ABOUT THIS PODCAST 🔗
Jake Steinberg and Peter Hunt Szpytek talk about the things that they cannot possibly ignore.
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Average audio length:
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English
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65 episodes
since Aug. 4, 2025
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Are all video game podcasts, reviews, and essays basically the same? This week we ask why games coverage keeps repeating itself and what it would take to say something new.
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00:00 Every Game Podcast Ever
00:35 Is All Video Game Coverage the Same?
02:47 Overviews as Analysis
07:00 The In…
PREVIOUS EPISODES 🔗
This week on Critical Error, we put gaming's greatest (and stupidest) names on trial.
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00:00 Don't Judge a Game by Its Title
00:31 William Shakespeare Is a Hack
04:06 Donkey Kong Bananarama
08:35 Lizard's Religion
12:57 Disney's Bug-Man 2
15:32 Extremely Violent Siblings
19:13 Spa…
How long do you have to play a game before you’re allowed to have an opinion about it? We talk Fire Emblem: Fortune’s Weave, 100-hour games, the dreaded “it gets good after 40 hours,” and why gaming culture mistakes endurance for acuity.
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0:00 Cold Open
2:11 How do gamers relate to time?
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Videogame reviews have become overview trailers combined with thumbs-up-or-down referendums on personal taste. We talk about what happened to interpretation, and whether criticism has taught us to stop reading games deeply.
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0:00 Cold Open
0:30 Did Reviews Make Us Dumb?
57:33 PATREON THANK YOU
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Videogame reviews have become overview trailers combined with thumbs-up-or-down referendums on personal taste. We talk about what happened to interpretation, and whether criticism has taught us to stop reading games deeply. Link to Jake's blog about Wolverine reviews that is mentioned a few times: …
Have you ever seen so many 8 out of 10 scores in your life?
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0:00 Cold Open
1:20 Why so many 8s?!
52:39 PATREON THANK YOU
55:58 Peter's Written Piece
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Write To Us ▸ criticalerrorpod@gmail.com | Use Subject "Hey Jake and Peter"
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We spend months getting hyped about video games, but then only a week really talking about them? That can't be right.
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We spend months getting hyped about video games, but then only a week really talking about them? That can't be right.
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Is "negativity" really the problem?
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