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A treat! A snack! A delight! A Cookie! Listeners, however you describe it, this episode is sweet enough to satiate your sweet...ear? Is that really the audio equivalent of a sweet-tooth? Sweet-cochlea? That's nothing - this metaphor isn't working. 

In this episode: David reveals the dark underside of Pokémon GO. Giovanni explains why we're in the silver age of character licensing deals. Greg says a lot of jargon in a convincing and scary way. Tess wants to know what your relationship to cookies is like.  

If you're interested in a real sweet treat, you can dip your hand into our cookie jar over at patreon.com/LTRT. If you sign up you can listen to an exclusive podcast in which we only talk about Elden Ring for like 2 hours. Isn't that a sweet treat?

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Games discussed: Gears 5, Pokémon GO, Mixolumia, Cookie Clicker

Now that we're a month into the Xbox Series X run, we've gathered reviewers from three outlets to discuss if the new Microsoft console is living up to the hype. The hardware certainly shows a lot of promise but a lack of first-party support isn't doing Series X any favors. We've got guests from IGN, GameSpot, and Bloomberg on to discuss! 

It's a very special episode for Rated G. Dan and Dave hit their 200th episode. They look ahead to a very exciting year for gaming and reveal their pick for game of the year 2019. Could the Order 1886 sneak in as a surprise late entry and win? Tune in to find out.

In this episode, Aryan Hanbeck talks about becoming an artist in video games, how to go up the ladder in the industry, Gears 4 and 5 art style and continuing the saga of this beloved series.

Maybe I'm sick from the trash fire.

Topics - Control sucks, levitate to your death, dark platforms, glitchy health, blue balls, annoying shit, the "Find Something Worse than the Ashtray Maze" challenge, Gears 5, Locust Queen, not of this War, skiffin', tornadoes, it's basically Crysis, Dropshot, fighting Grabboids, Real Talk: Gears campaigns, stuttering and crashing, Friday the 13th: Tips and Tricks that kind of work.

Music - Gremlins 2: The New Batch OST - The Big Battle, Hatebreed - As Diehard as they Come, Superjoint Ritual - Everyone Hates Everyone

It's a sleepy one.

Topics - Blair Witch, no fiddly puzzles, bite the Bullet, more tree people, 90's phones, naggy cunt wife, references, The Dark Pictures Anthology: Man of Medan, QTEs, pirates!, Cold Fear, RE4.5, Deadly Premonition 2, Gremlins in the Gears 5 launch.

Music - Eat My Fuk - Slit Lickin' Scumbag, Anaal Nathrakh - "Forward!", Pink Floyd - The Gunner's Dream

Microsoft, Gears 5, gamer's arguing about Gears 5 review scores, Astral Chain, Control, Ray Tracing

The podcast is on Saturday now.

Topics - On the road again, Gears 5 beta again, pissed, entitlements, the Locust Dance, skill gaps, Pillars of Eternity, It's Good!, refinements and fixes, The Endless Paths, exponential rewards, Hollowborn, ignore the Kickstarter people, Fire Emblem: Three Houses.

Music - Trash Bag Full of Dead Babies - America's Media is Owned by a Handful of Companies, Primus - Too Many Puppies, GWAR - Sick of You

In the summertime when your penis is hard, that's when you go outside and you find a retard...

Topics - I am spam, Gears 5 beta/tech test thing, the darkest tutorial, Arcade MP, It's Gears, The Thing (The Game), the buddy system, cold meter, trust meter, infected, "Where's the sniper rifle?", fire, meat blob, Marvel Ultimate Alliance 3: The Black Order, the Nintendo Switch is still garbage, Ability Orbs and other free-to-play crap, ISO-8, it's hard.

Music - Jethro Tull - Teacher, Nailbomb - Cockroaches, System of a Down - Toxicity

E3 is in full swing folks and we've got your coverage of the first few days. Microsoft, Google and EA all have had their conferences/shows and also a surprise visit from THQ Nordic. We break down everything that went down and chat about what our highlights and lowlights were.