Episodes

March 23, 2025

Is the Pursuit of Realistic Visuals Ruining Video Games?

Video games have always been attempting the most realistic visuals that hardware and software allows. But over the last couple of generations the cost to value ratio of this pursuit seems to be diminishing. Games are taking l...

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March 16, 2025

Animal Crossing: New Horizons Five Years Later

In this episode of "Your Friendly Neighborhood Gamers," hosts Andrew Kimball, Dylan Wren, and Aubrey Sommer are joined by special guests Braeden and Abi Kimball for a heartfelt and nostalgic deep dive into Animal Crossing: Ne...

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March 9, 2025

Banishers: Ghosts of New Eden

**This conversation is full spoilers** In this episode of Your Friendly Neighborhood Gamers, Andrew, Aubrey and Dylan are experimenting with a new format for episodes focused on a single game. For the pilot episode if this fo...

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March 3, 2025

33 Immortals and Stash a Card Looter Previews Plus Thoughts On Indian…

On this edition of the Neighborhood Watch, Andrew and Dylan are here to talk about the games they've been playing lately! The episode kicks off with a fun question, "How would you try to get someone into the hobby of gaming i...

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Feb. 24, 2025

We Played Elden Ring Nightreign!

Andrew and Dylan got to play Elden Ring Nightreign early and they're here to talk about it! Listen as they share the experience they had playing the network test for one of the most anticipated games of this year! Talking poi...

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Feb. 17, 2025

Get to Know Dan Whitehill - Host of the Good Playing With You Podcast

Welcome back to Your Friendly Neighborhood Gamers! In this episode, hosts Andrew Kimball and Dylan Wren are joined by the host of the Good Playing With You Podcast, Dan Whitehill! Learn about Dan's time in the world of cable ...

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Feb. 10, 2025

Has Live Service Gaming Ruined This Generation? - With Phil Barrera f…

Welcome back to Your Friendly Neighborhood Gamers! In this episode, hosts Andrew Kimball and Dylan Wren are joined by Phil Barrera from the Wait For It Podcast to dive deep into the world of live service games. We explore the...

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Feb. 3, 2025

The Switch 2 is Finally Officially Announced! - Neighborhood Watch

On this episode of Your Friendly Neighborhood Gamers, hosts Andrew Kimball, Aubrey Sommer, and Dylan Wren dive into the games they've been playing recently in the latest installment of "The Neighborhood Watch." The episode ki...

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Jan. 27, 2025

Marvel Rivals - Featuring The Wait For It Podcast

On this episode of Your Friendly Neighborhood Gamers, Andrew is joined by Phil and Eric from The Wait For It podcast to talk about a game that has taken the world by storm, Marvel Rivals. Talking points include: Comparisons t...

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Jan. 20, 2025

Our Gaming New Years Resolutions

Welcome back to Your Friendly Neighborhood Gamers! In this special New Year's episode, hosts Andrew Kimball, Aubrey Sommer, and Dylan Wren sit down to share and discuss their gaming resolutions and goals for 2025. From finish...

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Jan. 13, 2025

Dylan Finally Won - Fantasy Critic 2024 Results and 2025 Draft

A new year means a new draft in our Fantasy Critic League! Phil, Eric and Stefan from the Wait For It Podcast crew and Jay Davis from Super Bracket Bros. are back again to talk about the results from last year's league and to...

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Jan. 6, 2025

Banishers: Ghosts of New Eden, Unicorn Overlord, World of Warcraft Cl…

It's finally time for another Neighborhood Watch episode! This is the format where we talk about all the games we've been playing recently. Games discussed in this episode include: World of Warcraft Classic Team Fight Tactics...

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Dec. 30, 2024

The FN Game Awards 2024

Join hosts Andrew Kimball, Dylan Wren, and Aubrey Sommer as they wrap up an incredible year of gaming with the highly-anticipated FN Game Awards for 2024! This episode is packed with surprising gaming revelations, heartfelt c...

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Dec. 26, 2024

The One With Big Co-Host Energy - A SBBCU Holiday Special

It's back... Welcome to the Fifth Annual Podcast Holiday Crossover Special! We have Super Bracket Bros, Your Friendly Neighborhood Gamers, Game of Groans and The Wait for It Podcast all joining together to bring holiday cheer...

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Dec. 23, 2024

We Predict the Future! - What Will Happen in the World of Gaming in 2…

In this episode, we look back at the predictions we made for 2024 to see who got the most correct. Whoever wins, gets to pick a game that the other hosts have to play and we'll record and episode about it! After that, we take...

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Dec. 16, 2024

Big Announcements from The Game Awards 2024!

We're talking about The Game Awards 2024! First, we discuss our thoughts on the show overall. How was the pacing, the awards, the Muppets?? We poke fun at the cringe, try to figure out why Snoop Dogg was there, and the fact t...

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Dec. 9, 2024

We Made It To Episode 150! - Community AMA and Looking Back at Anothe…

We made it, episode 150 is in the bag! We take a look back at the past year of episodes and YouTube videos and talk about the highlights, what we've learned and more! Then, we answer questions that our awesome community submi...

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Dec. 2, 2024

World of Warcraft with Joe Sommer (KhazakDK): Raids, Guide Writing, a…

Welcome back to "Your Friendly Neighborhood Gamers"! In this exciting episode, hosts Andrew Kimball, Aubrey Sommer, and Dylan Wren are joined by special guest Joe Sommer (KhazakDK) from Wowhead. Strap in as we dive deep into ...

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Nov. 25, 2024

Yakuza: Like a Dragon - The FN Game Swap: Part 3

On the final episode in the FN Game Swap month, we're talking about Yakuza: Like a Dragon! Listen as we discuss the interesting combination of the whacky gameplay mixed with a serious character driven story. We also discuss t...

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Nov. 18, 2024

Lost In Random - The FN Video Game Swap: Part 2

For part 2 of the FN Video Game Swap, we're talking about Lost In Random! Lost in Random is an action-adventure game developed by Zoink and published by Electronic Arts. Part of the EA Originals program, the game was released...

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Nov. 11, 2024

Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Red Rescue Team - The FN Game Swap: Part 1

On the first episode of the FN Game Swap, Aubrey takes over the hosting seat as the crew discusses a Gameboy Advance game, Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Red Rescue Team! The conversation includes talk about this game being one of ...

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Nov. 4, 2024

Kicking Off the FN Game Swap Month!

On this episode, we are kicking off our Game Swap Month! We took the game swap idea that we tried a while back and blew it out into something bigger and hopefully better! Each of the hosts brought a game to the swap that the ...

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Oct. 28, 2024

The Casting of Frank Stone - Spoilercast

Andrew, Aubrey and Dylan are joined by Joe, Delaney, and Abi to talk about the most recent game from Supermassive Games (not counting the Until Dawn Remake), The Casting of Frank Stone! The reason there are so many voices on ...

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Oct. 21, 2024

Our Favorite Spooky Games

Continuing our month of spooky Halloween themed episodes, Andrew, Aubrey and Dylan are discussing their top three favorite spooky/scary video games on this episode! First, our hosts talk about what qualifies a game to be on o...

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