Avocado Gamescast

Merve and The Kappa discuss Diablo IV, Clickolding, Krafton's acquisition of Tango Gameworks, Bungie layoffs, the closure of Game Informer, and why you might be better off not playing football in a football video game. [Recorded August 13, 2024]

The gang shares their favourite "7/10" games, chats about unionization, and gets trapped once again talking about Kingdom Hearts. [Recorded July 21, 2024]

The gang discusses Summer Game Fest 2024, learns all about the dairy industry, and pops a mountain of throat lozenges. [Recorded June 16, 2024]

In this episode: Amazon Prime's Fallout; the Prytania Media disaster; worrying industry statistics; Children of the Sun; Princess Peach: Showtime!; Dragon's Dogma 2; and, eight years late to the party, ReCore. [Recorded April 21, 2024]

100 FREAKIN' EPISODES! The gang marks the century milestone by reflecting on the podcast so far and opening the mailbag to answer listener questions [Recorded March 17, 2024]

The gang predicts what's going to happen in 2024. Is this the year of the Ribinaissance? The GamesCasters certainly seem to think so. Elsewhere, the gang talks about AGDQ 2024, shares their most anticipated titles of the year, and questions the use of spreadsheets, much to Merve's chagrin. [Recorded January 20, 2023]

The gang reviews the 2023 Game Awards and discusses industry layoffs. They then chat about their favourite, least favourite, and most surprising games of the year. This episode additionally features members of the community talking about their top 3 games of the year. [Recorded December 17, 2023]

Hop in a time machine to hear what the gang thought about The Game Awards 2023 before they aired. They also discuss some of what they've been playing lately and exchange some recommendations. [Recorded November 26, 2023]

In the first half of this episode, the crew plumbs the depths of Moria, examines recent layoffs at Bungie in the broader context of the entertainment industry, and expresses disdain for harem manga protagonists. In the second half, they have a spoiler-ific roundtable about Starfield. [Recorded November 5, 2023]

Merve and The Kappa talk about the road ahead for Nintendo and Sony, Unity's fee restructuring debacle, and Bethesda's latest RPG, Starfield. [Recorded September 17, 2023]

The gang chats about Game Boy nostalgia, Baldur's Gate 3 discourse, virtual trading card games, and a couple of recent indie gems. They also preview the remainder of 2023. [Recorded August 27, 2023]

The gang discusses the degradation of the Internet and its implications for the games industry. Also on this episode: Viewfinder; Pikmin 4; weird mobile game ads; and much, much more. [Recorded July 28, 2023]

Merve and The Kappa dissect Summer Game Fest 2023 in depth. [Recorded June 16, 2023]

The gang talks about broken PC ports, the UK CMA's ruling on the Microsoft/Activision merger, and what's going on in GTA V roleplaying. [Recorded May 14, 2023]

Baka! It's not like we want you to listen to this episode. But just in case you're really desperate and need to, you can hear us talking about the games that came out in the first couple of months of 2023. And if you want more, we also discussed where we want our favourite franchises to go next. But why would you want more, you weird creep? Only weirdos would want that much GamesCast. Are you saying you're a weirdo? [Recorded February 21, 2023]

Merve and The Kappa take a trip to the library to discuss Blacksad: Under the Skin, The Lord of the Rings Online, Arcane, and their predictions for 2023. [Recorded January 19, 2023]

Merve and The Kappa run down the most important gaming news stories of year, proving how little they know about both medicine and soccer in the process. They also discuss their favourite, least favourite, and most surprising games of the year. This episode additionally features members of the Avocado community talking about their top three (or two) games of the year. [Recorded December 18, 2022]

It's not a crossover episode, but we do talk about a lot of different topics! Give this episode a listen to hear our thoughts on Pokémon leaks, Blizzard's business dealings, Volition being absorbed into Gearbox, the Game Awards 2022 nominees, and of course, a very special Project Sonic Watch 2022. [Recorded November 17, 2022]

In this year's annual Halloween episode, Merve and podcast newcomer Colonel Mustard chat about their favourite mystery games and what makes them tick... tick... tick... [Recorded September 24, 2022]

The gang discusses PowerWash Simulator, Hades, Xenoblade Chronicles 3, and Silt. They then talk about guides, walkthroughs, and instruction manuals. [Recorded August 9, 2022]