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S8E32 Hot Button’s 2025 Game of the Year Deliberations Part 2
It is time. Come here us debate the winners and losers in our final group of GotY categories for 2025: Biggest Surprise, Most Disappointing, Worst Game, and then the top 10 Best Games in ranked…
S8E31 Episode 124: My Bloody Valentine in 2-D - The History of Doki Doki Literature Club
It’s a Valentine’s Day special to break up our Game of the Year bonanza as we recount the development and controversial outcome of when an anime indie horror dating sim took the internet by storm…
S8E30 Hot Button’s 2025 Game of the Year Deliberations Part 1
2026 is here! Before we fully embrace that though, the crew must first definitively and collectively decide on which video games topped our lists for 2025 across eight exciting categories! The batch…
S8E29 Episode 123: Hot Button Year-Seven Edition
Happy holidays, listeners! Our gift to you is that we’re not dead and we have also dedicated ourselves to updating the massive amount of topics that we’ve covered since we started all the way back in…
S5E28 Episode 122: “Hentai_Overflow” - The Time Bigoted Hackers Took Down LittleBigPlanet and Titanfall
Today we take a trip back to 2021 to have a concerning conversation as well as share some insights on the insecurities and impermanence of online video game ecosystems. This along with witnessing, in…
S6E27 Episode 121: Not Like This - The Sad Story of Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 5
Let us relive some trauma on this episode as we dig into the dark chapter of one of the absolute best franchises to ever grace gaming. Turns out that underfunding an inexperienced studio to tackle a…
S7E26 Episode 120: The Seven Deadly Sins of Dante’s Inferno
Who’s ready to party like it’s Easter Sunday, because this week we’re going to get blasphemous and explore what is probably the most elaborate and insane PR campaign for a video game ever. Seven full…
S7E25 Episode 119: The Joy of Sex - A Hot Button Guide to Love Making
It’s an 18+ adults only Valentine’s Day special today as we break out the worst console ever made, the Philips CD-i, and recount the true story of when a “sex manual” from the early 70s was bizarrely…
Hot Button’s 2024 Game of the Year Deliberations Part 2
The discussions conclude as we find our answers to the four final categories: Best Surprise, Biggest Disappointment, Worst Game, and of course a collaborative list of the ten Best Games…
S7E23 Hot Button’s 2024 Game of the Year Deliberations Part 1
This week begins our mission of naming the top of what gaming in 2024 had to offer. In our first half of the debates, we honor our picks for: Best Aesthetic, Best Story, Best Character, and (perhaps…
S6E22 Episode 118: Hot Button Year-Six Edition
Woo lad! It’s been a whopping six years and nearly 120 episodes! You know what that means. Today we reinvestigate the back catalog to see what’s new with our topics. It’s honestly surprising just how…
S6E21 Episode 117: “Intruder Alert! Intruder Alert!” - The Curse of Berzerk!
We close out the spookiest of all holidays with the unusual tale of how a fun 80s arcade shooter came to be! That was before it killed someone, played a role in a homicide case, and found itself in…
S6E20 Episode 116: This is a Brutal Blood Sport! - The History of Manhunt
Halloween season has officially started so this week we get our hands dirty with Rockstar’s found footage murder simulator… classic? From its controversial portrayal of a deranged man forced into the…
S6E19 Episode 115: Oh, Bugger - Lara Croft: Tomb Raider
It’s our most boob-filled discussion to date as we dissect the development and release of one of the biggest box office hits to ever be based on a classic video game! A blunder filled with…
S6E18 Hot Button Movie Commentary: Lara Croft: Tomb Raider
Come join the crew in watching the 2001 action-adventure blockbuster hit starring Angelina Jolie! And trust us when I say that you won’t want to take on this task alone… because this film sucks! Weak…
S6E17 Episode 114: Microtransactions #6
We got a fresh batch of weird little stories for the pod this week as we discuss the tangled web of digital music licensing, interactive cures to fight real world disease, and what happens when a…
S6E16 Episode 113: The History of Valve Part 2 (Episode Two)
And we’re back with our deep dive through the Valve timeline! This week we take a step into the realm of virtual reality as well as explore the mega company’s most recent success following the…
S6E3 Episode 112: The History of Valve Part 2 (Episode One)
Today we dig into Valve Software’s big foray into not only developing their in house operating system, but also their very own home hardware. Everything from the Steam Link, to the Steam Controller,…
S6E15 Episode 111: The Failure of the Coleco Chameleon
What do you get when you combine a brand new retro-style system, a botched crowdfunding campaign, and a bunch of tricksters? Why you get the Coleco Chameleon of course! The cartridge based home…
S6E14 Episode 110: The Dumb History of Flappy Bird
Ten years ago, the popularity and drama of the silly little mobile app Flappy Bird was inescapable. On this episode we investigate its suspicious origins, controversies, bizarre release and…
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Hot Button has published 152 episodes since November 2018, covering topics in Comedy, Leisure.
Hot Button is currently active with new episodes every 2 weeks. Average episode length is 1h 30m.
