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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!

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

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/

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For Show Date: 02/06/2025 

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. 

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For Show Date: 12/19/2024 

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/

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