Video Game Logic Podcast

Franken Episode: Corporate Incompetance

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. 

VGL Podcast Ep 318: November Gameclub NFS Unbound

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. 

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Show Highlights and Timestamps:

1. November Gameclub: Need For Speed Unbound 4:01
2. Next Gameclub: Wartales 30:11
3. Steam's USD currency change for Argentina and Turkey results in game price hikes.32:50
4. Bethesda is now tailoring replies to negative Starfield Steam reviews 45:52
5. Community Corner
   1. Gamers 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 results in game price hikes

https://www.gamesindustry.biz/steams-usd-currency-change-for-argentina-and-turkey-results-in-game-price-hikes

https://www.pcgamer.com/today-is-the-end-of-steam-argentina-and-turkey-floored-by-new-steam-price-hikes-as-high-as-2900/

 

Bethesda is now tailoring replies to negative Starfield Steam reviews

https://www.pcgamesn.com/starfield/replies-negative-steam-reviews

 

Gamers enraged at Ubisoft for injecting ads into the middle of video games

https://www.techspot.com/news/100953-gamers-enraged-ubisoft-injecting-ads-middle-video-games.html

 

https://www.tweaktown.com/news/94587/ubisoft-calls-full-screen-pop-up-ads-while-playing-assassins-creed-technical-error/index.html

Franken Episode: Turkey Week Tangent

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!

Franken Episode: Add it in, Take it Out

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!

VGL Podcast Ep 317: Starfield (October Gameclub)

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 

 

1. October Gameclub 2:39
2. Next Gameclub: Need for Speed Unbound 1:05:02
3. Escapist Mass Resignations 1:08:26
4. 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

Franken Episode: Jesus Isn’t OK With That

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?......

Franken Episode: We Passed It Around

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!

Franken Episode: What if you win the lottery?

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. 

It Used to Be Twitter...

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. 

VGL Podcast Ep 316: Mount Rushmore!

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 

1. Mount Rushmore: Importance 7:09
2. Discovery Queue 55:45