This week we're all back, and we're talking about Subsurface Circular, City of Brass, The state of Rainbow Six: Siege, the new battle pass for Dota 2 (and speculation about the game's upcoming battle royale mode), a new update for Slay the Spire, and honestly a lot more because it's a long episode with long outtakes and a bit of E3 chat. No, seriously, it's a fucking long show this week. Nearly three hours. STRAP IN. This week's music: Childish Gambino - This is America
May 12, 2018•2 hr 37 min
This week we're all back and we're here to talk about games, like Battletech, God of War, Prey, The Forest, the likelihood of a return to Destiny 2, and a lot more - including an "outtakes" section consisting entirely of 40 minutes of Infinity War spoiler talk (with lots of warnings). This week's music: Meg Myers - Numb
May 05, 2018•2 hr 8 min
This week we talk about a lot of stuff, including Maelstrom, the likelihood of a new Halo this year - we and also put a finger on the key differences between Sony and Microsoft's first party offerings this generation (it's not what you're thinking) - the last take on Far Cry 5 you're probs going to hear from us, more on God of War (spoiler-free), Panzer Dragoon Orta, Dead Cells, and more! This week's music, in order of appearance: Tinashe - Joyride; Bishop Briggs - River
Apr 21, 2018•1 hr 49 min
This week, somehow, we've got a really long show for you as we talk about Far Cry 5 and Far Cry Arcade, Radical Heights, and there's a LOT of (generally spoiler-free) discussion about God of War. Also some emails! This week's music: Chvrches - My Enemy
Apr 14, 2018•2 hr 7 min
This week we've got a surprising amount of video games to talk about - from Far Cry 5 (a LOT about Far Cry 5), more about Sea of Thieves, A Way Out, the grievous deficiencies of PC Building Simulator, and more. This week's music: Nirvana - Pennyroyal Tea
Apr 07, 2018•1 hr 42 min
This week we're still down a Matt, but we manage to talk about big GDC tech developments, Vermintide 2, Below (it exists! We played it!), Sea of Thieves and more! This week's music: The Raveonettes - Ghost
Mar 24, 2018•1 hr 15 min
This week we've got more games than we expected to talk about, including Surviving Mars, Eco, H1Z1 Auto Royale, The Bonfire and more - and we find time to talk Fortnite's trajectory and big changes coming to Valve's International Dota 2 Championship as well. This week's music: Evanescence - Going Under
Mar 17, 2018•1 hr 24 min
Miraculously the four of us are all back in a room together and it's right in time for too many goddamned games. We talk Deep rock Galactic, Fortnite: BR, Into the Breach, Eco, Civilization VI: Rise and Fall, Titanfall 2 (it was on sale!) and a whole lot more. This week's music: Halsey - Angel on Fire
Mar 03, 2018•1 hr 47 min
This week we're talking Black Panther and Marvel movies this year, The Station, Rainbow Six Siege's big invitational and business model changes, the origin of Anthony's love of handheld games, whether we'll get a Halo game this year, Dandara, your letters and more! This week's music, in order of appearance: Janelle Monae - Make Me Feel; She Wants Revenge - Replacement
Feb 24, 2018•1 hr 36 min
Matt, James, and Anthony streamed a live show, answering your questions and talking about games like Subnautica, Steamworld: Heist and more!
Feb 17, 2018•1 hr 26 min
This week we spend some time lamenting the current game release calendar but still manage to talk Regions of Ruin, Laser League. some of our other usual suspects, and even make time to complain about Netflix's shoddy adaptation of Altered Carbon. This week's music: Femme - S.O.S. (NZCA Lines Remix)
Feb 10, 2018•1 hr 21 min
This week we've managed to get all four of us back into a room, miraculously, and the result is a long show with a lot of games! We talk Monster Hunter World, The Hunt: Showdown, Celeste, Slay the Spire, and quite a bit more. This week's music: Chvrches - Get Out
Feb 03, 2018•2 hr 11 min
This week we're down a James but we've regained a Matt as we talk Sea of Thieves, Celeste, and a fair bit more. This week's music: Zola Blood - Islands (Throwing Snow Remix) At the Drive-In - Point of Demarkation
Jan 27, 2018•2 hr 4 min
This week we've got a few games to talk about, including They Are Billions, before we get into how incredibly, mind-bogglingly weird it is that this podcast has now been running for nine years. Nine! This week's music: Circa Waves, feat PVRIS - Fire That Burns
Jan 13, 2018•1 hr 37 min
This week it's all about leftovers - specifically, the games from last year (or even before!) that we played over the holiday, including Horizon Zero Dawn, Rainbow Six Siege, Divinity: Original Sin 2 and more, as well as the books, shows, and movies we used to pass the time. This week's music: Marmozets - Major System Error
Jan 06, 2018•1 hr 21 min
At the end of a hard year and in search of some normalcy, we bring you holiday greetings and well wishes, and, of course, our annual year-end tradition: a review of some of our — and your — favorite music in games this year. See you in 2018! This week's music, in order of appearance: Manaka Kataoka/Yasuaki Iwata - Main Theme - The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild Manaka Kataoka/Yasuaki Iwata - Life in the Ruins - The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild Manaka Kataoka/Yasuaki Iwata - Shrine Th...
Dec 25, 2017•3 hr 34 min
This week we talk a lot of games after quite a few redacted observations about The Last Jedi (hilariously spoiler free, don't worry), including Battlefront 2's tie-in DLC, the most recent updates to Rust, Dean Hall's new game Stationeers, Ghost Recon Wildlands, Assassin's Creed Origins and Syndicate, Echo, Doki Doki Literature Club and more! This week's music: Open Hand - Hope is Lost
Dec 21, 2017•1 hr 30 min
Hello! This week there's not much in the way of show notes because it's getting published like we're being chased by the cops, but we talk about games, read your emails about top 500 lists, and so, so much more. This week's music: Now, Now - SGL; A Perfect Circle - The Doomed
Dec 09, 2017•2 hr 6 min
This week we talk longer than we expected about a lot of stuff, including Battlerite, Battlestar Galactica Deadlock, Skyrim and Fallout 4's Xbox One X patches, Super Mario Odyssey, Dota and PUBG, and then spend a lot of time with some of your letters.
Dec 02, 2017•2 hr 18 min
Hello! This week we're all too full of tacos and struggling to make sense of the world as we're joined by friend of the show Brian Albert to talk fast food secret shames, Destiny 2, AC Origins, Homefront The Revolution (I know, I know), and a whole lot more. Happy holiday! This week's music, in order of appearance: Polica - Very Cruel; Kacy Hill - Keep Me Sane
Nov 25, 2017•2 hr 14 min
Hello! This week we've recovered enough from Extra Life to talk about a lot of games - games like COD WW2, Death Coming, SPAZ 2. Endless Sky, Mitch Dyer's Star Wars Battlefront 2, and also Arthur's virgin experiences with PUBG, how bizarre the game's success is, and some big bold predictions about where its sales ceiling is. We also talk more about extended impressions with the Xbox One X. This week's music: Sunny Day Real Estate - Faces in the Sky
Nov 11, 2017•1 hr 47 min
We're here just a few hours before EXTRA LIFE (tinyurl.com/rfm2017 TO DONATE) to talk about Wolfenstein: The New Colossus, Assassin's Creed Origins, Mario Odyssey, and a whole lot of hands-on impressions with the Xbox One X. Tune in to our Rebel FM Extra-life livestream at twitch.tv/chufmoney, Saturday morning at 10 am PT! This week's music, in order of appearance: Nonpoint - Divided .. Conquer Them; Tim Capello - I Still Believe
Nov 04, 2017•2 hr 1 min
This week we've got a few games to talk about, including Super Mario Odyssey! We also talk about Destiny 2 on PC, Bomber Run, OG Xbox backwards compatibility (with Ninja Gaiden Black!) and more. This week's music: July Talk - Touch
Oct 28, 2017•1 hr 16 min
We here and theoretically we're talking about games — games like Shadow of War, Destiny 2's Iron Banner, Divinity 2, our hopes for Assassin's Creed Origins and more (because somehow it's a long show). RATE US ON APPLE PODCASTS OR YOUR PODCAST THING OF CHOICE OR WHATEVER This week's music in order of appearance: Ella Vos - Don't Cry; August Burns Red - King of Sorrow
Oct 14, 2017•2 hr 8 min
This week we've got a long show and more than an hour of it is based around your letters! But first we talk Golf Story, Polytopia, Steamworld Dig 2, Cuphead, Shadow of War's microtransactions and more. This week's music: Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers - Mary Jane's Last Dance
Oct 07, 2017•2 hr 10 min
This week everyone has returned from Japan and the hills and shit and we're back to record a podcast! We talk Cuphead, VIGOROUSLY DEBATE the ethics of PUBG and Fortnite: Battle Royale, Dishonored: Death of the Outsider, Ruiner, Heat Signature, Metroid: Samus Returns, the Forza 7 demo, Destiny, how desperately we need a goddamned Dota 2 patch and more! This week's music: Banks - Before I Ever Met You
Sep 30, 2017•2 hr
This week we talk about Destiny 2 and its first raid, but the lion's share of a VERY long episode is dedicated to chatting with our special guest, Star Wars Battlefront 2 writer Walt D. Williams. Walt talks about his time writing on Spec Ops: The Line, how terrible Mitch Dyer is, his new book Significant Zero and a lot more. This week's music: Amarante - Fleeting Light
Sep 16, 2017•2 hr 25 min
We're all back in the same room, because the dark constellation has come into alignment, and also schedules. This week we talk about arguably too many games, including Mario X Rabbids, XCOM 2: War of the Chosen, Uncharted: Lost Legacy, Destiny 2, and more! This week's music: Death From Above - NVR 4EVR
Sep 09, 2017•1 hr 46 min
This week we're talking about PUBG invitationals, the trauma of trying to pre-order SNES Classics and the mystery of Xbox One X's pre-order success, how quite Gamescom is, some early thoughts on Uncharted: Lost Legacy, Distrust (the game), Subsurface Circular, and then read lots of your questions!
Aug 25, 2017•1 hr 38 min
This week most of us are back, despite the best efforts of some aggressive mudbutt, and we're talking Nidhogg 2, Sonic Mania, Hellblade, our experience at TI, and more, then move on to your letters! Note: TI7 talk goes from minute 3 or so to about the 23 minute mark, if you want to skip it. This week's music: Brand New - Degausser
Aug 19, 2017•1 hr 30 min
