Trans rights are human rights.
Additional links:
People Make Games on the BDS movement: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ybj10537yi4
No Games for Genocide: https://nogamesforgenocide.com/
Today's all about 2025's Game Awards! Who won, what got announced, and why was Divinity so disgusting? As I mention in the episode: I think going into this year's show treating it like "Winter Game Fest" was a much better move for my own enjoyment — and it created a show I felt generally decent about all things considered. There's still a lot to be critical of, but I found myself digging the show for the first time in years!
Additional Reading:
VGC on the Winners: https://www.videogameschronicle.com/news/the-game-awards-2025-complete-list-of-winners-as-clair-obscur-wins-game-of-the-year-and-sets-a-new-record-for-awards-won/
Gio's Interview with Bruce Straley: https://www.polygon.com/coven-of-the-chicken-foot-game-awards-announcement/
Hello and welcome back to the show! It's been a light few weeks news-wise so I wanted to dig into some thoughts about Sektori and my first 90 minutes of the long-anticipated Metroid Prime 4: Beyond through the lens of game analysis and crit.
Before the end of the episode, we'll all be PC gamers.
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Hello! Thank you so much for being here, I am grateful for you. This week's a shorter one because my body won't let me talk for more than 15 minutes, but I wanted to shout out two GOTy-contender games I've been absolutely loving this week:
The first is Sektori, — a twin-stick arcade shooter with the aesthetic of Geometry Wars by an ex-Housemarque alum.
The second is Detective Instinct: Farewell, My Beloved — a Famicom Detective Club-inspired mystery with gorgeous art, music, and stellar writing.
Both have been healing me.
Welcome back to Wavelengths! This week's main topic is about the nominees for 2025's TGAs, how weird they are, and how weird my feelings about the award show have become over the years. I also talk a bit about my own GOTY prep, some games I've been playing recently, and my thoughts a week out from the reveal of the Steam Machine.
Additional reading: https://www.theguardian.com/games/2025/nov/11/future-class-gamings-oscars-game-awards
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Valve announced three products this week: A new controller, a new VR headset, and a new gaming console. This week's episode of Wavelengths is all about the interplay between these three devices and the thing that not only literally links them all together, but makes Valve's decade-long push towards making the PC gaming experience more approachable even work in the first place.
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Hello and welcome back to Wavelengths! This week my guest is Stephen Hilger — my co-host on Into the Aether, a great artist and writer, and creator of the YouTube channel Memory Card Manuscript. I brought Stephen on to discuss a question sent in by a listener about the current hyper-polarization of video game discourse, from how to navigate algorithm-led spaces to not letting the media consume define your authentic being.
It's a far-reaching conversation, and I hope it's as interesting, thought provoking, and engaging for you as it was for me.
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And YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@memorycardmanuscript
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Welcome back to the show, folks. I recorded this one early as I'll be traveling to see family for most of the week, so apologies for not including any Animal Crossing news here! The short version: I'm excited about it!
What I did talk about was suddenly being inundated with three handhelds at once: The Miyoo Mini Flip, the MCON, and the AYN Thor. All three are hotly anticipated devices I had planned on reviewing separately, but now all three are in an attention-feud with one another. I talk a little bit about what all three devices represent and how I'm thinking about them going into my review process.
Welcome back to the show! Unfortunately Xbox can't stop dominating the news cycle, so I dug a bit into their next, priecier console and apparently-strategic lack of exclusive games. Afterwards I felt like I needed to dig back into my feeling about Pokemon Legends Z-A having played a lot more since giving some first impressions last week.
Xbox's 30 Percent Mandate: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-10-23/microsoft-pushes-xbox-studios-to-hit-higher-profit-margins
Post Games: https://pod.link/1815131711
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1:05 - Zero Days Since Last Talked About Xbox
19:55 - Nintendo Switch 2 Games
29:05 - Even More About Pokemon Legends Z-A
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Welcome back to the show! This week I can't NOT talk about Xbox again — sorry!! But also I gush about Ball x Pit and dig into my (very) early impressions of Pokemon Legends Z-A before talking through the huge Pokemon roadmap leak that hit the internet earlier this week.
Pokemon Leaks: https://twistedvoxel.com/pokemon-leak-reveals-upcoming-games-through-2030-canceled-titles-beta-builds/
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0:00 - Welcome back to Wavelengths
4:15 - Ball x Pit Good
12:21 - ROG Xbox Ally Reviews are out
26:06 - Pokemon All the Way Down
48:45 - Listener Questions!
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Nintendo is making movies, theme parks, and aligning their games with other multimedia experiences in a way that screams Corporate Synergy Opportunities™ — the kind that board members go absolutely gaga over.
On today's episode of Wavelengths, I tackle that along with some updates about Xbox and my experience playing the Resident Evil Requiem demo at New York Comic Con!
Welcome back to the show! With some time away, I've been doing a lot of thinking about where Sony and Microsoft are at these days... as usual. I think in particular, Xbox as a brand feels like it's on a slow descent into a confused existence and I wanted to unpack that as best as I could.
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0:45 - Hades II is good
13:38 - Where’s PlayStation At Right Now
26:20 - Is Xbox over at this point?
39:47 - Listener questions!
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Hello and welcome back to Wavelengths! Switching it up yet again this week as I solo-host an extremely low key episode of the show from the lounge chair in the corner of my home office. This week I'm talking about my experience having wrapped up Silksong, catching up with Borderlands 4's performance issues, having a slight change of heart about Game Keycards on the Switch 2, and answering your questions!Join the Patreon: https://patreon.com/wavelengths---Feel free to follow me elsewhere!Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/bb.wavelengths.onlineMastodon: https://mastodon.social/@brendonbigleyBlog: https://wavelengths.online---
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0:00 - Welcome back to Wavelengths!
10:15 - Even More Thoughts About Silksong
24:46 - Borderlands 4 Performance Woes
34:46 - Stray Nintendo Direct Thoughts
40:29 - Final Fantasy VII Game Keycard
45:20 - Yakuza Kiwami 3 Leaks
48:29 - Audience Questions
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This week I'm talking to Chase Allhart, host of two great video game podcasts in the form of Video Game Podtimism and dotzip! Obviously Silksong is in the air, and the amount of discourse surrounding this one game is off the charts, so we dig into that in a big way before talking about making video game podcasts and, ultimately, Kingdom Hearts IV.
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007 First Light State of Play: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pwRpK8eoLLE
Nomura on Kingdom Hearts IV: https://www.ign.com/articles/tetsuya-nomura-offers-promising-update-on-final-fantasy-7-remake-part-3-and-kingdom-hearts-4
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0:00 - Welcome to Wavelengths!
1:57 - The Dreaded Silksong Discourse
56:17 - 007 First Light
1:07:48 - MGS 3 Delta
1:27:09 - Video Game Podtimism
1:31:54 - Kingdom Hearts IV
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This week I'm talking to Matt Horton, host of Can't Let it Go, In Sequence, and Flow State about the rumors of four upcoming video game consoles... three of which are the PlayStation 6 somehow. This was a great conversation, and I hope you enjoy it as much as I did!
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Flow State: https://www.youtube.com/@flowstatecrit
PlayStation 6 Rumors: https://www.videogameschronicle.com/news/sony-is-reportedly-planning-a-nintendo-switch-style-playstation-6-portable/
Valve Fremont Rumors: https://www.tomshardware.com/video-games/pc-gaming/valve-preps-mysterious-fremont-steamos-device-powered-by-amd-ryzen-processor-potential-steam-box-may-sport-a-hawk-point-cpu-with-zen-4-and-rdna-3-graphics
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Chapters:
0:00 - Welcome to Wavelengths
0:54 - The PlayStation 6
31:45 - Valve Fremont
48:52 - iPhone Season
1:01:29 - Flow State and Creating Online
This week I'm talking to Percia Verlin, fashion creator and podcaster... she's also my wife. Percia asked me for some vertical iPhone game recommendations, so I brought her on the show to walk through them and have a chat about her gaming history.
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Percia on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@percish
Nintendo Refusing Switch 2 Dev Kits: https://wavelengths.online/posts/nintendo-still-refusing-to-ship-switch-2-dev-kits
The List of Vertical Mobile Games: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1prrIzIL14vifqpLAjtaVGGn2N0B2kBMA6eH1lHD5Y2s/edit?usp=sharing
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Chapters:
0:00 - Borat Voice My Wife
17:26 - What's Percia Playing?
40:10 - Switch 2 Dev Kits
55:10 - Vertical Mobile Games
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This week I'm switching things up a little bit, starting with some news about Hollow Knight Silksong and Gamescom before launching into a chat with AJ Fillari!
We chat about podcasting, their show DotZip, our podcast network, and building up the critical muscle. It's a good one!
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AJ on Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/ajfillari.bsky.social
dotzip: https://dotzip.online/
Kirby Air Riders: https://www.polygon.com/nintendo-direct-august-2025-kirby-air-riders-switch-2/
Silksong Event: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XGeJwsUP9c
Jason Schrier on Silksong: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2025-08-21/why-silksong-team-cherry-s-sequel-to-hollow-knight-took-so-long-to-make
Last of Us Online Directors' New Game: https://www.videogameschronicle.com/news/director-of-scrapped-the-last-of-us-online-says-his-new-us-japan-studio-is-making-a-cinematic-multiplayer-title/
AYN Thor: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZEzXQkmSWuY
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0:00 - Welcome back to Wavelengths!
1:00 - Hollow Knight Silksong and Gamescom
23:20 - The Worst Garbage Online
40:21 - AJ's Podcasting Journey
1:20:14 - On Media Crit
1:48:02 - More News!
1:58:32 - Kirby Air Riders
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This week I had a chat with Tori Dominguez Peek — cohost of the wonderful video game podcast Press Start — about being a theater kid, what makes a good video game adaptation, and how we're feeling abotu the Switch 2 a few months in.
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Zach Cregger on his Resident Evil reboot: https://variety.com/2025/film/news/weapons-director-zach-cregger-resident-evil-movie-1236485983/
Press Start: https://pod.link/1589865240
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Chapters:
0:00 - Welcome back to Wavelengths!
3:00 - Weapons and Video Game Adaptations
22:40 - 1000xResist and Masquerade
45:30 - Press Start
51:18 - Switch 2 and Pokémon
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This week on Wavelengths I'm talking to Emily Price, a great writer over at Unwinnable and also a PhD candidate in medieval literature! We chat about a whole bevy of things including the word "mid," Dragon Age, and where games are at as a medium in culture.
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Emily on games being mainstream: https://unwinnable.com/2025/07/30/videogames-are-mainstream-what-will-make-them-feel-like-it/
Emily on “mid”: https://unwinnable.com/2025/01/31/mid/
Let’s Smash Bro: https://johnpaulbrammer.substack.com/p/lets-smash-bro
Blue Prince at SGDQ: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cirrfl1yQ2c
Nintendo Indie World (8/7/25): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mTv0HmKoUqw
Nintendo raised prices on everything except the Switch 2: https://thisweekinvideogames.com/news/nintendo-switch-console-accessory-price-increases-august-2025/
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Chapters:
0:00 - Welcome back to Wavelengths!
36:10 - Video games and the mainstream
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Hello and welcome to Wavelengths! It’s a new video game podcast where I’ll spend every week talking to a guest from in or around the games industry to chat about the news we find the most interesting.
This week’s episode features a conversation with Chris Plante about his new show Post Games and how he got into games media in the first place before diving into a bigger question about what the video game industry looks like in a world without console exclusives.
It’s a fun chat, and I hope you dig it!
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Chapters:
0:00 - Welcome to Wavelengths!
2:53 - The Life and Times of Chris Plante
49:45 - What Happens When Exclusives Disappear?
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