{"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":"The Battle of Yerba Buena","slug":"the-battle-of-yerba-buena","published_at":"2026-03-15T09:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-vgbees-podcast-6924874/the-battle-of-yerba-buena","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-vgbees-podcast-6924874","url":"https://vgbees.com/captivate-podcast/the-battle-of-yerba-buena","audio_url":"https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/c83460e8-09f9-4361-a62e-57cc5825c76d.mp3","summary":"Support us by joining The Hive ! This week, Niki , Lotus , and John played some great games and took a full week off from games news because there just wasn't anything to talk about! What's that? [holds earpiece] I'm being told there was a lot of news this week. Okay. Well. Here's what they talked about, I guess! Sony testing dynamic pricing everywhere but Japan EA conducting layoffs at Battlefield 6 devs GDC will return to San Francisco despite everything Resident Evil 4 director Shinji Mikami has a new studio SAG-AFTRA issues \"do not work\" order for Mega Man: Dual Override PEGI ratings getting overhaul targeting loot boxes and dark patterns Jeff Kaplan left Blizzard after CFO gave him a nightmarish ultimatum V-Bucks receive a significant price hike Slay the Spire 2 is more of the same, yes, but it's also better than the first one Lost and Found Co. is impossibly cute and a lot of fun Pokémon Pokopia continues to delight and mechanically excel Marathon is the pleasant surprise of the year Your Hive Questions have us wondering what we'd teach Ditto Thanks again for listening and please leave us a review and tell your friends about us!","meta_description":"Support us by joining The Hive ! This week, Niki , Lotus , and John played some great games and took a full week off from games news because there just wa…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":9218,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-vgbees-podcast-6924874/episodes/the-battle-of-yerba-buena/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/the-battle-of-yerba-buena.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}