Kevin

Kevin

Kevin is the owner of The Golden Bolt channel on YouTube. He's a boul.

Appears in 109 Episodes

Games with weird fanbases

Fanbases are great! Passionate, kind, lovely people showing their support and loyalty to the things they enjoy. However...a lot of the weird, toxic, strange, offputtin...

9 things we want from Spyro A Realm Beyond

Spyro A Realm Beyond didn't give us MUCH to go on...but it certainly gave us enough to think about to begin hoping for what it could be. From the new flight mechanics,...

Guessing more eBay prices on dumb gaming items - Rate is Great 4

We finally subject Kevin to a Rate Is Great, but who will take home the win this time? From Digemon action figures to a seal skin bible (concord), it's anyone's game.....

2026's remaining games we're hyped for

For some reason we decided to talk about 2026's remaining games that we're excited for...a month before Summer Games Fest season. Also, Cass can't get past the Deku Tr...

Kevin played Mina the Hollower early, here's what he thought

Thanks to Yacht Club Games for the early review code! Kevin got to play all of Mina the Hollower, and is able to give an early preview of his thoughts before his final...

Indies that struggle to capture the magic

This is sort of a Part 2 to our Saros/Akimbot episode, find that prior to this episode in your audio feed. It's a bit of a meander today but we promise it's interestin...

Mouse PI, Voidling Bound, Tomodachi Life, and more we've been playing

Have a little bonus "what we've been playing" from the other week, since you've been such good crub listeners lately. MORE PLACES TO FIND USCrubscribe ► https://bit.ly...

Saros is the best Ratchet & Clank successor

DISCLOSURE: Kevin (The Golden Bolt) received an advance copy of Saros from PlayStationThere are many spiritual successors to video games. Some are intentional homages,...

We Played The Expanse Game A Year Early, Here's What We Think

Three of our crubbers played 2027's Expanse game a year early.  Does this early sample show enough promise for the full game live up to its lofty Mass Effect aspiratio...

Random topic roulette (not clickbait)

We went into our topic fridge and pulled out a bunch of leftovers to make a roulette of random topics. We cover a LOT of random things! Games we pity, games we dropped...

The future of PlayStation & Xbox, why Highguard failed, and the state of Marathon

It's a grab bag of topics this week, with thoughts on the apparently incoming generation of new PlayStation and Xbox consoles. Reminiscing on Concord and what made Hig...

Should Zelda really stay open world? What about that Ocarina of Time remake?

Breath of the Wild brought a surge of new and returning players to Zelda, but it left core fans of the traditional 3D style yearning for another entry in that style. W...

How Pokopia won over The Golden Bolt

Alternatively titled, Kevin tries to get Chris to spend $70.MORE PLACES TO FIND USCrubscribe ► https://bit.ly/CrubcastGet the show early and get exclusive content at o...

Mario Tennis Fever, Pokopia, Demon Tides, and more we've been playing

Two more Switch 2s have hit Crubber's households, so we have hot-off-the-presses impressions of Mario Tennis Fever (yes, we know you forgot it existed), Pokopia (yes, ...

#147 "Celebrating" 20 years of Achievements

Love them or hate them, Achievements have been around for over 20 years. We gathered up crub's Achievement experts that have a love/hate relationship with them to "cel...

#145 The 'Best Worst Games (That Actually Suck)' Bracket, Part 3

We actually weren't sorry about our comments about LittleBIGPlanet last week.MORE PLACES TO FIND USCrubscribe ► https://bit.ly/CrubcastGet the show early and get exclu...

#144 The 'Best Worst Games (That Actually Suck)' Bracket, Part 2

We are incredibly sorry for our comments on LittleBIGPlanet.MORE PLACES TO FIND USCrubscribe ► https://bit.ly/CrubcastGet the show early and get exclusive content at o...

#143 The 'Best Worst Games (That Actually Suck)' Bracket, Part 1

We're tired of being nice to games. These so-called "best games of all time" need to be knocked down a peg, and we're going to figure out which one is actually the BES...

Bring back dumb karma systems

Remember when you had to decide between obviously Good things or cartoonishly Evil things in video games? We're tired of pretending that wasn't dumb, but we're even mo...

#141 Metal band or Soulslike?

Sean came to us with a simple torture routine. Metal band, or Soulslike? Can one musician and two people who have never heard music in their life get any of these righ...

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