Controlled Burnes: The 25 Most Beautiful Video Games

On this week’s abbreviated episode of Controlled Burnes, host SlowBurne walks through his picks for the top 25 most beautiful video games of all time, taking into consideration art style, atmosphere, music and themes. Controlled Burnes is a weekly hobby-list podcast with a particular focus on lists and topics related to video games, music, TV/film…

Controlled Burnes: Year-End Podcasts

Here is the collection of year-end podcasts Controlled Burnes put together for year-end 2024 covering all of the video games, movies, music and books host SlowBurne consumed throughout the year including a ranking of the top 50 songs and 25 albums of the year. Controlled Burnes will be back next week, so please stay tuned.

Controlled Burnes: The Greatness of Bloodborne

Controlled Burnes host SlowBurne kicks off a new appreciation series dissecting individual pieces of entertainment that stand out as exemplary with an episode focused entirely on one of the greatest video games ever made: From Software’s Bloodborne. SlowBurne discusses his history with the game from overwhelmed noob to hardened vet and puts together four lists…

Controlled Burnes: TreeTrunkSean’s Top 25 Video Games

Here is the double header of Controlled Burnes’ two-part miniseries with the other founder of Wildfire Gaming, TreeTrunkSean. While Reagan’s list had a lot of overlap with SlowBurne’s, TreeTrunkSean’s is very different and diverse with only one series represented more than once. Please enjoy this Wildfire Gaming reunion as Controlled Burnes continues its list-heavy series.

The Last Wish (1992) – Andrzej Sapkowski

B- As the launching point for the Witcher saga from Polish author Andrzej Sapkowski, not to mention the ill-fated Netflix show loosely (and do I ever mean loosely) based on his work, The Last Wish is a fascinating read. Particularly for newer Witcher fans coming over from the brilliant Witcher III: Wild Hunt video game,…