Watch Out for Fireballs!

A game club podcast.

About the show

Watch Out for Fireballs! is a game club podcast that covers video games from every era, from retro to newer releases, indie to AAA. Each week we dive deep into the game's mechanics and narrative to figure out what works and what doesn't. Hosted by Gary Butterfield and Kole Ross, this show has been going since 2011. New episodes every Thursday. For full versions of our premium episodes, back us at patreon.com/duckfeedtv!

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Episodes and Blog Entries

  • 470: INDIKA

    Episode  |  March 13th, 2025  |  2 hrs 35 secs

    What do video games and religion have in common? The points don't matter! INDIKA is a walking-sim adjacent indie adventure game that is largely a vehicle for philosophical debates. You might think that sounds a little pretentious, but the writing is actually stellar and we encourage everyone to check this out.

  • 469: Hammerfight

    Episode  |  March 6th, 2025  |  1 hr 13 mins

    Have you ever wonder what it would be like to be a pilot who also had to juggle? That's the kind of hard hitting question Hammerfight tries to answer.

  • WOFF Dispatch: Oops! All Questions 6

    Episode  |  February 27th, 2025  |  1 hr 42 mins

    I know we ask for the asks, but the asks just don't stop coming.

  • WOFF 468 Preview: Skald: Against the Black Priory

    Episode  |  February 20th, 2025  |  41 mins

    Skald - n. a composer and reciter of poems honoring heroes and their deeds. While you can't recruit a Skald in your party, oddly, you can hone and craft a party of heroes in this updated retro-style Blobber. It wants to introduce you to a genre that's generally unfriendly to newcomers.

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    Episode  |  February 19th, 2025  |  4 mins 4 secs
  • 467: Tenchu Stealth Assassins

    Episode  |  February 13th, 2025  |  1 hr 22 mins

    Stealth games! We've been trying to figure out how to make games anti-action for a long time, and before we ever got to Sekiro, we had a little game called Tenchu Stealth Assassins. My, how the genre has evolved.

  • 466: Bandersnatch

    Episode  |  February 6th, 2025  |  1 hr 37 mins

    How can a movie also be a game? The sci-fi anthology series Black Mirror tries to answer that with the experimental Bandersnatch, which weirdly feels archaic in many ways even as it tries to break storytelling boundaries. There is some neat stuff in here, but does it add up to anything more than cheap twists?

  • WOFF Dispatch: The Evolution of Boss Fights

    Episode  |  January 30th, 2025  |  1 hr 46 mins

    Boss Fights! Who needs them? Not us. But the video game industrial complex sure seems addicted to them.

  • WOFF 465 Preview: Super Mario 64

    Episode  |  January 23rd, 2025  |  51 mins

    Genre defining, boundary pushing, console selling; Super Mario 64 had it all. One of the defining games of the Nintendo 64 and of the early 3D era left a huge legacy behind, but we can only really talk about it in full if we go back to where it all began. There's a letter, a girl, and a promise of cake. This is definitely not a trap.

  • 464: Tactical Breach Wizards

    Episode  |  January 16th, 2025  |  2 hrs 15 mins

    Do Wizards make good cops? Well, "good" cops. How about, would Wizards be efficient cops? That's the question XCOM-inspired Tactical Breach Wizards aims to answer. They can arrest people with magic! Too bad the criminals have magic too.

  • 463: Superliminal

    Episode  |  January 9th, 2025  |  1 hr 20 mins

    How big is a game? How small is it? These questions are a matter of perspective, and Superluminal is here to teach you about perspective.

  • 462: Super Castlevania IV

    Episode  |  January 2nd, 2025  |  1 hr 11 mins

    Casltevania evolves into the nest generation. This is the last hurrah of the Classic-vanias. Demanding platforming, simple progression. Dare we say we prefer them over the RPG-vanias at this point?