Do you have a podcast backlog? We have the game for you!

This month, one of my favorite video game podcasts posted a trio of mega-episodes that spanned a total of 24 hours. (The entire 6.5 hours focus entirely on an exhaustive conversation about the Nintendo GameCube library.) I had accepted that I, a grown man burdened by the incessant obligations of adulthood, would never reach the finish line of this audio marathon.

But then an angel descended from heaven. And by heaven, I mean "the farthest reaches of outer space." And by angel, I mean "giant cyborg frog carrying a laser cannon."

Earth Defense Force 6 (EDF6 for the sick) is the latest entry in the iconic mid-budget series where you defend the Earth from giant insects, robots, UFOs the size of skyscrapers and yes, giant cyborg frogs. You start out as a soldier with a paltry array of machine guns and slow-loading rocket launchers, but within hours you'll unlock the tools to fly atop a factory, drop half a dozen drones, unload a heat-seeking nuke, and deploy a mech suit to drift deeper into chaos.