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PODCAST | What's the best Star Wars game that isn't even a Star Wars game? You may have played it years ago...

It's the most copied and parodied IP ever, and its influences are well documented. So you can find Star Wars' DNA almost anywhere you care to look.

Aug. 30, 2024 Jim Trinca

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PODCAST | The best game with the most pointless feature

We're not allowed to talk about horse balls.

Aug. 23, 2024 Jim Trinca

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PODCAST | What's the best game on the worst console?

Console wars with a twist.

Aug. 14, 2024 Tom Orry

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PODCAST | What's the best game where you can do a wee wee

We're not taking the, er, you know.

Aug. 6, 2024 Jim Trinca

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SNAIL MAIL | What’s the best game that should have been an email?

Best Games Ever Podcast is back - no email summary for you!

July 25, 2024 Kelsey Raynor

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PODCAST | What's the best game that could convince Biden to step down?

Sorry, we put politics into games again, sorry, all the best, sorry,

July 16, 2024 Jim Trinca

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PODCAST | What's the best game you were happy to see the back of?

Oh no, we shoehorned politics into games

July 9, 2024 Jim Trinca

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PODCAST | Which games have aged like a fine wine, and why is everyone so mad at our guest host?

There's nothing graceful about the Best Games Ever podcast episode 104

July 2, 2024 Jim Trinca

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ARE SOULS? | Ian Higton's bum guffs: The Best Games Ever podcast episode 103

What are the best games that didn't live up to their hype? Find out within.

June 25, 2024 Jim Trinca

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PODCAST | What’s the best game that had the worst reveal trailer? The Best Games Ever Podcast episode 102

They say that the first impression is the most important, so even if your game is great, you’d better not botch the announcement.

June 18, 2024 Jim Trinca

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PODCAST | What the best game where everyone's mad at you even though you did nothing wrong? The Best Games Ever Podcast episode 101

It's only game, why you have to be mad?

June 11, 2024 Jim Trinca

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PODCAST | The Best Games Ever Show 100th Episode Quiz: PART TWO

Who wins? Who loses? Who kicks off about the rules? Find out in the second part of our enormous buzzer episode.

June 4, 2024 Jim Trinca

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CELEBRATION | The 100th Episode of the VG247 EVER - super quickfire round edition!

100 questions in this special episode of the VG247 podcast? Who will the winner be? There's only one way to know for sure...

May 29, 2024 Jim Trinca

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PODCAST | Who is currently winning the Best Games Ever Podcast?

We don't have office politics, apart from the half hour per week that we record and publish for your entertainment.

May 21, 2024 Jim Trinca

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PODCAST | What's the best game where your character gets wet, then slowly dries off? The Best Games Ever Podcast episode 99

Water palaver! Games are so good at simulating H2O, but which is the most clever?

May 14, 2024 Jim Trinca

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PODCAST | What's the best game with shooting where you don't get a gun for ages? The Best Games Ever Podcast episode 98

What's the point in having guns if they won't let us shoot people? Eh?

May 7, 2024 Jim Trinca

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BEAR-D INFLUENCE | What's the best game where you fight a bear? The Best Games Ever Podcast episode 97

I'll be honest, it's far too many of them. Even if we're still waiting on a Yogi and Boo-Boo FPS.

April 30, 2024 Mark Warren

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PODCAST | They'd never get away with THIS nowadays! The Best Games Ever Podcast episode 96

Nowadays, right, you can't even massacre everyone on a football pitch in an ill-advised parody of the first world war, because of woke

April 23, 2024 Jim Trinca

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PODCAST | The best game where your family DITCHES you? The Best Games Ever Podcast episode 95

Blood and water are of equal consistency when irradiated.

April 16, 2024 Jim Trinca

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EXTENDED EDITION | The best FREE games we'd love to PAY FOR – SUBS ONLY

As the old saying goes: the best things in life have a flat upfront cost and no microtransactions.

April 9, 2024 Jim Trinca

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PODCAST | The best FREE games we'd love to PAY FOR – The Best Games Ever Podcast episode 94

As the old saying goes: the best things in life have a flat upfront cost and no microtransactions.

April 9, 2024 Jim Trinca

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UNDERDOG | What's the best game everyone says you should hate but is actually good?

Forget critical consensus! What are some of the people's picks?

April 2, 2024 Connor Makar

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ARMAGEDDON FACTOR | Blur vs Split Second was Deep Impact vs Armageddon for mid-2000s arcade racers

They're nothing like buses! They're sports cars!

March 26, 2024 Jim Trinca

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PODCAST | Inspired by Dune 2, what's the best game with a load of sand in it?

What's course, rough, and irritating, but gets nowhere? It's the VG247 podcast!

March 12, 2024 Jim Trinca

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GAAS-LIGHTING | That one live service game you begrudgingly like? It's probably just as bad as all the others, you just need an intervention

As if "always online" is a selling point for entertainment. I'm always online! Let me log off!

March 5, 2024 Jim Trinca

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DISC-USTING | What's the best game that shipped on multiple discs? The Best Games Ever Podcast

Most games shipped on multiple discs, if you think about it...

Feb. 27, 2024 Jim Trinca

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PIRATE BAE | What's the best Pirate Game that ISN'T Assassin's Creed 4: Black Flag? Find out in The Best Games Ever Podcast

Contains only minimal discussion about Blackbeard's syphilitic pinger.

Feb. 20, 2024 Jim Trinca

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EVERYONE LIKED THAT | That game everyone loves that you just can't stand? Turns out, everyone's got one of those

Some popular games are actually real stinkers.

Feb. 12, 2024 Jim Trinca

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S**TE TRAP | Do NOT mention this game on the podcast

Don't say you weren't warned!

Jan. 29, 2024 Jim Trinca

Animal Crossing character holds bag of money over a background of retro games.

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Backlogged | Is there a game you just can't stop playing?

Best game that you play instead of tackling your growing pile of shame.

Jan. 19, 2024 Tom Orry

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AMNESIA: THE BLUNDER | 2023 games you FORGOT about: The Best Games Ever Show

Remember when we had a new Zelda — A NEW ZELDA — and everyone forgot about it within a week?

Jan. 15, 2024 Jim Trinca

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GIT REUNION | The Best Games Ever Show Christmas Special

Who is the best Santa in video games? And is it Tony Blair?

Dec. 22, 2023 Jim Trinca

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Tom Kicks Off | Podcast Audit #3: Tom reveals the guest he hates the most

...and the least.

Dec. 18, 2023 Jim Trinca

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Tom's on this | Are there any good video game spin-offs into a completely different genre?

Look, we all know Mario has loads. You don't need to say it.

Dec. 8, 2023 Jim Trinca

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TURNCOAT | Shock Betrayals and Other Gaming Tropes

Getting screwed over is just part of the deal as a video game protagonist.

Dec. 1, 2023 Jim Trinca

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A STAR TOO FAR | What’s the best game that we’d give a kicking?

Sometimes your review is an outlier, but that’s ok.

Nov. 24, 2023 Jim Trinca

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TAKE A SEAT | What's the best game you can finish in one sitting?

Sometimes you just need a quick one.

Nov. 17, 2023 Jim Trinca

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LONDON PUN | The best game set in London isn’t what you think

England’s capital is gaming’s second city, but some games get it so wrong.

Nov. 10, 2023 Jim Trinca

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DAFT PUNT | From Alan Wake to Miles Prower: what are the best pun names in gaming?

The Best Games Ever Podcast episode 76

Nov. 4, 2023 Jim Trinca

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FUHGEDDABOUDIT | What's the best game set in New York, apart from Marvel's Spider-Man 2?

How d'ya like them Big Apples?

Oct. 27, 2023 Jim Trinca

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GUMSHOE IN | What's the Best Detective Game, and why isn't it Disco Elysium?

Fans of sleuthing are well catered for by video games, but which is the best of the best?

Oct. 20, 2023 Jim Trinca

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VIOLENCE IS GOLDEN | The Best Ultraviolent Spectacle in Gaming

What's the best game where a lot of people get battered? Find out in The Best Games Ever show!

Oct. 13, 2023 Jim Trinca

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It was made in 59 | What is the best driving (not racing) game?

Vroom vroom vroom vroom, parallel park in my room.

Oct. 6, 2023 Jim Trinca

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ALSO FEATURING | What are the best cameos in gaming?

Jeff Goldblum? Professor X? General Zod? They’ve all shown up in video games where we least expected them.

Sept. 22, 2023 Jim Trinca

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Lordy | What's the best Easter game? What even IS an Easter game?

We've not had Christmas yet, but we're extremely odd here at VG247.

Sept. 15, 2023 Jim Trinca

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HE CAME EARLY | What's the best Christmas game? What even IS a Christmas game?

It's not even halloween yet, but we're extremely efficient here at VG247.

Sept. 8, 2023 Jim Trinca

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BEST WURST GAME | What's the best German game, from Germany?

And why didn't we do this when Gamescom was actually on? Find out in The Best Games Ever show episode 67!

Sept. 1, 2023 Jim Trinca

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NO LIFE STYLE | The best Bethesda games that aren’t Bethesda games

If you see it, you can go there. But who does it best? Find out in The Best Games Ever Podcast episode 66!

Aug. 25, 2023 Jim Trinca

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NO COFFIN REQUIRED | What's the best game where nobody gets killed?

Can't we all be friends? Or just maim each other a little? Find out in The Best Games Ever show episode 65!

Aug. 18, 2023 Jim Trinca

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TOUGH LOVE | Goldeneye 64: the best game you love despite itself?

Find out in episode 64 of The Best Games Ever show.

Aug. 11, 2023 Jim Trinca

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