Vidjagame Apocalypse
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Vidjagame Apocalypse
Videogame-industry veterans Mikel Reparaz, Matthew Allen, and Chris Antista rally their colleagues for weekly discussions about games, the industry, and the circus of egos and information that surrounds it all.
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Collectimals - Vidjagame Apocalypse 648
This week's big release is Ghost of Yotei, which brings back one of our favorite features from its predecessor, Ghost of Tsushima: the adorable foxes...
Gifts from the Gods - Vidjagame Apocalypse 647
Oh, the ancient gods. What fickle sorts they were known to be. But if you managed to curry favor with these gods, they could also be quite generous wi...
First Is Worst - Vidjagame Apocalypse 646
It's a big week for new game releases, and we have a whopper of a show to match. We start by taking a look back at game franchises where the first ent...
Best Loot Games - Vidjagame Apocalypse 645
Borderlands 4 is here! Or, as we like to call it around these parts, FOURderlands. Or maybe Borderl4nds? We're still workshopping it. Regardless of wh...
Most Anticipated Games that Will Be Worth the Wait - Vidjagame Apocalypse 644
After a long six years, Hollow Knight: Silksong is finally here. Was it worth the wait? You'll have to listen to our New Releases segment to find out....
Best Ninja Games - Vidjagame Apocalypse 643
We are very much still in a ninja type of mood around these parts, with the recent release of Shinobi: Art of Vengeance, the upcoming release of Ninja...
Best Mech Games - Vidjagame Apocalypse 642
It's his birthday, so we're letting TL take over the wheel -- or the cockpit, as it were -- to walk us through a retrospective of sorts about the vari...
Next Best Movie Games - Vidjagame Apocalypse 641
Summer movie blockbuster season may be winding down, but we still have movies on the brain around these parts. So much, in fact, that we wanted to ta...
Best Recent Changes in Gaming - Vidjagame Apocalypse 640
Let's face it, the games industry hasn't exactly been all sunshine and rainbows lately. As the late, great Dusty Rhodes would say, the industry has be...
Best Prequel Games - Vidjagame Apocalypse 639
This week's release of the prequel game Mafia: The Old Country is as good an excuse as any for us to get nostalgic and take a trip back in time to dis...
Fantastic Four-Player Games - Vidjagame Apocalypse 638
The recent release of The Fantastic Four: First Steps got us reminiscing about games where you get to team up with friends and create your own fantast...
Best Donkey Kong Games - Vidjagame Apocalypse 637
The VGA crew is going bananas for Donkey Kong Bananza, and we wanted to celebrate the best Donkey Kong game in years with a top 5 retrospective taking...
Best Character Redesigns - Vidjagame Apocalypse 636
The recent Donkey Kong redesign featured in Mario Kart World and Donkey Kong Bananza got us thinking about other video game character redesign...
Best Superman Games featuring Chris Baker and Randy Ma - Vidjagame Apocalypse 635
James Gunn's Superman flick just hit theaters, so the VGA Boyz grabbed not one but TWO super guests who happen to be comic book experts for this week'...
Best Light Gun Games - Vidjagame Apocalypse 634 featuring Pastblaster of Podouken
This weekend America celebrates its Independence Day, so we're paying tribute to our beloved homeland with a show about one of the most American thing...
Heroes Begetting Heroes - Vidjagame Apocalypse 633
With Matt away, and left to their own devices, Chris and T.L. decided to do a bit of a looser episode. The Florida Boyz are joined by Tony Wilson from...
The Best Kart Racing Items - Vidjagame Apocalypse 632
We can't put our Nintendo Switch 2 systems down or get Mario Kart World out of our heads, so while doing laps around the tracks, the VGA boys started...
The Big Not E3 2025 Episode - Vidjagame Apocalypse 631
It's June, which used to mean E3 time, but now just means there are still a ton of huge announcements and places to see new games in Los Angeles, just...
Most Powerful Nintendo System Launches - Vidjagame Apocalypse 630
The big Nintendo Switch 2 launch is already here, and guest Emmet Watkins Jr. and the VGA Boyz are celebrating the occasion by listing off the top Nin...
Thanks for the Memory Sequences - Vidjagame Apocalypse 629
Look, it's a short holiday week, so can you blame the VGA Boyz for taking things easy and a bit too literally by celebrating Memorial Day week with a...
Re-Boot to the Head - Vidjagame Apocalypse 628
Mikel's gone, but the show must go on -- with an all-new third chair and maybe just a tad more soundboard! TL Foster joins Matt and Chris on a more pe...
Heroic Deaths - Vidjagame Apocalypse 627
Mikel's farewell show kicks off with our most spoileriffic Top 5 EVER, focusing on games where the hero's death is an unavoidable part of the story -...
Swarm Attack with Tony Wilson - Vidjagame Apocalypse 626
Inspired by "100 men vs. a gorilla" memes, this week's show sees Tony Wilson of Framework joining us for a Top 5 about games that put the might of an...
Bad-Guy Teams with TL Foster - Vidjagame Apocalypse 625
We've been to the "play as a villain" well a bunch of times, but this week's theatrical release of Thunderbolts inspired TL Foster of Welcome to the T...
Shadow Drop with merritt k and Anthony Abatte - Vidjagame Apocalypse 624
The long-rumored Oblivion remaster was revealed and released on the same day this week, inspiring us to invite merritt k and Anthony Abatte for a chat...
View Askew Actors in Games with Dave Rudden - Vidjagame Apocalypse 623
Jay and Silent Bob recently arrived in Call of Duty as premium operator skins, but it's hardly the first time actors associated with Kevin Smith's Vie...
Southern Gothic - Vidjagame Apocalypse 622
This is a big week for strange and cryptic games, and TL Foster of Welcome to the Thing joins to celebrate the release of South of Midnight with a loo...
Terrible Versions of Classic Games - Vidjagame Apocalypse 621
In this era of multiplatform releases and more-or-less standardized hardware, it can be easy to forget that great games didn't always stay great once...
Clothes Make the Character - Vidjagame Apocalypse 620
Plenty of games let you change your character's clothes, but in how many does it really matter, from a gameplay standpoint? At least five, which we'll...
Games Set (But Not Made) In Japan - Vidjagame Apocalypse 619
Assassin's Creed Shadows is out, and we've got IGN's reviewer - friend of the show Jarrett Green - on to talk about Ubi's massive open-world shinobi-a...
Not-Quite-Marios - Vidjagame Apocalypse 618
We just passed Mar10 Day this week, and that got us thinking about all the times console makers have thought, "Hey! What if WE had a cute, highly mark...
Patent-Protected Features - Vidjagame Apocalypse 617
Ever wonder why so few games include features like, say, Shadow of Mordor's Nemesis system, or minigames you can play during loading events? It's beca...
Problematic Stars - Vidjagame Apocalypse 616
Landing a celebrity to star in your game is usually a huge deal - but like a lot of things, celebrities can go bad over time, turning their games into...
Spiritual Successors (By the Original Creators) - Vidjagame Apocalypse 615
With Avowed's launch casting a spotlight on Obsidian this week, we got to thinking about the studio's unique trajectory, and so Trone Dowd — who revie...
Get the Cables! with Welcome to the Thing - Vidjagame Apocalypse 614
Mikel's away this week, so Matt and Chris (with accompanying soundboard) invited the Welcome to the Thing crew to break format a bit with a top 5 that...
Clap if You Believe in Heroes with TL Foster - Vidjagame Apocalypse 613
Hero-ing can be a thankless business (apart from all the improbable material rewards for rescuing hapless villagers or whatever), so it's uplifting wh...
Angriest Heroes with Jesse Cox - Vidjagame Apocalypse 612
Sometimes it's really empowering to embody a pissed-off rage junkie, the kind of human chainsaw who can charge wildly into every confrontation and sav...
Origins Oranges Oregons - Vidjagame Apocalypse 611
Last week's release of Dynasty Warriors Origins inspired us to spend this episode looking at five of the best games to bear one of the industry's most...
Famous Dates - Vidjagame Apocalypse 610
Some release dates loom especially large in videogame history (mostly because they factored heavily into marketing), and this week Anthony Abatte join...
Gaming's Biggest Tech Leaps - Vidjagame Apocalypse 609
The announcements at CES (and their heavy push toward AI) this week inspired us to resurrect the debate-format Top 5 to decide what the five most impo...