The Great Game: The Making of Spycraft 2024
In 1995, former KGB Major General Oleg Kalugin and ex-CIA Director William Colby collaborated in an unexpected way. They made a video game. The Great Game traces how both men rose to the tops of their fields following World War II, before falling out of favor with their respectives agencies — on opposite sides of the Iron Curtain. For Kalugin, a growing discontent with the KGB’s treatment of Russians radicalized him against the institution. Meanwhile William Colby, an OSS operative and the CIA’s man on the ground in Vietnam, was fired by President Ford after testifying before Congress about controversial CIA programs like MKULTRA and CoIntelPro. After the fall of the Berlin Wall, both living on American soil, Colby and Kalugin played themselves in Spycraft, a multi-million dollar game that was among the most advanced of its time — and is now almost entirely forgotten.

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Unraveled 2018
Brian David Gilbert tries to unravel game lore without losing his grip on reality.

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Car Boys 2016
Nick Robinson and Griffin McElroy play BeamNG.drive - to harrowing results.

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Griffin's amiibo Corner 2016
Griffin's amiibo Corner is a amiibo review show hosted by Griffin McElroy of My Brother, My Brother and Me.

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Monster Factory 2015    star_border 10
Monster Factory is a web series available in Polygon.com's official YouTube channel. The show is hosted by Griffin McElroy and his older brother Justin McElroy, Polygon's senior video producer and editor-at-large, respectively. The show's premise consists of both brothers opening character creation tools from several video and computer games and use their creations in-game as they cause all sorts of havoc.

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