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Guess what? Not all video games are about shooting people in the face or driving recklessly! Games have evolved into a rich and varied medium where there’s something for everyone. No gaming experience? No console? No idea where to start? Enter your heroines, Anna Tarkov and Jessica Dennis.

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88: Call of Candy May 25, 2016
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Surprise, surprise, Jessica is still not happy about Apple’s featuring changes. Will nothing satisfy her? Maybe only things with candy can do that. That’s right, Jessica may have gone deeper down the Candy Crush rabbit hole this week. But don’t judge her! Or judge her a lot, your choice! ;-p
We also hear about Jessica’s adventure’s in VR-land, Anna’s misadventures with another arty game, Monument Valley Year Two numbers, and much more!
Please rate and review us on iTunes, follow us on Twitter (and follow Jessica and Annatoo), like us on Facebook, buy our merch, and email us if you have even more hilarious name ideas for games King can make with Blizzard or Activision IP.
Stuff we mentioned:
Candy Crush Jelly Saga (iOS & Android)
HTC Vive
Omega Agent
Catlateral Damage
Fallen London (iOS only)
Rare Sloth
Land Sliders (iOS & Android)
Love You to Bits (iOS only for now)
NO THING (iOS & Android)
Uncharted accessibility
Lost Journey (iOS & Android)
Disney Tsum Tsum (iOS & Android)
Slide the Shakes (iOS & Android)
Mekorama (iOS & Android)
King/Activision/Blizzard merger
King looking to make games w/Blizzard IP
Ustwo posts more Monument Valley data
Thailand military coup good for mobile games
Casual Connect

87: The Meaning of Life May 18, 2016
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This episode was sponsored by Drobo, a family of safe, expandable, and simple-to-use storage arrays. Visit them now to learn more and be sure to use the discount code UN100 to save $100 on your purchase of a Drobo Mini, Drobo 5D, Drobo 5N, or any 8-drive or 12-drive Drobo in the Drobo Store.
Anna thinks things are looking up as there were some great games out this week, but Jessica finds cause to complain about the way Apple is handling featuring lately. And the complaints don’t end there!
Both your hosts also try to make peace with the fact that we didn’t drop Candy Crush Soda Saga as swiftly as we expected to. This week’s hot topic was a piece that claimed that the gaming industry is aging us out. Is it? Elsewhere, should no one have been surprised that Nintendo’s mobile games will be free-to-play? We dig into all this and more.
Please rate and review us on iTunes, follow us on Twitter (and follow Jessica and Annatoo), like us on Facebook and email us if you know how to get cat hair off a Drobo or… anything else :-p
Stuff we mentioned:
Candy Crush Soda Saga (iOS & Android)
Nowhere: Lost Memories (iOS only)
Disney Tsum Tsum (iOS & Android)
King Rabbit (iOS only)
New Instagram icon (there was some brouhaha)
Bushido Bear (iOS & Android)
Runaway Toad (iOS only)
Leap Day (iOS & Android)
Nitrome
Rust Bucket (iOS & Android)
Cracked article on gaming aging you out
The Cat Lady
Ori and the Blind Forest
Miitomo (iOS & Android)
Pocket Gamer Biz column about Nintendo
Apple might make a car (!!!!)
App review times cut to a day
Check out our merch!

86: A Mundane Way to Die May 11, 2016
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Games are BLAH lately; where is the excitement?? INKS is great, but we’ve been playing it forever now and nothing else interesting seems to be coming out. We are boooooored.
Trying to find something new and fun, Anna bravely wades back into the featured games and finds out that yep, they still suck. Meanwhile Jessica gives the Uncharted mobile game a whirl, and both of your hosts admit to something they aren’t proud of.
The news is full of depressing stuff, Anna has to be bleeped for the first time ever, and much, much more awaits you!
Please rate and review us on iTunes, follow us on Twitter (and follow Jessica and Annatoo), like us on Facebook and email us if you live in a foreign country we can possibly move to come November :-(
Stuff we mentioned:
UNCHARTED: Fortune Hunter (iOS & Android)
Candy Crush Soda Saga (iOS & Android)
Fallen London (iOS only)
Boombit
Ball Escape gameplay video (out May 12)
Black Hole Joyrider (iOS only)
Super Smash the Office (iOS & Android)
INKS (iOS only)
Out There (iOS & Android)
Trump's Wall (iOS & Android)
Mobile games implicated in German rail accident
Our episode with Barry
ZeptoLab
Kotaku story about this
ZeptoLab "apologizes"
Bioshock Infinite
Gamasutra post by ZeptoLab
Impact of featuring is decreasing
App Store search was down
Nielsen will rate mobile games

85: Getting Ahead by Being Evil May 04, 2016
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Choose evil

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Hang onto your hats, ladies and gents! Anna and Jessica played one of the Candy Crush games. You can pick your jaw up off the floor now and have no fear, we played other stuff too :)
In other news, it turns out there are some good reasons for why touch controls can be so bad. But we’re not letting developers totally off the hook just yet.
And can the founder of Atari make great mobile games? He certainly seems to think so, but what do we think?
Please rate and review us on iTunes, follow us on Twitter (and follow Jessica and Anna too), like us on Facebook and email us if you think you can save mobile games so Nolan Bushnell doesn’t have to :-p
Stuff we mentioned:
Fallen London (iOS only)
Sunless Sea
Runaway Toad (iOS only)
Adam & Bex Saltsman
Finji
Vine w/the Saltsmans' daughter
Canabalt (iOS, Android & Steam)
Shadow Bug (iOS only)
Til Morning's Light (iOS only)
Looty Dungeon (iOS only)
INKS trailer
State of Play
Disney Crossy Road (iOS, Android & WinPho)
Sling Kong (iOS & Android)
Whitaker Trebella
Candy Crush Soda Saga (iOS & Android)
Puzzlepops trailer
Layton Hawkes
List of female-hosted podcasts
Science explains bad touch controls
Nolan Bushnell will make mobile games
Nintendo investors not happy
Next Nintendo mobile games announced

84: A Potato With a Face Apr 27, 2016
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I should apologize for this creepy potato but I won't –Jessica

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Things haven’t been easy this week, but we’re here for you dear listeners, and the show goes on!
We played some good games—even ones we might be a little, err, ashamed of, and discussed a few truly bizarre news items. One of them is guaranteed to make your jaw drop, we promise.
Please rate and review us on iTunes, follow us on Twitter (and follow Jessica and Annatoo), like us on Facebook and email us if you can throw away things with faces 'cause we might need your help at Jessica’s house :-D
Stuff we mentioned:
Sarah McLachlan ASPCA commercial
Harmony remote
Lady Meow Meow
Neko Atsume (iOS & Android)
Shadow Bug (iOS only)
Looty Dungeon (iOS only)
Shooty Skies (iOS & Android)
Discobeard
Train Conductor World (iOS only)
Sara and Death (iOS & Android)
Chrome Death (iOS only)
Michael Mann
A Good Snowman is Hard to Build (iOS & Android)
Doomsday Clicker (iOS & Android)
Ryan at Pik Pok
Article about peaceful games
Boy cuts off his finger
Cracker Jack does away with prizes
PAX East
Tubbs cosplayer
We are on Google Play Music

83: Important Anger Business Apr 20, 2016
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This is not our preferred gaming face

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This week we discover who the Real Gamer is on the podcast as Jessica dominates in a game that Anna can barely play.
Anna also wades into the dangerous territory of the top charts on the App Store and samples an arty game (they do exist on mobile!) that may or may not be awful. You’ll have to listen to find out.
And, of course, as is often our way, we have some important anger to share with you. You don’t have to agree with our anger of course. But you do have to listen to it :)
Please rate and review us on iTunes, follow us on Twitter (and follow Jessica and Annatoo), like us on Facebook and email us if you’re on the super secret App Store team so we can tell you what to do :D
Stuff we mentioned:
iKlear cleaning solution
Disney Crossy Road (iOS, Android & WinPho)
Shadow Bug (iOS only)
Jessica's video to help Anna
Mutant Mudds (iOS only)
Radiation Island (iOS only)
Crashlands (iOS, Android & Steam)
Evo Explores (iOS & Android)
Sara and Death (iOS & Android)
Killscreen article
Ingmar Bergman's The Seventh Seal
Our episode with Matt Ditton
App Store secret team
The defunct iAd
Most people play mobile games to waste time
Rust Bucket (iOS & Android)
Tanya's piece on Dark Souls 3
Manveer Heir
Brandon Williamson
#notGDC
Chrome extension to replace Dark Souls
Nerd gatekeeping sucks t-shirts

82: Dizgeekery Apr 12, 2016
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Gone fishin'

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Games, games, and more games! If you’ve ever wanted to hear us spend a ton of time talking about what we’re playing, this is the episode for you!
Suuuuure, much of that time is taken up by Disney Crossy Road, but hey, what do you expect? It’s new and adorable and we’ve predictably been playing it a lot.
But don’t worry! We played lots of other games too. Some are out, some aren’t, but we have important opinions about all of them and think you’ll probably want to check them out.
We also touch on some news and along with that, what sort-of game is Jessica boycotting and why? All this and more so get to listening!
Please rate and review us on iTunes, follow us on Twitter (and follow Jessica and Annatoo), like us on Facebook and email us if your Game Center is also working now and we’ll PLAN A PARTY! :-D
Stuff we mentioned:
iOS public beta sign-up
Our friend Jenni
Disney Crossy Road (iOS, Android & WinPho)
Epbot
Cake Wrecks
Mekorama
Odd Bot Out (iOS & Android)
Martin Magni
Looty Dungeon (iOS only for now)
Taco Illuminati
Miitomo (iOS & Android)
The Alison Rapp debacle
Pktball (iOS only for now)
Laser Dog
Shadow Bug (iOS only for now)
Our friend Steve
King Rabbit (iOS only for now)
Furdemption (iOS only)
Pocket Gamer top 100 mobile games list
A Tiny Game of Pong (iOS only)
Mobile is the biggest platform
Facebook pays out a lot of money to game developers
Dreadsteed (not Hearthsteed, oops!)
Dan Gray talks to Pocket Gamer
Til Morning's Light (iOS only)
HTC Vive

81: Mickey Chicken Apr 07, 2016
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Crossy Haunted Mansion!

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At long last we bring you a chat with our awesome friend, Unconsoleable #1 fan, possibly the best Australian Matt, and oh yeah, game developer of some note, Matt Hall!
Disney Crossy Road is now out everywhere, and we talk to Matt about how this dream team-up with Big Mouse came about, what players can expect, and much more!
Matt also turns the tables and interviews Anna about her recent sojourn at GDC, and we all ponder why extreme commercial success turns into a nightmare for some developers.
Keep in mind that this episode was recorded a few weeks ago, so if there's some stuff said that doesn't make sense, that's why :-)
Please rate and review us on iTunes, follow us on Twitter (and follow Jessica and Anna too), like us on Facebook and email us if you want to apply to be our (unpaid, natch) community manager ;-p
Stuff we mentioned:
Matt's last episode
Our new chicken friends (just imagine plushies of this)
Tom's excellent fashion sense
Andrew from Spryfox
Sam Izzo
Flash Backward: 30 Years of Games
Zootopia
Haunted Mansion
Tangled
Big Hero 6
Ryan Langley
Picross 3D
Fez
Indie Game: The Movie
Terraria
Factorio
Factorio trailer
Stardew Valley
Clash Royale (iOS & Android)
Supercell
Retry (iOS & Android)
Our mutual friend, Liam
Matt Ditton's episode
Droppy Balls (iOS & Android)
Inside Out
Wreck-It Ralph
iOS nightshift mode
The Division
Josh Boggs
Framed (iOS & Android)
The Unsatisfied Mind
Edmund McMillan
JW from Vlambeer
Land Sliders (iOS & Android)

80: Posturing as a Cool Person Mar 30, 2016
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Cool as a capybara

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It’s kind of back to normal with this episode; no more husbands and still no Matt Hall. Patience please, you’ll eventually hear the dulcet tones of that Aussie accent :-p
We did play some new games though and some of them were even good! Jessica is in the thrall of a bunny while Anna doesn’t know what to make of an adventure game she’s playing and tries to understand why people like idle clickers.
So sit back, enjoy and please don’t stalk people on LinkedIn, mmmkay?
Please rate and review us on iTunes, follow us on Twitter (and follow Jessica and Anna too), like us on Facebook and email us if you love the PS Vita (but sorry, no one cares).
Stuff we mentioned:
Totem in Crossy Road
Jaguar in Crossy Road
The largest rodent on earth
A Tiny Game of Pong (iOS only)
Sling Kong (iOS & Android)
King Rabbit (iOS only)
Furdemption (iOS only)
We made fun of the devs on this episode
Sinless (iOS, Android & Steam)
Doomsday Clicker (iOS & Android)
Clicker Heroes (iOS & Android)
Miitomo is doing well
Get an App Store feature by being a creep
Disney head of mobile interview
Sony opens new mobile studio
PS Vita

79: The Look of Murder Mar 25, 2016
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Note: not the actual men of Unconsoleable

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We know you were expecting an episode with our friend Matt Hall, but hey, sh*t happens and being the pro podcasters that we are, we rolled with it.
Not only did we record a replacement episode for you, dear listeners, at the eleventh hour, but we also managed to snag the awesomest, the most amazing, the most famous guests EVAR. That’s right! Put your hands together for Anna and Jessica’s husbands, Jim and Reuben! (oh, and some guy named Moises was there too ;-p)
Finally getting their turn at the mic, the fellas gave us the lowdown on what being married to world-famous podcasters is like, divulged behind-the-scenes secrets, talked about what kinds of gamers they are, and much, much more.
So please enjoy and don’t worry, you’ll still hear Matt’s episode eventually, we promise!

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79: The Look of Murder Mar 25, 2016
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Note: not the actual men of Unconsoleable

79: The Look of Murder Anna Tarkov & Jessica Dennis Download
We know you were expecting an episode with our friend Matt Hall, but hey, sh*t happens and being the pro podcasters that we are, we rolled with it.
Not only did we record a replacement episode for you, dear listeners, at the eleventh hour, but we also managed to snag the awesomest, the most amazing, the most famous guests EVAR. That’s right! Put your hands together for Anna and Jessica’s husbands, Jim and Reuben! (oh, and some guy named Moises was there too ;-p)
Finally getting their turn at the mic, the fellas gave us the lowdown on what being married to world-famous podcasters is like, divulged behind-the-scenes secrets, talked about what kinds of gamers they are, and much, much more.
So please enjoy and don’t worry, you’ll still hear Matt’s episode eventually, we promise!

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