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Mario Facing Tough Decision After Pet Insurance Denies Claim for Yoshi’s Life-Saving Surgery

Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Ending Explained by A Redditor Who Hasn’t Seen the Sun in Three Months

New Call of Duty Adds Trash Collecting Game Mode

AI Prompt Writer Struggling with Suicide Note

I Read Josh Gad’s Memoir So You Don’t Have To

Game Developer Union Secures Nine Day Work Week

Ranking Every Plant from Plants vs. Zombies Based on How Likely They Are to Survive in My Wife’s Garden

Feel Old? This Once Popular Video Game Journalist is Now a Gatekeeper

We Break Down What the “S” on Superman’s Chest Stands For

For Sale: Spartan Armor, Lightly Worn. Selling to Help Save Multi-Trillion Dollar Company

World Bracing Itself for Whatever Bullshit Death Stranding 2 Is About To Predict

This Film Adaptation of a Popular Video Game Is True to the Source Material: Everyone on Set Was Just Laid Off

Sony Announces Next Gen Remake of Game They Haven’t Released Yet

Algorithm Figures You’ll Enjoy This Beheading

In Celebration of Pride Month Aperture Science Abducts First Gay Test Subject

Elon Musk Quits Government Job to Focus on Improving Animal Crossing Village

Craig Mazin Doesn’t Believe Ms. Pac-Man Capable of Eating Hostile Ghosts

Spidey Sense Fails To Detect Pyramid Scheme

Report: Final Fantasy Themed Orgy Ruined by 100% Cid Turnout

Is Gears of War the Next Sonic? The Pregnant Marcus Fenix I Just Drew Thinks So

Team Cherry Hires George R. R. Martin to Help Wrap Up Silksong Development

Kennedy Announces Ban on Most Mountain Dew Flavors

Loved Sinners? Here’s 5 Other Pieces of Vampire Media You’ll Love by Old White Guys

Entire Generation Priced Out of Home Ownership in Next Animal Crossing

This Year’s Masters Tournament Sponsored By HBO’s The Last of Us Season 2

Report: There’s a US Kill Screen Coming Up, If Anyone Wants to Watch

Nintendo Casts Renowned Map Expert, Drake to Play Tingle in Zelda Adaptation

Democrats Just Watching Continue Screen Timer Tick Down

Kaitlyn Dever Attends The Last Of Us Red Carpet Premiere in Cute Gucci Bulletproof Vest

Russo Brothers Apologize for Latest Netflix Price Hike

Review: Is Monster Hunter Wilds Better Than Call of Duty: Black Ops II?

DEI Hires Removed From Chessboard

Leon S. Kennedy Shoots Down Chainsaw-Wielding Musk

Nosferatu 4K UHD to Include Post-Coital Cigarette

SHIELD Investigating Spider-Man After Call For Sentinel Raid on Xavier’s School for Gifted Youngsters

“Ted Mosby Pretty Big Dick for Not Warning Us About Nazi Revival of 2025”

Elon Musk in Dispute with Billy Mitchell Over Donkey Kong High Score

Report: Calvin’s Bladder Empty

10 Public Domain Ideas for Your Next Hack Horror Script

10 Video Game Characters Who Would Rock Out on NPR’s Tiny Desk Concert

Halo Infinite Map Converted to Pickleball Court

Paw Patrol Defunded and Euthanized

Local Dog Playfully Kills Fourth Mailman This Week

Ranking the Eeveelutions Based on How Likely They Are to Eat You After You Die

Lionsgate Announces New Saw Prequel “Young Jigsaw” Starring Tobin Bell

DOOM Now Playable in Voting Booths to Commiserate Democracy’s Approaching Demise

I Played an Early Build of Titanfall 3 in a Dream I Had Last Night

Kyle Higgins on Expanding the Massive-Verse Amidst Shrinking Industries

Travis Bickle Was Never The “Real” Taxi Driver, Director Martin Scorsese Confirms

Fishing Not as Fun as Fishing Minigame Implied

Chris Redfield and His Thick Boots Thwarted by Locked Door Marked with Shield Emblem

Majority of Millennials Agree Playing Mass Effect 3 Prepared Them For Life Choices To Be Mostly Irrelevant

Wikipedia Awfully Close to Selling Your Data Unless You Fork Over Some Cash

K.K. Slider Announces He Fathered Litter Outside of Marriage

Cuphead Found Dead in Dishwasher

Gabe Newell Declines Generous Threesome Offer

Krafton Digs Lightly Used Tango Gameworks Out of Microsoft Dumpster

What House of the Dragon Doesn’t Tell You About Sleeping with Your Targaryen Cousin

Elias Inaty on PLAYERS and Working on the Show of His Dreams

Taco Bell AI Swears Job Just Temporary Until Screenplay Sells

Man Running Through Convention Center Shouting for Lost Child Really Killing It in Heavy Rain Cosplay

Financially Conservative Gamer Votes to Cut Funding to Steam Library

Nintendo Switch 2 Getting Day One Joy-Con Drift

Load-Bearing Towel Finally Removed from Gamer’s Room

Heather Anne Campbell on Fortnite, Anime Adaptations, and That Rick and Morty Spaghetti Episode

Fortnite Teammate Missing and Feared Dead, Last Seen Chasing a Crown

This Cannes Film Ended Hours Ago and All I Want to Do Is Stop Clapping and Sit Down

Phil Spencer Wrapped in Towel After Suffering Red Ring of Death

Multiversus’ Roster Now Outnumbers Multiversus’ Fanbase

Mom’s New Boyfriend Recent Reviews are Now Mostly Negative

Two Point Campus Gets Surprise Update Adding New Beat ‘em Up MiniGame

Season 2 of Fallout TV Series Planned for 2034

Open Letter: We, the Gamers, Demand Math Blasters Be Added to Xbox Game Pass, or Else

Mom Confirms Extramarital Affairs with Everyone on Xbox

CDC Recommends Two Doses of Stellar Blade to Fend off This Season’s Woke Mind Virus

Gamer Pulls Self Away From Complaining About Game to Complain About Game-Based TV Show

Fallout TV Series to Come to Netflix, Hulu, Max, Disney+, Apple TV+, Paramount+, Peacock, PlutoTV, Roku, Crackle, Tubi, 4K Ultra HD, Blu-ray, HD DVD, DVD, VHS, and Betamax

Kinky SNES Cartridge Blows Back

Anti-Microtransaction Gamer Actually Just Nostalgic for When Parents Paid for Frivolous DLC

Op-Ed: Mom, I Can’t Pause Online Game Discourse

Alert: Copies of Stellar Blade Demo in Your Area Want to Be Played

First Neuralink Patient Telepathically Forcing Friends to Play Civ 6 with Him

Parents’ Marriage Ending Explained

Gamer Can’t Decide Which Baldur’s Gate 3 Disc to Romance

Perfect Day in Silent Hill Ruined by Tourist and His Traumatic Past

David Zaslav Sells WB Frog to 8th Grade Science Class

Sweet Baby Inc Confirms You Need No Prior Knowledge of GamerGate to Enjoy GamerGate 2

Scientists Fear Starfield May Spread Across Multiple Console Generations

Fake Gamer Accepted Into Pack of Wild Gamers After Using GameScent

Recession Hits Mushroom Kingdom With 100 Coins Now Only Buying .5-Ups

Opinion: Mom Says It’s My Turn With the Helldivers 2 Server

Gamer Moves Back to Hometown and Reconnects with High School Console

Game Freak Lays Off 300 Pokemon

Laid Off Community Manager Now Just Another Toxic Member of Game’s Community

Loving, Devoted Gamer Begs PlayStation to Keep Things Exclusive

Indiana Jones Enters Game Developer’s Office in Search of Rare Well-Paid Entry-Level Position

Nikki Haley Excludes Slavery in Answer About Palworld Issues

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Netflix to Implement ‘Skip to Where Series Gets Good’ Button


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Atticus gets invited to join a whole new gladiator league, but discovers the focus might not be entirely on fighting. Join us!

Thank you to our cast: Rob Lawhon, Leanna Adams, Lauren Schmuck, Jaymi Curley, and Jim Hodgson. 

This episode was written by Nick Coffman and produced and directed by Jim Hodgson.  

Bad Gladiator was recorded at Brickyard Recording Studio.