Game Scoop!

OMG SAM LET DAEMON TELL HIS 20-YEAR STORY AND STOP INTERRUPTING YOU ARE DRIVING ME INSANE! TELL YOUR STORY WHEN ***YOU*** MAKE IT TO 20 YEARS!

Gaming podcasts can tend to be really cringey at times or just bad. Game Scoop! has been a consistently informative and fun podcast for YEARS. The host is a pro, and the panel is always so well informed and passionate about games. Damian and crew, thank you for the years of entertainment, and for the years ahead. Scoop!

I literally can’t stop cringing at Mark

The show is great, but the amount of ads, their length and frequency are really becoming too much to where I’m skipping large chunks or episodes all together. Too jarring for when they are cut in.

I'm a 15-year strong listener and have loved the show throughout that time. Unfortunately, the last few episodes have compelled me to submit this negative review. Specifically, I am writing to criticize the show's current ad frequency. I'm not sure if this is the result of poor quality control on IGN's end or simply the harsh realities of podcasting in 2026, but it cannot have gone unnoticed that ads are now an outsized portion of each episode's total runtime. Despite their best efforts, though, Scoop is still technically more show than ad. To be sure, the powers that be have made laudable gains in recent months, creeping advertisements' share of the pie graph closer and closer to the halfway mark. Why they have yet to surpass it baffles me. I won't pretend to be some kind of media expert, but what if -- just off the top of my head -- you went from merely slapping 2 to 3 ads in between every other conversation on the show to just interrupting the convos midstream? That's potentially double the already huge advertisement space! And just imagine the episode listening retention! As a longtime fan, I can tell you, I would be on the edge of my seat wondering about Daemon's response to Sam's latest terrible film take if I had to first sit through a solid ten minutes of sports betting, Mint Mobile, and yet another reminder of how Daemon brushed up on his Spanish before his allegedly recent trip to Mexico. You're really leaving money on the table, when you think about it.