
Watch Out for Fireballs!
Watch Out for Fireballs! is a game club podcast that examines video games across every era, from retro classics to new releases and from indie titles to AAA productions. Each week hosts Gary Butterfield and Kaye Ross dig into a game's mechanics and narrative to discuss what works and what doesn't. The show has been running since 2011 and publishes new episodes every Thursday. Premium and full-length episodes are available to supporters through patreon.com/duckfeedtv.
Episodes

Watch Out For Fireballs 531: Stone of Madness (Part 1)
Things are not going well at a secluded monastery in the Pyranees mountains of Spain. The Inquisitor and the Mother Superior treat the mentally ill people in their care like prisoners, and they’re starting to disappear one by one. It’s up to Father Alfredo and a team of misfits to use their complementary skills to investigate what’s happening and bring it to a stop. The result is a board game-like

Watch Out For Fireballs 530: Cultic
Cultic is a boomer shooter unlike any that we’ve played, being equal parts Blood and Resident Evil 4. You play as the Detective, who woke up in a cult’s mass grave and must now go on a rampage to stop them. What results is one of the best games we’ve played this year.Highlight Project: The Woods at Blight’s Hollow

Watch Out for Fireballs Dispatch: A Moment of Reflection
As we answer your questions and read your responses about Fallout: Brotherhood of Steel, The Saboteur, and Pacific Drive, we take some time and use our topic slot to reflect on the recent changes we made and give some insight into what’s going on at the network right now.We’re doing a fundraiser to recoup some legal expenses! You can help by giving to our GoFundMe! We are also throwing a streaming
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[PREVIEW] Watch Out for Fireballs! 529: Pacific Drive (Premium)
Do you love cars? Are you ready to be forced to love a very specific car? That’s what Pacific Drive is all about, you and your car against a bizarre zone of anomalous chaos. It’s not quite horror, and the survival mechanics aren’t everything you’d expect them to be, but this roguelike will challenge you to take care of your station wagon so it will take care of you. It’s just too bad that the stor

Watch Out for Fireballs 528: The Saboteur
Pandemic Studios really knew what they were doing, and it’s a real shame their style of destruction-based open world games didn’t become the norm. That’s how you’ll feel when you play the Saboteur, the studio’s swan song. You are Sean Devlin, an Irish racecar driver who joins the French Resistance during World War II to get revenge on the Nazis. You may only be aware of this game because of its bl

Duckfeed is Evolving
Hey folks! This will be a longer post detailing some changes that are coming up for Duckfeed in the next few months. When we ask listeners what they like about the network, they'll often bring up our transparency. It's one of our main values, so that's why we will be providing the rationale for each announcement so you know why we're making the changes.There will be a TL;DR at the end for those wh

Watch Out for Fireballs 527: Fallout: Brotherhood of Steel
We’re running out of Fallout games to cover! Which means we’re scraping the bottom of the barrel to bring you a close look at the memory-holed PS2 and XBox entry into the series: Brotherhood of Steel. It’s a Dark Alliance-like that demonstrates that one of those can actually be a lot worse than the others, and it’s all made worse by how poorly it handles the Fallout setting.Highlighted project: Eu

Watch Out for Fireballs! Dispatch: Inventory Systems
Uh oh! Both Gary and Kaye have COVID! So please forgive our voices and our absolute flightiness as we answer your questions, read your responses to Ogre Battle 64 and Dispatch, and talk about what makes an inventory system good or bad.SEPTEMBER GAMES:Fallout: Brotherhood of SteelThe SaboteurPacific Drive (Premium)OCTOBER GAMES:CulticStone of MadnessSilent Hill: Townfall

Watch Out for Fireballs 525: Ogre Battle 64 (Part 2)
This week we continue our discussion of Ogre Battle 64, a sprawling and mysterious strategy game that eventually sheds the need for using strategy all together. It’s also a story of revolution that stops being about a revolution partway through. This leaves us in the frustrating position of wanting to like it more than we actually do.Thanks again Will for executive producing this!Our highlighted p

Watch Out For Fireballs 524: Ogre Battles 64 (Part 1)
Ogre Battle 64: Person of Lordly Caliber was a big game that many, including us, missed out on. It’s a followup to a cult classic RTS for the SNES, and it follows Magnus Gallant, a young noble who ends up leading a revolution against his own kingdom. This is a strange game mostly known for its obscure mechanics, but it’s very much in the vein of Final Fantasy Tactics and Tactics Ogre in its story

Watch Out For Fireballs Dispatch July 2026
We read your responses for Neon White, Grunn, Parodius and Super Mario Bros. Wonder. Upcoming Games:August:Ogre Battle 64Dispatch (Premium)September:Pacific DriveFallout: Brotherhood of SteelThe Saboteur (Premium)

Watch Out for Fireballs Dispatch: Q3 Roundup
We spilled these answers everywhere. What a mess. Somebody is going to have to clean this up.
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[PREVIEW] Watch Out For Fireballs 523: Super Mario Bros. Wonder
But what if Mario were... surreal? Going back to the original design intentions of the Super Mario Bros., Nintendo delivers a game where Mario gets... a little weird. The only downside is that these little shits talk too much.

Watch Out For Fireballs 522: Parodius
Specifically, Parodius! From Myth to Laughter. We've been itching to revisit the Schmup genre and this seemed like a perfect fit. Originally a parody of Gradius, it really just proves that Schmups are really easy to just think about the game in terms of a wireframe.

Watch Out For Fireballs 521: Grunn
If it looks like a horror game and quacks like a horror game, it's probably a horror game. Disguising itself (slightly) as a cozy simulator, Grunn is a gardening time loop game about solving micro mysteries in the Dutch countryside. It's neat! It's snack!

Watch Out For Fireballs 520: Neon White
They're called neons, sinners plugged from hell to do God's dirty work. But it's hard to believe they're in heaven. Old friends, ex lovers... only one of them can stay in heaven and White has a score to settle.Producer Gwen joins Kaye to discuss this speed-run focused platforming/visual novel hybrid. We like it! With some caveats.

Watch Out For Fireballs Dispatch: June 2026
Questions, questions, questions! You never stop questioning us. So we will never stop answering you.Upcoming Games:JulyNeon White (Kaye with Producer Gwen)GrunnParodiusSuper Mario Bros. Wonder (Premium)AugustOgre Battle 64Dispatch (Premium)

Watch Out For Fireballs 518: Loop Hero
You make your decision to listen a podcast, you listen while you do not move, you die. You make another decision to listen to a different episode. Yet again, you do not move. You die. But at least you have a few of the meta resources you need to live a little bit longer. This is kind of what playing Loop Hero is like.

Watch Out For Fireballs 517: Arcade Special 4
Ah, the arcade. The once-only home of video games has become a nostalgia center for the old at heart. We explore the still extant arcade scene and see what's out there that we're less familiar with. It's still a fairly robust scene!

Watch Out for Fireballs Dispatch: Game Breaks
We answer your questions... and more. * Wink. *Upcoming WOFF Games:June:Arcade Book ReportLoop HeroBaby Steps (Premium)JulyNeon White (with Producer Gwen)GrunnParodiusSuper Mario Wonder (Premium)
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[PREVIEW] Watch Out for Fireballs 516: Rage
What would it take for id to make a game that's so unremarkable, we barely remember it exists? Rage is here to answer that question. Chasing so many trends, Rage barely feels like a game at all some times. Paired with it's non-descript name, it was almost destined to be forgotten.

Watch Out for Fireballs 515: Rimworld
How far are you willing to go to make sure humanity survives on an off-Earth colony? Embracing player empowerment to design their own experience, Rimworld wants to meet you exactly where you're at. Watch the hours melt away as Rimworld invites you into its warm embrace.And here's Juno's work! https://junoryleejournalism.com/

Watch Out for Fireballs! 514: The Last Spell
The Last Spell is an intricate tactical RPG with a roguelite structure that could possibly become your forever game. By day you build a base, and by night to fight to protect it from vast hordes of mutant zombies. We reflect on why something that feels like it was made for us in a lot of ways might fall short of becoming a new obsession.
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[PREVIEW] Watch Out For Fireballs Dispatch Q2 Roundup 2026
We empty the backlog! That's it! We're out of questions! That probably means you have to send more.

Watch Out For Fireballs Dispatch: Fandom
You're a fan of stuff, but are you a Fan? We hope not. Those people are insufferable. Upcoming WOFF GamesMay:The Last SpellRimworldRageJune:Arcade Trip ReportLoop HeroBaby Steps
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[PREVIEW] Watch Out For Fireballs 513: Resident Evil Requiem
Our (collective) favorite video game series is back! Nine entries deep and we're still having a blast playing as Leon Kennedy and series newcomer Grace Ashcroft. This time we're investigating a mysterious sickness that seems to be haunting the survivors of the Raccoon City incident.

Watch Out For Fireballs 512: Halo Wars
So many master chiefs! Halo returns in this RTS spin-off, where the war against the flood takes a slightly different perspective. Can you stop the primordial forces trying to destroy the universe? Probably not seeing as there's more Halo games after this.

Watch Out For Fireballs 510: We Love Katamari
It's true, we loved Katamari! And now it's back, bigger and more sticky than ever. Gary is joined by Liv Butterfield (no relation) this week to discuss the direct sequel to the beloved Katamari Damacy.

Watch Out For Fireballs 510: Dead Space 2
Everyone's favorite sci-fi idiot is back and this time there are MORE zombies or whatever. Dead Space 2 iterates on the rough edges of Dead Space 1, but it does it ultimately move the needle? The game remains as dedicated as ever to it's third-person in-world HUD, but we must question whether that actually makes things any scarier.

Watch Out For Fireballs Dispatch: 2D Platform Varieties
You got questions and we jump on them in a variety of ways.Upcoming GamesApril: Dead Space 2We Love KatamariHalo WarsResident Evil 9 (Premium)May: The Last SpellRimworldRage

Watch Out For Fireballs 508: Donkey Kong Country 2
It's Diddy Kong's turn to take over the spot light, and he has one advantage that his brother Donkey Kong never had... true love. He is joined by his girlfriend, Dixie, and she can fly! Donkey Kong Country 2 looks a bit ugly nowadays, but it's still a fundamental entry in the 2D platformer genre.

Watch Out For Fireballs 507: The Final Station
Fight your life in this under the radar train management/zombie survival game, The Final Station. You are the conductor of a train, the world is a dystopia after an alien invasion and you are forced to deal with some real moral dilemmas. Dare you fight on?

WOFF Dispatch: When It's Not For You
We're releasing episodes a little out of order this month in order to accommodate Kaye's move, so please enjoy this Dispatch episode where we answer your questions, read your responses, and talk about the idea of a game being "not for you."Game Responses Read:Mega Man X4Mortal Kombat 2Indiana Jones and the Great CircleMarch's Games:The Final Station + DLCDonkey Kong Country 2Castlevania Bloodlines

Watch Out For Fireballs 505: Mega Man X4
Mega Man X makes his debut on the PS1! Considered the second best game in the Mega Man X series after the initial entry, what does X4 have to offer that's unique? Well, you get to play as Zero, for one.

Watch Out For Fireballs 504: Mortal Kombat II
Get over here! It's time to discuss one of the culturally important games of our lifetimes: Mortal Kombat! While this episode does use MKII as a focus point, this is largely about the series as a whole and it's impact. Get your fatalities ready!

Watch Out For Fireballs Dispatch: Frictional Interactions
We answer your questions and read your responses to our January Games!Responses for:Legend of Zelda Binding of Isaac Thief II: The Metal Age RoboCop: Rogue City Upcoming Games:February:Mortal Kombat II Mega Man X4Indiana Jones and the Great Circle (Premium)March: The Final Station (Including The Only Traitor)Donkey Kong Country 2 Castlevania Bloodlines
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[PREVIEW] Watch Out For Fireballs 503: RoboCop: Rogue City
What if a Robot was also a Cop? Well, he's not actually a robot. More like a cyborg. RoboCop is one of the great 80s franchises, and he's back in this FPS with strong RPG elements! It's not a perfect game, but it delivers on the unique humor that is RoboCop.

Duckfeed State of the Union 2026
This information is presented as both a written post, and as a short podcast episode where we talk about our reasoning.IntroductionHello Patrons and well-wishers: we’re here to report that the Duckfeed state of the union is strong, and we have some announcements about changes. Normally we do these in December, but Circumstances conspired to delay things a bit.Something we really love about this jo

Watch Out For Fireballs 502: Thief II The Metal Age
Returning to the world of Thief, we finally cover the much demanded and beloved Thief II: The Metal Age. Often pointed to as one of the greatest embodiments of stealth in video games, what makes Thief II so special? A lot of has to do with The Fantasy. This game makes you feel like a badass fantasy Thief, with a world of treasures and artifacts to claim for yourself.

Watch Out For Fireballs 501: The Binding of Isaac
How can smart people enjoy a game about a naked boy crying at poop? Binding of Isaac is one of the most chaotic, labyrinthine, and complex games we've ever put multiple hundreds of hours into. Inspired by Legend of Zelda and Rogue, Binding of Isaac sees you grabbing dozens of game-changing items, building a unique Isaac, and descending deeper into the basement than you ever imagined. Gary is joine

Watch Out For Fireballs Special: The Legend of Zelda (Rerun)
The Legend of Zelda on the Nintendo Entertainment System is one of the most iconic games ever made. While not every trick it used holds up today's standards, the number of innovative techniques they used to make an adventure feel huge informs game design to this very day. Join us in revisiting this stone-cold classic.This episode originally aired as off-season episode of Bonfireside Chat.For more

Watch Out for Fireballs Disptch: The Fantasy
We hear your thoughts about such as games as Wasteland 3, Wasteland 3 and Wasteland 3.Upcoming Games:JanuaryLegend of Zelda (Bonfireside Chat Rerun)Binding of Isaac (Gary and Will Hughes)Thief II: The Metal AgeRobocop: Rogue City (Premium)FebruaryMortal Kombat IIMega Man X4Indiana Jones and the Great Circle (Premium)
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[PREVIEW] Watch Out for Fireballs! Premium: The Best and Worst 7/10 Games (feat. Retronauts)
To wrap up the year, December's premium episode of WOFF! is the live panel we did at the Portland Retro Gaming Expo back in October. Bob Mackey and Jeremy Parish of the Retronauts joined us to talk about the best and worst 7/10 games. One score means a lot of different things, and we try to get to the bottom of what's 7/10 (derogatory) and 7/10 (laudatory).Games we discuss: Shadowrun (SNES). Ghost

Watch Out For Fireballs 500: Wasteland 3 (Part 3)
To celebrate episode 500, we wrap up the plot of our yearly CRPG, Wasteland 3. We're heading up the mountains toward the north in order to deal with Victory, the Psychopath who is holed themselves up in Aspen.

Watch Out for Fireballs 499: Wasteland 3 (Part 2)
Continuing our journey into the Wasteland, we need to follow up on a lead about the involvement of a Casino magnate.

Watch Out For Fireballs 498: Wasteland 3 (Part 1)
Before there was Fallout, there was Wasteland. And after there was Fallout, there was Wasteland. In this combat heavy tactical RPG, we see many of the seeds that blossomed into the flowers of Fallout, while still having a distinct flavor all their own. This game is goofy, cynical, and generally wants you to have a bad time while you laugh.

Watch Out For Fireballs Dispatch: Obscure Mechanics
Upcoming WOFF GamesDecember:Wasteland 3January:The Legend of Zelda (Bonefireside Chat Rerun)The Binding of Isaac (Guest-hosted episode with Gary and Will Hughes)Theif II: The Metal AgeRoboCop: Rogue City (Premium)
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[PREVIEW] Watch Out For Fireballs 497: Hitman: Blood Money (Premium)
We love Hitman so much, we had to see where our little, bald, perfect clone with a barcode came from. The levels are smaller, but a lot of the core concepts of what makes Hitman good are still here in the DNA of the series in a more rudimentary form.

Watch Out For Fireballs 496: Unpacking
[Audio Disclaimer: Gwen here. All of the OST audio I could find for Unpacking had some skips in the audio files themselves. I tried to minimize this, but I can still hear them in the finished audio. If you hear it as well, just know that I worked with the best versions I could find.]What stories do our objects tell us about ourselves? Unpacking attempts to get the player to connect to an unseen pe

Watch Out for Fireballs 495: Monster Train 2
Our beloved Hell Train is back, but this time... it's a Heaven Train. Monster Train 2 throws out the whole deck and asks you to start again with five new clans before allowing you to unlock the clans from the original. It's a confident, sleek, and well-considered sequel.
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[PREVIEW] Watch Out for Fireballs Dispatch Roundup Q4 2025
Release the emergency question valve! We're drowning in here!

Watch Out For Fireballs Dispatch: Our Scariest Games
We read your responses to:Silent Hill 2 (2024)CryptmasterF.E.A.R.Upcoming Games:November:November:Monster Train 2UnpackingHitman: Blood Money (Premium)December:Wasteland 3PRGE Live Episode (Premium)
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[PREVIEW] Watch Out for Fireballs! 494: F.E.A.R. (Premium)
Paxton Fettel isn't going to catch himself, operative. That's why you're on a squad with the unlikely name of F.E.A.R. (First Encounter Assault Recon), to hunt down the psychic commander of an army of clones. That's Paxton, the commander. F.E.A.R. does not hold up as a horror game because it's way too modal, but it's a very solid first person shooter with enemy AI that is still spookily good.For o

Watch Out For Fireballs 493: Cryptmaster
Behold! Four monosyllabic zombies must type their way through legions of enemies, all while showing off their incredible typing/riddle prowess. In this unique typing/horror/blobber hybrid, a blend of thrills and chills await you. Dare you enter the realm of the Cryptmaster?

Watch Out For Fireballs 492: Silent Hill 2 (2024)
How far would you go to run away from your own guilt? Team Bloober takes a swing at reimaging the uncontested horror game classic that is Silent Hill 2. The game looks great, but does it overstay its welcome attempting to scare you senseless? This game is massive, which can lead to the horror it's attempting to peddle becoming a little stale by the end.

Watch Out for Fireballs 491: Mouthwashing
This isn't so bad. We can fix this. We are definitely not in a catastrophe.Mouthwashing is a bit-sized walking sim horror game that asks how do we handle the worst possible news. The answer is not well.

Watch Out for Fireballs Dispatch: Solo vs. Party RPGs
Upcoming Games October: Mouthwashing Silent Hill 2make Cryptmaster F.E.A.R. (Premium) November: Monster Train 2 Unpacking Hitman: Blood Money (Premium)
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[PREVIEW] Watch Out For Fireballs 490: Against the Storm
There's a storm acomin', and all the animal-folk need to band together if we want to survive this one. Against the Storm is a unique city builder where saving up for big events it's what's going to keep you afloat. Dare you attempt to survive the storm?

Watch Out for Fireballs! 489: Outer Wilds: Echoes of the Eye
Outer Wilds is a cozy adventure game about the thrill of exploration and the triumph of curiosity. You walk in the footsteps of a long-gone civilization to find your way out of a deadly time loop, ultimately triumphing and being reborn. The game's expansion, Echoes of the Eye, takes a bit of a darker tone. You explore an artificial world haunted by precursors who aren't quite as gone as you've bee

Watch Out for Fireballs! 488: The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask
Bob Mackey of the Retronauts joins Kaye this week to talk about Majora's Mask, whose pitch is that you only have three days to save the world, but you have as many three days as you want. This is the bleaker and more ambitious sibling to the beloved Ocarina of Time, and it's a standout title in its own right even if it's (wrongly, in our opinion) divisive. The inhabitants of Termina walk daily und

Watch Out for Fireballs! Dispatch: Unwinnable Situations
Howdy do! We've got heaps of questions today, so let's not waste any time dilly-dallying!Upcoming GamesSeptember:Majora’s Mask (w/ Bob Mackey of Retronauts) Outer Wilds: Echoes of the EyeAgainst the StormOctober:MouthwashingSilent Hill 2 RemakeCryptmasterF.E.A.R.Support Watch Out for Fireballs!
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[PREVIEW] Watch Out for Fireballs 487: Mercenaries: Playground of Destruction (Premium)
What if a video game really, fully embodied that you can just blow shit up? Welcome to Mercenaries. Earn tons of money, explode some bad people, and generally play however the hell you want. Join as we explore this expression-first mission-based sandbox.

We're going to PRGE 2025!
For the first time since 2019, Watch Out for Fireballs! is going to have a panel at the Portland Retro Gaming Expo this October, the weekend of October 17-19!We will be giving an updated version of our 7/10 Games talk, with new games and new guests (we'll have at least one Retronaut with us). We don't currently know when our slot is, but we will announce it when we have more details.We will not ha

Watch Out for Fireballs! 486: Split Fiction
This week Gary welcomes acquaintance of the network Will Hughes (Everything to Guppy) to the co-host chair to discuss Hazelight Studios' Split Fiction.This podcast is half science fiction, half fantasy. In the fantasy half, we pretend that stories aren't based on a writer's experiences in life. In the sci-fi half, we send you this podcast through the power of space lasers. Split Fiction has a lot

Watch Out for Fireballs! 485: Metroid: Zero Mission
What happens when you give the original Metroid a glow-up with the Super Metroid engine? A lot of cool stuff, and some weird stuff. It's not a perfect fit, but the result is still the second best Metroid game ever made.Support Watch Out for Fireballs!
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[PREVIEW] Watch Out for Fireballs! Dispatch Roundup: Q3 2025
Okay! We'll talk, we'll talk! Just please stop with the questions!

Watch Out for Fireballs! Dispatch: Embodiment
You are a body. In a video game, you are a body sometimes. Other times, you are a menu, representing a body. What does a game really need to get you to embody the story it wants to tell?Upcoming Games:August:-Metroid Zero-Split Fiction (Gary and Will)-Mercenaries: PlaygroundSeptember:-Legend of Zelda: Majora’s Mask (Kaye and Bob Mackey)-Outer Wilds: Echoes of the Eye-Against the StormSupport Watch
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[PREVIEW] Watch Out for Fireballs 484: The Talos Principle (Premium)
Can a robot's heart beat like a man's? What makes us human? Probably puzzle solving. Robots can't solve puzzles. Prove me wrong, kids.

Watch Out for Fireballs! 483: Cyberpunk 2077: Phantom Liberty
We return to Night City to embark on a new mission in the slums of Dogtown. V gets mixed up in the whacky adventures of a sitting president. Does Phantom Liberty return to the heights once-achieved by the Witcher 3 DLC? Join us and find out!Support Watch Out for Fireballs!

Watch Out for Fireballs! 482: Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 3
Does this have the least good soundtrack of the original run of Tony Hawk games? Probably! Does it still kick a good amount of ass? Yes. THPS3 continues broadening the scope of the beloved skateboarding franchise, with one key idea: More. More secret areas, more goofy levels, more ways to extend your combo! Check out this sweet kickflip!Support Watch Out for Fireballs!

Watch Out for Fireballs! 481: Skin Deep
You've seen immersive sims before, but have you ever played one where you sneeze? Skin Deep is a cute, weird, immersive sim with indie sensibilities. Your character doesn't wear shoes, you carry the heads of your enemies around in your inventory, and it all takes place on a spaceship.Support Watch Out for Fireballs!

Watch Out for Fireballs! Dispatch: Oops! All Questions 7
We spilled the bowl, and only questions came out.Upcoming Games:July:-Skin Deep-Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3-Cyperpunk 2077: Phantom Liberty-The Talos PrincipleAugust:-Metroid: Zero Mission-Split Fiction (with Will Hughes)-Mercenaries: World of DestructionSupport Watch Out for Fireballs!
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[PREVIEW] Watch Out For Fireballs 480: Lost Kingdoms (Premium)
Back when Fromsoft used to experiment in the B-tier game mines, they made a bizarre Real Time card battle game. That game is Lost Kingdoms, and this is our Summer JRPG. Sometimes life takes you to unexpected places.

Watch Out for Fireballs! 479: Command & Conquer: Yuri's Revenge
In this spin-off of a spin-off, C&C assumes the Allies are victorious in C&C Red Alert 2, which is why Yuri is out for Revenge. Use your units and strategic wits to outsmart the enemy, and as a reward you will get to see some of the silliest cutscenes ever made.Support Watch Out for Fireballs!

Watch Out for Fireballs! 478: The Last Door Season 2
We found a few more doors to check. The Last Door returns with a few more episodes to show off it's unique lo-fi adventure game style. While we're still fans, the second game doesn't work for us quite as much as the first. Still lots of cool stuff to talk about though!Support Watch Out for Fireballs!

Watch Out for Fireballs! Dispatch: The Future of Resident Evil
We've already killed viruses, parasites and fungi, what could possibly be waiting for us in the future? Heck, what would we do with it?Upcoming Games:June:The Last Door Seson 2Red Alert 2: Yuri's RevengeLost KingdomsJuly:Skin DeepTony Hawk's Pro Skater 3Cyberpunk2077: Phantom LibertyThe Talos PrincipleSupport Watch Out for Fireballs!
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[PREVIEW] Watch Out for Fireballs 477: Ace Combat 4: Shattered Skies (Premium)
What if combat was less about hitting your opponent, and more about circling around them at very high speeds? Ace Combat 4 is one of the genre standards for the dog-fighting genre. There aren't that many games in there, so when people like one it generally stands out. But is there enough there to entertain the non-fan of the genre? And how did they manage to add an alternate reality plot to this?

Watch Out for Fireballs! 476: Resident Evil 6 (Part 2)
Time to join Chris, Sherry and Jake, and Ada, as they do the same shit Leon did last episode.Support Watch Out for Fireballs!

Watch Out for Fireballs! 475: Resident Evil 6 (Part 1)
How many zombies is too many zombies? Probably about one campaign of Resident Evil 6. Prepare to be worn down until you don't like this pretty good game with the sheer amount of content it offers.Support Watch Out for Fireballs!

Watch Out for Fireballs! 474: Satisfactory
Do you dare to feel satisfied? Build a dream factory on a mostly uninhabited alien planet. Build it again once you realize how much more efficientiely you could do it.This week we are joined by special guest Ben Merkel from the Level, since the game takes hundreds of hours to properly play. Rest up, Gary.Support Watch Out for Fireballs!
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