The VGBees Podcast

Hello! This week, John and Niki discuss the most explosive game release of the year, Hollow Knight: Silksong. 500,000 concurrents? Broken shops? Unfathomable discourse? You got it, baby.

That, and:

• The…

This week, John is back at full strength and here to discuss all the games Niki has played! Among the discussion points:

• Layoffs at Giant Squid & Rec Room
• Conversation boundaries and etiquette
• Sword of …

With John on the International Space Station, Niki and Lotus talk all things Gamescom 2025, including:

• Call of Duty: Black Ops 7
• Black Myth: Zhong Kui
• Resident Evil Requiem
• World of Tanks: Heat
• Ghost of Y…

This week, Niki and John are joined by Lotus, who has a lot of smart ideas about how messy the "reporting" around itch.io has gotten, frozen alcohol, and whole word comprehension. Also:

• the breakdown …

Niki and John had a great time talking about the Nintendo Indie World Showcase this week on the show right after they spent twelve minutes talking about a thing that's embargoed! When will you hear a…

This week, John and Niki discuss the latter's big media day with Battlefield 6, the game that's aiming for 100,000,000 players! Do they think it can happen? You'll have to listen to find out. Also:

• Th…

Hi there! This week, Niki and John went super long and recorded three solid hours of discussion, including:

• College Football 26
• Donkey Kong Bananza
• What if the Switch 2 Lite has an OLED?
• The simple brill…

Niki's live from London, Ontario this week at Tennocon while John's getting up at the crack to podcast. What a show, too! We're absolutely loving Donkey Kong Bananza and John might be obsessed with t…

Niki is IN JOHN'S HOUSE this weekend. Wild stuff. They grabbed lunch at Hurtado BBQ and ate a truly irresponsible amount and then decided to podcast! Smart? Not really. But here we are! Discussion po…

On a very special public bonus of the show, John is joined by fellow disabled games media person Grant Stoner (IGN, Polygon, VGBees) to celebrate Disability Pride Month! How do they celebrate? By reg…

This week, Niki and John are joined by perhaps the greatest games media talent scout in the industry's history, Endless Mode's Editor-in-Chief Garrett Martin. He hung out to tell us about the new sit…

This week, Niki and John go deep (again) on Mario Kart World and its most head-scratching design choices. Tired of us talking about that? Okay! We also talked about:

• Andrew Wilson's obscene pay bump a…

John returns to the podcast after spending last week in the hospital and joins Niki to talk about the second full week of Switch 2 as well as:

• the indefinite Marathon delay
• 3rd party titles apparently …

This week, John was zooted in the hospital recovering from surgery (he's fine!), so Niki and Lotus took the reins and delivered a banger of an episode, featuring:

• Summer Game Fest swag
• Sonic Racing: Cr…

John broke his ankle in a car accident so couldn't make it out to SGF this year, so instead Niki attended the planned VGBees Mixer and we decided to set up a little area for John to digitally greet g…

Niki and John are riding solo this week while we prepare for Summer Game Fest. Included in their hangout:

• Coverage expectations of Geoff's big show
• EA's cancelation of Black Panther and the closure of …

This week, Niki and John are joined by one fifth of the owners of Giant Bomb, the unfathomable Dan Ryckert! Yes, wrestling comes up. Yes, fast food brands are discussed. Yes, extremely local minutia …

Hello Hive! This week, Niki and John are joined by extremely talented and funny video essayist, streamer, and podcast host Jenna Stoeber! In addition to a lively discussion of whether can is barrel, …

This week, John and Niki ride as a duo to talk about the big American Pope. Also:

• big questions about how independent games outlets can survive
• killing Avatar Aang in Fortnite
• flying an X-Wing in Fortni…

This week, Niki and John were supremely lucky to have Jeff Gerstmann on the show to discuss the shocking sale of Polygon to Valnet (laying off the vast majority of the team there) and the implosion o…