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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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