Video Game Logic Podcast

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/

VGL Podcast Ep 345: Terra Invicta (December Gameclub)

Topics list:

For Show Date: 02/06/2025 

 

1. VGL Gameclub: Terra Invicta 
2. Next Gameclub: Tesla Effect, a Tex Murphy Adventure
3. Sim’s Legacy Edition Releases, and we have a few thoughts.
4. 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

VGL Franken Episode: The Covid Impossible Nugget

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!

VGL Podcast Ep 344: Despair Cast

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!

VGL Franken Episode: Tech Moans

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!

VGL Franken: Archives of Craig

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! 

VGL Franken Episode: Old Broken Technology

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. 

VGL Franken Episode: Christmas and Car Trouble

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. 

VGL Podcast Ep 343: The Game Mehwards

Topics list:

For Show Date: 12/19/2024 

 

1. Games We Played
2. The Game Awards Winners
3. Balatro Dev Deals Out Thoughts over 18+ Rating

Games We Played

Rage:

Pokémon TCG Pocket

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=jp.pokemon.pokemontcgp

 

Jared:

Warcraft Rumble

https://warcraftrumble.blizzard.com/en-us/

 

Colony Ship: A Post Earth RPG

https://store.steampowered.com/app/648410/Colony_Ship_A_PostEarth_Role_Playing_Game/

 

The Game Awards Winners

https://www.thegameawards.com/brackets/players-voice

 

Balatro Dev Deals Out Thoughts over 18+ Rating

https://www.pcgamer.com/games/roguelike/balatro-dev-swings-at-pegi-for-rating-it-18-because-of-its-evil-playing-cards-jokes-that-he-should-add-microtransactions-like-ea-sports-fc-25-to-lower-that-rating-to-a-3/

VGL Podcast Ep 342: Satisfactory (November Gameclub)

This week we have a Satisfactory discussion, followed by a long runthrough of games that NPR likes. Pretty straightforward. We hope you enjoy it!

For Show Date: 12/12/2024 

 

1. November Gameclub: Satisfactory
2. Next Gameclub: Terra Invicta
3. The best games of 2024, picked by NPR's staff