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Episodes
- Xbox Redemption, Nintendo Disappointment & The Death of Game Ownership
The Thanks For Playing hosts, Lucas, Matt, and Chambers, discuss recent Xbox news and critique a new Starfox game, also exploring the idea of game ownership.
- Thanks for Playing Announcement!
The Thanks For Playing podcast shares a special announcement in this episode. Information on ad choices is also provided.
- The Sad Downfall of Turtle Wow, the latest adaptions + emulation in 2026?
The hosts of Thanks For Playing, Lucas, Chambers, and Hot Mickey, discuss the recent closure of private servers, specifically Turtle Wow, and explore the potential for a new era in emulation.
- The Mario Galaxy Movie Review
Hosts Lucas, Matt, Hot Mickey, and Chambers review the Super Mario Galaxy movie sequel. They discuss its quality and whether it lives up to expectations.
- Interview with Grace Schroeder: Geek Therapy and Counseling with Video Games!
Grace Schroeder joins Lucas and Hyalet to discuss her research on video games in therapy and counseling. The conversation explores how video games can improve communication with mental health professionals.
- Resident Evil: Requiem
Join Lucas and Matt as they give their official review of Resident Evil: Requiem! The latest and greatest in a long line of amazing survival horror games – some might say the great horror video game franchise ever! Did they love it? Was it…
- The OFFICIAL Mario Draft
Join Lucas, Matt, Chambers and Hot Mickey and they pick from one of the greatest and deepest catalogues ever – Mario games! Who will have the best lineup and who will pick the secret sleepers? And what really is the best Mario game of all…
- Oscars 2026 Reactions, USA Esports Alliance Debate, Overwatch 2 Regrets & RuneScape Price Hikes
This week on Thanks For Playing , we’re diving into a little bit of everything. We kick things off with our Oscars 2026 reactions , including thoughts on Sinners , Best Actor, cinematography, and why some of this year’s biggest nominees le…
- Highguard NOOOOoooo + Sony Testing Dynamic Pricing?
Join Matt, Timurhan, and Lucas as they talk through the failure of Highguard and the future of hero shooters + Rumor has it Sony has been testing out dynamic pricing on their shop, how dare they! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit meg…
- The Seance of Blake Manor Official Review!
Join Matt and Lucas as they dive into The Seance of Blake Manor. A surprise critical success visual novel mystery game developed by Spooky Doorway. Are visual novel mystery games back?? Let's find out! Learn more about your ad choices. Vis…
- The Console Wars Aren’t Dead—They Evolved
This week on Thanks For Playing , Matt and Hot Mickey run an abridged history of the console wars—from Atari’s boom-and-bust (yes, E.T. ), to Nintendo’s NES “seal of quality,” Sega’s edgy Genesis era, Sony’s PlayStation pivot that changed…
- The Character Creator Draft
Join Lucas, Matt, Chambers, and Hot Mickey as they try to create the BEST video game character they can by drafting traits! Who will win and who will die? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
- Overwatch Is Back. 2XKO Is Not + We gotta upload a government ID now?
Join Lucas and Chambers as they dive into the latest and greatest about 2XKO, this whole Discord thing, and Overwatch 2 dropping that 2. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
- The OFFICIAL Fallout: New Vegas Review
War... War Never Changes... Join Matt, Lucas, and Chambers as they dive into the Mojave Wasteland! What will they find out there in the wild wild west?? And how will they rate this game? Has it aged well? Is it clunky and ugly? Let's find…
- Why Nintendo Doesn't Need To Change
Join Matt, Mickey, and Timurhan as they talk NFL playoffs, Red Dead Redemption 2, and why is it Nintendo is still so successful, despite being the least tech forward of all the major developers? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit mega…
- The Official TFP Arc Raiders Review
Join Chambers, Hyalet, Lucas, and Matt as they dive into the latest multiplayer extraction shooter ARC RAIDERS! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
- 2025 Movies, UNCSLOP, and even some German Video Game Subsidies?
Join Matt, Chambers, and Lucas as they cover some of the latest and greatest news coming around Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
- The Things We're Looking Forward To In 2026 Draft!
Join Matt, Lucas, Chambers, and Hyalet as they dive into everything they're excited about in 2026! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
- The 2025 Thanks for Playing Recap
Join Lucas, Matt, and Chambers are they dive into everything they played in 2025. The good, the bad, the slop. And a Happy New Year to everyone!! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
- The 2025 Christmas Character Draft!
Join Matt, Lucas, and Chambers as they pick their favorite timeless Christmas characters from lore/canon. Merry Christmas one and all! Hope you got your favorite video game from a person you love. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit me…
- The Game Awards: Our Reactions!
Join Matt, Lucas, and Chambers as they jump into what they loved and what they hated about The Game Awards 2025 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
- The OFFICIAL Dispatch Review
Join Matt and Timurhan as they dive into the new indie game Dispatch (also nominated for best debut indie game) by AdHoc Studio! Is it as good as they say? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
- The Unofficial Outer Worlds 2 Review (Breaking Bad Spoilers) + Sailing in Runescape?
Join Chambers, Matt, and Lucas as they dive into everything they've been into in this grab bag of topics on today's episode. Beware there are some Breaking Bad spoilers because Lucas just finished the show for the first time. Anyways hope…
- The Official Ghost of Yotei Review
Join Hyalet and Lucas as they dive into 1600s Ezo, Japan on a quest for revenge! Did this game live up to the hype?? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
- Video Game Awards Nominees and Predictions!
Come join Matt, Hyalet, and Chambers as they chat about the latest nominees from the Video Game Awards 2025! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
- Hades 2
Join Matt and Timurhan as they dive into the highly anticipated sequel to th award-winning masterpiece Hades. Does this game live up to its name?? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
- These layoffs recently were rough but what does it mean for gaming??
Join Matt, Lucas, and Hyalet as they dive into the latest sad news of massive layoffs and what they mean for both gaming and the job market as a whole.d Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
- Amnesia: The Dark Descent - SCARIEST GAME OF ALL TIME?
Join Matt, Lucas, and Chambers as they descend into Amnesia: The Dark Descent. The start of the Let's Play revolution, the scariest game of all time, but did it age well or is it all hype? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.…
- The Game Developer Draft!
Wow! Can you believe we've never done this draft before? Neither could we! Who will win, who will d*e in this insane draft of the greatest game developers of all time! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
- The Verdict is Out - Hollow Knight: Silksong
Join Lucas and Hot Mickey as they give the FINAL OFFICIAL VERDICT on Hollow Knight: Silksong! Was it worth the wait? Was it good? Or was it just too hard to be good? Find out RIGHT NOW. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/…
- The Chambers DISCO ELYSIUM Re-Review
Join Chambers, Matt, and Lucas as they dive into the world of Revachol! It's been years since this game came out and the question everyone has been asking: Is it still that good? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoic…
- The TFP Sports Games Draft! IT'S IN THE GAME.
Join Matt, Lucas, Hyalet, Hot Mickey, and Chambers are they fight hard to draft their favorite sports games of all time! Who will win? Who will die? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
- Nintendo IPs + What Extreme Discord Servers Are You In??
Join Lucas, Matt, Chambers, and Hot Mickey as they dive into the latest topical news, including Chambers's adventures in crazy corners of the internet! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
- Mafia: The Old Country - The OFFICIAL REVIEW
Join Matt and Hyalet as they dive into the latest Mafia game! Did they love it or did they absolutely hate it? Find out! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
- 99 Woodcutting & Other Bad Ideas + Hollow Knight Silksong!
Join Matt and Mickey as they dive into the two greatest video games of our time: Runescape and Hollow Knight Silksong! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
- Lucas's Solo Review: Donkey Kong Bananza!
Come hang out with Lucas as he digs deep into the crazy kinetic destructible world of Donkey Kong Bananza! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
- Gamescom 2025 News and More!
Join Matt, Lucas, Chambers and Hot Mickey as they dive into the incredible news and announcements to come out of Gamescom 2025 including HOLLOW KNIGHT SILKSONG! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
- Anything is Possible: A Brief History of Valve & the economics of these dang sports games
Join Matt and Lucas as they jump into the history and structure of one of the most valuable gaming companies around and some of the insane economics of everyone's favorite thing: annualized sports video games. Learn more about your ad choi…
- From Roguelites to Rising Costs: The Future of Gaming, Sony’s Fate, and the War on Cheats
Join Matt and Chambers as they dive into a wide-ranging conversation about the current state and future of gaming, covering personal gaming updates, market trends, and industry challenges. Chambers shares his recent roguelite kick—moving f…
- Death Stranding 2
Join Matt and Lucas as they dive into the SECOND strand-type game that Kojima though was TOO GOOD! What do we think? All hype? Sloppy mess? Should we have even connected? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
- Final Fantasy 6, Finally!
Join Lucas and Hyalet as they review the great Final Fantasy 6. Did you know this is the first Final Fantasy Thanks For Playing has reviewed? Crazy I know! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
- THE HERO DRAFT!
Join Matt, Lucas, Hyalet, and Chambers as they DRAFT their favorite heroes from video games!! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
- Recapping The 1st Half of the 2025 + What's Left of 2025?
Did you already forget everything that came out this year? Do you need to know what to look out for in the next 6 months? We got you on this episode! LISTEN!!!! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
- Flappy Bird Historia + Video Game Adaptations: Better than the 90s?
Join Matt and Lucas as they dive into the history of Flappy Bird and analyze the history of video game adaptations and ask the questions: Are we really better off now than we were in the 90s? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megapho…
- Death Stranding 2 Reaction, Esports Betting Sponsorships + High Stakes Poker Collusion??
Join Lucas and Hot Mickey talking about a bunch of the topical stories from the week! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
- The Video Game Mechanics Draft
Join Lucas, Matt, Chambers and Hyalet as they draft all of the most groundbreaking, innovative, hilarious, and stupid video game mechanics out there! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
- Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Official Review!
Join Lucas, Matt and Hyalet as they dive into the amazing world of Clair Obscur and the evolution of the traditional RPG genre! Is this really game of the year so far?? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
- Xbox Showcase, the SGF Hangover, The "ALLY" and More!
Join Matt, Lucas and Chambers as they dive into the biggest news weekend in gaming! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
- LIVE at Summer Game Fest!
Join Matt and Lucas as they react to what they literally JUST SAW at Summer Game Fest! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
- Summer Game Fest HYPE + The Schedule 1 Chambers Solo Review!
Join Matt and Lucas as they get ready for Summer Game Fest. And enjoy this special one-of-a-kind episode with the coveted Chambers' solo review of Schedule 1, the game where you become a drug kingpin. Learn more about your ad choices. Visi…