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Maximum Fun

A podcast about video games, hosted by Kirk Hamilton, Maddy Myers, and Jason Schreier. New episodes every Thursday.

Triple Click

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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Nintendo Hype, Steam Taxes, and the Best Games Ever [Mailbag]

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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Triple Play: Star Wars: Zero Company

Jason, Maddy, and Kirk talk about The Blood of Dawnwalker, a new vampire game from ex-Witcher 3 developers. They talk about the game's unique time system, the brutal story, and how it all compares to The Witcher 3.

One More Thing:

Kirk: Reading out loud to someone

Maddy: Monsters of God (HBO docu-series)

Jason: The Wedding People (Alison Espach)

LINKS:

Check out Kirk’s new podcast, Definitely Fiction! 

Patreon - YouTube - RSS - Apple Podcasts - Spotify - Trailer

The Blood of Dawnwalker theme by Nikola Kołodziejczyk, Piotr Musiał, Mikolai Stroinski

 

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Triple Play: The Blood of Dawnwalker

The Triple Click gang convenes for a long-awaited update on the Triple Click Picks — our list of games we highly recommend — with some surprising new additions and removals.

One More Thing:

Kirk: Mean Streets (1973)

Maddy: Ludwig (Britbox)

Jason: Time to Burn (Ellery Lloyd)

LINKS:

Triple Click Picks Update History

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Triple Click Picks: The Games You Should Play (2026 Edition)

Welcome to Big Walk, a Triple Click corporate trust exercise that has made us all better co-workers and better people. Kirk, Jason, and Maddy break down the new hit game from House House and talk about their experiences playing it together... and falling off cliffs.

One More Thing:

Kirk: Martyr! (Kaveh Akbar)

Maddy: The Other Bennet Sister (Amazon Prime/Britbox)

Jason: Homeland (2011)

LINKS:

Daniel Dennett on Wikipedia, and a cool Big Think video featuring him and his work

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Big Walk Made Us A Better Podcast

The Triple Click gang talks about SOMA, the 2015 sci-fi horror game that tells a riveting story about brain scans. They talk about the game's strengths (the story!) and the flaws (the voice acting...) as they prepare to send their consciousnesses into space.

One More Thing:

Kirk: Lovers in a Dangerous Spacetime

Maddy: Savant-Garde (podcast)

Jason: Heather (Caitlin Mullen)

LINKS:

A recent (fairly harrowing!) WSJ article about the “jury duty” scam

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Soma's AI Horror Story Is Even More Relevant Today

Jason, Kirk, and Maddy open up the mailbag to answer some more listener questions. Why do we love replaying games? Why don't indie games cost more? And why are there so many remakes??

One More Thing:

Kirk: The Message from Deep Space

Maddy: Spider-Man: Brand New Day

Jason: Spider-Man: Brand New Day

LINKS:

ScrapMan’s playthrough of Cairn

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Why Are There So Many Remakes Right Now? [Mailbag]

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Beanscast: The Odyssey [TEASER]

It's an episode full of questions this week as Kirk, Maddy, and Jason reach into the mailbag for some hot, hot queries. Is FromSoftware basically Christopher Nolan? Why do companies shut down game studios instead of spinning them out? And when is life like a video game?

One More Thing:

Kirk: Still Life (Louise Penny)

Maddy: Hell Clock

Jason: Alan Opts Out (Courtney Maum)

LINKS:

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Is Nolan's Odyssey The Elden Ring of Movies? [Mailbag]

Jason, Maddy, and Kirk pull out their spyglasses and zoom in on Assassin's Creed Black Flag Resynced, the remake of the 2013 classic for modern platforms. They talk about the sea battles, the game's gruff hero, and what works (and doesn't work) about this new reimagining.

One More Thing:

Kirk: Denshattack! 

Maddy: Little House on the Prairie (2026)

Jason: The Mermaid Mask

LINKS:

Kirk’s 2013 review of AC IV: https://kotaku.com/assassins-creed-iv-black-flag-the-kotaku-review-1453735783

Stephen’s newsletter on Resynced’s take on the modern day stuff: https://www.gamefile.news/p/assassins-creed-black-flag-resynced-review

Background article about the Little House reboot: https://redpopnews.com/netflixs-little-house-on-the-prairie-proves-the-story-was-always-big-enough-for-the-truth-and-authenticity/

Tee Lopes - “There’s A Trick To It,” Andrew One - “Coastline Funk,” Sean Bialo - “Passing Ariake Breeze” - from the Denshattack OST

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Triple Play: Assassin's Creed Black Flag Resynced

It's time for an AI check-in! Maddy, Kirk, and Jason catch up on how they're feeling about generative AI in 2026, what it's doing to creativity, how it's impacting the job market, and of course, how it's affecting video games. 

One More Thing:

Kirk: Dungeon Crawler Carl (Matt Dinniman)

Maddy: Slay the Princess

Jason: American Pastoral (Philip Roth)

LINKS:

Adam Neely’s video “Suno, AI Music, and the bad future”

“AI As Normal Technology” by Arvind Narayanan and Sayash Kapoor 

Astrophysicist Minas Karamanis’ blog post “The machines are fine. I’m worried about us”

“Sam Altman May Control Our Future—Can He Be Trusted?” by Ronan Farrow and Andrew Marantz for The New Yorker

“Fabienk” and “Sarniezz” by Angine de Poitrine from Vol. II, 2026

Watch Angine de Poitrine live on KEXP

The NYT reviews Dungeon Crawler Carl

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