October 31, 2012 In this spooktacular special episode, which is haunted, we discuss video games. The cast is coming from inside the pod.

Games Discussed: Tennnes, Hotline Miami, Hawken, Dota 2, DayZ

October 24, 2012 Grab your goblin, and keep your mitts off my last hits. And remember: always pack a parachute. 'Tis the season for video games.

Games and Holidays Discussed: Dota 2, XCOM: Enemy Unknown, Dishonored, Mark of the Ninja, Just Cause 2, Far Cry, Far Cry 2, Far Cry 3, Halloween, Dishonored Halloween

October 17, 2012 When two of the best games of the year land on the same day, we have little choice but to call in reinforcements. With special guest Steve Gaynor. Nice mask.

Games Discussed: Dishonored, BioShock, XCOM Enemy Unknown, Jagged Alliance, Far Cry 2

October 10, 2012 As part of our Kickstarter campaign, backers were given the chance to help us ruin an episode by giving us a list of topics we had to discuss. The following four and a half hours is the result of that list. Enjoy.

What's Inside?! Over one hundred and seventy unique topics! Four-plus hours of podcast death marching! YOU make the podcast with YOUR questions!

October 3, 2012 A fun outing to the city takes a turn once Jake and Sean run out of food. Chris gets more than he bargained for when he brings home a new pet. TV-MA

Games Discussed: Torchlight II, Diablo III, FTL: Faster Than Light, Tokyo Jungle, Toe Jam & Earl, Smuggle Truck, Cow Clicker, Pyst, The X-Fools, The Oregon Trail, Number Munchers

September 27, 2012 Neon lights flash. Boxes and controllers of games gone unplayed tumble off of your clumsy finger-tips. Turn by turn your affliction goes unchecked and games go unplayed. Before it all goes black Lao Che slams something down on to a table. "What's that?" you ask. "The anecdote, Dr. Jones" "To what?" He laughs aloud. "Video games."

Games Discussed: XCOM: Enemy Unknown, FTL: Faster Than Light, The Binding of Isaac, Katamari Damacy, Minecraft, Quake 3: Arena, Dark Souls

September 19, 2012 In Sean Vanaman's absence, our co-hosts are joined by Double Fine's JP LeBreton for a discussion of the X-COM series, some ruminating on your DOS CD-ROM drivers, and time dilation versus just being drunk.

Games Discussed: X-COM: UFO Defense, XCOM Enemy Unknown, Dark Souls, Black Mesa, Half-Life 2, Super Hexagon, Johann Sebastian Joust, Thirty Flights of Loving, Grand Theft Auto series, Dungeon Fighter Online, Doom (Extermination Warrior)

September 12, 2012 PC Gamer Executive Editor Evan Lahti joins us as we pore over maps and documents in preparation to tail our mark. As we take one step out of line -- as giant circles of sound radiate from our feet for the world to see -- only then do we realize we were killed by the best.

Games Discussed: DayZ, Mark of the Ninja, Super Meat Boy, Steam Greenlight, Steam Big Picture Mode, Peter Jackson's King Kong: The Official Game of the Movie

September 5, 2012 Chris, Jake, and Sean are reunited with Steve and Nick live at PAX 2012 to discuss the mechanical virtues of aesthetics and scale, and also video games. Doug Tabacco escapes throngs of adoring Walking Dead fans to launch a new website live under the hot lights of the Pegasus Theater. Recorded with regrettably substandard audio quality. It won't happen again.

Games Discussed: Spy Party, Gone Home, The Walking Dead, DayZ

August 29, 2012 As you contemplate the vast chamber's terrible sense-deadening magnitude, clawed machines grasp uselessly at your limbs, the distant hum of starship engines recede into the distance, and a dispassionate god enacts his ineffable plan. Please attend our PAX panel.

Games Discussed: Dota 2, Team Fortress 2: Mann vs. Machine, FTL: Faster Than Light, The Binding of Isaac, Far Cry 2, Indiana Jones and His Desktop Adventures, Yoda Stories, Thirty Flights of Loving, games of crane.

August 22, 2012 In which Chris and Sean take a ride through a verdant countryside with the Daisy Lord and Jake attempts an analogy he ultimately regrets.

Games Discussed: Diablo II, Diablo III, DayZ, Team Fortress 2: Mann vs. Machine, Gears of War 2, Borderlands 2

August 15, 2012 Soaring through the infinite blackness, observing all that is, was, and will be, he is displeased. Endless turns of the asynchronous wheel, amounting to what? Nothing. He sees them erecting a tower. It must fall. He sees a tiny ship pass through the sky. It must burn. Heretics must burn. Crew must burn. Cast must burn.

Games Discussed: Babel Rising, Space Engine, Hero Academy, Words With Friends, Draw Something, Medal of Honor Warfighter, Spec Ops: The Line, The Visit, Team Fortress 2, FTL: Faster Than Light

August 10, 2012 You lower your virtual vis-visor from your face -- the fate of your shipmates will have to wait. On the dusty crust of a distant alien planet, a faraway rumble grows to an inescapable roar and the discarded shell of a heroic jet-pack robot platform plummets towards your face. This is your seven minutes of terror.

Things Discussed: QuakeCon, Oculus Rift, Curiosity Rover, FTL: Faster Than Light, The Binding of Isaac, Dota 2

August 6, 2012 Idle Thumbs traveled to QuakeCon 2012 for the express purpose of casting a pod at you live in real time (and also to check out Dishonored). With special guests Nick Breckon and Steve Gaynor. (You can watch a video of the live recording at http://twitch.tv/idlethumbs.)

Games Discussed: Dishonored, CLOP, Diablo III, Torchlight, Quake III: Arena, Unreal Tournament

August 1, 2012 Idle Thumbs spends a day at the video arcade, or more specifically at the California Extreme arcade expo, for an opportunity to relive some nonexistent kid's slowly fading memories of destroying castles, marbles with human faces, and the worst Halloween of his life.

Games Discussed: Rampart, Castles, Marble Madness II: Marble Man, Dot Gobbler, SparkZ, Grid, NFL Blitz, Fez, The Walking Dead