Games Freezer’s Favourite YouTube Channels #1: Pixel Hunted 🎥

Over the coming weeks, the team here at GF will be sharing their favourite gaming channels on YouTube, to kick us off is the wonderful Pixel Hunted!

🎥Digital Foundry - 

Specifically DF Retro, as I can't think of a group of people with a more passionate and encyclopaedic knowledge of games than them.

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLY9cZ8nX4xmlpd1RE8_toocbU9cND7U-A&si=Wwa8Xijzb0OqdODO

🎥Modern Vintage Gamer - 

Love the in-depth knowledge about emulation and updates on what's happening, as well as the technical breakdowns that occasionally go over my head but are no less enjoyable for that

🎥Baalorlord - 

His Slay the Spire runs bust the game open practically every single time, he seems like a great guy, and his voice is very soothing before bedtime.

🎥Matt McMuscles - 

Really enjoy his series about bad fighting games and Wha' Happened, his in-depth mini docs about famous gaming flops.

🎥videogamedunkey - 

He's funny

Poker Night at the Inventory – Switch 2 Gameplay | Telltale’s Poker Classic Returns ♠️♥️♦️♣️🃏 @skunkapegames.com

Step into the smoky, chaotic, crossover‑filled world of Poker Night at the Inventory — now running on the Nintendo Switch 2 with smooth performance and crisp visuals.

In this gameplay session, Rich sits down at the table with some of gaming’s most iconic personalities and let the chips fall where they may.

https://www.nintendo.com/en-gb/Games/Nintendo-Switch-download-software/Poker-Night-at-the-Inventory-3027978.html

Vampire Crawlers: The Turbo Wildcard from Vampire Survivors Nintendo Switch 2 Review 9/10 🧛🍷 "A surprising spin off that stands as tall the original" @poncle_vampire #IndieGame #GameDev

Vampire Survivors melted the world when it was released back in 2022. I’ve had friends and colleagues here at GF that adored that game and spent many, many hours with it, and whilst I dipped my toe in for a few weeks and thoroughly enjoyed my time with it, Vampire Survivors never really sucked me in as it did for others…Vampire Crawlers, however, has crawled out of its sarcophagus, plunged its teeth into my neck, and yanked my trousers down with such force and intent that the friction burns blistered my trembling thighs. Good.

The words ‘roguelike deck-building game’ have almost become burned onto my retinas due to how often I’ve come across them over the last couple of years. Whilst I love the genre, it seems to have replaced ‘soulslike’ as a term that makes my eye twitch whenever I stumble across it whilst checking out upcoming games. That said, as with anything, if a game is good, it doesn’t matter how many others there are in the field; it’s a cracker. 

Such was the case with Vampire Crawlers, which was kindly sent over to us from Nosebleed Interactive, who are the minds behind Arcade Paradise, a game that my editor, Rich, very much fell in love with back in 2022. 

I was offered the code, installed it on the Switch 2, and that was it; I was hooked.