So Very Wrong About Games

The LOOP

October 20, 2026·55 min
Episode Description from the Publisher

Walker claims that his grandfather invented Crokinole, just because no one else is given credit. Next he'll be saying someone in his family invented poutine, or calculus even before Leibniz and Newton got to it. Heck, let's say an ancient Walker formalized Linear B and call it a day. 01:44 -Crokinole (Uncredited, Mayday, 2025) 04:40 -Spaggetin (Franco Spardo, Alley Cat Games, 2026) 07:34 -Galileo Galilei (Tomáš Holek, Pink Troubadour, 2024) 10:36 -Gunsen: The Battle for Toshi Ranbo (Matthew O'Malley & Ben Rosset, Office Dog, 2026) 19:16 -Regicide: Crown Duels (Paul Abrahams & Sketchgoblin, Badgers from Mars, 2026) 25:31 -Into the Machine (Kasper Lapp, AEG, 2026) 28:37 -Grabble (Naoki Fukuda, CMYK, 2026) 31:45 -Railroad Tiles (Hjalmar Hach & Lorenzo Silva, Horrible Guild, 2025) News (and why it doesn't matter): 35:30 Arkhipov Day! In recognition of Vasily Arkhipov saving the entire world on October 27, 1962, we celebrate Arkhipov Day on October 27th. 35:58 TurnSignal 38:37 Feature Game: The LOOP (Maxime Rambourg and Théo Rivière, Pandasaurus Games, 2020) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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