The AVoCADo GamesCast is a (roughly) bimonthly gaming podcast hosted by Merve and edited by The Kappa, two people who love video games a little too much. Join them and their Internet friends as they gush about their favourite games, dissect current events, revisit gaming history, speculate about fut…
Merve and The Kappa are once again bad at remembering video game titles. In this episode, they cover recent troubles at GameStop, the Nintendo Switch 2 presentation, Assassin's Creed Shadows, and more. [Recorded April 6, 2025]
Merve and The Kappa have been playing some big RPGs and open-world games, and they take some time to talk about them. After that, the two of them tackle the ethics of stories about vigilantes, go on a controversial rant about games award shows, and ponder Peter Molyneux's career. Finally, they do a two-hour spoilercast on recent immersive sim Indiana Jones and the Great Circle. [Recorded February 23, 2025]
The gang reviews their 2024 predictions and makes predictions for 2025. [Recorded January 18, 2024]
The gang reviews 2024 in gaming and discusses their favourite, least favourite, and most surprising games of the year. [Recorded December 29, 2024]
The gang discusses the RPGs of 2024. [Recorded November 24, 2024]
Halloween in December? It's likelier than you think! In this episode, Merve and The Kappa discuss diabolical games, North American tourism, and their gaming hells. [Recorded October 13, 2024]
The gang discusses Skyrim modding, what's going on at Annapurna Interactive, the PS5 Pro, and the state of live service games in 2024. [Recorded September 14, 2024]
Merve and The Kappa discuss Diablo IV, Clickolding, Krafton's acquisition of Tango Gameworks, Bungie layoffs, the closure of Game Informer, and why you might be better off not playing football in a football video game. [Recorded August 13, 2024]
The gang shares their favourite "7/10" games, chats about unionization, and gets trapped once again talking about Kingdom Hearts. [Recorded July 21, 2024]
The gang discusses Summer Game Fest 2024, learns all about the dairy industry, and pops a mountain of throat lozenges. [Recorded June 16, 2024]
In this episode: Amazon Prime's Fallout; the Prytania Media disaster; worrying industry statistics; Children of the Sun; Princess Peach: Showtime!; Dragon's Dogma 2; and, eight years late to the party, ReCore. [Recorded April 21, 2024]
100 FREAKIN' EPISODES! The gang marks the century milestone by reflecting on the podcast so far and opening the mailbag to answer listener questions [Recorded March 17, 2024]
The gang predicts what's going to happen in 2024. Is this the year of the Ribinaissance? The GamesCasters certainly seem to think so. Elsewhere, the gang talks about AGDQ 2024, shares their most anticipated titles of the year, and questions the use of spreadsheets, much to Merve's chagrin. [Recorded January 20, 2023]
The gang reviews the 2023 Game Awards and discusses industry layoffs. They then chat about their favourite, least favourite, and most surprising games of the year. This episode additionally features members of the community talking about their top 3 games of the year. [Recorded December 17, 2023]
Hop in a time machine to hear what the gang thought about The Game Awards 2023 before they aired. They also discuss some of what they've been playing lately and exchange some recommendations. [Recorded November 26, 2023]
In the first half of this episode, the crew plumbs the depths of Moria, examines recent layoffs at Bungie in the broader context of the entertainment industry, and expresses disdain for harem manga protagonists. In the second half, they have a spoiler-ific roundtable about Starfield. [Recorded November 5, 2023]
Merve and The Kappa talk about the road ahead for Nintendo and Sony, Unity's fee restructuring debacle, and Bethesda's latest RPG, Starfield. [Recorded September 17, 2023]
The gang chats about Game Boy nostalgia, Baldur's Gate 3 discourse, virtual trading card games, and a couple of recent indie gems. They also preview the remainder of 2023. [Recorded August 27, 2023]
The gang discusses the degradation of the Internet and its implications for the games industry. Also on this episode: Viewfinder; Pikmin 4; weird mobile game ads; and much, much more. [Recorded July 28, 2023]
Merve and The Kappa dissect Summer Game Fest 2023 in depth. [Recorded June 16, 2023]
The gang talks about broken PC ports, the UK CMA's ruling on the Microsoft/Activision merger, and what's going on in GTA V roleplaying. [Recorded May 14, 2023]
Baka! It's not like we want you to listen to this episode. But just in case you're really desperate and need to, you can hear us talking about the games that came out in the first couple of months of 2023. And if you want more, we also discussed where we want our favourite franchises to go next. But why would you want more, you weird creep? Only weirdos would want that much GamesCast. Are you saying you're a weirdo? [Recorded February 21, 2023]
Merve and The Kappa take a trip to the library to discuss Blacksad: Under the Skin, The Lord of the Rings Online, Arcane, and their predictions for 2023. [Recorded January 19, 2023]
Merve and The Kappa run down the most important gaming news stories of year, proving how little they know about both medicine and soccer in the process. They also discuss their favourite, least favourite, and most surprising games of the year. This episode additionally features members of the Avocado community talking about their top three (or two) games of the year. [Recorded December 18, 2022]
It's not a crossover episode, but we do talk about a lot of different topics! Give this episode a listen to hear our thoughts on Pokémon leaks, Blizzard's business dealings, Volition being absorbed into Gearbox, the Game Awards 2022 nominees, and of course, a very special Project Sonic Watch 2022. [Recorded November 17, 2022]
In this year's annual Halloween episode, Merve and podcast newcomer Colonel Mustard chat about their favourite mystery games and what makes them tick... tick... tick... [Recorded September 24, 2022]
The gang discusses PowerWash Simulator, Hades, Xenoblade Chronicles 3, and Silt. They then talk about guides, walkthroughs, and instruction manuals. [Recorded August 9, 2022]
There were a lot of streamed promotional events about video games this summer! The gang is here to dissect all the Keigh-3 action and discuss the highlights, the lowlights, and the midlights of all those showcases. This episode also features the triumphant return of the Project Sonic Watch to the podcast. You can't keep the Blue Blur down! [Recorded June 21, 2022]
It's soapbox time! Merve and The Kappa deliver some piping hot takes on the PlayStation Plus revamp, Square Enix's recent business moves, discourse about diversity in games, video game trailers, the Entertainment Software Association, and dining in Canada. [Recorded May 22, 2022]
Tere sõbrad! We give a shout-out to our Estonian fan base before discussing the ups and downs of the Warhammer franchise, what makes the new Kirby game so much fun, and balance in multiplayer games. We then interview our very special guest, YouTuber and Twitch streamer MP, about his content creation career and the online video content ecosystem. [Recorded April 9, 2022]
It's the MerveCast, chumps! Merve decides he's going to force all his friends to talk about exactly what he wants to talk about. It goes about exactly as well as you'd expect. The gang then talks about February's big gaming announcements, discusses some recent and not-so-recent video games that they've been playing, and brings back everyone's favourite segment: the trivia challenge! Will these plucky podcasters emerge triumphant in their quizzical quest, or will Merve force them to listen to another interminable rant about Digimon Con? You'll have to listen to find out! [Recorded February 27, 2022]
The gang makes predictions for the year ahead and talks about their most anticipated games of 2022. They also discuss coffee and doughnuts. [Recorded January 23, 2022]
The gang makes predictions for the year ahead and talks about their most anticipated games of 2022. They also discuss coffee and doughnuts. [Recorded January 23, 2022]
We discuss the 2021 Game Awards, 2021 gaming news and trends, and our favourite, least favourite, and most surprising games of 2021. [Recorded December 27, 2021]
We discuss the 2021 Game Awards, 2021 gaming news and trends, and our favourite, least favourite, and most surprising games of 2021. [Recorded December 27, 2021]
Merve and The Kappa discuss a very special speedrun. They then spend a couple of hours talking about the games they've played in 2021. [Recorded November 6, 2021]
Merve and The Kappa discuss a very special speedrun. They then spend a couple of hours talking about the games they've played in 2021. [Recorded November 6, 2021]
The gang discusses the works of Richard Garriott, the Steam Deck, and non-traditional sports games. [Recorded August 1, 2021]
The gang discusses the works of Richard Garriott, the Steam Deck, and non-traditional sports games. [Recorded August 1, 2021]
The Kappa takes over as host to discuss that games that eventually won us over. [Recorded June 6, 2021]
The Kappa takes over as host to discuss that games that eventually won us over. [Recorded June 6, 2021]
The gang breaks down the Balan Wonderworld demo, discusses "gaming moods," and gets really caught up on gaming in space. [Recorded January 30, 2021]
The gang breaks down the Balan Wonderworld demo, discusses "gaming moods," and gets really caught up on gaming in space. [Recorded January 30, 2021]
The gang looks forward to the rest of 2021 and tries to guess which games will make their release dates. [Recorded January 17, 2021]
The gang looks forward to the rest of 2021 and tries to guess which games will make their release dates. [Recorded January 17, 2021]
We run down 2020's gaming news and discuss our favourite, most disappointing, and most surprising video games of the year. [Recorded December 20, 2020]
We run down 2020's gaming news and discuss our favourite, most disappointing, and most surprising video games of the year. [Recorded December 20, 2020]
Merve and The Kappa discuss the commercial performance of Marvel's Avengers and break down the games that most influenced them. [Recorded November 28, 2020]
Merve and The Kappa discuss the commercial performance of Marvel's Avengers and break down the games that most influenced them. [Recorded November 28, 2020]
We sit down with podcast newcomer ThoughtsThoughtsThoughts to get her thoughts on Mass Effect and Kingdom Hearts. [Recorded November 8, 2020]
We sit down with podcast newcomer ThoughtsThoughtsThoughts to get her thoughts on Mass Effect and Kingdom Hearts. [Recorded November 8, 2020]
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