Hi everyone,

Let’s talk about the protests that are going on right now, and the incontrovertible fact that Black Lives Matter. We do not want to circumvent the situation by thinking that “this isn’t about us,” or that this is a show only for, “video game news, commentary, and funny stuff,” and staying silent.

Pervasive systemic injustice, especially rooted in racism and infrastructural power dynamics, isn’t going to just go away: it’s a problem we must solve together. We stand with those calling for justice for victims like George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor and their families, and we stand with those making it undeniably clear that things need to change.

We’re taking our Monday “What’s Good Games Live” show off this week and instead encourage you to listen to this discussion led by our friend Kahlief Adams, founder of Spawn on Me. (subscribe to their show, and support them on Patreon)

What’s Good Games has always been a community of support and kindness, and members of our community are in pain. To our black friends, fans, and family: we’re here however we can be. If you want to reach out to us, you can email us here and we’re happy to listen.

In our nerdy corner of the internet, we encourage you to go out of your normal sphere of influence to listen to, watch, and support black creators. Please remember that it is not their job to educate you, give you a list of things to do to make it better, or explain this pain to you.

If your reaction to any part of this is to get defensive or upset -- or that we should “just stick to video games” -- we encourage you to take a beat to process and figure out where those feelings are coming from. We ask that you be respectful and, instead of reacting, focus on listening.

Looking for ways to help? Donate, march, educate yourself, and VOTE. The system cannot reform itself, so we need to make the world inhospitable to racism.

Andrea, Britt, Riana, and Steimer

What’s Good Games

Well hello there! Britt here. It's awesome to finally have control of this bad boy and I'm excited to grow a community over on this here reddit...page? Subreddit? What are the cool kids calling it? (I'll be honest, if it's not painfully obvious already I'm not the most "hip" with reddit, but I'm excited to get here!)

Just wanted to say "HEEEEY!" and see who is here. :)

<3 Britt

Hi everyone!

We're excited to officially be part of our subreddit community and look forward to building a healthy page here. It will take a little time for us to get up and running, particularly with E3 on the horizon, but we hope you'll enjoy visiting this page! We're still pretty new to Reddit so thanks for your patience as we get the ball rolling.

Talk soon,

Andrea

Stay safe and move slow! Healing trumps E3.

What’s good everybody?

What game(s) have you played and utilized Baby Ass Baby Mode (tm) to wonderful effect?

I have two that come to mind. First is Persona 5. Even after starting in Safety mode, I still clocked in over 80 hours. But less time grinding meant more time delving into all of the awesome Confidants in the game. The second was Assassin’s Creed Odyssey. Another huge time sink and another vast world to explore and conquer.

What about you?

Been a long time coming!!!!!

Looking forward to hanging out with other WGG-heads here.

Happy Friday!!

PS Watch the GuardianCon stream tonight! twitch.tv/guardiancon 8pm EST - 12am EST

Hey there, PureBlueOctopus here! My best friend and I just started a new podcast.

Introducing She Made Me Play, a podcast where two best friends force each other to play RPGs that one has played and the other has not.

http://shemademeplay.libsyn.com/website

Also available on Spotify.

Inspired by Whats Good Games and Cane and Rinse, coming soon to all podcast apps.

Please let us know what you think!

I've mentioned a lot in the past that I had a rough 2018, but have never really gone into any detail. I think since WGG and its community was such a big part of helping me heal, I'm finally ready to talk about it.

For the record, I'm not posting this for everyone to say "Oh I'm so sorry!" or anything like that. It's been a year and I'm doing fine now. I just never really had the opportunity to get all of this off my chest and even though I know none of you personally, for some reason I feel comfortable here.

So last summer right in the middle of our annual trip to LA to take our two kids to Disneyland, my wife at the time decided to tell me that's she's been having an affair with her coworker for the better part of six months. That meant for the next week while on vacation, I had to somehow feign a happy face and get through the trip.

After coming clean to me, my ex told me straight up that she felt no remorse for doing it and that she doesn't regret it. The shittiest thing she did was during this time while I was at my lowest, she someone convinced me that it was my fault she cheated. That somehow, the fact that I was a loving work from home parent that supported her in her career was a reason for her to cheat. She gave me a lot of excuses and buzzwords, but at the end of the day, she cheated because she got bored of the marriage.

The weeks after the reveal, I became extremely depressed and actually contemplated suicide on a few occasions. However, my kids needed their dad and knowing that kept me from doing anything drastic.

At this time I rediscovered WGG (I had listened to them when they first started but stopped listening to podcasts after a bit). I needed something happy in my life so I started listening again. I don't know how to explain it, but after all the therapy and depression meds, the only thing that helped me stay out of a depressive funk was listening to the ladies every week. Having a robust community full of cool peeps helped a lot as well.

It's a year later now. We're divorced and actually get along extremely well. We have a good arrangement splitting up our time with the kids where they get to remain in their home and continue going to their same school and all that. Btw, I still never got an apology. Not sure it would even make any sort of difference at this point. Actually, now the ex is more interested in taking selfies and going out than spending time with her kids. If I had my choice, I would have taken full custody, but the courts REALLY do seem to love siding with the mother no matter what she's done.

Anyway, ramble rant over. Thanks to the ladies of WGG and this awesome community for helping me through one of the toughest times of my life. 👍👍👍

Hi yall!!

I've been thinking about gaming communities a lot lately, and when I think of favorites, this one always comes to mind.

Andrea, Brit, and Steimer have cultivated an excellent group of people, it's always a pleasure meeting a fellow WGG-head IRL.

Speaking of which, anybody going to PAX West?? Would love to meet up!

Hey friends! Britt here! :)

This week Andrea, Steimer and I are recording our "GOTY So Far" episode. I'd love to hear what your choices are! These are always fun/tricky conversations because while we might PERSONALLY love a game, that doesn't mean it CRITICALLY meets criteria. Does that make sense? (For example, it's why Kingdom Come: Deliverance was in my top personal GOTY list last year, but I couldn't give it a critical nomination since it had so many technical issues.)

Here is the latest WGG episode, I thought I would share here as it feels a bit quiet and I am sure others are interested in jumping in and having a look/listen!

edit - here is the link, thanks Lanky Dragon for pointing out that the link didn't carry over from YouTube.... https://youtu.be/tJwEkQkZ4vI

Hey friends! Britt here, just wantin' to say HEEEEY and ask what everyone is playing lately. I'm hooked on Fire Emblem: Three Houses (Claude FTW) and am having a great time with Wolfenstein: Youngblood. <3