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Overworld Weekly: A Wider View of Video Game News
Hosted by Brendon Bigley x Overworld.vg · EN
Breaking down the biggest stories shaping the video game industry, every week.
Brought to you by video game news aggregator Overworld and hosted + produced by Brendon Bigley.
Learn more and get the news as it breaks at https://overworld.vg
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The 50 Best Games of 2025
Jan 2Tap to summarizeTurns out they made a lot of good video games last year. So many, in fact, that I felt the need to continue last year's move of celebrating 50 of them in an extremely chill manner!!Thank you all for a great first (partial) year of Wavelengths, I hope you're as stoked for 2026 as I am!Note: Wish I'd known about the Level5 CEO showing his whole tuchus before I said all those nice things about Fantasy Life i... a game that might have been made by artificial intelligence for all we know!!Also note: Count the number of times I say “pound for pound” or “it’s a fascinating thing” or “check it out!!"---Join the Patreon: https://patreon.com/wavelengths---Feel free to follow me elsewhere!Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/bb.wavelengths.onlineMastodon: https://mastodon.social/@brendonbigleyBlog: https://wavelengths.online---Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4Hmt3yHTovQmEcqzhZdl8TApple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/wavelengths-with-brendon-bigley/id1677660078Pocket Casts: https://pca.st/x6p7ni3rAnd more: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/itswavelengths---⏆
Transcribe →Let's Talk About The Game Awards
Nov 21Tap to summarizeWelcome back to Wavelengths! This week's main topic is about the nominees for 2025's TGAs, how weird they are, and how weird my feelings about the award show have become over the years. I also talk a bit about my own GOTY prep, some games I've been playing recently, and my thoughts a week out from the reveal of the Steam Machine.Additional reading: https://www.theguardian.com/games/2025/nov/11/future-class-gamings-oscars-game-awards---Join the Patreon: https://patreon.com/wavelengths---Feel free to follow me elsewhere!Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/bb.wavelengths.onlineMastodon: https://mastodon.social/@brendonbigleyBlog: https://wavelengths.online---Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4Hmt3yHTovQmEcqzhZdl8TApple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/wavelengths-with-brendon-bigley/id1677660078Pocket Casts: https://pca.st/x6p7ni3rAnd more: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/itswavelengths---⏆
Transcribe →A Cool Thirty Percent
Oct 24Tap to summarizeWelcome back to the show! Unfortunately Xbox can't stop dominating the news cycle, so I dug a bit into their next, priecier console and apparently-strategic lack of exclusive games. Afterwards I felt like I needed to dig back into my feeling about Pokemon Legends Z-A having played a lot more since giving some first impressions last week.Xbox's 30 Percent Mandate: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-10-23/microsoft-pushes-xbox-studios-to-hit-higher-profit-marginsPost Games: https://pod.link/1815131711---Join the Patreon: https://patreon.com/wavelengths---Feel free to follow me elsewhere!Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/bb.wavelengths.onlineMastodon: https://mastodon.social/@brendonbigleyBlog: https://wavelengths.online---Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4Hmt3yHTovQmEcqzhZdl8TApple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/wavelengths-with-brendon-bigley/id1677660078Pocket Casts: https://pca.st/x6p7ni3rAnd more: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/itswavelengths---Chapters:0:00 - Welcome back to Wavelengths1:05 - Zero Days Since Last Talked About Xbox19:55 - Nintendo Switch 2 Games29:05 - Even More About Pokemon Legends Z-A---⏆
Transcribe →Nintendo's Disney Era
Oct 10Tap to summarizeNintendo is making movies, theme parks, and aligning their games with other multimedia experiences in a way that screams Corporate Synergy Opportunities™ — the kind that board members go absolutely gaga over.On today's episode of Wavelengths, I tackle that along with some updates about Xbox and my experience playing the Resident Evil Requiem demo at New York Comic Con!
Transcribe →AJ Fillari on Podcasting, Media Crit, and The Last of Us Online
Aug 22Tap to summarizeThis week I'm switching things up a little bit, starting with some news about Hollow Knight Silksong and Gamescom before launching into a chat with AJ Fillari!We chat about podcasting, their show DotZip, our podcast network, and building up the critical muscle. It's a good one!—Support Wavelengths: patreon.com/wavelengths—The News and More:AJ on Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/ajfillari.bsky.socialdotzip: https://dotzip.online/Kirby Air Riders: https://www.polygon.com/nintendo-direct-august-2025-kirby-air-riders-switch-2/ Silksong Event: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XGeJwsUP9cJason Schrier on Silksong: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2025-08-21/why-silksong-team-cherry-s-sequel-to-hollow-knight-took-so-long-to-makeLast of Us Online Directors' New Game: https://www.videogameschronicle.com/news/director-of-scrapped-the-last-of-us-online-says-his-new-us-japan-studio-is-making-a-cinematic-multiplayer-title/AYN Thor: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZEzXQkmSWuY—Chapters:0:00 - Welcome back to Wavelengths!1:00 - Hollow Knight Silksong and Gamescom23:20 - The Worst Garbage Online40:21 - AJ's Podcasting Journey1:20:14 - On Media Crit1:48:02 - More News!1:58:32 - Kirby Air Riders—⏆
Transcribe →Tori Dominguez Peek on Pokémon, the Switch 2, and Theater
Aug 15, 2025Tap to summarizeThis week I had a chat with Tori Dominguez Peek — cohost of the wonderful video game podcast Press Start — about being a theater kid, what makes a good video game adaptation, and how we're feeling abotu the Switch 2 a few months in.—Support Wavelengths: patreon.com/wavelengths—The News and More:Zach Cregger on his Resident Evil reboot: https://variety.com/2025/film/news/weapons-director-zach-cregger-resident-evil-movie-1236485983/ Press Start: https://pod.link/1589865240—Chapters:0:00 - Welcome back to Wavelengths!3:00 - Weapons and Video Game Adaptations22:40 - 1000xResist and Masquerade45:30 - Press Start51:18 - Switch 2 and Pokémon—⏆
Transcribe →Emily Price on "Mid" and the Cultural Cachet of Games
Aug 8, 2025Tap to summarizeThis week on Wavelengths I'm talking to Emily Price, a great writer over at Unwinnable and also a PhD candidate in medieval literature! We chat about a whole bevy of things including the word "mid," Dragon Age, and where games are at as a medium in culture.—Support Wavelengths: patreon.com/wavelengths—The News and More:Emily on games being mainstream: https://unwinnable.com/2025/07/30/videogames-are-mainstream-what-will-make-them-feel-like-it/Emily on “mid”: https://unwinnable.com/2025/01/31/mid/Let’s Smash Bro: https://johnpaulbrammer.substack.com/p/lets-smash-broBlue Prince at SGDQ: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cirrfl1yQ2cNintendo Indie World (8/7/25): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mTv0HmKoUqwNintendo raised prices on everything except the Switch 2: https://thisweekinvideogames.com/news/nintendo-switch-console-accessory-price-increases-august-2025/ —Chapters:0:00 - Welcome back to Wavelengths!36:10 - Video games and the mainstream—⏆
Transcribe →I’m Already Overwhelmed by 2025’s Games
Feb 15, 2025Tap to summarizeI've already played a bunch of great 2025 games so far, and it's only February. I think we all knew this was going to be a big year — hello GTA6!! — but I wasn't anticipating being so blown away so early on. Here's a video about some standout games I've played so far that released within the past two months — NOT including Civilization VII which I completely forgot to mention, even though I like it!!Stimulation Clicker: https://stimulationclicker.com/---Feel free to follow me elsewhere!Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/bb.wavelengths.onlineMastodon: https://idlethumbs.social/@brendonBlog: https://wavelengths.online---Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4Hmt3yHTovQmEcqzhZdl8TApple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/wavelengths-with-brendon-bigley/id1677660078Pocket Casts: https://pca.st/x6p7ni3rAnd more: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/itswavelengths---Chapters:0:00 - 2025 is already wild1:05 - Warriors: Abyss5:23 - Tyrant's Realm7:07 - FlyKnight7:51 - Ruffy and the Riverside10:21 - Tokyo Xtreme Racer11:51 - Keep Driving13:32 - Avowed18:41 - Stimulation Clicker19:26 - Upcoming Games---⏆
Transcribe →CES 2025 Showed Me the Future of Handheld Gaming
Jan 14, 2025Tap to summarizeI went to Las Vegas for CES 2025 to figure out if this will really end up being "the year of the handheld" and while my answer was less conclusive than I was expecting, I did walk away excited about the puzzle pieces and how they'll eventually fit together. --- Feel free to follow me elsewhere! Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/bb.wavelengths.online Mastodon: https://idlethumbs.social/@brendon Blog: https://wavelengths.online --- ⏆
Transcribe →Wavelengths 50 (Game of the Year 2024)
Jan 4, 2025Tap to summarizeIt's January of 2025 which means it's a perfect time to look back at the best games of 2024*. * In my opinion, obviously! Games are art, and while ranking art is inherently silly it's great to reflect on how it impacted you individually. Objectivity is a myth! These lists are as subjective as it gets, baby. --- Feel free to follow me elsewhere! Threads: https://www.threads.net/@brendonbigley Mastodon: https://idlethumbs.social/@brendon Blog: https://wavelengths.online Backloggd: https://www.backloggd.com/u/brendonbigley --- Chapters: 0:00 - Welcome to Wavelengths 50 1:59 - 50 through 41 11:15 - 40 through 31 20:30 - 30 through 21 36:27 - 20 through 11 50:42 - The Top 10 Games of 2024 --- ⏆
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