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Ben Lindbergh, Matt James, and Joshua Rivera join forces to share their spoiler-free reviews of three hot new IPs from international game developers: Capcom&#8217;s sci-fi thriller Pragmata and indie debuts Mouse: P.I. for Hire and Replaced. They play Mash or Pass? and provide their ratings for each game on the Mash Meter, while marveling at Capcom&#8217;s comeback, lamenting the decline of single-player first-person shooters, and pondering whether pixel art is a personality.
Host: Ben Lindbergh 
Guests: Matt James and Joshua Rivera 
Senior Producer: Steve Ahlman

Ben is a writer, podcaster, and editor who covers culture and sports. He hosts ‘Effectively Wild’ at FanGraphs and previously wrote for FiveThirtyEight and Grantland, served as editor-in-chief of Baseball Prospectus, and authored ‘The MVP Machine’ and ‘The Only Rule Is It Has to Work.’

Ben Lindbergh

Joshua Rivera is a Philadelphia-based culture writer whose work has appeared in GQ, New York, Vanity Fair, Polygon, and others. You can follow him at @jmrivera02.

Joshua Rivera

Matt has been creating original art for The Ringer since 2017. In addition to his design responsibilities, he is a regular guest on the Button Mash podcast and a writer on the topic of video games.

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