Giant Bombcast 928: Bigloo

Giant Bombcast

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Video Games, Comedy, Leisure, Technology

4.7 • 6.6K Ratings

🗓️ 17 February 2026

⏱️ 164 minutes

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Summary

Happy Lunar New Year, we're back from another 3-Day weekend and ready to talk about games! We chat about CiniCross, REANIMAL, the state of pinball with Pokemon Pinball, the Virtual Boy app for the Nintendo Switch, the Pragmata demo out for the Switch 2, getting back into Overwatch, and God of War: Sons of Sparta being an okay game. We catch up on all of the hottest news stories and all of your emails too!

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0:00:00 Intro
0:25:09 CiniCross
0:30:56 IT'S VIRTUAL BOY DAY
0:39:18 Reanimal
0:46:26 Pragmata Switch 2 Demo
0:50:29 Overwatch
0:58:36 Listen Up! We Tried To Make “THOSE GAMES” Even More Extreme! Some things Have To Be Learned The Hard Way
1:01:42 Mewgenics
1:04:59 Stern Pinball's Pokémon machine
1:16:07 God of War: Sons of Sparta
1:27:22 Sony is considering holding back PlayStation 6 until 2028 or 2029, report claims
1:32:36 Steam Deck is out of stock in the US as Valve warns of ‘intermittent’ memory and storage shortages
1:34:09 Asus ROG Xbox Ally X gets a price increase of nearly $200 in Japan
1:40:27 Nintendo just DMCA'd every Switch emulator (again), but it's not over yet
1:41:39 .hack//Z.E.R.O. announced
1:46:30 Pokémon Pokopia director Takuto Edagawa confirms Minecraft-style "cloud" servers that don't require the host to be online
1:47:58 Virtual Boy NSO app won’t work in docked mode
1:50:17 Blizzard Is Bringing The Warlock Class To Diablo IV: Lord Of Hatred, Diablo II, And Diablo Immortal
1:52:45 Hideki Sato, Visionary Who Shaped Sega's Consoles, Has Died
1:54:07 EMAILS!
2:27:20 Super Chats
2:36:33 Outro

Transcript

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0:00.0	Quick question, why does every pop star suddenly cover one eye?
0:04.0	Why do kids' movies have more occult symbolism than a 19th century spellbook?
0:08.4	And why does everyone say, oh, it's just a coincidence right before they change the subject?
0:13.5	Welcome to occult symbolism and pop culture, the podcast where we ruin movies, music, and your sense of reality in a fun way.
0:20.5	My name is Isaac Wisehop.
0:21.6	In each episode, we decode the hidden language of Hollywood conspiracy theories, secret societies,
0:26.6	MK Ultra Mind Control, Saturni and Death Cults, and much more through familiar pop culture.
0:31.5	From Deep Dives of the Shining to 1984 book clubs to Alien Disclosure updates, to Dark
0:36.4	Enlightenment conspiracies of peter teal's
0:38.2	antichrist to interviews with guests like dr jacques valet it's your new home for truly independent
0:42.6	research into the occult is it all intentional is it psychological is it spiritual warfare or am i just
0:48.1	being paranoid i don't tell you what to think i just hand you the red string and let you connect the dots
0:52.5	subscribe to occult symbolism and pop culture on all podcast platforms at my new YouTube channel at Occas Symbolism because once you see it, you can't unsee it. Ever wonder how dark the world can really get? Well, we dive into the twisted, the terrifying, and the true stories behind some of the world's most chilling crimes. Hi, I'm Ben. And I'm Nicole.
1:17.2	Together we host Wicked and Grim, a true crime podcast that unpacks real-life horrors, one case at a time.
1:22.0	With deep research, dark storytelling, and the occasional drink to take the edge off, we're here to explore the Wicked and Reveal the Grim.
1:25.5	We are Wicked and Grim.
1:26.9	Follow and listen on your favorite podcast platform.
1:37.5	Welcome, weirdos.
1:38.9	I'm Darren Marler, the host of Weird Darkness,
1:41.6	where I bring you true stories of the paranormal,
1:45.7	supernatural, legends, lore, crime, conspiracy, mysterious, macabre, unsolved, and unexplained.
1:54.8	Named one of the 20 best storytellers in podcasting by Podcast Business Journal, and ranked
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