Video Game Logic Podcast

VGL Podcast Ep 348: Tesla Effect, A Tex Murphy Gameclub

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 

 

1. Gameclub: Tesla Effect
2. Next Gameclub: Balatro
3. 58% Of PC Gaming Revenue In 2024 Came From Microtransactions
4. 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/

Video Game Logic Episode 65: VGL Game Club: Life is Strange (Update)

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. 

Video Game Logic Episode 61: VGL Game Club: Valkyria Chronicles (update)

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. 

 

VGL Franken Episode: Conspiricy Theory

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. 

VGL Franken Episode: Up on the Rooftops

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!

VGL Podcast Ep 347: Infinite Garbage

Topics list:

For Show Date: 03/13/2025 

 

1. Games We Played
2. Monster Hunter Wilds locks character editing behind microtransactions.
3. The Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion remake reportedly set for imminent reveal
4. Disco Elysium is being "reimagined" for mobile devices to "captivate the TikTok user"
5. 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-elysium-is-being-reimagined-for-mobile-devices-to-captivate-the-tiktok-user

https://techraptor.net/gaming/news/disco-elysium-mobile-version-tiktok-user

 

Discord Enshitification

https://kotaku.com/discord-reddit-ipo-gaming-server-gta-6-enshitification-1851768033

Video Game Logic Episode 38: VGL Game Club 5 Path of Exile (Update)

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. 

 

 

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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 (2:04:15)
• Community Corner (2:18:40)
• Steam Weekly Deals (2:27:20)

 
Games We Played
Rage:
Shu
The Crew
The Vanishing of Ethan Carter
Wildstar

Shrink:
Spintires
Galactic Civilizations 3
Pocket Planes

VGL Game Club Poll!
Vote!

News

• PS4 Gives Mod Support to Skyrim EE and Fallout 4

Gamnesia Article

• No Man’s Sky Subreddit Drama

Archived Reddit Thread

• Titanfall 2 News

PC Gamer Article
Extreme Tech Article

• Amy Benning Denounces AAA Gaming Industry

Keen Gamer Article 
Tech Raptor Article 

• Oculus Touch Price and Release Date Announced

Lets Play Video Games Article

Weekly Steam Deals
Rage:
Zeno Clash 
Company of Heroes Humble Bundle

Shrink:
Sanctum 2 
Bridge Constructor Stunts 

VGL Franken Episode: New Office, New Illness

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. 

VGL Franken Episode: The Weather Was Bad

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!

VGL Podcast Ep 346: The Sims Repeat Review

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!

1. Games We Played

2. Valve Seemingly Bans All Steam Games That Require Watching Advertisements To Play

3. 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"
4. 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://partner.steamgames.com/doc/marketing/advertising

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"

https://www.gamesradar.com/games/rpg/baldurs-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

https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2025/02/the-sims-re-release-shows-whats-wrong-with-big-publishers-and-single-player-games/