Episode #5 - Service Gaming (Ep. 5) - It's the hotly anticipated return of everybody's favorite game show, Service Gaming: The Show! After a year hiatus, Service Gaming is back with a powerful new episode you won...

Episode #25 - It's the last Thursday in August and that can only mean one thing - it's time for yet another episode of This Week in Defunct Games! This is the show where we look at the week in classic gaming and s...

Two years after releasing one of the best racing simulators ever made, Microsoft is ready to take the genre to the next level. Forza 2 manages to improve on the original in almost every way, ultimate...

Episode #66 - Top 10 Lists (Ep. 66) - We're back from PAX 2007 and ready to dish some dirt! This is the Top 10 Things I Learned at PAX '07, our very first story about this year's Penny Arcade Expo. This is a coll...

Bomberman Live is everything you want from a Bomberman game, including fast-paced action, a great multiplayer mode, and enough diversity to keep you coming back for months to come. With its strong on...

Episode #45 - Guerilla Scrapbook (Ep. 45) - Grab your zoot suit and put on your dancing shoes, because Electronic Arts is about to redefine the music genre. Hot on the heels of Rock Band comes the next big thing. ...

Episode #24 - Apparently August is a great month for retro gaming. Last week we saw four great games released, and this week's titles are even better. In this week's episode of This Week In Defunct Games we look ...

Episode #13 - They Said WHAT?!? (Ep. 13) - The Super NES CD is real? The Neo Geo CD is vaporware? The Jaguar is more powerful than the 3DO? What the heck is going on here? Oh, I ge...

Episode #153 - Cyril Lachel tries to find something good to say about the Super Street Fighter II Turbo (PC CD-ROM) print ad. Trust me, it's bad. It's a horrible, awful, very bad ad. See what you think of this...

Episode #154 - Cyril Lachel tries to find something good to say about the The Glove (N64/PS1) print ad. Trust me, it's bad. It's a horrible, awful, very bad ad. See what you think of this classic game advertis...

Episode #155 - Cyril Lachel tries to find something good to say about the 1-900 PSM print ad. Trust me, it's bad. It's a horrible, awful, very bad ad. See what you think of this classic game advertisement when...

Episode #156 - Cyril Lachel tries to find something good to say about the Pretzel Pete (PC) promotion print ad. Trust me, it's bad. It's a horrible, awful, very bad ad. See what you think of this classic game ...

Episode #39 - Commercial Break (Ep. 39) - Ladies and gentlemen, I give you another uplifting episode of everybody's favorite show. This is Commercial Break, the show where we look at four of the worst advertisemen...

Hey, shouldn't it be "Tail's" Adventure? I hate to correct Sega's grammar or anything, but you would think they would have noticed that earlier. Either way, Tail's ... er, Tails Adventure is a ...

Episode #70 - Only two reviews? That's right, because this weekend we're busy getting ready for the Penny Arcade Expo (PAX). But don't worry; we may only have two reviews going up this weekend but that they ...

If you owned a Genesis and loved 2D shooters then chances are you also loved TechnoSoft's Thunder Force III, a groundbreaking shooter that defined what a shoot em up was back in the early 1990s. Thun...

Episode #71 - There's nothing quite like a convention, especially if it's the second largest event for Japanese culture! This is Otakon, the annual convention held in Baltimore, Maryland. Defunct Games has sent o...

Episode #23 - With another week comes another Thursday and that can only mean one thing, it's time for yet another episode of This Week in Defunct Games! We have a packed show lined up for you today including four...

With its simple graphics and logic-based puzzles, PQ2 may not look all that exciting. But once you've gotten the hang of it this game proves to be one of the best puzzle games on Sony's handheld. Th...

Episode #132 - On Running Feuds (Ep. 132) - Lenny Bruce said it best when he said: "There's nothing sadder than an old hipster." Unfortunately Microsoft is proving that the old saying is still relevant all these ye...

It's a rule of nature that every portable game system needs a solid puzzle game. Thankfully Chip's Challenge fits that bill for the Atari Lynx. Forget about the stripped down PC versions, this Lynx ...

Released only months after the first Clockwork Knight, this Sega Saturn sequel manages to improve on the original in just about every way possible. Clockwork Knight 2 is a quirky 2D action game that ...

Devilish does for Arkanoid what Devil's Crush did for pinball! This crazy Game Gear game takes a crazy concept and actually makes it work. Who would have thought that a demonic Breakout clone (with ...

While everybody knows of NiGHTS, Phantasy Star Online and Sonic the Hedgehog, there's one Sonic Team game that nobody seems to remember. That game is Ristar, a crazy 2D platformer featuring a star th...

Episode #69 - After a week off, the Weekend Update is back to their normal grind! We've decided to devote the full weekend to reliable staff writer Joshua Dollins, a man who has already contributed dozens of great...

Episode #131 - On Running Feuds (Ep. 131) - While we love that Game Theory wants to be a serious podcast about the inner workings of the video game industry, we are starting to worry that maybe they are letting thei...

Episode #22 - Hey look at that, it's another Thursday and that can only mean one thing ... there's only one more day until Rush Hour 3 hits the theater. In case you cared, Thursday also means that it's time for an...

Everybody's favorite 2D rapper has been resurrected for the PSP. But instead of spending the time to actually develop a brand new game, Sony has decided to port this ten year old rhythm game for thei...

Recently PlayStation 3 owners were lucky enough to get Ninja Gaiden Sigma, one of the greatest ninja games of all time. So what does Microsoft have to combat the power of Ryu Hayabusa? Unfortun...

Episode #70 - Think E3 is the only video game convention this year? Think again, we're just getting started with our convention coverage! In fact, Adam Romano just returned from Las Vegas where he attended t...

Episode #130 - On Running Feuds (Ep. 130) - In our 130th episode of On Running Feuds we've decided to veer off into a very controversial direction. These days we're used to games that involve American heroes and ev...

Episode #21 - It's the first Thursday in August and there's only one question on our minds: Can the retro games of August be as cool as the retro games of July? Judging from this first week the answer to that...

Episode #23 - Defunct Games is proud to present a brand new issue of Hardcore Gamer Magazine, available now for download. This full-color issue comes with news, reviews, previews and a look at international games y...

Episode #24 - You just spent all week running from one hotel to another in order to make your E3 appointments, you came face to face with your arch nemesis in the Big Brother house, and Wii Fit informed you that yo...