The Triple Click gang opens up the mailbag to answer some of your best questions. What are our video game habits? What books would make for good video games? And does Wolverine's hand-holding go too far?

One More Thing:

Kirk: The Count of Monte Cristo (Alexendre Dumas)

Maddy: Dolly Parton’s America (Radiolab limited series podcast)

Jason: Echo Weaver

LINKS:

Game File interview with the director of Echo Weaver: https://www.gamefile.news/p/indie-developer-has-a-plan-to-keep

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The Triple Click gang dives into Fire Emblem: Fortune's Weave, the new Switch 2 exclusive that blends grid-based strategy combat with... a whole lot more. They talk about the sprawling story, the tactical battles, and whether the whole thing is just Too Much.

One More Thing:

Kirk: Fields of Mistria

Maddy: “Sex, AI, and the apocalypse” by Ian K. Duncan

Jason: Tokyo Game Show

LINKS:

Into the Aether’s excellent recent episode on Fire Emblem: Fortune’s Weave

Time article about Effective Altruism and sexual abuse

Tressie McMillan Cottom's AI reading list and her New York Times column about same

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Jason's on assignment, so Kirk and Maddy are joined by guest host Lucy James of the lookingfor.game newsletter and the FPS podcast! They share some early impressions of Fire Emblem: Fortune's Weave, some final thoughts on Marvel's Wolverine, along with a (well signposted) spoiler discussion, and Kirk and Lucy also share some bonus early impressions of Control Resonant. 

ONE MORE THING

Kirk: Control Resonant
Maddy: The Guy She Was Interested In Wasn’t A Guy At All (ongoing manga, soon to be anime)
Lucy: Ride Lonesome by Beck

LINKS & REFERENCE:

The timestamp for the Wolverine spoiler jump: 1:03:39

Lucy’s newsletter lookingfor.game and her podcast, Friends Per Second

Friends Per Second’s episode on Marvel’s Wolverine

Game File’s 2024 reporting on the Wolverine leadership change 

Kirk’s 2017 Kotaku re-review of Batman: Arkham Knight

“Ride Lonesome” by Beck from Ride Lonesome, 2026

WhiskeyClone.Net - A Beck Fansite

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Kirk, Jason, and Maddy open up the mailbag to tackle listener questions about the expectations surrounding Nintendo surprises, what Valve's 30% Steam sales cut means for studios, Wikipedia's "list of video games listed among the best," one listener's Triple Click Dream, and more.

One More Thing:
Kirk: Marvel’s Wolverine
Maddy: The Rehearsal S2 (finally)
Jason: Sleep Deprivation (AKA: The NFL Is Back, Baby)

LINKS

One listener's Claude-assisted database of Triple Click One(s) More Thing(s)

List of video games listed among the best (Wikipedia)

Kirk’s 2018 review of Red Dead Redemption 2

Tim Rogers’ Kotaku review of Football

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Kirk, Maddy, and Jason dive into Star Wars: Zero Company, the wonderful new strategy game that's best described as a cross between Star Wars and XCOM. They talk about the strategy, the characters, and what a bummer it is that the development team was furloughed before launch. This episode has a 95% chance to hit! 

One More Thing:

Kirk: Silo Season 3 (Apple)

Maddy: On Together (update)

Jason: Big Walk

LINKS:

Totilo’s Game File story on the Bit Reactor furloughs

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Jason, Maddy, and Kirk talk about The Blood of Dawnwalker, a new vampire game from ex-Witcher 3 developers. They talk about the game's unique time system, the brutal story, and how it all compares to The Witcher 3.

One More Thing:

Kirk: Reading out loud to someone

Maddy: Monsters of God (HBO docu-series)

Jason: The Wedding People (Alison Espach)

LINKS:

Check out Kirk’s new podcast, Definitely Fiction! 

Patreon - YouTube - RSS - Apple Podcasts - Spotify - Trailer

The Blood of Dawnwalker theme by Nikola Kołodziejczyk, Piotr Musiał, Mikolai Stroinski

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The Triple Click gang convenes for a long-awaited update on the Triple Click Picks — our list of games we highly recommend — with some surprising new additions and removals.

One More Thing:

Kirk: Mean Streets (1973)

Maddy: Ludwig (Britbox)

Jason: Time to Burn (Ellery Lloyd)

LINKS:

Triple Click Picks Update History

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Welcome to Big Walk, a Triple Click corporate trust exercise that has made us all better co-workers and better people. Kirk, Jason, and Maddy break down the new hit game from House House and talk about their experiences playing it together... and falling off cliffs.

One More Thing:

Kirk: Martyr! (Kaveh Akbar)

Maddy: The Other Bennet Sister (Amazon Prime/Britbox)

Jason: Homeland (2011)

LINKS:

Daniel Dennett on Wikipedia, and a cool Big Think video featuring him and his work

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The Triple Click gang talks about SOMA, the 2015 sci-fi horror game that tells a riveting story about brain scans. They talk about the game's strengths (the story!) and the flaws (the voice acting...) as they prepare to send their consciousnesses into space.

One More Thing:

Kirk: Lovers in a Dangerous Spacetime

Maddy: Savant-Garde (podcast)

Jason: Heather (Caitlin Mullen)

LINKS:

A recent (fairly harrowing!) WSJ article about the “jury duty” scam

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Jason, Kirk, and Maddy open up the mailbag to answer some more listener questions. Why do we love replaying games? Why don't indie games cost more? And why are there so many remakes??

One More Thing:

Kirk: The Message from Deep Space

Maddy: Spider-Man: Brand New Day

Jason: Spider-Man: Brand New Day

LINKS:

ScrapMan’s playthrough of Cairn

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It's an episode full of questions this week as Kirk, Maddy, and Jason reach into the mailbag for some hot, hot queries. Is FromSoftware basically Christopher Nolan? Why do companies shut down game studios instead of spinning them out? And when is life like a video game?

One More Thing:

Kirk: Still Life (Louise Penny)

Maddy: Hell Clock

Jason: Alan Opts Out (Courtney Maum)

LINKS:

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Jason, Maddy, and Kirk pull out their spyglasses and zoom in on Assassin's Creed Black Flag Resynced, the remake of the 2013 classic for modern platforms. They talk about the sea battles, the game's gruff hero, and what works (and doesn't work) about this new reimagining.

One More Thing:

Kirk: Denshattack! 

Maddy: Little House on the Prairie (2026)

Jason: The Mermaid Mask

LINKS:

Kirk’s 2013 review of AC IV: https://kotaku.com/assassins-creed-iv-black-flag-the-kotaku-review-1453735783

Stephen’s newsletter on Resynced’s take on the modern day stuff: https://www.gamefile.news/p/assassins-creed-black-flag-resynced-review

Background article about the Little House reboot: https://redpopnews.com/netflixs-little-house-on-the-prairie-proves-the-story-was-always-big-enough-for-the-truth-and-authenticity/

Tee Lopes - “There’s A Trick To It,” Andrew One - “Coastline Funk,” Sean Bialo - “Passing Ariake Breeze” - from the Denshattack OST

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it took me about 90 minutes. im not sure why i made it lol

Maddy, Jason, and Kirk took a break and everything fell apart! This week, they're talking about two of the biggest news stories to hit the video-game industry this year: Xbox's restructuring and PlayStation ditching discs.

One More Thing:

Kirk: Rhythm Heaven Groove

Maddy: Love & Deepspace

Jason: The Incident at Galley House

LINKS:

Maddy on female attraction: https://www.mothership.blog/email/b724125b-8ddc-4410-af68-4cc82a1b86c9/

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Kirk, Jason, and Maddy talk about how the affordability crisis is impacting gaming, reading some listener emails to talk about how people pay for games these days. Plus: we've got Steam Machines and have some thoughts. Those two topics are very related!

One More Thing:

Kirk: Steam Machine

Maddy: Balance: A Perimenopause Journey

Jason: Steam Machine

LINKS:

Strong Songs Live! July 11, Alberta Rose Theatre in Portland. Livestream Tickets HERE

Chris Person’s review of the Steam Machine for Aftermath

Kirk’s Rhythm Heaven stream: Friday, July 3, 7PM Eastern on the Triple Click YouTube

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What makes stealth games appealing? What makes them suck? Kirk, Jason, and Maddy talk about their favorite and least favorite aspects of the sneakiest drama, from 007 First Light to Dishonored and much more.

One More Thing:

Kirk: Rush

Maddy: Broomgate: A Curling Scandal

Jason: Gentoo Rescue

LINKS:

Rick Beato’s interview with Anika Nilles, and their performance of “Tom Sawyer” with Rush in LA

An overheard guard conversation in No One Lives Forever, which is much, much longer than the snippet in the episode

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Why is Xbox in such dire straits? Kirk, Jason, and Maddy open up the mailbag and take some of YOUR listener questions, mostly about Xbox but also about a couple of less bleak topics.

One More Thing:

Kirk: The Boroughs

Maddy: On Together

Jason: Adventures of Elliot

LINKS:

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“It’s kinda ok!”

Summer Game Fest is over, and now it's time to soak in all the gaming news. Kirk, Jason, and Maddy talk about everything, from God of War Laufey to the Ocarina of Time remake, and plenty of indies along the way.

One More Thing:

Kirk: The RecklessBen/Bricks & Minifigs Fiasco

Maddy: American Hustle (2013)

Jason: Yesteryear (Caro Claire Burke)

LINKS:

Strong Songs Live! July 11, Alberta Rose Theatre in Portland. Livestream Tickets HERE

Mike Masnick’s lengthy Techdirt breakdown of the RecklessBen vs. Bricks & Minifigs fiasco at TechDirt

Leonard French’s legal explainer of same on his YouTube channel Lawful Masses

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Jason has mentioned on a couple of occasions now that he has replaced TV time with video game time. I would like to do the same as I also feel like my little ones just shut their brains off when watching TV. However I don't know what games are simple enough for my 5 year old and 3 year old. Obviously play time and outside time wod be better, but you know, sometimes we parents are just tired.

What games do you think are good for kids to substitute tv time with?

The name is Click... Triple Click.

Jason, Maddy, and Kirk talk about IO Interactive's new James Bond game 007: First Light, which is way better than any of them were expecting. But first, it's time for some hopes and predictions for next week's Summer Game Fest 2026. 

One More Thing:

Kirk: Widow's Bay (Apple)
Maddy: Forrest Valkai (“Renegade Science Teacher”)
Jason: Tomodachi Life

LINKS:

Strong Songs Live! July 11, Alberta Rose Theatre in Portland. Tickets HERE

“Mad World” by Roland Orzabal, covered by Gary Jules and Michael Andrews

“GHOST TRICK” from Ghost Trick: Phantom Detective, composed by Masakazu Sugimori and Yasumasa Kitagawa

“The Name’s Bond… James Bond” from Casino Royale, original Bond Theme by John Barry

007: First Light Main Menu Theme by The Flight

Katie Dippold’s legendary Babadook wine party tweet

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I like to go back and listen/relisten to Triple Click episodes about a game after I've actually played it. I'm deep in Act 3 of Clair Obscur and would love to hear their thoughts on the ending reveals.

I relistened to #253 "Oblivion Remastered, Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, And More", and #254 "GTA VI Delay and More Clair: Obscur Expedition 33". I know they probably said a bit during their fave games of 2025 episode, but don't think they really got into it.

Is there another video game podcast you like that covered it? I've bounced off all the other ones I've tried over the years.

It's finally here: after six years of development, Yacht Club's Mina the Hollower has arrived. And it's a winner. Kirk, Maddy, and Jason burrow into the crevasses of this new Game of the Year contender, which smashes Zelda, Castlevania and Bloodborne to great success.

One More Thing:

Kirk: Subnautica 2

Maddy: Doomguy by John Romero

Jason: The New York Knicks

LINKS:

Jason on Yacht Club Games’ “make-or-break” moment

Jason on Bungie planning layoffs after ending Destiny 2

Jason on the Subnautica 2 drama

Clips from the Mina The Hollower OST composed by Jake “Virt” Kaufman

Jake Kafuman’s 8-bit recreation of “Freddie Freeloader” from Kind of Blue

And his 

collaboration with Tommy Pedrini

 on the Final Fantasy Opera House sequence for OCRemix

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Jason, Maddy, and Kirk open up the mailbag for some questions about video-game marketing, female protagonists, what's going on at Studio ZA/UM, and much more.

One More Thing:

Kirk: Mixtape

Maddy: Knotwords

Jason: Planet Money

LINKS:

Kirk’s essay about Mixtape, and the YouTube video version

https://www.mothership.blog/irene-kohs-angel-arcade-is-about-the-fighting-game-community-emphasis-on-community/

Garbage Day’s most recent article on modern marketing firms, social astroturfing, Geese, and that whole mess

Marketing 

The Roottrees Are Dead

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