Insert Credit Is The Prequel to Die Hard. Questions this week: PAX Best Debut Games Why Was the Halo Composer Fired from Bungie? Game Most Interesting to Lose Most Dreamy Games Do You Fight for Fun or for Glory? Six Universal Emotions Can Someone Please Explain Goat Simulator? Favorite Game Makers (It’s Spelled ulillillia) LIGHTNING ROUND: Title Design Tim McGraw Games Edited by Blaine Brown. Music ‘Trailer Soundtrack’ and ‘Main Theme’ from Goat Simulator....
Apr 24, 2014•1 hr 28 min•Ep. 83
Insert Credit Knows Nobody Cares About Robin. Questions this week: Saving Video Game History with Frank and Brandon GDC Recap Best 3D Single Player Hand-to-Hand Combat FFVI – Name All Party Members and Add a Fifteenth Games Other Than Dark Souls 2 Lowest Percentage Completion Single Player Game Restaurant Staffed by Video Game Professionals Worst and Most-Listened-To Song in a Video Game Did Facebook and Oculus End the Kickstarter Dream? LIGHTNING ROUND: Game Rater Edited by Blaine Brown. Music ...
Apr 17, 2014•1 hr 14 min•Ep. 82
We determine the Best Competitive Game of All Time. Edited by Blaine Brown. Music ‘Rainbow Road’ from Mario Kart 7 Performed by YouTube User DSCAccount.
Mar 26, 2014•1 hr 29 min•Ep. 81
Insert Credit Has Got That Bad’un. Questions this week: Good Postmortem Discussion Chronotrigger Recruiting Largest Critical Blindspot Akira Toriyama Dragon Quest Taking Smartphones Seriously Themed Arcade Design a Non-Violent Video Game Using the Doom IP How to Become a Better Level Designer Redesign a Video Game Character LIGHTNING ROUND: The Crichtoning Round Edited by Blaine Brown. Music ‘Sonic Boom’ from Sonic CD, ‘Victory Fanfare’ from Final Fantasy VI and ‘Level 1’ From Jurassic Park for ...
Mar 13, 2014•1 hr 26 min•Ep. 80
Insert Credit is Both the Sin and Punishment. Questions this week: Less Blank and More Blank Most Fun Projectile Catching Custom Soundtrack Video Game Olympic Representatives Improv Zone Most Unpleasant Console Game to Work On Personalities to Create a Game Microtransactions in Nintendo Games Willy Wonka and the Video Game Factory LIGHTNING ROUND: Rank the Devil May Cry Games Edited by Blaine Brown. Music ‘Beach Stage’ from Flying Power Disc – Windjammers for the Neo Geo and ‘Monday (Glitch Mob ...
Mar 08, 2014•1 hr 25 min•Ep. 79
Insert Credit Has Zoop and It’s Jaffe’s Fault. Questions this week: Great Ideas Already Done Irrational Games Twitch Plays Pokemon Monthly Video Game Comic Books Most Back-Handed Compliment Your Video Game Boss Lightning Round Bottom Line Review Arcade Edition Lightning 2 Who Would Win in a Fight LIGHTNING ROUND: Lightning Returns Returns Elevator Pitch Co-Op Edition Edited by Blaine Brown. Music ‘The Ego Room’ from Remember Me and the Zoop Soundtrack....
Feb 26, 2014•1 hr 11 min•Ep. 78
Insert Credit Celebra las Consolas de los Muertos. Questions this week: Brandon at D.I.C.E. Save Nintendo Successful Breaks Out of the Comfort Zone Mobile Birds Fictional Vehicles Video Game Holidays Good Castlevanias Nullify One Trademark, Copyright, or Patent Smash Mouth’s All Star of VGM LIGHTNING ROUND: Best to Worst Edited by Blaine Brown. Music ‘Terra’s Theme’ from Final Fantasy VI Performed by YouTube User DSCAccount and ‘Lonely Rolling Star’ from Noby Noby Boy....
Feb 23, 2014•1 hr 14 min•Ep. 77
Insert Credit is the Opposite of Cool Spot (That’s a good thing, trust us). Questions this week: Disparate Worlds Tactics The Series for WayForward Dreamcast VMU Accidental Greatness Surprises in Games Edutainment LIGHTNING ROUND: Opposite Day Edited by Blaine Brown. Music ‘In The Mountain’ by Yuzo Koshiro from Stickman Is Back Genesis, ‘Title Theme’ from Forever Kingdom (Evergrace 2), ‘Wild Child & Manmos’ by Yasuyuki Suzuki and Emiko Suganuma from Tail of the Sun PSX, and nearly the entire...
Feb 16, 2014•1 hr 25 min•Ep. 76
Insert Credit would win in a fight against Past, Present, and Future. Questions this week: Easily Fixable Game Ruiners No More Localization Best to Worst Three Laws of Video Games Favorite Stage One Boss Themed Arcade Cover Stories for a Video Game Celebrity Magazine LIGHTNING ROUND: Title Design Edited by Blaine Brown. Music “Boss 3” and “Stage 4” from Gunhouse. Gunhouse is available now for PS Vita and PlayStation Mobile!...
Feb 02, 2014•1 hr 19 min•Ep. 75
The second installment of an annual series wherein we determine what may be empirically be considered the Best Game of All Time. The List: P anzer Dragoon II Zwei NiGHTS into Dreams Castlevania : Dracula X Gunstar Heroes Super Mario Brothers Manica Mansion: Day of the Tentacle Lufia II: Rise of the Sinistrals Phantom Dust Sonic & Knuncles Ghosts in the Shell Gears of War II Breath of Fire: Dragon Quarter Zelda II: The Adventure of Link Thunder Force IV Asuka 120% Limited Over Ouendan II Ufou...
Jan 09, 2014•1 hr 58 min•Ep. 74
We rank the best games of 2013. The List: The Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds Gone Home Attack of the Friday Monsters Ridiculous Fishing 868-Hack The Last of Us Shin Megami Tensei IV Kokuga Paper Please Antichamber Dive Kick Kentucky Route Zero The Stanley Parable Super Mario 3D World Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons Fire Emblem: Awakening Candy Box! Pokémon X and Y BioShock Infinite Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance LIGHTNING ROUND: Edited by Blaine Brown. Music 'Insert Credit GOTY Serenade 201...
Dec 26, 2013•1 hr 17 min•Ep. 73
Broadcasting a podcast broadcast pre-recorded live from development heck. Questions this week: What's the best fake language in a video game? Why do so many games that escape development hell end up a disappointment, and which games escape that fate? Which third-party developers would you most like to see making the next Zelda game? Design a game that takes into account the player blinking. How embarrassing is the PAX Diversity Lounge? Custom Soundtrack: Sonic the Hedgehog 2 Which game creators ...
Dec 18, 2013•1 hr 12 min•Ep. 72
Insert Credit Doesn't Wanna Be The Guy. Questions this week: What games would you want to do a single credit run on? How much are video games like what you imagined they would be like in the future when you were a kid? What are your "sick day" video games? What are the best games that can no longer be played or acquired? Custom Soundtrack: Final Fantasy VII What is needed to make a good masocore game? LIGHTNING ROUND: Playing Favorites: Holiday Edition Edited by Blaine Brown. Music 'Haunted Grav...
Dec 11, 2013•1 hr 13 min•Ep. 71
Trying to Make the Bleak Future a Little Bit Better. Questions this week: If a plague killed everybody in the game industry except you, your friends, and five people of your choice, who would be safe? Has a game series ever produced a better sequel for less money? Design a video game to be played for 24 hours straight without stopping. Complete this sentence -- "There are two kinds of people who play video games:" What are some creative but home-safe insults for multiplayer? You're going out for...
Dec 04, 2013•1 hr 20 min•Ep. 70
Tim Rogers Hosts The Jerry Bruckheimer Michael Bay Double Funeral. Questions this week: What's your favorite video game format? What are you most thankful for re: video games? When did you get your first television? When is a Batman game "Batman enough"? Is video game music dead? Theme Arcade Who do you take a heart, liver, and kidney from: Mario, Sonic, Bonk? LIGHTNING ROUND: Rank The Series Edited by Blaine Brown. Music 'Adventure' by Disasterpeace from Fez PC, 'Base Theme' from Contra NES, 'E...
Nov 27, 2013•1 hr 26 min•Ep. 69
Insert Credit Is A Crate Full of Mysteries. Questions this week: What IP based on its name alone could raise $200,000 on Kickstarter regardless of team? Why would anyone need a machine that you connect to a TV and control with physical buttons? How have video games manifested in your dreams? A genie transforms the entire world to have the aesthetic of a video game, but you get to choose which one. Who would win in a fight between a super robot designed by Sony, and a super robot designed by Micr...
Nov 20, 2013•1 hr 7 min•Ep. 68
Insert Credit Is Chock-Full of Fruit Ions. Questions this week: What would it take to get you to back a Kickstarter and retain interest in it? What would you do if you got a new console one week earlier than everyone else? What can we say to our dads when they insist video games are a waste of time? Who are the Mozart and Salieri of video games? What innovative evolution conditions would you include in the next Pokemon game? If you were dividing a diet of good video games into four food groups, ...
Nov 12, 2013•1 hr 18 min•Ep. 67
Insert Credit Presents Boobs in the Sand - Championship Edition. Questions this week: Who's your favorite c-list villain from a video game? Design the free-to-play game that makes everyone get over their hatred of free-to-play games. Why are video games fun? How would you define your relationship with video games? What video games are the most personally empowering? What is the biggest argument you've had about a video game? If an elecromagnetic storm knocked out all electronics for 30 years, wh...
Oct 29, 2013•1 hr 20 min•Ep. 66
Insert Credit Loves a Good Lady in a Shirt. Questions this week: What video game are you the most baffled actually got made? What were the best looking games of the pre-NES era? When is a video game remake or remaster different enough from its predecessor to be eligible again for award consideration? Your publisher has demanded that you punch up the dialogue for your 3D platforming game, and have been given three options. The writing samples seem to channel DnD, other video games, and Monty Pyth...
Oct 23, 2013•1 hr 8 min•Ep. 65
Insert Credit Makes You a Jill Sandwich. Questions this week: Does the intended commercial reach of a game has any meaningful impact on it as a creative product? What are some topical video game costume ideas for Halloween? What are the differences between the European and the American video game scenes? Who or what is the Yoko Ono of video games? Could a non-massively multiplayer video game put out a new chapter every week? When it comes to assessing an experimental game, how much credit should...
Oct 14, 2013•1 hr•Ep. 64
The Best Super Nintendo Games of All Time. The List: EarthBound Chrono Trigger Super Mario World Dragon Quest V Lufia II: Rise of the Sinistrals Secret of Evermore Mega Man X Final Fantasy IV Super Metroid Metal Combat: Falcon's Revenge Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island Metal Warriors Final Fantasy VI The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past Contra III: The Alien Wars Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars Secret of Mana Kirby's Dream Course Final Fight III Super Mario Kart Edited by Blaine...
Oct 09, 2013•2 hr 26 min•Ep. 63
Insert Credit Welcomes First Time Listeners. Questions this week: Did anything actually happen at TGS? What have you gained from this latest excursion to Japan? Who should be the most excited about the Steam controller? What adjustments should be made to the Legend of Zelda formula? How can smaller game companies fight back against the giants? IMPROV ZONE: Frank and Brandon are meeting for their first date. Tim, their guild leader, has invited himself and is oblivious to their relationship. Were...
Oct 01, 2013•1 hr 14 min•Ep. 62
We talk GTA V. Questions this week: What's the closest we've gotten to the Holodeck from Star Trek? Create a compelling narrative and background for a female protagonist in an add-on to GTA V. How would you compare the GTA franchise to the Yakuza franchise? What honest jobs would you like to see in the next GTA? If you and your friends were playing GTA in elementary school, what myths and exaggerations would you expect to hear about the games? Would you consider GTA to be a mature franchise? Wha...
Sep 17, 2013•1 hr 21 min•Ep. 61
Building Staircases on Top of People's Heads. Questions this week: What are some defining moments in your game playing history that have stuck with you? What games apart from Animal Crossing and The Sims allow you the most freedom to express yourself through interior design, and how will this subgenre evolve? What's the best Twine game you've ever played, and what Twine game would you most like to make? On a scale of 1-100, how much more or less likely are you to play a game after the creator de...
Sep 10, 2013•1 hr 24 min•Ep. 60
Insert Credit Engineers Sex with a Robot Orb. Questions this week: How was your PAX Prime time? What happened to Penny Arcade? How has Miyazaki's influence affected video games? What's going on at Capcom right now with the Kickstarter success of Mighty No. 9? Is Saints Row 4 a subversive critique of what's wrong with AAA games, or is it just another example of what's wrong with AAA games? IMPROV ZONE: Brandon, you are the passionate screenwrite on the Sonic the Hedgehog movie who believes in the...
Sep 03, 2013•1 hr 9 min•Ep. 59
Insert Credit is Slick and Hand-Holdable. Questions this week: After Madden 25, other video game series could benefit from putting the number of games they made into the title? (01:30) What game has the best title music? (09:05) Will Unity's support of 2D mean more good 2D games? Should people outside of development care about this? (19:05) When is Nintendo going to give up on the second screen? (33:39) What retro game if brought back in 1080p would make you drop $300 for a Wii U? (53:44) Edited...
Aug 28, 2013•1 hr 6 min•Ep. 58
You Can't Drink Coffee in the Lightning Round. Questions this week: How can someone most accurately assess whether a game will be worth playing during the first 5 minutes of booting it up? Are there any visual styles you can pinpoint between Saturday Morning Cartoon and hyper-realism that more video games should be using? What's the best thing you've seen from Gamescom, and what do you hope to see from it in the coming days? The premise of Batman: Arkham Origins is that 8 assassins have been hir...
Aug 21, 2013•1 hr 12 min•Ep. 57
Insert Credit loves arcade pizza. Questions this week: What's the saddest a video game ever made you? What are some notable attempts games have made to allow you to play multiple characters at once in the past? Conceptualize the Breast Game of All Time. What are some games that you're glad you've played, but wouldn't recommend to others? How can we use Twitch to set up a better and more popular 24 hour video game stream than Salty Bet? You've been sealed in an arcade in the year 1983 until you b...
Aug 14, 2013•1 hr 12 min•Ep. 56
We Take You on a Tour of Bethesda Studios. Questions this week: What is the video game equivalent of a luxury car? Are we paying enough attention to GaymerX? Which often overlooked multiplayer game do you think deserves more of a following in the competitive community? What is the best use of rope in a video game? You have to rob a Las Vegas casino, using a crack team of 5 video game characters. But you can only afford characters who have been in fewer than two sequels. Who do you choose? What w...
Aug 07, 2013•1 hr 10 min•Ep. 55
Insert Credit Tip: You Could Google That But Maybe You Don't Want To. Questions this week: What's your favorite browser flash game? What's your favorite implementation of a bow and arrow in a video game thus far? What tips can you give aspiring jerks to irritate game makers to their breaking point? Design an open world sandbox game based on the golden age of cartoons. Which video game sequels to the best job of revisiting the settings of previous entries? Is it time to buy a PlayStation Vita? Wh...
Jul 31, 2013•1 hr 18 min•Ep. 54
