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2025-03-28

  Clothes Make the Character with Aiden Strawhun

Plenty of games let you change your character's clothes, but in how many does it really matter, from a gameplay standpoint? At least five, which we'll talk about this week with model/stylist/game brand strategist and former journo Aiden Strawhun, who...
  LaserTimePodcast author
2025-03-21

  Games Set (But Not Made) In Japan

Assassin's Creed Shadows is out, and we've got IGN's reviewer - friend of the show Jarrett Green - on to talk about Ubi's massive open-world shinobi-and-samurai adventure in feudal Japan! But first, we'll use this as an opportunity to talk about five ...
  LaserTimePodcast author
2025-03-14

  Not-Quite-Marios

We just passed Mar10 Day this week, and that got us thinking about all the times console makers have thought, "Hey! What if WE had a cute, highly marketable face to sell OUR hardware?" We'll take a look at five of the least successful attempts at mach...
  LaserTimePodcast author
2025-03-07

  Patent-Protected Features

Ever wonder why so few games include features like, say, Shadow of Mordor's Nemesis system, or minigames you can play during loading events? It's because they are or were locked behind patents - and this week, Jesse "Street Cleaner" Bishop joins us to...
  LaserTimePodcast author
2025-03-01

  Problematic Stars

Landing a celebrity to star in your game is usually a huge deal - but like a lot of things, celebrities can go bad over time, turning their games into weird cultural artifacts with unpleasant associations. This week, Anthony Abatte joins us to talk ab...
  LaserTimePodcast author
2025-02-21

  Spiritual Successors (By the Original Creators)

With Avowed's launch casting a spotlight on Obsidian this week, we got to thinking about the studio's unique trajectory, and so Trone Dowd — who reviewed Avowed for Inverse — joins us to talk about about studios who got nudged off series they created ...
  LaserTimePodcast author
2025-02-15

  Get the Cables! with Welcome to the Thing

Mikel's away this week, so Matt and Chris (with accompanying soundboard) invited the Welcome to the Thing crew to break format a bit with a top 5 that doesn't focus so much on games, but rather game distribution services, technologies, and platforms ol...
  LaserTimePodcast author
2025-02-07

  Clap if You Believe in Heroes with TL Foster

Hero-ing can be a thankless business (apart from all the improbable material rewards for rescuing hapless villagers or whatever), so it's uplifting when games try to show you've made a difference by bringing back all the friends you've made and people...
  LaserTimePodcast author
2025-01-31

  Angriest Heroes with Jesse Cox

Sometimes it's really empowering to embody a pissed-off rage junkie, the kind of human chainsaw who can charge wildly into every confrontation and savagely batter everything in their path. This week, Jesse Cox joins us for a look at five games that le...
  LaserTimePodcast author
2025-01-25

  Origins Oranges Oregons

Last week's release of Dynasty Warriors Origins inspired us to spend this episode looking at five of the best games to bear one of the industry's most-overused words in their titles (Origins, of course). Then we'll get into Lonely Mountains: Snow Rid...
  LaserTimePodcast author