Ashley Chancellor
223 episodes listed below
Fan talk with teeth and memory.
Collateral Gaming Video Game Podcast treats games as lived-in fandom, not product checklist. Its episodes move from launch excitement and hardware reactions into mechanics, franchise history, adaptation baggage, and the strange pleasure of games that are bad, broken, or both.
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Collateral Gaming Video Game Podcast is a games show for people who want the messy conversation after the controller goes down. It is casual, sometimes chaotic, and clearly run on real play experience. Recent episodes move across Resident Evil Requiem, Death Stranding 2, Mario Kart World, Doom: The Dark Ages, Doom Eternal, Bushido Blade, Plumbers Don't Wear Ties, and year-end game reflection. The throughline is not just what is new. It is how a game feels once its mechanics, history, and fan expectations start rubbing against each other. Resident Evil coverage shows the show's strengths. The conversation can track stealth choices, zombie placement, Grace's perspective, Leon's return, and the franchise shift that began with Resident Evil 7 without turning into a dry chronology. Doom coverage leans into momentum, difficulty, timing, and the pull of returning to a franchise when a new release gives older entries fresh context. Death Stranding 2 brings out another mode. The show considers accessibility, challenge, world-building, and Kojima's appetite for polarizing choices while still sounding like someone processing the game aloud. Retro episodes give it a different texture. Bushido Blade becomes a way to think about sequels and how one game sets up another. Plumbers Don't Wear Ties becomes part of a bad-game month where failure is treated as something worth laughing at and studying. The show also has a recurring media-family rhythm, with Collateral Cinema references and crossover promotion framing the gaming episodes. That gives the feed a fan-network feel rather than a sealed-off review desk. The register is friendly and blunt. It tolerates digressions, corrected intros, inside jokes, and sudden bursts of excitement. Solo episodes are more direct, while group episodes use agreement and pile-on detail to build momentum. The criticism is rarely detached. Even complaints sound rooted in affection for franchises, hardware, genre history, and the weird corners of game culture. Listeners looking for pristine news summaries may find it too loose. Listeners who want opinionated, game-literate conversation with survival horror, action franchises, retro curios, launch reactions, and occasional movie-podcast bleed-through will understand the appeal quickly.
Made for: Best for game fans who already enjoy franchise lore, mechanical detail, launch impressions, retro oddities, and spoiler-marked long-form discussion. It especially fits listeners drawn to survival horror, Doom-style action, Nintendo hardware chatter, and cult bad games.
What sets it apart: The show stands out by pairing loose, 420-friendly hangout energy with surprisingly granular attention to how games actually play. It can treat a Resident Evil route, a Kojima difficulty curve, and a bad game as equally worthy of committed fan analysis.
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Based on 5 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Firsthand play gives Collateral Gaming's reviews their value, connecting mechanical detail, narrative choices, and honest limits of patience.
Collateral Gaming treats a review as a record of actually playing: where a mechanic holds attention, where repetition sets in, and how story design changes the experience.
Night Trap makes you miss the story to win; Ashley and Beau understand why that stings.
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A Resident Evil Requiem check-in that links Leon's return to the series' 2017 soft reboot.
Collateral Gaming's launch-day Resident Evil Requiem discussion stays close to franchise memory and specific game detail. The hosts treat Resident Evil 7 as the 2017 soft reboot that pulled the series back toward survival horror in first person, then use that shift to explain…
A steady verdict on a sequel that plays better, even as it gives up some of the first game's mystery.
Collateral Gaming's Ashley Chancellor makes a clear case that Death Stranding 2: On the Beach lands better than the first game. The sequel sounds smoother and easier to live with moment to moment, even if it still keeps a hard edge when realism slows things down.
A launch review that explains the murder setup, the five ministers, and how the routes reshape the mystery.
Collateral Gaming's review of Shuten Order lays out the murder setup, the five ministers, and Ray's power to identify a culprit. The episode works best when it walks through the routes one by one, tying each path to a minister and framing it as both a murder mystery and a…
A close, funny look at Virtual Boy that gets more interesting as the hosts dig in.
Collateral Gaming makes Virtual Boy feel easier to follow than its reputation suggests, moving from the original console to the 2026 accessory for Nintendo Switch and Switch 2, then on to the current Nintendo Classic catalog.
Collateral Gaming treats Night Trap as a messy but engaging retro game that deserves a serious look.
Collateral Gaming approaches Night Trap as more than a punchline, and that choice gives the discussion real weight. It stays on the split-screen pressure of chasing the good ending while still leaving room for the game's story to come through in play.
A focused adaptation critique that says Return to Silent Hill loses force when it moves away from Silent Hill 2's psychological core.
Collateral Gaming takes on Christophe Gans' Return to Silent Hill and finds the central problem quickly: the film borrows the look of Silent Hill 2, then changes the story in ways that blunt it.
Three comedians riff on new releases and revisit terrible old games on Get Played Remastered.
Game Informer's editors review new releases and debrief hands-on previews from events like Summer Game Fest.
Return to Silent Hill is a hard pass here.
This segment introduces part two of the season premiere of Collateral Gaming, featuring guest Andrew Orozco discussing Bethesda's Fallout 4 with spoilers.
This episode segment is a post-Halloween review of the Resident Evil 1 remake on the Collateral Gaming Bonus Round podcast.
This episode is a collaboration special between Collateral Cinema and Collateral Gaming, featuring guest Craig Dickinson from Reading Between the Reels to discuss the 2001 film Lara Croft: Tomb Raider directed by Simon West.
The hosts introduce their holiday special episode focusing on Nintendo's The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past, recorded after midnight on New Year's Day.
The hosts introduce and discuss reviewing the newly released Angry Video Game Nerd 8-bit video game in a post-holiday special episode of their gaming podcast.
The hosts introduce their 2025 game review episode where they discuss games released that year that they hadn't previously covered on their podcast.
This Halloween special episode of Collateral Gaming features a discussion on Capcom's Resident Evil: Code Veronica, including spoilers and personal experiences.
The hosts introduce part two of their Metroid Prime 4 review, discussing their completion of the game and excitement to dive into detailed analysis.
The hosts introduce and begin discussing their review of the highly anticipated game Metroid Prime 4 Beyond on the Collateral Gaming podcast.
The hosts introduce their podcast and begin discussing their review of Sucker Punch's Ghost of Yotei, expressing excitement and comparing it to Ghost of Tsushima.
This episode segment is a solo review of the game Hyrule Warriors: Age of Imprisonment, discussing its launch and how it met or exceeded expectations.
The hosts introduce the podcast and discuss Silent Hill F as part of their spooky month content, expressing excitement about the game.
The hosts introduce the podcast and discuss starting spooky month content by reviewing the horror game Kronos: The New Dawn from Bloober Team.
The hosts Ashley, Megan, and Leo launch Season 8 of Collateral Gaming with a humorous and energetic intro, announcing their focus on Bethesda's Fallout 4.
Virtual Boy gets the spotlight.
Ashley Chancellor hosts a solo episode of Collateral Gaming, reviewing a game from Too Kyo Games that she picked up on September 5th and completed by September 14th, prompting an impromptu discussion due to her extensive playtime.
The hosts introduce part two of their review for Sucker Punch's Ghost of Yotei, discussing their gaming experiences and setting up the episode's focus.
Ashley Chancellor and Dan Rockwood host part two of Collateral Gaming's season finale, focusing on the highly anticipated Nintendo Switch 2 launch with energetic discussion and 420-friendly branding from Houston.
Night Trap gets handled as a game and a movie at the same time.
Resident Evil Requiem gets its launch treatment, and Ashley, Beau, and Dan sound happy to be there.
Ashley Chancellor leads a solo launch review for *Death Stranding 2*.
This episode is the season finale of Collateral Gaming, featuring a discussion on the Nintendo Switch 2 launch, including excitement, performance, and game impressions, with a focus on Mario Kart and special guest Dan Rockwood.
This episode of Collateral Gaming is a retro game review focusing on Lightweight's Bushido Blade, discussing its gameplay and potential for a two-part series with its sequel.
This episode of Collateral Gaming is a spoiler-free discussion about the launch of id Software's Doom: The Dark Ages, expressing excitement and covering new video game releases.
This solo episode of Collateral Gaming: Bonus Round features a review of the 2020 video game Doom Eternal from id Software's Doom franchise.
This episode of Collateral Gaming analyzes the notoriously bad video game 'Plumbers Don't Wear Ties' by United Pixtures as part of their 'bad game month' series.
This episode is a spoiler-free year in review for 2023 video games, hosted by Ashley, Zachary, and Megan on the Collateral Gaming podcast.
This episode features a spoiler-free review and discussion of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare III (2023) with special guest Cam Sully from the Jacked Up Review Show.
This Halloween-themed bonus episode reviews the 1999 video game Resident Evil 3 Nemesis, hosted by Ashley Chancellor and Beau Maddox from Collateral Gaming.