https://youtube.com/channel/UCm4JnxTxtvItQecKUc4zRhQ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/errantsignal Here at Errant Signal we felt the world was lacking in internet reviews of videogames, so we set out to fill that void. Upon realizing it was standing room only, we decided to try that new Italian place instead. TV & Film Podsync generator (support us at https://github.com/mxpv/podsync) en-us Mon, 20 Apr 2026 09:28:38 +0000 Tue, 25 Apr 2006 23:03:09 +0000 https://yt3.ggpht.com/ytc/AIdro_kyLzqjp-95wh5VFuDlcVkGnSGOC8WnN3kcoeXAhOiYyw=s800-c-k-c0x00ffffff-no-rj https://youtube.com/channel/UCm4JnxTxtvItQecKUc4zRhQ Errant Signal Errant Signal yes false 3iOGkN0fwGk https://youtube.com/watch?v=3iOGkN0fwGk Let's take a look at Corpus Edax, a game that I fell hard for despite its rough edges: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2017610/CORPUS_EDAX/ Wed, 01 Oct 2025 02:49:14 +0000 Errant Signal Corpus Edax: Bar Brawls as Physical Comedy 8:10 false 1 et7urGmW6Yo https://youtube.com/watch?v=et7urGmW6Yo Tryin' something a little different - a shorter standalone Blips episode that has an accompanying text version (here: https://medium.com/errant-signal/arctic-eggs-ludic-comfort-food-c0d683b34bbd ). The TL;DR is that I've been playing a lot of *really* cool indie games lately, but you wouldn't know it from looking at this channel. So I've been looking for a means of getting smaller, shorter, quicker to produce videos out the door, and this is experiment #1 with that. I managed to put the post and video together basically over a weekend, which is really really fast for me considering *gestures to recent videos*. So if the response is positive I'd like to keep doing it for other neat games I've played - but I have no idea how short five-to-ten minute videos are gonna play on the modern YouTube scene, so I have the Medium post as a fallback outlet. Anyways, Artic Eggs is pretty rad! As is Venba and Umurangi Generation which both get shout outs in this video. Check them out! https://store.steampowered.com/app/2763670/Arctic_Eggs/ https://store.steampowered.com/app/1223500/Umurangi_Generation/ https://store.steampowered.com/app/1491670/Venba/ Thu, 01 Aug 2024 03:40:05 +0000 Errant Signal Fryin' Up Some Arctic Eggs 7:10 false 2 txAUh3M_7Jk https://youtube.com/watch?v=txAUh3M_7Jk Hey! I'm still alive! And it's 1999! And we're talking first person game! Again! So let's walk down memory lane and play some weird 4:3 first person titles and talk about them! 00:00 System Shock 2 36:13 Quake 3 and Unreal Tournament 44:56 Kingpin 52:07 Requiem: Avenging Angel 58:10 Medal of Honor 1:02:53 SWAT 3 1:09:37 Alien vs Predator 1:13:49 Wheel of Time 1:19:56 Outro Sat, 15 Jun 2024 13:53:42 +0000 Errant Signal SHODAN is back! System Shock 2 leads Children of Doom: 1999! 1:21:30 false 3 ZQtRLLZkE3A https://youtube.com/watch?v=ZQtRLLZkE3A Lethal Company is the latest viral internet multiplayer sensation popular among streamers and kids! But also... it's kind of rad? 00:00 Intro 00:54 Lethal Company 08:13 Learning about Zeekerss 09:47 It Steals 14:49 Dead Seater 19:46 The Upturned 24:45 Conclusion Sun, 14 Jan 2024 17:41:17 +0000 Errant Signal The Lethal Comedy of Zeekerss' Lethal Company 27:34 false 4 YQxjO4PhAFM https://youtube.com/watch?v=YQxjO4PhAFM A short, spooky (but not that spooky!) Halloween video for this year. Let's go to the lines, shall we? Caller one, you're on. Tue, 31 Oct 2023 12:52:40 +0000 Errant Signal Taking Calls Live on the Scarewaves in Killer Frequency 9:22 false 5 YDQ24iAkh90 https://youtube.com/watch?v=YDQ24iAkh90 How much of a game's identity is tied up in its rough edges? What do you gain by smoothing those edges away? What do you lose? System Shock (1994) and System Shock (2023) serve as a nice case study for this line of thought. While 1994's System Shock is a seminal work whose impact echoes through to today it's also a game a lot of people simply refuse to play given its archaic input systems and low-fi graphics. Meanwhile, 2023's System Shock wants to bring the game to The People - but that means hammering a game that's full of awkward-but-interesting choices into something a bit more conventional. Does that smooth out the game's problems, or erase its identity? Let's take a look! Mon, 02 Oct 2023 15:14:42 +0000 Errant Signal How System Shock's Reboot Wrestles With Adapting Its Legacy 37:01 false 6 Zz4uppst-7I https://youtube.com/watch?v=Zz4uppst-7I 1998 sure did happen! And there were video games all up in it! So let's talk about way too many of them! It's weird to have watched this series change: what started as a time filler in between "bigger" essays has itself become one of the biggest projects in scope I've ever done. And what started as talking about one game each year has slowly become more and more about looking about each year in context and cross-comparing what was going on. I think this is more useful and interesting, but it is also undeniably more resource and time intensive to produce. Hopefully the results continue to bear fruit, though. Sources: https://www.gamedeveloper.com/design/the-cabal-valve-s-design-process-for-creating-i-half-life-i- https://valvearchive.com/archive/Other%20Files/Publications/The%20Final%20Hours%20%28Geoff%20Keighley%29/The%20Final%20Hours%20Of%20Half-Life/The%20Final%20Hours%20of%20Half-Life.pdf https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s9aCwCKgkLo https://www.cartoonbrew.com/stop-motion/the-shadow-king-selick-lasseter-pixar-222390.html https://medium.com/counterarts/pixars-first-woman-director-c0fdb600e531 https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2017/11/pixar-john-lasseter-boys-club 00:00 Half-Life 22:38 Unreal 30:35 SiN 38:16 Thief 41:12 Tribes 45:16 Jurassic Park: Trespasser 53:06 Klingon Honor Guard 57:11 Shogo: Mobile Armor Division 1:00:32 Blood 2: The Chosen 1:04:09 Xtreme Paintbrawl & Nam 1:07:36 Delta Force & Rainbow Six 1:11:34 Outro Tue, 13 Jun 2023 15:25:56 +0000 Errant Signal Children of Doom 1998: Half-Life 1:13:36 false 7 PIUlev2l2kg https://youtube.com/watch?v=PIUlev2l2kg Yeah, I know "fop" traditionally refers to an English or American dandy and not specifically eighteenth century French aristocracy, but you try writing an eye-grabbing title for a YouTube video about cheating Voltaire out of five bucks in today's economy. Card Shark is available on Steam/Epic/GOG: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1371720/Card_Shark/ And the Switch: https://www.nintendo.com/store/products/card-shark-switch/ Tue, 07 Mar 2023 14:45:17 +0000 Errant Signal Of Fops and Flops: Cheating the Aristocracy in Card Shark 7:42 false 8 XRhjLKe1EkQ https://youtube.com/watch?v=XRhjLKe1EkQ Marvel came up with a really neat corporate logo splash! And then people started ripping it off... Tue, 31 Jan 2023 01:40:43 +0000 Errant Signal The Company Intro Cinematic Universe is Bad 26:52 false 9 do7eA3scaIc https://youtube.com/watch?v=do7eA3scaIc A short video about a lil' game. http://store.steampowered.com/app/1629520/A_Little_to_the_Left/ A Little to the Left is also available on the Switch! Thu, 19 Jan 2023 21:35:28 +0000 Errant Signal Let's Tidy Up: A Little to the Left 5:39 false 10 dfYyGAbaFZw https://youtube.com/watch?v=dfYyGAbaFZw The Mortuary Assistant is a scary game: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1295920/The_Mortuary_Assistant/ Mon, 31 Oct 2022 01:01:11 +0000 Errant Signal Sometimes The Bodies Talk Back: The Mortuary Assistant 17:14 false 11 rOGJEYP4ud0 https://youtube.com/watch?v=rOGJEYP4ud0 The first Halloween episode is out, if very belatedly! This is the less scary one! It's about Hypnagogia: Boundless Dreams, and some of the cool spooky scenes there in! Check out Soda Raptor's stuff: https://sodaraptor.itch.io/ Sun, 30 Oct 2022 22:01:47 +0000 Errant Signal Exploring Nightmares in Hypnagogia 19:41 false 12 -wZoVyxdFRg https://youtube.com/watch?v=-wZoVyxdFRg Let's talk about the hottest platform people over 35 don't seem to use. Hank Green's video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jAZapFzpP64 Sarah Z's video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EeCi4CSqtzw 00:00 Intro 03:00 What the heckin' heck is TikTok 08:25 Life on the Algorithm 19:04 Content One TikTok At A Time 31:04 Immoderate Moderation 35:59 Monetization 39:42 Warhol's Curse 47:41 Why Should We Care? Sun, 07 Aug 2022 22:33:46 +0000 Errant Signal TikTok: Life on the Algorithm 51:25 false 13 vygxsTNzdos https://youtube.com/watch?v=vygxsTNzdos Cool rendering styles?! Slow burn dramatic horror that eschews jump scares?! That's right! We're looking at another Christoph Frey game! Letters to a Friend: Farewell: https://chrstphfr.itch.io/letters-to-a-friend-farewell Letter to a Friend: https://chrstphfr.itch.io/letter-to-a-friend-asylumjam-2015-entry Wed, 01 Jun 2022 17:28:14 +0000 Errant Signal A Silent Film Horror Game!? 16:12 false 14 UrMrMO2wjZA https://youtube.com/watch?v=UrMrMO2wjZA Hyperbolica: https://codeparade.itch.io/hyperbolica https://store.steampowered.com/app/1256230/Hyperbolica/ I wanted to do an experiment in short form/rapid production video making. Still not sure of the results~~ Tue, 03 May 2022 22:07:56 +0000 Errant Signal Hyperbolica 6:32 false 15