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It's time for the annual Halloween episode of the AVoCADo GamesCast! On this episode, @stevetown.bsky.social, I, and some of our online friends discuss murder mystery games, take a look at this year's Star Wars games, and talk about our favourite witches, warlocks, wizards, and sorcerers in games.

It's time for some shameless self-promotion! The latest episode of the AVoCADo GamesCast is here, on which we talk about the gaming showcases of late summer, Chaos;Head Noah and edgy visual novels, how Fields of Mistria creates a virtual community, and what makes Big Walk so special.

The Nintendo NX

So much of games criticism is pointing at an emperor dressed in full regalia and screaming, "HE'S NAKED! HE'S NAKED! HE'S NAKED!"

I haven't even played a second of Galactic Racer, but I can't stop saying "SCRIB DOON!"

The Meat Tank has received an upgrade.

AI: The Somnium Files — When you discover the *real* reason why Psyncs are limited to six minutes. Just a perfect instance of taking a seemingly innocuous detail and using it as a key to unlock the whole plot.

apparently they're just naturally like this! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melothr...

Agricultural scientists are wild. They keep inventing new foods by making different plants fuck each other year after year.

I think a lot about how we currently live in the utopia imagined by the dreadful midcentury lawmakers who wrote codes like this—dominated by cars and highways, neighborhoods sapped of people and commerce, everything segregated to oblivion—and how we can and should put all their ideas in the trash

bowling is such a genius social event. the exact balance between like 10% activity to provide purpose to the 90% hanging out and drinking. bowling was the original friendslop

Pork Minotti is Jeff's Grub.

I'm not going to link to that Epilogue Gaming piece, but the most obvious reason to dismiss it is because it features six photos of Jacob Geller when one would have sufficed.

Whether someone who committed a heinous act can be rehabilitated is really orthogonal to the question "Do I want to watch a rapist talk about video games?", the answer to which is "no."

It's time to vote for better transit! Jeff Leiper is the only mayoral candidate with a serious plan to fix OC Transpo and get our transit system working again. Early voting is October 1st to 4th, and October 16th. The main election day is October 26th. Visit ottawa.ca/vote for more information.

Some people will try to sell this as a thing that every executive does, but it’s worth asking the rhetorical question: Do any journalists have Strauss Zelnick or Shuntaro Furukawa on speed dial?

One of the most maddening and morally reprehensible things about society is our tendency to treat adolescence not as a thing that teenagers experience, but as a problem that they impose on the rest of us.

I dunno man, it sounds like poor hygiene is a viable strategy here.

Exit, pursued by a fucking bear

I guess that Rolling Stone piece was my fault. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I forgot to skeet about 20 More, Somehow Even Smaller, Mazes, but you should play 20 More, Somehow Even Smaller, Mazes. It’s just as delightful as 20 Small Mazes. FLEB has the sauce.

Renaming a developer to “Halo Studios” and now being like “btw they aren’t making the next Halo” is just incredible

I think my most contrarian film opinion is that Up is good the whole way through, not just in its opening montage.

Chaos;Head is a really good test of whether your capacity for empathy is based on principles or on homophily.

is it possible to bait the "user was blocked for this post" account into posting whatever i want?

“Pro-genocide billionaire rallies fellow stadium owners to deplatform anyone who vocally opposes genocide” strikes me as a bigger story than “Milquetoast dweeb who makes bad music capitulates.”

Congratulations to Christian Harrison, Neal Skupski, Kateřina Siniaková, Taylor Townsend, and Elena Rybakina. Alex Zverev beats women.

Upcoming Work of Art will be bad. If it reviews poorly, then I will be vindicated. If it reviews well, then that means everyone who reviewed it was a fanboy, and I will also be vindicated. I am very smart, and I have in no way based my identity around hating Upcoming Work of Art.

Everyone should play Paranormasight: The Mermaid's Curse.

Friendship ended with MIDORI. Now EXOPHASE is my best friend.

It's the AVoCADo GamesCast's ten-year anniversary!!!! Somehow, The Kappa and I have been podcasting together for a decade. We hope you enjoy this retrospective on the games we were playing the year the podcast started, 2016.

One of the few bright spots in the games industry in 2026 has been Konami making it very clear that they're in the business of producing games again.

I don't throw the term "crime against humanity" around lightly, but I have had to listen to that Beck Bennett/Kyle Mooney Squarespace ad multiple times.

Vic Michaelis is a menace to society and I am here for it.

This whole thing is ridiculous. It's only a scandal because Rockstar has been playing absurdly coy with a game it knows will sell a bajillion copies regardless. The only party harmed by these leaks is Netflix, which must've paid through the nose to have the reveal.