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Silicon Sasquatch

An independent podcast covering the cultural significance of games.

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GOTY 2023: Nick Remembers Some Games

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2024/02/27

Nick reflects on a year of struggle, transition, and chaos.

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The 15th Anniversarycast

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2023/12/20

Nick, Aaron, and Spencer celebrate 15 years of this nonsense by reflecting on the games industry itself. We ask each other: What are 3 notable trends from the last 15 years, and what's 1 prediction for the next 15? See you for the 20th anniversary!

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Review: Final Fantasy XVI

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2023/11/24

A storied series renowned for reinvention finally forgets itself.

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Finding Love in the Landfill: on Cyberpunk 2077's 2.0...

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2023/11/09

Wringing the water of life from a lumpy trash bag in the hopes of sparking a brief moment of self-awareness: what’s more cyberpunk than that? Nick reads a short critique of Cyberpunk 2077, a now-infamous big-budget spectacle of a game that's gone from a disastrous launch to a slow and cautious rehabilitation whose ultimate legacy still seems yet to be determined. If you'd like to read this instead of having Nick do the heavy lifting, you can find it at siliconsasquatch.com.

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"An American Illness: Gamergate and the Capitol Riot"...

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2021/01/14

Did Gamergate contribute to the riot in Washington D.C.? Were its proponents' online harassment campaigns a precursor to sedition? Doug and Aaron ask each other these questions and more in this episode following the January 6th, 2021 attack on the United States Capitol.

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GOTY 2020: The Game of the Year Podcast

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2021/01/01

Part of our annual GOTY tradition is recording our deliberations and posting them to torture you all. Do you want to hear how the sausage is made? You shouldn’t. That sounds wet and gross. Anyway, pod get!

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GOTY 2020: The Category Awards Podcast

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2020/12/31

What’s better than a listicle? A very long podcast! Presenting our raw output: hours of recorded discussion settling our 2020 category award winners.

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GOTY 2019: The Game of the Decade Podcast

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2019/12/30

Well, here it is: the podcast where we successfully reduced 200 nominees to the 20 best games of the decade. Surely this won’t be contentious or anything.

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GOTY 2019: The Top 10 Games of the Year Podcast

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2019/12/27

Okay, so. You’ve seen our Top 10 list. But you’re wondering: “Uh, wait, what were they thinking?” Your answer lies within.

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GOTY 2019: The Category Awards Podcast

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2019/12/20

You’ve seen the awards. And now, our secret process is unveiled: we mostly just talk for a long time until we agree on something.

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GOTY 2018: The Top 10 Games of 2018 Podcast

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2019/01/21

This is it: the final part of our Game of the Year 2018 deliberations. Here are the arguments we came up with for the top 10 games of the year.

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1:38:02

GOTY 2018: The Category Awards Podcast

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2019/01/21

Here's part 2 of our Game of the Year 2018 deliberations. In this episode, we decide who'll win all ten of our Category Awards.

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GOTY 2018: Re-Litigating Ten Years of "Game of the...

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2019/01/02

To kick off our tenth Game of the Year feature, we're exhuming our prior work to look at it again as older and (ideally) wiser people. In this episode, we go year-by-year, list-by-list, and ask ourselves whether we made the right choices at the time, or if other games wound up reflecting our mission better.

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"The OWLs Are Not What They Seem" — The Silicon...

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2018/03/05

We're back with another podcast!

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01:51:11

"Of Slot Cars and Salarians" — The Silicon Sasquatch...

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2017/03/26

Oh dang. Oh yes. It's podcast time.

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Interview: Wick Perry

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2017/02/17

The Silicon Sasquatch Podcast is back -- and we've got a guest this time!

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"The Duke Abides" — The Silicon Sasquatch Podcast:...

Silicon Sasquatch ·

2016/11/29

Hot on the heels of Doug's in-depth look at the original Xbox's legacy, here's a conversation between him and Nick about the gargantuan hunk of plastic that (somehow) transformed console gaming.

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"Picking Up the Pieces" — The Silicon Sasquatch...

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2016/11/14

On our first podcast in almost two years, Nick, Doug and Aaron pick through the rubble left by the election's crater to find a constructive way forward for our brand of games criticism.

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00:36:12

"Chasing the Dragon Age" -- The Silicon Sasquatch...

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2014/12/02

The mere concept of an 80-hour game just isn't the same in 2014. What does that mean for gaming's tradition of massive, deep role-playing games? And what can developers do to avoid padding their games out with dull, superfluous side missions?

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"Liberté, Qualité, Framératé" -- The Silicon...

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2014/11/17

Missing faces. Go-karting Parisians. Awkward bystanders yammering about nothing. Maybe it's just us, but something about this French Revolution feels a little...off.

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