We had nothing else to do so we decided to record a podcast earlier than usual. So that’s great or terrible news for you, The Listener, depending on your opinions on us. Anyway – here’s Episode 34.

This episode, deKay, Luffer, Kendrick and Zo avoid the end of everything by chatting about the end of only certain things like The Last of Us 2 and Official Xbox Magazine (and games magazines in general). There’s more news about the Atari VCS (the new one that doesn’t exist), all of the PS5 specs (and that incredible… event), more sports going virtual, and all of these games:

• Animal Crossing: New Horizons
• Yakuza 0
• Yakuza 4
• Driveclub
• Family Tree
• Assassin’s Creed Odyssey
• Half-Life Alyx
• Elite Dangerous
• Star Trek: Bridge Crew

As well as chat about VR in general, the Neo Geo Mini, the RetroBit Retro Duo, and all the usual general waffle. Mmmm, waffles.

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Everything is pretty grim, isn’t it? So adding something terrible to the pile is barely going to make a difference, right? In completely unrelated news, here’s Episode 33!

In this episode, deKay, Kendrick, Toby and Luffer try not to mention, but obviously end up having to mention because it’s EVERYWHERE, the coronavirus and its effects on gaming. There’s talk of Doom Eternal not quite impressing on Stadia, news of several remastered Westwood games getting releases soon, more chat about VR stuff because of course there is when Luffer and Toby are both on, and football. Yes, actual football. Or rather, lack of it. Who says we’re a video games podcast. Oh yeah, we do.

All that, and these games! Excite:

• Yakuza 0
• Yakuza 3
• Shenmue III
• A Short Hike
• Steam Home
• Eleven: Table Tennis
• Riverbond
• Ori and the Blind Forest
• Yoshi’s Wooly World
• Langrisser I + II
• Last Rebellion
• Lair of the Clockwork God
• Murder By Numbers

There’s also an unusually high amount of topic drift, as well as Important Listener Questions.

This episode’s intro music is from Murder by Numbers, composed by Masakazu Sugimori.

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Things mentioned in the episode:

Toby’s guide to making VR-y stuff: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KY-c4cbaOtM
Toby’s house in VR (which isn’t a creepy thing to play with at all): https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1961131741

Also, you can visit the ugvm YouTube channel here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCKxqQkklojIZQnz9Hj34U_A

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.