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Welcome back to the club, for the first time in 2025! That’s right, we’re back after taking January off. Well, that’s not quite true, because that entire time we’ve been recording these Game of The Year deliberations! This is part three, where Graydon, Al, Josh, and Emmett discuss the following categories: Best Character Most Fun Best Debut Most Wholesome Better Together Timestamps Start: 00:00 Be...

Welcome back to the club, for the first time in 2025! That’s right, we’re back after taking January off. Well, that’s not quite true, because that entire time we’ve been recording these Game of The Year deliberations! This is part two, where Graydon, Al, Josh, and Emmett discuss the following categories: Best DLC/Expansion (new content for old/current game) Best Re-Release (Remakes, Remasters, or...

Welcome back to the club, for the first time in 2025! That’s right, we’re back after taking January off. Well, that’s not quite true, because that entire time we’ve been recording these Game of The Year deliberations! This is part one, where Graydon, Al, Josh, and Emmett discuss the following categories: What Took So Long? (Older games we played in 2024) Biggest Gaming News Seitguest of the Year (...

You ready for this, Playa? Welcome back to the club! This week, ⁠⁠Al ⁠⁠ , ⁠⁠Emmett , ⁠ ⁠Graydon⁠ and Josh converge to celebrate the great Episode 150! Not only are we together for this joyous occasion, but we're about to draft our teams for the Fantasy Critic showdown of 2025! Join us as we dive into the world of sports betting and plan our epic battle for the year to come! Timestamps Start 0:00 T...

The following is a special presentation courtesy of VGU Gaiden: A Retrospective Podcast. You can find their podcast feed here: https://tinyurl.com/ycynku3x Welcome to VGU Gaiden! Hosted by Graydon Webb and DJ Risio, this retrospective film podcast follows two best friends as they share their favorite films with each other and revisit what makes them special (or in some cases, really weird). As alw...

You ready for this, Playa? Welcome back to the club! This week, Al and Emmett are Joined by Graydon to predict the winners for (most of) the categories for The Game Awards! Will Nintendo finally lose the Best Family Game Award? Why didn’t Dragon Age get nominated for best RPG? Which one of the hosts would now like to be referred to as The Big Sexy? We discuss all of these questions and more in thi...

Note: Emmett’s audio this episode is a bit rough, though still audible. We’ll tweak settings for next time but bear with us for this episode! You ready for this, playa? Welcome back to the club! In this episode, Allan Muir returns to join Emmett Watkins Jr. in discussing the games that will get us through the current political moment. Look, Trump won, and we have a lot of work to do to survive and...

Welcome back to the Club! This week, it’s a solo, fireside chat with no one else but Emmett Watkins Jr. Enjoy his dulcet tones as he goes on about the death of Firewalk studios in the main topic of the show. He’ll definitely take that opportunity to be upset about capitalism. Also, in a heafty Whatcha Playin segment, Emmett talks at length about his time with the multiplayer and campaign of Call o...

You ready for this, playa? Welcome back the the Player’s Club! We find our selves once again in the midsts of a Steam Next fest, so Graydon and Emmett reunite to talk about a few of our favorate demos we’ve tried so far. Every wanted to play Portal as an arena shooter? Ever wanted a detextive games with moments of Outlast-style terror? Wanna know how the follow up to Dead Cells is? Tune in and we’...

You ready for this playa? Welcome back to the show! Graydon, Emmett, and Al all return to ask, what the hell is going on at Ubisoft? Their latest, Star Wars: Outlaws reviewed softly, and their upcoming Assasins Creed Shadows has been delayed until 2025. These and other recent events from the company have folks wondering if the company is in trouble, and that and more get’s hashed out in our Topic...

You Ready for this, Playa? This episode brings back Graydon Webb, twice in a row, to join Al and Emmett in discussing the wild week PlayStation had recently. Seems for them, two wrongs DO make a right, and they're here to talk about all of them. Why did Concord die so quickly? Who the hell can afford that PS5 Pro? Is Astro Bot already the game of the year? We ponder all these questions and mor...

You redy for this, playa? Welcome back to the show! This time, Al and Emmett are joined by Graydon to strictly talk about a bunch of games we’ve been playing lately. Al talks about their time with South Park: The Stick of Truth and Fallout London. Graydon talks about his time with Banishers: Ghosts of New Eden, Flock, & Bully: Scholarship Edition. And Emmett talks about his time with Penny’s B...

Greetings! This tiny little solo podcast was recorded a few weeks ago after seeing Wolverine & Deadpool. Unfortunately, an extended bout of COVID delayed my editing process, but I'm happy to finally upload what I hope will be the Part 1 of a larger MCU discussion! Beware of spoilers ahead, and please subscribe for more content like this!

You Ready for this Playa? Welcome back to the show! On this episode, Emmett and Al talk about the latest SAG-AFTRA that has the potential to shake up the games industry. What are the new protections they are fighting for? What companies are resisting these changes? Is GTA VI gonna get delayed because of this? We answer this and more in our Topic of the Show. In the Watcha Playin segment, Al talks...

You ready for this playa? Welcome back to the club! This week, Al and Emmett reunite to talk about the recent Xbox Game Pass price increase. Will we cancel our subscriptions as a result? What other ways to play games are more financially responsible? How much are Xbox games going for on Ebay? We answer these questions and more on this episode! Plus, in the Whatcha Playin segment, Al talks about  F...

Welcome to the Indie Book Club! Each episode, we'll be playing some of our favorite indie games and discussing them with various VGU staff members, guests, and even listeners like you! Our next title to tackle is the hit indie adventure game, Oxenfree, by Night School Studio. Join Graydon and Allan as we travel to Edwards Island to unravel the mystery within! As always, SPOILERS AHEAD! This we...

Whoops! Josh forgot that he was supposed to edit this so it's been sitting on his desktop! Graydon and Josh discuss indie games! Ones they loved from 2023, their personal favorites and more. If you need some good recommendations of indie games to play, or just want to hear some love towards them, this is the episode for you! Songs used in the episode in order: Intro: Fire Aura - The Impossible...

Welcome to the Indie Book Club! Each episode, we'll be playing some of our favorite indie games and discussing them with various VGU staff members, guests, and even listeners like you! Our next title to tackle is the hit indie adventure game, Oxenfree, by Night School Studio. Join Graydon and Allan as we travel to Edwards Island to unravel the mystery within! As always, SPOILERS AHEAD! This we...

You ready for this, Playa? Welcome back to The Palyer’s Club! This week, Al and Emmett have reunited to talk about the recent Sony State of Play and to speculate on what could be announced at the eupcoming Xbox Showcase. Will Astro Bot be our Game of the Year this year? Will the Gears of War sereis finally make it’s return? Will Silent Hill fans ever be happy? We ask these questions and more in th...

Welcome to the Indie Book Club! Each episode, we'll be playing some of our favorite indie games and discussing them with various VGU staff members, guests, and even listeners like you! Our next title to tackle is the hit indie adventure game, Oxenfree, by Night School Studio. Join Graydon and Allan as we travel to Edwards Island to unravel the mystery within! As always, SPOILERS AHEAD! This we...

Welcome to the Indie Book Club! Each episode, we'll be playing some of our favorite indie games and discussing them with various VGU staff members, guests, and even listeners like you! Our next title to tackle is the hit indie adventure game, Oxenfree , by Night School Studio. Join Graydon and Allan as we travel to Edwards Island to unravel the mystery within! As always, SPOILERS AHEAD! This w...

You ready for this, playa? Welcome back to the show! This week, we’re, like everyone else, goo goo for Fallout. The TV show is critically loved, and the games have player counts higher then they’ve been in years. Al and Emmett are also sipping the Nuka Cola, so this week's topic is all about our thoughts on the show, and our time returning to the games. And in the Whatcha Playin segment, Al ta...

Welcome to the club! It’s been a while, since we’ve done a regular episode, huh? Well, we're back with another one, and this one is all about the iii Initiative Showcase from a few weeks back. Emmett and Al talk about their favorite games of the show, including Broken Roads, Slay the Spire 2, and many more! We also talk about what we’ve been playing over the last few weeks, with Al having play...

You ready for this playa? The end is near! Game of the Year! All of your questions will be answered here! Your earbuds are in, the whole gang’s back again, and after the following categories, 2024 can officially begin! 7/10 game - 2:59 Best Debut Game - 4:57 Best Moment - 20:26 (some spoilers ahead!) Sea of Stars spoilers begin - 34:23 Spoilers end - 36:07 Tears of the Kingdom spoilers begin - 1:0...

Who's ready for some giant monster fights? Come on down to VGU's premiere retrospective podcast starring Graydon Webb and DJ Risio, as they navigate through Legendary's MonsterVerse films and piece together this Monarch mystery! Each week, they will re-watch and discuss another film (or two), leading up to the release of Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire on March 28, 2024! Our final epis...