Writer and developer Mathew Kumar guest hosts the panel, covering the Balatro of coin flips, Bitmap Books bad decisions, and especially crude actions performed by Rabbids. Hosted by Mathew Kumar, with Frank Cifaldi, Ash Parrish, and Brandon Sheffield. Edited by Esper Quinn, original music by Kurt Feldman.

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SHOW NOTES:

• Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty
• Gremlins (1984)
• “Avatar! Northern Britannia has entered into a new age of enlightenment!”

1: Why are coin flips so hot right now? (02:47)

• Unfair Flips
• Universal Paperclips
• Q-UP Is An Esport About How Ridiculous Esports Are
• Balatro
• Former District Attorney Harvey Dent
• Anton Chigurh
• No Country for Old Men
• Cookie Clicker
• Northernlion
• Minecraft
• Candy Crush Saga

2: What was Nintendo thinking with the weird baby animation? (08:29)

• Nintendo’s “Close to You” animated short is a mysterious surprise
• Pikmin series
• Nintendo Pictures
• Marvel’s Wolverine - First Trailer
• Super Mario Bros. (1993)
• Shigeru Miyamoto

3: How does Bitmap Books dig themselves out of the hole they just dug for themselves? (14:47)

• Bitmap Books First Post
• Bitmap Books Second Post
• Bitmap books not looking so hot here
• “Games Somerton”
• James Somerton

4: Who will make the reconstruction-era Assassin’s Creed game now? (21:40)

• Assassin’s Creed game canceled to avoid racist backlash
• MachineGames
• Grace Walker
• One Battle After Another (2025)
• Assassins Creed: Shadows
• UPN
• Living Single
• Girlfriends
• Black-ish
• Abbott Elementary
• Ghost of Yotei artist fired after Kirk killing joke

5: Esper Quinn asks, if you could take the assets from any existing game and make a different game, what would you take from, and what would you make? (29:47)

• Assassin’s Creed series
• Rabbids series
• Inside
• The Muppets
• ToeJam & Earl in Panic on Funkotron
• Auto Modellista
• Shaun of the Dead (2004)
• Brave Prove
• Final Fantasy Tactics
• Final Fantasy XVI
• Final Fantasy VII
• Miles “Tails” Prower

6: What’s the video game you have the warmest feelings about? (36:47)

• Ultima series
• Akalabeth & Ultima I Retrospective | The First Age of Darkness
• Fallout: New Vegas
• Dragon Age series
• Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit
• NSYNC
• Gears of War
• 50 Cent: Blood on the Sand
• The Smiths
• Final Zone II
• Last Alert
• Resident Evil 4

7: The Zine Fairy has gifted you with resources and time to make a bizarrely specific zine. What’s it about? (43:06)

• Quake
• Duke Nukem 3D
• Turok: Dinosaur Hunter
• GoldenEye 007
• Alien: Resurrection
• Black Desert Online
• Dragon Age series
• MobyGames
• The Toilets of Final Fantasy VII Remake
• Borderlands 4
• The Video Game Soda Machine Project

LIGHTNING ROUND: Name Design - Matt Farley & Charlie Roxburgh Films (49:41)

Recommendations and Outro (58:04):

• Frank: Disney’s Donald Duck: Goin’ Quackers
• Brandon: Killer Klowns From Outer Space (1988)
• Ash: Get some sleep
• Mathew: Help Rebecca Ann Heineman Fight Aggressive Cancer, exp. zine, Mathew Kumar’s Patreon

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