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Watch Out for Fireballs!

Watch Out for Fireballs!

Duckfeed.tv 815 Episodes Oct 8, 2026

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)
Watch Out For Fireballs 531: Stone of Madness (Part 1) Oct 8, 2026 6842 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
Watch Out For Fireballs 530: Cultic Oct 1, 2026 4647 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
Watch Out for Fireballs Dispatch: A Moment of Reflection Sep 24, 2026 6328 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
[PREVIEW] Watch Out for Fireballs! 529: Pacific Drive (Premium)
[PREVIEW] Watch Out for Fireballs! 529: Pacific Drive (Premium) Sep 17, 2026 300 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
Watch Out for Fireballs 528: The Saboteur Sep 10, 2026 6404 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
Duckfeed is Evolving Sep 10, 2026 1925 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
Watch Out for Fireballs 527: Fallout: Brotherhood of Steel Sep 3, 2026 5672 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
Watch Out for Fireballs! Dispatch: Inventory Systems Aug 27, 2026 6021 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)
Watch Out for Fireballs 525: Ogre Battle 64 (Part 2) Aug 13, 2026 6258 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)
Watch Out For Fireballs 524: Ogre Battles 64 (Part 1) Aug 6, 2026 8183 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
Watch Out For Fireballs Dispatch July 2026 Jul 30, 2026 5543 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
Watch Out for Fireballs Dispatch: Q3 Roundup Jul 30, 2026 3536 We spilled these answers everywhere. What a mess. Somebody is going to have to clean this up.

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