To ease into the new year Robin and Willa took it easy and are basically giving you the audio version of those lists every outlet puts out in January. We also talk about Zoe's exploits in Mass Effect and Robin's exploits in getting one over on her landlord.

Timestamps:

(00:12) It's raining cats and possibly ceiling debris

(1:22) A lot of 2026 games getting namedropped

(37:00) What else have Willa and Robin been up to this week? (feat. the Mass Effect Trilogy, letting Zoe cut your hair, The Twilight Zone, and violating your lease )

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dotzip on Perfect Tides

Dying MMO jam

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It’s the Girlies! You know the drill. If you don’t, just listen and you’ll get it. It’s like an awards show but better.

Thanks for listening this year!

You can find a whole list of winners (with a couple of visual aids) here.

Timestamps:

(00:15) The Girlies!

(51:30) Spoilers for Carimara and Old Skies

(54:25) Spoilers end

(1:22:00) Spoilers for Carimara and Silent Hill f

(1:24:20) Spoilers end

(1:37:25) GOTY discussion

(1:43:30) Thematic spoilers for our pick

(1:48:30) Major story spoilers for our pick

Mentioned this week:

Neil Newbon being correct about generative AI

Jennifer English being incredible at the Golden Joysticks

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Take me out to the ball game from Trombone Champ

Baby Steps background music

Era Calling from Angeline Era

Nina Pasadena from Skin Deep

I’m A Bitch, My Name’s Robert from Dispatch

I Am Gonna Claw (Out Your Eyes then Drown You to Death) from Hades 2

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It’s the annual Girl Mode Game Exchange, the episode where we force each other to play one of our favorite games of the year, under penalty of death. This year, we chose Wanderstop and Baby Steps, two games about the struggle to find self-worth that take two very different paths to get there. Only one is obsessed with making you look at donkey dicks, for instance. This year, we were both pretty surprised by our reactions to our games and we didn’t even get furious with each other once, which I think is a first for one of these episodes!

!Spoilers for all of Wanderstop and Baby Steps!

Timestamps:

(00:10) The Great Girl Mode Game Exchange, aka, what we’re doing this week

(03:00) Wanderstop

(1:06:00) Excerpt from “The Everything” by C418 on the Wanderstop OST

(1:06:30) Baby Steps

(2:19:30) What else have Willa and Robin been up to this week? (feat. a very fucked up situation at Critical Reflex, letting Zoe cut your hair, Pluribus)

Mentioned this week:

Robin’s Wanderstop review

Nicole Carpenter’s Wanderstop review

Gio Colantonio’s Baby Steps review

Walter Chaw on Avatar (I can’t remember if our mention of this made the final cut but it’s too late to go back and check and it’s really good either way)

I worked at the creepiest publisher in indie games (CRITICAL REFLEX)

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This week Willa and Robin run through all the announcements at The Game Awards, including: Tomb Raider for the straights, DILF Leon, and Control with a man. Boooooo. Also, more Old Skies talk because it's just that good!

Timestamps:

(00:12) Zoe probably wants to stab Willa (medically)

(02:05) A lot of time spent on Game Awards reveals

(45:00) Less time on Day of the Devs and Wholesome Snack

(51:10) What else have Willa and Robin been up to this week? (feat. Cheese Ball, Octopath Traveler 0, Old Skies)

Mentioned this week:

Everything announced at The Game Awards

Everything announced at Day of the Devs

Everything announced at Wholesome Snack

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For what ended up being a shorter episode this week, Willa has returned to the land of chocobos and Robin has returned to the land of evil chocobos. Plus, skateboards, mechs, catgirl card games, and famous dead men.

Timestamps:

(00:15) Shoutout to Finland

(01:45) Why are we not playing Final Fantasy 11 right now?

(08:20) Skate Story

(12:30) Outward 2: A game that hates you

(18:40) Detective Instinct colon Farewell comma My Beloved

(22:20) Mirage Miracle Quest and Queen’s Domain demos

(25:50) What else have Willa and Robin been up to this week? (feat. Tom Stoppard, Phantom Brigade)

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Sharon Begley on James Watson

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This week we are talking gays in space (Metroid Prime 4) and gays in time (more Old Skies) and then Willa and Robin pick what games to exchange for the end of year season because the Girlies will be here before you know it!

Timestamps:

(02:00) Too much talk about Willa's Thanksgiving movie watching

(07:10) Metroid Prime 4

(31:04) HORSES not "Horses"

(38:16) More Old Skies (also briefly Birdcage and Possessors)

(49:14) What else have Willa and Robin been up to this week? (feat. The Matrix, Letters From Liselotte, Wicked and other Oz related media)

(55:00) End of year housekeeping

Mentioned this week:

Robin's Metroid Prime 4 review

Robin on HORSES

Letters From Liselotte

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This week, we start with hypothetically cool new hardware and Metroid Prime’s hot new feature: mansplaining. Then we move onto games we’ve played, focusing on anticipated talking-to-hot-women simulator Demonschool (unless it gets delayed again in the six hours before this episode posts).

Timestamps:

(01:45) The Girl Mode News Desk: Steam Machines

(15:50) Note: Myles MacKenzie died on the way back to his home planet

(30:00) Where are the Metroid Prime-likes?

(36:20) Videoverse

(47:00) Demonschool

(1:09:40) What else have Willa and Robin been up to this week? (feat. Old Skies, more Atelier Ryza)

Mentioned this week:

VGC’s Andy Robinson on Metroid Prime 4

Maddy Myers on Super Metroid

Alexa Ray Corriea’s “nag line discourse” post

Robin on Videoverse and Demonschool

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Episode 148 - It's terrible, I could not recommend it more

This one's got everything you love: Dunkalatte talk, Willa's neighbors doing construction in the middle of a recording, Robin playing a game where you are a little mouse, but the main event is – of course – Willa going on an extended rant about a game she hates that most people love.

Timestamps:

(00:14) Robin joins the Dunkalatte cult

(06:03) Blake Manor update and your reminder Lorelei and the Laser Eyes rocks

(09:53) Winter Burrow

(15:32 ) 20+ minutes of Willa ranting about Dispatch

(23:12) Dispatch spoilers start

(24:23) Dispatch spoilers end

(38:18) Ambrosia Sky

(48:55) What else have Willa and Robin been up to this week? (feat. Blue Moon, stealing umbrellas, A Pizza Delivery, Verho, Atelier Ryza )

Mentioned this week:

Alyssa Mercante on The Game A wards Future Class

Every 10/10 Game Informer has given

Willa's Dispatch thread on Bluesky

Gio on Dispatch at Polygon

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