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Season 6, #1: New Year, Same Industry Insanity
As we kick off a new season, we find ourselves in a Groundhog Day-like loop of the biggest industry players making the same baffling decisions that leave us scratching our heads and wondering “why?”…
Season 5, #4: Our Top Games of 2025
This year ended up being a strong one for games, with a steady stream of new entries in much-loved franchises, surprise drops, indie and AA gems, and a summer console launch. We got together to…
S5E3 Season 5, #3: The One Where We Talked About Everything
It seems like every time we turn around, something new — and both good and bad — is going on in the industry. So this episode is a bit of a hodgepodge, where we touched on everything from the EA…
Season 5, #2: The Great Switch Retrospective
Description: With the launch of Nintendo Switch 2 right around the corner, we sat down to share our thoughts on the last eight years of Nintendo Switch. In this episode, we discuss what our initial…
Season 5, #1: GDC 2025: The Uncertainties of the Future, the Importance of Preserving the Past
Robert and Angela just spent the last week at this year’s GDC. Between the fun and experimental games and the general excitement of the conference, there was an underlying sense of reservation and…
S4E4 Season 4, #4: The Best of 2024
Another year has come and gone, and the four of us invested some serious time into gaming this year. But what was the best of everything we played? In this episode, we come together to discuss our…
S4E3 Season 4, #3: Just the Absolute State of the Gaming Industry
2024 has not been a good year for gaming. With thousands of people laid off and counting, multiple studio closures, and one flop AAA release after another, the industry is facing a crisis that it…
Season 4, #2: Branching Paths
What are your "sliding doors moment" games, the ones with an outsized effect on your taste and even on your life? That's the question we confront in this episode, taking turns examining the paths…
S4E1 Season 4, #1: Future State
It's a new year, and that means a new slew of games coming down the pipeline. In this episode, we discuss which upcoming titles we're each looking forward to, and then dive into some of the latest…
Season 3, #6: The Best of 2023
2023 was certainly one for the books in gaming. A string of AAA juggernauts, sleeper hits, and unexpected surprises hit our consoles and PCs this year, and were (and still are) struggling to keep…
S3E5 Season 3, #5: Phoenix Down
After a brief hiatus, we're back and, boy, did we have a lot to catch up on. From Tears of the Kingdom to Super Mario RPG, we cover 12 games we've been playing since our last episode and our thoughts…
S3E4 Season 3, #4: It's a Bug, Not a Feature
Glitches, day 1 patches, poor performance, and underwhelming quality. In this episode, we discuss (and do a little venting about) the unfortunate new normal of the games industry: releasing imperfect…
S3E3 Season 3, #3: Reflections and Predictions: Breath of the Wild and Tears of the Kingdom
The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild completely revamped the series, making a sharp detour away from the well-worn formula that most of the games have followed since A Link to the Past. Its…
S3E1 Season 3, #2: To Stream or Not to Stream: Game Subscription Services
There are a lot of gaming streaming and subscription services out there today, and they're not all made equal. This week, we sat down to discuss which services we use, the pros and cons of each, how…
S3E1 Season 3, #1: Go Ahead and Call It a Comeback
So we've been gone. For a while. But we've been playing games (lots of them) and we're ready to get back into the podcast — and brought a new friend! Robert and Angela's cousin, Dominic, is our new…
S2E2 Season 2, #2: Easy Money: Licensed Games
Angela, Robert and Zack drop all pretense of being a general purpose video game podcast and talk at length about licensed games of the 1980s, 1990s, and 2000s (but especially the…
S2E1 Season 2, #1: Plastic Graveyard: The Rise & Fall of the Rhythm Game
In our second season debut, Robert, Zack, and Angela take on rhythm games, a genre that burned bright in the late 90s and throughout the 2000s, and is now a faded ember. From narratively focused…
#21: Season Finale: 2001 & 2011 Time Capsule
We’re closing out our first season of 7 Minutes with a look at the games we loved from 10 and 20 years ago. 2001 saw the discontinuation of the Dreamcast, the dominance of the young PS2, and the…
S1E20 #20: Straight From the Pros: Nintendo Power and Game Magazines
Games journalism has by its nature always been bound up with games marketing, but in the NES/Game Boy/SNES era of Nintendo’s uncontested industry dominance, the biggest Nintendo-focused magazine was…
S1E19 #19: Little White Box: The Wii Turns 15
While home consoles have always tried to differentiate themselves from the competition with Blast Processing, Emotion Engines, and other chimeras of engineering and marketing, no home console did so…
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