In this special episode, James invites a number of folks from across the land of video games to chat about the charming and colourful world of Animal Crossing.

Hope scored a Lizzie nomination so while she's out sick (or celebrating) James and Patrick steer the good ship VGST into March with a smattering of videogames and news. Patrick kicks butt in the Yakuza 3 remaster along with farming his woes away with Rune Factory 4, while James goes off-roading in Overpass. There's also more PlatinumGames news, we talk about Game Developers Conference being postponed in the wake of Coronavirus, Granblue Versus distribution woes, and Xbox Series X buzzwords.

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It's been raining in VGST land, which means it's been the perfect time for video games! James pops the heads of nazi zombies in Zombie Wars 4: Dead Army, Hope gives us the low down on the Bleeding Edge closed beta and shares some more tales of booty from Sea of Thieves, and Patrick cooks up a feast with Cook Serve Delicious 3 while also aquainting himself with the incredible Titanfall 2.

Then there's Sony's PS5 pricing woes, Switch shortages, new Switch ports outed by yet another ratings board leak, and a story of an obsessive fan who took their love of AI : Ths Somnium Files to a weird place. All that and more on another new episode of VGST!

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It's still been a relatively quiet summer for video games, but that doesn't we ain't been playin'em!

Hope tells us about her time in Journey to a Savage Planet and The Pedestrian while James has been sailing the high seas in Sea of Thieves, and Patrick immerses us in the JPOP fantasy of Tokyo Mirage Sessions #FE. We also take a good dive into PlatinumGames new Kickstarter for The Wonderful 101, Nintendo's latest sales numbers and more.

Off Map Kickstarter - https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/offmapmagazine/off-map-issue-zero/description

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Happy New Year! It's our first show back for 2020 and thankfully video games have been taking a break, so we've been catching up on a few of the games we didn't get to from last year. Patrick takes us through AI: The Somnium Files and They Are Billions, James looks at The Division 2 and Judgment and Hope rekindled her love of trashing polygons in Geometry Wars 2 as well as tells us about her final thoughts on Gears 5. Plus news and other things. It's Video Game Small Talk!

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In their final show for 2019, Team VGST runs down their favourite games of the year, including: Metro Exodus, Apex Legends, Baba Is You, Outer Wilds, Luigi's Mansion 3, Death Stranding, Untitled Goose Game, Borderlands 3, Disco Elysium, Fire Emblem: Three Houses, Control, Pokemon Sword and Shield, Gris, Manifold Garden and much more!

Have a safe and happy holiday/christmas and we'll see you in 2020 for more Video Game Small Talk

If you've ever wanted to know how to get into the PR side of things in games, join Hope as she chats with Ame Searle from Double Jump PR to answer some of those questions. It also diverts into the Overwatch League and what we love about it as well as Ame's thoughts on Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order. Recorded Live @ Bar SK in Melbourne.

It's December! Summer! Christmas! Ahhh! We're polishing off the last of the games on our list before we think about Game of the Year stuff. James tells us about his trip to a spooky hotel in Luigi's Mansion 3, Patrick finally played Outer Wilds so we catch his thoughts on that, and both Hope and Patrick have been embedded deep in both Pokemon Sword and Pokemon Shield and discuss their time in it while James naps. Also, Valve announced a video game!? And more.

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Since James's PC died a few weeks ago, the team have been hunkering down and playing all the games they can until the day of their prophesized return - today!

James, Patrick & Hope tell us about their time with The Outer Worlds before Hope shares her time with Pokemon Sword (& Shield), James does his best to connect the dots in Death Stranding and Patrick builds new everything in Minecraft: Earth. We also talk about Castlevania: Symphony of the Night, Gears 5, Planet Zoo and more of Patrick game dev adventures in Game Maker 2. We also touch on some of X019 announcements and more!

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Join Hope as she takes Simon Boxer, Belinda Coomes, and Jess McNally from studio Twice Different down to Bar SK in Melbourne for a chat on the couch about developing their upcoming card-based dungeon crawler, Ring of Pain.