It's the first episode for 2022! But it's also the last episode ever* of Video Game Small Talk! James, Pat and Hope chat the Halo: Infinite, Inscryption, Windjammers 2, Sid Meiers Pirates!, Mad Max, Deep Rock Galactic, Sunless Seas, Wordle, plus we chat a little about Microsoft's acquiring of Activision-Blizzard, as well as the future, and life beyond VGST. Thank you for listening :)

Video Game Small Talk - VGST

Episode #70 - Goodbye

Football podcaster and writer Joesph Guthrie and VGST host James Swinbanks go in two-footed on both of 2021's main football games to see which of the two, if any, can stand the heat on and off-the-pitch.

Video Game Spoiler Talk - FIFA 22 vs eFootball 2022

James, Pat and Hope go over their favourites from the calendar year 2021, which was objectively 27 months long! Games include Halo: Infinite, Forza Horizon 5, Unpacking, Ratchet and Clank: A Rift Apart and many, many more!

Episode #69 - 2021 Games of the Year

The team come together to chat more summer time video games! Exo One, Grow: Song of the Evertree, Forza Horizon 5, Stellaris, and more!

Episode #68: Exo One, Grow: Song of the Evertree, Stellaris

Hope returns to join Pat and James in a chat about Forza Horizon 5, Shin Megami Tensei V, Halo: Infinite's shadow dropped multiplayer mode, and a bunch more!

Episode #67 - Forza Horizon 5, Shin Megami Tensei V, Halo: Infinite Multiplayer

Aussie games journo Chris Button joins Pat and James this week to chat Unpacking, Moonglow Bay, Dungeon 3, Chernobylite, and heaps more!

Episode #66 - Unpacking, Moonglow Bay, Chernobylite

James and Pat are here to chat video games! On this one we talk Hot Wheels Unleashed, Metroid Dread, Disco Elysium, Diablo 2 Resurrected, Outer Wilds: Echoes of the Eye DLC, Unpacking, and James brings news of the next Animal Crossing New Horizons update!

Episode #65 - Metroid Dread, Hot Wheels Unleashed, Disco Elysium: The Final Cut

This week's episode was recorded for PAX Radio thanks to Audio-Technica! James, Pat and Hope chat about the latest games they've played, including impressions of both new football games, eFootball 2022 and FIFA 22, arcade driving games like Crazy Taxi, Driver: San Francisco and Burnout: Paradise, and a few chill games of Golf with your Friends. We also talk about our favourite games of the year so far.

Episode #64 - PAX Radio

Hope returns to chat with James and Pat about her time getting Jet Set Radio Future working through the magic of emulation. Pat and James have also been spending a bunch of time with Deathloop, Pat's been making a game, and James is conquering the world in his return to Crusader Kings 3. We also chat a little SkateBIRD, and more!

Episode #63 - Deathloop, Skatebird, Jet Set Radio Future

Patrick and James sit down and chat about the wonderful Psychonauts 2, fang about in legendary cars in WRC 10 and also go back to their chat from lst week about Humankind. James also gushes about the latest update to No Mans Sky, 'Frontiers', and Pat shares the story of the final weeks of his month long game jam.

Episode #62 - Psychonauts 2, WRC 10, Humankind

On this episode the team chat about a bunch of new games, including Boyfriend Dungeon, Wrestledunk Sports, Humankind, Maneater, & Recompile and more. It's more video game small talk!

Episode #61 - Wrestledunk Sports, Boyfriend Dungeon, Humankind

The gang are back for more video game small talk! This episode we talk Old World, Idol Manager, Ratchet & Clank Rift Apart, Microsoft Flight Simulator on the Xbox Series X, The Great Ace Attorney Chronicles, New Pokemon Snap, Hades, and also a brief, spoiler-filled chat about Red Dead Redemption 2.

Episode #60 - The Great Ace Attorney Chronicles, Old World, Microsoft Flight Simulator Series X

All rise as Patrick (The Guardian) empanels a jury of qualified guests to talk spoilers for The Great Ace Attorney Chronicles. Joined by Chris Button from Screenhub (@bibbybhoy) and Josh Whittington of Vooks.net (@mario_bones), we chat about the law, Victorian-era racism, and the mind-bending twists and turns of Shu Takumi's latest adventure. Welcome to Video Game Spoiler Talk.

Video Game Spoiler Talk - The Great Ace Attorney Chronicles

James is joined by IGN's Games Editor Luke Reilly to chat about some of their favourite things, fast race cars, and break down what it is that makes F1 2021 such a top contender.

Review - F1 2021

James and Patrick bring you small talk from the world of video games. James has played (and enjoyed) A LOT of F1 2021, Pat previews The Great Ace Attorney Chronicles, and Just Cause 4 on Xbox is good now! Plus news and more on another exciting episode of Video Game Small Talk!

Episode #59 - F1 2021, The Great Ace Attorney Chronicles Preview, Just Cause 4 Reloaded

Australian video games critics and journalists James Swinbanks (GameSpot, Player2.net.au), Hope Corrigan (IGN, Player2.net.au) and Patrick Lum (The Guardian, Hyper) guide you through the murky waters of video games.

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