There are easy games, and games that are notoriously difficult to "get good" at. However, Moriarty raised this question to us...what is the hardest game (or genre) to become simply "okay" at? Also, how much can a trailer spoil before it's simply objectively spoiling too much? SHOW NOTES The cicadas outside Chris' home make a cameo at around 15 minutes in. If you hear it, that's what's up. TODAY'S CRUBCAST HOSTS Chris: https://www.youtube.com/@MykonosFan Moriarty: https://www.youtube.com/@reallyc...
Sep 22, 2025•1 hr 17 min
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 cynicism of it all finally shone through the cracks? And, more importantly, which dead and buried 90's franchises are most likely to get the Fortnite glow-up next? Chris predicts Jared Leto. SHOW NOTES If you don't know the video Moriarty references at 13:15, you do now: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=51beOlNC0qo And yes, Street S...
Sep 15, 2025•1 hr 16 min
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 stuck him in a microwave for this episode, much like Clank, Bentley, and the actual human child from Persona 4. MORE PLACES TO FIND US Crubscribe ► https://bit.ly/Crubcast Get the show early and get exclusive content at our Patreon ► https://www.patreon.com/crub Our Crubcasts are recorded LIVE at https://www.twitch.tv/crub_official...
Sep 08, 2025•1 hr 5 min
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. Should FromSoftware give in and let us pause? Are the games TOO gloomy? Are these games secretly rhythm games...? MORE PLACES TO FIND US Crubscribe ► https://bit.ly/Crubcast Get the show early and get exclusive content at our Patreon ► https://www.patreon.com/crub Our Crubcasts are recorded LIVE at https://www.twitch.tv/crub_officia...
Sep 01, 2025•1 hr 27 min
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 Superman fans Moriarty and Trav to discuss the new James Gunn Superman film. Obviously, spoilers ahead. MORE PLACES TO FIND US Crubscribe ► https://bit.ly/Crubcast Get the show early and get exclusive content at our Patreon ► https://www.patreon.com/crub Our Crubcasts are recorded LIVE at https://www.twitch.tv/crub_official every Tuesday...
Aug 25, 2025•1 hr 17 min
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 is still the best swordsman in the series, though. Later, Chris expresses his disappointment with the continued SEGA & Roblox partnership and how his favorite thing is kind of uncool now. Also, Brody breaks our brains. Again. MORE PLACES TO FIND US Crubscribe ► https://bit.ly/Crubcast Get the show early and get exclusive content...
Aug 18, 2025•1 hr
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 as we delve further in. To be safe though, it'd be best to listen to this if you've already beaten the game or just don't mind hearing some of the places it goes. SHOW NOTES Go show Wayne some love, and tell him we sent you (please, we're desperate): His Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/wayneisboss.bsky.social His YouTube: https:...
Aug 11, 2025•1 hr 41 min
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. We get into some sensitive topics, particularly with the discussion around the game called 'No Mercy'. There are chapter marks to skip that section, but there are a few mentions of traumatic subjects outside of that portion to help provide context for discussion's sake with what has been removed. We do have some goofy talk with th...
Aug 04, 2025•58 min
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. Ganondorf. Some of it is weird, but acceptable. King Hippo, for example. However, some of this bends the known understanding of "video game villain". Number six may shock you. MORE PLACES TO FIND US Crubscribe ► https://bit.ly/Crubcast Get the show early and get exclusive content at our Patreon ► https://www.patreon.com/crub Our Crubcas...
Jul 28, 2025•1 hr 10 min
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 to do so. That said, a link to the layoff news is below as a starting point, if you missed what's been going on. So if Microsoft is going to lay off every person they hired while still keeping Xbox going...who should they contract and pay to work on their games? Heck, who should PlayStation and Nintendo do this with as well? Look,...
Jul 21, 2025•1 hr 5 min
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? Plus, Moriarty's burning hot Kojima takes that left Sean smoldering in the ashes. As punishment, Sean...he...look. You'll listen and then you'll understand our pain. We're sorry. MORE PLACES TO FIND US Crubscribe ► https://bit.ly/Crubcast Get the show early and get exclusive content at our Patreon ► https://www.patreon.com/crub Ou...
Jul 14, 2025•1 hr 10 min
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"? Could the crub crew take a gorilla...? MORE PLACES TO FIND US Crubscribe ► https://bit.ly/Crubcast Get the show early and get exclusive content at our Patreon ► https://www.patreon.com/crub Our Crubcasts are recorded LIVE at https://www.twitch.tv/crub_official every Tuesday at 7pm Eastern, with EXCLUSIVE Pre- and Post-Shows Join ou...
Jul 07, 2025•1 hr 1 min
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 does. SHOW NOTES Mario Kart World's development length: https://www.polygon.com/news/600439/mario-kart-world-development-nintendo-switch-2 MORE PLACES TO FIND US Crubscribe ► https://bit.ly/Crubcast Get the show early and get exclusive content at our Patreon ► https://www.patreon.com/crub Our Crubcasts are recorded LIVE at https://w...
Jun 30, 2025•1 hr 16 min
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... MORE PLACES TO FIND US Crubscribe ► https://bit.ly/Crubcast Get the show early and get exclusive content at our Patreon ► https://www.patreon.com/crub Our Crubcasts are recorded LIVE at https://www.twitch.tv/c...
Jun 23, 2025•1 hr 17 min
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 today, so have this audio version of when M and Nicco first watched the first Pokemon movie! Two of us who are far too familiar with Pokémon sat down two people who are far less familiar with Pokémon and made them watch the first movie. They came to us with many questions, most of which have no good answer. It made us question many th...
Jun 16, 2025•50 min
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 about all of his showcases. Was it worth it? Well, Brody thinks so, and Brody is the only one who actually watched them all, so...good job, Geoff! MORE PLACES TO FIND US Crubscribe ► https://bit.ly/Crubcast Get the show early and get exclusive content at our Patreon ► https://www.patreon.com/crub Our Crubcasts are recorded LIVE at...
Jun 12, 2025•1 hr 12 min
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 influence and dominance. MORE PLACES TO FIND US Crubscribe ► https://bit.ly/Crubcast Get the show early and get exclusive content at our Patreon ► https://www.patreon.com/crub Our Crubcasts are recorded LIVE at https://www.twitch.tv/crub_official every Tuesday at 7pm Eastern, with EXCLUSIVE Pre- and Post-Shows Join our Discord ► h...
Jun 09, 2025•1 hr 26 min
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 general, from it never knowing what it actually wants to never knowing the reality of what it wants. MORE PLACES TO FIND US Crubscribe ► https://bit.ly/Crubcast Get the show early and get exclusive content at our Patreon ► https://www.patreon.com/crub Our Crubcasts are recorded LIVE at https://www.twitch.tv/crub_official every Tues...
Jun 02, 2025•1 hr 7 min
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 do what they do. MORE PLACES TO FIND US Crubscribe ► https://bit.ly/Crubcast Get the show early and get exclusive content at our Patreon ► https://www.patreon.com/crub Our Crubcasts are recorded LIVE at https://www.twitch.tv/crub_official every Tuesday at 7pm Eastern, with EXCLUSIVE Pre- and Post-Shows Join our Discord ► https://c...
May 26, 2025•2 hr 1 min
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 into the woods? If you don't know the answers to these questions, you're in the right place. We do. You're safe here. MORE PLACES TO FIND US Crubscribe ► https://bit.ly/Crubcast Get the show early and get exclusive content at our Patreon ► https://www.patreon.com/crub Our Crubcasts are recorded LIVE at https://www.twitch.tv/crub_off...
May 23, 2025•58 min
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 though MORE PLACES TO FIND US Crubscribe ► https://bit.ly/Crubcast Get the show early and get exclusive content at our Patreon ► https://www.patreon.com/crub Our Crubcasts are recorded LIVE at https://www.twitch.tv/crub_official every Tuesday at 7pm Eastern, w...
May 19, 2025•51 min
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 most "zoomer" episode, but putting "zoomer" in scare quotes does bring us back from the brink a bit. MORE PLACES TO FIND US Crubscribe ► https://bit.ly/Crubcast Get the show early and get exclusive content at our Patreon ► https://www.patreon.com/crub Our Crubcasts are recorded LIVE at https://www.twitch.tv/crub_official every Tuesda...
May 16, 2025•54 min
This was recorded before "frog-type game" or else that could have sustained an hour on its own MORE PLACES TO FIND US Crubscribe ► https://bit.ly/Crubcast Get the show early and get exclusive content at our Patreon ► https://www.patreon.com/crub Our Crubcasts are recorded LIVE at https://www.twitch.tv/crub_official every Tuesday at 7pm Eastern, with EXCLUSIVE Pre- and Post-Shows Join our Discord ► https://crub.org/join BlueSky ► https://bsky.app/profile/crub.org Podcasts are available on Apple, ...
May 09, 2025•1 hr 21 min
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 actual, tangible vision from a creative unit are more valuable than ever. MORE PLACES TO FIND US Crubscribe ► https://bit.ly/Crubcast Get the show early and get exclusive content at our Patreon ► https://www.patreon.com/crub Our Crubcasts are recorded LIVE at https://www.twitch.tv/crub_official every Tuesday at 7pm Eastern, with EXCLUSI...
May 02, 2025•1 hr 12 min
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 FIND US Crubscribe ► https://bit.ly/Crubcast Get the show early and get exclusive content at our Patreon ► https://www.patreon.com/crub Our Crubcasts are recorded LIVE at https://www.twitch.tv/crub_official every Tuesday at 7pm Eastern, with EXCLUSIVE Pre- and Post-Shows Join our Discord ► https://crub.org/join BlueSky ► https://bsky...
Apr 25, 2025•1 hr 13 min
We made this podcast to bully each other MORE PLACES TO FIND US Crubscribe ► https://bit.ly/Crubcast Get the show early and get exclusive content at our Patreon ► https://www.patreon.com/crub Our Crubcasts are recorded LIVE at https://www.twitch.tv/crub_official every Tuesday at 7pm Eastern, with EXCLUSIVE Pre- and Post-Shows Join our Discord ► https://crub.org/join BlueSky ► https://bsky.app/profile/crub.org Podcasts are available on Apple, Google, Spotify, and other platforms are available at ...
Apr 18, 2025•1 hr 30 min
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 when looking to improve their skillset at a game? MORE PLACES TO FIND US Crubscribe ► https://bit.ly/Crubcast Get the show early and get exclusive content at our Patreon ► https://www.patreon.com/crub Our Crubcasts are recorded LIVE at https://www.twitch.tv/crub_official every Tuesday at 7pm Eastern, with EXCLUSIVE Pre- and Post-Sh...
Apr 11, 2025•44 min
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 so we may be doomed? MORE PLACES TO FIND US Crubscribe ► https://bit.ly/Crubcast Get the show early and get exclusive content at our Patreon ► https://www.patreon.com/crub Our Crubcasts are recorded LIVE at https://www.twitch.tv/crub_official every Tuesday at 7pm Eastern, with EXCLUSIVE Pre- and Post-Shows Join our Discord ► https:...
Apr 02, 2025•1 hr
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? Because they seem to be mattering less and less. MORE PLACES TO FIND US Crubscribe ► https://bit.ly/Crubcast Get the show early and get exclusive content at our Patreon ► https://www.patreon.com/crub Our Crubcasts are recorded LIVE at https://www.twitch.tv/crub_official every Tuesday at 7pm Eastern, with EXCLUSIVE Pre- and Post-Shows Joi...
Mar 28, 2025•1 hr 6 min
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 to finally lay our favorite video game system ever to rest. And to learn way, way, way more about Taco Bell than anyone ever needed to. Did you know that the fire they cook with is fake...? MORE PLACES TO FIND US Crubscribe ► https://bit.ly/Crubcast Get the show early and get exclusive content at our Patreon ► https://www.patreon.co...
Mar 21, 2025•1 hr 11 min
