31 Oct 2025
Postgame.31 – Socks Are Just Little Guys for Your Feet
Welcome back to Postgame, Sidequest's monthly-ish podcast where the editors lay down hot takes on cold games. This month, Maddi, Melissa, and Zora tackle six distinct topics by rolling a die and setting a ten minute timer, because why not? Topics include: the price of video games, the end of Polygon as we know it, Epic Games vs. Apple, Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, Zora's Dragon Age roleplay, and Belatro.
Mistakes: Melissa couldn't find anything about a specific agreement between game developers, but it's generally agreed that $60 is the peak price point that the market will support before customers push back.
Pieces (or things) we mentioned:
* Why Nintendo is so expensive (https://www.businessinsider.com/why-nintendo-is-so-expensive-2025-6) by Margaret Guzman, Clancy Morgan, and Amelia Kosciulek
* Video Game Prices: Why Games Are $60, Where Your Money Goes, & Who Benefits Most (https://gamerant.com/video-game-prices-breakdown-514/) by Melissa Brinks
* Why New Video Games Still Cost $60 (https://kotaku.com/why-new-video-games-still-cost-60-1545590499) by Evan Narcisse
* Pay more to play: Video game publishers ready to hike prices (https://edition.pagesuite.com/tribune/article_popover.aspx?guid=efc3ea01-1ae4-4f39-ae89-d96fbcbc0be3) by Olga Kharif and Takashi Mochizuki
* The $70 AAA price point -- it's about time | Opinion (https://www.gamesindustry.biz/the-usd70-aaa-price-point-its-about-time-opinion) by Rob Fahey
* Playing dangerously: The environmental impact of video gaming consoles (https://news.mongabay.com/2022/10/playing-dangerously-the-environmental-impact-of-video-gaming-consoles/) by Claire Asher
* Postgame.27 – James Gournalism (https://sidequest.zone/2024/10/28/postgame-27-james-gournalism/)
* GYGO Mobile: More Lawsuits (https://sidequest.zone/2025/05/14/gygo-mobile-more-lawsuits/) by Melissa Brinks
* No Fun: The Queer Potential of Video Games that Annoy, Anger, Disappoint, Sadden, and Hurt (https://ourglasslake.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/Ruberg-No-Fun-QED.pdf)by Bo Ruberg
* Cruising Utopia (https://nyupress.org/9781479874569/cruising-utopia-10th-anniversary-edition/) by José Esteban Muñoz
* Postgame.29 – Sexuality in Dragon Age (https://sidequest.zone/2025/03/23/postgame-29-sexuality-in-dragon-age/)
* Regrettably, the catnip frog photo has been lost at the moment, but we will update the show notes if we can find it!
* Curious Crop Pattern (https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/curious-crop)
Theme music is Beat Thee by Alexander Nakarada, used under Creative Commons 0.
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Excerpt:
https://sidequest.zone/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/Postgame-31-Clip-1-Microtransactions.
