Took way too damn long, but it’s finally time! Welcome to my annual list of my favorite video essays of the previous year. This time, I have 25 excellent essays to share from 2025, and despite it being several weeks into the following year, I can guarantee all of these are still fun, informative, or
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Welcome back to the club, finally! Game of the Year 2025 is fast approaching, but in the meantime, let' celebrate Black History Month with a special Player's Club Episode. Emmett returns with Josh and Graydon to see..."Who Is Invited to the Cookout?" That's right, Emmett hosts a familiar quiz show about black trivia about black culture, art, and history. Do these two white boys do well enough to earn an invite? We'll listen and find out! For more video content, please subscribe! For written content, check out our site at: https://vgu.tv/ To check out our podcasts, head here: https://vgu.tv/category/podcast/ And follow us on Bluesky at: https://vgutv.bsky.social Thank you for watching!
2025 was an incredible year for video games, at least releases anyway. Clair Obscur, Hollow Knight: Silksong, Blue Prince, and so many more titles like these captivated us all, but the problem is, I didn’t play any of them. In fact, while I did indeed accomplish my goal of beating at least 24 games in
Thanks to bubby darkstar and NoQuarter Software for the review code! Shooty Shooty Robot Invasion is perhaps the best distillation of the ethos of internet humor that has ever existed, at least in the medium of video games. It combines random juxtapositions of Invader Zim style cartoons, the crassness of Adult Swim shows, and the
Well, those are our picks? Do you have any zany ideas for a video game crossover? If so, mention it in the comments or shout it out to us over on Bluesky!
I wanted to end the year with a little look back on these movies that not only entertain with each passing year, but deserve a beaming spotlight in 2025!
Like everyone else, I played Journey and thought it was great. But unlike most, it didn’t change my life, reconfigure my understanding of the medium, or even make me cry. For a few years there, I thought maybe I just didn’t play it under ideal conditions and maybe replaying it later would make me connect
Metal Garden is a testament to what you can do with not a whole lot. This game is 90 minutes long, and there’s no mechanical motivation to replay it. There are only 3 enemy types, 4 if you include a single boss enemy that you fight in the game’s only boss fight. The game is
Every Saturday night right before my 4 day work week starts, I try to put lunches together for that entire week to eat at work. A few weeks ago, I cooked some rice in my rice cooker, but didn’t know what I would add to it to make it a full meal. My parents had
Ok, one more time…it’s been a while, huh? Well, we are finally back with another Player’s Club! Last time we said there was a flood of games coming, and now we’ve pulled out heads above the water to talk about some of those games. And it’s not just Al and Emmett, they brought Graydon with
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