Hot Pepper Gaming

New year, new year, new Hot Pepper Gaming! Here's DaveControl's review of Mario Maker, directly after eating a Caribbean Red!

For some reason, Dexter Manning from the Creatures REALLY wanted to review Monopoly, the board game from a couple decades ago that's also a videogame now. Anyway, here's his review of that game, directly after eating a bunch of Szechuan (also spelled Sichuan) peppers!

Alex Faciane is back, yet again, to eat spicy things and review games for us! The guy from the Dex, Big Bad Bosses, Super Beard Bros, and hella other things gives us his review of Destiny: The Taken King, directly after eating a Scotch Bonnet.

Melonie Mac came on the show to review Rise of the Tomb Raider, directly after eating a hot pepper dipped in sauce. And hey special thanks to the Pepper of Modesty for holding stuff down for us today.

Our buddy Josh Olin from 3D Realms tries to convince you to buy his new game, Bombshell! But first (of course) he has to eat a Bahamian goat pepper.

Another Disney Infinity, another Jared Rosen review. Here's his take on Disney Infinity 3.0, directly after eating a dried ghost pepper valued at approximately 1,000,000 Scoville units.

Andrew "Drewcifer" Sipotz from Trove gets the extraordinary chance to tell you all about his game, Devilian, directly after eating a hot pepper! Then he eats another one which, honestly, is probably a bad idea.

We got to film something in London! Gav Murphy all the way across the pond was kind enough to give us a review of The Witness, Jonathan Blow's new game, directly after eating a Scotch Bonnet because that's the kind of people we are here.

Well, now we can say that Hot Pepper Gaming got to serve a Playboy Playmate a hot pepper. Pamela Horton AKA Miss October 2012 AKA our good friend from Gamers Next Door gives us her review of Chrono Trigger, directly after eating a habanero pepper.

Host of Up Up Down Down and WWE Superstar Tag Team Champion Xavier Woods AKA Austin Creed takes on his biggest challenge yet: eating a hot pepper and reviewing Street Fighter V.

Keith Apicary, our favorite videogame tough guy and easily one of the best dancers on YouTube, comes onto our show to review Just Cause 3 directly after eating a habanero pepper. We are bad people.

Lisa Foiles, the redhead from seasons 7-10 of All That and also a writer, host, and content creator for the internet reviews Firewatch, directly after eating a habanero pepper and cursing Vernon and Jared's names.

The Champ is back! We hope you missed her! Erin Schmalfeld reviews Neko Atsume, directly after eating a habanero pepper!

Mark Carr from Indie Games Searchlight (he also edits the Completionist!) gives us a review of SteamWorld Heist. But he also has to eat a hot pepper. You've seen this channel before, right? This is literally what we do.

Lovely Lor is a sweet lolita that we forced to eat a spicy pepper, which is a little bit ironic, isn't it? Here's her crying glitter during a review of Animal Crossing: Happy Home Designer!

Of course DaveControl has to eat a ghost pepper before he reviews Dark Souls 3. YOU THINK THIS IS A GAME?

Our dear friend with the coolest Pikachu tattoo we've ever seen came onto the show to review Pocket Mortys, directly after eating a habanero pepper, obviously.

The fans wanted it, so we delivered. Here's Pamela Horton (Playboy Playmate, Gamer Next Door, and also a person who looks A LOT like Bayonetta) reviewing Bayonetta 2, directly after eating a hot pepper.

First of all, Reina Scully is a gift to this earth. Second of all, remember when she reviewed HuniePop for us? Third of all, here's her review of HunieCam Studio directly after eating a szechuan pepper.

AHHHH Steven Suptic is back and he's as hilarious as ever! Here's his review of Netflix and Chill Simulator, directly after eating sever Szechuan Peppers!

Our very close friend (and someone we're not afraid to withhold milk from) Sam Leichtamer gives us a retro review of Mario Paint, directly after eating a bahamian goat pepper. Sorry Sam!

Ryan Magee from SuperMega and Kids with Problems gives us a tear-jerking review of Uncharted 4: A Thief's End, directly after eating a habanero pepper. Sorry, Ryan.

Now you finally know what our editor looks like! Adam Perez of Hot Pepper Gaming reviews Overwatch by Blizzard, directly after eating a habanero pepper, obviously. Note: this review is based off of Adam's ridiculously long experience with the Beta. Any glaring differences will be addressed later, if needed.

Matt Watson from Super Mega (And Kids with Problems!) gives us his honest review of Papers Please, directly after eating a hot pepper. If you want to watch a young, attractive man cry, this video is for you.

I think it's a special sort of man who's willing to eat multiple peppers to try and fix a problem in a game. Here's Aaron Webber, the man behind the infamous @Sonic_Hedgehog twitter account, eating three hot peppers and review Archeage by Trion Worlds.

This poor girl holy crap I feel so bad but also this is hilarious. Here's Erika Ishii review The Lab by Valve for the HTC Vive, directly after eating a hot pepper. Also HEY this is our first ever VR review wooh!

Okay everyone's only playing Overwatch right now so here's a review of something near and dear to our hearts. We got Kim Horcher of the Young Turks and Nerd Alert reviewing Mass Effect, after eating a habanero pepper!

Nate Wants to Battle is back! This time he's reviewing Ni No Kuni: Wrath of the White Witch, directly after eating a ghost pepper. This review is fire.

What better way to celebrate the 4th of July than by feeding a Mica Burton a spicy pepper and having her review Asagao Academy? That's as American as a bald eagle soaring over Mt. Rushmore. Happy spicy 4th, y'all!

The news of Disney Infinity's cancellation hit us all pretty hard, so we had John Vignocchi, the President of Disney Infinity, on to help give one of our favorite series a proper sendoff. Hope you all enjoy this special episode!

Our favorite 80s inspired Synth Rock/Electro funk band came into the office to review Space Team, directly after eating habanero peppers. Sorry for your pain, Doctor Sung, Havve Hogan and Commander Meouch. You're next, Lord Phobos.

The Pokemon obsession that's sweeping the nation finally gets the pepper treatment thanks to our good friend Tim Gettys from Kinda Funny! Please enjoy this sprawling epic of an episode, which might be our longest one?

Oh noooooo we brought Suzy back to review Monster Hunter Generations. At least this time we gave her Szechuan peppers, which don't *actually* hurt, but activate the touch receptors on your tongue for some awful bad times. Enjoy!

We got the extreme pleasure of having one of our favorite Weird Twitter authors (and TV writer) Albro Lundy IV in to give us a strangely in depth review of The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker, despite having eaten a habanero pepper.

Anthony Carboni comes back for round three to review No Man's Sky, a vast, procedurally generated universe-scape that to my knowledge does not have any spicy food in it. Carboni did, however, eat a habanero pepper.

Our dear friend Ashley Esqueda comes back, eats a habanero pepper, and then reviews Headlander, Double Fine's new Metroidvania shooter for PS4 and PC. This one's for you, Tim Schafer.

Erica Lindbeck, the voice of Barbie as well as all those cool things that you like (she's Taliyah in League of Legends!) comes onto the show to review basically all versions of Sid Meier's Pirates! directly after eating a hot pepper. Wooh!

Our editor is back! He's reviewing World of Warcraft: Legion, but this time around he's eating a dried ghost pepper. Which is awful. Why, Adam?

Well, they finally made an anime about making a videogame, so we thought it was appropriate to team up with our friends at Crunchyroll to do another Hot Pepper Anime Review! Here's Sailor Bee and Reina Scully torturing themselves for your amusement!

Our buddy Nicki Taylor, known for singing some cool League of Legends tunes, comes onto the show to give us an earnest and heartfelt review of Banjo Kazooie! Directly after eating a habanero pepper!

Our good buddy Mark came back to give his review of RWBY: Grimm Eclipse from our friends over at Rooster Teeth, directly after eating a hot pepper. Enjoy!

One of our long time friends, Chef Lu Bu, has been working on a Fantasy RPG webseries called Dice Lords! It's about a group of tabletop gamers who are mistaken for the brave warriors they play, and are granted powers in order to save the Earth. Here's him trying to convince you to watch it, directly after eating a habanero pepper.

We wanted to try something different today, so we brough our buddy Ivan Van Norman from Geek and Sundry onto the show to review Seafall, a board game by Plaid Hat Games. Are we gonna do more board game reviews? Who knows. Let us know what you think of this one.

Hey! Vernon (me, the guy typing this) is back again to review ABZÛ, by Giant Squid Games, directly after eating a 1.5 million scoville hot sauce. Good to be back! Also woops I called Adam the editor of game grumps and not Hot Pepper Gaming lol sry.

Our good friend DookieShed visited Hot Pepper Gaming to give us his review of Mighty No. 9, by Comcept, directly after eating a hot pepper. Hiccups, guys.

BrettUltimus comes on our show to give us a review of FNAF: Sister Location. But first he has to eat a hot pepper. I say this as if it's a new thing but that has been the comedic conceit of our channel for the past three years. Enjoy!

Our dear friend Erika Ishii comes back to the show to review Batman: the Telltale series! Poor girl has to eat a hot pepper, though. Heads up that this is a review for the first two episodes that are out now!

Our good buddy MandoPony joined us in the studio to give us his thoughts on the new Attack on Titan by Feng, directly after eating a hot pepper. Which I hope doesn't surprise you by this point.

After like two years of trying, we finally got Ryon Day on the show! Here he is practically dying after trying to review Deus Ex, directly after eating a hot pepper!

Living human meme and vaporwave icon FrankJavCee comes on the show to review literally every Dance Dance Revolution game, directly after eating a hot pepper. We hope this makes as much sense to us as it does to you!

Nate for some reason keeps wanting to come back and we promise that we're not forcing him to or threatening his loved ones. Hears him reviewing Pokemon Sun and Moon, directly after eating a hot pepper and some really hot sauce!

Emma Fyffe, known for her work on Afterbuzz TV as well as being the internet's authority on everything Sailor Moon, comes onto Hot Pepper Gaming to review Sailor Moon Drops. Directly after eating a habanero pepper. Enjoy!

Our buddy Alyssa Onofreo aka omgchomp reviews Hatoful Boyfriend, everybody's favorite Pigeon dating simulator, directly after eating a hot pepper. Pretty cool that the idea of pigeon dating simulators make about as much sense as eating hot peppers.

Nati Casanova AKA TheZombiUnicorn comes back to the show to review Maize by Finish Line Games, directly after eating a hot pepper. I'm sure there's a joke somewhere in there about corn being so hot that it turns into popcorn. I dunno. Feel free to pitch a couple in the comments.