Hello and welcome to the ugvm history podcast! In this episode you can learn all about Emperor Taishō and how he fits into Japan’s Second World War involvement, and about the Ukrainian Revolution of 2014! And for some reason we talk about video game related stuff too.

This episode features deKay, Zo, Kendrick and Jaimie doing chat duty, and conversing in the traditional style about the Xbox Series X specs, Animal Crossing, Vasilis, Sakura Wars, GeForce Now, Platinum’s Project G.G., the it’s-never-coming-is-it Atari VCS, and in a rare international news/gaming crossover topic – the coronavirus. And! Lots of games including these:

• God of War
• Spider-Man
• Knights and Bikes
• Azure Striker Gunvolt 2
• Jacob Jazz’s Baobab’s Mausoleum Episode 1: Ovnifagos Don’t Eat Flamingos
• Jacob Jazz’s Baobab’s Mausoleum Episode 2: 1313 Barnabas Dead End Drive
• Adventures of Bertram Fiddle Episode 2: A Bleaker Predicklement
• Isoland and Isoland 2
• Batman: The Telltale Series
• Assassin’s Creed Odyssey
• Star Trek Bridge Crew
• A Fisherman’s Tale
• Borderlands 3
• Lair of the Clockwork God
• Beat Saber
• Neverwinter Nights Enhanced
• Planescape Torment Enhanced
• Icewind Dale Enhanced
• Mary Skelter 2
• Yakuza 3 Remastered

That’s a lot of games this month! Also, we’ve some waffle about maintaining game’s online services once the companies running them decided not to any more. And some other stuff. Please listen and tell your friends!

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Mentioned in the show was a recording of some of the team playing Bridge Crew. Here it is for your watching pleasure:

Brand new year, same old crap from the ugvm Podcasting Team! Only this time, it’s different because we talk about different things to last time. Which is just as well as you wouldn’t listen to the same thing every episode, would you? Yes, aside from Yakuza again. Always Yakuza.

In this episode, deKay, Kendrick and Luffer talk about Yakuza. But also! About there being Too Many Games, about Shenmue III DLC, the Valve Index, AMD’s GPU shenanigans, and – for some reason – NASCAR gearboxes. Nope, no idea. And these games and more:

• Star Wars: Jedi Fallen Order
• Star Wars: Vader Immortal
• Star Wars: The Force Unleashed II
• Beat Saber
• Horace
• Monster Hunter World
• Corpse Killer
• Luigi’s Mansion 3
• Azure Striker Gunvolt
• Diablo III

Not only that but there’s answers to Important Questions, and all the best chat this side of your Nan at the bingo.

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It’s Christmas and so we’ve a Christmas episode. Which isn’t very festive. But it only needs to be at Christmas to be Christmassy, right? Right.

This episode, deKay, Kendrick, Toby and Zo somehow manage to talk about things which aren’t Shenmue III (which was harder than it sounds), including the Xbox X Series XX X One X, Sony’s Back Button, how well that Stadia thing went down, Gamestop stop, and all of these games (none of which are very Christmassy but at least two of them have snow):

• Shenmue III
• Yakuza 7
• Pokémon Sword
• Celeste
• Life is Strange 2
• Black Mesa
• Carrion
• Sea of Thieves
• Dance Dance Revolution Ace Twenty
• Time Crisis 5
• Street Fighter V

And then we impart all of the wisdom in a section we’re definitely not calling Listener Questions.

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P.S. Kendrick says to leave some comments in, well, in the comments.

Oh would you look at that – turns out deKay wasn’t lost after all, and he’s back at the helm this episode. Isn’t that great/awful depending on your tastes.

This episode, deKay, Toby and Zo are joined by special guests Mike Daw and Charlie Scott-Skinner off of Infinite State Games to talk about Actual Video Games (including theirs) with topics like Google Stadia, the end of Singstar, the RetroFlag GPi, New Improved Sonic, Netflix series Love, Death and Robots, and these games here:

• Death Stranding
• Heavy Rain
• Starlink: Battle for Atlas
• Jenny LeClue: Detectivú
• Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice VR Edition
• SteamWorld Dig 2
• Ring Fit Adventure
• Shenmue
• Shenmue II
• Golf Story
• Darius Cozmic Collection
• Hotline Miami Collection
• Worbital
• Monster Hunter Iceborne
• They Were Billions

Plus some listener questions, like we’re people who know the answers.

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There’s a change from the norm this episode as deKay has disappeared. We’ve looked everywhere with no success. He’ll probably turn up again at some point.

This episode, Zo, Luffer, Toby and Kendrick discuss the existence of PlayStation 5, Activision siding with the Chinese, and how to become a NASCAR champion without getting in a car. We also played some games, such as:

• FIFA 20
• Skyrim VR
• Dark Souls Remastered
• Shadow of the Tomb Raider
• iRacing
• The Orville
• Pilgrims
• What the Golf?

We also answer the biggest questions with the Truth.

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