The Gamer Den

The Gamer Den

Join us in The Gamer Den, part of the Great Geek Refuge and the GGR Podcasting Network! Jess and the "Opaque Senator" Russ discuss all things gaming. They go over their current favorites, retrospectives on older games they love, and you may even see a special guest or two! Relax with these two and have a few laughs in The Gaming Den.

Episodes

January 21, 2024
Russ and Cris return from hiatus to discuss their gaming wins and fun or 2023, highlight some of the gaming awards from the year, including a deep cut on Baldur's Gate 3, what we are looking forward to in 2024, and a send off to MattPat. We hope you enjoy!
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Russ and Cris return from their hiatus and bring the world up to date on some of the interesting gaming releases on the horizon. Russ talks about his experience at the TooManyGames Convention he attended, his recent gaming purchases with a quick review of Crisis Wing, while Cris talks about Baldur’s Gate 3, CyberPunk 2077, and God of War among other games he’s excited for. Plus, a quick loo...

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March 10, 2023 79 mins
Russ and Cris talk about StarCraft 2's new world champion, the Tetris movie trailer, the rumored MGS1 remake, new skins in Mario Kart 8, our thoughts on the best death scene in a game, plus more!
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February 19, 2023 89 mins
The Gamer Den introduces it's newest co-host...Cris! Cris gives us a bit of information about himself, including his top 10(ish) favorite games. We also talk about some of the latest stories in gaming news, including the F.E.C.'s lawsuit against FortNite, PS Plus' amazing February line up of games, Cocaine Beat...the game? And last but not least, the famous All Your Base meme game, Zero Wing, gets its Steam release.
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November 5, 2022 65 mins
This week, our fearless Senator is joined by special guests James “the Professor” Rambo and MC Brooks. We talk about their gaming histories, a story about an amazing project involving PS2 game manuals, the Bayonetta 3 controversy, an interesting study on video gaming and its effects on children, and our impression of Chris Pratt’s introduction as Mario.
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October 4, 2022 34 mins
Welcome back to the Gamer Den where Russ and Jess kick off Season 2 and catch up! We discuss new releases, upcoming games, and what we were playing over the break!
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Join Jess and Opaque Senator Russ as we wrap up our first season of The Gamer Den! We talk about “boring” daily tasks that would make the worst video games, what we’re currently playing, some updates on Pokemon Arceus and MORE! Thank you for all of the support so far on the podcast, and we will see you back for Season 2 on September 12th!
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August 22, 2022 47 mins
Join Jess and Russ in The Gamer Den where they talk about movies they’d love to see as video games and play a new game where they describe a game horribly and try to guess what the game is! Play along with us and let us know how you did!
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August 15, 2022 37 mins
Join Jess and Russ in The Gamer Den where they're talking about their experiences with their first play through of Run Legends by Talofa Games, and other games they're currently playing!
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Join Jess & Opaque Senator Russ at The Gamer Den! This week we get an exclusive sneak peek at an upcoming game Run Legends by Talofa Games from one of the developers, Andy Frank! Transform walking and running into a cooperative multiplayer battle game. Find out how to sign up for Early Access!
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July 25, 2022
Join us in The Gamer Den, part of the Great Geek Refuge! This week, Jess and the “Opaque Senator” Russ discuss Stray, DnD, Pokemon, and play a Pokemon 20 Questions game! See if you can GUESS THAT POKEMON! Before we do!
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July 18, 2022 55 mins
Join us in The Gamer Den, part of the Great Geek Refuge! This week, Jess and the “Opaque Senator” Russ discuss DnD, Kingdom Hearts, and we see if our gaming opinions are popular or unpopular. We also introduce a new segment “The Gaming Deep-dive”!
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July 11, 2022 51 mins
oin us in The Gamer Den, part of the Great Geek Refuge! This week, Jess and the “Opaque Senator” Russ discuss Sonic, DnD, League of Legends, Blizzard, and MORE!
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July 4, 2022 64 mins
Join us in The Gamer Den, part of the Great Geek Refuge! This week, Jess and the “Opaque Senator” Russ discuss Sonic Origins, Final Fantasy updates, Fall Guys, and much more!
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June 20, 2022 60 mins

This week, Jess and Russ discuss rumored game releases, official game releases for 2023, and much more!

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June 6, 2022 78 mins
Join us in The Gamer Den, part of the Great Geek Refuge! This week, Jess and the "Opaque Senator" Russ discuss upcoming releases: Sonic Frontiers and updates to Pokemon: Scarlet and Violet, and MORE!
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May 24, 2022 79 mins
Welcome back to the Gamer Den! This week Jess and Russ discuss Jess' move, the current games we're playing, and MULTIVERSUS!
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May 2, 2022 115 mins
Join us in The Gamer Den, part of the Great Geek Refuge! This week, Jess and the "Opaque Senator" Russ welcome our friend and streamer, Uncle Silver! We discuss recent news for Sonic, Uncle Silver lets us know his favorite games, and we talk CHEATING! Check it out and more.
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April 19, 2022

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April 4, 2022 84 mins
Join us in The Gamer Den, part of the Great Geek Refuge! This week, Jess and the "Opaque Senator" Russ discuss recent news for Amazon Games, Steam on Chromebook, and more. As always, we'll be talking about current games we're playing and what we're looking forward to. Russ brings up the interesting topic of aging up your favorite video game characters! What would it feel like to play Link as an old man? Will Sonic be going as fast ...
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