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The Level

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Rating
★★★★★
4.8
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124 reviews
This podcast has
657 episodes
Language
English
Publisher
Duckfeed.tv
Explicit
No
Date created
2012/11/17
Latest episode
2026/04/18
Average duration
104 min.
Release period
10 days

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The Level is a podcast for people who love video games. It's a weekly roundtable hosted by friends and industry outsiders Kaye Ross, Ben Merkel, Dennis Furia, Moxie, and Jala Prendes. Every Friday, we discuss video game news, the games we've been playing, and listener mail. RSS Feed: https://www.patreon.com/rss/80117?show=1693347

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The Level 581: A Disappointment That Will Not Wash Away
2026/04/18
Kaye, Ben, and Jala talk about Fatal Frame II: Crimson Butterfly REMAKE, 100 Jumps, Eclipsium, and much more! The Grind: Jala: 100 Jumps. Eclipsium. Exit 8. Paranormasight: The Seven Mysteries of Honjo. Ben: REANIMAL. Slay the Spire 2. Kaye: Fatal Frame II: Crimson Butterfly REMAKE. The Multiplayer: What series or game from an established studio was a big disappointment for you? The End Boss: Confidential Rockstar information leaked by ransomware hackers. Sony announces Bloodborne animated movie with YouTuber JackSepticEye as producer. Google pulls Doki Doki Literature Club from the Play Store.
The Level 580: The First Geneva Convention
2026/04/10
Kaye, Ben, and Moxie talk about Reanimal, Hozy, Quasimorph, and much more! The Grind: Ben: Slay the Spire 2. REANIMAL. Mewgenics. Moxie: Quasimorph. Marathon. Kaye: Marathon. Hozy. The Multiplayer: What game’s aesthetic works for you, even if you don’t play it? The End Boss: They’re making a Backrooms movie. Elden Ring movie set photos published. Chris Pratt doesn’t know very much about Mario. The Rooks are unionizing.
The Level 579: A Three Hour Psychological Event
2026/04/05
Kaye, Ben, Dennis, and Jala talk about Super Battle Golf, Expelled!, The Drifter, and much more! The Grind: Jala: Cyclopean II: The Dreamlands and The Bagman (demos). The Dark Queen of Mortholme. Expelled!. The Drifter. Dennis: Marathon. Slay the Spire 2. iRacing. Kaye: Marathon. Super Battle Golf. Fatal Frame II: Crimson Butterfly Remake. Ben: Mewgenics. The Multiplayer: What kind of game do you like even though you’re bad at it? The End Boss: PlayStation price hikes hurt everyone. Star Wars: Zero Company looks neat! Fan makes Buffy text adventure in attempt to revive revival. MindsEye studio CEO blames terrible game on saboteurs.
The Level 578: Staph McRacken
2026/03/29
Kaye, Ben, and Dennis talk about Marathon, Slay the Spire 2, Mewgenics, and much more! The Grind: Kaye: Marathon. Resident Evil: Requiem. Dennis: iRacing. Slay the Spire 2. John Carpenter’s Toxic Commando. Ben: Mewgenics. The Multiplayer: What game enemy has the highest dangerousness delta between its appearance and how much of a threat it actually is? The End Boss: Crimson Desert devs caught using AI placeholder art. The RAM shortage is having a bigger effect than we thought. EverQuest Legends is a trap designed specifically to kill Kaye.
The Level 577: You Can Do All Kinds of Magical Things With Blood
2026/03/21
Kaye, Ben, Dennis, and Jala talk about Pokemon Pokopia, John Carpenter’s Toxic Commando, Resident Evil: Requiem, and much more! The Grind: Jala: Resident Evil 4 Remake. Resident Evil Requiem. Kaye: Resident Evil: Requiem. Pokemon Pokopia. John Carpenter’s Toxic Commando. Dennis: John Carpenter’s Toxic Commando. Slay the Spire 2. Ben: Mewgenics. The Multiplayer: What’s your favorite game where you play the bad guy? The End Boss: New movement in the Subnautica 2 court case. Alex commits some incest in the newest Street Fighter 6 DLC. Iowa wants to create tax incentives for video game developers. nVidia’s DLSS 5 is bad and it should feel bad.
The Level 576: Oh No, We Were Annoying Too!
2026/03/13
Kaye, Ben, Dennis, and Moxie talk about Resident Evil: Requiem, Slay the Spire 2, Mewgenics, and much more! The Grind: Kaye: Resident Evil: Requiem. Dennis: Slay the Spire 2. Helldivers 2. Moxie: Helldivers 2. Ben: Mewgenics. The Multiplayer: Create your own microgenre. The End Boss: Sony will stop releasing their games on PC. Who knows when the Steam machine will be released? Not Valve! Mega Man voice actor being dropped by Capcom over union protections.
The Level 575: Spelling Dolphin Words
2026/03/06
Kaye, Ben, Dennis, and Moxie talk about John Carpenter’s Toxic Commando, Vampire Crawlers, Cursed Words, and much more! The Grind: Dennis: John Carpenter’s Toxic Commando (Demo). Cursed Words (Demo). Backseat Champions (Demo). Helldivers 2. Moxie: Helldivers 2. Ben: Mewgenics. Vampire Crawlers (Demo). Kaye: Nothing! The Multiplayer: What system do you understand but not really? The End Boss: Jala’s game has a demo! Highguard to shut down. Bloodborne remake isn’t happening.
The Level 574: Canadians Are Like IGN
2026/03/01
Kaye, Ben, Dennis, and Moxie talk about Mewgenics, Backpack Hero, the new Deep Rock Galactic content, and much more! The Grind: Kaye: Nothing! Ben: Silksong. Mewgenics. Dennis: Backpack Hero. Deep Rock Galactic. Helldivers 2. Moxie: Nothing! The Multiplayer: What's your favorite puzzle in a non-puzzle game? The End Boss: Xbox is falling apart, names AI chief as new CEO as Schiller steps aside. Insomniac’s Wolverine game gets September release date. Discord delays age verification by six months, cuts ties with Palantir. Star Wars Galactic Racing details emerge.
The Level 573: The Most Wholesome Glory Hole
2026/01/30
Kaye, Ben, Dennis, and Jala talk about Terminator 2D: No Fate, My Winter Car, Many Nights a Whisper, and much more! The Grind: Jala: Terminator 2D: No Fate. Terror of Hemasaurus. Many Nights a Whisper. Ben: Silksong. Dennis: One Finger Death Punch 2. Trackmania. Kaye: Ball X Pit. My Winter Car. The End Boss: Cyclopean developments. Details about the new Fable emerge. Virtual Boy is coming to Switch Online soon. People are suing Hasbro for printing too many Magic cards.
The Level 572: Punxsatomic Phil
2026/01/23
Kaye, Dennis, and Moxie talk about Quarantine Zone: Last Check, DeadCore Redux, Robocop: Rogue City, and much more! The Grind: Kaye: Quarantine Zone: Last Check. Moxie: Robocop: Rogue City. BALL x PIT. Dennis: DeadCore Redux. One Finger Death Punch. The Multiplayer: What’s a suboptimal way that you play games? The End Boss: Life is Strange: Reunion brings Max and Chloe back together. Hardware modder fuses all modern consoles into one box. Fans keep Anthem alive on private server.
The Level 571: Philistinko
2026/01/16
Kaye, Ben, Dennis, and Moxie talk about Pathologic 3, Nubby’s Number Factory, Q-Up, and much more! The Grind: Dennis: Diablo IV. Kaye: Pathologic 3. Moxie: Dead Island 2. Ben: Q-UP. Nubby’s Number Factory. The Multiplayer: What are you favorite diegetic interfaces in games? The End Boss: Fortnite adds gambling again. Meta shuts down tons of AI game studios. Indie publisher Hooded Horse forbids AI use in its games.
The Level 570: Snakes (Not) on a Plane
2026/01/09
Kaye, Ben, Dennis, and Moxie talk about Ball x Pit, Carnival Massacre, Dead Island 2, and much more! The Grind: Moxie: Dead Island 2. Ben: Slots and Daggers. Ball x Pit. Dennis: Liar’s Bar. Tactical Breach Wizards. Ace Combat 7: Skies Unknown. Kaye: Carnival Massacre. The Multiplayer: What new years resolution are you going to break? The End Boss: Clair Obscur loses Indie Game Awards GOTY, Blue Prince wins instead. Helldivers 2 file size reduced. You can install other games now. Splitgate 2 relaunch barely launches. The People’s Joker is coming to Tubi. They made snake on a sphere.
The Level 569: Who Are My Kids?
2025/12/20
Kaye, Dennis, and Jala talk about Guilty as Sock, Embr, Ace Combat 7: Skies Unknown, and much more! The Grind: Kaye: Resident Evil VII but it’s Simpsons. Bloodborne Randomizer. Embr. PEAK. Guilty as Sock. Pico Park 2. Jala: Guilty as Sock. Pico Park 2. One-Eyed Likho. Dennis: Embr. PEAK. Guilty as Sock. Pico Park 2. Ace Combat 7: Skies Unknown. The Multiplayer: TOTY Results The End Boss: New Zealand’s game industry is one of the only ones that’s growing. Looks like Larian uses AI and leadership is being a dick about it! Silksong is getting free DLC.
The Level 567: The Kids Hunger for Lore
2025/12/06
Kaye, Ben, Dennis, and Moxie talk about Total Chaos, Asbury Pines, PEAK, and much more! TITLE OF THE YEAR VOTING IS NOW OPEN! The Grind: Moxie: PEAK. Ben: Asbury Pines. Dennis: PEAK. Five Nights at Freddy’s. Kaye: Total Chaos. Puzzmo.com. The Multiplayer: What’s a good implementation of something you otherwise think is bad in games? The End Boss: Roblox CEO wants to groom kids into gambling. Tim Sweeny mocks Steam’s AI disclosures. Amazon caught trying out terrible AI anime dubbing. Silksong devs won’t be at the VGAs, post something kinda s****y about it.
The Level 566: Pitch Problem
2025/11/30
Kaye, Ben, and Dennis talk about Dispatch, Deadpool VR, Umigari, and much more! The Grind: Dennis: Deadpool VR. Ben: Dispatch. Kaye: Final Sentence Demo. Umigari Demo. The End Boss: Megabonk dev pulls the game out of running for VGA. No sign of a Steam Deck 2 in sight.

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4.8 out of 5
124 reviews
★★★★★
SemperAudientis 2025/11/24
Chill fun weekly discussions about games
Fun weekly low key discussion regarding what games have come out, what folks are playing, and other such content.
★★★★★
Jill Lloyd Flanagan 2023/07/23
Enjoyable gaming podcast
This is a good group with nice friend chemistry and some good game recommendations. Nice to hear a gaming podcast out of the Midwest
★★★★★
eli43068 2021/11/20
Wonderful
An absolutely lovely podcast to learn about new video games, and the option to chime in with your own opinion is always a delight!
★★★★★
Lidrien 2021/11/20
Great Fun Hangout Vibes
There’s not enough podcasts like this. A group of friends with great chemistry and a good taste in games.
★★★★★
jmkelly2017 2020/03/21
Satisfied Supporter
Please support them any way possible - they give a good name to gamers, along with great laughs!
★★★★☆
Cheese angus 2021/03/21
Some episodes drag but overall good
Some episodes seem to drag on but I suppose that’s the point too . I usually avoid Jala episodes , they seem to be a one upper about almost everythi...
★★★★★
thisherekarlmalone 2020/02/28
I usually wait for the hosts to pick the title...
Found this show a few months ago and I am so glad I did. It is basically a group friends who talk about video games they are playing and all the craz...
★★★★★
Got me back into games 2019/04/21
Hang out and listen to video games
Supremely decent and chill.
★★★★★
sinister762 2019/03/02
Long time listener
As long as I’ve been listening .. this group of folks always keep me entertained . weather they talk about game I play or games I will never partake ...
★★★★★
GlassAlchemy 2018/07/15
Goofy and fun.
With the high to low brow jokes from Kole, the heartwarming daddening of Dennis, the humorous bias of David, the straightforward breath of fresh air t...
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