Episodes
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EA Closes Bioware, Jagex Cancels Runescape Reignited
Welcome back to Overworld Weekly, a show about the biggest news in video games as tracked by Overworld.vg and its readers! Sorry about the weird audio this week, I messed something up when I was recording!! --- Discussed this week: EA closes BioWare: https://www.overworld.vg/story/992cb229…
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Fortune's Weave DLC Announced, Schrödinger's Belmont's Curse
Welcome back to Overworld Weekly, a show about the biggest news in video games as tracked by Overworld.vg and its readers! --- Discussed this week: Fire Emblem: Fortune’s Weave Expansion Pass: https://www.overworld.vg/story/968ce2ad Zelda: Ocarina of Time remake previews:...
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Star Wars Galactic Racer is a success, RuneScape 4 in the works, Dragon's Dogma 2 Gets Another Shot
Welcome back to Overworld Weekly, a show about the biggest news in video games as tracked by Overworld.vg and its readers! --- Discussed this week: Star Wars: Galactic Racer reviews: https://www.overworld.vg/story/d38cd067 RuneScape 4 announced: https://www.overworld.vg/story/f14b77d7 Dragon’s...
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The "Anti-Xbox Bias" and Bungie's Next Chapter
Welcome back to Overworld Weekly, a show about the biggest news in video games as tracked by Overworld.vg and its readers! --- This episode of the show is brought to you by Library Card Sign-Up Month! Go find and support your local library, folks! --- Discussed this week: Xbox layoffs & studio...
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Fire Emblem Fortune's Weave Impressions, Marathon Runs in a New Direction
Welcome back to Overworld Weekly, a show about the biggest news in video games as tracked by Overworld.vg and its readers! --- This episode of the show is brought to you by Library Card Sign-Up Month! Go find and support your local library, folks! --- Discussed this week: Marathon ends seasons:...
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Ocarina of Time Remake, Wolverine's Mixed Reviews, and more!
Welcome back to Overworld Weekly, a show about the biggest news in video games as tracked by Overworld.vg and its readers! --- This episode of the show is brought to you by Library Card Sign-Up Month! Go find and support your local library, folks! --- Discussed this week: Marvel's Wolverine...
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PlayStation's Super-Long State of Play
Welcome back to Overworld Weekly, a show about the biggest news in video games as tracked by Overworld.vg and its readers! --- This episode of the show is brought to you by Library Card Sign-Up Month! Go find and support your local library, folks! --- Discussed this week: - PlayStation State of...
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Grand Theft Auto VI and the Monoculture
Welcome back to Overworld Weekly, a show about the biggest news in video games as tracked by Overworld.vg and its readers! --- This month of Overworld is brought to you by Tokyo Game Life, a Tokyo-based game podcast focusing on Nintendo and gaming culture in Japan's capital:...
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We Finally Know What The Duskbloods Is
Welcome back to Overworld Weekly, a show about the biggest news in video games as tracked by Overworld.vg and its readers! --- This month of Overworld is brought to you by Tokyo Game Life, a Tokyo-based game podcast focusing on Nintendo and gaming culture in Japan's capital:...
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Zelda Switch 2 Leaks, No Man's Sky Turns 10, and GoldenEye Returns... Sort Of
Welcome back to Overworld Weekly, a show about the biggest news in video games as tracked by Overworld.vg and its readers! --- This month of Overworld is brought to you by Tokyo Game Life, a Tokyo-based game podcast focusing on Nintendo and gaming culture in Japan's capital:...
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EA sold for $55 Billion, Fire Emblem's Nun Stuns, and More!
Welcome back to Overworld Weekly, a show about the biggest news in video games as tracked by Overworld.vg and its readers! --- This month of Overworld is brought to you by Tokyo Game Life, a Tokyo-based game podcast focusing on Nintendo and gaming culture in Japan's capital:...
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Final Fantasy XIV is HUGE on Switch 2, and PSN Goes Down at the Worst Time
Welcome back to Overworld Weekly, a show about the biggest news in video games as tracked by Overworld.vg and its readers! --- This episode is brought to you by Pixels and Polygons: https://pixelsandpolygons.net/ --- Discussed this week: PSN outage: https://www.overworld.vg/story/38644993…
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Splatoon Raiders, Xbox's Fallout Smokescreen, and Tariff Refunds
Welcome back to Overworld Weekly, a show about the biggest news in video games as tracked by Overworld.vg and its readers! --- This episode is brought to you by Pixels and Polygons: https://pixelsandpolygons.net/ --- Discussed this week: Marvel's Wolverine at SDCC:...
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Nintendo Switch 2 OLED, The Duskbloods Network Test, and More!
Welcome back to Overworld Weekly, a show about the biggest news in video games as tracked by Overworld.vg and its readers! --- This episode is brought to you by Pixels and Polygons: https://pixelsandpolygons.net/ --- Discussed this week: Nintendo Switch 2 OLED rumor:...
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On the Xbox Layoffs, Remakes, and Meccha Chameleon
Welcome back to Overworld Weekly, a show about the biggest news in video games as tracked by Overworld.vg and its readers! ---This episode is brought to you by Pixels and Polygons: https://pixelsandpolygons.net/ Discussed this week: • Xbox announces 3,200 layoffs and parts ways with five studios:...
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PlayStation Bails on Physical Media, New Metroid Game Leaks
Welcome back to Overworld Weekly, a new show running through the biggest news in the world of video games as defined by Overworld.vg and its readers! This episode is brought to you by Pixels and Polygons: https://pixelsandpolygons.net/ --- Discussed this week: PlayStation ending physical disc...
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GTA6, Valve's Steam Machine, and the Price of Admission
Welcome to the first episode of Overworld Weekly, it's a new show running through the biggest news in the world of video games as defined by Overworld.vg and its readers. This week's episode is sponsored by Post Games, an audio magazine about how and why we love video games:...
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I Have Too Much To Say About Saros
Saros is a PlayStation exclusive, AAA roguelike from Housemarque — the creators of Returnal. It's a game I absolutely devoured over the course of just a few days, and had basically every single emotion about along the way to rolling credits. It's been about two weeks since then and I genuinely...
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Vampire Crawlers Demands Your Attention
Vampire Crawlers is a new deck-building dungeon-crawling roguelike from the creators of Vampire Survivors, and I think despite the way it's being pitched is a deeper and more rewarding game on every level. I have absolutely loved my time with it so far.Disclaimer: Prerelease code was provided by...
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I Can't Keep Up With 2026's Games
2026 is already one of the best years for video game releases in recent memory, with more than enough to satisfy pretty much anybody with ANY specific genre preferences. Before we get too deep into the year, I thought it would be helpful to freeze time for a moment and just consider how many…
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Pragmata Made Me a Believer (Review)
Pragmata is a new game from Capcom about a man and his adoptive space daughter as they fight robots on the moon, It is equal parts Resident Evil, Dead Space, Legend of Zelda, NieR Automata, and Death Stranding — and somehow also manages to be none of them. I loved it.Disclaimer: Code for this…
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Can An Ocarina of Time Remake Fix Zelda?
There's a rumor that Nintendo's big Switch 2 game for 2026 is a remake of The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time. While most conversation centers on "should this exist in the first place," I think the more interesting question is how it could unite the two halves of the Zelda fanbase and prove...
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Square Enix's Very Good Year
Square Enix had a very good year, eBay reigns supreme, LEGO Batman has all the makings of a sleeper hit, and so much more on this Q&A episode of Wavelengths! Join the Patreon: https://patreon.com/wavelengths The Cacio e Pere Recipe: https://wavelengths.online/posts/the-cacio-e-pere-recipe---Feel...
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I'm In Awe of Marathon
Marathon is a new game by Bungie, the creators of Halo and my beloved Destiny, which follows in the studio tradition of taking a big swing at an established genre and reinventing it for new audiences. It's also one of the best looking games ever made. I am in awe of it. Join the Patreon:...
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Pokémon Pokopia Came Out Too Soon (Complimentary)
I'm absolutely in love with Pokemon Pokopia, enough so that it has me wondering if it could have been a cultural moment — Animal Crossing-adjacent, even — had it released later in the Switch 2's lifecycle. Join the Patreon: https://patreon.com/wavelengths---Feel free to follow me…
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Even More Great Steam Next Fest Demos (February 2026)
Steam Next Fest is the equivalent of perusing a library until you find something that seems interesting to you, which is an experience that’s extremely rare in video games these days. Hell, it’s rare in ANY media these days.This week’s episode of the show is mostly about some demos I loved, and a...
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Every Gaming Device is Getting More Expensive
The PS6 might get delayed. The Switch 2 might get even more expensive. The Steam Deck is currently completely sold out. The AI industry is to blame — so let's talk about it. Join the Patreon: https://patreon.com/wavelengths --- Feel free to follow me elsewhere! Bluesky:...
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Discord Ruins Itself, Five Months of MCON, and More
Welcome back to the show! This week I work through my feelings about Discord's new verification plans and how it will impact everything — even platforms outside of Discord. After that we run through some news about Riot layoffs, Mewgenics sales figures, and Yakuza Kiwami 3's confusing direction...
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A Good Nintendo Direct, Sony's Worst Idea, and Steam Machine Delays
Hello and welcome back to the podcast! And the first one with video posted publicly for all to see! This week I'm talking about the four games that extremely worked for me from the Nintendo Partner Direct (and a bunch of other notable announcements), Switch 2 sales struggling outside of Japan,...
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The Tomodachi Life to Highguard Curve
Welcome back to the first normal episode of this show in a while! There was video game news! Can you believe it? This week I'm talking about the Nintendo Direct focused entirely on Tomodachi Life: Living the Dream — otherwise known in this house as "The Big Game" — before talking about another...
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The January Question Dump
This week I'm answering your many questions from how to make potatoes, to thoughts on Heated Rivalry, to Nintendo of America's relationship with Nintendo of Japan and so much more. Come along, will you? Also: Huge solidarity to those in the streets of Minneapolis this month. Your bravery means...
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The Other OTYs (with Will LaPorte)
I was very glad to be joined by my good friend Will LaPorte for a lengthy episode about our favorite albums and films of 2025! I hope you enjoy it, and I'll be back next week with (gasp) more stuff about video games!! Find Will Online: https://ghostdown.online/ --- Join the Patreon:...
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The 50 Best Games of 2025
Turns out they made a lot of good video games last year. So many, in fact, that I felt the need to continue last year's move of celebrating 50 of them in an extremely chill manner!! Thank you all for a great first (partial) year of Wavelengths, I hope you're as stoked for 2026 as I am! Note: Wish...
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Disclaimer: This One's a Bummer
Trans rights are human rights. Additional links: People Make Games on the BDS movement: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ybj10537yi4 No Games for Genocide: https://nogamesforgenocide.com/
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The Game Awards Again With BB
Today's all about 2025's Game Awards! Who won, what got announced, and why was Divinity so disgusting? As I mention in the episode: I think going into this year's show treating it like "Winter Game Fest" was a much better move for my own enjoyment — and it created a show I felt generally decent...
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Analyzing Games Through Metroid Prime 4 and Sektori
Hello and welcome back to the show! It's been a light few weeks news-wise so I wanted to dig into some thoughts about Sektori and my first 90 minutes of the long-anticipated Metroid Prime 4: Beyond through the lens of game analysis and crit. Before the end of the episode, we'll all be PC gamers....
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Two Games That Are Healing Me
Hello! Thank you so much for being here, I am grateful for you. This week's a shorter one because my body won't let me talk for more than 15 minutes, but I wanted to shout out two GOTy-contender games I've been absolutely loving this week: The first is Sektori, — a twin-stick arcade shooter with...
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Let's Talk About The Game Awards
Welcome back to Wavelengths! This week's main topic is about the nominees for 2025's TGAs, how weird they are, and how weird my feelings about the award show have become over the years. I also talk a bit about my own GOTY prep, some games I've been playing recently, and my thoughts a week out…
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The Steam Machine's Greatest Strength is SteamOS
Valve announced three products this week: A new controller, a new VR headset, and a new gaming console. This week's episode of Wavelengths is all about the interplay between these three devices and the thing that not only literally links them all together, but makes Valve's decade-long push…
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Stephen Hilger on the State of Video Game Discourse
Hello and welcome back to Wavelengths! This week my guest is Stephen Hilger — my co-host on Into the Aether, a great artist and writer, and creator of the YouTube channel Memory Card Manuscript. I brought Stephen on to discuss a question sent in by a listener about the current hyper-polarization…
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A Tale of Three Handhelds
Welcome back to the show, folks. I recorded this one early as I'll be traveling to see family for most of the week, so apologies for not including any Animal Crossing news here! The short version: I'm excited about it! What I did talk about was suddenly being inundated with three handhelds at…
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A Cool Thirty Percent
Welcome back to the show! Unfortunately Xbox can't stop dominating the news cycle, so I dug a bit into their next, priecier console and apparently-strategic lack of exclusive games. Afterwards I felt like I needed to dig back into my feeling about Pokemon Legends Z-A having played a lot more…
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Pokemon Roadmap Through 2030 Leaks Online
Welcome back to the show! This week I can't NOT talk about Xbox again — sorry!! But also I gush about Ball x Pit and dig into my (very) early impressions of Pokemon Legends Z-A before talking through the huge Pokemon roadmap leak that hit the internet earlier this week. Pokemon Leaks:...
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Nintendo's Disney Era
Nintendo is making movies, theme parks, and aligning their games with other multimedia experiences in a way that screams Corporate Synergy Opportunities™ — the kind that board members go absolutely gaga over. On today's episode of Wavelengths, I tackle that along with some updates about Xbox and…
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So is Xbox Over or What?
Welcome back to the show! With some time away, I've been doing a lot of thinking about where Sony and Microsoft are at these days... as usual. I think in particular, Xbox as a brand feels like it's on a slow descent into a confused existence and I wanted to unpack that as best as I could.…
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Borderlands 4 Performance Woes, Silksong Updates, and a 180 On Game Keycards
Hello and welcome back to Wavelengths! Switching it up yet again this week as I solo-host an extremely low key episode of the show from the lounge chair in the corner of my home office. This week I'm talking about my experience having wrapped up Silksong, catching up with Borderlands 4's...
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Chase Allhart on Silksong Discourse, 007, and Kingdom Hearts IV
This week I'm talking to Chase Allhart, host of two great video game podcasts in the form of Video Game Podtimism and dotzip! Obviously Silksong is in the air, and the amount of discourse surrounding this one game is off the charts, so we dig into that in a big way before talking about making…
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Matt Horton on the PlayStation 6, Valve Fremont, and Making Things Online
This week I'm talking to Matt Horton, host of Can't Let it Go, In Sequence, and Flow State about the rumors of four upcoming video game consoles... three of which are the PlayStation 6 somehow. This was a great conversation, and I hope you enjoy it as much as I did! — Support Wavelengths:...
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Percia Verlin on Genre, the Switch 2, and Great Portrait-Mode Mobile Games
This week I'm talking to Percia Verlin, fashion creator and podcaster... she's also my wife. Percia asked me for some vertical iPhone game recommendations, so I brought her on the show to walk through them and have a chat about her gaming history. — Support Wavelengths:...
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AJ Fillari on Podcasting, Media Crit, and The Last of Us Online
This week I'm switching things up a little bit, starting with some news about Hollow Knight Silksong and Gamescom before launching into a chat with AJ Fillari! We chat about podcasting, their show DotZip, our podcast network, and building up the critical muscle. It's a good one! — Support...
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