insert credit

Ep. 400 - The Insert Credit Best Game Developer List

Insert Credit nominates and celebrates the greatest, most influential, and most personally beloved game development studios of all time.

Hosted by Alex Jaffe, with Frank Cifaldi, Ash Parrish, Brandon Sheffield. Edited by Esper Quinn, original music by Kurt Feldman.

2025-07-28 06:35:24 +0000 UTC View Post

Ep. 399 - The Best Kusoge, with Liz Ryerson

Writer, musician, and NYU guest lecturer Liz Ryerson joins the panel to define “Triple A,” genres of kusoge, and film envy. Hosted by Alex Jaffe, with Ash Parrish, Brandon Sheffield, and Liz Ryerson. Edited by Esper Quinn, original music...

Ep. 398 - Horse Wives

The Insert Credit panel you know and love discuss developments in game journalism, gacha games about girls who are horses, and what happens when you put Coke Zero in espresso. Hosted by Alex Jaffe, with Frank Cifaldi, Ash Parrish, and Brandon Sheffield. Edited by Esper Quinn, original music by Kurt Feldman.

2025-07-14 05:35:44 +0000 UTC View Post

Ep. 397 - Regular Taxi

Frank Cifaldi, Ash Parrish and Brandon Sheffield cove...

Bonus Credit #56 - Mitch McConnell’s Marble Madness

Thou hast awaited thine suppence of recorded-yet-unusedeth audio materials, a reserve of finest caliber witticisms and japes, and thou shalt receive thine reward! The Insert Credit Players present jolly conversation regarding the Wars in the Stars, the discoveries of history that await buried in sub-basements of ye olde Chica...

Ep. 396 - Horse Valet, with Nicole Carpenter and Will Jagielski-Harrison

Game journalists Nicole Carpenter and Will Jagielski-Harrison join Ash Parrish to discuss the state of game journalism, World of Warcraft, and ...

Ep. 395 - We've Got Enough Nuts McSquirrels

Your Insert Credit panel covers open world games, the Tango & Cash NES platformer, and the many secrets of The Ooze. Plus, credits are spent to make everyone to play a game. Hosted by Alex Jaffe, with Frank Cifaldi, Ash Parrish, and Brandon Sheffield. Edited by Esper Quinn, original music by Kurt Feldman.

2025-06-23 04:31:07 +0000 UTC View Post

Ep. 394 - Fortnitification, with merritt k

Writer, podcaster, and friend of the show merritt k joins Frank and Brandon to answer Esper’s questions on intercompany crossovers, the definition of 2.5D, and Gay Fire Emblem. Hosted by Esper Quinn, with Frank Cifaldi, Brandon Sheffield, and merritt k. Edited by Esper Quinn, original music by Kurt Feldman.

2025-06-16 07:34:27 +0000 UTC View Post

Ep. 393 - Sephiroth Bader Ginsburg

A historian, a journalist, and a developer answer a host’s questions regarding the Sony State of Play, various consistencies of pie, and video game drag names. Hosted by Alex Jaffe, with Frank Cifaldi, Ash Parrish, Brandon Sheffield. Edited by Esper Quinn, original music by Kurt Feldman.

SHOW NOTES: 2025-06-09 06:01:17 +0000 UTC View Post

INSERT CREDIT GACHA SIMULATOR JUNE 2025

Jaffe here. By being a patron of Insert Credit, you are entitled to One Pull of the Gacha Machine per month. Comment below to make your pull, and you will get to choose from one of three blind packs for your character.

Ep. 392 - Neutered Hyper Fighting

Your Insert Credit panel faces parrying mechanics, Elden Ring Nightreign’s AMV theme and sexy bird men, and Hotel Rwanda but with Mario. Plus, a sneak peek at an unreleased Famicom game! Hosted by Alex Jaffe, with Frank Cifaldi, Ash Parrish, and Brandon Sheffield. Edited by Esper Quinn, original music by Kurt Feldman.

Ep. 391 - Deploy the WonderSwan

The finest minds in video games reconvene to cover Chicago game industry history, schadefreude, and the Red Hot Chili Peppers. Hosted by Alex Jaffe, with Frank Cifaldi, Ash Parrish, and Brandon Sheffield. Edited by Esper Quinn, original music by Kurt Feldman.

2025-05-26 06:02:49 +0000 UTC View Post

Bonus Credit #55 - Discord But For Gamers

Late? Oh, no no no gentle patron. These are finely aged bonus materials, selected and reserved only for our most premium and discerning subscribers. The unwashed, unsubscribed masses couldn’t hope to appreciate Jaffe’s confusion with Eurocentric understandings of American catchphrases like you c...

Ep. 390 - Fix Your Kingdom Hearts or Die, with Liz Ryerson

Musician, writer, podcaster, and friend of the show Liz Ryerson joins the panel for Giant Bomb’s resurrection, the next video game-based Magic the Gathering set, and the introduction of gacha mechanics to the podcast format. Hosted by Alex...

Where do monsters get the gold they drop?

No other podcast is going to answer questions like this. Or if they do, they don't do it with fun pictures of Dragon Quest slimes because they don't have me, Esper Quinn, as an editor.

(from Ep. 248 - Insert Credit Flavored Questions That Are Too Stu...

Ep. 389 - Middle Kick Button, with Any Austin

Youtuber, statistician, and cartographer Any Austin joins the panel to determine whether open world games should have minimaps, how to become a Sega Man, and the relationship between the Chicago Cubs and the Chicago Bears. Hosted by Alex Jaffe, with F...

Ep. 388 - Big Heads, Big Hearts

The panel mourns the loss of two titans of video game journalism, designs games ...

Friday evening watchables

Hello gentle patrons and people-who-just-scroll-through-patreon-without-subscribing alike. Editor Esper Quinn here. Did you know insert credit show is available on youtube in video form? In fact, if you need something to hang out with this very evening, the previously patron-exclusive "Insert Credit Gaiden #12 - GDC 2025, wit...

Let's go back to the Improv Zone

Ron Gilbert, Tetsuya Nomura and Ed Boon introduce their new youtube channels by way of Liz Ryerson, Brandon Sheffield, and Frank Cifaldi. (from ep. 250, Getcha Self a Hot Dog, with Liz Ryerson)

let's also take this opportunity to appreciate how m...

Ep. 387 - Ethical Banana Diamonds, with Brian David Gilbert

Brian David Gilbert of Dropout.tv, Unraveled, and his own excellent youtube channel joins our panel to cover Switch 2 preorders, Donkey Kong dating your friends, and the legendary Nier butthole. Hosted by Alex Jaffe, with Frank Cifaldi, ...

Insert Credit Gaiden #12 - GDC 2025, with Brandon Sheffield and Liz Ryerson (Timed Exclusive) (and fixed this time, sorry)

Timed exclusive!! Patreon subscribers can enjoy this gaiden One Week Early(!) before the unwashed masses get their grubby ears on it.

The 2025th Game Developers Conference has ended, and only Brandon Sheffield and Liz Ryerson covered it in the way it was meant to be covered: on-the-floor stories from the industry’s fi...

We all need to make forum signatures

Here's Esper's take on the panel's suggestions. (from ep. 386 - Trapped in the Question Hole https://insertcredit.com/show/386 )

Is this fun or does this not make sense to anybody

We discussed making short videos but maybe this is too high concept (lol). Could potentially do more things like this as PATRON EXCLUSIVES

Ep. 386 - Trapped in the Question Hole

Frank, Ash, and Brandon begin an endless and inescapable descent into our listener-submitted Question Hole, and in the process learn to run an inn, make Ash crack up at Metafore ReFantazio again, and mention the same four guys that get mentioned every episode. Hosted by Alex Jaffe, with Frank Cifaldi, Ash Parrish, and Brandon...

Mario Kart World misses another incredible opportunity

they say best practices for copywriting on social media is to have a "call to action" so leave YOUR ideas for new mario kart items down below in the comments!! (no seriously, i'd like to hear them)

Remember when a shrinkwrapped Mario 64 sold for a million dollars?

Frank Cifaldi and Wario explain what was going on with that. Also Jeff Gerstmann makes a baseball joke!

this isn't relevant to the clip, but Insert Credit is the only podcast in the world willing to make two episodes with Knuckles Chaotix in the title

The structure of gaidens

Hey folks! This is brandon. We have some gaiden content from GDC that I'm not sure how best to structure, so I thought I'd ask for your input, and maybe that'll shape how gaidens work going forward as well.

As you may know, usually at GDC I go around and ask people a bunch of questions - this time I did it with specifi...

Ep. 385 - David Uncage

Frank Cifaldi, Ash Parrish, and Brandon Sheffield answer Alex...

Ep. 384 - Keighleyme Pie, with Mike Drucker

Emmy-nominated writer and comedian Mike Drucker joins Brandon and Esper in answering Alex Jaffe’s questions on the Nintendo S2iitch, the ultimate fan experience, and the impossibility of defending your Persona 5 romance choice. Hos...

Last Bronx: The V-Cinema

Did you know there's a direct to video live action adaptation of Sega's Last Bronx? Probably, because I (brandon) mentioned it on the show once. But for your viewing convenience, here it is! It's not subtitled, but it is ridiculous!

At one point it seemed like Sega really thought this property was going to take off, an...