Unless you've been living under a rock, you've probably already heard a thing or two about our biggest story this week regarding Gamestop. But this story is different from the times we've covered the failing retailer, instead we have a story of Reddit, memes and of course, STONKS. Also this week, Blizzard absorbs the studio behind the recent Tony H…

The World of Assassination trilogy draws to a close with the release of Hitman III from IO Interactive, but it goes out with a bang, bringing the entire trilogy under one roof and raising the bar of quality for cross-gen releases with its stellar PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series S|X support. We've got a review roundup for the game but first, Ethan lay…

EA's dark reign over the Star Wars franchise is finally coming to a close, restoring freedom to the stories told in a galaxy far, far away. This week, Lucasfilm Games announced itself as the new publishing brand overseeing Lucasfilm properties and that a new open-world Star Wars game was coming from Massive Entertainment and an Indiana Jones projec…

The end of season one of Absent Minded Watches is upon us as we tackle the final obstacle in our way, Angry Birds 2, a perfectly average way to finish out a perfectly excellent show. The birds are back, the pigs are back, and we struggle to come up with any idea of how a second one of these was made, or how they'll inevitably make a third one somed…

Absent Minded’s Super Official Highly Respected Industry Leading Only List That Truly Matters Game of the Decade Super Slam continues this week as we decide our #1 game of 2019 before talking about Sony ending production of most models of PlayStation 4 in Japan, the new projects in development at genDesign, Arkane Studios and Respawn Entertainment,…

In this special episode of Absent Minded Podcast the crew drafts video games for their fantasy publishers on FantasyCritic.Games. It's like fantasy football but for super nerds like us! May the best publisher win! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/absentminded/messageSupport this podcast: https://podcasters.spotif…

Absent Minded’s Super Official Highly Respected Industry Leading Only List That Truly Matters Game of the Decade Super Slam continues this week as we decide our #1 game of 2018 before talking about our most anticipated games coming in 2021 and with Squadron 42 missing its beta window, Travis thinks this whole Star Citizen thing might be a ponzi sch…

We've gotten through our last truly dreadful film this week with Dead Trigger, a paint-by-numbers zombie flick with every trope in the book. But who cares about that, it's after Christmas which means we get to talk about Wonder Woman 1984 and Pixar's Soul, which are much better movies. Also this week we talk about Tom Cruise ripping into crew membe…

Absent Minded’s Super Official Highly Respected Industry Leading Only List That Truly Matters Game of the Decade Super Slam continues this week as we decide our #1 game of 2017 before wishing a fond farewell to the creator of Microsoft's DirectX, trying to figure out how Among Us managed to become the most played video game of all time, the continu…

Absent Minded’s Super Official Highly Respected Industry Leading Only List That Truly Matters Game of the Decade Super Slam continues this week as we decide our #1 game of 2016 before diving into the absolute mess that Cyberpunk 2077's launch (and unlaunch?) has been and the evolving review situation, PlayStation 5 becoming the biggest console laun…

This is a very different episode of our show than what you'll usually hear, but one that Andrew wanted to share with our audience and one that we all felt was important. Andrew took a big step last month in his quest for self-improvement in mind and body by checking himself into New Hope Ranch rehabilitation facility for alcohol abuse, something he…

Andrew makes his triumphant return this week, which of course means the return of Absent Minded’s Super Official Highly Respected Industry Leading Only List That Truly Matters Game of the Decade Super Slam! This week we decide our #1 game of 2015 before discussing the very interesting discourse surrounding the reviews and release of Cyberpunk 2077 …

As we roll into December and the dust begins to settle from another Black Friday, which we guess really wasn't so bad this year thanks to everyone's favorite deadly virus, the news cycle continues to slow while we move from Thanksgiving into Christmas. Which just means we have more time to talk about what we've been playing! Travis has much to say …

As we barrel towards the finish line of season one, I guess that's what we're calling it, Travis and Ethan invite Tara back to discuss Tomb Raider, the 2018 reboot starring Alicia Vikander, and it does not go over well. It's an episode of reminiscence as we talk about the early days of Adult Swim and the G4 Holiday Reunion Special before Tara expla…

This week Americans celebrated Thanksgiving, a national holiday that we really can't believe hasn't been cancelled by Twitter yet, but its time will surely come. Ethan and Travis do what must be done, which is talk all about how they celebrated America's favorite day of eating before diving into what's really important in people's lives: video game…

Absent Minded's PlayStation 5 coverage continues as we end week one with Sony's latest system and our impressions strengthen, between the system's user interface and stability and our time with its biggest launch exclusives, including the one and only Demon's Souls. The reviews are in for Bluepoint's latest remake and it appears they've knocked it …

The day has finally arrived in which we tackle the final chapter of the incredibly lackluster saga of Resident Evil, and such a monumentally boring undertaking has required us to call in the ultimate schlock hype girl, the one and only Tara Conneally (@tallcanary), as our very first guest host. Are we all going to die down here? Let's hope not. But…

The next generation of video game consoles has officially begun this week with the launch of PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S, and Travis and Ethan have the freshest of impressions on Sony and Microsoft's latest hardware. We also run down the reviews of the biggest launch titles of the week before talking about the Mass Effect remaster's official …

Absent Minded’s Super Official Highly Respected Industry Leading Only List That Truly Matters Game of the Decade Super Slam continues this week as we decide our #1 game of 2014 before discussing reviews of Xbox Series X|S, a new jailbreak for Oculus Quest 2 circumventing Facebook account requirements, major network hacks at Crytek, Ubisoft and Capc…

Nothing is true and everything is permitted in Assassin's Creed, a solid action flick with a stellar cast of actors that actually tried their darnedest to make a good movie. And they pretty much did, and kept authentic to boot. We say goodbye to legendary actor Sean Connery this week before discussing the latest trailer for the final Evangelion fil…

Absent Minded’s Super Official Highly Respected Industry Leading Only List That Truly Matters Game of the Decade Super Slam continues this week as we decide our #1 game of 2013 before discussing the departure of Halo Infinite's project director, yet another delay for Cyberpunk 2077, AMD's recently announced Big Navi GPU lineup, the biggest announce…

Absent Minded’s Super Official Highly Respected Industry Leading Only List That Truly Matters Game of the Decade Super Slam continues this week as we decide our #1 game of 2012 before discussing Facebook's Head of VR doubling down on their ridiculous account requirements for the Oculus Quest 2, Phil Spencer's thoughts on releasing Bethesda titles o…

Absent Minded’s Super Official Highly Respected Industry Leading Only List That Truly Matters Game of the Decade Super Slam officially begins this week as we decide our #1 game of 2011 before discussing the PlayStation 5 user interface reveal, how backwards compatibility will work with your PlayStation 4 games, the incoming PlayStation Store change…

This week Sony finally gave us a peak inside the PlayStation 5, revealing all of its secrets and giving an idea of why this thing is so darn huge! We go over all the things you need to know about this next gen behemoth before getting into the latest changes to the PlayStation trophy system, our thoughts on how Nintendo really could achieve 4K gamin…

It's the return of the pretty decent video game movie this week as we watch The Angry Birds Movie! Now, I know what you're thinking, and I will say we say DECENT, okay. So relax. It's got a solid cast, some pretty good jokes and if you had to be forced to sit through this film in theaters for a small child you wouldn't have the worst time. Would it…

Long stretches of game development involving mandatory overtime, known as crunch, are unfortunately very common in the video games industry. It's a difficult topic to discuss as in some ways it almost seems like a necessary evil while the argument for its avoidance can be made just as strongly. Is it always a result of poor planning by project lead…

Microsoft dropped a megaton bomb on the games industry this week when it announced it was finalizing plans to acquire ZeniMax Media, the parent company of Bethesda Softworks, complete with all of the development studios and intellectual property under them. Xbox is now your future home for Doom, The Elder Scrolls, Fallout, Wolfenstein, Dishonored, …

Your friendly galactic Lombax gets his big screen debut in Ratchet & Clank and we promise you he's far more interesting in his games. In its effort to distill the franchise into lowest-common-denominator children's animation the film loses most of its personality, though there are a few glimmers of what makes these characters so great among the dud…

It's finally officially, the PlayStation 5 and PlayStation 5 Digital Edition is releasing this November at the competitive pricing we all hoped for, and that's just the beginning of all of the PlayStation 5 news we have this episode! Final Fantasy XVI opened up the PS5 Showcase this week and it's going to back its medieval fantasy roots, Spider-Man…

After having their hand forced by a leak of the system and its pricing, Microsoft finally unveiled the Xbox Series S, code-named Lockhart, that we've been talking about for nearly a year now. And it's exactly the box we thought. All of the new features and CPU grunt of the Xbox Series X, but with a GPU more targeted for 1080p and 1440p gaming. Micr…

Hitman: Agent 47 had lots of pew pew guns and explosions that kept our attention but will surely be completely gone from our memories by the time we're done writing this episode description. It's fine, okay, there's just not much to say. I expected better from you Zachary Quinto! The news is light this week, so get ready to listen to the gang talk …

Video games. When you read those two words, if Mario doesn't pop into your mind first, he's probably not too far behind. The Italian plumber in a red shirt and blue overalls is nearly synonymous with the entertainment medium we all love so dearly, and our boy is celebrating 35 years of running, jumping, and ground pounding in a big way. In a Super …

Sony began sending emails this week to PlayStation players deemed to have been worthy of the chance to pre-order a PlayStation 5 direct from the source, presumably in an effort to curb scalping and get more units into the hands of people that actually want them. But it's also a sign of just how limited production of the system may be, and how hard …

Fast and Furious Presents: Need for Speed... it's not actually called that but it probably would have made more money if it had been! This movie has a hell of a cast made up of Aaron Paul, Dominic Cooper, Imogeen Poots, Rami Malek, Michael Keaton, I mean, do we have to say more? You're sold on this already, aren't you?! We were and damn, this was a…

Apple and Epic's war of attrition over the money spent on Fortnite v-bucks continues this week and Apple isn't afraid to burn down all the bridges as it announces that all of Epic's development accounts will be shut out from iOS and Mac on August 28th, including those operated by third party developers. Does your game run on Unreal Engine? Apple sa…

With Microsoft's announcement this week that Xbox Series X would launch in November without Halo Infinite, which is delayed into 2021, yet another cloud of uncertainty appears as the company moves to launch its next generation console without a flagship first party game. What looked like a sleeping dragon at the beginning of the year now seems like…

It's time for Silent Hill: Revelation! Don't worry if you can't remember all of the details of the previous Silent Hill film, the writers didn't either! Nearly every major plot point is ignored this go around so feel free to sit back, relax, and not remember anything because nothing matters. Also! We talk about Disney's Mulan going to digital renta…

Fall Guys: Ultimate Knockout is the feel good hit of the summer on PS4 and PC, with millions of players (including us!) getting in on the game show action. We talk all about the goofy times we've had so far with this one, as well as some final thoughts on Ghost of Tsushima with Drew back in the game this week. There's a ton of news to go over too, …

Ghost of Tsushima released two weeks ago to critical and audience acclaim and Sucker Punch has been rewarded in kind as the title became the fastest selling original IP for PlayStation selling over 2.4 million units in just three days. Surprisingly though, the release is making some of the biggest waves in the country its story is based in, Japan, …

Alice is back... again... again. And this time it's terrible. Really, truly awful. It doesn't make any sense anymore, and that's with the understanding that it never really made any sense before. But it's so bad now. And we have one more to go. Just end it already. Paul W.S. Anderson you should be ashamed of yourself. Travis watched way too much si…

Has anyone actually gotten into contact with Microsoft to let them know that they're launching a next generation console this year? The Xbox Games Showcase has come and gone, leaving pangs of what could have been, reopening wounds only recently shut after their last event in May. Outside of a "this is fine" reveal of Halo Infinite (that we found ou…

The Last of Us Part II was easily one of the most highly anticipated games of this generation for many, and will likely go down as the highest selling PlayStation 4 exclusive as this console cycle draws to a close. It's a fitting game for our very first spoilercast. A true high water mark for the medium, the game is top-tier in terms of level and s…

Change is afoot at Ubisoft as three high level executives resign from the company amid a host of sexual harassment allegations, including Chief Creative Officer Serge Hascoet, the man behind the formulaic open-world games the company has produced for nearly a decade. The same week Ubisoft streamed its Ubisoft Forward event, the first of many, detai…

Alice is back with a clone army and superpowers, finally ready to take down the evil Umbrella Corporation. Until she's not, because ya boi Wesker doesn't play around! Resident Evil: Afterlife finally sets up the shark and jumps right the hell over it, and it's a lot of fun. Clone High is getting a revival at MTV Studios, say whaaaaaaat? Director Jo…

Evo Online has been cancelled this week following the removal of Evo's CEO after numerous allegations of sexual misconduct, allegations that are only the latest in a massive number of victims coming forward within the fighting game community. Microsoft is apparently in talks to acquire Warner Bros. gaming division, including studios like Rocksteady…

After years of speculation on when the shoe would drop, inflation may well have finally caught up with our industry as Take Two announces NBA 2K21 as the first next generation title to cost $70 for entry instead of the $60 we've all been paying for new games since 2005. Is the rising bill of sale justified or are publishers just making clear how mu…

Jake Gyllenhaal signs up to make some of that sweet, sweet Disney money as Dastan, a street kid turned prince on a quest to protect a legendary dagger with time altering powers with the help of a vengeful princess. It's basically Pirates of the Carribean in the desert. You'll like it! AMC details its totally cool, totally safe plans for reopening i…

This episode includes a 100% SPOILER FREE discussion of The Last of Us Part 2! Do not be scared to listen to this episode if you have not finished the game, at the time of recording Travis and Andrew had not either. We discuss the gameplay mechanics, design, and other high level thoughts on the game without delving into story details or structure i…

As Sony and Microsoft go toe to toe with each other in the form of next gen hype with console and game reveals, it looks like Xbox is setting up for a much bigger event than their 3rd party showcase that left us all wanting more. The rumors were kicked up a notch this week when a trusted industry leaker described the event as a "night of mic drops"…

Now, I know what you're thinking. No, that unfortunately is not Steven Seagal in the cover art for this episode. But don't worry, the movie we watched week is just as mediocre if it had been. Tekken follows Jin, a rebellious teenager fighting to survive in the slums of a world controlled by massive corporations that pit fighters against each other …