Warmest of Welcomes everybody.

This month on the mooglecast Max & Zac are joined by the bookworm himself ThePortlandKevin to discuss one of videogames most iconic and thought provoking franchises Bioshock. Kevin lets loose on the themes present in this I.P and how it compares to the state of the world today. 
Also on the usual run of the show we shoutout some of the recent Platinum trophies being earned by the discord community aswell as the latest installment of The Record fittingly centred around The Playstation Plus Gameclub.
We hope you enjoy the discussion and we'll see you next month for a community catch up, but until then, would you kindly be excellent to eachother!

Mooglecast, Episode 17 | Medium Daddy's Gonna Drill Ya | A Bioshock Retrospective

Hello hello, listeners. On this episode, we are coming to you straight from Freddie Fazbear's Pizza Plex where Josh and local FNAF expert, Kade (GreenGorillaGamer) are going to take you on a very special journey. Join the boys as they discuss the development of the game and a story discussion for both the base game and "Ruin" DLC. Additionally, you will need your tin-foil hat as Kade walks us through the many theories & mysterious lore for a second time on this show. It's especially interesting to see how much his thoughts have changed on the overall FNAF universe due to the ramifications from this game. So climb into your Freddy suit, throw on your favorite earbuds, and join us for this awesome and informative episode.

Surviving The Horror - Episode 19: Five Nights at Freddy’s - Security Breach

For this extra weekend Kevin gathers up more hopeful future game ideas from part of the Trophy Talk cast and Discord. We start with a follow-up to Max’s latest episode of the Moogle Cast where Kevin was a guest for a breakdown of the Bioshock series. This time he digs into an old folder on his hard drive to share an idea he had for a future game that would follow up Bioshock Infinite. While it still feels like Bioshock, it’s a new concept, setting, and story that would include the epic and grand ideas that the series is known for. 

Then Max takes the stage and shares his extremely detailed design for what the next game for Astro Bot should be. He covers how it should help launch the PlayStation 6 in the same way Astro’s Playroom helped the PlayStation 5 and also how it might redeem Sony’s failed attempt at live-service games (eeeww). As detailed as some of Kevin’s ideas have been, they are nothing compared to what Max has prepared for this game. 

To follow that up Jordan Vickers stops to pitch some of his ideas for three games that he wants to see. He starts off with a few easy concepts for games that sound like they are perfect new directions for the series they come from, and then pitches a third game that would reboot a long-dead game from the 90’s that not many of us have heard of. After finding footage of it and seeing a trailer for a failed reboot, this game has to be made.

Gary from the Platinum Achievements podcast then joins in to give some ideas for a few beloved series that already have plenty of games, but deserve even more spin-off ideas into other genres. After a few of these game ideas both Kevin and Gary realize they need to start a game studio because they seem to be so good at adding to each other’s ideas. 

We hope you all have a great weekend and have a great time listening to some more of our lofty dream game ideas. Be excellent to each other!


Trophy Talk Special #4 - More Dream Future Game Ideas

Hello one and all, and welcome back to another exciting episode of Trophy Talk!  

This month, Josh and I (Colin) sit down to catch up on the Thanksgiving festivities and break down 2025 with a few larger topics of discussion.  To start off, we dig into our YouTube 2025 recap and what it can tell us about the types of content and media we consume on arguably our most used "streaming" app.  If you're like Josh and have three kids who also use your account, you'll end up with some goofy stuff such as Animal Farm Sounds.  However, Josh and I realized pretty quickly that many of the metrics and channels being referenced in our wrap ups had to come from YouTube Shorts.  So, scroll away folks and watch your recap numbers explode! 

From there, we dive into a few Patreon write ins that look to summarize how we felt about this year as a whole.  Were there any games in recent memory that we started that we wish we didn't?  If we were magically given a 30 hour time capsule, would we use that time to finish off games we already have progress in or would we opt to start and finish brand new things from our backlog?   Will Colin (I) ever get into and play Arc Raiders?  Probably not...

We close up our main discussions with a look back at a topic from two months ago, which of the behemoth FPS games "won" 2025.  Did Battlefield 6 capitalize enough on one of the weaker CoD entries in recent memory and capture the zeitgeist?  Or, despite poor campaigns from both franchises, does the MP, Endgame, Warzone and Zombies package end up as still too high a value proposition to pass up?  Josh and I go into great detail breaking down the stats that we can see in addition to giving our own thoughts on both games and their trophy hunts after nearly 50 hours in each of them.  

We wrap up this final episode of 2025 by talking about a few of the smaller games we've been playing including House of the Dead: Remake, and many more! Thank you all for listening, we'll be back in the first weekend of 2026 to chat about our PSN Year in Review and what we ended up playing over the Holidays.  Happy Gaming, and take care! 

Trophy Talk Podcast - Episode 139: Trophy Broke Brain

Our brand new show brings you pop culture, nostalgia, and laughs with Rachel, Annie, and Keri. We're three millennials that like to reminisce about the good old days when music was at its most angsty and Bennifer were on their first go-around.  Journey with us through the puffs of smoke back to the year of sequels- 2002!

Intro attribution:
Teenagers Having Fun - Musictown
Pixabay, 2022

Critically Baked Ep 1 - 2002

Earlier this year Jordan Vickers recommended the game Blue Prince and Kevin sits down with him and newcomer Gary Scott to extensively talk about it. If you’re afraid of being spoiled by anything in the game, don’t worry. After playing Blue Prince, they all agree that there is so much in here to discover that it’s hard to spoil everything and their discussion only briefly touches on the story elements of the game. This is more a collection of their own stories of exploring the Mount Holly Estate, finding our own paths to Room 46, and what else we discover after reaching it. The things they talk about may sound like nonsense to those who haven’t played the game, but even if you have, it may still confound you. 

This discussion may make the game sound like a very daunting puzzle, but be assured that Blue Prince feels much more relaxed and casual than you might think. The three of them recommend this game if you like puzzle boxes, board games, and mysteries. You can obsess over all of the details of every room with a corkboard and string like Gary did, or you can just take everything as it comes. Kevin recommends a small notebook to keep track of some of those more obtuse clues or if you discover a puzzle that spans the entire layout of your house. 

Speaking of discoveries, during this episode all three of them reveal something about the game that the others didn’t know. Kevin found a satellite dish for the house, Jordan may have discovered an extra safe to crack, and Gary suspected that a small animal was the key to everything. All of this proves our suspicions that there is ALWAYS something more to discover in Blue Prince.  

PS Plus Game Club - Episode 36: Blue Prince

Warmest of Welcomes everybody
This month on the Mooglecast Zac takes the reins in Max’s absence to host the first ever Community Catch Up episode featuring debut voices to the TrophyTalk Network, Emerson and Fate Prime. 
In this Informal discussion the lads talk some of their own personal top moments in gaming this year including Blue Prince, Tetris Effect and Trackmania. Whilst the bulk of the show is spent on what the guys have been playing, they also touch on the game awards and some of the trailers shown at the event, we can only assume Max did a backflip with the announcement of 2 Tomb Raider games, to be honest my hype was limited at 3am dare I wake the most vocal dog currently in existence.
I’ve taken the time to make a new audio session for editing the shows, we apologise for the last episode being pretty quiet, hopefully this new template will fix the issue moving forward. But for now please enjoy the last episode of 2025.
Be excellent to each other.

Mooglecast, Episode 18 | Clair Obscur Won Game of the Year?! | Community Catch Up Vol 1

Warmest of Welcomes everybody and Merry Christmas

The end of the year is a time of relaxation and good company and what better way to celebrate the 2025 christmas break than to have an episode dedicated to just that. Myself (Max) and Zac have given it our all over the first full year of Mooglecast and we thought we'd challenge ourselves to give you guys a full 2hr episode of freestyle, the topic? NO TOPIC! The first of what we hope will be many general chatter! We often start the recording session by having the best conversations before we even hit record and we decided to nip this in the bud and hit record as soon as we got into the call for that extra bit of authenticity!
As far as what subjects are brought up, we talk about our moments of being starstruck, a controversial bass player, holiday plans for 2026 and of course a sprinkle of gaming related crap. In January we will be returning to our usual 3rd sunday slot joinned by newcomer to the Discord - Katieeee, but not before our 2nd xmas gift to you in the form of an extra bonus episode where I will be rejoined by Maurice for part 2 of our Guitar Hero special, but for now we hope you enjoy this special episode!
Be Merry to eachother.

Mooglecast, Bonus Episode 5 | My Bass Player is Temu Spiderman | No Topic Vol 1

Join Colin and Josh as they break down the newest video game in the Alien franchise. In a Surviving the Horror first, Josh and Colin had two very different experiences with the game as Josh played on PSVR2 and Colin played on the newest PS5 flatscreen version. Like most episodes, we go in-depth with our personal histories of the Alien franchise, gameplay mechanics, story beats, lore thoughts and discussion on the ending. While this game was more "action-focused" than we thought it would be, we both agree that it was a solid entry into the world of Alien and it has definitely piqued our interest for Part 2. Join us and let us know your thoughts about Alien. 

Surviving The Horror - Episode 20: Alien Rogue Incursion Part 1

Hello one and all, and happy new year!  

In this, our first episode of 2026, Josh and Colin gather around the proverbial hearth to discuss our lofty goals and dreams for the year ahead.  Will this year finally be the year of the backlog?  What game purchases and trophy hunts are must buys for us?  What games are we looking forward to the most?  We touch on all of these topics (many of which are also touched on from our Patreon write ins),  and also give some thoughts on more personal goals for the year regarding parenthood, fitness, and life in general.  

Before all of that though, we begin the episode with a look back at our PlayStation Wrap Up for 2025.  These statistics are always interesting and provide valuable insight into just how our year went.  It's easy to have an opinion about how your trophy hunts went throughout a calendar year but seeing statistics behind it really puts things in perspective.  Whether that's Josh's mammoth amount of games played compared to Colin (even though there hours were not so different in total), or coming to an understanding of the average length of our play sessions, this is all good stuff to dig into and dissect.  

The episode is rounded out with a great discussion about the various games we've been playing as well as some Plat shout outs pulled directly from our Discord.  We hope that you enjoy this first episode of the new year, it's going to be a good one!  Happy gaming, and take care all! 

Trophy Talk Podcast - Episode 140: The Age of Enlightenment

Join us as we drink midnight margaritas while we make a ghost sealing spaghetti sauce. Ok, so maybe we didn't do those things but we did watch Practical Magic...for your pleasure.

Intro attribution:
Upbeat Funky Loop - Electronic by ispeakwaves | License: Attribution
 Adult Male Hiccup by Hephaestus | License: Creative Commons 0
 THX recreated.wav by jobro | License: Attribution
 Champagne: Cork Pop and Pour by ultradust | License: Attribution

Episode 49 Practical Magic

Just a couple of lifelong friends who love movies, being sarcastic and occasionally partaking of a little liquid courage. Why not podcast it?

Episode 49 Practical Magic

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