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Critical but casual approaches to current, past, and future video games six times a week. In addition, guests will periodically share their own aesthetic and personal experiences with games in conversation! Subscribe to our Patreon at www.patreon.com/hegelbon if you'd like to hear special patron-only bonus episodes!

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October 9, 20261 hr 13 min

No Cartridge 330 - GGNReRead The Beach x Far Cry 3

Liv and I return to talk about a game and a book that -- even based on our track record of extremely connected texts -- are maybe the most linked we've ever managed to dig up. Liv did some magic on this one as we look at Alex Garland's The Beach and Far Cry 3! Beaches, self-centered protagonists, imperialism, terrible consequences -- we get into it. Be sure to head to www.youtube.com/@aveyclub next Wednesday at 830 PM EST for our live chat on these texts!! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

October 3, 20261 hr 8 min

Episode 329 - K:D Ratio Presents Homicide: Life on the Street Presents: A Sniper Story

Graham returns in our oft imitated, never duplicated Homicide watch party K:D Ratio! What will our wonderful cast of detectives get up to this week? Well they will deal with the trauma and confusion of multiple snipers, is what. It's a lot funnier when you listen, I promise. Apologies for the late drop this week! Thanks for your support!! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

September 25, 202657 min

Episode 328 - Makato Wakaido with Special Guest Dia Lacina!

We welcome the ever-curious Dia Lacina back on the show to discuss the wonderful bite-size detective game Makato Wakaido: Case Files and the twist is: Dia never played the game! A curious catalogue of cacaphony and camaraderie as we talk deduction, the concept of play, and the nature of a linear story versus an AI twist-slop. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

September 18, 20261 hr 8 min

Episode 327 - No Cartridge At the Drive-In Presents Silent Hill!

Join us, won't you, as Liv and I transport ourselves back to 2006 to a simpler, more psychosexually violent time as we cover the very beautiful, very weird, and very poor-decision-heavy Silent Hill! Why go to a sleep doctor when you can go to Temu Centralia! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

September 10, 20261 hr 6 min

Episode 326 -- A Return to The Dark After Which We Return to After Dark

Liv and I return on our now regularly scheduled posting day at 10 PM on Wednesday! We're catching up after the short little break of a month or so and seeing what life had in store for both of us in games, movies, books, and more, so it's a cozy catchup for all involved too. If you want to follow along, next week we'll be watching the original Silent Hill movie which appears to be free on Pluto TV, so please join us! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

August 5, 20261 hr 56 min

Episode 326: It Eats Planets -- and That's OK! With Samantha Mackenzie Greer

We welcome the ebuillient and erudite Samantha Mackenzie Greer, videogame writing veteran and comic artist extraordinaire at the wonderful iteatsplanets.com . We talk gaming, comics, sci-fi, trailer work, the future, and more and more. Just a blast from start to finish -- a wild ride I genuinely had a blast with. Enjoy! And go read the comic and support on patreon! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

July 16, 20261 hr 15 min

Episode 325: GGNRR Lathe to the Party (Lathe of Heaven and Psychonauts)

Liv and I return to discuss Ursula LeGuin's masterful Lathe of Heaven and the remarkable DoubleFine product Psychonauts. Two texts that appear to have not too much in common really come through as shining pieces that play off each other in this one, a real wonderful and transformative discussion. Enjoy! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

July 9, 202623 min

Episode 324 - On the Layoff Bull

Solo episode today! I do an emergency pod of sorts on the state of the industry! The logic of capitalism and AI is complicated and I give some scholarly perspective on it, as such. Support your local games makers! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

June 29, 20261 hr 4 min

Episode 323 - Gaming in...THE FUTURE

Liv and I meet up to discuss upcoming games in the shadow of various Next Fests and talk about what we're excited about, what leaves us cold, and what we need some more info on before we make a firm stand. It's the exciting stuff! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

June 12, 20261 hr 11 min

Episode 322 - The Killing Stone Indie Game Review

Liv and I team up to talk about the newest target in our quest to play indie games, The Killing Stone! A baroque, complex, and, yes, messy deck builder-cum-Elizabethan revenge tragedy. Quintessentially an early access game, but something that is a lovely peek into something that could grow into something new and special -- check it out here! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices