Welcome back to the Club!

Hope you enjoyed the GotY podcasts because the proper show is back on! Emmett is back with Al and Graydon, and we are all looking forward to the new year of 2025 and asking…Is Gaming Cooked? Everyone has their hopes resting on Grand Theft Auto VI and the Switch 2, but will they be enough to stop layoffs and corporate greed running rampant in the games industry? We’ll ask that and more in this week’s episode.

In the Watcha Playin segment, Emmett talks about his time with Eternal Strands and Alien Rage, Al talks about their time with Avowed and Halo: The Master Chief Collection, and Graydon talks about his time with Epic Mickey.

You can listen to the show on iTunes, Spotify, Pocket Casts, on this article, and more!

• Timestamps
  • Start 00:00
  • TotS: Is Gaming Cooked?    11:12                              
  • Sony in 2025 (State of Play Recap)    11:41                              
  • Nintendo (Switch 2)    54:27                              
  • Microsoft (Xbox AI)    1:14:00                              
  • Games Were Looking forward to in 2025    1:40:07                              
  • Al Bought Too Many Games Again (ft. Josh Miller)    1:57:46                              
  • Whatcha Playin?    2:10:28                              
  • Eternal Strands    2:10:38                              
  • Alien Rage    2:17:46                              
  • Avowed    2:20:56                              
  • Halo: The Master Chief Collection    2:37:54                              
  • Epic Mickey    2:43:40                           
  • Housekeeping    2:56:49
• Housekeeping:
  • VGU.TV Game of the Year 2024
  • The Crush House | VGU Test Drive
  • Episode 2 – Mobile Suit Gundam III (1982) | O Say Can UC? A Beginner’s Guide to Gundam – VGU.TV
  • Episode 1 – Mobile Suit Gundam I & II (1981) | O Say Can UC? A Beginner’s Guide to Gundam – VGU.TV
  • Episode 3 – Char’s Counterattack (‘88) & Hathaway (‘21) | O Say Can UC? A Beginner’s Guide to Gundam 
  • Dreamcore l VGU Test Drive
  • The Smurfs – Dreams | VGU Test Drive
  • The 24 Best Video Essays of 2024 – VGU.TV
  • It’s A Little Thing: It’s What the Writing’s Feeling
  • Welcome to the Thing: We recorded this before the Super Bowl
  • Ludocene: Game Discovery From People You Trust by Andy Robertson — Kickstarter
  • Valve E3 2014 The Musical
  • Xbox Pushes Ahead With Muse, a New Generative AI Model. Devs Say ‘Nobody Will Want This’ | WIRED 
  • How Halo: CE Convinced Me to Start Collecting Retro Physical Media Again 

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