The Serious Problem With Every Gaming Podcast

Critical Error · Oct 15, 2026 · 1h 1m

Are all video game podcasts, reviews, and essays basically the same? This week we ask why games coverage keeps repeating itself and what it would take to say something new.

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00:00 Every Game Podcast Ever

00:35 Is All Video Game Coverage the Same?

02:47 Overviews as Analysis

07:00 The Intentional Fallacy

10:57 Ocarina of Time and the Remake Discourse

13:55 The Problem With Video Game Essays

18:50 Why Are All Gaming Podcasts the Same?

22:47 A Podcast Should Be More Than Its Hosts

24:35 Going Independent Just to Make the Same Thing

28:57 Is Games Media Becoming Irrelevant?

32:31 Games Media…