Nick, Aaron, and Spencer celebrate 15 years of this nonsense by reflecting on the games industry itself. We ask each other: What are 3 notable trends from the last 15 years, and what's 1 prediction for the next 15? See you for the 20th anniversary!

Wringing the water of life from a lumpy trash bag in the hopes of sparking a brief moment of self-awareness: what’s more cyberpunk than that? Nick reads a short critique of Cyberpunk 2077, a now-infamous big-budget spectacle of a game that's gone from a disastrous launch to a slow and cautious rehabilitation whose ultimate legacy still seems yet to be determined. If you'd like to read this instead of having Nick do the heavy lifting, you can find it at siliconsasquatch.com.

Did Gamergate contribute to the riot in Washington D.C.? Were its proponents' online harassment campaigns a precursor to sedition? Doug and Aaron ask each other these questions and more in this episode following the January 6th, 2021 attack on the United States Capitol.

This is it: the final part of our Game of the Year 2018 deliberations. Here are the arguments we came up with for the top 10 games of the year.

Here's part 2 of our Game of the Year 2018 deliberations. In this episode, we decide who'll win all ten of our Category Awards.

To kick off our tenth Game of the Year feature, we're exhuming our prior work to look at it again as older and (ideally) wiser people. In this episode, we go year-by-year, list-by-list, and ask ourselves whether we made the right choices at the time, or if other games wound up reflecting our mission better.