{"podcast":{"title":"The VGBees Podcast","slug":"the-vgbees-podcast-6924874","podcast_index_feed_id":6924874,"rss_url":"https://feeds.captivate.fm/the-vgbees-podcast/","website_url":"https://vgbees.com","image_url":"https://artwork.captivate.fm/3320d25d-ee27-4d43-b975-63d6a9712289/IOANjiIWTI06F0gdiYDoBImA.jpg","author":"VGBees","episode_count":120,"summary":"Host and founder of VGBees, John Warren, is joined every week by cohost Niki Grayson and illustrious guests adjacent to video games and culture for candid, funny, and enlightening conversations about an art form that is both uniting and dividing us. Every week, The VGBees Podcast will explore trends and touchpoints you need to know in order to have the most well-rounded idea of what's going on in games. Explore vgbees.com after each episode for notes on each episode as well as written pieces by our collaborators and guests. We all have to work together to build a brighter future for games, so Join The Honey Hive today!","last_synced_at":"2026-07-10T22:18:01.795928+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-vgbees-podcast-6924874"},"episode":{"title":"Ep 108: GTA6 Pricing, Xbox Price Hike, Steam Machine Details","slug":"ep-108-gta6-pricing-xbox-price-hike-steam-machine-details","published_at":"2026-06-28T09:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-vgbees-podcast-6924874/ep-108-gta6-pricing-xbox-price-hike-steam-machine-details","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-vgbees-podcast-6924874","url":"https://vgbees.com/captivate-podcast/ep-108-gta6-pricing-xbox-price-hike-steam-machine-details","audio_url":"https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/ef7ecd29-c53c-4228-a2e7-bd0240b62461.mp3","summary":"This week, John and Niki discuss the biggest news of the gaming week, including Grand Theft Auto VI edition details, Steam Machine details, and more price hikes for Xbox consoles. 00:00:00 Intro & when it became Turkiye 00:12:30 Steam Machine is in the wild and available for waitlisting 00:28:13 Xbox consoles increase in price again 00:33:08 Grand Theft Auto VI isn't on disc and somehow people were shocked 00:46:38 Bungie lays off Destiny 2 team ; Hermen Hulst writes bad blog post 01:04:00 Tim Sweeney thinks you owe it to yourself to play his games 01:07:07 LEGO Batman: Legacy of the Dark Knight looks great, feels great, and deftly balances multiple tones 01:10:50 Niki bought NBA 2K26 for cheap and still regretted it 01:20:05 Beatdown City Survivors successfully riffs on a familiar formula, but is it enough? 01:23:42 Niki talks about Carly Rae Jepsen's new album while agonizing over whether to buy a new television 01:27:55 Outlier is a great new online word game you're going to get sucked into 01:33:45 Niki updates us on their NAS system (and hating Linux) 01:39:07 HIVE QUESTIONS 02:00:45 Outro Thanks for listening! Please leave us a review! We'll read it on the show and it helps us out a lot. VGBees is ad-free, AI-free, and completely supported by you! https://vgbees.com/join VGBees is a weekly games media podcast hosted by Niki, John, and Lotus.","meta_description":"This week, John and Niki discuss the biggest news of the gaming week, including Grand Theft Auto VI edition details, Steam Machine details, and more price…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":7372,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-vgbees-podcast-6924874/episodes/ep-108-gta6-pricing-xbox-price-hike-steam-machine-details/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-vgbees-podcast-6924874/ep-108-gta6-pricing-xbox-price-hike-steam-machine-details.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}