Episodes
Season 9 Episode 10
Tom & Andrea return to Cauldron Lake in the sleepy town of Bright Falls, WA for Alan Wake 2. This time, we take control of new protagonist Saga, who has found herself written into Alan Wake's story. It's been a decade since Alan Wake was last seen, and Saga is on the case. Along with the grizzled New York detective Alex Casey. A name any fan of Alan Wake's writing should know. The Dark Place is about to get a whole lot darker. Hope you brought a flash light.
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Published 10/16/24
Season 9 Episode 9
Tom & Andrea team up with the iconic Link and Zelda for The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild. Hyrule has been reduced to rubble, 100 years after a calamatous event. Waking up as Link, it's time to set things right and restore the kingdom to its former glory. But first, there's Divine Beasts to restore, and friends to meet. Plus a memory that has been wiped clean, needing to be reset. It's one of the largest franchises in gaming, and it's arguably the best of the...
Published 10/09/24
Tom & Andrea return to Arcadia Bay for the first time again in Life is Strange: Before the Storm. This time we're in control of the rebel without a cause, Chloe Price. Come along as we navigate her through Blackwell Academy, make new friends, lovers, and enemies, as she leaves her mark, literally in most cases, on her small town. Chloe befriends the popular and mysterious Rachel Amber as the two go on a journey of discovery that neither expects or is prepared to deal with on so many...
Published 10/02/24
Season 9 Episode 7
Tom & Andrea stay home for once, as they go for a hike in the Mojave Desert in Fallout: New Vegas. The world ended about 200 years ago, but Sin City is still alive and unwell. Waking up with a pounding headache as The Courier, this game has us running up and down the Strip trying to piece together why we were buried alive. In order to piece it together, we have to interact with ghouls, robots, mutants, Elvis impersonators, boomers, groomers, and doomers. No, it's not...
Published 09/25/24
Season 9 Episode 6
Tom & Andrea head into an alternate reality where the bad guys won World War 2 with Wolfenstein: The New Order. In this love letter to first person shooters, B.J. Blazkowicz wakes from a coma to find himself in a world overrun with third reich scum. Unhappy with the results of WW2, he makes it his mission to end every last one of them in one of the most shockingly impactful stories ever commited to pixels.
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Published 09/18/24
Season 9 Episode 5
Trigger Warning It's South Park.
Tom & Andrea return to Colorado for another raunchy adventure as The New Kid in South Park: The Fractured But Whole. In this outing, we don our superhero personas and take on a crime syndicate that is quickly taking over South Park. Bounce between the factions of Coon and Friends or The Freedom Pals as you hunt down missing cats, attack bootay-licious enemies, and choke down some member berries.
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Published 09/11/24
Season 9 Episode 4
Trigger Warnings
This episode contains graphic descriptions of extreme body mutilation and gore.
Tom & Andrea are back with Isaac Clark and more Necromorphs in Dead Space 2! After the events of the first game, Isaac wakes up on the moon Titan, where he is recovering from his injuries. Shortly after waking up, he figures out it's going to be more of the same as his dead girlfriend Nicole is still haunting him, Necromorphs are running rampant, and that...
Published 09/04/24
Season 9 Epiode 3
Tom & Andrea are ready to once again tackle the most complicated franchise in gaming with Kingdom Hearts 2! Come along with us as we meet Roxas, a mysterious new character with deep ties to Sora and his friends. As well as the morally ambiguous group known as Organization XIII. We also get to hear about Tom's favorite moment in all of gaming. Come find out why this game is still considered one of the greatest games ever made.
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Published 08/28/24
Season 9 Episode 2
Tom & Andrea hope you don't have an aversion to rats as we take on A Plague Tale: Innocence. Listen in as we tour around Europe as Amicia De Rune and her little brother Hugo during the terrifying Bubonic Plague. But rats aren't the only problem, as there are people who want to take Hugo away from Amicia for good! What mysteries does Hugo hold? For a five year old, a whole lot.
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Published 08/21/24
Season 9 Episode 1
Tom & Andrea strap on their BBs and go for a Ride with Norman Reedus in The Other Castle Season 9 premiere: Death Stranding. Gaming living-legend Hideo Kojima brings us Sam Porter Bridges, a delivery boy in a post-apocalyptic United States. Along with his trusty companion, a fetus in a glass jar named Lou, he must trek across the barren wasteland of the once active US, connecting people both in the game, and in the real world. This is Hideo Kojima when nobody can...
Published 08/14/24
Bonus Episode
Tom & Andrea embark on a journey with an eight year old girl named Little Misfortune. This little lady's name is very appropriate, as this game is full of trigger warnings that may be upsetting for some. In this episode we will discuss child, alcohol, and substance abuse. It also contains characters who end their own lives. Somehow, this tiny indy studio still manged to pack an unsettling amount of humor into this otherwise dark story. Come along on this highly requested...
Published 06/13/24
Season 8
Episode 10
Tom & Andrea return to the land of mythology in God of War. Kratos has grown old and weary. He's also a father to a young boy. The two are forced to bond and get to know each other when Faye, the boy's mother and Kratos's wife, dies. Come along as we travel with them to the highest peak in the 9 realms to spread her ashes. It's a bonding experience you won't want to miss.
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Published 04/24/24
Season 8
Episode 9
Tom & Andrea fly back into the Remedyverse along with Jesse Fadon in Control. Come explore The Oldest House as we hunt for Jesse's long-lost brother Dylan. Don't mind the tag-along inside your mind. She's cool. Control's name is well deserved as it delivered some of the best combat and movement in gaming to date. Come find out why this game is considered by many to be one of the best ever made (it's obviously because there's a musical number).
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Published 04/17/24
Season 8
Episode 8
Tom & Andrea head to the near future for a robot revolution in Detroit Become Human. Join us as we take control of Markus, Connor, and Kara, three Androids coming to terms with humanity. We're taking the most optimal route possible for this episode, as there are over 900 possible ways this story can go. Come along and find out which we got.
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Published 04/10/24
Season 8
Episode 7
Tom & Andrea add another disasterpiece to their roster with the post apocolyptic Days Gone. Deacon St. John is just a man on his motorcycle, stuck in a zombie apocolypse, searching for his dead wife, with his best friend by his side. Motorcycle club allegiances are tested, and bonds are broken as Deacon roams the Oregon countryside facing down hordes of "Freakers".
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Published 04/03/24
Season 8
Episode 6
Tom & Andrea are teaming back up with Master Chief for the exciting Halo 3! The previous game left us on a major cliffhanger, and we have to find out what happens next! Listen in as we explore the messy development and release of the Xbox 360's crowning achievement. The stakes are higher than ever in the final chapter of the first Halo trilogy.
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Published 03/27/24
Season 8
Episode 5
Tom & Andrea go back to their roots in Donut County. Come along into the deep, dark, cavernous hole that is Los Angeles. BK is a mischevious little raccoon with an app that is far too powerful. Donut delivery is nothing to mess around with, especially when those donuts can eat an entire city block.
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Published 03/20/24
Season 8
Episode 4
Tom & Andrea take their first trip to the Mushroom Kingdom with Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars! It's Mario's final outing as a silent protagonist and his first step into 3D. A rare collaboration between Nintendo and Squaresoft gave us this grand adventure that took Mario to places he'd never been before. We even talk about out why this system-seller never got a sequel.
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Published 03/13/24
Season 8
Episode 3
Tom & Andrea develop followers in an entirely new way with Cult of the Lamb. Become the Lamb, start a cult, and give them a reason to worship you. It's a cozy game with enough dead animals to make a butcher wealthy. Come find out what it would be like to live under the rule of Andrea, if you dare.
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Published 03/06/24
Season 8
Episode 2
This week The Other Castle dives into the Giant Blue Hole with Dave the Diver. Dave was promised some sushi, and we're going to help him get that sushi! It's a fishing game, a restaurant sim, a pokemon game, a farming sim, a Contra clone, an espionage thriller, and an exploration and treasure hunting adventure all rolled into one. What is Dave the Diver? The answer is "Yes". Come along on one of the wildest stories of the last few years.
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Published 02/28/24
Season 8
Episode 1
The Other Castle is back with the bizarre and twisted world of Alan Wake! Join Alan as he explores the dark and eerie town of Bright Falls. His marriage and career are in a shambles. The only way to pull himself out of it, is through a tense psychological thriller that will hopefully revitalize both. Grab your flashlight and some batteries for this one.
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Published 02/21/24
Bonus Episode
Tom & Andrea coming at you with a surprise Bonus Episode to round out your holiday season and bring you into the New Year with Bioshock Infinite! We tag along with Booker and Elizabeth as they try to escape the flying city of Columbia. It's the final chapter in the Bioshock trilogy (for now), so don't miss out on all the great Bioshots we have in store for you.
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Published 12/27/23
In the Season 7 finale, Tom & Andrea take a journey down The Oregon Trail! The longest-running series in all of gaming is one that American school children for generations have fallen in love with while playing and learning. Starting out as an attempt to be "the cool teacher", The Oregon Trail is a pioneer in and of itself in edutainment. Come find out why this game has stood the test of time to the point they're still re-releasing it 52 years after its creation.
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Published 11/01/23
It's another intergalactic episode as Tom & Andrea travel to a distant moon, where we escape the Black Iron Prison in The Callisto Protocol. Jacob and Dani are sworn enemies and each other's only hope as they uncover the secrets of the horrors hiding within the walls of the prison they have found themselves accidentally calling home. Lots of gore follows. Like, tons.
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Published 10/25/23