The Game Show

The Game Show is a celebration of video games and our collective interests mixed with a healthy dose of humor, while bringing in our favorite people in the game and movie industries on as guests.The podcast before podcasts.The Game Show began in 2002 and quickly developed a tight knit community of gamers, and interviewed top industry talent. Likely the first video game podcast, The Game Show ran for ten years where the team covered industry events and created a massive amount of content. The Game Show returns in 2025 after more than a decade with three hosts from the first run and two new.

The Game Show is a leisure podcast hosted by BreakmanX.com, with 79 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80.

BreakmanX.com hosts The Game Show, a leisure show with 79 episodes published.

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  Episode #34

  S13: Hot Takes Night and a 2002 Microsoft Prediction That Came True

  Sep 30, 20261h 42mS12

  Hot takes night. Break, Jack Burt0n, Jess, Logan, and Darria defend their spiciest gaming opinions: GameCube was the best of its generation, long games are overrated, Souls games aren't a flex, and piracy helped the industry. Plus a clip from the very first Game Show in 2002 where Break predicted Microsoft's whole playbook. News: Suda51 goes independent, Microsoft patents ads after boss fights, Witcher 3 Remastered, and GTA 6's map size.

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  Episode #33

  The Best Video Game Endings of All Time

  Sep 24, 20261h 38mS13

  The full crew is back and the topic is video game endings. We pick the best endings ever made, from Chrono Trigger and Super Metroid to Portal, Final Fantasy VI, Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, Subnautica, Alan Wake 2 and a surprisingly emotional case for Mario Kart Wii. Then a lightning round on the worst, including Mass Effect 3, Mega Man X6 and whoever that was pretending to be Chris Redfield in Resident Evil 7. News this week: the Xbox layoffs and Halo moving to Activision, Control Resonant launching tomorrow, Jess reviews the new Resident Evil movie, Sega nearly cancelled Sonic, the Tokyo Game Show recap, the DLSS 5 leak, and someone put a fruit fly brain in Minecraft. The Game Show has been running since 2002. Watch live every Wednesday at 9:00 PM Central on the BreakmanX YouTube channel, and catch the Pokémon Crystal co-stream with Jess and Break on Mondays at 6:00 PM Central. Full archive and Discord at breakmanx.com. Spoiler warning. We talk about how these games end.

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  Episode #32

  Big Box Editions for Games That Never Got One with Sir Randall of Ye Old Press

  Sep 17, 20261h 37mS13

  Sir Randall of Ye Old Press joins Break to talk about building physical big box editions for digital-only games. Hollow Knight: Silksong. Ocarina of Time on PC. Warframe. Final Fantasy Pixel Remasters. He designs the box, prints the art, and puts a disc in it. We get into how he makes them, why Limited Run and First Press pushed him into doing it himself, his official Colossal Cave collector's editions for Ken and Roberta Williams, and what Sony's 2028 decision to end physical production means for people who want to own what they buy. Plus the news: Diablo V, Xbox picks up Kojima's PHYSINT after PlayStation walked, Sony argues in court that you never owned your digital games, Game Pass day-one rumors, and a possible Eternal Darkness remaster. Randall's work: yeold.press and Sir Randall Does Stuff on YouTube. The Game Show, running since 2002. Season 13. breakmanx.com

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  Episode #31

  Video Game Box Art: The Best, the Worst, and Snow White and the Seven Clever Boys

  Sep 10, 20261h 38mS13

  We gave box art a full episode. Jess, Jack, and Logan brought picks, the rules were loose, and Jess found a cover so cursed it stopped the show. First the news. A new Nintendogs is rumored for Switch 2. The Blizzard union ratified its first contract covering 1,900 employees. Mario Kart 8 Deluxe got eight-player split-screen, Mario Kart World added free SNES tracks, Metroid Ravenous got a trailer, and the Ocarina of Time remake was revealed the day before. Then box art. The original Mega Man cover that has nothing to do with the game. Zelda II manual art. Trojan. The Sims Medieval. Pokemon Pinball. Blue Dragon in Japan. Garfield Kart, which somehow has never come up in 650 episodes. The Okami box that shipped with an IGN watermark on it. And Snow White and the Seven Clever Boys. We also debuted our new BreakmanX artwork this episode. The Game Show has been running since 2002. New episodes every week at breakmanx.com.

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  Episode #30

  Our Favorite Arcade Games of All Time

  Aug 27, 20261h 39mS13

  The crew heads back to the arcade this week. Everyone brought a list of their favorite arcade games and the memories that go with them. Break's picks run from Konami beat 'em ups like TMNT and X-Men to shmups like Truxton, Radiant Silvergun, and Metal Slug, plus a deep cut called The Cliffhanger: Edward Randy that you've probably never played. Jack came in with fifteen picks of his own, including Sunset Riders, After Burner II, and Time Crisis II. Then the whole table swaps arcade stories. Aladdin's Castle discoveries, two hour drives for DDR, and the first time anyone saw Mortal Kombat in the wild. In the news: Gamescom 2026 brings a Witcher 3 remaster and a new expansion, Metal Gear Solid Master Collection Vol. 2 finally frees MGS4 from the PS3, Xbox starts beta testing a disc to digital program, and Dave Bautista is officially cast as Kratos. The Game Show has been running since 2002 as one of the first video game podcasts ever made. Hosted by BreakmanX with Jack Burton, Maul, Darria, Logan, and Jess. New episodes every week at breakmanx.com.

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