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|Creators=Graham Stark, Kathleen De Vere, Jeremy Petter, Paul Saunders
 
|Creators=Graham Stark, Kathleen De Vere, Jeremy Petter, Paul Saunders
 
|Status=Active
 
|Status=Active
|Updates=Mondays
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|Updates=Thursdays
|Host=Penny Arcade Television
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|Host=Penny Arcade Television, YouTube
|OriginalRun=May 9, 2011 - December 30, 2013
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|OriginalRun=May 9, 2011 - December 30, 2013, January 5, 2014 - present
 
|AssociatedShows= [[Escapist News Network]] (predecessor)
 
|AssociatedShows= [[Escapist News Network]] (predecessor)
 
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* The silhouette of Jer in the Season 1 and 2 opening appears to be the same picture used previously in the second ENN intro.
 
* The silhouette of Jer in the Season 1 and 2 opening appears to be the same picture used previously in the second ENN intro.
  
===List of Episodes===
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===Episodes===
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See: [[List of CheckPoint Episodes]]
====Season Nine (2018)====
 
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|style="width:12%;" | # in Series || style="width:8%;" | # in Season || Title ||style="width:25%;" | Date
 
 
 
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| || ||style="text-align:left;"|[ Chillpoint]|| December 31, 2018
 
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|colspan="4" style="text-align:left; border-bottom:2px solid #FCCA11;" |<br/>
 
 
 
|- style="background-color:#eeeeee;"
 
|331||38||style="text-align:left;"|[[CheckPoint 331 - Cowboy Economics|Cowboy Economics]]|| December 3, 2018
 
|-
 
|colspan="4" style="text-align:left; border-bottom:2px solid #FCCA11;" |Stories on: Playstation Classic, Artifact, Steam, and Red Dead Online
 
 
 
|- style="background-color:#eeeeee;"
 
|330||37||style="text-align:left;"|[[CheckPoint 330 - Frozen in a Moment|Frozen in a Moment]]|| November 26, 2018
 
|-
 
|colspan="4" style="text-align:left; border-bottom:2px solid #FCCA11;" |Stories on: Resident Evil 2, Super Mario Odyssey, gamer scores, and H1Z1.
 
 
 
|- style="background-color:#eeeeee;"
 
|329||36||style="text-align:left;"|[[CheckPoint 329 - Sony Says Naw|Sony Says Naw]]|| November 19, 2018
 
|-
 
|colspan="4" style="text-align:left; border-bottom:2px solid #FCCA11;" |Stories on: Fortnite, Sony, Microsoft, and PUBG.
 
 
 
|- style="background-color:#eeeeee;"
 
| || ||style="text-align:left;"|[https://youtu.be/mv2Nf3GLJtI Chillpoint]|| October 29, 2018
 
|-
 
|colspan="4" style="text-align:left; border-bottom:2px solid #FCCA11;" |Come hand out with Heather and Paul and chat about video game news on ChillPoint!
 
 
 
|- style="background-color:#eeeeee;"
 
| || ||style="text-align:left;"|[https://youtu.be/ktf0o_G5W0U Chillpoint]|| October 22, 2018
 
|-
 
|colspan="4" style="text-align:left; border-bottom:2px solid #FCCA11;" |With Paul and Heather.
 
 
 
|- style="background-color:#eeeeee;"
 
|328||35||style="text-align:left;"|[[CheckPoint 328 - Cod Peeps 4|Cod Peeps 4]]|| October 15, 2018
 
|-
 
|colspan="4" style="text-align:left; border-bottom:2px solid #FCCA11;" |Stories on: Call of Duty Black Ops 4, Star Citizen, and Rockstar Games.
 
 
 
|- style="background-color:#eeeeee;"
 
|327||34||style="text-align:left;"|[[CheckPoint 327 - Tragedy and Capcomedy|Tragedy and Capcomedy]]|| October 8, 2018
 
|-
 
|colspan="4" style="text-align:left; border-bottom:2px solid #FCCA11;" |Stories on: Capcom, PUBG Project Thai, Guinness World Records, and Fortnite.
 
 
 
|- style="background-color:#eeeeee;"
 
|326||33||style="text-align:left;"|[[CheckPoint 326 - Squad Up|Squad Up]]|| October 1, 2018
 
|-
 
|colspan="4" style="text-align:left; border-bottom:2px solid #FCCA11;" |Stories on: Sony, Soul Calibur VI, EVE Online, and Nintendo
 
 
 
|- style="background-color:#eeeeee;"
 
|325||32||style="text-align:left;"|[[CheckPoint 325 - Telling Tales|Telling Tales]]|| September 24, 2018
 
|-
 
|colspan="4" style="text-align:left; border-bottom:2px solid #FCCA11;" |Stories on: Pokemon GO, W2K19, Tomb Raider, and Telltale Games
 
 
 
|- style="background-color:#eeeeee;"
 
|324||31||style="text-align:left;"|[[CheckPoint 324 - Directly Nintendo|Directly Nintendo]]|| September 17, 2018
 
|-
 
|colspan="4" style="text-align:left; border-bottom:2px solid #FCCA11;" |Stories on: Final Fantasy, Nintendo Switch Online, New Super Mario Bros. U Deluxe, and Fortnite
 
 
 
|- style="background-color:#eeeeee;"
 
|323||30||style="text-align:left;"|[[CheckPoint 323 - Everyone Play Nice|Everyone Play Nice]]|| September 10, 2018
 
|-
 
|colspan="4" style="text-align:left; border-bottom:2px solid #FCCA11;" |Stories on: Spider-Man, Steam, Fortnite, Elite Dangerous, and Artifact
 
 
 
|- style="background-color:#eeeeee;"
 
| || ||style="text-align:left;"|[https://youtu.be/I-LcyZijzh0 Chillpoint]|| September 3, 2018
 
|-
 
|colspan="4" style="text-align:left; border-bottom:2px solid #FCCA11;" |Time for CheckPoint! Graham and Kathleen are away so come chill with Paul and Adam as we talk about video game news!
 
 
 
|- style="background-color:#eeeeee;"
 
|322|| 29 ||style="text-align:left;"|[[CheckPoint 322 - All The Fortnite|All The Fortnite]]|| August 27, 2018
 
|-
 
|colspan="4" style="text-align:left; border-bottom:2px solid #FCCA11;" |Stories on: Marvel Strike Force, Amazon Prime, Xbox, Pokemon, and Fortnite.
 
 
 
|- style="background-color:#eeeeee;"
 
|321|| 28 ||style="text-align:left;"|[[CheckPoint 321 - Hit Me One More Time|Hit Me One More Time]]|| August 20, 2018
 
|-
 
|colspan="4" style="text-align:left; border-bottom:2px solid #FCCA11;" | Stories on: Valve, Overwatch, PUBG, Graphics Cards, and Hitman 2
 
 
 
|- style="background-color:#eeeeee;"
 
|320|| 27 ||style="text-align:left;"|[[CheckPoint 320 - Just Buy A Real Typewriter|Just Buy A Real Typewriter]]|| August 13, 2018
 
|-
 
|colspan="4" style="text-align:left; border-bottom:2px solid #FCCA11;" | Stories on: Resident Evil 2, No Man's Sky, Fallout 76, and Fortnite
 
 
 
|- style="background-color:#eeeeee;"
 
|319|| 26 ||style="text-align:left;"|[[CheckPoint 319 - Cold Shoulder for Warcraft|Cold Shoulder for Warcraft]]|| August 6, 2018
 
|-
 
|colspan="4" style="text-align:left; border-bottom:2px solid #FCCA11;" | Stories on: World of Warcraft, Dark Souls, Fortnite, and Cities Skylines
 
 
 
|- style="background-color:#eeeeee;"
 
|318|| 25 ||style="text-align:left;"|[[CheckPoint 318 - Fortnite and Graphs|Fortnite and Graphs]]|| July 30, 2018
 
|-
 
|colspan="4" style="text-align:left; border-bottom:2px solid #FCCA11;" | Stories on: Destiny, EVE Online, Fortnite, and World of Warcraft
 
 
 
|- style="background-color:#eeeeee;"
 
|317|| 24 ||style="text-align:left;"|[[CheckPoint 317 - Fortnitely Update|Fortnitely Update]]|| July 23, 2018
 
|-
 
|colspan="4" style="text-align:left; border-bottom:2px solid #FCCA11;" | Stories on: Destiny 2, Marvel Strike Force, Fortnite, and Splatoon 2
 
 
 
|- style="background-color:#eeeeee;"
 
|316|| 23 ||style="text-align:left;"|[[CheckPoint 316 - Epic Money|Epic Money]]|| July 16, 2018
 
|-
 
|colspan="4" style="text-align:left; border-bottom:2px solid #FCCA11;" | Stories on: Aliens Colonial Marines, Game Ratings, Fortnite, and Super Mario Odyssey
 
 
 
|- style="background-color:#eeeeee;"
 
|315|| 22 ||style="text-align:left;"|[[CheckPoint 315 - 10K Eggress|10K Eggress]]|| July 9, 2018
 
|-
 
|colspan="4" style="text-align:left; border-bottom:2px solid #FCCA11;" | Stories on: Overwatch, Ingress, Fortnite, and Mario Tennis Aces
 
 
 
|- style="background-color:#eeeeee;"
 
|314|| 21 ||style="text-align:left;"|[[Sony Doesn't Play Well With Others]] || July 2, 2018
 
|-
 
|colspan="4" style="text-align:left; border-bottom:2px solid #FCCA11;" | Stories on: Sony cross play, Fortnite, Nintendo Switch Piracy, and Megaman X5
 
 
 
|- style="background-color:#eeeeee;"
 
|313|| 20 ||style="text-align:left;"|[[Luigi's Awkward Feature]] || June 25, 2018
 
|-
 
|colspan="4" style="text-align:left; border-bottom:2px solid #FCCA11;" | Stories on: Dragon Ball FighterZ, Mario Odyssey, Dota 2, and Bethesda vs Warner Bros.
 
 
 
|- style="background-color:#eeeeee;"
 
|312|| 19 ||style="text-align:left;"|[[Actual Facts on the PUBG Lawsuit]] || June 18, 2018
 
|-
 
|colspan="4" style="text-align:left; border-bottom:2px solid #FCCA11;" | Stories on: Steam, PUBG vs Fortnite, Pokemon GO, and E3
 
 
 
|- style="background-color:#eeeeee;"
 
| || ||style="text-align:left;"|[https://youtu.be/5ThNwzBZ9Wc Chillpoint] || June 4, 2018
 
|-
 
|colspan="4" style="text-align:left; border-bottom:2px solid #FCCA11;" | Time to talk about last week's gaming news! Graham and Kathleen are away today, so join Paul,  Heather and Beej for ChillPoint+!
 
 
 
|- style="background-color:#eeeeee;"
 
|311|| 18 ||style="text-align:left;"|[[Cadillacs and Dinosaurs]] || May 28, 2018
 
|-
 
|colspan="4" style="text-align:left; border-bottom:2px solid #FCCA11;" | Stories on: Dark Souls, PS4, Battlefield V, and WOW
 
 
 
|- style="background-color:#eeeeee;"
 
| || ||style="text-align:left;"|[https://youtu.be/jaB-vKGhvfo Chillpoint]|| May 21, 2018
 
|-
 
|colspan="4" style="text-align:left; border-bottom:2px solid #FCCA11;" | Paul and Kathleen chat about game news
 
 
 
|- style="background-color:#eeeeee;"
 
|310|| 17 ||style="text-align:left;"|[[Too Rude for School]] || May 14, 2018
 
|-
 
|colspan="4" style="text-align:left; border-bottom:2px solid #FCCA11;" | Stories on: Destiny 2, Fork Parker's Crunch Out, Fusion University, and Nintendo
 
 
 
|- style="background-color:#eeeeee;"
 
|309|| 16 ||style="text-align:left;"|[[Time for ForkKnife]] || May 7, 2018
 
|-
 
|colspan="4" style="text-align:left; border-bottom:2px solid #FCCA11;" | Stories on: Pokemon GO, Runner 3, Fortnite, and Gamevice
 
 
 
|- style="background-color:#eeeeee;"
 
|308|| 15 ||style="text-align:left;"|[[Infinite Pirates]] || April 30, 2018
 
|-
 
|colspan="4" style="text-align:left; border-bottom:2px solid #FCCA11;" | Stories on: Grand Theft Auto IV, speed runs, PubG, God of War, and Sea of Thieves
 
 
 
|- style="background-color:#eeeeee;"
 
|307|| 14 ||style="text-align:left;"|[[Fortnite Fortnight]] || April 23, 2018
 
|-
 
|colspan="4" style="text-align:left; border-bottom:2px solid #FCCA11;" | Stories on: National Federation of State High Schools, Fortnite, Fortnite, Fortnite, and Doom
 
 
 
|- style="background-color:#eeeeee;"
 
|306|| 13 ||style="text-align:left;"|[[Bully Bully]] || April 16, 2018
 
|-
 
|colspan="4" style="text-align:left; border-bottom:2px solid #FCCA11;" | Stories on Fortnite, Mega Mini Drive, The Bully Hunters, Video Game World Records
 
 
 
|- style="background-color:#eeeeee;"
 
| ||  ||style="text-align:left;"|[https://youtu.be/_vU2T3PGjr8 ChillPoint] || April 9, 2018
 
|-
 
|colspan="4" style="text-align:left; border-bottom:2px solid #FCCA11;" | Paul and Kathleen chat about game news
 
 
 
|- style="background-color:#eeeeee;"
 
| ||  ||style="text-align:left;"|[https://youtu.be/tiYkFIO8GWQ ChillPoint] || April 2, 2018
 
|-
 
|colspan="4" style="text-align:left; border-bottom:2px solid #FCCA11;" | Paul and Beej chat about game news
 
 
 
|- style="background-color:#eeeeee;"
 
|305|| 12 ||style="text-align:left;"|[[Get Into The Actual Sea]] || March 26, 2018
 
|-
 
|colspan="4" style="text-align:left; border-bottom:2px solid #FCCA11;" | Stories on realtech VR, PUBG, Sea of Thieves, and Sonic the Hedgehog
 
 
 
|- style="background-color:#eeeeee;"
 
|304|| 11 ||style="text-align:left;"|[[When I Hear That Fortnight Bling]] || March 19, 2018
 
|-
 
|colspan="4" style="text-align:left; border-bottom:2px solid #FCCA11;" | Stories on UFC3, Sea of Thieves, Ninja and Drake Twitch stream, and Paragon.
 
 
 
|- style="background-color:#eeeeee;"
 
|303|| 10 ||style="text-align:left;"|[[Hail to the Duke]] || March 12, 2018
 
|-
 
|colspan="4" style="text-align:left; border-bottom:2px solid #FCCA11;" | Stories on Fortnite, Blazblue Cross Tag Battle, NHL 2018 Gaming World Championship, XBox Controllers, and FF VII.
 
 
 
|- style="background-color:#eeeeee;"
 
|302|| 9 ||style="text-align:left;"|[[Let Slip the Dog Tags of War]] || March 5, 2018
 
|-
 
|colspan="4" style="text-align:left; border-bottom:2px solid #FCCA11;" | Stories on Blizzard, Nintendo Switch, Battlefield One, and Tennis World Tour.
 
 
 
|- style="background-color:#eeeeee;"
 
|301|| 8 ||style="text-align:left;"|[[This Thing Again]] || February 26, 2018
 
|-
 
|colspan="4" style="text-align:left; border-bottom:2px solid #FCCA11;" | Stories on Mario Odyssey glitches, Zenyatta's legs, the Overwatch League and a stupid tax.
 
 
 
|- style="background-color:#eeeeee;"
 
|300|| 7 ||style="text-align:left;"|[[FFS Here's Atari Coin]] || February 19, 2018
 
|-
 
|colspan="4" style="text-align:left; border-bottom:2px solid #FCCA11;" | Stories on Atari and their cryptocurrencies, lootboxes in general, THQ old & new, and secret flight sim malware.
 
 
 
|- style="background-color:#eeeeee;"
 
|299|| 6 ||style="text-align:left;"|[[Mining for GPUs]] || February 12, 2018
 
|-
 
|colspan="4" style="text-align:left; border-bottom:2px solid #FCCA11;" | Stories on Agents of Mayhem: The Boardgame, Thems Fightin' Herds, HQ bots, and Nvidia is confused by crypto.
 
 
 
|- style="background-color:#eeeeee;"
 
|298|| 5 ||style="text-align:left;"|[[So Kong, Farewell]] || February 5, 2018
 
|-
 
|colspan="4" style="text-align:left; border-bottom:2px solid #FCCA11;" | Stories on battle royale games, PUBG specifically, Donkey Kong world records, Star Wars Battlefront II, and Twitch personalities.
 
 
 
|- style="background-color:#eeeeee;"
 
|297|| 4 ||style="text-align:left;"|[[Record Removed]] || January 29, 2018
 
|-
 
|colspan="4" style="text-align:left; border-bottom:2px solid #FCCA11;" | Stories on Overwatch bans, PUBG changes, No Man's Sky, and a speedrun world record.
 
 
 
|- style="background-color:#eeeeee;"
 
|296|| 3 ||style="text-align:left;"|[[Compelling Cardboard]] || January 22, 2018
 
|-
 
|colspan="4" style="text-align:left; border-bottom:2px solid #FCCA11;" | Stories on—yes actually—Steamed Hams, Nintendo Labo, VR Chat, and Rift... and Rift Prime.
 
 
 
|- style="background-color:#eeeeee;"
 
|295|| 2 ||style="text-align:left;"|[[I Pikaccuse You]] || January 15, 2018
 
|-
 
|colspan="4" style="text-align:left; border-bottom:2px solid #FCCA11;" | Stories on Final Fantasy, a new Sims 4 patch, Stellaris, and Detective Pikachu!
 
 
 
|- style="background-color:#eeeeee;"
 
|294|| 1 ||style="text-align:left;"|[[Chat Spammed Quick]] || January 8, 2018
 
|-
 
|colspan="4" style="text-align:left; border-bottom:2px solid #FCCA11;" | Stories on PSN's top games, Ripened Tingle, Games Done Quick, and Star Citizen.
 
 
 
|}
 
 
 
====Season Eight (2017)====
 
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{| class="wikitable" style="width:60%; text-align:center;"
 
|- style="background-color:#B72E38; color:white;"
 
|style="width:12%;" | # in Series || style="width:8%;" | # in Season || Title ||style="width:26%;" | Date
 
 
 
 
 
|- style="background-color:#eeeeee;"
 
|293|| 38 ||style="text-align:left;"|[[Thar They Goids!]] || December 18, 2017
 
|-
 
|colspan="4" style="text-align:left; border-bottom:2px solid #FCCA11;" | Stories on Elite: Dangerous, Shovel Knight, Overwatch, Destiny 2, CS:GO Lotto.
 
 
 
|- style="background-color:#eeeeee;"
 
|292|| 37 ||style="text-align:left;"|[[Srsly, Get on the Point]] || December 11, 2017
 
|-
 
|colspan="4" style="text-align:left; border-bottom:2px solid #FCCA11;" | Stories on Splatoon, Pokémon GO, Overwatch, and Street Fighter.
 
 
 
|- style="background-color:#eeeeee;"
 
|291|| 36 ||style="text-align:left;"|[[Bungie "Tell Don't Show"]] || December 4, 2017
 
|-
 
|colspan="4" style="text-align:left; border-bottom:2px solid #FCCA11;" | Stories on UFC/Twitch, Destiny 2, Mario Odyssey, PUBG, and Star Citizen.
 
 
 
|- style="background-color:#eeeeee;"
 
|290|| 35 ||style="text-align:left;"|[[Epic Lawsuits]] || November 27, 2017
 
|-
 
|colspan="4" style="text-align:left; border-bottom:2px solid #FCCA11;" | Stories on Animal Crossing, Sonic Forces, Fornite, PUBG in China, and Pokémon GO.
 
 
 
|- style="background-color:#eeeeee;"
 
|289|| 34 ||style="text-align:left;"|[[REALISM]] || November 6, 2017
 
|-
 
|colspan="4" style="text-align:left; border-bottom:2px solid #FCCA11;" | Stories on Overwatch, Steam, Mario 64, World of Warcraft, and Call of Duty WW2.
 
 
 
|- style="background-color:#eeeeee;"
 
|288||  ||style="text-align:left;"|Does not exist ||
 
|-
 
|colspan="4" style="text-align:left; border-bottom:2px solid #FCCA11;" | &nbsp;
 
 
 
|- style="background-color:#eeeeee;"
 
|287|| 33 ||style="text-align:left;"|[[Project Morte]] || October 30, 2017
 
|-
 
|colspan="4" style="text-align:left; border-bottom:2px solid #FCCA11;" | Stories on Wolfenstein, Super Mario Odyssey, Twitch gatcha and RIP the Kinect.
 
 
 
|- style="background-color:#eeeeee;"
 
| ||  ||style="text-align:left;"|[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7VRZ-o9r6Bc Paul chats about game news]|| October 23, 2017
 
|-
 
|colspan="4" style="text-align:left; border-bottom:2px solid #FCCA11;" | &nbsp;
 
 
 
|- style="background-color:#eeeeee;"
 
|286|| 32 ||style="text-align:left;"|[[The Most Humble]] || October 16, 2017
 
|-
 
|colspan="4" style="text-align:left; border-bottom:2px solid #FCCA11;" | Stories on Mario Odyssey, Perkele, PUBG/ASMR, Super Metroid @ AGDQ, and Humble Bundle/IGN.
 
 
 
|- style="background-color:#eeeeee;"
 
|285|| 31 ||style="text-align:left;"|[[Wolfenstein Gonna Wolfenstein]] || October 9, 2017
 
|-
 
|colspan="4" style="text-align:left; border-bottom:2px solid #FCCA11;" | Stories on ARMS, a terrible game, esports on Hulu, Golf Story, and Wolfenstein's stance on Nazis.
 
 
 
|- style="background-color:#eeeeee;"
 
|284|| 30 ||style="text-align:left;"|[[Creators Mustn't Create]] || October 2, 2017
 
|-
 
|colspan="4" style="text-align:left; border-bottom:2px solid #FCCA11;" | Stories on Assassin's Creed, Nintendo Creators Program, Silicon Echoes, FIFA on Switch, and The Mini 64 thing!
 
 
 
|- style="background-color:#eeeeee;"
 
|283|| 29 ||style="text-align:left;"|[[Cringeface the Hedgehog]] || September 25, 2017
 
|-
 
|colspan="4" style="text-align:left; border-bottom:2px solid #FCCA11;" | Stories on Team Fortress 2, Sonic Forces, PUBG and Danganronpa V.3
 
 
 
|- style="background-color:#eeeeee;"
 
|282|| 28 ||style="text-align:left;"|[[ Slander in Space]] || September 18, 2017
 
|-
 
|colspan="4" style="text-align:left; border-bottom:2px solid #FCCA11;" | Stories on Hearthstone, Playerunknown's Battlegrounds, Star Citizen, and the Nintendo Switch.
 
 
 
|- style="background-color:#eeeeee;"
 
|281|| 27 ||style="text-align:left;"|[[Destiny Throwing Shade]] || September 11, 2017
 
|-
 
|colspan="4" style="text-align:left; border-bottom:2px solid #FCCA11;" | Stories on Final Fantasy XV, CS:GO Lotto, Playerunknown's Battlegrounds, Breath of the Wild, and Destiny 2.
 
 
 
|- style="background-color:#eeeeee;"
 
| ||  ||style="text-align:left;"|[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zbRVCPVOnDQ Checkpoint+ Chat] || September 4, 2017
 
|-
 
|colspan="4" style="text-align:left; border-bottom:2px solid #FCCA11;" | Paul chatting about game news as Graham and Kathleen are away at PAX.
 
 
 
|- style="background-color:#eeeeee;"
 
|280|| 26 ||style="text-align:left;"|[[Full-Life Fanfiction]] || August 28, 2017
 
|-
 
|colspan="4" style="text-align:left; border-bottom:2px solid #FCCA11;" | Stories on Crackdown 3, Star Citizen, Overwatch, HAL Laboratories, and Half-Life 3, kinda.
 
 
 
|- style="background-color:#eeeeee;"
 
| ||  ||style="text-align:left;"|[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IuapS69c2z8 Checkpoint+ Chat] || August 21, 2017
 
|-
 
|colspan="4" style="text-align:left; border-bottom:2px solid #FCCA11;" | Set was not ready yet after move, so this is a casual chat about gaming news.
 
 
 
|- style="background-color:#eeeeee;"
 
|279 || 25 ||style="text-align:left;"|[[Playerunknown's Project Runway]] || August 7, 2017
 
|-
 
|colspan="4" style="text-align:left; border-bottom:2px solid #FCCA11;" | Stories on Itagaki Street, PUBG's new skirt, Skyrim AI, Splatoon 2 mayonnaise, and Grimoire: Heralds of the Winged Exemplar.
 
 
 
|- style="background-color:#eeeeee;"
 
|278 || 24 ||style="text-align:left;"|[[Watyr Festival]] || July 31, 2017
 
|-
 
|colspan="4" style="text-align:left; border-bottom:2px solid #FCCA11;" | Stories on the SNES Classic, Pokémon GO Fest, Hey! Pikmin, and The Gamer Gauntlet.
 
 
 
|- style="background-color:#eeeeee;"
 
|277 || 23 ||style="text-align:left;"|[[Kingdoms Heartened]] || July 17, 2017
 
|-
 
|colspan="4" style="text-align:left; border-bottom:2px solid #FCCA11;" | Stories on PUBG, the 3DS, PSV Football Club, Splatoon2, and Kingdom Hearts 3.
 
 
 
|- style="background-color:#eeeeee;"
 
|276 || 22 ||style="text-align:left;"|[[Runaround Suit]] || July 10, 2017
 
|-
 
|colspan="4" style="text-align:left; border-bottom:2px solid #FCCA11;" | Stories on Overwatch, FFXIV, Ace Attorney, and a new Zenimax lawsuit.
 
 
 
|- style="background-color:#eeeeee;"
 
|275 || 21 ||style="text-align:left;"|[[Trash Games Everywhere]] || July 3, 2017
 
|-
 
|colspan="4" style="text-align:left; border-bottom:2px solid #FCCA11;" | Stories on Breath of the Wild, Wikipedia the Game, GTA V, Steam's Cheevo Spam, and PSN's quality control.
 
 
 
|- style="background-color:#eeeeee;"
 
|274 || 20 ||style="text-align:left;"|[[CLASSIC Nintendo]] || June 26, 2017
 
|-
 
|colspan="4" style="text-align:left; border-bottom:2px solid #FCCA11;" | Stories on Call of Duty Modern Warfare, Mario+Rabbids, SNES Classic, Metroid Prime, and Prey.
 
 
 
|- style="background-color:#eeeeee;"
 
|E3.3 || E3.3 ||style="text-align:left;"|[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-5Ix2FtDuR0 E3 2017 Nintendo] || June 12, 2017
 
|-
 
|colspan="4" style="text-align:left; border-bottom:2px solid #FCCA11;" | <BR>
 
 
 
|- style="background-color:#eeeeee;"
 
|E3.2 || E3.2 ||style="text-align:left;"|[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=shE3RAqPQW0 E3 2017 SONY] || June 12, 2017
 
|-
 
|colspan="4" style="text-align:left; border-bottom:2px solid #FCCA11;" | <BR>
 
 
 
|- style="background-color:#eeeeee;"
 
|E3.1 || E3.1 ||style="text-align:left;"|[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bTJfSfvHU8I E3 2017 PC Gaming] || June 12, 2017
 
|-
 
|colspan="4" style="text-align:left; border-bottom:2px solid #FCCA11;" | <BR>
 
 
 
|- style="background-color:#eeeeee;"
 
|WWDC || WWDC ||style="text-align:left;"|[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pv3ohxrOL8g WWDC Keynote Commentary]|| June 5, 2017
 
|-
 
|colspan="4" style="text-align:left; border-bottom:2px solid #FCCA11;" | <BR>
 
 
 
|- style="background-color:#eeeeee;"
 
|273 || 19 ||style="text-align:left;"|[[Nintendo and Chill]] || June 5, 2017
 
|-
 
|colspan="4" style="text-align:left; border-bottom:2px solid #FCCA11;" | Overwatch, Steam Direct, Rime, Mario 64 speedruns, and the Nintendo Switch online service.
 
 
 
|- style="background-color:#eeeeee;"
 
|272 || 18 ||style="text-align:left;"|[[Awash With Fanfic]] || May 29, 2017
 
|-
 
|colspan="4" style="text-align:left; border-bottom:2px solid #FCCA11;" |Stories on Vanquish, Overwatch, Rime, Sims 4, and the Final Fantasy 7 Remake.
 
 
 
|- style="background-color:#eeeeee;"
 
|271 || 17 ||style="text-align:left;"|[[Dead Bunnies]] || May 22, 2017
 
|-
 
|colspan="4" style="text-align:left; border-bottom:2px solid #FCCA11;" |Stories on Second Life, Splatoon 2, Zelda, Warcraft tokens, and World of Tanks.
 
 
 
|- style="background-color:#eeeeee;"
 
|270 || 16 ||style="text-align:left;"|[[A Game Full of Spiders]] || May 15, 2017
 
|-
 
|colspan="4" style="text-align:left; border-bottom:2px solid #FCCA11;" |Stories on Famicom games filled with spiders, Nier: Automata piracy, Destiny, Deadly Premonition boardgame, and Alan Wake's disappearance.
 
 
 
|- style="background-color:#eeeeee;"
 
|269 || 15 ||style="text-align:left;"|[[Happy Little Smite]] || May 8, 2017
 
|-
 
|colspan="4" style="text-align:left; border-bottom:2px solid #FCCA11;" |Stories on Mario x Rabbids, Overwatch x Korean Politics, Witcher 3 x too many GPUs, Mei's apologetic voice lines, and Bob Ross x Smite.
 
 
 
|- style="background-color:#eeeeee;"
 
|268 || 14 ||style="text-align:left;"|[[Buckle Up Buckle Up]] || May 1, 2017
 
|-
 
|colspan="4" style="text-align:left; border-bottom:2px solid #FCCA11;" |Stories on Mario Kart sales, Hideo Kojima, the 2DSXL, Halo 3 (yes actually), and Vroom in the Night Sky.
 
 
 
|- style="background-color:#eeeeee;"
 
|267 || 13 ||style="text-align:left;"|[[Player Now Known]] || April 24, 2017
 
|-
 
|colspan="4" style="text-align:left; border-bottom:2px solid #FCCA11;" |Stories on Mario Kart/Target, Kirby lingerie, G2A, WeGame/Tencent, and Playerunknown's Battlegrounds.
 
 
 
|- style="background-color:#eeeeee;"
 
|266 || 12 ||style="text-align:left;"|[[Bethesda Not Woke]] || April 17, 2017
 
|-
 
|colspan="4" style="text-align:left; border-bottom:2px solid #FCCA11;" |Stories on the NES Classic, Nier: Automata, Quake Champions, Layton's Mystery Journey, and Nintendo Switch sales.
 
 
 
|- style="background-color:#eeeeee;"
 
|265 || 11 ||style="text-align:left;"|[[Mass Effect's Special Eyes]] || April 10, 2017
 
|-
 
|colspan="4" style="text-align:left; border-bottom:2px solid #FCCA11;" |Stories on Twitch.tv, Hearthstone, Mass Effect Andromeda, neural network video games, and CD Projekt Red's Cyberpunk.
 
 
 
|- style="background-color:#eeeeee;"
 
|264 || 10 ||style="text-align:left;"|[[No Spoilerino Pls]] || April 3, 2017
 
|-
 
|colspan="4" style="text-align:left; border-bottom:2px solid #FCCA11;" |Stories on Pokémon GO, Nintendo Switch, Rocket League, Persona 5, and GTA Online.
 
 
 
|- style="background-color:#eeeeee;"
 
|263 || 9 ||style="text-align:left;"|[[A Beautiful Horizon]] || March 27, 2017
 
|-
 
|colspan="4" style="text-align:left; border-bottom:2px solid #FCCA11;" |Stories on Battlefield 1, For Honor, Call of Duty rumours, Destiny 2, and Horizon: Zero Dawn.
 
 
 
|- style="background-color:#eeeeee;"
 
|262 || 8 ||style="text-align:left;"|[[Dangerous Goods]] || March 20, 2017
 
|-
 
|colspan="4" style="text-align:left; border-bottom:2px solid #FCCA11;" |Stories on Blizzard's lawsuit, a tale of EVE Online revenge, the Floigan Bros, MLB The Show, and Persona 5's Amazon problem.
 
 
 
|- style="background-color:#eeeeee;"
 
|261 || 7 ||style="text-align:left;"|[[Breadth of the Wild]] || March 13, 2017
 
|-
 
|colspan="4" style="text-align:left; border-bottom:2px solid #FCCA11;" |Stories on Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, Steam user reviews, and Pokémon Red in Minecraft.
 
 
 
|- style="background-color:#eeeeee;"
 
|260 || 6 ||style="text-align:left;"|[[Diplomatic Complaints]] || March 6, 2017
 
|-
 
|colspan="4" style="text-align:left; border-bottom:2px solid #FCCA11;" |Stories on Ghost Recon Wildlands, Heroes of the Storm, Destiny 2, GDC Awards, and the Nintendo Switch!
 
 
 
|- style="background-color:#eeeeee;"
 
|259 || 5 ||style="text-align:left;"|[[Switching to Mobile]] || February 27, 2017
 
|-
 
|colspan="4" style="text-align:left; border-bottom:2px solid #FCCA11;" |This week's gaming stories: Nintendo Switch portable, Twitch Drops, Elite: Dangerous and its beige moons, Mass Effect: Andromeda's pretty good banging, and speedrunning all of the NES.
 
 
 
|- style="background-color:#eeeeee;"
 
|258 || 4 ||style="text-align:left;"|[[Steam Redlight]] || February 13, 2017
 
|-
 
|colspan="4" style="text-align:left; border-bottom:2px solid #FCCA11;" |Stories on Call of Duty, Resident Evil 7, Ultra Street Fighter for Switch, Steam Greenlight, and the Gameband watch.
 
 
 
|- style="background-color:#eeeeee;"
 
|257.67 || 3.67 ||style="text-align:left;"|[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tCcA0tWlYVg Gaming News Discussion 2] || February 6, 2017
 
|-
 
|colspan="4" style="text-align:left; border-bottom:2px solid #FCCA11;" |Join Graham, Kathleen, and Penelope for a Checkpoint Special "Everyone Is Sick" Edition.
 
 
 
|- style="background-color:#eeeeee;"
 
|257.33 || 3.33 ||style="text-align:left;"|[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tCcA0tWlYVg Gaming News Discussion 1] || January 29, 2017
 
|-
 
|colspan="4" style="text-align:left; border-bottom:2px solid #FCCA11;" |With Graham worn out from PAX South, Kathleen and Paul discuss the week's gaming news with help from Penelope.
 
 
 
|- style="background-color:#eeeeee;"
 
|257 || 3 ||style="text-align:left;"|[[Roosterwatch]] || January 23, 2017
 
|-
 
|colspan="4" style="text-align:left; border-bottom:2px solid #FCCA11;" |Stories on Dishonored 2, Stair Quest, Final Fantasy: Brave Exvius, Neko Atsume, and Overwatch's new event!
 
 
 
|- style="background-color:#eeeeee;"
 
|256 || 2 ||style="text-align:left;"|[[Switch it up!]] || January 16, 2017
 
|-
 
|colspan="4" style="text-align:left; border-bottom:2px solid #FCCA11;" |Stories on the new Nintendo Switch, The Sims 4, Titanfall 2, and other Nintendo news.
 
 
 
|- style="background-color:#eeeeee;"
 
|255 || 1 ||style="text-align:left;"|[[Spying on Stardew]] || January 9, 2017
 
|-
 
|colspan="4" style="text-align:left; border-bottom:2px solid #FCCA11;" |Stories on Megaman on mobile, Hearthstone outreach, new laptops, and Steam Spy's 2016 report.
 
 
 
|- style="background-color:#eeeeee;"
 
|254.5 || 0 ||style="text-align:left;"|[[2016 Roundup Discussion]] || January 2, 2017
 
|-
 
|colspan="4" style="text-align:left; border-bottom:2px solid #FCCA11;" |Kathleen is out sick, so Graham and Paul talk about the gaming news of 2016.
 
|}
 
 
 
====Season Seven====
 
The LRR streaming calendar was overhauled in May of 2016; in July, Checkpoint followed suit with a new set and graphics and the return of Kathleen.
 
<!-- This corresponds to the Checkpoint 2016 playlist on the LRR Youtube channel. -->
 
 
 
{| align="right"
 
|[[#top]]
 
|}
 
{| class="wikitable" style="width:60%; text-align:center;"
 
|- style="background-color:#B72E38; color:white;"
 
|style="width:12%;" | # in Series || style="width:8%;" | # in Season || Title ||style="width:26%;" | Date
 
 
 
|- style="background-color:#eeeeee;"
 
|254 || 19 ||style="text-align:left;"|[[Mei-ry Christmas]] || December 19, 2016
 
|-
 
|colspan="4" style="text-align:left; border-bottom:2px solid #FCCA11;" |Stories on Street Fighter 5, Hitman, Overwatch, Assassin's Creed 2, and League of Legends.
 
 
 
|- style="background-color:#eeeeee;"
 
|253 || 18 ||style="text-align:left;"|[[Buy Every Microtransaction]] || December 12, 2016
 
|-
 
|colspan="4" style="text-align:left; border-bottom:2px solid #FCCA11;" |Stories on Super Mario Run, Pokémon GO, Fallout, Final Fantasy XV, and Game of War.
 
 
 
|- style="background-color:#eeeeee;"
 
|252 || 17 ||style="text-align:left;"|[[Sexy Ichor Mikkelsen]] || December 5, 2016
 
|-
 
|colspan="4" style="text-align:left; border-bottom:2px solid #FCCA11;" |Stories on Mario Maker, The Sims 4, South Korean law, Death Stranding, and Steam's ludicrous glut of games.
 
 
 
|- style="background-color:#eeeeee;"
 
|251 || 16 ||style="text-align:left;"|[[An Xbox Is Forever]] || November 28, 2016
 
|-
 
|colspan="4" style="text-align:left; border-bottom:2px solid #FCCA11;" |Stories on Nintendo 3DS, Overwatch, Solitaire, Pokémon, and Microsoft.
 
 
 
|- style="background-color:#eeeeee;"
 
|250 || 15 ||style="text-align:left;"|[[Pigeon Sim 2000]] || October 17, 2016
 
|-
 
|colspan="4" style="text-align:left; border-bottom:2px solid #FCCA11;" |Stories on Red Dead, voice actor strike, PSVR, Battlefield Pigeon, and Sony's lawsuit.
 
 
 
|- style="background-color:#eeeeee;"
 
|249 || 14 ||style="text-align:left;"|[[CS:NO News is Good News]] || October 10, 2016
 
|-
 
|colspan="4" style="text-align:left; border-bottom:2px solid #FCCA11;" |Stories on Inside, Wind Waker, Gears of War, Overwatch leaks, and CS:GO's new sprays.
 
 
 
|- style="background-color:#eeeeee;"
 
|248 || 13 ||style="text-align:left;"|[[The Modern Albatross]] || October 2, 2016
 
|-
 
|colspan="4" style="text-align:left; border-bottom:2px solid #FCCA11;" |Stories on Super Mario Bros, Stardew Valley, Digital Homicide, The Sims 4, and Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare.
 
 
 
|- style="background-color:#eeeeee;"
 
|247 || 12 ||style="text-align:left;"|[[Still CheckPoint]] || September 26, 2016
 
|-
 
|colspan="4" style="text-align:left; border-bottom:2px solid #FCCA11;" |Stories on basketball & esports, Doom AI, Overwatch porn, Street Fighter underoos, and Riot's money.
 
 
 
|- style="background-color:#eeeeee;"
 
|246 || 11 ||style="text-align:left;"|[[Iron and Whine]] || September 19, 2016
 
|-
 
|colspan="4" style="text-align:left; border-bottom:2px solid #FCCA11;" |Stories on: Runescape, FFXIV, Pokémon GO, Destiny, and Digital Homicide.
 
 
 
|- style="background-color:#eeeeee;"
 
|245 || 10 ||style="text-align:left;"|[[Sexy Sims & Console Slims]] || September 12, 2016
 
|-
 
|colspan="4" style="text-align:left; border-bottom:2px solid #FCCA11;" |Stories on the PS4 Pro, Pokemon GO, Fallout 4 mods, Smash Bros, Super Mario Run, and The Sims 4.
 
 
 
|- style="background-color:#eeeeee;"
 
|244 || 9 ||style="text-align:left;"|[[Love is Real!]] || August 29, 2016
 
|-
 
|colspan="4" style="text-align:left; border-bottom:2px solid #FCCA11;" |Overwatch, Solbrain: Knight of Darkness, Final Fantasy XV, Idolm@ster, and Chuck Tingle.
 
 
 
|- style="background-color:#eeeeee;"
 
|243 || 8 ||style="text-align:left;"|[[GG EZ]] || August 22, 2016
 
|-
 
|colspan="4" style="text-align:left; border-bottom:2px solid #FCCA11;" |Stories on Overwatch, Hatsune Miku, Mario, a new VR experience and a horrifying Pokémon.
 
 
 
|- style="background-color:#eeeeee;"
 
|242 || 7 ||style="text-align:left;"|[[Toy Headquarters Returns!]] || August 15, 2016
 
|-
 
|colspan="4" style="text-align:left; border-bottom:2px solid #FCCA11;" |Stories on THQ, Final Fantasy XV, No Man's Sky, Titanfall 2, and ...NASCAR?
 
 
 
|- style="background-color:#eeeeee;"
 
|241 || 6 ||style="text-align:left;"|[[Some Men's Sky]] || August 8, 2016
 
|-
 
|colspan="4" style="text-align:left; border-bottom:2px solid #FCCA11;" |Stories on 2K's tattoo lawsuit, Black Desert going P2W, Prey's name, No Man's Sky, Pokémon GO, and Leland Yee.
 
 
 
|- style="background-color:#eeeeee;"
 
|240 || 5 ||style="text-align:left;"|[[Words of Prey]] || August 1, 2016
 
|-
 
|colspan="4" style="text-align:left; border-bottom:2px solid #FCCA11;" |Stories on Prey (2016), Pokémon GO, BioWare, This is The Police, and No Man's Sky.
 
 
 
|- style="background-color:#eeeeee;"
 
|239 || 4 ||style="text-align:left;"|[[Gotta Tag 'Em All]] || July 25, 2016
 
|-
 
|colspan="4" style="text-align:left; border-bottom:2px solid #FCCA11;" |Kirby Cafés, Kojima's mascot, OneDrive & Pokémon, Overwatch, and Cosmos Rings.
 
 
 
|- style="background-color:#eeeeee;"
 
|238 || 3 ||style="text-align:left;"|[[Counter-Strike: NO!]] || July 18, 2016
 
|-
 
|colspan="4" style="text-align:left; border-bottom:2px solid #FCCA11;" |Stories on Nintendo, Street Fighter V, Breeding Season, CS:GO gambling, and the Sega Saturn.
 
 
 
|- style="background-color:#eeeeee;"
 
|237 || 2 ||style="text-align:left;"|[[Leg Cramps, I Choose You]] || July 11, 2016
 
|-
 
|colspan="4" style="text-align:left; border-bottom:2px solid #FCCA11;" |Stories on Steam, Richard Garriot's blood, old Mac porn, Pokémon GO, and the Pope.
 
 
 
|- style="background-color:#eeeeee;"
 
|236 || 1 ||style="text-align:left;"|[[A Spectrum of Censorship]] || July 4, 2016
 
|-
 
|colspan="4" style="text-align:left; border-bottom:2px solid #FCCA11;" |Stories on Final Fantasy Monopoly, Tokyo Mirage Sessions, the Gal•Gun special edition, Twitch's "Social Eating", and China's oversight of mobile apps.
 
 
 
|}
 
 
 
====Season Six====
 
LRR continued to be Patreon funded. Graham hosted the show solo during Kathleen's hiatus.
 
<!--
 
This corresponds to the Season 5 playlist on the LRR Youtube channel. -->
 
 
 
{| align="right"
 
|[[#top]]
 
|}
 
{| class="wikitable" style="width:60%; text-align:center;"
 
|- style="background-color:#B72E38; color:white;"
 
|style="width:12%;" | # in Series || style="width:8%;" | # in Season || Title ||style="width:26%;" | Date
 
 
 
|- style="background-color:#eeeeee;"
 
|235 || 35 ||style="text-align:left;"|[[Oversaturated]] || June 27, 2016
 
|-
 
|colspan="4" style="text-align:left; border-bottom:2px solid #FCCA11;" |Stories on CivilizationEDU, Minecraft Battle Mini, Dad Quest, Devil's Third, and Overwatch.
 
 
 
|- style="background-color:#eeeeee;"
 
|234 || 34 ||style="text-align:left;"|[[An Itchy Taste of Things to Come]] || June 20, 2016
 
|-
 
|colspan="4" style="text-align:left; border-bottom:2px solid #FCCA11;" |Stories about No Man's Sky, Deus Ex: Mankind Divided, Overwatch, Insomniac VR, and Resident Evil VII.
 
 
 
|- style="background-color:#eeeeee;"
 
|233 || 33 ||style="text-align:left;"|[[E3 2016 Press Conferences]] || June 14, 2016
 
|-
 
|colspan="4" style="text-align:left; border-bottom:2px solid #FCCA11;" |Summaries of the E3 2016 Press Events for Electronic Arts, Bethesda, Ubisoft, Microsoft, Sony, and kinda Nintendo.
 
 
 
|- style="background-color:#eeeeee;"
 
|232 || 32 ||style="text-align:left;"|[[Konami Hates Us]] || June 6, 2016
 
|-
 
|colspan="4" style="text-align:left; border-bottom:2px solid #FCCA11;" |Stories on Metal Gear Solid, Fallout 4 mods, Alto's Adventure, Minecraft, and Overwatch.
 
 
 
|- style="background-color:#eeeeee;"
 
|231 || 31 ||style="text-align:left;"|[[OverPorn]] || May 30, 2016
 
|-
 
|colspan="4" style="text-align:left; border-bottom:2px solid #FCCA11;" |Stories on No Man's Sky, Mighty No.9, Windows 10, Mirror's Edge, and Overwatch's porn "epidemic".
 
 
 
|- style="background-color:#eeeeee;"
 
|230 || 30 ||style="text-align:left;"|[[Mario, Minecraft, and Youtube]] || May 23, 2016
 
|-
 
|colspan="4" style="text-align:left; border-bottom:2px solid #FCCA11;" |Stories on Overwatch, Oculus vs Vive, Minecraft & Mario, Liyla and the Shadows of War, and Fallout 4 mods.
 
 
 
|- style="background-color:#eeeeee;"
 
|229 || 29 ||style="text-align:left;"|[[This Youtuber Life]] || May 16, 2016
 
|-
 
|colspan="4" style="text-align:left; border-bottom:2px solid #FCCA11;" |Stories on Street Fighter 5, Dark Souls 3, Cobra Club, Overwatch, and Youtubers Life.
 
 
 
|- style="background-color:#eeeeee;"
 
|228 || 28 ||style="text-align:left;"|[[Worst Call of Duty Ever]] || May 9, 2016
 
|-
 
|colspan="4" style="text-align:left; border-bottom:2px solid #FCCA11;" |Stories on Pokémon, Nintendo NX, Sonic Boom on YouTube, a free cow, Kickstarter trademarks, and Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare.
 
 
 
|- style="background-color:#eeeeee;"
 
|227 || 27 ||style="text-align:left;"|[[Divide By Zero Players]] || May 2, 2016
 
|-
 
|colspan="4" style="text-align:left; border-bottom:2px solid #FCCA11;" |Stories on VR confinement, Nintendo NX, Call of Duty, Cracker Jack, and The Division.
 
 
 
|- style="background-color:#eeeeee;"
 
|226 || 26 ||style="text-align:left;"|[[Rusty From All the Salt]] || April 18, 2016
 
|-
 
|colspan="4" style="text-align:left; border-bottom:2px solid #FCCA11;" |Stories on StarCraft 2, a "Heroic" MMO, LEGO Minecraft, the handsomest Pokémon, and the new women of Rust.
 
 
 
|- style="background-color:#eeeeee;"
 
|225 || 25 ||style="text-align:left;"|[[Delicious Vanilla WoW]] || April 11, 2016
 
|-
 
|colspan="4" style="text-align:left; border-bottom:2px solid #FCCA11;" |Stories on The Culling, itch.io, CS:GO, XCOM 2, and World of Warcraft.
 
 
 
|- style="background-color:#eeeeee;"
 
|224 || 24 ||style="text-align:left;"|[[Dank Streams 3]] || April 4, 2016
 
|-
 
|colspan="4" style="text-align:left; border-bottom:2px solid #FCCA11;" |CheckPoint brings you stories on paying to win in Clash Royale, playing WoW with your feet, a gamer action figure, VR desktops, and Bandai-Namco's Dark Souls 3 problem.
 
 
 
|- style="background-color:#eeeeee;"
 
|223 || 23 ||style="text-align:left;"|[[When Leaks & Rumors Aren't]] || March 28, 2016
 
|-
 
|colspan="4" style="text-align:left; border-bottom:2px solid #FCCA11;" |Stories on the Nintendo NX "leaks", Rock Band for PC, the PlayStation4K, and Valve's Steam Controller.
 
 
 
|- style="background-color:#eeeeee;"
 
|222 || 22 ||style="text-align:left;"|[[Hail Mary to the Supreme Court]] || March 21, 2016
 
|-
 
|colspan="4" style="text-align:left; border-bottom:2px solid #FCCA11;" | Stories on Xbox, the "PS4.5", UFC 2's new fighter, Telltale Batman, and EA's attempt to get the Supreme Court on their side.
 
 
 
|- style="background-color:#eeeeee;"
 
|221 || 21 ||style="text-align:left;"|[[A Division Divided]] || March 14, 2016
 
|-
 
|colspan="4" style="text-align:left; border-bottom:2px solid #FCCA11;" | Stories on Xbox cross-platform play, Bill Gates & Age of Empires, iOS App Store, The Division, and Ubisoft's dumb movie pre-order bonuses.
 
 
 
|- style="background-color:#eeeeee;"
 
|220 || 20 ||style="text-align:left;"|[[Retro Deception]] || March 7, 2016
 
|-
 
|colspan="4" style="text-align:left; border-bottom:2px solid #FCCA11;" | Stories this week on The Division, Mario Maker, Oculus vs Mac, the UFC 2 curse, and the ongoing troubles of the Coleco Chameleon.
 
 
 
|- style="background-color:#eeeeee;"
 
|219 || 19 ||style="text-align:left;"|[[Do Not Anger the Gaben]] || February 29, 2016
 
|-
 
|colspan="4" style="text-align:left; border-bottom:2px solid #FCCA11;" | Stories on Dark Souls 3, Final Fantasy 14, Dota 2 & The Shanghai Major, and Fallout 4.
 
 
 
|- style="background-color:#eeeeee;"
 
|218 || 18 ||style="text-align:left;"|[[Can I Get A Witness]] || February 15, 2016
 
|-
 
|colspan="4" style="text-align:left; border-bottom:2px solid #FCCA11;" | Stories on pro-level StarCraft, The Witness, Assassin's Creed, CranK, and Destiny!
 
 
 
|- style="background-color:#eeeeee;"
 
|217 || 17 ||style="text-align:left;"|[[Fire Emblem Heavy Petting]] || February 8, 2016
 
|-
 
|colspan="4" style="text-align:left; border-bottom:2px solid #FCCA11;" | Stories on gaming piracy, Bro Fist Sim, Avengers Academy, Fire Emblem Fates, and professional Counter-Strike.
 
 
 
|- style="background-color:#eeeeee;"
 
|216 || 16 ||style="text-align:left;"|[[When Games Become Tropes]] || January 25, 2016
 
|-
 
|colspan="4" style="text-align:left; border-bottom:2px solid #FCCA11;" | Stories on Mortal Kombat X for PC, XCOM: The Long War, Donald Rumsfeld: game dev, Assassin's Creed cakes, and Yandere Simulator on Twitch.
 
 
 
|- style="background-color:#eeeeee;"
 
|215 || 15 ||style="text-align:left;"|[[Scratching the Highest Court]] || January 18, 2016
 
|-
 
|colspan="4" style="text-align:left; border-bottom:2px solid #FCCA11;" | Stories on Mario Maker, Sony's "Let's Play" trademark filing, Xbox 360 disc scratch suit, the best-selling games of 2015, and voice of Duke Nukem John St. John.
 
 
 
|- style="background-color:#eeeeee;"
 
|214 || 14 ||style="text-align:left;"|[[MLG No Scope Buyout]] || January 4, 2016
 
|-
 
|colspan="4" style="text-align:left; border-bottom:2px solid #FCCA11;" | Stories on Activision/Blizzard buying MLG, Oculus Rift, Umihara Kiwase, Target (kinda), and Crackdown.
 
 
 
|- style="background-color:#eeeeee;"
 
|213 || 13 ||style="text-align:left;"|[[Get the Leather]] || December 21, 2015
 
|-
 
|colspan="4" style="text-align:left; border-bottom:2px solid #FCCA11;" | Stories on Just Cause 3, Aviary Attorney, Kingdom Hearts II.8 Final Chapter Prologue, and the Coleco Chameleon.
 
 
 
|- style="background-color:#eeeeee;"
 
|212 || 12 ||style="text-align:left;"|[[Blizzard Just Wants Our Love]] || December 14, 2015
 
|-
 
|colspan="4" style="text-align:left; border-bottom:2px solid #FCCA11;" | Stories on Steam hacking, Blizzard's business plan, Star Wars looking amazing, League's amazing numbers, and a game where you play a baby.
 
 
 
|- style="background-color:#eeeeee;"
 
|211 || 11 ||style="text-align:left;"|[[The Final Word]] || December 7, 2015
 
|-
 
|colspan="4" style="text-align:left; border-bottom:2px solid #FCCA11;" | As well as Graham's exhaustive opinion of the FF7 Remake, stories on Steam, Total War: Warhammer, The Witcher 3, and PS2 titles on PS4.
 
 
 
|- style="background-color:#eeeeee;"
 
|210 || 10 ||style="text-align:left;"|[[The Secret of the 7th Core]] || November 30, 2015
 
|-
 
|colspan="4" style="text-align:left; border-bottom:2px solid #FCCA11;" | Stories on Namco Bandai, Metal Gear Solid V, League of Legends, PlayStation 4, and Dragon's Lair.
 
 
 
|- style="background-color:#eeeeee;"
 
|209 || 9 ||style="text-align:left;"|[[Use Your Words]] || November 23, 2015
 
|-
 
|colspan="4" style="text-align:left; border-bottom:2px solid #FCCA11;" | Stories on Steam sales, Fallout 4, Batman Arkham Knight, Dispatcher, and the Odin Sphere HD remaster.
 
 
 
|- style="background-color:#eeeeee;"
 
|208 || 8 ||style="text-align:left;"|[[Five Nights at Funtown]] || November 2, 2015
 
|-
 
|colspan="4" style="text-align:left; border-bottom:2px solid #FCCA11;" | Stories on Fallout 4, Five Nights at Freddy's, Jäsøn, MiiTomo, and Sega's constant failure to Sonic.
 
 
 
|- style="background-color:#eeeeee;"
 
|207 || 7 ||style="text-align:left;"|[[Downloading Terror]] || October 26, 2015
 
|-
 
|colspan="4" style="text-align:left; border-bottom:2px solid #FCCA11;" | Stories on Fatal Frame, Steam Greenlight, Mario Speedrunning, Pokemon, and the console wars.
 
 
 
|- style="background-color:#eeeeee;"
 
|206 || 6 ||style="text-align:left;"|[[Keeping Microtransactions Safe]] || October 19, 2015
 
|-
 
|colspan="4" style="text-align:left; border-bottom:2px solid #FCCA11;" | Stories on Valve's Steam Link, Riot Games, Starcraft 2, World of Warcraft, and Pay Day 2's microtransactions.
 
 
 
|- style="background-color:#eeeeee;"
 
|205 || 5 ||style="text-align:left;"|[[Going on a Rampage]] || October 12, 2015
 
|-
 
|colspan="4" style="text-align:left; border-bottom:2px solid #FCCA11;" | Stories on Sonic Dash, Zynga, Witcher 3, G2A/Riot, and Rampage Jackson.
 
 
 
|- style="background-color:#eeeeee;"
 
|204 || 4 ||style="text-align:left;"|[[Tony Font's Pro Layout]] || October 5, 2015
 
|-
 
|colspan="4" style="text-align:left; border-bottom:2px solid #FCCA11;" | Stories on Burnout, Steam, Destiny, Deus Ex: Mankind Divided, and Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 5.
 
 
 
|- style="background-color:#eeeeee;"
 
|203 || 3 ||style="text-align:left;"|[[Black Ops, Party of One?]] || September 28, 2015
 
|-
 
|colspan="4" style="text-align:left; border-bottom:2px solid #FCCA11;" | Stories on Call of Duty: Black Ops 3, Grand Theft Auto 5 & Bigfoot, Oculus Rift, and Counter-Strike on TBS.
 
 
 
|- style="background-color:#eeeeee;"
 
|202 || 2 ||style="text-align:left;"|[[Twitch Must Play]] || September 21, 2015
 
|-
 
|colspan="4" style="text-align:left; border-bottom:2px solid #FCCA11;" | Stories on WWE2K16, Persona 5, Konami, Black Ops, and Twitch Plays Everything.
 
 
 
|- style="background-color:#eeeeee;"
 
|201 || 1 ||style="text-align:left;"|[[Pokémon GO Outside]] || September 14, 2015
 
|-
 
|colspan="4" style="text-align:left; border-bottom:2px solid #FCCA11;" | Stories on Pokémon GO, League of Legends, Mario, Disney Infinity & Splatoon, and Infinity Blade.
 
 
 
|}
 
 
 
====Season Five (Patreon Funded)====
 
 
 
After the YRR of LRR, LoadingReadyRun announced a Patreon to continue LoadingReadyLive streams.
 
 
 
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|- style="background-color:#eeeeee;"
 
|200 || 26 ||style="text-align:left;"|[[No Place for Mercy]] || September 7, 2015
 
|-
 
|colspan="4" style="text-align:left; border-bottom:2px solid #FCCA11;" | Stories on Destiny, Assassin's Creed, Marvel Heroes 2015, Hasbro, and Machinima & the FTC.
 
 
 
|- style="background-color:#eeeeee;"
 
|199 || 25 ||style="text-align:left;"|[[A Twitch Player Darkly]] || August 24, 2015
 
|-
 
|colspan="4" style="text-align:left; border-bottom:2px solid #FCCA11;" | Stories on Twitch Plays Dark Souls, Machine Zone vs Kabam, Madden 16, BlizzCon, and Triple Triad.
 
 
 
|- style="background-color:#eeeeee;"
 
|198 || 24 ||style="text-align:left;"|[[Cars 2 HD Gameplay Compilation]] || August 19, 2015
 
|-
 
|colspan="4" style="text-align:left; border-bottom:2px solid #FCCA11;" | Stories on 3DS hacking with Ironfall, a Chinese rip-off console, more Red Ash, amazing skin, and the "greatest" gaming video on YouTube.
 
 
 
|- style="background-color:#eeeeee;"
 
|197 || 23 ||style="text-align:left;"|[[Crackdown the Walls]] || August 10, 2015
 
|-
 
|colspan="4" style="text-align:left; border-bottom:2px solid #FCCA11;" | Stories on Crackdown, Fallout, Journey of the Light & Steam, Destiny, and Mighty No. 9!
 
 
 
|- style="background-color:#eeeeee;"
 
|196 || 22 ||style="text-align:left;"|[[Don't Work at Konami]] || August 3, 2015
 
|-
 
|colspan="4" style="text-align:left; border-bottom:2px solid #FCCA11;" | Stories on Final Fantasy VII Remake, Konami, Ouya & Razer, Fallout 4, and Comcept's Red Ash.
 
 
 
|- style="background-color:#eeeeee;"
 
|195 || 21 ||style="text-align:left;"|[[Shot to the Hearth]] || July 21, 2015
 
|-
 
|colspan="4" style="text-align:left; border-bottom:2px solid #FCCA11;" | We're back! Stories on The Flock, Rust, Crash Bandicoot, Hearthstone, and Street Fighter V.
 
 
 
|- style="background-color:#eeeeee;"
 
|194 || 20 ||style="text-align:left;"|[[Destiny's Rough Week]] || June 29, 2015
 
|-
 
|colspan="4" style="text-align:left; border-bottom:2px solid #FCCA11;" | Stories on Destiny, Arkham Knight, Bloodborne, Apple and the Confederate Flag, and League of Legends.
 
 
 
|- style="background-color:#eeeeee;"
 
|193 || 19 ||style="text-align:left;"|[[Nintendo Gains Awareness]] || June 23, 2015
 
|-
 
|colspan="4" style="text-align:left; border-bottom:2px solid #FCCA11;" |Stories on Smash Bros, Steam, Razer, WiiU, and an injured LoL pro.
 
 
 
|- style="background-color:#eeeeee;"
 
|192 || 18 ||style="text-align:left;"|[[E3 2015 Roundup]] || June 17, 2015
 
|-
 
|colspan="4" style="text-align:left; border-bottom:2px solid #FCCA11;" |Stories on the biggest news from E3 2015: Fallout 4's dog friend, Final Fantasy 7 Remake, Shin Megami Tensei's weird E3 showing, Xbox One backwards compatibility, new Amiibo/landers, and Shenmue 3!! <!-- Treat the Roundtable special as this episode's aftershow. -->
 
 
 
|- style="background-color:#eeeeee;"
 
|191 || 17 ||style="text-align:left;"|[[Fall Back with Fallout]] || June 8, 2015
 
|-
 
|colspan="4" style="text-align:left; border-bottom:2px solid #FCCA11;" |Stories on NBA2K16, The Witcher 3, Fallout, Hearthstone, and the FTC as it pertains to YouTube.
 
 
 
|- style="background-color:#eeeeee;"
 
|190 || 16 ||style="text-align:left;"|[[Punch Cow, Get Cash]] || May 25, 2015
 
|-
 
|colspan="4" style="text-align:left; border-bottom:2px solid #FCCA11;" |Stories on Destiny, Witcher 3, GTA V, Nintendo, and League of Legends!
 
 
 
|- style="background-color:#eeeeee;"
 
|189 || 15 ||style="text-align:left;"|[[The Crush of Candy]] || May 18, 2015
 
|-
 
|colspan="4" style="text-align:left; border-bottom:2px solid #FCCA11;" |Stories on Konami, Square Enix, Duke Nukem, League of Legends, and Candy Crush Saga.
 
 
 
|- style="background-color:#eeeeee;"
 
|188 || 14 ||style="text-align:left;"|[[So Retro It's Awkward]] || May 11, 2015
 
|-
 
|colspan="4" style="text-align:left; border-bottom:2px solid #FCCA11;" |Stories on Silent Hills PT, Nintendo, Smite, Five Nights at Freddy's, and cartridge gaming.
 
 
 
|- style="background-color:#eeeeee;"
 
|187 || 13 ||style="text-align:left;"|[[A DiRTy Trick]] || May 4, 2015
 
|-
 
|colspan="4" style="text-align:left; border-bottom:2px solid #FCCA11;" |Stories on Nintendo/Amiibo, The Sims 4, DiRT, Steam, and E3's representation of PC Gaming.
 
 
 
|- style="background-color:#eeeeee;"
 
|186 || 12 ||style="text-align:left;"|[[The Hills are Silent]] || April 27, 2015
 
|-
 
|colspan="4" style="text-align:left; border-bottom:2px solid #FCCA11;" |Stories on Silent Hill, Killing Floor 2, Rodea the Sky Soldier, Peter Molynuex, and of course, the now outdated Valve paid mods debacle.
 
 
 
|- style="background-color:#eeeeee;"
 
|185 || 11 ||style="text-align:left;"|[[Steam Ain't Free]] || April 20, 2015
 
|-
 
|colspan="4" style="text-align:left; border-bottom:2px solid #FCCA11;" |Stories on 1995, Candy Crush, Dark Souls II, 3DS Street Pass, and Steam!
 
 
 
|- style="background-color:#eeeeee;"
 
|184 || 10 ||style="text-align:left;"|[[Bloodleaks]] || April 7, 2015
 
|-
 
|colspan="4" style="text-align:left; border-bottom:2px solid #FCCA11;" |Stories on Bloodborne, Mario Kart 8, NBA2K14, The Button, and Amiibo supply-chain failures.
 
 
 
|- style="background-color:#eeeeee;"
 
|183 || 9 ||style="text-align:left;"|[[Rated N for Neglect]] || March 30, 2015
 
|-
 
|colspan="4" style="text-align:left; border-bottom:2px solid #FCCA11;" |Stories on Rust, Oculus Rift, Dead or Alive 5, Zynga, and angry UK parents.
 
 
 
|- style="background-color:#eeeeee;"
 
|182 || 8 ||style="text-align:left;"|[[Kojima Repeating]] || March 23, 2015
 
|-
 
|colspan="4" style="text-align:left; border-bottom:2px solid #FCCA11;" |Stories on Konami and Hideo Kojima, Bloodborne, Google Play, Valkyrie Drive, and a naughty League of Legends clan.
 
 
 
|- style="background-color:#eeeeee;"
 
|181 || 7 ||style="text-align:left;"|[[Cities Fighting Pirates]] || March 17, 2015
 
|-
 
|colspan="4" style="text-align:left; border-bottom:2px solid #FCCA11;" |Stories on Cities: Skylines, Upsilon Circuit, Star Citizen, Elder Scrolls Online, and Paula Deen: Recipe Quest... god help us.
 
 
 
|- style="background-color:#eeeeee;"
 
|180 || 6 ||style="text-align:left;"|[[Copyright Lives Forever]] || March 2, 2015
 
|-
 
|colspan="4" style="text-align:left; border-bottom:2px solid #FCCA11;" |Stories on why we'll never get No One Lives Forever back, an official/unofficial Mystic Quest remake, Twitch Plays Halo, the new WoW tokens, and Grab Them By the Eyes.
 
 
 
|- style="background-color:#eeeeee;"
 
|179 || 5 ||style="text-align:left;"|[[Mars Needs Writers]] || February 23, 2015
 
|-
 
|colspan="4" style="text-align:left; border-bottom:2px solid #FCCA11;" |Stories on Doom, the Apple Store, Destiny, and Bethesda.
 
 
 
|- style="background-color:#eeeeee;"
 
|178 || 4 ||style="text-align:left;"|[[Nintendo Wants that YouTube Dollar]] || February 2, 2015
 
|-
 
|colspan="4" style="text-align:left; border-bottom:2px solid #FCCA11;" |Stories on an Ikea sim, Nintendo & YouTube, Joystiq, Ouya & Alibaba, and Valve's Steam Workshop.
 
 
 
|- style="background-color:#eeeeee;"
 
|177 || 3 ||style="text-align:left;"|[[Slay Millions of Dragons]] || January 19, 2015
 
|-
 
|colspan="4" style="text-align:left; border-bottom:2px solid #FCCA11;" |Stories on Dragon Age: Inquisition, 3D After Burner 2, WWE Immortals, the Xbox price drop, and a special gift to dedicated WoW fans.
 
 
 
|- style="background-color:#eeeeee;"
 
|176 || 2 ||style="text-align:left;"|[[News Refurbished by GameStop]] || January 15, 2015
 
|-
 
|colspan="4" style="text-align:left; border-bottom:2px solid #FCCA11;" |Stories on GameStop's Xbox refurbishment, League of Legends, The Princess Bride mobile games, Evolve and Puzzle and Dragons Mario Edition.
 
 
 
|- style="background-color:#eeeeee;"
 
|175 || 1 ||style="text-align:left;"|[[Metal Gear Chicken]] || January 5, 2015
 
|-
 
|colspan="4" style="text-align:left; border-bottom:2px solid #FCCA11;" |Stories on FarCry, Metal Gear Solid, the 3DRudder, iTunes in the EU, and PS Now.
 
 
 
|}
 
 
 
====Season Four (CheckPointPlus)====
 
After Penny Arcade announced an end to third-party content on their site, LoadingReadyRun announced that CheckPoint was going to go on an "Indefinite Hiatus." However, in a segment at the end of the penultimate episode of Season Three, [[EA You're Just OK]] on December 23rd, they announced that instead they would stream CheckPoint live on Twitch as CheckPointPlus.
 
 
 
As well as a live recording of the episode, after the recording Graham, Kathleen and Paul discuss the stories and other stories they don't use. Also Kathleen greets new twitch subscribers with a "Kathleen Commercial", a short improvised skit "advertising" each subscriber. They frequently go off the rails, and one commercial led to the creation of the fictional country of [[Snorsh]], which has become a running gag. A Snorshian Tourist Minister, and Spoopifer, a ghost who warns you if things might be too "Spoopy", voiced by Kathleen, are regular characters in Kathleen Commercials.
 
 
 
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|- style="background-color:#eeeeee;"
 
|174 || 41 ||style="text-align:left;"|[[A Final Fantasy "F*** You!"]] || December 31, 2014
 
|-
 
|colspan="4" style="text-align:left; border-bottom:2px solid #FCCA11;" |They're making a new Final Fantasy and it's super different. Plus, you can already overspend on Halo 5, Destiny has a terrible gun, and Quake runs on anything.
 
 
 
|- style="background-color:#eeeeee;"
 
|173 || 40 ||style="text-align:left;"|[[STALKER Returns?]] || December 24, 2014
 
|-
 
|colspan="4" style="text-align:left; border-bottom:2px solid #FCCA11;" |Stories on Master Chief Collection, Bravely Second, Telltale vs Minecraft, Final Fantasy XV and more S.T.A.L.K.E.R. gossip!
 
 
 
|- style="background-color:#eeeeee;"
 
|172 || 39 ||style="text-align:left;"|[[Legal Blowout, Fellow STALKER]] || December 22, 2014
 
|-
 
|colspan="4" style="text-align:left; border-bottom:2px solid #FCCA11;" |A new STALKER game, only it isn't, is being made by some former STALKER developers, only they aren't. Plus stories on Final Fantasy and Assassin's Creed.
 
 
 
|- style="background-color:#eeeeee;"
 
|171 || 38 ||style="text-align:left;"|[[Final Fantasy Cocktease]] || December 16, 2014
 
|-
 
|colspan="4" style="text-align:left; border-bottom:2px solid #FCCA11;" |Stories on Saints Row, PS4 faceplates, TF2 booty shorts, and Final Fantasy–goddamn–7.
 
 
 
|- style="background-color:#eeeeee;"
 
|170 || 37 ||style="text-align:left;"|[[Dennis Dyack Returns]] || December 15, 2014
 
|-
 
|colspan="4" style="text-align:left; border-bottom:2px solid #FCCA11;" |Stories on Denis Dyack, FF7 G-Bike, and Assassin's Creed Unity (Episode for week of November 3rd, 2014).
 
 
 
|- style="background-color:#eeeeee;"
 
|169 || 36 ||style="text-align:left;"|[[SimCity Mobile Except Not]] || November 1, 2014
 
|-
 
|colspan="4" style="text-align:left; border-bottom:2px solid #FCCA11;" |EA really doesn't want you to think less of their new mobile SimCity. Stories on a PSN update, an Xbox price drop, Street Fighter Furries, and smart phone exercises.
 
 
 
|- style="background-color:#eeeeee;"
 
|168 || 35 ||style="text-align:left;"|[[Be A Bread]] || October 26, 2014
 
|-
 
|colspan="4" style="text-align:left; border-bottom:2px solid #FCCA11;" |The Resident Evil TV series changes hands, Bread finally gets its own game, and the Master Chief Collection has a MASSIVE day one download.
 
 
 
|- style="background-color:#eeeeee;"
 
|167 || 34 ||style="text-align:left;"|[[Ubi's Insane Resolution Solution]] || October 23, 2014
 
|-
 
|colspan="4" style="text-align:left; border-bottom:2px solid #FCCA11;" |They probably couldn't have stopped it, but if Ubisoft didn't want people to argue, they shouldn't have done THIS. Also stories on Star Wars, a Chinese charades game, Destiny, and GTA V.
 
 
 
|- style="background-color:#eeeeee;"
 
|166 || 33 ||style="text-align:left;"|[[Call of Marketing]] || October 22, 2014
 
|-
 
|colspan="4" style="text-align:left; border-bottom:2px solid #FCCA11;" |What happens when a Call of Duty executive goes way, WAY off script? Insane things. Also stories on Mistwalker, Shelter 2, Shadow of Mordor, and Tiny Death Star.
 
 
 
|- style="background-color:#eeeeee;"
 
|165 || 32 ||style="text-align:left;"|[[RetroN to the Future]] || October 7, 2014
 
|-
 
|colspan="4" style="text-align:left; border-bottom:2px solid #FCCA11;" |When your product is already in kind of a weird grey area, maybe don't push it? Stories on Hyperkin, Oculus Rift, AC Unity, and Bloodborne.
 
 
 
|- style="background-color:#eeeeee;"
 
|164 || 31 ||style="text-align:left;"|[[Your Destiny is Menial]] || September 24, 2014
 
|-
 
|colspan="4" style="text-align:left; border-bottom:2px solid #FCCA11;" |The galaxy's greatest warriors are shooting into the darkness.
 
 
 
|- style="background-color:#eeeeee;"
 
|163 || 30 ||style="text-align:left;"|[[Music for Exposure]] || September 17, 2014
 
|-
 
|colspan="4" style="text-align:left; border-bottom:2px solid #FCCA11;" |Kathleen takes on the solo sliding show with this week's CheckPoint. Stories on Destiny, Peggle, a gold PS4, and Google Play.
 
 
 
|- style="background-color:#eeeeee;"
 
|162 || 29 ||style="text-align:left;"|[[The Perviest VR]] || September 10, 2014
 
|-
 
|colspan="4" style="text-align:left; border-bottom:2px solid #FCCA11;" |The Colonial Marines lawsuit marches on, Disgaea 5 announced, and Tekken Team shows us the weirdest tech demo yet.
 
 
 
|- style="background-color:#eeeeee;"
 
|161 || 28 ||style="text-align:left;"|[[Twitchazon]] || September 4, 2014
 
|-
 
|colspan="4" style="text-align:left; border-bottom:2px solid #FCCA11;" |With a last-minute rewrite when the news came, let's look at Amazon buying Twitch.  Also, "Fish Plays Street Fighter".
 
 
 
|- style="background-color:#eeeeee;"
 
|160 || 27 ||style="text-align:left;"|[[Trademark Trollin']] || August 26, 2014
 
|-
 
|colspan="4" style="text-align:left; border-bottom:2px solid #FCCA11;" |Kathleen's away another week, but Graham's got your back with all the weirdest gaming news.
 
 
 
|- style="background-color:#eeeeee;"
 
|159 || 26 ||style="text-align:left;"|[[Get Those Vampires Naked]] || August 4, 2014
 
|-
 
|colspan="4" style="text-align:left; border-bottom:2px solid #FCCA11;" |Graham fills in for two people with stories about Titanfall, GameStop, and a game where you make vampires naked.
 
 
 
|- style="background-color:#eeeeee;"
 
|158 || 25 ||style="text-align:left;"|[[It Is Your Destiny]] || July 24, 2014
 
|-
 
|colspan="4" style="text-align:left; border-bottom:2px solid #FCCA11;" |A double does of Destiny news this week, plus info on the Space Invaders movie? which is going to be a thing.
 
 
 
|- style="background-color:#eeeeee;"
 
|157 || 24 ||style="text-align:left;"|[[Don't Crytek]] || July 22, 2014
 
|-
 
|colspan="4" style="text-align:left; border-bottom:2px solid #FCCA11;" |Crytek UK is falling apart, and it turns out Rebellion is a patent troll.
 
 
 
|- style="background-color:#eeeeee;"
 
|156 || 23 ||style="text-align:left;"|[[The Most Micro of Transactions]] || July 2, 2014
 
|-
 
|colspan="4" style="text-align:left; border-bottom:2px solid #FCCA11;" |Pools, babies, dungeons... we're just gonna chop your games up into little bitty pieces.
 
 
 
|- style="background-color:#eeeeee;"
 
|155 || 22 ||style="text-align:left;"|[[Riotous]] || June 27, 2014
 
|-
 
|colspan="4" style="text-align:left; border-bottom:2px solid #FCCA11;" |Stories about a League of Legends scholarship, Riot Games' hiring-and-firing program, and FF8's weird cheat codes.
 
 
 
|- style="background-color:#eeeeee;"
 
|154 || 21 ||style="text-align:left;"|[[YouTube Gaming]] || June 19, 2014
 
|-
 
|colspan="4" style="text-align:left; border-bottom:2px solid #FCCA11;" |Gaming is a big deal on YouTube... we should get in on that.
 
 
 
|- style="background-color:#eeeeee;"
 
|153 || 20 ||style="text-align:left;"|[[E3 2014]] || June 14, 2014
 
|-
 
|colspan="4" style="text-align:left; border-bottom:2px solid #FCCA11;" |A summary of the EA and Microsoft pressers (the only ones that had happened at airtime).
 
 
 
|- style="background-color:#eeeeee;"
 
|152 || 19 ||style="text-align:left;"|[[Bad Ideas]] || June 8, 2014
 
|-
 
|colspan="4" style="text-align:left; border-bottom:2px solid #FCCA11;" |If people would just start using their brains... well, we'd be out of stuff to make fun of.
 
 
 
|- style="background-color:#eeeeee;"
 
|151 || 18 ||style="text-align:left;"|[[Into the New World]] || May 31, 2014
 
|-
 
|colspan="4" style="text-align:left; border-bottom:2px solid #FCCA11;" |The World of Warcraft has wrapped. Don't hold your breath.
 
 
 
|- style="background-color:#eeeeee;"
 
|150 || 17 ||style="text-align:left;"|[[And On That Bombshell]] || May 23, 2014
 
|-
 
|colspan="4" style="text-align:left; border-bottom:2px solid #FCCA11;" |Interceptor Games debuts a dull thud, while 2K Sports announces the ugliest shoes... in the world.
 
 
 
|- style="background-color:#eeeeee;"
 
|149 || 16 ||style="text-align:left;"|[[KickFail]] || May 16, 2014
 
|-
 
|colspan="4" style="text-align:left; border-bottom:2px solid #FCCA11;" |The Outcast KickStarter fails to connect, and Towns just straight gives up. Weird week for potential games.
 
 
 
|- style="background-color:#eeeeee;"
 
|148 || 15 ||style="text-align:left;"|[[Infinity Soft]] || May 9, 2014
 
|-
 
|colspan="4" style="text-align:left; border-bottom:2px solid #FCCA11;" |Infinity Ward and Neversoft are sort of joining forces and we don't know how to feel about it.
 
 
 
|- style="background-color:#eeeeee;"
 
|147 || 14 ||style="text-align:left;"|[[A Successful Rebirth]] || April 22, 2014
 
|-
 
|colspan="4" style="text-align:left; border-bottom:2px solid #FCCA11;" |FFXIV was rescued from people that probably shouldn't have been making it in the first place.
 
 
 
|- style="background-color:#eeeeee;"
 
|146 || 13 ||style="text-align:left;"|[[Digging for E.T.]] || April 15, 2014
 
|-
 
|colspan="4" style="text-align:left; border-bottom:2px solid #FCCA11;" |Is finding all the discarded copies of E.T. really the result we want?
 
 
 
|- style="background-color:#eeeeee;"
 
|145 || 12 ||style="text-align:left;"|[[Square Enix Finally Listens]] || April 2, 2014
 
|-
 
|colspan="4" style="text-align:left; border-bottom:2px solid #FCCA11;" |In a revelation shocking only themselves, Square realizes it's good at RPGs.
 
 
 
|- style="background-color:#eeeeee;"
 
|144 || 11 ||style="text-align:left;"|[[Simulated Goat]] || March 24, 2014
 
|-
 
|colspan="4" style="text-align:left; border-bottom:2px solid #FCCA11;" |You can be a goat, you can be a bear, you can be anything you want!
 
 
 
|- style="background-color:#eeeeee;"
 
|143 || 10 ||style="text-align:left;"|[[Frog Secrets]] || March 17, 2014
 
|-
 
|colspan="4" style="text-align:left; border-bottom:2px solid #FCCA11;" |The secret is: There's gonna be more frogs.
 
 
 
|- style="background-color:#eeeeee;"
 
|142 || 9 ||style="text-align:left;"|[[Upsample-Fall]] || March 10, 2014
 
|-
 
|colspan="4" style="text-align:left; border-bottom:2px solid #FCCA11;" |Now that we've got the gaming PC fixed for game streaming, the CheckPoint setup took some hits. Hopefully we'll get everything in place for next week!
 
 
 
|- style="background-color:#eeeeee;"
 
|141 || 8 ||style="text-align:left;"|[[3DRealms Flails Wildly]] || February 24, 2014
 
|-
 
|colspan="4" style="text-align:left; border-bottom:2px solid #FCCA11;" |3DRealms doesn't seem to remember where they've left their licenses...
 
 
 
|- style="background-color:#eeeeee;"
 
|140 || 7 ||style="text-align:left;"|[[PokemonSpamsTwitch]] || February 17, 2014
 
|-
 
|colspan="4" style="text-align:left; border-bottom:2px solid #FCCA11;" |Enjoy the latest fad on Twitch.tv, a real argument for dictatorship.
 
 
 
|- style="background-color:#eeeeee;"
 
|139 || 6 ||style="text-align:left;"|[[A Bit of a Flap]] || February 10, 2014
 
|-
 
|colspan="4" style="text-align:left; border-bottom:2px solid #FCCA11;" |Flappy Bird has flapped away, leaving behind it much wailing and gnashing of teeth.
 
 
 
|- style="background-color:#eeeeee;"
 
|138 || 5 ||style="text-align:left;"|[[KickStopper]] || February 3, 2014
 
|-
 
|colspan="4" style="text-align:left; border-bottom:2px solid #FCCA11;" |What have we learned from KickStarter funded games? How quickly time passes.
 
 
 
|- style="background-color:#eeeeee;"
 
|137 || 4 ||style="text-align:left;"|[[Tales of Troubles]] || January 28, 2014
 
|-
 
|colspan="4" style="text-align:left; border-bottom:2px solid #FCCA11;" |Bamco-Nandai has taken something great, then made it awful and butt.
 
 
 
|- style="background-color:#eeeeee;"
 
|136 || 3 ||style="text-align:left;"|[[Try These Ninten-dos!]] || January 20, 2014
 
|-
 
|colspan="4" style="text-align:left; border-bottom:2px solid #FCCA11;" |Another Bishi Roundup! Sort of. Also, we advise Nintendo.
 
 
 
|- style="background-color:#eeeeee;"
 
|135 || 2 ||style="text-align:left;"|[[Ruining the Magic]] || January 13, 2014
 
|-
 
|colspan="4" style="text-align:left; border-bottom:2px solid #FCCA11;" |CheckPoint Live, now with correct seating orientation! Also, stories about SimCity, Germany and Microsoft.
 
 
 
|- style="background-color:#eeeeee;"
 
|134 || 1 ||style="text-align:left;"|[[So Brave, So Default]] || January 6, 2014
 
|-
 
|colspan="4" style="text-align:left; border-bottom:2px solid #FCCA11;" |The first CheckPoint recorded LIVE was not without its audio errors and awkward pauses, but for being done in one shot, we're pretty happy. Tune in next week, it'll be even better!
 
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====Season Three====
 
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{| class="wikitable" style="width:60%; text-align:center;"
 
|- style="background-color:#B72E38; color:white;"
 
|style="width:12%;" | # in Series || style="width:8%;" | # in Season || Title ||style="width:26%;" | Date
 
 
 
|- style="background-color:#eeeeee;"
 
|133 || 29 ||style="text-align:left;"|[[Now We Console The Loser]] || December 30, 2013
 
|-
 
|colspan="4" style="text-align:left; border-bottom:2px solid #FCCA11;" |CheckPoint breaks down the console wars! Who won? Who lost? Who cares!
 
|- style="background-color:#eeeeee;"
 
|132 || 28 ||style="text-align:left;"|[[EA You're Just OK]] || December 23, 2013
 
|-
 
|colspan="4" style="text-align:left; border-bottom:2px solid #FCCA11;" |This is not a video about the best company in the world, this is just a ribbing.
 
|- style="background-color:#eeeeee;"
 
|131 || 27 ||style="text-align:left;"|[[Brickbox One]] || December 16, 2013
 
|-
 
|colspan="4" style="text-align:left; border-bottom:2px solid #FCCA11;" |Don't believe everything you read online. Actually, don't believe anything you read online.
 
|- style="background-color:#eeeeee;"
 
|130 || 26 ||style="text-align:left;"|[[We Must Clone Deeper]] || December 9, 2013
 
|-
 
|colspan="4" style="text-align:left; border-bottom:2px solid #FCCA11;" |Finally, experience the thrill of ripping off the Dutch from the comfort of your own home.
 
|- style="background-color:#eeeeee;"
 
|129 || 25 ||style="text-align:left;"|[[Angry Birds: Cash!]] || December 2, 2013
 
|-
 
|colspan="4" style="text-align:left; border-bottom:2px solid #FCCA11;" |Rovio's getting serious. Not about racing games, but about in-app purchases.
 
|- style="background-color:#eeeeee;"
 
|128 || 24 ||style="text-align:left;"|[[MyGM is Best GM]] || November 25, 2013
 
|-
 
|colspan="4" style="text-align:left; border-bottom:2px solid #FCCA11;" |I think NBA 2K14s innovative "not playing basketball at all mode" is finally going to get me to give the franchise a try.
 
|- style="background-color:#eeeeee;"
 
|127 || 23 ||style="text-align:left;"|[[Sony’s Everquest for More Money]] || November 18, 2013
 
|-
 
|colspan="4" style="text-align:left; border-bottom:2px solid #FCCA11;" |Do you like Everquest? Are you a chump? Sony has a proposition for you.
 
|- style="background-color:#eeeeee;"
 
|126 || 22 ||style="text-align:left;"|[[Not So Free to Play]] || November 11, 2013
 
|-
 
|colspan="4" style="text-align:left; border-bottom:2px solid #FCCA11;" |What makes a good free-to-play game? Apparently, a bad game.
 
|- style="background-color:#eeeeee;"
 
|125 || 21 ||style="text-align:left;"|[[Attack on Titanfall]] || November 4, 2013
 
|-
 
|colspan="4" style="text-align:left; border-bottom:2px solid #FCCA11;" |Miss the "good old days" of the console wars? No? Well, EA seems to.
 
|- style="background-color:#eeeeee;"
 
|124 || 20 ||style="text-align:left;"|[[A Torrent of Theft]] || October 28, 2013
 
|-
 
|colspan="4" style="text-align:left; border-bottom:2px solid #FCCA11;" |Have you found a torrent of something that's too good to exist? Leave it alone.
 
|- style="background-color:#eeeeee;"
 
|123 || 19 ||style="text-align:left;"|[[There's No Mojo Here]] || October 21, 2013
 
|-
 
|colspan="4" style="text-align:left; border-bottom:2px solid #FCCA11;" |Do you need common sense and market research if you have wild, unattainable dreams? Yes Madcatz, you do.
 
|- style="background-color:#eeeeee;"
 
|122 || 18 ||style="text-align:left;"|[[Just Say No to Mojo]] || October 14, 2013
 
|-
 
|colspan="4" style="text-align:left; border-bottom:2px solid #FCCA11;" |Are you in the market for a luxury Android console? If so, did someone hit you on the head?
 
|- style="background-color:#eeeeee;"
 
|121 || 17 ||style="text-align:left;"|[[The Longest Half Life]] || October 7, 2013
 
|-
 
|colspan="4" style="text-align:left; border-bottom:2px solid #FCCA11;" |At last, our long nightmare is over. Ha ha, just kidding.
 
|- style="background-color:#eeeeee;"
 
|120 || 16 ||style="text-align:left;"|[[The Ghost of David Jaffe]] || September 30, 2013
 
|-
 
|colspan="4" style="text-align:left; border-bottom:2px solid #FCCA11;" |Do imaginary friends make the best business partners? Only David Jaffe knows.
 
|- style="background-color:#eeeeee;"
 
|119 || 15 ||style="text-align:left;"|[[Grand Theft Apple]] || September 22, 2013
 
|-
 
|colspan="4" style="text-align:left; border-bottom:2px solid #FCCA11;" |Now you can take the GTA experience wherever you go! Just don't crime and drive.
 
|- style="background-color:#eeeeee;"
 
|118 || 14 ||style="text-align:left;"|[[Anger in Ouya Town]] || September 16, 2013
 
|-
 
|colspan="4" style="text-align:left; border-bottom:2px solid #FCCA11;" |Turns out that giving out FREE MONEY brings out some unsavory behaviour.
 
|- style="background-color:#eeeeee;"
 
|117 || 13 ||style="text-align:left;"|[[The Mighty Mega Nine]] || September 9, 2013
 
|-
 
|colspan="4" style="text-align:left; border-bottom:2px solid #FCCA11;" |Keiji Inafune's new game totally isn't Mega Man at all you guys.
 
|- style="background-color:#eeeeee;"
 
|116 || 12 ||style="text-align:left;"|[[Ubisoft and Nvidia Sittin' in a Tree]] || September 2, 2013
 
|-
 
|colspan="4" style="text-align:left; border-bottom:2px solid #FCCA11;" |Ubisoft has formed a mighty alliance with Nvidia! OMG THEY'RE BEST FRIENDS FOREVER!! It's so cute!
 
|- style="background-color:#eeeeee;"
 
|115 || 11 ||style="text-align:left;"|[[Plants vs. Productivity]] || August 26, 2013
 
|-
 
|colspan="4" style="text-align:left; border-bottom:2px solid #FCCA11;" |Humans love Plants vs. Zombies. But couldn't we be doing something better with our time?
 
|- style="background-color:#eeeeee;"
 
|114 || 10 ||style="text-align:left;"|[[A Little Less Kinection]] || August 19, 2013
 
|-
 
|colspan="4" style="text-align:left; border-bottom:2px solid #FCCA11;" |Microsoft announces yet more changes to the Xbox One. At the rate they're going you'll just be buying a rebranded PS4 on launch day.
 
|- style="background-color:#eeeeee;"
 
|113 || 9 ||style="text-align:left;"|[[Same Sexy Sims]] || August 12, 2013
 
|-
 
|colspan="4" style="text-align:left; border-bottom:2px solid #FCCA11;" |Is The Sims the most progressive game ever? Maybe? Maybe.
 
|- style="background-color:#eeeeee;"
 
|112 || 8 ||style="text-align:left;"|[[Sweet Treats]] || August 5, 2013
 
|-
 
|colspan="4" style="text-align:left; border-bottom:2px solid #FCCA11;" |Before you jump into the latest dating sim, watch Kathleen's handy primer.
 
|- style="background-color:#eeeeee;"
 
|111 || 7 ||style="text-align:left;"|[[Self Control 2]] || July 29, 2013
 
|-
 
|colspan="4" style="text-align:left; border-bottom:2px solid #FCCA11;" |Stardock Software is dangerously close to poking a hornets' nest.
 
|- style="background-color:#eeeeee;"
 
|110 || 6 ||style="text-align:left;"|[[The Peripherals]] || July 22, 2013
 
|-
 
|colspan="4" style="text-align:left; border-bottom:2px solid #FCCA11;" |There is now an entire documentary about a video game peripheral from the 1980s. We've arrived.
 
|- style="background-color:#eeeeee;"
 
|109 || 5 ||style="text-align:left;"|[[Mystery, Intrigue, ISK]] || July 15, 2013
 
|-
 
|colspan="4" style="text-align:left; border-bottom:2px solid #FCCA11;" |Spies, double-agents, space carriers: an average day for EVE Online.
 
|- style="background-color:#eeeeee;"
 
|108 || 4 ||style="text-align:left;"|[[Mattrick Goes to the Dogs]] || July 8, 2013
 
|-
 
|colspan="4" style="text-align:left; border-bottom:2px solid #FCCA11;" |Not content with ruining one company, Mattrick sets his sights Zyngward.
 
|- style="background-color:#eeeeee;"
 
|107 || 3 ||style="text-align:left;"|[[No One Can Hear You Pee]] || July 1, 2013
 
|-
 
|colspan="4" style="text-align:left; border-bottom:2px solid #FCCA11;" |Looking for a way to deal with some inconvenient people? Give them Routine on Oculus Rift.
 
|- style="background-color:#eeeeee;"
 
|106 || 2 ||style="text-align:left;"|[[XBox-One-Less-Thing]] || June 24, 2013
 
|-
 
|colspan="4" style="text-align:left; border-bottom:2px solid #FCCA11;" |Microsoft changes its tune on the Xbox One, and an app that lets you have sex with your iPad!
 
|- style="background-color:#eeeeee;"
 
|105 || 1 ||style="text-align:left;"|[[XBox On Point]] || June 17, 2013
 
|-
 
|colspan="4" style="text-align:left; border-bottom:2px solid #FCCA11;" |Underwhelmed by the Xbox One. Here's a few reasons why.
 
|-
 
|}
 
 
 
====Season Two====
 
{| align="right"
 
|[[#top]]
 
|}
 
{| class="wikitable" style="width:60%; text-align:center;"
 
|- style="background-color:#6D6B6C; color:white;"
 
|style="width:12%;" | # in Series || style="width:8%;" | # in Season || Title ||style="width:26%;" | Date
 
 
 
|- style="background-color:#eeeeee;"
 
|104 || 52 ||style="text-align:left;"|[[OMG The Bubble Popped]] || June 10, 2013
 
|-
 
|colspan="4" style="text-align:left; border-bottom:2px solid #FCCA11;" |When a Zynga employee is laid off in the woods, does anyone hear the sound of them going "hooray"?
 
|- style="background-color:#eeeeee;"
 
|103 || 51 ||style="text-align:left;"|[[Cube Vindication]] || June 3, 2013
 
|-
 
|colspan="4" style="text-align:left; border-bottom:2px solid #FCCA11;" |There really was something in the Cube. It was in our hearts all along!
 
|- style="background-color:#eeeeee;"
 
|102 || 50 ||style="text-align:left;"|[[Meet My Xbone]] || May 27, 2013
 
|-
 
|colspan="4" style="text-align:left; border-bottom:2px solid #FCCA11;" |CheckPoint takes on the new Xbox One, aka, the Xbone
 
|- style="background-color:#eeeeee;"
 
|101 || 49 ||style="text-align:left;"|[[Save our Pac Mans]] || May 20, 2013
 
|-
 
|colspan="4" style="text-align:left; border-bottom:2px solid #FCCA11;" |Pac Man is being "re-imagined" with a "cool" cartoon and video game. Think about how awful that would be... and then keep going.
 
|- style="background-color:#eeeeee;"
 
|100 || 48 ||style="text-align:left;"|[[They Came for Our Guns]] || May 13, 2013
 
|-
 
|colspan="4" style="text-align:left; border-bottom:2px solid #FCCA11;" |EA doesn't do "real guns" in its games anymore. Sort of. Not really? False.
 
|- style="background-color:#eeeeee;"
 
|99 || 47 ||style="text-align:left;"|[[Irony Tycoon]] || May 6, 2013
 
|-
 
|colspan="4" style="text-align:left; border-bottom:2px solid #FCCA11;" |Your tears. They are delicious.
 
|- style="background-color:#eeeeee;"
 
|98 || 46 ||style="text-align:left;"|[[Ridiculous Cloning]] || April 29, 2013
 
|-
 
|colspan="4" style="text-align:left; border-bottom:2px solid #FCCA11;" |Peter Molyneux is going to be disgustingly rich.
 
|- style="background-color:#eeeeee;"
 
|97 || 45 ||style="text-align:left;"|[[Oh Yeah, Ouya]] || April 22, 2013
 
|-
 
|colspan="4" style="text-align:left; border-bottom:2px solid #FCCA11;" |The Ouya! It's the next big in next big things, and not much else.
 
|- style="background-color:#eeeeee;"
 
|96 || 44 ||style="text-align:left;"|[[What is Worst in Life]] || April 15, 2013
 
|-
 
|colspan="4" style="text-align:left; border-bottom:2px solid #FCCA11;" |Once again, EA is literally the worst.
 
|- style="background-color:#eeeeee;"
 
|95 || 43 ||style="text-align:left;"|[[Downloadable Consumerism]] || April 8, 2013
 
|-
 
|colspan="4" style="text-align:left; border-bottom:2px solid #FCCA11;" |Oh my gosh! Ads in SimCity! And I don't even have to PAY for them? Thanks EA!
 
|- style="background-color:#eeeeee;"
 
|94 || 42 ||style="text-align:left;"|[[Restructuring Expectations]] || April 1, 2013
 
|-
 
|colspan="4" style="text-align:left; border-bottom:2px solid #FCCA11;" |It shouldn't be easy to be successful, but it should at least be attainable.
 
|- style="background-color:#eeeeee;"
 
|93 || 41 ||style="text-align:left;"|[[The Origin Hackshack]] || March 25, 2013
 
|-
 
|colspan="4" style="text-align:left; border-bottom:2px solid #FCCA11;" |Origin security problems and publishers that don't like female protagonists.
 
|- style="background-color:#eeeeee;"
 
|92 || 40 ||style="text-align:left;"|[[Five Servings of Zombie]] || March 18, 2013
 
|-
 
|colspan="4" style="text-align:left; border-bottom:2px solid #FCCA11;" |The folks behind DayZ just want you to be healthy.
 
|- style="background-color:#eeeeee;"
 
|91 || 39 ||style="text-align:left;"|[[Kicking Expectations]] || March 11, 2013
 
|-
 
|colspan="4" style="text-align:left; border-bottom:2px solid #FCCA11;" |What should you do differently if you KickStarter is over-funded? Everything, and nothing.
 
|- style="background-color:#eeeeee;"
 
|90 || 38 ||style="text-align:left;"|[[Getting Down to Bidness]] || March 4, 2013
 
|-
 
|colspan="4" style="text-align:left; border-bottom:2px solid #FCCA11;" |THQ is auctioning off its junk. Literally.
 
|- style="background-color:#eeeeee;"
 
|89 || 37 ||style="text-align:left;"|[[Sony’s PS4 Play]] || February 25, 2013
 
|-
 
|colspan="4" style="text-align:left; border-bottom:2px solid #FCCA11;" |Sony said a lot of words, but did they say anything important?
 
|- style="background-color:#eeeeee;"
 
|88 || 36 ||style="text-align:left;"|[[Litigation is Magic]] || February 18, 2013
 
|-
 
|colspan="4" style="text-align:left; border-bottom:2px solid #FCCA11;" |For a two hour long game, Journey sure was expensive to make.
 
|- style="background-color:#eeeeee;"
 
|87 || 35 ||style="text-align:left;"|[[A Door Closed, a Windows Open]] || February 11, 2013
 
|-
 
|colspan="4" style="text-align:left; border-bottom:2px solid #FCCA11;" |XNA discontinued, Amazon Coins and more!
 
|- style="background-color:#eeeeee;"
 
|86 || 34 ||style="text-align:left;"|[[The Accidental War]] || February 4, 2013
 
|-
 
|colspan="4" style="text-align:left; border-bottom:2px solid #FCCA11;" |We all knew Reddit and SomethingAwful would fight eventually, but we didn't expect this...
 
|- style="background-color:#eeeeee;"
 
|85 || 33 ||style="text-align:left;"|[[A Modest Proposal]] || January 28, 2013
 
|-
 
|colspan="4" style="text-align:left; border-bottom:2px solid #FCCA11;" |Okay, THQ didn't listen, but maybe Atari will.
 
|- style="background-color:#eeeeee;"
 
|84 || 32 ||style="text-align:left;"|[[SWTOR SGR OMG]] || January 21, 2013
 
|-
 
|colspan="4" style="text-align:left; border-bottom:2px solid #FCCA11;" |BioWare tries to do the right thing and the media shits all over them.
 
|- style="background-color:#eeeeee;"
 
|83 || 31 ||style="text-align:left;"|[[THQ Going to Pieces]] || January 14, 2013
 
|-
 
|colspan="4" style="text-align:left; border-bottom:2px solid #FCCA11;" |Sounds like everyone has a chance to get in on some of this THQ auction action.
 
|- style="background-color:#eeeeee;"
 
|82 || 30 ||style="text-align:left;"|[[PSGone]] || January 7, 2013
 
|-
 
|colspan="4" style="text-align:left; border-bottom:2px solid #FCCA11;" |The doors closes on the PS2, and Eidos' Life President is also a Commander now.
 
|- style="background-color:#eeeeee;"
 
|81 || 29 ||style="text-align:left;"|[[Eternal Lawsuit]] || November 19, 2012
 
|-
 
|colspan="4" style="text-align:left; border-bottom:2px solid #FCCA11;" |Don't sue someone you've ripped off.
 
|- style="background-color:#eeeeee;"
 
|80 || 28 ||style="text-align:left;"|[[Features We Won’t Wii-Use]] || November 12, 2012
 
|-
 
|colspan="4" style="text-align:left; border-bottom:2px solid #FCCA11;" |Satoru Iwata and Reggie Fils-Aime bore us to tears with peripheral Wii U features.
 
|- style="background-color:#eeeeee;"
 
|79 || 27 ||style="text-align:left;"|[[The Price of Progress]] || November 5, 2012
 
|-
 
|colspan="4" style="text-align:left; border-bottom:2px solid #FCCA11;" |Square Enix is listening, and realizes it has to hide its shenanigans better.
 
|- style="background-color:#eeeeee;"
 
|78 || 26 ||style="text-align:left;"|[[Games are Really Big]] || October 29, 2012
 
|-
 
|colspan="4" style="text-align:left; border-bottom:2px solid #FCCA11;" |All we know about Dragon Age 3 is that it's big. We guess that's good?
 
|- style="background-color:#eeeeee;"
 
|77 || 25 ||style="text-align:left;"|[[A Blue Streak of Sadness]] || October 22, 2012
 
|-
 
|colspan="4" style="text-align:left; border-bottom:2px solid #FCCA11;" |Every time we hear Sonic news these days it's always sad.
 
|- style="background-color:#eeeeee;"
 
|76 || 24 ||style="text-align:left;"|[[Trouble on the Farm]] || October 15, 2012
 
|-
 
|colspan="4" style="text-align:left; border-bottom:2px solid #FCCA11;" |Zynga is doing so poorly, they might be better off if they didn't exist.
 
|- style="background-color:#eeeeee;"
 
|75 || 23 ||style="text-align:left;"|[[Pork Barrel Participation]] || October 8, 2012
 
|-
 
|colspan="4" style="text-align:left; border-bottom:2px solid #FCCA11;" |Who can resist the siren song of gold avatar armor?
 
|- style="background-color:#eeeeee;"
 
|74 || 22 ||style="text-align:left;"|[[SC2: HotS Goes F2P?]] || October 1, 2012
 
|-
 
|colspan="4" style="text-align:left; border-bottom:2px solid #FCCA11;" |Blizzard recently mused out loud what StarCraft might look like as a free-to-play title.
 
|- style="background-color:#eeeeee;"
 
|73 || 21 ||style="text-align:left;"|[[Disputed Borders and Lands]] || September 24, 2012
 
|-
 
|colspan="4" style="text-align:left; border-bottom:2px solid #FCCA11;" |Kathleen gives us the historical context for why some former Soviets don't like their Borderlands options.
 
|- style="background-color:#eeeeee;"
 
|72 || 20 ||style="text-align:left;"|[[Mixed Martial Boobies]] || September 17, 2012
 
|-
 
|colspan="4" style="text-align:left; border-bottom:2px solid #FCCA11;" |DOA5 flip-flops on its bounce-bounce. Again.
 
|- style="background-color:#eeeeee;"
 
|71 || 19 ||style="text-align:left;"|[[Games for Windows or Not]] || September 10, 2012
 
|-
 
|colspan="4" style="text-align:left; border-bottom:2px solid #FCCA11;" |There's too many different services that share the same names. Get it together, Microsoft.
 
|- style="background-color:#eeeeee;"
 
|70 || 18 ||style="text-align:left;"|[[Core Crisis]] || September 3, 2012
 
|-
 
|colspan="4" style="text-align:left; border-bottom:2px solid #FCCA11;" |What is gameplay worth to you? Square says: Your time and eyeballs.
 
|- style="background-color:#eeeeee;"
 
|69 || 17 ||style="text-align:left;"|[[On Blackest Isle]] || August 27, 2012
 
|-
 
|colspan="4" style="text-align:left; border-bottom:2px solid #FCCA11;" |Black Isle is back! Kind of? Is it? Wait a second here.
 
|- style="background-color:#eeeeee;"
 
|68 || 16 ||style="text-align:left;"|[[Almost No Odd Job]] || August 20, 2012
 
|-
 
|colspan="4" style="text-align:left; border-bottom:2px solid #FCCA11;" |GoldenEye's famous multiplayer mode was developed on the sly and nearly didn't happen.
 
|- style="background-color:#eeeeee;"
 
|67 || 15 ||style="text-align:left;"|[[Final Fantasy Apology]] || August 13, 2012
 
|-
 
|colspan="4" style="text-align:left; border-bottom:2px solid #FCCA11;" |It's refreshing when a company admits it's screwed up. Really, badly screwed up.
 
|- style="background-color:#eeeeee;"
 
|66 || 14 ||style="text-align:left;"|[[MechWarrior]] || August 6, 2012
 
|-
 
|colspan="4" style="text-align:left; border-bottom:2px solid #FCCA11;" |Because releasing actual mecha into the world couldn't possibly go wrong.
 
|- style="background-color:#eeeeee;"
 
|65 || 13 ||style="text-align:left;"|[[Square Enix Versus Rumors]] || July 30, 2012
 
|-
 
|colspan="4" style="text-align:left; border-bottom:2px solid #FCCA11;" |If you're going to make up rumors about FF Versus 13, there's way more hilarious ones than, "It's cancelled."
 
|- style="background-color:#eeeeee;"
 
|64|| 12 ||style="text-align:left;"|[[Gamer Marketing]] || July 23, 2012
 
|-
 
|colspan="4" style="text-align:left; border-bottom:2px solid #FCCA11;" |When making something you want gamers to buy, make sure it's super shiny and ridiculous.
 
|- style="background-color:#eeeeee;"
 
|63 || 11 ||style="text-align:left;"|[[Games & Movies]] || July 16, 2012
 
|-
 
|colspan="4" style="text-align:left; border-bottom:2px solid #FCCA11;" |Every time there's a spec of good news about a video game movie, there's an equal torrent of horrid crap.
 
|- style="background-color:#eeeeee;"
 
|62 || 10 ||style="text-align:left;"|[[CheckPoint 62 - Assassin’s Editions|Assassin’s Editions]] || July 9, 2012
 
|-
 
|colspan="4" style="text-align:left; border-bottom:2px solid #FCCA11;" |If you want any variety of bonus features with your copy of Screed 3, there's an edition for that.
 
|- style="background-color:#eeeeee;"
 
|61 || 9 ||style="text-align:left;"|[[DOA Flashback]] || July 2, 2012
 
|-
 
|colspan="4" style="text-align:left; border-bottom:2px solid #FCCA11;" |Remember how DOA5 was going to be all mature and grown-up? About that…
 
|- style="background-color:#eeeeee;"
 
|60 || 8 ||style="text-align:left;"|[[Til Ring Out Do Us Part]] || June 25, 2012
 
|-
 
|colspan="4" style="text-align:left; border-bottom:2px solid #FCCA11;" |Soul Calibur adds wedding costumes, and Zynga has stopped pretending they aren't terrible.
 
|- style="background-color:#eeeeee;"
 
|59 || 7 ||style="text-align:left;"|[[UFC Extremely Disputed]] || June 18, 2012
 
|-
 
|colspan="4" style="text-align:left; border-bottom:2px solid #FCCA11;" |THQ had better never let Saints Row go if they keep making decisions like these.
 
|- style="background-color:#eeeeee;"
 
|58 || 6||style="text-align:left;"|[[E3 Throwdown]] || June 11, 2012
 
|-
 
|colspan="4" style="text-align:left; border-bottom:2px solid #FCCA11;" |Does E3 even care that gamers were upset with the show?
 
|- style="background-color:#eeeeee;"
 
|57 || 5 ||style="text-align:left;"|[[Infinite Lawsuit]] || June 4, 2012
 
|-
 
|colspan="4" style="text-align:left; border-bottom:2px solid #FCCA11;" |Activision may have now settled with West & Zampella, but the gaming lawsuit of the decade left us a final parting nugget of gold.
 
|- style="background-color:#eeeeee;"
 
|56 || 4 ||style="text-align:left;"|[[Beyond Infinity]] || May 28, 2012
 
|-
 
|colspan="4" style="text-align:left; border-bottom:2px solid #FCCA11;" |Ahh, the delightful nuggets of ridiculousness that come from court filing papers.
 
|- style="background-color:#eeeeee;"
 
|55 || 3 ||style="text-align:left;"|[[Too Much of a Good Thing?]] || May 21, 2012
 
|-
 
|colspan="4" style="text-align:left; border-bottom:2px solid #FCCA11;" |Look, we love Tim Schafer too, but this is just getting silly.
 
|- style="background-color:#eeeeee;"
 
|54 || 2 ||style="text-align:left;"|[[Zyng and Zag]] || May 14, 2012
 
|-
 
|colspan="4" style="text-align:left; border-bottom:2px solid #FCCA11;" |Zynga gets in the news so much these days you'd think they were a tabloid celebrity.
 
|- style="background-color:#eeeeee;"
 
|53 || 1 ||style="text-align:left;"|[[God of Gore]] || May 7, 2012
 
|-
 
|colspan="4" style="text-align:left; border-bottom:2px solid #FCCA11;" |Sony is taking extra special care to make sure God of War 4 has beautiful blood-goo.
 
|-
 
|}
 
 
 
====Season One====
 
{| align="right"
 
|[[#top]]
 
|}
 
{| class="wikitable" style="width:60%; text-align:center;"
 
|- style="background-color:#B72E38; color:white;"
 
|style="width:12%;" | # in Series || style="width:8%;" | # in Season || Title ||style="width:26%;" | Date
 
 
 
|- style="background-color:#eeeeee;"
 
|52|| 52 ||style="text-align:left;"|[[Are Fezzes Cool?]] || April 30, 2012
 
|-
 
|colspan="4" style="text-align:left; border-bottom:2px solid #FCCA11;" |Indie-darling Fez is finally out and everyone knows they love it, but they're not sure why.
 
|- style="background-color:#eeeeee;"
 
|51 || 51 ||style="text-align:left;"|[[Power Sink]] || April 23, 2012
 
|-
 
|colspan="4" style="text-align:left; border-bottom:2px solid #FCCA11;" |Is your console destroying the country's power grid? Yes. The answer is yes.
 
|- style="background-color:#eeeeee;"
 
|50 || 50 ||style="text-align:left;"|[[There is No Bubble]] || April 16, 2012
 
|-
 
|colspan="4" style="text-align:left; border-bottom:2px solid #FCCA11;" |Kickstarter is taking over video game self-funding. But is there an end to it?
 
|- style="background-color:#eeeeee;"
 
|49 || 49 ||style="text-align:left;"|[[EA is Just the Worst]] || April 9, 2012
 
|-
 
|colspan="4" style="text-align:left; border-bottom:2px solid #FCCA11;" |Did you hear? Electronic Arts is basically the devil!
 
|- style="background-color:#eeeeee;"
 
|48 || 48 ||style="text-align:left;"|[[Ubi Goes Soft]] || April 2, 2012
 
|-
 
|colspan="4" style="text-align:left; border-bottom:2px solid #FCCA11;" |Ubisoft is introducing a new anti-piracy scheme that sounds... good?
 
|- style="background-color:#eeeeee;"
 
|47 || 47 ||style="text-align:left;"|[[Gaming the System]] || March 26, 2012
 
|-
 
|colspan="4" style="text-align:left; border-bottom:2px solid #FCCA11;" |For all the money gaming makes the US, the US sure seems to hate gaming.
 
|- style="background-color:#eeeeee;"
 
|46 || 46 ||style="text-align:left;"|[[The Masses Are Effected]] || March 19, 2012
 
|-
 
|colspan="4" style="text-align:left; border-bottom:2px solid #FCCA11;" |Welcome to largest video game entitlement complex since Minecraft ladders.
 
|- style="background-color:#eeeeee;"
 
|45 || 45 ||style="text-align:left;"|[[GDizzle]] || March 12, 2012
 
|-
 
|colspan="4" style="text-align:left; border-bottom:2px solid #FCCA11;" |Graham & Paul hold down the fort while Kathleen reports in from GDC.
 
|- style="background-color:#eeeeee;"
 
|44 || 44 ||style="text-align:left;"|[[Foot X Mouth]] || March 5, 2012
 
|-
 
|colspan="4" style="text-align:left; border-bottom:2px solid #FCCA11;" |The thing about saying stupid things on the internet is that everyone can hear you.
 
|- style="background-color:#eeeeee;"
 
|43 || 43 ||style="text-align:left;"|[[Is It Worth It?]] || February 27, 2012
 
|-
 
|colspan="4" style="text-align:left; border-bottom:2px solid #FCCA11;" |Is Square allowed to charge $18 for an iOS game? Yes, but should they?
 
|- style="background-color:#eeeeee;"
 
|42 || 42 ||style="text-align:left;"|[[Legacy of Shame]] || February 20, 2012
 
|-
 
|colspan="4" style="text-align:left; border-bottom:2px solid #FCCA11;" |Dead or Alive's new lead wants to class the series up a bit. Let's see how that goes.
 
|- style="background-color:#eeeeee;"
 
|41 || 41 ||style="text-align:left;"|[[Double-Extra Fine]] || February 13, 2012
 
|-
 
|colspan="4" style="text-align:left; border-bottom:2px solid #FCCA11;" |Does this change the game? Only insofar as Tim Schafer is making it this time.
 
|- style="background-color:#eeeeee;"
 
|40 || 40 ||style="text-align:left;"|[[Tera-Fied]] || February 6, 2012
 
|-
 
|colspan="4" style="text-align:left; border-bottom:2px solid #FCCA11;" |En Masse bans the world, Netherrealm has an identity crisis and Everquest lives!
 
|- style="background-color:#eeeeee;"
 
|39 || 39 ||style="text-align:left;"|[[Tower Heist]] || January 30, 2012
 
|-
 
|colspan="4" style="text-align:left; border-bottom:2px solid #FCCA11;" |Can Zynga get away with ripping off someone else's game? Well, they already have.
 
|- style="background-color:#eeeeee;"
 
|38 || 38 ||style="text-align:left;"|[[Masters of Code, Not Money]] || January 23, 2012
 
|-
 
|colspan="4" style="text-align:left; border-bottom:2px solid #FCCA11;" |Among the stories this week, a tale of poor accounting and idiocy.
 
|- style="background-color:#eeeeee;"
 
|37 || 37 ||style="text-align:left;"|[[Survey Says!]] || January 16, 2012
 
|-
 
|colspan="4" style="text-align:left; border-bottom:2px solid #FCCA11;" |Cheaters gonna cheat!
 
|- style="background-color:#eeeeee;"
 
|36 || 36 ||style="text-align:left;"|[[Exhausted Fantasy]] || January 9, 2012
 
|-
 
|colspan="4" style="text-align:left; border-bottom:2px solid #FCCA11;" |Square continues to ignore pleas for Final Fantasy 7, and maybe that's for the best.
 
|- style="background-color:#eeeeee;"
 
|35 || 35 ||style="text-align:left;"|[[Unarmed Avatars]] || January 2, 2012
 
|-
 
|colspan="4" style="text-align:left; border-bottom:2px solid #FCCA11;" |If Microsoft removes guns from the avatar marketplace, how will the avatars defend themselves against the Kinectimals?
 
|- style="background-color:#eeeeee;"
 
|34 || 34 ||style="text-align:left;"|[[Clipshow]] || December 26, 2011
 
|-
 
|colspan="4" style="text-align:left; border-bottom:2px solid #FCCA11;" |When there's no news, CheckPoint makes its own! CheckPoint's own news is silly and mostly just footage of us ruining takes.
 
|- style="background-color:#eeeeee;"
 
|33 || 33 ||style="text-align:left;"|[[2011 CheckPoint Awards]] || December 19, 2011
 
|-
 
|colspan="4" style="text-align:left; border-bottom:2px solid #FCCA11;" |The best video game awards ever. We don't even know of any others.
 
|- style="background-color:#eeeeee;"
 
|32 || 32 ||style="text-align:left;"|[[Game for Fashion]] || December 12, 2011
 
|-
 
|colspan="4" style="text-align:left; border-bottom:2px solid #FCCA11;" |The fashion world is like a rickety construction of wood, stone and glass, rocked by an Angry Bird dress.
 
|- style="background-color:#eeeeee;"
 
|31 || 31 ||style="text-align:left;"|[[Acts of Ville-ainy]] || December 5, 2011
 
|-
 
|colspan="4" style="text-align:left; border-bottom:2px solid #FCCA11;" |Zynga's grip is becoming so tight that their own users are slipping through their fingers.
 
|- style="background-color:#eeeeee;"
 
|30 || 30 ||style="text-align:left;"|[[The Glitchy Scrolls]] || November 28, 2011
 
|-
 
|colspan="4" style="text-align:left; border-bottom:2px solid #FCCA11;" |Skyrim Glitch is Best Glitch
 
|- style="background-color:#eeeeee;"
 
|29 || 29 ||style="text-align:left;"|[[Gotta Get Deals on Friday!]] || November 21, 2011
 
|-
 
|colspan="4" style="text-align:left; border-bottom:2px solid #FCCA11;" |From the folks behind Desert Bus and Unskippable, join LoadingReadyRun as they report on the week’s industry happenings.
 
|- style="background-color:#eeeeee;"
 
|28 || 28 ||style="text-align:left;"|[[UbiHardball]] || November 14, 2011
 
|-
 
|colspan="4" style="text-align:left; border-bottom:2px solid #FCCA11;" |Hollywood is scared and afraid that someone might know how to do their job better than they do.
 
|- style="background-color:#eeeeee;"
 
|27 || 27 ||style="text-align:left;"|[[Battlefail 3]] || November 7, 2011
 
|-
 
|colspan="4" style="text-align:left; border-bottom:2px solid #FCCA11;" |EA and DICE don't seem to think that BF3's failures are your fault for wanting to play it.
 
|- style="background-color:#eeeeee;"
 
|26 || 26 ||style="text-align:left;"|[[Uncharted Charted]] || October 31, 2011
 
|-
 
|colspan="4" style="text-align:left; border-bottom:2px solid #FCCA11;" |If the game you love gets a score you don't, the only possible answer is impotent rage.
 
|- style="background-color:#eeeeee;"
 
|25 || 25 ||style="text-align:left;"|[[The Ultimate Scrolldown]] || October 24, 2011
 
|-
 
|colspan="4" style="text-align:left; border-bottom:2px solid #FCCA11;" |Mojang and Bethesda are locked in a legal battle of mutual silliness. (Featuring a guest appearance by Russ Pitts)
 
|- style="background-color:#eeeeee;"
 
|24 || 24 ||style="text-align:left;"|[[Manual Stimulation]] || October 17, 2011
 
|-
 
|colspan="4" style="text-align:left; border-bottom:2px solid #FCCA11;" |Look, we're all excited about Skyrim but just chill out a bit, okay?
 
|- style="background-color:#eeeeee;"
 
|23 || 23 ||style="text-align:left;"|[[HD Remix]] || October 10, 2011
 
|-
 
|colspan="4" style="text-align:left; border-bottom:2px solid #FCCA11;" |From the folks behind Desert Bus and Unskippable, join LoadingReadyRun as they report on the week’s industry happenings.
 
|- style="background-color:#eeeeee;"
 
|22 || 22 ||style="text-align:left;"|[[Fantasies: How Not to Be Final]] || October 3, 2011
 
|-
 
|colspan="4" style="text-align:left; border-bottom:2px solid #FCCA11;" |From the folks behind Desert Bus and Unskippable, join LoadingReadyRun as they report on the week’s industry happenings.
 
|- style="background-color:#eeeeee;"
 
|21 || 21 ||style="text-align:left;"|[[Sony Knows It Has a Problem]] || September 26, 2011
 
|-
 
|colspan="4" style="text-align:left; border-bottom:2px solid #FCCA11;" |From the folks behind Desert Bus and Unskippable, join LoadingReadyRun as they report on the week’s industry happenings.
 
|- style="background-color:#eeeeee;"
 
|20 || 20 ||style="text-align:left;"|[[The Birds!!!]] || September 19, 2011
 
|-
 
|colspan="4" style="text-align:left; border-bottom:2px solid #FCCA11;" |From the folks behind Desert Bus and Unskippable, join LoadingReadyRun as they report on the week’s industry happenings.
 
|- style="background-color:#eeeeee;"
 
|19 || 19 ||style="text-align:left;"|[[Project - Buy Our Shit]] || September 12, 2011
 
|-
 
|colspan="4" style="text-align:left; border-bottom:2px solid #FCCA11;" |From the folks behind Desert Bus and Unskippable, join LoadingReadyRun as they report on the week’s industry happenings.
 
|- style="background-color:#eeeeee;"
 
|18 || 18 ||style="text-align:left;"|[[Retirement Plan]] || September 5, 2011
 
|-
 
|colspan="4" style="text-align:left; border-bottom:2px solid #FCCA11;" |From the folks behind Desert Bus and Unskippable, join LoadingReadyRun as they report on the week’s industry happenings.
 
|- style="background-color:#eeeeee;"
 
|17 || 17 ||style="text-align:left;"|[[Nintendo 4DS]] || August 29, 2011
 
|-
 
|colspan="4" style="text-align:left; border-bottom:2px solid #FCCA11;" |From the folks behind Desert Bus and Unskippable, join LoadingReadyRun as they report on the week’s industry happenings.
 
|- style="background-color:#eeeeee;"
 
|16 || 16 ||style="text-align:left;"|[[Gamestop Ex-Stream]] || August 22, 2011
 
|-
 
|colspan="4" style="text-align:left; border-bottom:2px solid #FCCA11;" |From the folks behind Desert Bus and Unskippable, join LoadingReadyRun as they report on the week’s industry happenings.
 
|- style="background-color:#eeeeee;"
 
|15 || 15 ||style="text-align:left;"|[[CheckPoint 15 - Season Passé|Season Passé]] || August 15, 2011
 
|-
 
|colspan="4" style="text-align:left; border-bottom:2px solid #FCCA11;" |From the folks behind Desert Bus and Unskippable, join LoadingReadyRun as they report on the week’s industry happenings.
 
|- style="background-color:#eeeeee;"
 
|14 || 14 ||style="text-align:left;"|[[Blizzard of Cash]] || August 8, 2011
 
|-
 
|colspan="4" style="text-align:left; border-bottom:2px solid #FCCA11;" |From the folks behind Desert Bus and Unskippable, join LoadingReadyRun as they report on the week’s industry happenings.
 
|- style="background-color:#eeeeee;"
 
|13 || 13 ||style="text-align:left;"|[[Socially Inept]] || August 1, 2011
 
|-
 
|colspan="4" style="text-align:left; border-bottom:2px solid #FCCA11;" |From the folks behind Desert Bus and Unskippable, join LoadingReadyRun as they report on the week’s industry happenings.
 
|- style="background-color:#eeeeee;"
 
|12 || 12 ||style="text-align:left;"|[[3DSadness]] || July 25, 2011
 
|-
 
|colspan="4" style="text-align:left; border-bottom:2px solid #FCCA11;" |From the folks behind Desert Bus and Unskippable, join LoadingReadyRun as they report on the week’s industry happenings.
 
|- style="background-color:#eeeeee;"
 
|11 || 11 ||style="text-align:left;"|[[Plants vs. EA]] || July 18, 2011
 
|-
 
|colspan="4" style="text-align:left; border-bottom:2px solid #FCCA11;" |From the folks behind Desert Bus and Unskippable, join LoadingReadyRun as they report on the week’s industry happenings.
 
|- style="background-color:#eeeeee;"
 
|10 || 10 ||style="text-align:left;"|[[PS4Life]] || July 11, 2011
 
|-
 
|colspan="4" style="text-align:left; border-bottom:2px solid #FCCA11;" |From the folks behind Desert Bus and Unskippable, join LoadingReadyRun as they report on the week’s industry happenings.
 
|- style="background-color:#eeeeee;"
 
|9 || 9 ||style="text-align:left;"|[[Supremely Legal]] || July 4, 2011
 
|-
 
|colspan="4" style="text-align:left; border-bottom:2px solid #FCCA11;" |From the folks behind Desert Bus and Unskippable, join LoadingReadyRun as they report on the week’s industry happenings.
 
|- style="background-color:#eeeeee;"
 
|8 || 8 ||style="text-align:left;"|[[You Know What You Did]] || June 27, 2011
 
|-
 
|colspan="4" style="text-align:left; border-bottom:2px solid #FCCA11;" |From the folks behind Desert Bus and Unskippable, join LoadingReadyRun as they report on the week’s industry happenings.
 
|- style="background-color:#eeeeee;"
 
|7 || 7 ||style="text-align:left;"|[[For the Lulz]] || June 20, 2011
 
|-
 
|colspan="4" style="text-align:left; border-bottom:2px solid #FCCA11;" |From the folks behind Desert Bus and Unskippable, join LoadingReadyRun as they report on the week’s industry happenings.
 
|- style="background-color:#eeeeee;"
 
|6 || 6 ||style="text-align:left;"|[[E3 Roundup]] || June 13, 2011
 
|-
 
|colspan="4" style="text-align:left; border-bottom:2px solid #FCCA11;" |From the folks behind Desert Bus and Unskippable, join LoadingReadyRun as they report on the week’s industry happenings.
 
|- style="background-color:#eeeeee;"
 
|5 || 5 ||style="text-align:left;"|[[Secret C.O.D.E]] || June 6, 2011
 
|-
 
|colspan="4" style="text-align:left; border-bottom:2px solid #FCCA11;" |From the folks behind Desert Bus and Unskippable, join LoadingReadyRun as they report on the week’s industry happenings.
 
|- style="background-color:#eeeeee;"
 
|4 || 4 ||style="text-align:left;"|[[Patently Silly]] || May 30, 2011
 
|-
 
|colspan="4" style="text-align:left; border-bottom:2px solid #FCCA11;" |From the folks behind Desert Bus and Unskippable, join LoadingReadyRun as they report on the week’s industry happenings.
 
|- style="background-color:#eeeeee;"
 
|3 || 3 ||style="text-align:left;"|[[Plugged Valve]] || May 23, 2011
 
|-
 
|colspan="4" style="text-align:left; border-bottom:2px solid #FCCA11;" |From the folks behind Desert Bus and Unskippable, join LoadingReadyRun as they report on the week’s industry happenings.
 
|- style="background-color:#eeeeee;"
 
|2 || 2 ||style="text-align:left;"|[[Bungie Jumping]] || May 16, 2011
 
|-
 
|colspan="4" style="text-align:left; border-bottom:2px solid #FCCA11;" |From the folks behind Desert Bus and Unskippable, join LoadingReadyRun as they report on the week’s industry happenings.
 
|- style="background-color:#eeeeee;"
 
|1 || 1 ||style="text-align:left;"|[[Into the Breach]] || May 9, 2011
 
|-
 
|colspan="4" style="text-align:left; border-bottom:2px solid #FCCA11;" |From the folks behind Desert Bus and Unskippable, join LoadingReadyRun as they report on the week’s industry happenings.
 
|}
 
  
 
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Checkpoint logo

Format: Satirical Gaming News
Created By: Graham Stark, Kathleen De Vere, Jeremy Petter, Paul Saunders
Status: Active
Updates: Thursdays
Host: Penny Arcade Television, YouTube
Original Run: May 9, 2011 - December 30, 2013, January 5, 2014 - present
Associated Shows: Escapist News Network (predecessor)

CheckPoint is one of two successor shows to the Escapist News Network, the other one being Feed Dump. The show debuted on Penny Arcade Television on May 9, 2011 and is LoadingReadyRun's first series to premiere on the network. CheckPoint initially featured the same team that wrote and produced ENN (Graham, Kathleen, Jer and Paul), but has since pared down its cast to mainly Graham and Kathleen. It is, for all intents and purposes, ENN's direct successor.

As of December 30, 2013, CheckPoint was going to be put on indefinite hiatus due to Penny Arcade shutting down 3rd party programing on its PATV site. Because of the large fan response, they decided to incorporate CheckPoint into their streaming lineup as a live broadcast called CheckPoint Plus.

Format

Checkpoint is, for the most part, a "return to form" for the dry, satirical humor of ENN prior to attempts to retool the show to appeal to a wider demographic of The Escapist audience. Early episodes involved fake news, but eventually moved away from that to focus on just making fun of the actual current gaming news. A typical episode tends to follow the same fixed format.

  • The video opens with a recolored LoadingReadyRun logo and the last four notes of the LRR theme before transitioning into the checkpoint arrow and tone.
  • A brief "Today" intro plays that includes a voice over done by Graham and video clip relating to a highlighted story before moving directly into the opening credits.
  • After the credits the camera cuts directly to both Graham and Kathleen at the news desk where the duo talk about what they've done or what game they've played lately while a lower third title card introduces them.
  • The majority of the show consists of between five to six news stories, reported alternately by Graham and Kathleen. In addition, each story features a corner image and several lower third jokes. Some segments also may include an extra video segment with the anchor continuing his or her story as a voice over.
  • Finally, the anchors will end the episode with their parting line or lines. The credits will roll, and then a short "Coming Up" segment will play, similar to the "Today" segment, highlighting another news story that allegedly will be discussed in the next episode.

In earlier episodes, especially in the first season, the series focused more on taking real news and adding fake elements to make it more outlandish. Sometimes this would involve creating field reports from Paul or Jer that would be completely false or have only a few truths in them. As time went on, more and more emphasis was made on real stories and making satirical comments about how dumb the game company's decisions were.

Differences from ENN

Although CheckPoint is a spiritual successor to ENN, it is not a direct "copy and paste" of the series from The Escapist onto PATV. There are a few key differences between both shows.

Style

Graham and Kathleen's silhouettes, as posted on the LRR Blog.

The largest departure of CheckPoint from it's predecessor is it's visual style. ENN was branded as being The Escapist's own news show, consequently it carried The Escapist's brand name and trademark "E" logo as well as the site's blue-and-white color scheme. Because so much of ENN's design aesthetic was based off of the partnership with The Escapist a complete "facelift" was necessary.

CheckPoint uses a strong contrasting color palette of bright shades of red and yellow in hand with a more neutral gray and white. This color scheme, which is used to color in solid shapes (usually in layers) without any type of outline, creates a visual style that some forum members have described as being reminiscent of Persona 3 and 4.

Credit Structure

While ENN had a "grander" opening relying heavily on pre-rendered computer graphics to emulate and parody professional news outlets, CheckPoint's opening is considerably simpler. Each episode starts by quickly showing a CheckPoint colored LoadingReadyRun logo, the CheckPoint logo, and then shifts into the "Today" segment, which acts as a cold open for the episode. This quick blurb briefly highlights one of the stories before a quick opening sequence plays, which consists only of the show's title card and silhouettes of the CheckPoint team: Kathleen, Graham, and Paul. Since Jer's departure from the show in Season 1, his silhouette has been omitted; previously it was between Graham and Paul in the title sequence.

The ending credits are an even bigger departure. Unlike ENN, which was known for having conversations between Graham and Kathleen during the credits after the studio lights have dimmed, CheckPoint transitions directly a brief credit sequence that quickly lists off all appearances, writing credits, and so on before moving onto the "Coming Up" segment, which is functionally the same as the "Today" segment except that it's generally narrated by Kathleen and acts as a stinger.

Music

ENN's theme was originally created in house by The Escapist's Ian Dorsch to fit with the "major network parody" theme, but like everything else designed to go along with the ENN license it couldn't be carried over. Instead, the theme for CheckPoint was made by long-time friend of LRR Bradley Rains. The theme is much more upbeat to match the show's brightly colored and minimalistic art style.

Content

Thus far, the only recurring character from ENN to appear in CheckPoint is Rex Carnegie.

The ENN recurring segment "Headshot" has a spiritual successor in "On Point", to the extent that it is an opinion piece, and its tone is emphatic rather than ironic. However, Kathleen has gone On Point multiple times, which did not happen with Headshot.

Notes

  • The silhouette of Jer in the Season 1 and 2 opening appears to be the same picture used previously in the second ENN intro.

Episodes

See: List of CheckPoint Episodes

See Also

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∙∙∙●  Ongoing Shows:
Play It Forward (Varies) · Can't Draw Horses Club (Mon 1 PM) · Crossing the Streams (Mon 5 PM) · ...One More? (Mon 6:30 AM) · Mine O'Clock (Tue 10 AM) · Talking Simulator (Tue 1:30 PM) · Let’s NOPE! (Tue 5 PM) · Watch+Play (Alt Wed 2 PM) · AFK (Wed 5 PM) · LRRMtG (Thur 2 PM) · Tinker Tailor Solder Fry (Alt Thur 5 PM) · The Long Game (Alt Thur 5 PM) · Oki Oki Fight Club (Fri 9 AM) · ChillPoint (Fri 2 PM) · Friday Night Paper Fight (Fri 5 PM) · LoadingReadyLIVE (Once per month Sat 6 PM) · Brave New Faves (Sat 9:30PM on /bravenewfaves) · Is This Your Card? (Sun 8 AM) · Rhythm Cafe (Sun 4 PM)

∙∙∙●  Irregular Shows:
Bonus Stream · Chit Chaff · Dice Friends · LRRTech · Pre-Prerelease · FamJam

∙∙∙●  Retired Shows:
18 Games ...and Counting · A Swiftly Tilting Cameron · Adam's Gamehaüs · Beej's Backlog · Games of Chance · Graham & Paul Let's Play · Heather's Handhelds · House of Stark · I, Horner · IDDQDerp · Kathleen Saves the World · Matters of Import · NewDay TewsDay · Now Kiss! · The Book of Passwords · The Crapshoot · Things on my Stream · Video Games with Video James

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