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Grind My Metal Gears @grindmymetalgears.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

❗️New Episode❗️ With the timely release of the second Master Collection, we're diving into the GBC hidden gem Ghost Babel. And since they're in the collection too, we also revisited MGS4 and PW! open.spotify.com/episode/4Xc0... GMMG will return in November after the release of the first DS2 Novel!

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Grind My Metal Gears @grindmymetalgears.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

❗️New Episode❗️ We're lamenting the days of peak handheld gaming with the Kojima produced, solar-sensor-powered Boktai. The sun is in our hands! Or at least, the emulated sun is... open.spotify.com/episode/6Fd1...

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Grind My Metal Gears @grindmymetalgears.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

❗️New Episode❗️ Sometimes less is more, and we learned this the hard way by playing Zone of the Enders The Second Runner. Everything is dialed up in this sequel, and unfortunately that includes all the things we didn't like about the first game 😢 open.spotify.com/episode/3avM...

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Grind My Metal Gears @grindmymetalgears.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

❗️New Episode❗️ Friendship ended with books ❌ Now video games are our best friend again 😘 Strap in and get ready for some high octane mecha action (and minimal plot 🙈) as we discuss the Kojima produced Zone of the Enders! open.spotify.com/episode/0xfZ...

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Grind My Metal Gears @grindmymetalgears.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Sorry, gamers. A storm knocked out Danny's power, so our Zone of the Enders episode is going to be late. We'll let you know when we have a better eta. Until then, enjoy this image of our new favorite evil woman:

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Grind My Metal Gears @grindmymetalgears.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

❗️New Episode❗️ We're wrapping up our discussions on the Death Stranding Novelizations by talking through volume 2! We honestly had a blast reading these novels, and now we can look forward to the first of the DS2 novels later this year! open.spotify.com/episode/5fLZW2Vr…

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Grind My Metal Gears @grindmymetalgears.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

❗️New Episode❗️ We're once again getting book-pilled as we dive into the first volume of the Death Stranding novelization! And what's not to love? Lots of great descriptive writing about the world and plenty of details about Sam's Feet 🫣 open.spotify.com/episode/4kh07nPC…

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Grind My Metal Gears @grindmymetalgears.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

❗️New Episode❗️ Time to return once more to Shadow Moses Island as we check out Twin Snakes, the notorious GameCube remake of MGS1. Oh, and we also watched the turn of the millennium classic Versus to fully appreciate the mind of our boy Ryuhei Kitamura. open.spotify.com/episode/6TkPyRnc…

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Grind My Metal Gears @grindmymetalgears.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

❗️New Episode❗️ We're heading back to MGS2 to play through the VR missions (and the "alternative" missions if you want to be technical about it). We also go off on many different tangents during this episode, so enjoy! open.spotify.com/episode/7b1Q0PmO…

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Grind My Metal Gears @grindmymetalgears.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

❗️New Episode❗️ Strap on your VR training gear because we're tackling the Metal Gear Solid VR Missions. Get ready for some puzzles, giant monsters, murder mysteries, UFOs, and more! open.spotify.com/episode/2Vtr2iWR…

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Grind My Metal Gears @grindmymetalgears.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

❗️New Episode❗️ Get ready for some monkey business as we return to the glory days of the PS2 mini-game with Snake VS Monkey and Mesal Gear Solid. open.spotify.com/episode/6h8gCCFT…

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Grind My Metal Gears @grindmymetalgears.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

❗️New Episode❗️ It's time to say goodbye to Policenauts as we put an end to the corruption on Beyond. Yet another early Kojima banger in the books for us. They really gotta go back to making games like this. open.spotify.com/episode/38wnvbiQ…

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Grind My Metal Gears @grindmymetalgears.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

Sorry folks. This weeks episode is going to be a few days late. We'll let you know when it's ready! In the meantime, catch up on our previous episodes on Policenauts before the final episode: open.spotify.com/episode/0YZJlYBu…

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Grind My Metal Gears @grindmymetalgears.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

❗️New Episode❗️ We're on to the second disc of Policenauts! Things are really starting to get serious with Jonathan and Ed's investigation. So serious in fact that it's time to go to the moon! open.spotify.com/episode/4Duts0KG…

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Grind My Metal Gears @grindmymetalgears.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

❗️New Episode❗️ We're on to Act 2 of Policenauts! Jonathan and Ed's investigation is really starting to heat up as traps are set, people killed, and bombs conveniently placed in designer handbags. Join us as we keep talking and hope nobody explodes open.spotify.com/episode/5NyFDpHx…

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Grind My Metal Gears @grindmymetalgears.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

❗️New Episode❗️ We're starting Kojima's other major early non-Metal Gear game, Policenauts, a game we like for many of the reasons we liked Snatcher, but also a game that has plenty of what we didn't like in Snatcher. Join us for the Prologue and Act 1! open.spotify.com/episode/0YZJlYBu…

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Grind My Metal Gears @grindmymetalgears.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

❗️New Episode❗️ We're wrapping things up with Snatcher which means it's time to say goodbye to our boys Metal Gear Mk II and Random Hajile. Thank you for your service, boys🫡 open.spotify.com/episode/5eegsW3o…

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Grind My Metal Gears @grindmymetalgears.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

❗️New Episode❗️ We're so back. After our brief digression through the Blade Runner films, it only seemed right to start playing Kojima's Snatcher, a game full of references and homages to Blade Runner and much more. open.spotify.com/episode/5CkLqOhY…

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Grind My Metal Gears @grindmymetalgears.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

Hey folks! Just a reminder that there's no new episode today. We'll be back in two weeks with our first episode on Snatcher, so please look forward to that!

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Grind My Metal Gears @grindmymetalgears.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

❗️New Episode❗️ We're continuing our Blade Runner rabbit-hole with its years later sequel: Blade Runner 2049. A movie we have a lot of thoughts and feelings about, but most of all, we just wished there was more of our boy Bautista in it open.spotify.com/episode/08FuW1sX…

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Grind My Metal Gears @grindmymetalgears.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

❗️New Episode❗️ After reading Kojima talk about it in The Creative Gene, we just couldn't help ourselves, so here we are! We're talking about the 1982 science fiction classic, Blade Runner. Folks, they don't make 'em like they used to. open.spotify.com/episode/7as95Vwn…

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Grind My Metal Gears @grindmymetalgears.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

❗️New Episode❗️ We survived Metal Gear Survive. Join us for our last episode of the year as we discuss the few ups and many downs of the second half of Metal Gear Survive. Happy New Year! open.spotify.com/episode/3JlPBach…

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Grind My Metal Gears @grindmymetalgears.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

❗️New Episode❗️ Well, it had to happen eventually. Time for us to bite the bullet and begin Metal Gear Survive. Is this game as awful as its reputation or is it a secret masterpiece? Or perhaps some secret third thing? Let's find out together! open.spotify.com/episode/30Hq1EtV…

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Grind My Metal Gears @grindmymetalgears.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

❗️New Episode❗️ With DS2 behind us now, it's finally time to crack open Hideo Kojima's The Creative Gene. Join us as we learn the secret origins of The Boss, appreciate BlaRun, and speculate on Kojima's gaming habits. open.spotify.com/episode/6tVPqZtc…

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Grind My Metal Gears @grindmymetalgears.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

❗️New Episode❗️ Our journey through Death Stranding 2 finally comes to it's conclusion, and boy what a conclusion it was. In the interest of not spoiling anything, I'll let the episode speak for itself, but I will say one thing: Tomorrow is in your hands open.spotify.com/episode/32lMab9e…

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Grind My Metal Gears @grindmymetalgears.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

❗️New Episode❗️ We're nearing the end of DS2 which means things are really starting to pop off as we finish our journey to connect Australia to the Chiral Network. Oh, and the girls still rock open.spotify.com/episode/0qHeTkzO…

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Grind My Metal Gears @grindmymetalgears.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

❗️New Episode❗️ Things are really poppin' off in DS2. Mamoru Oshii is out here teaching us pizza karate, Usada Pekora is here being Usada Pekora, and Hideo Kojima and Co. deliver one of the coolest cutscenes we've ever seen open.spotify.com/episode/3RE6xApg…

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Grind My Metal Gears @grindmymetalgears.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

❗️New Episode❗️ Women are thriving as we continue on in Death Stranding 2. Time to meet the mysterious new member of the Magellan crew, Tomorrow. open.spotify.com/episode/2kANoJtX…

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Grind My Metal Gears @grindmymetalgears.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

❗️New Episode❗️ Crikey! We're continuing DS2 as we venture forth into Australia where we reunite with everyone's favorite smooth talkin' bad guy from the last game, and have a strange encounter with a guy who is definitely not Solid Snake open.spotify.com/episode/47GY67k2…

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Grind My Metal Gears @grindmymetalgears.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

❗️New Episode❗️ It's finally time for us to start Death Stranding 2! Let's find out what Sam and Lou have been up to in the time between games. Surely nothing bad is going to happen to either of them in the opening hours of the game, right? open.spotify.com/episode/4sKtR8E7…

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Grind My Metal Gears @grindmymetalgears.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

❗️New Episode❗️ Enjoy this extra long episode as we talk through the rest of Death Stranding! So much to unpack as we complete Sam's journey to build the UCA, discover the truth about Amelie, and save the world (for the time being). And next time: DS2! open.spotify.com/episode/3BZNz4GL…

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Grind My Metal Gears @grindmymetalgears.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

❗️New Episode❗️ Join us for our (believe it or not) penultimate episode on Death Stranding! It's for us to finally learn what Mama's whole deal is, but more importantly, it's time to hop in the shower with Deadman for some private time with our boy open.spotify.com/episode/7qm0uSuh…

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Grind My Metal Gears @grindmymetalgears.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

❗️New episode❗️ As we venture on in Death Stranding, it's time to learn a whole lot more about our girl Fragile. Also Daddy Mads makes his grand (non-flashback) appearance 🤤 open.spotify.com/episode/4Y6GPM7T…

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Grind My Metal Gears @grindmymetalgears.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

❗️New episode❗️ Death Stranding continues! It's time to grab our Q-pids and head out as we work to connect everyone to the internet, uh I mean, Chiral Network, including a certain fan of Ludens open.spotify.com/episode/3X7SCeos…

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Grind My Metal Gears @grindmymetalgears.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

❗️New episode❗️ I hope y'all are as excited as we are because it's finally time for us to cover Death Stranding! Of course we're just in time to have to dodge spoilers for DS2, but we'll hopefully we'll be too busy processing this first game to notice. creators.spotify.com/pod/show/grindmy…

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Grind My Metal Gears @grindmymetalgears.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

❗️New episode❗️ All good things must come to an end as we wrap up the Ac!d games. Konami, you really gotta make a third one of these. open.spotify.com/episode/5AgSby2F…

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Grind My Metal Gears @grindmymetalgears.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

❗️New episode❗️ We started Metal Gear Ac!d 2, and wouldn't you know it: it's a lot like the first game, but with a bunch of gameplay improvements! We also take a long overdue look into the GMMG Mailbag creators.spotify.com/pod/profile/grin…

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Grind My Metal Gears @grindmymetalgears.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

❗️New episode❗️ We're back! And we're wrapping up Metal Gear Ac!d. Time for a big climatic Metal Gear fight, and a whole bunch of new lore which will certainly be important in Ac!d 2, right... creators.spotify.com/pod/profile/grin…

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Grind My Metal Gears @grindmymetalgears.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

Sorry folks, no new episode today as Danny is in Japan (may he be so lucky to get scanned by Kojima while there). We'll be back in two weeks with our final episode on Metal Gear Ac!d!

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Grind My Metal Gears @grindmymetalgears.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

❗️New episode❗️ Hope you like clowns, board games, and doppelgangers because things are getting wacky and weird as we continue to make our way through Metal Gear Ac!d creators.spotify.com/pod/show/grindmy…

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Grind My Metal Gears @grindmymetalgears.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

❗️New episode❗️ As we progress further into Ac!d we find ourselves with a whole lot of questions about the plot and not a lot of answers yet. Questions like: what's up with this Hans Davis guy? podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/grindmy…

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Grind My Metal Gears @grindmymetalgears.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

❗️New episode❗️ We're returning to the playstation portable to check out the extremely non-canonical Metal Gear Ac!d. In this first episode we get our bearings as we feel out what it means to be a deck-building game a decade before the genre solidified. creators.spotify.com/pod/show/grindmy…

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Grind My Metal Gears @grindmymetalgears.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

❗️New Episode❗️ It's time for the much improved sequel to the original Metal Gear, Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake. Metal Gear already featured a lot of the elements of the later games, but this one introduces a key ingredient to the mix: melodrama! creators.spotify.com/pod/show/grindmy…

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Grind My Metal Gears @grindmymetalgears.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

❗️New Episode❗️ We're going back to 1987 to play the game that started it all, Metal Gear for the MSX! A game whose DNA lives in all the later MGS titles, but also a game that's very funny to think about in relation to the big reveal in MGSV. creators.spotify.com/pod/show/grindmy…

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Grind My Metal Gears @grindmymetalgears.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

❗️New Episode❗️ We're finishing off our unit on the MGS novelizations with Project Itoh's Guns of the Patriots, a novelization that's got way more going on than you'd expect out of one of these. open.spotify.com/episode/3u1zxuhS…

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Grind My Metal Gears @grindmymetalgears.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

❗️New Episode❗️ We're continuing our literary journey through the MGS novels with Raymond Benson's Metal Gear Solid 2 novelization. This one is even more faithful to the game which is fine because it let's us talk about all of the cool stuff in MGS2! creators.spotify.com/pod/show/grindmy…

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Grind My Metal Gears @grindmymetalgears.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

❗️New Episode❗️ As we continue our journey through the wider world of Metal gear, it's time to crack open some books and begin our coverage of the Metal Gear novelizations, starting with Raymond Benson's novelization of Metal Gear Solid! creators.spotify.com/pod/show/grindmy…

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Grind My Metal Gears @grindmymetalgears.bsky.social · 02/01/2025

❗️New Episode❗️ We watched John Carpenter's classic film Escape from New York! Partly because of all the obvious influences this movie had on Metal Gear, but mostly just because it's a really great film creators.spotify.com/pod/show/grindmy…

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Grind My Metal Gears @grindmymetalgears.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

❗️New Episode❗️ Time to wrap things up with MGR by talking about its two DLC missions: Jetstream and Blade Wolf. We also spend some time thinking through our overall thoughts on MGS, and pondering our dream MGS blunt rotations podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/grindmy…

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Grind My Metal Gears @grindmymetalgears.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

❗️New Episode❗️ Get out your high frequency blades. It's finally time for Metal Gear Rising Revengeance! Let's see what Raiden has been up to since the end of MGS4. I'm sure it's all totally normal stuff. creators.spotify.com/pod/show/grindmy…

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