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Heya Guacs! In this episode, The Kappa and I talk about a lot of things: Destiny 2‘s latest expansion; Donkey Kong Bananza; how payment processors handle adult content; fanfiction; tech industry layoffs; how the AI bubble is impacting the games … Continue reading AVoCADo GamesCast #114: A Tale of Two Egmonts
There are over a million stories in Identify This GIF! These are just a few of them. Here’s a guide for all the idiots who have never played before: Remember Snail’s Golden Rule: Don’t Make It Weird! This is a … Continue reading Identify This GIF!
Happy Thursday, friends! What games are you playing and what do you think of them? As a bonus prompt, tell us about a game that would be significantly improved with one key change. Let’s think of this as a pie-in-the-sky … Continue reading Weekly Games Thread #2 Improves
Welcome back to the weekly Tabletop Games thread! This thread is where we can talk about all kinds of RPGs, card games, board games, etc. Whether you gather around a physical table in the real world, or use a virtual … Continue reading The Tabletop Games Thread Gives It a Name (9/17/25)
Top Releases: We’re halfway through September which means that it’s time to start putting out the spooky games, I guess. Our top release is the survival horror game Dying Light: The Beast, which developer Techland describes as a smaller, more … Continue reading New Game Releases 09/16/25 – 09/22/25
The original prompt was gonna be for “runbacks” to bosses, but I shouldn’t use Silksong as a topic twice in a row. Hopefully this excerpt reminds me to use it later. Continue reading Now Time For a Lightning Round: The Weekly Video Games Thread!!
One Avocadoan’s journey delving into the realm of survival horror. Continue reading Afraid and Alone #1: An Introduction – Crow Country and Signalis
Identify This GIF! rubs the lotion on it’s skin. Identify This GIF! puts the lotion in the basket. Or Identify This GIF! gets the hose again. Don’t want the hose? Then do this: Remember Snail’s Golden Rule: Don’t Make It … Continue reading Identify This GIF!
Welcome to Thursday, y’all! What games are you playing and what do you think of them? As a bonus prompt, let’s discuss promised expansions or downloadable content packages (DLCs) that failed to materialize, or were changed significantly from announcement to … Continue reading Weekly Games Thread #2 Isn’t What Was Promised
Welcome back to the weekly Tabletop Games thread! This thread is where we can talk about all kinds of RPGs, card games, board games, etc. Whether you gather around a physical table in the real world, or use a virtual … Continue reading The Tabletop Games Thread Breaks Out (9/10/25)
Top Releases: With last week’s Silksong release kicking off the Fall video game season, we should now expect to see big, major releases until at least the beginning of December. Each week, all of the different video game publishers will … Continue reading New Game Releases 09/09/25 – 09/15/25
Chris, Spencer, and returning guest Lily discuss nearly all remaining loyalty missions in Mass Effect 2 and make a surprising discovery on-board the derelict Collector vessel. Be sure to check out Lily’s great work at The Avocado and on her … Continue reading Franchise Festival S5E7 – Mass Effect 2 (Part 4)
The fire stuff is really cool. Like, the lava, the burning rock, the… all the other cool fire tropes in this game. Continue reading Weekly Video Games Thread Gets a Playable Promotion
In this week’s Identify This GIF! Dakota Johnson has to choose between a handsome billionaire GIF or a handsome down-on-his-luck GIF. What a GIFfing nightmare! It’s time to play the game: Remember Snail’s Golden Rule: Don’t Make It Weird! This … Continue reading Identify This GIF!
What games have you been playing and what do you think of them? Bonus prompt: Give us your best parody names for existing video games Continue reading Weekly Video Games Thread
Welcome back to the weekly Tabletop Games thread! This thread is where we can talk about all kinds of RPGs, card games, board games, etc. Whether you gather around a physical table in the real world, or use a virtual … Continue reading The Tabletop Games Thread Starts From Zero (9/3/25)
Top Releases: IT’S FINALLY HAPPENING, OH MY GOD OH MY GOD OH MY GOD OH MY GOD OH MY GOD OH MY GOD OH MY GOD OH MY GOD OH MY GOD OH MY GOD OH MY GOD OH MY … Continue reading New Game Releases 09/02/25 – 09/08/25
So, when I went to get this screenshot off Xbox, for some reason its title used Japanese text. I checked and RDR was region-free! So I guess this copy I got used at a Gamestop forever ago was originally produced for Japan and, I dunno, put in a US release cover? Continue reading Weekly Video Games Thread Considers the Digital Cowboy Life
Welcome back to your monthly report of game news, where I do my best to compile everything into one convenient ad-free place, so you don’t have to worry about the pesky cracks that info can fall through at other publications. … Continue reading Game News Roundup: August 2025
Hail Satan! Hail Hades! Hail Identify This GIF! Try on these devilish rules for size: Remember Snail’s Golden Rule: Don’t Make It Weird! This is a light-hearted game so please do not post sexualised or objectifying images. Continue reading Identify This GIF!
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