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#122 Predicting which dead '90s franchises get rebooted in Fortnite next
Fortnite's newest season is here, and it has...Power Rangers and Halo People. Have we reached a point of diminishing returns with Fortnite collabs? Has the underlying ...
#121 What happens if you microwave video game characters?
Nicco's audio had consistent crackling throughout this episode. We think we made it listenable. We apologize if we didn't. On the bright side, you can pretend that we ...
#120 Reacting to YOUR Souls Hot Takes
We put out a call for YOUR hot takes on Souls and Soulslikes, and you delivered! We brought them to share with the class, as well as to give some of our own as well. S...
#119 CRUB'S SUPERMAN (2025) SPOILERCAST
That new Superman came out, so we wanted to get the world's biggest Superman fan's take on it. Thankfully, Nicco was available. So, he was joined by far smaller Superm...
#118 Locking in and washing GOATs
Today, three grown men try to explain "locking in". One, with words, one, with brevity, and one...by referring to the One Piece powerscaling subreddit. Hawk Eyed guy i...
#117 THE Donkey Kong Bananza Spoilercast (with Wayneisboss)
Chris and Kevin are joined by Wayneisboss for THE Donkey Kong Bananza spoilercast. We give some general thoughts up front, and then give a few tiers of spoiler warning...
#116 A serious talk about payment processors and Itch
On today's episode we wanted to talk about what's going on with Visa, Mastercard, Itch.io, and potentially more and more storefronts in all mediums in the near future....
#115 Revisiting IGN's 2010 Top 100 Video Game Villains List
There is a notorious IGN top 100 list from the year 2010, going over the top video game villains. Some of it is expected. The aliens from Space Invaders. Bowser. Ganon...
#114 Who should revive all of these dead franchises?
In light of the...everything...going on with Microsoft, we wanted to take a more positive spin from it since the negatives have been thoroughly covered by those suited...
#113 What happened to EA, Kojima hot takes, and Sean's horrifying question...
This week we decided to be more like a normal gaming podcast and talk about different topics. EA sure is releasing just mostly sports games and Sims packs lately, huh?...
#112 How should an in-game economy be balanced?
How do you make an in-game economy "just right"? How do you balance it to fit the needs of the most players possible? How do you tune a game to prepare for "a Nicco"? ...
#111 What grinds our gears about Mario Kart World
Kevin's been putting some time into Mario Kart World and while he's been enjoying himself, he just can't stop asking why this game has 90% of the design decisions it d...
#110 Trying to guess entry #100 on top 100 lists
Justin approached us with a devious game. We're all familiar with top 100 lists, but we never focus on the bottom end of them. So what if we tried to guess as close as...
Two Pokévirgins Watch The First Pokémon Movie
BONUS: Since we had two main Crubcast episodes last week we're skipping one this week to keep our backlog up. Still, we didn't want to not release anything for you tod...
#109 We watched EVERY Summer Game Fest conference
Hundreds of games were shown off this past weekend at Summer Game Fest. So we brought Geoff Keighley over to introduce our own event, Crubber Games Fest, where we talk...
#108 How Japanese games are regaining global influence
In the last few years, we've seen Japanese games regain popularity after a fall starting in the 2000's. We talk through what lead to that fall and recent resurgence in...
#107 On console warriors and fans not knowing what they want
We begin this episode by asking ourselves if we were ever console warriors. We totally never were. That question sent us down a path of examining video game fandom in ...
#106 MRIXRT, Trav, and The Golden Bolt discuss their YouTube careers
Trav, Moriarty, and Kevin sit down and interview each other about their content creation journeys, insights, struggles, and the advice they'd give to anyone looking to...
#105 When is it time to let a game go?
How do you decide when to push through a rough spot in a game versus giving it up entirely? Have you fought The Big Guy in Elden Ring? Have your friends followed you i...
Reacting to YOUR Switch 2 Hot Takes!
We polled you in our Discord and our BlueSky for YOUR hottest Switch 2 takes, then brought them home to discuss. Let us know how wrong or right we are. Just, if we're ...
#104 We're in the era of distracted gaming
This is an episode about games we play while focusing on something else, or having something on in the background while we game. Scientifically this is probably our mo...
#103 We need to talk about game genre names
This was recorded before "frog-type game" or else that could have sustained an hour on its ownMORE PLACES TO FIND USCrubscribe ► https://bit.ly/CrubcastGet the show ea...
#102 Why more gamers are flocking to indies lately
Not to hate on AAA, AA, A, or even AAAA games, but sometimes indie games just do it better. In a time where everything wants our time, experiences that convey an actua...
#101 Bad games we can't help but like
Sometimes you just like a game that no one else likes, but you also can't really explain why. Today we're baring all, and bullying Sean for existing. MORE PLACES TO FI...
#100 OUR 100th EPISODE
We made this podcast to bully each otherMORE PLACES TO FIND USCrubscribe ► https://bit.ly/CrubcastGet the show early and get exclusive content at our Patreon ► https:/...
#99 How to improve at video games
Our resident New Gamer+ approached some of our resident expert gamers with a simple query...how does one improve at video games? What do good gamers think and examine ...
#98 Buy a Switch 2 or buy groceries?
The Switch 2, a powerful 120 FPS screen system with HDR, monkeys, and cows driving go karts. 2025 is truly a new era of gaming. But it doesn't have F-Zero GX ReGeared ...
#97 Do console exclusives matter anymore?
As the PS5 and Xbox Series march on, and with the Switch 2 imminent, we wanted to take a moment to stop and ask...do console exclusives actually matter anymore? Becaus...
#96 Burying the Wii U once and for all
With the release of Xenoblade Chronicles X Definitive Edition on Switch this week, every* Wii U game that counts has been ported to another platform. So, we convened t...
#95 Hot take: Stop worrying about your backlog
So many people feel beholden to their backlogs and continually submit themselves to cycles of self-shaming just for having media they haven't gotten around to yet. We'...