In the Dark Place, there was a Light. A small Light, but a Light that shone brightly, excitedly, erratically. A Podcast Light, to bring Video Game Chat Joy to all the Listeners. And, behind that Light, somehow hiding in its own shadow in the darkest of the Dark Place, was Episode 81 of the ugvm Podcast.

In this episode, deKay, Toby, Kendrick and Choobs eventually get round to talking about video games, including a number of titles that Kendrick has almost certainly made up because lets be honest, nobody is going to check, are they? Those, and news on the new Fallout TV show, Simon the Sorcerer is BACK, Kien for the Game Boy Advance in the Year of Our $deity 2024, Apex Legends hacking shenanigans, and The Haunting of Stardew Valley 1.6. And if you’re a fan of sidetracking, then do we have some sidetracking for you!

If all that wasn’t enough – and frankly, it’s too much – then we also delve into this tidy pile:

• Demon Gaze Extra
• Rhapsody Marl Kingdom Chronicles
• Monochrome Mobius Rights and Wrongs
• Like a Dragon Infinite Wealth
• Portal
• Portal 2
• Earth Defense Force: Iron Rain
• Xenoblade Chronicles Definitive Edition
• Remnant II
• Metro Exodus
• Final Fantasy I Pixel Remaster
• Mario+Rabbids Kingdom Battle
• Unicorn Overlord

You’ll never guess which of these are Kendrick’s entries.

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Intro music credits: Demon Gaze Extra: Overture, composed by Naoaki Jimbo.

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Fire up the ROFLCopter (that’s still what the cool kids say, right?) because it’s time for Episode 80 of the best podcast hosted by these specific people! Probably!

In this episode, deKay, Kendrick and Toby stroke their variously hirsute chins and ponder Games, The Multiplatformverse and Everything, including such topics as Microsoft releasing games for the PS5 and Switch (or not), Microsoft abandoning hardware (or not), and Why Are So Many Games Set In Shibuya? If that isn’t enough for you, what about this impressive array of viddy yoh games?

• Paw Patrol On A Roll
• Vampire Survivors
• Golden Sun/Golden Sun The Lost Age
• Tinykin
• Yakuza Kiwami 2 (drink!)
• Dungeon IV
• Way of the Samurai 4
• House of the Dead Remake
• Fallout 4 VR (sort of)
• Thumper
• PlateUp!

Plus extra bonus shenanigans and asides that you won’t want to miss! Perhaps.

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Intro music credits: Paw Patrol Theme Tune, Copyright Nick Jr, with Apologies.

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With Christmas a distant memory, the “gang” reconvene to talk about very important things from the world of Video Gaming and, well, other things too. Welcome, to Episode 79.

In this episode, deKay, Kendrick, Choobs and Toby complain about money-grabbing Sega, talk about yet more game development studios letting staff go, YAJTTWG (Yet Another Journey To The West Game – Black Myth Wukong), the mysterious “ake 6”, and many, many games. Including but not limited to these:

• Mass Effect
• Cocoon (no, not the film)
• Diablo IV
• Torchlight II
• Skyrim
• Baldur’s Gate 3
• Divinity: Original Sin 2
• FAR: Lone Sails
• SteamWorld Build
• PowerWash Simulator
• Ace Combat 7
• Deadly Tower of Monsters
• Bomb Rush Cyberfunk
• Yakuza (drink!) Kiwami
• Like a Dragon Gaiden: The Man Who Erased His Name (drink!)

And I hope you like big ol’ waffles because we have a great selection of them right here, right in this episode. Engorge yourselves.

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Intro music credits: “Tail Man” from Ace Combat 7, by Hiroshi Okubo.

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With the stars unable to align for the production of an episode this December, Kendrick has recorded a little something for you all about ugvm, usenet, the universe and everything. We’ll be back in the new year, hopefully up to full capacity.

Happy New Year, everyone!

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Music credit: Antonin Dvorak, Rusalka Op. 114, “Song to the Moon”. Performed by Zaira Soria and the Arizona Opera. Released royalty-free at musopen.org.

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What the listener didn’t expect, was to discover that most of the podcast seemed to be about things that had nothing to do with the games mentioned in the usual list of topics. “How queer,” they said. “How very, very queer”.

Episode 78 brings together the talking force of deKay, Kendrick, Orrah and Toby and they use their powers to speak words on subjects such as Embracer’s employee cull, Creative Assembly’s employee (and game line-up) cull, Why Creative Assembly Lost Their Way With The Total War Series, What Ben Croshaw Did Next, and mountains of games including these:

• Vampire Survivors
• Lies of P
• Sketch Share Solve
• Tokyo Xanadu eX+
• Doraemon: Story of Seasons
• Stranded: Alien Dawn
• The Riftbreaker
• Homeworld Remastered
• Spiderhyphenman Remastered
• Crusader Kings 3
• Virtua Cop Elite Edition
• Gunvari Collection
• House of the Dead Remake
• Starsky and Hutch
• House of the Dead III

And, as always, other stuff. Why not listen for yourself to find out exactly what, eh? That’s sort of the point of the podcast.

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Intro music credits: Theme from House of the Dead III.

Don’t forget, if you want to contact us with questions or comments for or about the show, you can email podcast@ugvm.org.uk or publicly shame us https://mas.to/@ugvmpodcast on the Mastodons.