Video Game Logic Podcast

This week we needed to run a franken due to work and other scheduling conflicts being unresolvable again. We'll be back soon!

Topics list: For Show Date: 04/29/2025    Gameclub: Balatro Next Gameclub: Juno New Origins Electronic Arts Lays Off Hundreds, Cancels ‘Titanfall’ Game News Items and sources:   Electronic Arts Lays Off Hundreds, Cancels ‘Titanfall’ Game https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-04-29/electronic-arts-lays-off-hundreds-cancels-titanfall-game?accessToken=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJzb3VyY2UiOiJTdWJzY3JpYmVyR2lmdGVkQXJ0aWNsZSIsImlhdCI6MTc0NTk1MzQ2OCwiZXhwIjoxNzQ2NTU4MjY4LCJhcnRpY2xlSWQiOiJTVkhVQjFUMEcxS1cwMCIsImJjb25uZWN0SWQiOiJCMUVBQkI5NjQ2QUM0REZFQTJBRkI4MjI1MzgyQTJFQSJ9.Ok9U1G-8KnrQWSRme5JF1VqfCPIxgENs3iq9d32PeRc&leadSource=uverify%20wall

This week a member of Jared's family had a medical emergency, and so he had to go help deal with that. So, we bring you Franken content from the most recent recording. We will see you for Belatro next week!

This week detectives Shrink and Rage are on the case with Tex Murphy for a late, but present, gameclub episode. Enjoy! Topics list: For Show Date: 04/15/2025    Gameclub: Tesla Effect Next Gameclub: Balatro 58% Of PC Gaming Revenue In 2024 Came From Microtransactions Switch 2?   News Items and sources: 58% Of PC Gaming Revenue In 2024 Came From Microtransactions https://tech4gamers.com/microtransactions-half-pc-gaming-revenue/   Switch 2? https://www.nintendo.com/us/gaming-systems/switch-2/features/ https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2025/04/14/nintendo-switch-2-delay-due-to-trump-tariffs-see-release-day-in-nj/83083565007/

There once was a time when we questioned podcasts taking long hiatus periods or doing old re-releases on this show. How nieve we were! Life once again stands in the way. Rage's new job and work schedule combined with my own major career changes again makes it hard to record. We believe next week's schedule hold solid promise for recording, and we can finally get past Tex Murphy onto the next gameclub and some regular shenanigans. We love and appreciate you so much. 

This week, Rage is busy with work, and Jared is busy at a marriage and family therapy conference getting to learn and talk all about sex! Due to those pesky adult scheduling conflicts, we were not able to get together again. A few weeks ago a re-release and old episode where the RSS feed from how we used to upload the show has broken. So we have another blast from the past. We have put together our gameclub list, and we will be updating you soon on what games we've put up so you can start playing as well if you'd like.   

Greetings all! We have a short little franken episode this week, as continued work and personal issues prevented us from recording. We have talked shop and adjusted/updated the gameclub list and have made plans for late but truncated VGL awards to discuss some gameclub games. We hope you all are having a good week, and hope to be back soon. 

This week, continued work tumolt for Rage ensured no recording was possible. So, we bring you a story about fixing houses, and some other stuff. We wish you all well this week, and hope to see you again very soon!

Topics list: For Show Date: 03/13/2025    Games We Played Monster Hunter Wilds locks character editing behind microtransactions. The Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion remake reportedly set for imminent reveal Disco Elysium is being "reimagined" for mobile devices to "captivate the TikTok user" Discord Enshitification Time Stamps will be in the show notes following their respective topics when remembered   Games We Played   Rage: Jared: Halo Infinite https://store.steampowered.com/app/1240440/Halo_Infinite/ News Items and sources: Monster Hunter Wilds locks character editing behind microtransactions https://www.videogameschronicle.com/news/monster-hunter-wilds-locks-character-editing-behind-microtransactions/   The Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion remake reportedly set for imminent reveal https://www.eurogamer.net/the-elder-scrolls-4-oblivion-remake-reportedly-set-for-imminent-reveal   Disco Elysium is being "reimagined" for mobile devices to "captivate the TikTok user" https://www.eurogamer.net/disco-elys

This week, Rage is busy with work, and Jared is busy repairing his roof after a massive storm blew part of it off. Looking at old Archives, there are a lot of old episodes that have never been viewed, as PodBean seems to have broken their RSS import Support. So an episode appears with no Audio. I've taken the time to find as many of these as I can, and will re-release them on weeks where we don't have Franken Content Prepared. So, enjoy a blast from the past of 2016.....or maybe 2017. We were so young.      Finally, if you wish to throw us some cash to help improve the show you can do so by supporting our Patreon campaign. Show Highlights and Timestampes Games We Played (11:15) VGL Game Club: Path of Exile (53:28) The Votening (1:13:30) Fallout 4 and Skyrim Enhanced Edition Gets Mods Afterall on PS4 (1:24:35) No Man’s Sky Subreddit Purged and Locked, Restored by Admin (1:31:55) Titanfall 2 News (1:40:35) Amy Benning Denounces AAA Gaming Industry (1:53:05) Oculus Touch Price and Release Date & VR Talk (2:

Jared is very sick this week, a lot of people in his orbit have had both the Flu and Covid. Hopefully it isn't that, but we aren't sure yet. Enjoy! We hope to see you next week. 

This week responsibility got in the way again, but we have new Franken Content since we were able to record a few weeks in a row. Enjoy the show, and we should be back next wee to talk Tex Murphy!

Topics list: For Show Date: 02/13/2025  This week we talk a lot about The Sims, partly because Jared played it a good deal, and partly because its in the news again! We talk about some other stuff too. Enjoy! Games We Played Valve Seemingly Bans All Steam Games That Require Watching Advertisements To Play Baldur's Gate 3 Karlach actor hits out at RPG devs trying to recruit them for their Disco Elysium successors: "Miss me with that casting call" The Sims re-release shows what’s wrong with big publishers and single-player games   Games We Played   Rage: Jared:   The Sims 3-4 https://store.steampowered.com/app/47890/The_Sims_3/ https://store.steampowered.com/app/1222670/The_Sims_4/   Halo Wars 2 https://www.xbox.com/en-us/games/store/Halo-Wars-2/C21TDXKRNMHZ News Items and sources:   Valve Seemingly Bans All Steam Games That Require Watching Advertisements To Play https://www.gamespot.com/articles/valve-seemingly-bans-all-steam-games-that-require-watching-advertisements-to-play/1100-6529356/   https:

Topics list: For Show Date: 02/06/2025    VGL Gameclub: Terra Invicta  Next Gameclub: Tesla Effect, a Tex Murphy Adventure Sim’s Legacy Edition Releases, and we have a few thoughts. Steam Now Warns You If an Early Access Game Hasn't Been Updated In a While   News Items and sources: Steam Now Warns You If an Early Access Game Hasn't Been Updated In a While https://techraptor.net/gaming/news/steam-early-access-update-warning-feature

Greetings friend. Jared had a fight with his two greatest Nemeses at the same time: His ISP and his dishwasher. Service outages and FTD errors prevented him from being able to record this week. So we've gone back into the archives, and pulled out another old Franken Episode. Hope you all have a lovely week!

On this episode of the VGL Podcast, we discuss why we've been gone so long, the state of the US in this moment, and some random video game things. There wasn't a format this time, but the goal as stated in the episode, is to do December/January Gameclub in our next recording, and the VGL Awards the one after that. We hope you enjoy!

Greetings friends! We needed to do so business to sort out the schedule for VGL Awards and making adjustments to the Gameclub Schedule. We hope you all have had a lovely day, and will be seeing you soon!

Good day to you my friends! Hopefully if you're in the path of this Winter Storm you've taken appropriate steps. Rage and I were unable to connect this week to record. I got back from Colorado too late Tuesday, and Rage has had his own work developments that meant he didn't have a night off. We hope to see you soon, and hope you enjoy this Episode from the Archive! 

Happy New Year to our listeners this week! I went back into the archives to grab and older Franken Episode that I can't find a correlating file too on Podbean. Jared is in Colorado this week with his in-laws, so we didn't record anything. Next week should be a return to form, with either a normal episode or the Gameclub episode for December. After that the VGL Awards! We hope you all have a lovely day. 

Merry Christmas everyone! We did not record this week due to the Holiday falling on a Wednesday and it making our other schedules really weird. We hope you had a lovely Christmas. Next week will be Franken Episode as well, as I (Jared) will be in Colorado Visiting my in laws the whole week.