Homegrown podcasts or pertaining to the art of podcasting
Hey folks! We had a packed episode this time around. Captain Blasto, our editor The Kappa, and I discussed AGDQ 2024, Regiments, Puzzmo, Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora, our 2023 and 2024 predictions, potential game delays, our most anticipated games of … Continue reading AVoCADo GamesCast #99: The Ribisi Spectrum
Hey folks! The 2023 year-in-review episode the AVoCADo GamesCast is finally out! Tune in to hear me, Science is Bad, Wolfman Jew, and our fearless editor The Kappa talking about The Game Awards, industry layoffs, and our favourite, least favourite, … Continue reading AVoCADo GamesCast #98: The Phantom Burp: The 2023 Year-End GamesCast
We had a bit of a delay in getting this episode up (real life sometimes gets in the way), but if you’d like to hop into a time machine and visit a time before the 2023 Game Awards aired, here’s … Continue reading AVoCADo GamesCast #97: I Know that Person from the Internet!
In the first half of this episode, our editor The Kappa, podcast newcomer QuinleyThorne, and I discuss Dordogne, Alan Wake 2, Return to Moria, Wartales, Super Mario Bros. Wonder, Atelier Ryza 3, Destiny 2 (and the current state of Bungie … Continue reading AVoCADo GamesCast #96: Growling at Hashiba
Hey folks! This episode is all about Starfield. The Kappa and I discuss the highs, the lows, and of course, the chunks. Because we recorded this episode back in September, we also chat about then-recent presentations from Nintendo and Sony, … Continue reading AVoCADo GamesCast #95: Cram Your Face Full of Chunks
Hey folks! On this episode, The Kappa, The Wasp, and I discussed Pikmin 4, some old-school Zelda games, Baldur’s Gate 3 and discourse surrounding it, Marvel Snap, some recent indie games, and what’s in store for the rest of 2023. … Continue reading AVoCADo GamesCast #94: Put Timothée Chalamet on a Barge
Hey folks! This was a fun episode of the GamesCast where the Kappa, newcomer Captain Blasto, and I talked about the worsening Internet, Viewfinder, Pikmin 4, mobile game ads, Persona 5 Royal, the early access version of Baldur’s Gate 3, … Continue reading AVoCADo GamesCast #93: The Norwegian Heavy Water Plant Sabotage
Hey folks! It’s been over a month since Summer Game Fest 2023, and now you can hear me and The Kappa dissecting it! We also discuss Battlefield, Slayers X, and a whole lotta Star Wars. You have several options for … Continue reading AVoCADo GamesCast #92: The Dostoevsky Shooter
Hey folks! In this episode, Lovely Bones, our editor The Kappa, and I discuss broken PC ports, make Summer Game Fest predictions (so you can see how wrong we were now), chat about GTA V roleplaying, and explain why you … Continue reading AVoCADo GamesCast #91: The Redfall of the Sea
Episode #011: Daredevil: Guardian Devil In the late ‘90s, Marvel was struggling through a bankruptcy and looking for innovative ways to boost sales and find a wider audience. They turned to hot artists Joe Quesada and Jimmy Palmiotti, who enlisted … Continue reading The Iron Age of Comics
Episode #009: Marvels At the height of the grim ‘n’ gritty superhero craze, Kurt Busiek and Alex Ross offered fans a nostalgic but innovative look at the superheroes of yesteryear with their 1994 miniseries, Marvels. Through a combination of man-on-the-street … Continue reading The Iron Age of Comics
Episode 008: Batman Year One We’ve seen several different tellings of Batman’s origin in comics, movies, and TV since Frank Miller and David Mazzuchelli’s 1987 masterpiece four-issue “Year One” arc (Batman #404-407), but many fans still consider this the definitive … Continue reading The Iron Age of Comics
Episode 007: Wizard: The Guide to Comics If you were reading comics in the ‘90s, you probably also read Wizard: a glossy magazine offering irreverent commentary along with news, interviews, and the latest up-to-date price guides. To many fans, Wizard … Continue reading The Iron Age of Comics
Hey folks! In this packed episode, LittleMac, Andy Tuttle, our editor The Kappa, and I discuss the Double Fine PsychOdyssey documentary, what we’ve been playing lately, the deluge of games that came out in the first two months of the … Continue reading AVoCADo GamesCast #90: Tsundere Writers
Episode 006: Emerald Dawn While many of DC’s other heavy hitters were massively revamped in the wake of Crisis on Infinite Earths, Green Lantern Hal Jordan received a comparatively modest tune-up to his origin story. But Emerald Dawn’s attempts to … Continue reading The Iron Age of Comics
Episode 005: Peter Parker, the Spectacular Married Man Spider-Man went through a lot of changes in the Iron Age, but not even the Clone Saga had as big an impact as getting married to Mary Jane Watson. What began as … Continue reading The Iron Age of Comics
Hey folks! The Kappa and I talked about a lot of stuff on this episode. We discussed borrowing games from the library, Blacksad: Under the Skin, MLB: The Show, The Lord of the Rings Online, A Space for the Unbound, … Continue reading AVoCADo GamesCast #89: Yeah, I’m a Dirty Little Pig
Episode 004: The Man of Steel When DC decided its flagship character needed a top-to-bottom reboot for the post-Crisis era, they turned to superstar writer-artist John Byrne. The six-issue origin series The Man of Steel introduced a streamlined, modernized, and … Continue reading The Iron Age of Comics
Episode 003: Spawn and the Image Revolution In 1992, Todd McFarlane and his fellow Marvel superstar creators jumped ship to found Image, creating a major independent alternative to the comics industry’s “Big Two.” In this episode, we examine how McFarlane’s … Continue reading The Iron Age of Comics
Episode 002: X-Men #1 While DC was breaking new ground with the Crisis/Dark Knight/Watchmen trifecta, Marvel entered a paradigm shift of its own with the rise of superstar artists like Jim Lee. Under Lee’s creative direction, 1991’s X-Men #1 became … Continue reading The Iron Age of Comics
We’re a bit late to the party, but better late than never! Here’s our 2022 year-end GamesCast, where The Kappa and I discuss the most important gaming news stories of the new year and also talk about our favourite, least … Continue reading AVoCADo GamesCast #88: The Ultracup: The 2022 Year-End GamesCast
