About Unhinged & Unranked - Gaming, Media and Life from Gamers' Perspectives
A compact variety podcast through the lens of gamers with topics voted on by the community. A Schrodinger's cat of intellectual discussion where it's both smart and dumb until you start listening - then it's both.
Aeth, SlashRank, Ross, and Trahir provide comprehensive anime recommendations across various genres in this introductory episode, offering listeners a cultural experience; this is an interview episode.
6 May 2025
Dinosaurs in Video Games
Does modern Earth have a shortage of dinosaur games? How many hours have you put into Ark? This week, we're exploring dinosaurs and their roles in video games, from classics to modern games, and the genres they find themselves in.
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27 Apr 2025
Exploring Game Engines
We explore the topics of game engines and how they impact the games we play.
The influence of the OG Unreal, the rise of Unity, and in-house powerhouses such as Frostbite Engine and Snowdrop.
Remember when Crysis was the way to benchmark your PC? How has CryEngine's descendants fared in the field of MMOs and the engine-based-on-an-engine that powers Star Citizen?
But wait, there's more! Do you know just how many games you might know are made in Game Maker? Maybe you're fiddling with Godot, and maybe you even pronounce it right.
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Intro Music:
Glow by Isaak Wolf
Outro Music:
Waxing Crescent by Isaak Wolf
Check him out for many gaming-inspired songs and custom music!
https://www.youtube.com/@IsaakWolf (https://www.youtube.com/@IsaakWolf)
11 Apr 2025
Gambling in Video Games
From lootboxes to gacha, West to East, how has paid RNG evolved alongside video games?
Intro song:
Midnight Whispers by White_Records
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'Horizons' by Scott Buckley - released under CC-BY 4.0. www.scottbuckley.com.au (http://www.scottbuckley.com.au)
2 Apr 2025
Browser Games - Flash, Shockwave, Java and Unity
Nostalgia time - we talk about browser games of the past, from RuneScape to Gemcraft, Sonny to Lemonade Stand, O Game to Fusionfall. See how Java, Flash, Shockwave and Unity gave rise to a bygone era of gaming and its own set of indie developers.
25 Mar 2025
Tech Wars - AMD, Intel and NVIDIA
Discussion on the CPU and GPU arms race with consumer hardware, hierarchies, systems and how computing has changed across the ages.
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Intro Music:
Just Trying to Stay Alive by Isaak Wolf
Outro Music:
Lunacy by Isaak Wolf
Check him out for many gaming-inspired songs and custom music!
https://www.youtube.com/@IsaakWolf (https://www.youtube.com/@IsaakWolf)
18 Mar 2025
Long Dead Game Mechanics
Reminisce with us about the great (or not) game mechanics of the past. Quick-load to a time before quick-saves and explore eras from the arcades to the Live Service.
Mechanics orphaned from arena shooters, regional game mechanics, the pressures of repairing arcade buttons after Slash rages at Marvel vs. Capcom - it's all here, to fit right in your ear.
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Intro Music:
Glow by Isaak Wolf
Outro Music:
Waxing Crescent by Isaak Wolf
Check him out for many gaming-inspired songs and custom music!
https://www.youtube.com/@IsaakWolf (https://www.youtube.com/@IsaakWolf)
11 Mar 2025
The Lost Age of MMOs
Explore perspectives on the old and current ages of MMOs. Bygone eras, modern grinds and satellite genres tell a timeline of the industry. What was the genre once, and what could it be again?
Relive the early 2,000s era of RuneScape, World of WarCraft, Star Wars Galaxies, and Anarchy Online. Remember the semi-modern MMOs you might still play such as Guild Wars 2, Final Fantasy XIV and The Elder Scrolls Online. Then, delve into the state of things now: Eastern behemoths such as Black Desert Online, Lost Ark and Throne and Liberty.
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