This weekend was easily the best I've had yet in 2020. Not because it was an extended week or I did anything amazing; no, this weekend was the best because I finally took the time to play Batman: Arkham Asylum through to the end and my...
Every week, dozens of mobile games are released with little to no fanfare, pushed into a marketplace very few are capable of surviving. I'd like to change that, which is why I'm introducing Mobile Monday. Each week, this feature will focus ...
Less than a year ago today, the Sonic the Hedgehog movie was not in a good place. Leaks about the project pointed to a Sonic most fans wouldn't recognize and an extremely unfortunate teaser poster only made things worth. When the first...
So, like, what the hell am I supposed to do with all of these?
There is a moment in Code Shifter where one of the characters is asked to play through the game-within-a-game to test it for bugs and difficulty. She eagerly agrees at first, but when the scene jumps back to her a bit later, she's had enoug...
As a white person, I've watched more than 10,000 hours of HGTV. Whether I'm screaming at some spoiled college student on House Hunters International or rolling my eyes every time a designer recommends subway tile, the channel is my go-...
Unfortunately, Podtoid tapes early in the morning on Sunday (for me). So I can't make this post all about how happy I am Parasite made history last night because we just don't talk about it on the show. Instead, I'm focusing on what we...
It was almost a year ago today that Marvelous announced it would be porting the wonderful Rune Factory 4 to Nintendo Switch as Rune Factory 4 Special. This remastered port will feature new artwork and cutscenes, a new opening video, a ...
The Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences puts on its annual D.I.C.E. Awards show every year as part of the summit it hosts in Las Vegas. The show has recognized some of the very best games of all time, with past winners including ...
Sega's soft reboot of its popular Sakura Wars franchise has been teasing fans in the west for almost a year with trailers and new snippets of information about the role-playing action game. We've been introduced to the characters, the ...
I didn't think the Spirit Boards in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate would be something that would interest me much when they were first revealed, but here we are more than a year later and I can't get enough of them. They're a small and sim...
Why are people so desperate for a Nintendo Direct?
Dragon Ball FighterZ remains one of the most popular fighting games on the market and it's one developer Arc System Works and publisher Bandai Namco can't help but continue to support. Last month, we got word Ultra Instinct Goku would ...
On Sunday the world came together to watch the biggest game of the year and the Podtoid crew couldn't give any less of a shit about who beat who or who choked in the 4th. Instead, on this week's episode, CJ, Chris, Dan, Occams, and Charlott...
Not three days after I published my review-in-progress for Silver Falls: 3 Down Stars, the update players had been waiting for dropped. The game-breaking bugs plaguing those who picked it up were no more and everyone would be able to see th...
Boy, what a year this week has been. The Podtoid team is ready to sit back, relax, and wait for the coronavirus to kill us all. But before that happens, we want to answer your questions on the show. So if you have a question you want to ask...
Broken video games are a sad part of this industry. Whether the developer has hundreds of people on staff or so few you can count them all on one hand, too often we see games in no shape to be played by the public hitting store shelves anyw...
Nintendo's latest financial report painted a rosy picture for the company as it boasted about its record selling games and its flagship hardware. Things are going good, so good in fact, that in its policy briefing today, Nintendo announced ...
Love new phone day
Diets suck, but I'm getting really good at cooking chicken.
Guess I'm redownloading all of Kentucky Route Zero tonight.
The road to release for Silver Falls: 3 Down Stars has been anything but smooth. Since I profiled the developer more than a year ago, it's gone to hell and back again trying to get this game onto the 3DS eShop. According to T...
Considering buying Simpsons Hit & Run for Xbox because a) I might be able to play it on the series X, and b) due to everything going on surrounding Apu, I'd hate to lose him as a character in a possible remake.
One of the best franchises to emerge from the Wii/DS era was Trauma Center, Atlus's surgery sim franchise that featured strong writing, incredible characters, crushing difficulty, and clever use of motion and touch controls. A total of five...
