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What is EA doing lately...? - Crubcast w/Pre and Post Shows
3 main topics for tonight1. What is EA doing lately?2. Kojima, bad, or bad? (M's take)3. Furry or monster-fucker? (Sean explains, kind of)
The one and only OTHER Jak 2 tierlist for every mission (scientifically determined)
When I sat down, I was a tired man ready to turn the night around by talking some Spyro 3.Brody...Brody tricked me. I left with no soul remaining.Here is a testament to my torture.-Chris
What grinds our gears about Mario Kart World - Crubcast audio version
(I thought I had uploaded this and didn't...please forgive us)SHOW NOTESMario Kart World's development length:https://www.polygon.com/news/600439/mario-kart-world-development-nintendo-switch-2CHAPTERS00:00 This episode is about Mario Kart World10:21 You're not meant to complete these games, but...23:13 On the expectations set by the Switch 2's price32:03 On cynicism and lampshading...
Ironically unironically playing Zero Build
Nicco's AC broke, and we weren't sure until the last minute if anyone but me (Chris) and him could show upSo M appeared and we played zero build Fortnitenow THAT'S content
Podcastémon Episode 025
HULLLOOOO EVERYBODY, JTARTIPLIER9 HEREHappy 25th episode! What a milestone. We're so honored and proud and happy to be approaching 10% of being done with this series. We have like 30 episodes of our podcast left to be done with Johto. Please be excited. PLEASE, be excited. This time we're talking about episodes 122 "Flower Power", to 126 "Chikorita Rescue".Next time...EPISO...
What grinds our gears about Mario Kart World - Crubcast w/Pre and Post Shows
We're sorry, Switch 2 fans
Ranking Every Realm in Spyro 2: Ripto's Rage
Just what it says on the tin, for the record there are 6 less levels in this game than the first... and about 85 more minutes worth of incoherent babbling to show for it on our end. Trouble with the socialists, eh? SHOW NOTES The digital photographers Brody sourced for some of these screenshots: https://x.com/SpyroAesthetics https://low-polygon-count.tumblr.com/ https://flashcartographer.tumblr.co...
We watched EVERY Summer Games Fest conference - Crubcast audio version
SHOW NOTESAvatar: Realms Collidehttps://avatarrealmscollide.com/Bahamut and the Waqwaq Tree:https://bahamutgame.com/Azooma Escape:https://www.ashgamesstudio.com/King of Meat:https://www.kingofmeat.com/Reach:https://ndreams.com/The Rogue Prince of Persia:https://www.therogueprinceofpersia.com/Wander Stars:https://papercastlegames.com/wanderstars/Scott Pilgrim EX:https://store.steampowered.com/app/2...
CRANKIN OUR HOGS #2: Exploring Playdate's Season 2, Week 2 Games
This week on CRANKIN OUR HOGS, Kevin and Nicco check out The Whiteout and Wheelsprung. The Whiteout is about exploring the world after society has collapsed, and Wheelsprung is about biking through fun environments with actual physics simulation. If you'd like to check out Week 1's games, click here.
We watched EVERY Summer Games Fest conference - Crubcast w/Pre and Post Shows
BRODY WATCHED EVERY SINGLE SUMMER GAMES FEST CONFERENCE, WHY
Crubber Games Fest - Early June Crubletter
Welcome to Crubber Games Fest. I've always dreamed of being able to write this newsletter...and...sniff...it's just, such an honor to finally be able to bring this content to you. For our first announcement, there will likely be Odd Scheduling this week. Yesterday we released a Crubcast deepdive on the Japanese gaming industry, but tomorrow we'll be livestreaming an episode breaking do...
Podcastémon Episode 024
IT'S THE START OF JOHTO! Totodile? Yup! Chikorita? Well. Cyndaquil? Maybe in the intro. It's the beginning of the end for us based on what people say. We have around 158 episodes of Johto to go through, so...let's get it started.Next time...episodes 122 TO 126. Some of these are marked as our "filler" episodes to skip, but since we're so early on we went ahead and watched t...
Crubcast: Nicco x Sekiro VOD
Nicco was the only one around to man the show this week, so he booted up Sekiro and did a solo Crubcast. This Will Be An Official Episode, Probably, Maybe*
Trying to guess entry #100 on top 100 lists - Crubcast audio version
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 we can to #100? Dreamcast, PS3, Spotify, passing yards...we...we spent 10 minutes trying to guess ANY song from Spotify...SHOW NOTESIf these are wrong, yell at Justin please.Top 100 Dreamcast games:https://www.metacritic.com/bro...
CRANKIN OUR HOGS #1: Exploring Playdate's Season 2, Week 1 Games
Hello! As thanks to anyone who knows what a crub is, we've decided to put out a free video for everyone over the next few Wednesdays. The Playdate's second season just started releasing (if you don't know what a Playdate is, click here), so Kevin pulled in Nicco to do a weekly book club kind of deal to show off each week's 2 new games. Maybe you have a system and are on the fence a...
Boolatro - Episode 4 (feat. Wolfkaosaun)
It's card games and chill, baby. Nicco wants to play Balatro and learn a bit more about the Crubbers, so he's pulled some cards from https://itskindofafunstory.comto get them to open up. This time it's Wolfkaosaun. I hope he talks about Dragon Ball Z...
Console warriors and fans not knowing what they want - Crubcast audio version
SHOW NOTESIt's true, go look:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MykonosKevin's Ape Escape video that we mention:https://youtu.be/YeYjWZOn_7cYummy Boy:https://www.youtube.com/@yummyboysCHAPTERS00:00 We prepare for our shows, and we are console warriors09:27 We look at Wikipedia (interesting)16:27 Forget console warriors, what about franchise warriors23:01 Delving into the "wounded fan" p...
Japan's Gaming Revival - Crubcast audio version
SHOW NOTESShuhei Yoshida talking about why the Vita failed:https://gamerant.com/ps-vita-failed-why-shuhei-yoshida/minimme's videos on Australian Football:https://youtu.be/c5WmLtKpAIwCHAPTERS00:00 Background leading into the main topic08:08 The shift in 2000's development structures in Japan19:17 And the shift to handheld gaming29:12 What lead to the revival of Japanese games on a wider sca...
Podcastémon Episode 023 - End of Orange Islands
IT'S THE END OF THE ORANGE ISLANDS! Holy moly. We're talking about episodes 111 to 116 today. Also, here. Let me just help you out. https://www.reddit.com/r/Trophies/comments/11b37ep/hot_shots_golf_2_that_albatross_trophy_is_a_bitch/?rdt=49468Next time...EPISODES 117 TO 121The episode guide we're following is here: Pokémon Anime Filler Filter - Google Drive
Crubcast #105 audio version
SHOW NOTESVA-11 Hall-A, the bartending game:https://store.steampowered.com/app/447530/VA11_HallA_Cyberpunk_Bartender_Action/CHAPTERS00:00 Justin hates independent games, Nicco hates jumping09:49 The pain of replaying a long game for a "true" ending16:24 Nicco versus The Big Guy in Elden Ring20:31 When should a game be kicked from backlog status?28:47 Justin comes in with the steel chair (c...
CRUB'S 2 YEAR ANNIVERSARY STREAM
We made Sean experience Kingdom HeartsI also fix the mute thing at the beginning a minute or two in
Brody and Chris rank every realm in Spyro the Dragon
Brody and I sat down with a simple idea. Let's rank every level from the original Spyro trilogy. As time marched on we realized the folly of our mission and split this into 3 separate tier lists. We may reconvene at the end to realize our initial vision.For now...tell us how correct we are.
Reacting to YOUR Switch 2 Hot Takes!
Video version is up on the YouTube channel, audio version will be going up publicly tomorrow. Wanted to throw this here as a bonus for your feed early. 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 wrong, word it in such a way that implies that we're still kind of right ...
Crubcast #104 audio version
Listen to this while you gameSHOW NOTEShttps://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/bifurcatedCHAPTERS00:00 Say hi to Nicco in the comments or else06:16 This podcast has addictions12:55 The gang learns a new word16:03 #Curvepilled26:48 What is it about Bloodborne that sucked Nicco34:52 We finally delve into The Click Issue41:34 On trying to be more open minded and film scores49:12 The Golden Bolt...
The folly of being a console warrior - Crubcast w/Pre and Post Shows
Come get your new pod and The Charity Room scoops
We're Turning 2 - Mid-May Crubletter
That's right, our weird little podcast baby is turning 2 on the 26th. It's catching us at a fun time, a good portion of us have been busy sorting (positive) personal affairs and taking on more work to keep our output coming as we navigate those things behind the scenes. All of this with most of us also prepping to attend TooManyGames in a month's time. We're busy! We're still m...
Trav, MRIXRT, and The Golden Bolt's Creator Journeys
Hello Crubscribers(TM) (Patent Pending). A few months back these 3 chuckleheads sat down to interview each other about their journeys. This will release as one entire audio episode later in the month, and as 3 separate video versions publicly on the channel over time. But we wanted to go ahead and get this to you here ahead of time. The full audio version will already be up on the Patreon RSS feed...
Crubcast #106 audio version
Hey gang. We've mentioned this on preshows and we'll run it by you again on the Crubletter on Monday. On our 2nd anniversary on the 26th, though, we plan to begin staggering our episode cadence so that the audio version and video version are different episodes within the same week. This is prone to exceptions, like maybe if something timely or relevant happens like a Summer Games Fest or a...
Crubcast #103 audio version
this one's about genre names, strap on inCHAPTERS00:00 We're a runbased roguelite deckbuilding podcastvania16:35 You aren't ready for this one, I promise27:41 The RPG pandora's box is opened38:24 Nicco has to guess what an expressive platformer is46:50 Is Sonic 06 an immersive sim?1:00:02 The1TrueBlue's Crubscriber Question of the Week





















