The VGBees Podcast

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Hi there! Lotus is still in space teaching the aliens about baseball (they like it!), while Niki and John are earthbound to discuss the week's biggest stories in games, including:
Disney lays off 1,000; Marvel visual effects gutted
Disney quietly delists games from Steam
Xenosaga Pied Piper, somehow, is coming to Switch and PC
Iron Galaxy lays off unknown number of staff
Jollibee x Final Fantasy XIV crossover event
Season 3 of Playdate is coming
Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 creative lead is weird
Lana Del Rey is the 007 First Light songstress
Epic's HR lead also lost their job
Imagine Dragons' capture the flag game is out
Mouse: PI for Hire is unremarkable in every way that matters
Setting up a NAS in the endtimes
We answer your burning HIVE QUESTIONS from the Discord

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This week, Lotus repaired the toilets aboard the Artemis II on its way safely (!!!!) back to Earth. Niki and John were grounded, however, and came together to discuss the biggest games news of the week. Here's the run of show:
Is Sid Meier the Ken Burns of video games?
The Pacers Couple is fine and good
Epic is in deep with Disney and making an extraction shooter
Pete Hines has choice words for Microsoft
State of Decay 3 didn't really exist when they released the reveal trailer
Glen Israel apocalyptically posts about Microsoft on LinkedIn
Doki Doki Literature Club removed from Google Play Store
Prove You're Human is the next game from the 1000xResist devs
Yoshihisa Kishimoto passes away at the age of 64
Marvel Rivals will apparently evolve from 6V6 PVP
Gunzilla, the new owner of Game Informer, accused not paying games salaries and contracts for months
Slay the Spire 2 took a while to beat, but it's been a blast
Niki's upcoming appearances on Astrogoblin
We answer your burning Hive Questions, like "what's a food that's better left out a while?"

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Note: we discuss three Microsoft stories this week. Microsoft continues to be a complicit player in the genocide happening in Gaza. Go to nogamesforgenocide.com to learn more about the BDS boycott and to make your own pledge.

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With Niki on board the Artemis II to fix their Outlook situation, Lotus and John tackle the news and games of the week, including:
Eidos-Montreal lays off 124 employees
Stellar Blade's Shift Up acquires Shinji Mikami's brand new studio
Stormgate loses online support because their server provider was bought by an AI company
US Patent Office rejects overbroad Nintendo patent
S&box, the follow-up to Garry's Mod, is out later this month
PSA: the Steam versions of some classic Capcom games contain DRM not found on other storefronts
The Gaming Historian retires from the channel
The Perfect Tower II exponentially expands the systems typically found in incremental games
Lucid Blocks has some charm, but maybe not the juice
Project Hail Mary is uneven but still made John cry
Alamo Drafthouse has completely ruined its value proposition
Summer House might be Bravo's most soulless show (that John can't stop watching)
Your Hive Questions are answered, including if ET would be better with legs

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This week, Lotus, Niki, and John contemplate Nintendo's strange (but maybe deliberate) choice to launch Animal Crossing's Switch 2 edition, Pokemon Pokopia, and Tomodachi Life in one tidy two month stretch. Also:
Epic lays off 1,000 due to Fortnite "underperforming"
OpenAI cans Sora and Disney exits investment
Alex from Street Fighter 6 married his adopted sister!
Nintendo to price digital and physical differently
PlayStation raising all hardware prices
Nintendo planning new Star Fox, Ocarina of Time remake, no 3D Mario in 2026
Wanderstop dev Ivy Road is shutting down
Funi Raccoon Game is Irish in surprising and delightful ways
Tomodachi Life's demo reminds us why the Wii era was so successful
Marathon might make it????
BLΛƆKPIИK has a new EP out!
We answer your burning HIVE QUESTIONS from our lovely Discord

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This week, the crew gets completely redrawn on the fly by Nvidia's new AI-powered technology that everyone besides Digital Foundry seems to hate! How do they look? So lifelike, I bet. While getting yassified (and polluting water sources near data centers!), John, Niki, and Lotus discuss:
DLSS 5 and its introduction to the world
Why everyone hates DLSS 5
Jensen Huang's hilarious responses to the criticism
Saudi Arabia's EGDC acquires 5% of Capcom
Remedy's FBC: Firebreak gets its final major update; commitment to stay online
Ubisoft's Red Storm Entertainment studio to cease game development
Crystal Dynamics lays off 20 despite working on two Tomb Raider games
Rubato is a 2D physics platformer that scoffs at genre
Should you play Slay the Spire 2 with a calculator on hand?
Pokopia is a lot of game
Funi Raccoon Game asks "what if Super Mario 64 was made by the most online people you've ever encountered?"
Your Hive Questions straight from Discord, including our thoughts on Geoff Keighley's dad not getting a mention during the Oscars

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