Video Game Logic Podcast

After a very long halftime show, and some real-life issues that got in the way of recording, we're back to finish off our awards show. What is the best and worst of the year? Let's find out!

This week we go into the backlog again. Scheduling difficulties meant we were unable to record part 2 of the VGL Awards this past week. We'll get there! We promise! In other news can you guys believe how much Franken content we have in the can? We talk a lot. A whole lot. Enjoy!

Good day listeners! It may be a little late, and a little short (because we broke it up into two parts), but we are proud to present the VGL Awards for 2023! Next week we'll have part 2 out. As you'll hear in the show, Rage was recovering from illness so he sounds a little less sultry than usual. We hope you enjoy the show, and we look forward to releasing the fun stuff that's at the bottom of the list next week!

Greetings listeners! We intended to record the VGL awards this week, but my power was out for almost 2 days and we were unable to do so. We'll be back next week to do that thing, and more !

Topics list: For Show Date: 01/02/2024  We have a pretty simple one this week! Just a gameclub discussion, some post holiday talk, and a few digressions. We will see you all next week for the VGL Awards for 2023! December Gameclub: Wartales      2. Next Gameclub: Steam World Build

This Week Jared's In-Laws were around, so we were not able to record. We'll be back next week for the Final Gameclub of 2023, and the first episode of the new year! We hope you all have a good one, and hope 2024 is better than 2023. (Jared Wrote this, so he's just slightly more hopeful still)

Rage and I knew around the Holiday's this year we'd be busy and unavailable. So we Pre-Recorded some Franken Content that was story time themed. This week you get to hear about an issue in my weird Commune house, and we dunked on Starfield a little because that was still more fresh in our minds when we prepped this. We hope you enjoy it, and have a lovely Holiday Season!

This week we once again dunk on starfield a bit, talk about some recent games we've played, and talk about a few disasters in the industry. Games We Played Epic Games Defeats Google in Jury Trial Over App Store Monopoly Case Bethesda is an entitled little Brat Community CornerDoom’s 30th Anniversary Pics Collection The Day Before Falls apart only a few Days After Launch   Games We Played   Rage: Headbangers: Rhythm Royale https://store.steampowered.com/app/1761620/Headbangers_Rhythm_Royale/   F-ZERO™ 99 https://www.nintendo.com/us/store/products/f-zero-99-switch/ Jared: Tales of Vesperia https://store.steampowered.com/app/738540/Tales_of_Vesperia_Definitive_Edition/   The Last Remnant https://store.steampowered.com/app/23310/The_Last_Remnant/   News Items and sources: Epic Games Defeats Google in Jury Trial Over App Store Monopoly Case https://techraptor.net/gaming/news/epic-games-defeats-google-in-jury-trial-over-app-store-monopoly-case Bethesda tries its hand at paid mods in Skyrim Special Edition once

This week Jared's kid had a school event so we couldn't record an episode. Enjoy some franken content that's relatively recent rather than from several months ago. We intend to record again next week, with the only upcoming planned week off being the week of Christmas. 

This week Rage and Shrink go Vroom in the latest entry to a series that is nearly as old as they are. Its also nearly as cringy too. We also dunk on Starfield some more, and talk badly about currency exchange.  Do you have feedback for the show, have a response for something we said, or something we should know about? Drop us an e-mail at VGLPodcast@gmail.com stop by our Discord, or tweet us @VGLPodcast. Finally, if you wish to throw us some cash to help improve the show, and for various show related projects, you can do so by supporting our Patreon campaign. Show Highlights and Timestamps: November Gameclub: Need For Speed Unbound 4:01 Next Gameclub: Wartales 30:11 Steam's USD currency change for Argentina and Turkey results in game price hikes.32:50 Bethesda is now tailoring replies to negative Starfield Steam reviews 45:52 Community CornerGamers enraged at Ubisoft for injecting ads into the middle of video games 57:55     News Items and sources:   Steam's USD currency change for Argentina and Turkey resul

We've got a mishmash of several (mostly) shorter Franken Segments in order to clean up some of the old Episodes hanging in the backlog folder. We hope you had a lovely thanksgiving if you celebrate, and a generally positive week either way. We'll be back next week for the November Gameclub Episode, and look forward to seeing you then!

This week I (Jared) had a planned internet service outage on the only night we could record. So you get a mish mash of an older episode's franken content mixed in with the one from last week since it was still sitting in my editing folder. Enjoy!

On today's show we finally get back to it for our October Gameclub. We discuss a couple of news topics and generally had a good time together. We hope you enjoy it too!   Topics list: For Show Date: 11/07/2023    October Gameclub 2:39 Next Gameclub: Need for Speed Unbound 1:05:02 Escapist Mass Resignations 1:08:26 Nintendo Announces Live Action Legend of Zelda Movie 1:19:26 Escapist Mass Resignations https://www.forbes.com/sites/paultassi/2023/11/07/zero-punctuation-ends-as-the-escapist-faces-mass-resignations-after-eic-firing/?sh=23736410a349 https://www.gamesindustry.biz/the-escapist-staff-resign-following-termination-of-editor-in-chief-nick-calandra https://futurism.com/the-byte/gaming-sites-writers-ai-editor Nintendo Announces Live Action Legend of Zelda Movie https://techraptor.net/gaming/news/nintendo-announces-live-action-legend-of-zelda-movie-distributed-and-co-financed-by https://www.gamesindustry.biz/nintendo-announces-live-action-zelda-movie

Good day again internet friends! We truly were set to record this week and I (Jared) was delivered extremely bad news about someone close to me and it just put me out of it. To that end, here we are with another load of franken stuff. We hope you all had a lovely Halloween, and will see you again very soon. Surely lightning can't strike twice right?......

Greetings listeners! We know there have been many franken episodes lately, but we have all this backlogged content for this reason. We still haven't settled on a regular new schedule yet, but are working on it. Next week is the October Gameclub Episode for Starfield, and we have already committed to recording that come hell or high water, and Rage has informed me he is fairly used to his job now. So, fingers crossed we won't be using as many Franken Shows moving forward. Thank you all for sticking with us through the adjustment period, and enjoy some farther backlog!

Greetings folks! We had another week where we needed to run Franken as both our changing schedules and need to rest kept us from recording a fresh episode. So enjoy some content from the franken archives that reaches back to February and March of this year. 

Difficult work schedules and illness left us unable to do a normal recording. So this week we run a Franken from our deep backlog. So much has happened in 2023, and yet we always find a way to complain about twitter. 

On todays episode we approach a general topic. Our Mount Rushmore of important video game characters. We also do a discovery Queue for the first time in ages! We explain why in the episode we did it this way, and that there may be more of these coming in the days ahead.   Topics list: For Show Date: 10/01/2023  Mount Rushmore: Importance 7:09 Discovery Queue 55:45

This week Shrink & Rage hold the monthly game club then talk about some news. Do you have feedback for the show, have a response for something we said, or something we should know about? Drop us an e-mail at VGLPodcast@gmail.com stop by our Discord, or tweet us @VGLPodcast. Finally, if you wish to throw us some cash to help improve the show, and for various show related projects, you can do so by supporting our Patreon campaign. Show Highlights & Timestamps Gameclub: Beat Cop 3:59 Next Gameclub: Starfield 32:55 Fables creator places Wolf Among Us universe in public domain amid clash with DC over Telltale adaptation 35:14 SAG-AFTRA Members Approve Video Game Strike Authorization Vote With 98.32% Yes Vote 43:00 Community Corner Phil Spencer is right: AAA games are in big trouble 50:51 KSP 2 Registry Spam, Promises Fix “Soon” 1:00:15 News Fables Enters the Public Domain Rock Paper Shotgun: Fables creator places Wolf Among Us universe in public domain amid clash with DC over Telltale ad

Jared was very sleepy and out of it this week, so we pulled something from the pages of the Franken Backlog for this week. Hope you all rest too and enjoy yourselves. Remember, Next week is the September Gameclub of "Beat Cop" so if you want to participate you've still got time to send something in.