Double Episode: Nintendo mailbag x NSFW gaming YouTube (SexPositiveGaming) (Patreon)

This week, you get two podcasts for the price of one.

First: the Nintendo mailbag. Listeners sent in a U-Haul's worth of questions about Nintendo. What's up with the unusually "usual" approach to the Switch 2 release? Why can the publisher do whatever it likes without the fandom going into revolt?

Second: I complete our NSFW video game interviews. In previous episodes, we spoke with an NSFW game designer and an NSFW game academic. Today, you’ll meet Annie, the host of Sex Positive Gaming, an NSFW gaming YouTube channel. How does a YouTube channel dedicated to games that break the YouTube terms of service exist? You’ll get the answer to that question and many more!

This week on Post Games, a double-episode I'm dubbing "Mario's Nipples."

Act 1: Making sense of modern Nintendo

Patreon bonus: Why Nintendo ignores some of its biggest franchises

Act 2: Life as an NSFW game YouTuber

Act 3: News of the Week

Act 1: Nintendo mailbag

My Nintendo Switch 2 Review (Doesn't Matter?) (Marques Brownlee)

Yoshi and the Mysterious Book Revealed as New Nintendo Switch 2 Game Coming in Spring 2026 (IGN)

Nintendo's Piracy Crackdown Continues, Wins Another Court Case Against ROM Site (IGN)

Pokémon: Let’s Go, Pikachu and Eevee! (Pokémon)

My appearance on the Y-Button Podcast (Y-Button)

Patreon bonus: Why Nintendo ignores some of its iconic characters

Fast Fusion on Switch 2 - DF Tech Review - Brilliant Technology, Exceptional Game (Digital Foundry)

Deltarune is the Switch 2’s sleeper hit (Polygon)

Fortnite: Turning a Meteoric Rise into Sustained Growth (Harvard Business Review)

Helldivers 2 won't be getting Fortnite victory royales for the democracy anytime soon, but Arrowhead certainly isn't shelving the idea entirely (PCGamer)

Act 2: Life as an NSFW gaming YouTuber

Sex Positive Gaming’s YouTube Channel (YouTube)

YouTube’s written policies and guidelines (YouTube)

A sexual frustration theory of aggression, violence, and crime (Science Direct)

Sexuality and Mental Health: The Need for Mutual Development and Research (PubMed)

Pornography Consumption, Modality and Function in a Large Internet Sample (PubMed)

Relative prevalence of different fetishes (PubMed)

Act 3: News of the week

Madden, EAFC maker Electronic Arts to go private in record $55bn buyout (The Athletic)

Football Is Coming to Saudi Arabia, Where Soccer Is King (NYTimes)

$55 billion EA buyout hands Madden over to investors, including Saudi Arabia and Jared Kushner (The Verge)

One of the world’s biggest video game companies plans to sell to some of the world’s most powerful people (GameFile)

What EA’s buyout might mean for its future (The Verge)

Saudi Arabia: Public Investment Fund Linked to Abuses (Human Rights Watch)

All The Gaming Companies Saudi Arabia Owns Or Has Invested In (GameSpot)

What the latest Game Pass changes mean for your subscription ​​​​​​​(Polygon)

Marvel: Cosmic Invasion demo (Steam)

This week in video game links

I Love Just Standing Still In Ghost Of Yotei (Kotaku)

Is There A Right Way To Play A Video Game? (Gamespot)

An unprecedented tally: 8 game industry price hikes in 6 months (GameLife)

This year's most anticipated game is an homage -- and elegy -- to nature (Atmos)

How Video Games Are Shaping a Generation of Boys, for Better and Worse (NYTimes)

Free game of the week: Goodnight Universe

“You are Isaac, a 6-month-old baby, developing mysterious psychic powers. What you want most is to be loved and accepted by your family, but a secretive tech corporation wants you for their own.”

What else I’m enjoying

Ghost Waltz (Louie Zong)

Into The Unknown: Ranking the 10 Greatest Episodes of The Outer Limits (Fear Planet)

One Battle After Another Ends With a Promise (Vulture)

The Keep (4K Modern Trailer) (DM Edit)

Cillian Murphy’s Closet Picks (Criterion)

Super Mario Galaxy 1+2 - Switch 2 DF Review - Visual Upgrades Explored! (Digital Foundry)