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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

The Triple Click gang pull out their blood harvesters for a trip into Resident Evil Requiem, the latest entry in the longrunning horror-action-goofball series. They talk about playing as Grace and Leon, exploring the care center and all the shades of Resident Evil 2.

One More Thing:

Kirk: Your Name (2016)

Maddy: “The Pill” by Meg Elison

Jason: Esoteric Ebb

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Triple Play: Resident Evil Requiem

Kirk, Maddy, and Jason dive into the year's biggest gaming news so far: Xbox boss Phil Spencer retiring. They talk about what led to this big shakeup, discuss whether new boss Asha Sharma really needs to be a gamer, and try to figure out if there's any way to salvage the Xbox brand.

One More Thing:

Kirk: A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms (HBO)

Maddy: Icebreakers (New Yorker documentary)

Jason: Under the Island 

LINKS:

"Inside Microsoft’s big Xbox leadership shake-up" (Tom Warren / The Verge) https://www.theverge.com/tech/883015/microsoft-xbox-new-ceo-shakeup-notepad

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Why Phil Spencer Retired, And What's Next For Xbox

Fresh off their interview with Mewgenics co-creator Edmund McMillen, the Triple Click gang dives into the game itself. They talk about the gross-out humor, the brilliant combat, and that truly spectacular soundtrack. (All of my nights, I'm chasin' rats!)

One More Thing:

Kirk: Suno, AI Music, and the Bad Future - Adam Neely, YouTube/Nebula

Maddy: Overwatch update

Jason: Lost Lambs (Madeline Cash)

LINKS:

“Eatin’ Rats” by Ridiculon from the Mewgenics OST, 2026

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Triple Play: Mewgenics

Jason, Kirk, and Maddy bring on veteran game designer Edmund McMillen (Binding of Isaac, Super Meat Boy) to talk about his latest game, Mewgenics, which was first announced in 2012 (!) and is out this week. They talk about the long development cycle, why McMillen parted ways with his Team Meat partner Tommy Refenes, breeding cats, and much much more.

One More Thing:

Kirk: Cairn

Maddy: Code 3 (2025)

Jason: The Chair Company (HBO)

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Mewgenics Is Out, And It Only Took 14 Years (with Edmund McMillen)

Jason, Maddy, and Kirk dive into Dragon Quest, one of the biggest video game franchises in Japan. What's special about it? What makes it so popular? And what's the deal with this week's release, Dragon Quest VII: Reimagined?

One More Thing:

Kirk: Where’d You Go, Bernadette (Maria Semple)

Maddy: Space Warlord Baby Trading Simulator

Jason: How I Met Your Mother

LINKS:

“I Am Jack Bauer” - Japanese 24 Advertisement

“Dragon Quest Theme” by Koichi Sugiyama, from DQ7 Reimagined (2026) and recorded by the Tokyo Strings Orchestra, 1986

“Dragon Quest VII Reimagined is the best way into Dragon Quest” by Michael McWhertor, Polygon

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What's The Deal With: Dragon Quest

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:

Maddy’s Mothership article about people who mod games

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What's The Deal With: Mods

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)

LINKS:

STRONG SONGS LIVE!! Saturday, July 11, at the Alberta Rose Theatre in Portland, OR. Buy tickets here

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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Things Are Bad In Hollywood Right Now

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:

Subscribe to Maddy’s new website Mothership!! 

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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Help, My Dog Hates My Switch 2 [Mailbag]

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 4. use generative AI
 5. Laura Kinney, aka X-23, will have a cameo in the Wolverine game
 6. The Switch 2 will get a $50 price increase
 7. Phil Spencer will step down as CEO
 8. Halo will come to Switch
 9. FF7 Remake part 3 will get a release date
 10. Waluigi will be in the Mario movie sequel
 11. Luigi’s Mansion 4 will be announced

BONUS: Nintendo will announce a Metroid film

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Our Predictions for 2026

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?

LINKS, ETC:

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

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Triple Play: Mewgenics

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