident at Galley House, which is like if TR-49 was a good game. Timestamps: (00:30) Toxic Yuri VN Jam 2 (15:400) The Incident at Galley House (beware SPOILERS) (49:52) What...
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Episode 179 - Get On My Scales!
The present remains bleak for video games, so this week we're playing games from the past, which remain safe until executives find a way to lay people off via time travel. I'm sure it won't take long. Timestamps: (00:15) New monkey just dropped (03:50) Checking in on the game industry: It’s Still...
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Episode 178 - Goldballs Was Right
This week has a lot of X-Men talk for a non X-Men episode. Beyond that Robin has played some Luna Abyss and Willa does a check in on Marvel Rivals, because of X-Men. It all comes back to X-Men. Timestamps: (00:54) Dazzler the musical (01:35) Checking in on Xbox… still bad (11:07) Jubilee the...
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Episode 177 - I Am Not a Cawp
If you can get past the purposefully bad boston accents at the start of this episode you can hear Willa and Robin talk about Echoes of Aincrad's smooth brain demo, Xbox sucking, and PlayStation also sucking. Timestamps: (00:34) Labubu missile, Winnie the Pooh, Boston molasses flood. Now that is...
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Episode 176 - Bobby, You're Gay
Happy Pryde! Catch up with the story so far in episodes 26, 38, 56, 72, 95, and 139. Follow along this week here. Support us on Ko-fi! Check out the network at TheWorstGarbage.online! Join The Worst Garbage Discord! Follow us and send us questions! Follow Robin! Follow Willa! Music Street Food by...
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Episode 175 - A Visit from Clippy
This week, Willa went to Tribeca to play some games and Robin stayed home to do the same. Timestamps: (00:20) A three-martini lunch (04:00) Tribeca Games (4:55) Bad Magpie (8:40) Demi and the Fractured Dream (15:00) Drifted (17:15) Forever Ago (23:00) Kidbash (24:25) Lofsöng (28:50) Rivage…
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Episode 174 - Trend Alert: Vampires
It has been a busy Summer Game Fest and all the events from the State of Play to the Nintendo Direct. This week Willa and Robin dive into what announcements piqued their interest, namely all the ones with vampires (of which there were many). Timestamps: (00:20) Cryptid talk? (02:48) A whole lot…
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Episode 173 - Lesbian Girlfailure Simulator 2026
This week Willa and Robin step out of their comfort zones by playing Zero Parades: For Dead Spies, a game about being a girlfailure who really wants to make out with mean women. Also: Mina the Hollower and 007 First Light. Timestamps: (00:24) What's the deal with ZA/UM? (09:30) Zero Parades! (we...
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Episode 172 - Two Apples Tall
This week, we’ve got it all: old games, boring games, games we don’t play, and even things that aren't games at all but rather raccoons. Timestamps: (00:20) Robin’s new roommate (03:00) Hello Kitty urban legends (07:30) Directive 8020 (28:00) Marathon PvE (31:00) Uncharted 4: Game’s fun, game’s…
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Episode 171 - Sayonara Wild Hearts for Straight People
Wasn’t being a teenager great? Isn’t music magical? Don’t you want to play a whole game that’s basically that sentiment repeated for three hours? Timestamps: (00:20) Spinning our wheels to avoid talking about Mixtape (04:20) We can no longer avoid talking about Mixtape (51:50) What else have…
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Episode 170 - Bobo Bitcoin Betting (Say It Five Times Fast)
Willa and Robin go into the game grab bag this week. Robin has been gambling in Bobo Bay, wielding the elements in Elementallis, and totally not romancing a living statue in Sovereign Tower. Willa, meanwhile, is building civilizations in Amberspire. Timestamps: (00:26) Tune in next week for our...
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Episode 169 - It’s Not That Complicated
This week, Willa and Robin confront their respective greatest enemies: theater kids and math. First, we go long on Titanium Court, and why neither of us found it as groundbreaking or as hard to explain as you may have heard. Then we talk about Sol Cesto, a game you’ve probably heard less about...
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Episode 168 - What's Pragmata with You?
Artemis II might be back from the moon but Willa and Robin aren't. This week it's the Pragmata extravaganza, come along as we dive into Capcom's new action game that's pretty dang good! Timestamps: (00:13) Sponsored by Orbitz (00:48) Pragmata extravaganza (53:15) What else have Willa and Robin…
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Episode 167 - Making the Dolls Kiss
This week, we’re only half paying attention to the show because we're thinking about the Moon. When we turn our attention briefly away from the Artemis II livestream, Willa talks about the bad new Life is Strange game and Robin played a smattering of new indies but she’s too tired to say much…
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Episode 166 - Bipedal Hotties to the Front
Zoe graces us all with her presence to regale us with tales of her time spent saving the galaxy and exploring the highs of Rapture and the lows of Columbia. Spoilers abound for the entire Mass Effect trilogy and Bioshock 1, 2, and Infinite. Timestamps: (00:19) Welcome to the Zo Rowe Show (02:17)...
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Episode 165 - Video Games Have Not Come a Long Way Since Final Fantasy 13
This week, we've both been playing the hot new release that's taken the world by storm: the rhythm-based fishing game Sinker Sound. Then, Willa's adventures in the back catalog continue with Final Fantasy and Resident Evil, and Robin has played a pair of weird and wonderful indie sim games....
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Episode 164 - Episode 168
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....
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Episode 163 - Tom Cruise Missiles
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...
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Episode 162 - The G(irl Mode) Virus
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...
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Episode 161 - All News Is Bad News
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...
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Episode 160 - Chaser James Bond
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)...
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Episode 159 - Hockey Is Where The Lesbians Are
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...
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Episode 158 - Big Daddy Energy
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...
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Episode 157 - This One’s For The DO-11s
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...
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Episode 156 - Surely We Will Get Better At Predictions One Of These Years?
It's prediction time! First we tally up the scores from 2025 to see who the winner of an undecided prize is. Then it's into the future as Robin, Willa, and Zoe (via Willa reading her notes because we won't let her back on the pod) tell you what 2026 will hold for gaming with 100% accuracy....
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Episode 155 - Most Anticipated Games of 2026 (Unless They Get Delayed)
To ease into the new year Robin and Willa took it easy and are basically giving you the audio version of those lists every outlet puts out in January. We also talk about Zoe's exploits in Mass Effect and Robin's exploits in getting one over on her landlord. Timestamps: (00:12) It's raining cats…
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Episode 154 - The Fourth Annual Girl Mode Awards
It’s the Girlies! You know the drill. If you don’t, just listen and you’ll get it. It’s like an awards show but better. Thanks for listening this year! You can find a whole list of winners (with a couple of visual aids) here. Timestamps: (00:15) The Girlies! (51:30) Spoilers for Carimara and Old...
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Episode 153 - Finding Our Way Home in Wanderstop and Baby Steps
It’s the annual Girl Mode Game Exchange, the episode where we force each other to play one of our favorite games of the year, under penalty of death. This year, we chose Wanderstop and Baby Steps, two games about the struggle to find self-worth that take two very different paths to get there.…
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Episode 152 - Recession Indicator Lara Croft
This week Willa and Robin run through all the announcements at The Game Awards, including: Tomb Raider for the straights, DILF Leon, and Control with a man. Boooooo. Also, more Old Skies talk because it's just that good! Timestamps: (00:12) Zoe probably wants to stab Willa (medically) (02:05) A…
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Episode 151 - The Finnish Independence Day Special
For what ended up being a shorter episode this week, Willa has returned to the land of chocobos and Robin has returned to the land of evil chocobos. Plus, skateboards, mechs, catgirl card games, and famous dead men. Timestamps: (00:15) Shoutout to Finland (01:45) Why are we not playing Final...
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150 - Do You Think Samus Listens To Girl Mode While Riding Through That Big Desert?
This week we are talking gays in space (Metroid Prime 4) and gays in time (more Old Skies) and then Willa and Robin pick what games to exchange for the end of year season because the Girlies will be here before you know it! Timestamps: (02:00) Too much talk about Willa's Thanksgiving movie…
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Episode 149 - The Most Punchable Man in the World
This week, we start with hypothetically cool new hardware and Metroid Prime’s hot new feature: mansplaining. Then we move onto games we’ve played, focusing on anticipated talking-to-hot-women simulator Demonschool (unless it gets delayed again in the six hours before this episode posts)....
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Ep 148 - It's Terrible, I Could Not Recommend It More
Episode 148 - It's terrible, I could not recommend it more This one's got everything you love: Dunkalatte talk, Willa's neighbors doing construction in the middle of a recording, Robin playing a game where you are a little mouse, but the main event is – of course – Willa going on an extended rant...
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Episode 147 - Girls' Night At Blake Manor
It’s the week after Halloween and we’re finally talking about horror games. After an extended bullshit session to start, we work our way around to mousegirl soulslikes, talking to ghosts with your crush, trick or treating, finding yourself on Bajor, and being the nosiest bitches at the seance....
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Ep 146 - Reaching Another Level of Suck
This week it’s a lot of slop talk. Remakes are slop. Cozy games are slop. Law & Order Executive Producer Dick Wolf is slop. Everything is slop. We also check in on Hades 2 and Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2. Timestamps: (00:25) It’s all downhill from here (02:27) More Hades 2 (06:35) Halo...
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Episode 145 - Destroy the WORLD-EGG.
Jesus, it’s Next Fest again? Guess it’s time to talk about some demos. Timestamps: (00:20) Disrespecting Baja Blast (2:20) Next Fest (3:40) Opus Prism Peak (8:15) Skate Story (12:00) Sleep Awake (16:15) Reanimal (22:00) Constance (25:00) Winter Burrow (28:20) Ambrosia Sky (32:40) Verho: Curse of...
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Episode 144 - The Soon To Be Mrs. Robin (Your Name Here)
Episode 144 - The Soon To Be Mrs. Robin (Your Name Here) Bad news, there is barely any beverage talk in this one. Good news, Robin is open to her hand in marriage being bought. Oh, we also spend a lot of time talking about the importance in having conviction in critical thinking and why…
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Episode 143 - A Poo-Based Ecosystem
This week, we’re still talking a bit about Hades II, sandwiched between slime farms, psychic babies, Tetris-likes, and Willa’s beverage-based spinoff podcast. Timestamps: (00:40) More coffee talk (5:40) Slime Rancher 2 (09:35) Hades 2 (mid-to-endgame spoilers start at 15:20) (18:30) Goodnight...
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142 - Good Games About Having Bad Times
This week Willa and Robin are talking about suffering… but for fun! Consume Me and Baby Steps take up most of the episode but there is still time for brief thoughts on Blippo, Hades 2, and Willa’s coffee tips. Time stamps: (01:15) Willa’s Dunkalatte tips (04:55) Consume Me [Trigger Warning:...
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Episode 141 - Bug Horniness
This week we’re very tired and spend a long time talking about milk. I don’t know man. Then, Willa is apparently in the good part of Silksong and Robin talks about what she doesn’t like about Hades 2, a game that’s mostly good. Time stamps: (00:20) Coffee milk, Willa’s divorce, etc. (05:30) So...
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Episode 140 - The Penitent Bug Will Pass
Yes, we talk about Hollow Knight: Silksong in this episode, but first Robin and Willa have to salivate over the reveal that we are getting a new Fire Emblem game next year. Time stamps: (00:20) Willa’s a tradwife (02:54) Non-Fire Emblem Direct news (14:00) Us being crazy about new Fire Emblem...
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Girl Mode is a podcast (mostly) about video games by two trans women and gaming journalists where we talk about the latest news in the industry, our takes, weekly topics, and more about the Mets than you're probably expecting.
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