Kirk, Maddy, and Jason talk about mods in video games: the history of the form, their favorite mods, and how cool it is that video games can be altered, expanded, and changed by players in all sorts of ways, from DOOM to Skyrim to explicit sex scenes in The Sims.

One More Thing:

Kirk: The Fireman (Joe Hill)

Maddy: Platonic

Jason: TR-49

LINKS:

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Kirk, Jason, and Maddy talk about what's been going on in the film and television business over the last few years: why Hollywood is in a scary spot, how covid affected it all, the parallels with the video-game industry, and of course, the big old AI question mark.

One More Thing:

Kirk: Rhythm Doctor

Maddy: 2001: A Space Odyssey

Jason: Circe (Madeline Miller)

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Gunpoint & Tactical Breach Wizards dev Tom Francis’s advice for running a sustainable indie studio

Maya Hawke talking about Netflix’s lack of transparency on Search Engine

Chris Hayes’s book The Siren’s Call: How Attention Became The World’s Most Endangered Resource

Excerpts from the Rhythm Doctor OST - “All The Times” by fizzd with lyrics by Winston Lee

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Jason, Maddy, and Kirk open up the mailbag to answer your burning questions about all sorts of things, from the gambling epidemic to our favorite funny bugs. And the burningest question of all: What do you do when your dog hates your Switch 2?

One More Thing:

Kirk: Skate Story

Maddy: Mothership

Jason: Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery (2025)

LINKS:

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Drew Gooden’s video about online gambling

Jason’s Bloomberg column on the misreported GTA VI rumors

Kirk’s newsletter about podcasting’s pivot to video

“Coastal” by Blood Cultures from the Skate Story OST

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Kirk, Maddy, and Jason go back through 2025's predictions to see who won the annual bet, then make some new predictions for the year to come!

One More Thing:

Kirk: The Rose Field (Phillip Pullman)

Maddy: The Hundred Line: Last Defense Academy

Jason: That’s Not How It Happened (Craig Thomas)

PREDICTIONS: 

JASON:

Game: Chrono Trigger

1. Grand Theft Auto VI will have an in-game interactive version of Tiktok
2. Persona 6 will be announced
3. Xbox will announce that first-party games will no longer be day 1 on Game Pass
4. Steam Machine will slip to June or later
5. Another Elden Ring DLC or sequel will be announced
6. Danganronpa 2X2 will secretly be Danganronpa 4
7. Another Zelda remake will be announced
8. One of this year's GOTY candidates at The Game Awards will be 2D (or HD-2D)
9. Final Fantasy XIV will be overhauled again
10. Marathon will peak at less than 10,000 concurrents on Steam

BONUS: EA will sell or shut down BioWare / EA will announce BioWare 2

KIRK

Game: The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess

1. Square will announce… Final Fantasy VII Return
2. GTA VI will feature a character based on Charlie Kirk
3. All three consoles - Xbox, PlayStation, and Switch - will get a price increase
4. A Roblox game will be nominated for a Game Award
5. Valve will announce a new non-VR Half-Life Game
6. Sony will announce a new PlayStation Portable
7. In Fable, you will be able to plant an acorn and have it grow into a tree
8. Team Cherry will make The Knight playable in Silksong
9. Xbox game pass will come to PlayStation or Switch
10. Nintendo will announce a Star Fox movie

BONUS: Epic will add Joe Biden to Fortnite

MADDY
GAME: Bioshock

1. In Grand Theft Auto 6, Lucia will be revealed to be queer / not only attracted to men
2. Leon Kennedy is going to turn out to be Grace’s dad in Resident Evil Requiem
3. A triple-A game advertisement will brag that the game doesn’t use generative AI
4. Laura Kinney, aka X-23, will have a cameo in the Wolverine game
5. The Switch 2 will get a $50 price increase
6. Phil Spencer will step down as CEO
7. Halo will come to Switch
8. FF7 Remake part 3 will get a release date
9. Waluigi will be in the Mario movie sequel
10. Luigi’s Mansion 4 will be announced

BONUS: Nintendo will announce a Metroid film

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Jason, Maddy, and Kirk have left the temple of time, set out across Hyrule, and defeated the evil Ganondorf.  They can finally go back to being kids again… but will they ever truly be the same?

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“Ocarina of Time End Credits” by Koji Kondo, 1998

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Kirk, Maddy, and Jason cap off 2025 with a hearty discussion of the year's best games.

One More Thing:

Kirk: The Onion (Print Edition)

Maddy: Hedda (2025)

Jason: Chronoquartz

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GAMES OF THE YEAR

Kirk:

Dispatch

Sunderfolk

Blue Prince

Split Fiction

News Tower

Donkey Kong Bananza

Hollow Knight: Silksong

The Roottrees Are Dead

Kingdom Come Deliverance II

The Hundred Line: Last Defense Academy

Jason:

Dispatch

Blue Prince

Hollow Knight: Silksong

The Roottrees are Dead

The Hundred Line: Last Defense Academy

Avowed

Nurikabe World

The Séance of Blake Manor

Strange Jigsaws

Fantasy Life i: The Girl Who Steals Time

Maddy:

Blue Prince
Citizen Sleeper 2: Starward Vector
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
Consume Me
Death Stranding 2: On The Beach
Elden Ring: Nightreign (w/ Yeui’s Multiplayer Mod)
Final Fantasy Tactics: The Ivalice Chronicles
Keeper

Hollow Knight: Silksong

The Séance of Blake Manor

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Maddy, Jason, and Kirk talk through this year's Game Awards show, from the big reveals (Star Wars! Divinity!) to the Clair Obscur sweep. They talk about what the show did well, what sucked, and why they chose to end on a hero shooter. Plus: some quick thoughts on Netflix buying Warner Bros.!

One More Thing:

Kirk: School Announcements

Maddy: Masters of Doom by David Kushner (2003)

Jason: Pluribus 

LINKS:

Jason talks to Swen Vincke: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2025-12-16/-baldur-s-gate-3-maker-promises-divinity-will-be-next-level?srnd=undefined

“Hundred Days,” “Invasion,” “Midnight” by Masafumi Takada and Jun Fukuda from The Hundred Line: Last Defense Academy

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Maddy, Jason, and Kirk put on their Varia Suits for a dive into Metroid Prime 4: Beyond, the latest adventure of bounty hunter Samus Aran. They talk about how this fourth entry has evolved the series, what they like (and don't like) about the game, and that dreadful desert.

One More Thing:

Kirk: Death By Lightning (Netflix)

Maddy: Metropolis (1927), as re-edited in 1984 by Giorgio Moroder

Jason: Wellness (Nathan Hill)

LINKS:

Metroid Prime 4:Beyond original score excerpts composed by Kenji Yamamoto and Minako Hamano

“Death By Lightning” by Ramin Djawadi from Death By Lightning, 2025

“Call Me” by Debbie Harry & Giorgio Moroder; performed by “Blondie” aka Debbie Harry & a studio band feat. Harold Faltermeyer on keys

“Death of the Author: An Alan Wake Series Retrospective” by Noah Caldwell-Gervais: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RRh3r_AhUw0

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Will Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 sweep The Game Awards? Why was Blue Prince snubbed? And does The Burnt Peanut have a chance against Sakura Miko? This week, the Triple Click gang makes their predictions for Gaming's Biggest Night, from Game of the Year to... "Best Ongoing."

One More Thing:

Kirk: The Night Watchman (Louise Erdrich)

Maddy: System Shock (2023 remake)

Jason: Megabonk

LINKS:

“Flying Waters - Rain from the Ground” by Lorien Testard from Clair Obscur: Expedition 33

Kirk’s 2015 story about Nightdive’s failed attempts to remake No One Lives Forever: https://kotaku.com/the-sad-story-behind-a-dead-pc-game-that-cant-come-back-1688358811

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What would Triple Click do if they had the chance to buy pieces of EA? Why do so many people talk about games before finishing them? How do patches impact the way we experience games? All those and lots more questions on this week's Thanksgiving special Burning Questions.

One More Thing:

Kirk: Fela Kuti: Fear No Man

Maddy: Secure Boot settings

Jason: 1929 (Andrew Ross Sorkin)

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Kirk has really been enjoying the medieval role-playing game Kingdom Come: Deliverance II, but Maddy and Jason both weren't playing, so he didn't have anyone to talk to about it. Hoever, some of his non-podcaster friends were playing the game, too. One thing led to another, and they wound up recording this special episode about it.

ABOUT THE GUESTS:

TOM BISSELL is an author and screenwriter. He has published loads of books including Extra Lives, Magic Hours, and Apostle: Travels Among the Tombs of the Twelve. He's also written for video game series like Uncharted and Gears of War and wrote the final three episodes of Star Wars: Andor.

MATTHEW SEIJI BURNS  is a writer, musician, and game designer. He worked on AAA series like Halo and Call of Duty before moving to Zachtronics, where he helped make games like Opus Magnum and Eliza, the latter of which he also directed. He is the author of the 2025 novel Process.

Together, Tom and Matthew wrote the 2015 interactive fiction game The Writer Will Do Something, which remains (in this episode notes writer's opinion) one of the definitive encapsulations of working as a writer in video games. Seriously, go play it.

LIAM MCINTYRE is an actor who has appeared in a variety of programs - among other roles, he was the lead in Starz's Sparticus: Vengeance, and played Weather Wizard in the CW's The Flash. As a voice actor, he's played everyone from Captain Boomerang to Marcus Fenix's son JD, and will play Logan himself in Insomniac's upcoming game Marvel's Wolverine.

LINKS ETC.

SkillUp’s KCD2 Review: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_wFHtqKYMaM

“Saint Barbara Theme,” “Welcome to Troskovice,” by Jan Valta & Adam Sporka from the KCD2 Original Soundtrack

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