Game talk with the wires showing.
Rebel FM runs on game talk, side jokes, and long-running comfort between its voices. Recent episodes move from co-op crab battles and indie strategy frustrations to GDC chatter, Resident Evil counting, Star Trek weather logic, and movie reactions.
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Rebel FM is a panel conversation about video games, entertainment, and the culture around both, delivered with very little polish sanded off. That is the appeal. The voices sound comfortable enough to derail each other, misname themselves, correct a point midstream, and keep moving without turning the show into a formal roundtable. Recent episodes open on pet routines, 420 jokes, weather math, Star Trek, old friends, GDC, and Resident Evil bookkeeping. Then the talk finds the games. The panel spends real time on how things actually play: awkward keyboard-and-mouse translation, couch co-op menu conflicts, long strategy-game failure states, traversal in a dune-like open world, and the odd charm of an alien gas-station simulator where suspicion rises through tiny mistakes. The show is especially good when someone describes a mechanic and the others immediately triangulate it through older games, console habits, genre memory, or industry context. It is loose, but not shallow. A throwaway joke can become a read on Nintendo pricing, Game Pass sampling, GDC's shift toward sales pitches, or why a game from years ago still feels like a relic worth studying. The movie talk follows the same rhythm, with reactions to Dracula and Send Help sitting comfortably beside games like Pocopia and Resident Evil. The banter can be blunt and adult, and the mood sometimes brushes against real-world exhaustion. It does not stay precious about any of it. Rebel FM works best for listeners who want criticism that feels argued into shape by people who know the medium, remember too much, and still laugh at the stupidest detail in the room.
Made for: For listeners who like loose, knowledgeable gaming conversation that treats mechanics, industry context, movies, and personal tangents as part of the same weekly rhythm.
What sets it apart: Rebel FM stands apart through its lived-in panel chemistry: jokes, corrections, and digressions are not filler, but the path into sharper observations about how games feel and why they frustrate or stick.
We are gaming industry veterans and newcomers from across the spectrum from outlets like IGN and Polygon, talking about video games, movies, books and more.
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Rebel FM makes game design legible through candid debate, mechanical detail and the practiced humor of three distinct voices.
Rebel FM turns close attention to video games into a lively three-way conversation among Anthony Gallegos, Arthur Gies and Matt Chandranay. They move easily from Resident Evil history and Pokemon surprises to control schemes, resource economies and co-op design, explaining what…
Rebel FM takes you from orange-cat confusion to the puzzle of three action buttons.
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Short reviews from the PlayNext desk, based on the episodes we processed.
A laid-back 4/20 opening gives way to a practical look at a giant crab game.
Rebel FM 697 settles into an easy 4/20 mood as Anthony Gallegos, Arthur Gies, and Matt Chandrase swap stories about a dog with a 4/20 birthday, low-dose mints, and a neighborhood weed shop next to an ice cream shop.
Loose banter opens the door, then a punishing game economy takes over.
Rebel FM settles into familiar panel chaos, with Anthony Gallegos, Arthur Geith, and Matt Shandron tripping over names while they swap wake-up times, morning medications, and pet schedules.
A loose panel folds cat chaos into early PC control complaints with useful specificity.
Rebel FM 695 works best when its loose panel energy turns ordinary mess into texture. Anthony Gallegos, Arthur Gies, and Matt Shandranay move from an orange cat that cannot always find its food to an 18-inch deck made unpleasant by the cat using the dirt beneath it, then into…
Resident Evil math gives way to alien goo, agents, and a deeply doomed fart test.
Resident Evil week starts with messy franchise math, as the panel tries to settle whether the series is on its 24th or 25th game while looping through remakes, director's cuts, Code Veronica, and multiplayer side roads.
A loose game-and-movie conversation finds its sharpest turn in a strange Pokemon pitch.
Rebel FM Episode 691 treats pop culture like a conversation that can start with a 45-degree Brooklyn check-in, wander through Dracula, and still find its way to a curious case for Pokemon Pokopia.
A Friday-the-13th episode 666 gag gives way to loose, useful talk on Mario Kart luck and Switch 2 backward compatibility.
Rebel FM episode 666 starts with Anthony Gallegos noting that the show date will still read Friday the 13th, then leaning into the number with a dark-summoning joke.
A sleepy panel conversation turns pet routines and an unforgiving colony simulation into a grounded case for persistence.
Rebel FM works best when it lets a drowsy morning conversation drift into the hard edges of an old strategy game. The panel starts with waking at 8 a.m., letting animals out, and dealing with medications, then moves into a campaign built around colonists, buildings, troops,…
Anthony Gallegos and Arthur Gies return after a two-week hiatus, discussing Arthur's experience at a skateboarding event where he saw a 15-year-old with neck tattoos and Korean skaters dominating.
Anthony Gallegos and Arthur Gies recap Summer Games Fest 2025, focusing on the Xbox Ally handhelds' stripped-down Windows OS and Resident Evil 9's reveal.
The hosts discuss AI voice synthesis, their extensive raw audio recordings, and humorously speculate about listener habits.
The hosts discuss their morning routines, lack of coffee, and compare brain development in puppies versus humans, touching on neuroplasticity and parenting.
Rebel FM 715 moves from Anthony's Spain trip to Arthur Geese's Gears of War: E-Day review, including Madrid's anime shops and the game's rendering technology.
The show opens on 420.
Anthony Gallegos opens Rebel FM with Arthur Geith and Matt Shandron, and the names are already wobbling a little.
Rebel FM episode 695 on 03/20/2026 opens with Anthony Gallegos, Arthur Gies, and Matt Shandranay joking about cats, a deck that smells like cat poop, and birds and lizards killed in the yard.
The hosts discuss their experiences at GDC, criticizing the quality of talks and noting a significant drop in attendance.
The hosts discuss reconnecting with old friends and casual gaming habits in a lighthearted conversation.
Resident Evil 9 is not open world, and the game keeps shifting between first-person horror and Leon’s action sections.
Rebel FM Episode 691 centers on three recent game conversations: Mugenics, Chrisalo, and Pokopia, with Anthony Gallegos, Arthur Gies, and Matt comparing mechanics, performance, and tone.
The hosts discuss temperature differences between Celsius and Fahrenheit, referencing Star Trek and military usage in a humorous, casual conversation.
The hosts discuss video game news and events, particularly Summer Games Fest in Los Angeles, following a humorous dark intro about episode 666.
The hosts discuss finishing the game Doom and restarting it on a higher difficulty setting called Nightmare.