August 13, 2014 In life, and in the games we played this week, time continues to advance whether you want it to or not. Move forward, look back, or stand still, the inexorable march to the end continues unabated. So when you click on that dead body in the trunk, for God's sake seize the opportunity and do something interesting.

Games Discussed: Divinity: Original Sin, Ωracle, Gods Will Be Watching, The Last Express, Three Fourths Home, The Often-Ending Story, Minecraft, Geometry Wars, Half-Life 3

August 7, 2014 A weekend of non-stop sci-fi movies accidentally begets an episode filled with the first person corridors of today and yesterday, and the gross things they're made of. Plus: Chris encounters the Necrodancer and Jake plays PC games from his couch for the first time.

Things Discussed: Xibalba, Doom, Toxikk, Unreal Tournament (2014), Crypt of the Necrodancer, Steam Home Streaming, Alien Quadrilogy

July 31, 2014 Things have really gone to hell. It's all a big cacophonous mess. Sean and Danielle gave up the podcasting for a life of dealing drugs aboard a cruise ship to a man who worships John Madden. Jake just plays the same old games every night, a worthless old man. Chris... well who can even tell anymore? Yeah I know. Very, very off blade.

Games Discussed: Velvet Sundown, The Last Of Us: Remastered

July 23, 2014 A podcast teaches, But never ceases To deliver speeches, Sweet as peaches, And soft as cheeses. A podcast reaches, While on the beaches Or on the creases, When eating pizzas, With your nieces, Like pyschokinesis, In bits and pieces, A podcast thesis For your earses. *Fart sound*

Games Discussed: The International, Destiny, Divinity: Original Sin, Feaster's Queest

July 16, 2014 After a weekend of unparalleled successes and unmitigated failures, we talk through the difference between conceiving of something, and making it actually happen. There's also a long look at what it means when the knowledge and advances of modern technology are applied to game design philosophies from twenty years ago. But you're probably here for the farting skeleton.

Games Discussed: Shovel Knight, Abyss Odyssey, Wings of St. Nazaire, Street Fighter IV

July 9, 2014 Look, I'm not sayin' Tawmmy shouldn'ta been sent up for doing what he done to all them cahps, but they got stunnas, what else is he gonna do? Also I heard from Stacy—ya know Stacy. Whose fathah died? Ya know, that old guy that choked on that grinda up in P'tuckit. Ya know. Her sistah went to RISD and thinks she's some sahta rawalty. Anyway, Stacy sayin her brothah did thah same but he just got regulah time in the cybah-mines. That's some gahbage.

Things Discussed: Jaws, Dota 2, Coming Out Simulator 2014, The Last Night, Wings of St. Nazaire, accents

July 2, 2014 The question posed: Was Nick really in love with his Wii U, or was it all a bizarrely detailed dream? To find the answer, we ventured deep into Nick's mind, probing the darkest wells of his psyche, the inkiest depths of his soul. The journey cost lives, ended friendships, conjured up some very unfortunate images of Sonic the Hedgehog, and ultimately revealed nothing.

Games Discussed: Shovel Knight, Valiant Hearts, 1001 Spikes, Teleglitch, DuckTales Remastered, Mario Kart 8, Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Village, Silent Hill 4: The Room

June 25, 2014 Lungs howling, eyes watering, mouth agape, you stare into the light. With your throttle down and thrusters on, your search for that satisfying release intensifies, but each passing moment serves to only charge your panic—will you find it? Is it there? Is it you? Then, finally...Gesundheit! Video games.

Games Discussed: Star Citizen, Munin, Capsule, Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes

June 18, 2014 E3 is over but we're somehow not over E3. This week Danielle runs down her favorite games from the show, Jake recounts his fleeting brush with Destiny, and why he can't stop considering the desires of the tiny Chris Remo who lives in his mind.

Games Discussed: Alien: Isolation, Destiny, Kirby's Rainboy Curse, Mario Maker, Nero, Never Alone, Splatoon, Star Citizen

June 12, 2014 The thudding gets louder, deafening. You try to speak but you cannot hear your own voice. You try to look up but you are blinded. Getting up from your chair is a futile effort, the thudding coursing through your veins; it's in your heart now. You are at E3, but you are sitting at home. We are at E3, but we are sitting at work. E3 is everywhere and it is in all of us and it is all of us.

Games Discussed: Ori and the Blind Forest, No Man's Sky, The Legend of Zelda (WiiU), Grim Fandango (PS4), Evolve, Sunset Overdrive, Rocksmith, Star Citizen

June 5, 2014 You may have thought you were buying Mario Kart 8. Lucky for you, what you actually purchased was an intricate collection of high fidelity scenarios and systems which enable Luigi to glare at people he hates. Plus, Nick digs into this week's Steam Early Access releases, and Chris goes all in on Wolfenstein The New Order.

Games Discussed: Mario Kart 8, The Forest, The Stomping Land, Wolfenstein The New Order, FEAR

May 28, 2014 For long time followers of the popular video games franchise, this episode offers the linchpin reveals and cross-universe connections you've been waiting years to receive. Is everything connected? Is it all in your head? You can find out soon, but the server's having some difficulty so for now please chill in this complimentary themed waiting lounge.

Games Discussed: Watch_Dogs, Wolfenstein The New Order, UPlay Lounge, Transistor, Portal 2

May 21, 2014 Enemies close in, your health almost gone. Time slows, then stops. With the world waiting around you, your choices are endless. You browse your options: A direct attack has its merits, but maybe a dash strike followed by a devastating chain of backstabs would be more effective, or maybe the whole encounter is irrelevant with the deployment of a cloaking field. Your decision reached, you unfreeze time and realize you have somehow instead bought four MannCo crate keys. Despite what you've heard, this is not episode 160, but it does feature special guest Danielle Riendeau of Polygon.

Games Discussed: Transistor, Super Time Force, Dota 2: The International, Wolfenstein: The New Order, Team Fortress 2, Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes, Full Bore, Super Noah's Ark

May 15, 2014 This week choice rules on Idle Thumbs. This week YOU decide your podcast experience. Do you want a small robotic camera to watch you for the duration, or would you prefer to save the hundred dollars? Would you like to experience the podcast while wearing an iconic hat available only with one of eleven pre-order options, or maybe pick that up later as DLC? Is it more to your tastes that the title of this episode is a reference to a hypothetical children's book, or to an alphabet-themed series of murder mystery novels?

Games Discussed: Watch_Dogs, Kinect for Xbox One, DayZ, You Have to Win The Game

May 8, 2014 Fresh from a research trip to Yosemite, we're joined by special guest Nels Anderson to finally get into Dark Souls II, talk about the incredible upcoming month of game releases, and eat a lot of candy. This episode is about neither Peter Molyneux nor Shigeru Miyamoto.

Games Discussed: Dark Souls II, Far Cry 2, Super Time Force, Below, Firewatch