Avocado Gamescast

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]

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]

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 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]

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]

We sit down with podcast newcomer ThoughtsThoughtsThoughts to get her thoughts on Mass Effect and Kingdom Hearts. [Recorded November 8, 2020]

It's our fifth annual Halloween episode, where we attempt to discuss our worst software and hardware disasters. The spookiest thing about it is our inability to stay on topic! [Recorded October 17, 2020]

It's our first sequel episode! We have fun mashing together video games and discussing the results. We also discuss this year's most epic mashup: Microsoft's acquisition of ZeniMax. [Recorded September 26, 2020]

We discuss streaming, conventions, the weird side of YouTube, and the highs and lows of the short-lived streaming platform Mixer, with the inside scoop from Admirax. [Recorded August 22, 2020]

We talk about Grounded, Fire Emblem, Ghost of Tsushima, July's Ubisoft and Microsoft press conferences, and the Nintendo Gigaleak. [Recorded August 2, 2020]

We discuss some games you might have missed this year and last. We also talk about pop-punk and bad art. (Some might consider the "and bad art" superfluous.) [Recorded July 11, 2020]

We discuss recent allegations of abuse and misconduct in the games industry. We also talk about some of this summer's E3 replacement streams. (Listener discretion advised.) [Recorded June 27, 2020]

Merve and The Kappa talk about what they've been playing lately, how they put a podcast together, their taste in games, and where they think the industry is heading. [Recorded May 31, 2020]

The gang discusses video game crossovers. [Recorded May 3, 2020]

It's time for a showdown! In this episode, we take a look back at The Avocado's favourite games of 2019 and pit them against each other in a tournament to determine the objectively* greatest video game of 2019. (*Objectivity not guaranteed.) [Recorded April 12, 2020]