The VGBees Podcast – Détails, épisodes et analyse

Niki has been blessed to have several days with Astro Bot and decided to tell John all about it, despite the fact that John can't play it for another few weeks. Tragedy. It sounds absolutely lovely and what a time for it, too. In addition to contemplating the overall state of games, the two discuss:

• Concord
• Marvel Snap
• Balatro

We also answer your burning questions from The Hive and wow, y'all really asked some good ones this week!

As always, you can join The Hive and ask us questions each and every week!

Niki and John have a good old fashioned "hey are we separating art from artist now" conversation they didn't plan for when tackling the receptions to Black Myth Wukong, Star Wars Outlaws, and the inevitable Assassin's Creed Shadows. In lighter fare, the two also discuss:

• Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door Remake
• The Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky
• Astro Bot
• the Double Dragon movie
• who we'd put in Fortnite next
• and much more!

As always, we answer YOUR questions from The Hive! You can join The Hive right now and ask questions each and every week!

John and Niki are back at it again with all the news and analysis in games you need to know. This time, they're joined by Imran Khan, who is totally normal when it comes to heating up leftovers!

Anyway! The crew covered a lot of ground this week including:

• Guy "Dr. Disrespect" Beahm's overdue ouster from the public consciousness in the wake of the revelations of his "inappropriate" correspondence with a minor in 2017
• Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree
• Super Monkey Ball Banana Rumble
• Chained Together
• Fortnite

The crew also discusses the best sales at the beginning of the Steam Summer Sale and answers the burning questions directly from The Hive!

John and Niki take a deep dive into a very strong Nintendo Direct, featuring discussion of:

• The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom
• Mario & Luigi: Brothership
• Metroid Prime 4: Beyond
• Marvel vs. Capcom Fighting Collection: Arcade Classics
• The New Denpa Men

Later, they're joined by writer, author, and budding miniature painting YouTuber Merritt K to chat everything Warhammer 40,000, including:

• What's in the heads of the guys from Space Marine 2?
• Do Space Marines have balls?
• Why did the Squats go away?
• and much more!

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Niki and John are joined this week by Game Informer associate editor and MinnMax contributor Charles Harte. All three were all in Los Angeles to cover Summer Game Fest 2024 and came away feeling mostly energized by what they saw and played.

Covered in this episode:

- LEGO Horizon Adventures

- Wanderstop

- Power Rangers: Rita's Rewind

- Skate

- Fable

- Doom: The Dark Ages

- South of Midnight

- Gears of War E-Day

- Dragon Age: The Veilguard

- Monster Hunter Wilds

- Kunitsu-Gami: Path of the Goddess

- Fear the Spotlight

- Fatal Fury: City of the Wolves

- Hyper Light Breaker

On the eve of SGF, John posted up in his downtown Los Angeles hotel room to talk to himself for roughly 40 minutes. Niki's busy getting ready for Giant Bomb's extremely busy weekend and John's trying to get a website launched, so please enjoy this more low-key second episode before we go deep on everything going on with SGF.

Topics covered:

• Dragon Age: Dreadwolf has a new name and it's pretty bad
• Microsoft's rumored handheld
• The $200M disaster of Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League

Thanks for being here! See you next week!

John & Niki are officially back in the saddle talking what it means to be back working in games media after a hiatus!

TL;DR, they're both excited to be doing this again together.

This week, our hosts are eaten up with what makes a game "finished" in 2024 and does it even matter? Hades 2 is certainly big for an Early Access game, but how does it evolve between now and 1.0?

John's wondering what was up with that weird Neil Druckmann interview and Niki's just asking questions about that very unfortunately Destiny 2 leak.

If you can believe it, another massive publishing company is getting in bed with AI for reasons that make sense (if you're a suit who doesn't care about the majesty of human creativity).

Also discussed:

• The Rogue Prince of Persia
• Wildermyth's bow and exit
• What we expect to see at Summer Game Fest

Head to VGBees to sign up to be informed when the site launches! We'll have tons of SGF coverage!

This week, Niki and John celebrate the return of Peter Molyneux to the world of games with his main stage appearance at Gamescom Opening Night Live. We were just talking about needing more weird guys in games, and wow we got our wish! Will his game ever come out? How much did he actually make on that NFT game he probably used to fund this new game? Will he be sued by Microsoft even though "Albion" is not a trademarked name? This and much more:

• Indiana Jones and the Great Circle
• Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 6
• Lynked: Banner of the Spark
• InZOI
• Masters of Albion
• Civilization VII
• Borderlands 4

We also answer your Hive questions, like which celebrity should Hideo Kojima put in the next Death Stranding but is too scared to do so? Spoilers, there is one correct and immediately agreed-upon answer from your hosts!

As always, you can join The Hive to get your burning questions answered on the show each and every week!

We have a big confession to make, gamers. John and Niki have watched videos and read articles about a video game called Deadlock, which Valve has sworn us to secrecy never to divulge its very existence. Consider it then, dear gamer, a privilege that we've chosen your ears as the recipient of our knowledge. If we disappear from this earth, you will know our sacrifice. Also:

• 2XKO
• Madden 25
• Fortnite
• Dragon Age: The Veilguard
• The Plucky Squire

We also answer questions from The Hive and continue developing the all-important VGBees Census!

This week, John and Niki are joined by former Video Lead at Game Informer Alex Van Aken to talk about the abrupt, ghoulish closure of the storied publication. It's a great chat that illuminates what the past few months has been like at the magazine as well as a bit of a dive into some history and memories of the brand. Alex also pulls the curtain back on his new supporter-funded project Viewport.

Also discussed:

• The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom
• The Borderlands film
• Wolfeye's Dishonored/Prey-like new RPG
• College Football 25

With Hive questions like:

• When you do consider a game completed?
• What ancient game do you want to see a Balatro for?
• Does a LEGO minifig have fingers or thumbs?

As always, you can join The Hive and ask us questions we'll tackle every single week!