Rather Be Playing 22: Origin Story with Carlos

Rather Be Playing Episode 22 Origin Story with Carlos - Fortnite, Monster Hunter World, Observer, Destiny 2, Mega Man X, Super Castlevania IV, Super Mario RPG, Horror Games

It’s another fortnight, another episode. But this fortnight we’re actually talking about Fortnite! Unfortunately Josh couldn’t make it into the recording booth this week, but in his place we’ve got something we think you’ll enjoy. Elliot’s cousin Carlos stops by on short notice to dish the wisdom on Fortnite, as well as a bunch of…

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Rather Be Playing 16: Proud Mode

Rather Be Playing Episode 16 Proud Mode - The Game Awards, Lara Croft GO, Divinity: Original Sin, The Last Guardian, Kingdom Hearts, Star Ocean: The Last Hope, 20XX, Horizon: Zero Dawn, Destiny 2

In our penultimate episode of the year, I must say we’ve somehow come up with our best episode yet. It’s a little on the long side, but we cover a wide breadth of gaming goodness. For one, the 4th Annual Game Awards just took place this past weekend and we have many thoughts on it.…

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Rather Be Playing 14: Chase That High

Rather Be Playing Episode 14 Chase That High - Super Mario Odyssey, Art vs Technology, Sega Genesis, Overclocking GPUs, Advanced Death Saves, Same Team Y'all, Nintendo Switch ports, Golf Story, Destiny 2

It’s Fall and that means the days are shorter and the video games don’t stop coming out. We’re drowning in them this week, but only one has managed to capture all our hearts. We’ve all finished Super Mario Odyssey instead of playing our backlog games! In fact we’re still playing it instead of our backlog…

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Rather Be Playing 11: Toilet Games with Eric Variz

Rather Be Playing Episode Episode 11: Toilet Games with Eric Variz

Rather Be Playing welcomes its very first guest to the podcast! Eric Variz joins us from the Same Team Y’all podcast to talk with us about what he would rather be playing (spoiler: it’s Destiny 2). We also go into graphic detail about gaming during parenthood and finding time for our favorite hobby when there…

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Rather Be Playing 10: Rabid Mario

Welcome to our milestone 10th episode! What an exciting time! And how did we kick off the celebration? By reading a book! Wait, what? That’s right, Jason Schreier’s Blood, Sweat, and Pixels hit bookshelves recently, and we have a lot of (good) things to say about it. We also had a million backlog games to play…

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