Vampire Crawlers & Double Fine's New Game Kiln Are Great

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🗓️ 1 May 2026

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

In this week's episode of The Game Informer Show, returning guest Brenden Groom (Pass The Controller) joins us to discuss why Poncle's Vampire Crawlers and Double Fine's new sculpture battle game, Kiln, are both great. Additionally, we dive into Charles' review of Tides of Tomorrow, a story-focused adventure game with asynchronous multiplayer elements. It's a neat concept, but how's the execution?

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Alex Van Aken (@itsVanAken)
Charles Harte (@chuckduck365)
Brenden Groom (@begroom / PlayMoreIndies.com)

Timestamps:
00:00 - Introduction
08:30 - Charles Visits the Lego Batman Preview Event
17:04 - Kiln
36:06 - Tides of Tomorrow Review
50:51 - Vampire Crawlers

Transcript

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0:00.0	Welcome back, everyone to the Game Informer Show, a weekly podcast covering the video game
0:11.9	industry.
0:12.9	Join us every Friday for discussion about the latest gaming news, reviews, and exclusive
0:17.0	reveals alongside Game Informer staff and special guests from around the industry.
0:22.1	I'm one of your hosts today, Alex Van Aiken, and today I'm joined by Charles Hart.
0:26.9	How you doing, Charles?
0:28.3	I'm good.
0:29.2	I don't remember if I mentioned this on a past podcast, but I got rid of my piano that I
0:34.1	wasn't using and now have an exercise bike in the back behind me.
0:39.1	So I'm a jock now.
0:41.1	I'm actually not a nerd like everyone else is.
0:45.4	So as long as there's lots of like, you know, sports talk and protein in this podcast,
0:50.8	I should be able to participate.
0:52.0	I just kind of wanted to give you a primer for my new personality. This is the way
0:55.7	protein.
0:58.2	Okay, okay. Now that I can get
1:00.0	behind a good Van Diagram.
1:02.4	Bro.
1:04.0	We're also joined by
1:05.9	special guest, Protein, bro.
1:08.6	Brendan Grimm from Pass the Controller.
1:10.3	Might as well be called Pass the Protein.
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