{"id":34890,"date":"2025-02-28T10:55:10","date_gmt":"2025-02-28T15:55:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vgu.tv\/?p=34890"},"modified":"2025-02-28T10:56:56","modified_gmt":"2025-02-28T15:56:56","slug":"is-gaming-in-2025-cooked-the-players-club-podcast-ep-151-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vgu.tv\/?p=34890","title":{"rendered":"Is Gaming in 2025 Cooked? | The Players Club Podcast Ep 151"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Welcome back to the Club!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>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\u2026Is 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? 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