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Your favourite people at VG247.com (plus Jim Trinca) chat about the best games ever - with a twist.

Interactivity is this medium's entire thing. It's a composite of many other art forms: everything from prose, to sculpture, to television. W...

Sometimes a game comes along that is, for reasons, a bit a of a black sheep as far as its parent company is concerned. It could be a passion...

Add-on content for video games is often worthless, but it can sometimes go very, very right: just look at the DLC catalogue for The Elder Sc...

Gaming is full of rings of power: from RPG trinkets that give your character a small but pivotal buff to a critical stat, warp rings that pr...

Who won out of Star Citizen and Elite Dangerous, the crowdfunded space sim sensations pitched to us a decade ago by two of the genre's most...

If you were lucky enough to have lived through the 7th console generation as a young adult with enough disposable income to buy a couple of...

Inspired by the recent release of Star Wars Outlaws, this week's podcast is all about what makes Star Wars, something we're exploring via th...

Sometimes video games include the most random things, but who doesn't love that stuff? We all get excited when you can flush a toilet or tur...

Video games are great, but sometimes you just have to admit that some of them are only available on consoles that, well, aren't great. Rubbi...

Video games are unparalleled in recreating real and fictional experiences. Only when both are channelled well, with love and passion, can a...

It's time for another episode of the Best Games Ever Podcast. This time we've got a great topic as Tom picked it. Join Jim, Tom, Connor, and...

It seems like nothing will convince Biden to step down and let someone else run against Trump., but we don't care about any of that because...

You wait years and years for something to finally be over, and once that day comes, you’re left not with a sense of joy, but with a deep-set...

Most games age like milk in the hot sun. But some are so bold, so brilliant, that they transcend their contemporary era, remaining relevant...

There's now a premium, extended version of this podcast that you can get as a VG247.com paid subscriber - check out our Support Us page for...

Many great games have suffered from poor marketing. Sometimes they’re advertised to entirely the wrong demographic. Other times, they’re par...

It won't have escaped your notice, dear viewer or listener, that the last episode - our incredible two-part 100th episode special quickfire...

To recap: for the 100th episode we decided to come up with 100 episode topics and blow them all on one huge quiz round, with individual buzz...

One-hundred episodes. 100 weeks of The Best Games Ever podcast. I can scarcely believe it. On a personal note, it's been wonderful to host t...

Ahead of our big 100th Episode Quickfire Special Featuring Steve Burns, which is going to irrevocably change the scoreboard forever, Tom and...

Realistic water and wetness were seen for years as a litmus test for photorealistic graphics, but by the PS3 generation, developers had it n...

Whatever your attitude to guns in real life (for the record, they’re awful and civilians shouldn’t have them), it’s hard not to become a sor...

Hello and welcome to episode 97 of the Best Games Ever Podcast. As is traditional, let us give you some information about the show. This wee...

You can’t say anything these days! Is what silly people say, a lot. You can actually say whatever you like. You can say, for example, and wi...

Inspired by the (frankly excellent) Fallout TV show, this week on VG247's Best Games Ever podcast I've tasked my colleagues with finding the...

Inspired by the recent free drop of current viral sensation Content Warning – a co-op survival “shooter” about making spooky FauxTube videos...

The Best Games Ever podcast is a game show where three totally normal and socially acceptable panellists have to find the best game in a pec...

Big Western style open-world RPGs from beloved Japanese studios who tend to be known for other things (inhale) are like buses: there's none...

It’s clear from Helldivers 2’s marketing that the game is directly inspired by Blair-era Dutch arthouse anti-war movie Starship Troopers. It...

It's been long and arduous road to something resembling a worthy adaptation of Frank "dirty" Herbert's sand-based epic Dune, but with the re...

If you're anything like me, nothing makes you lose interest in a game quicker than the words "always online". Or "free-to-play". Or "connect...

Physical game releases have been in danger of disappearing for a long time, what with Steam all but killing the PC optical drive, a cheaper...

The Best Games Ever podcast is a game show where three regular panellists have to find the best game in a weirdly specific category such as...

Sometimes it's just really baffling why certain games are popular. And you wonder to yourself if it's just because you're broken in some way...

What's the best game that has no business being brought up on a podcast that's all about the Best Games Ever? If you can get your head aroun...

Honestly, we've got no idea what episode this is. Jim thinks this is Season 2, which is news to everyone else, but it's also sort of episode...

So much STUFF game out in 2023 - we had Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom, a new Baldur's Gate, a Skyrim sequel which introduced such innovations...

Well, for the six of you who kept asking, Merry Christmas. For this festive episode on VG247’s Best Games Ever Show, Tom and Jim are reunite...

We have a lot of guests on the VG247 podcast because we know a lot of Games Media Personalities and most of them are too polite and/or socia...

The VG247 crew is back to decide on yet another Best Game Ever. In this week's show we're looking at games that are spin-off from a game in...

Tom's back by popular demand, but also to answer for his crimes against a previous guest: James Batchelor, author of The Best Non-Violent Vi...

Recently, our friend and long time VG247 contributor Sherif Saed gave Pinnochio-themed soulslike Lies of P a bit of a pasting in his review....

Hours of gameplay is a deceptive stat. We’re conditioned to think that a bigger number is better in all things when it comes to this hobby,...

London shows up in a lot of games. It’s in a lot of Call of Dutys, which is the biggest shooter franchise in the world. It has the distincti...

From Alan Wake (he’s A. Wake, get it? Get it?) to Miles Prower, there are loads of video game protagonists whose names are rubbish puns. Wel...

Gimme ham steak on rye with extra pickles and a dozen egg whites on the side. Hold the pickles. Who's uncle do I gotta bribe to get a parkin...

Inspired by the recent-ish release of Detective Pikachu Returns, the topic of this week’s Best Games Ever show is: what’s the best Detective...

Video games and excessive violence go together like cheese and crackers. Laurel and Hardy. Beer and nuts. Bacon and, er, rolls. Playstation...

I don't have a driving licence. I can't drive a car. People assume I can because I like games with cars in them. I don't bother to correct p...

We all love a bit of Cyberpunk don't we? And did you know that there are loads of games that use that setting and aesthetic that aren't Cybe...