John Lucero, Vanessa Cahill, and Michael Hughes are solving puzzles, murders, and how to eat snacks as while playing games as they play the remaster of Capcom’s Ghost Trick: Phantom Detective. Support us on Patreon! Join the Discord! Follow the show on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook! Logo by Vanessa Cahill. Theme song by Josie “Visager” Brechner. And subscribe […]

John Lucero, Vanessa Cahill, and Jason Arriola are doing what they do best! No, not lamenting the decision to watch video game movies for a podcast, playing an exploratory platformer! The crew covers Metroid Prime Remastered and the interesting journey in how it came about. We also now have a nice and tidy (as well as unplanned) […]

John Lucero, Vanessa Cahill, and Jason Arriola played Pikmin-like, Tinykin. If you like small things and collecting things, this will be right up your alley. If you don’t like collecting things, maybe not so much. Listen in as we try to decipher if we liked it or not. Also, we recorded this prior to the Pikmin 1 […]

John Lucero, Vanessa Cahill, and Jason Arriola are joined by Michael Hughes as they cover Castlevania: Symphony of the Night, a game that effectively launched a genre! Three of them have played it multiple times and this is someone’s first time. And speaking of first times, come listen to our ramp up before we hit record and […]

John Lucero, Vanessa Cahill, and Jason Arriola play yet another exploratory platformer (this time it’s also a puzzle platformer!) for our Game Club. This month, it’s Unbound: World’s Apart. Like it when it a game tries to make you feel morose? Well, you’re going to love this one! Support us on Patreon! Join the Discord! Follow the […]

John Lucero, Vanessa Cahill, and Jason Arriola wander a desert filled with robots that want to kill us. Thankfully, they’ve got some help along the way. Michael Hughes joins as we get to the “core” of what went wrong with ReCore! And here’s a link to John’s review of Mass Effect: Andromeda, in case you needed a […]

John Lucero, Vanessa Cahill, and Jason Arriola are going the down rabbit hole in exploratory platformer, Record of Lodoss War: Deedlit in Wonder Labyrinth. Support us on Patreon! Join the Discord! Follow the show on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook! Logo by Vanessa Cahill. Theme song by Josie “Visager” Brechner. Follow the show on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook! And subscribe at […]

John Lucero, Vanessa Cahill, and Jason Arriola give up on capitalism and head down to the farm as we play indie mega-hit, Stardew Valley. Support us on Patreon! Follow the show on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook! Logo by Vanessa Cahill. Theme song by Josie “Visager” Brechner. Opening performed by Vanessa Cahill, Jason Arriola, John Lucero, and Jessie Obando […]

John Lucero and Vanessa Cahill are joined by Jim Cahill to discuss the latest entry in the Metroid series, Metroid Dread. Listen in as the crew delve deep into it and see how it compares with the other Metroid game we covered last year, Super Metroid! Support us on Patreon! Logo by Vanessa Cahill. Theme […]

John Lucero, Vanessa Cahill, and Jason Arriola are joined by Laura Hunt and Thomas M​​öhring, who make up Dead Idle Games, to talk about their recently released If On A Winter’s Night, Four Travelers. It’s a delightful point-and-click adventure game that’s also perfect for this time of year as it definitely delves into the realm of horror […]

John Lucero, Vanessa Cahill, and Jason Arriola are preparing for titanfall! This month, we’re checking out the game that should be seminal, Titanfall 2. Support us on Patreon! Logo by Vanessa Cahill. Theme song by Josie “Visager” Brechner. Opening written, produced, and performed by Jason Arriola. Follow the show on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook! And subscribe at any of these […]

John Lucero, Vanessa Cahill, and Jason Arriola are joined by Andy Bouchard of OtherSide Entertainment to talk about the Outer Wilds. It’s a fascinating game with a lot to offer, but it also asks a lot of the player. Support us on Patreon! Logo by Vanessa Cahill. Theme song by Josie “Visager” Brechner. Opening written and produced by […]

John Lucero, Vanessa Cahill, and Jason Arriola are joined by Nadia and David Oxford to talk about the SNES classic, Mega Man X! Not only is it the best Mega Man game, but it’s easily one of the best action games ever made. Listen in as we tackle the game from the perspectives of both seasoned veterans […]

John Lucero, Vanessa Cahill, and Jason Arriola are putting on their creepy, steampunk skull masks and getting revenge on anyone and everyone in Dishonored. Support us on Patreon! Logo by Vanessa Cahill. Theme song by Josie “Visager” Brechner. Opening written and produced by Jason Arriola and performed by Jason Arriola, John Lucero, and Vanessa Cahill. Follow the show on Twitter, […]

John Lucero, Vanessa Cahill, and Jason Arriola are joined by Nadia Oxford from the Axe of the Blood God podcast to talk about New Pokémon Snap. We’re all coming at it from different perspectives, so do we feel this sequel, more than 20 years in the making, delivered? Support us on Patreon! Logo by Vanessa Cahill. Theme […]

John Lucero, Vanessa Cahill, and Jason Arriola sit down and talk about the sometimes sublime, occasionally frustrating experience of playing Firewatch. If you want to see the amazing Twitter thread from Gabe McGill that Jason brings up about a third of the way into the episode, you can check it out here! Support us on Patreon! Our […]

John Lucero and Vanessa Cahill are joined by Luke Maxwell (with a quick appearance by Jason Arriola) to talk about the 2002 remake of Resident Evil. Originally on the GameCube, it would eventually come to consoles that more than 40 people own with a HD remaster. Support us on Patreon! Our logo was created by Vanessa Cahill. […]

John Lucero, Vanessa Cahill, and Jason Arriola are joined by Jim Cahill to talk about the original The Legend of Zelda. It’s the 35th anniversary of this momentous game and we dig in deep to celebrate one of the most important games in the history of the industry! Here’s the comparison video that Clyde Mandelin made about the […]

John Lucero, Vanessa Cahill, and Jason Arriola are joined by Ed Fear of Mediatonic to talk about his murder-mystery/picross game, Murder By Numbers! If you wanted a deep dive into how this delightful game came about, we’ve got you covered! Support us on Patreon! Our logo was created by Vanessa Cahill. Our theme song was created by Josie “Visager” […]

John Lucero, Vanessa Cahill, and Jason Arriola travel through time and get ran over by a train (multiple times) in the puzzle platformer, The Great Perhaps. Our logo was created by Vanessa Cahill. Our theme song was created by Josie “Visager” Brechner. Support us on Patreon! Follow Games and Junk on Twitter! Subscribe and rate! […]