The 15th Anniversarycast

The long-lived series plays the hits and takes a well-deserved bow, but it stumbles in its hesitation to move on

Nick reflects on a year of struggle, transition, and chaos.

Nick, Aaron, and Spencer celebrate 15 years of this nonsense by reflecting on the games industry itself. We ask each other: What are 3 notable trends from the last 15 years, and what's 1 prediction for the next 15? See you for the 20th anniversary!

A storied series renowned for reinvention finally forgets itself.

Wringing the water of life from a lumpy trash bag in the hopes of sparking a brief moment of self-awareness: what’s more cyberpunk than that? Nick reads a short critique of Cyberpunk 2077, a now-infamous big-budget spectacle of a game that's gone from a disastrous launch to a slow and cautious rehabilitation whose ultimate legacy still seems yet to be determined. If you'd like to read this instead of having Nick do the heavy lifting, you can find it at siliconsasquatch.com.

Did Gamergate contribute to the riot in Washington D.C.? Were its proponents' online harassment campaigns a precursor to sedition? Doug and Aaron ask each other these questions and more in this episode following the January 6th, 2021 attack on the United States Capitol.

Part of our annual GOTY tradition is recording our deliberations and posting them to torture you all. Do you want to hear how the sausage is made? You shouldn’t. That sounds wet and gross. Anyway, pod get!

What’s better than a listicle? A very long podcast! Presenting our raw output: hours of recorded discussion settling our 2020 category award winners.

Well, here it is: the podcast where we successfully reduced 200 nominees to the 20 best games of the decade. Surely this won’t be contentious or anything.

Okay, so. You’ve seen our Top 10 list. But you’re wondering: “Uh, wait, what were they thinking?” Your answer lies within.