Video Game Choo Choo

After recovering from our epic beach trip, the Choochcast is back as John, Lorelai, and Maverick are here to talk about the huge amount of news this week and what they've been playing. John fixed his SP which means he's been playing a ton of Pokémon: Emerald while Maverick has been digging into the new Rumbleverse playtest. Lorelai has been digging into the latest Vampire Survivors patch and Eiyuden Chronicle: Rising before she and Maverick scream about how much they love Monster Hunter Rise: Sunbreak. In the news, Shinzo Abe got assassinated and a bunch of racist channers tricked people into blaming Hideo Kojima for it. In tragic news, Yu-gi-oh's manga creator Kazuki Takahashi died in a tragic accident. Gamestop laid off a ton more people from Game informer, Rockstar is stopping development on Red Dead Redemption and Grand Theft Auto 4 remasters because the GTA Trilogy remasters sucked and shifting everyone to Grand Theft Auto 6's Development. E3 is coming back in conjunction with ReedPop and Yuji Naka is h

John’s gone, busy working on weird backroom deals. But while the boss is away, the gang takes a much needed day off. Join Scott, Elvie, Maverick, and Solon as they take a little vacation. Our theme song is “Crush” by Melt Channel, from the album Magic is Real.

It's Sunday, which means it's time for another episode of the Video Game Choo Choo Podcast. Join John and Maverick as they go over all the news from the week from Halo accidentally doing a really bad racism and Tactics Ogre: Reborn leaking on PSN. Capcom is coming out swinging with Dragon's Dogma 2 and new RE8 DLC and Square didn't miss with the next chapter of the FFVII Remake, FFVII Rebirth coming next winter and Crisis Core coming this winter. May we all find our true Gongaga. Maverick's been playing Railbound, Saint's Row IV, and WrestleQuest, while John's been boomer shootin' with Slayers X: Terminal Aftermath: Vengance of the Slayer. As always, you can support us on our Patreon, and follow us on Twitter @VGChooChoo, @john_michonski, @chorbySP, and @mavsplaniamania. Also, don’t forget to rate and review us on iTunes, and tell a friend about the show! If you want to send in questions send them to our ask box at videogamechoochoo.tumblr.com/ask. You can also join our Discord channel at thegamezone.zone!

It's Sunday, and that means John is here with Solon and Maverick to talk about all the news coming from the Summer Games Fest and everything around it from Wholesome Games to the Day of the Devs. Solon's been playing Clone Hero and Final Fantasy XIV while John is back on his Shin Megami Tensei kick with Strange Journey Redux. Maverick is playing 13 Sentinels and digging into the beta for Rumbleverse.  As always, you can support us on our Patreon, and follow us on Twitter @VGChooChoo, @john_michonski, @chorbySP, and @mavsplaniamania. Also, don’t forget to rate and review us on iTunes, and tell a friend about the show! If you want to send in questions send them to our ask box at videogamechoochoo.tumblr.com/ask. You can also join our Discord channel at thegamezone.zone! Our theme song is “Crush” by Melt Channel, from the album Magic is Real.

Crank up that AC and get ready to listen to "Get Lucky" on repeat because summer is once again on the horizon. This week John goes through the wringer in SMT Strange Journey Redux, Maverick unleashes his inner empath reflecting on Life is Strange: True Colors, and Elvie gets whisked away to Hatsune Miku's world in Project SEKAI amidst her gacha adventures. Also on the pod we go through Pokemon's new gen and what the future can hold with Junichi Masuda stepping down, check out the highs and lows of Playstation's State of Play including some leaks about Street Fighter 6's roster, and discuss what really is the future of Sonic now that gameplay of Sonic Frontiers is out. As always, you can support us on our Patreon, and follow us on Twitter @VGChooChoo, @john_michonski, @lvmaeparian, and @mavsplaniamania. Also, don’t forget to rate and review us on iTunes, and tell a friend about the show! If you want to send in questions send them to our ask box at videogamechoochoo.tumblr.com/ask. You can also join our Disc

We done did it again. This week on the pod: John's Shmuping and Touhouing (which are somehow separate things), Elvie's Ludonarraconing with some hot new demos, and Scott's Elding with a side of Staning. PLUS! Skullgirls evades potential war crimes, Ni No Fucking Thanks Kuni, Sims 4 pronoun picking, games is too old, some definitely confirmed future Multiversus characters, and EA and Microsoft continue to show us all that corporations are hell. As always, you can support us on our Patreon, and follow us on Twitter @VGChooChoo, @john_michonski, @lvmaeparian, and @scottblah. Also, don’t forget to rate and review us on iTunes, and tell a friend about the show! If you want to send in questions send them to our ask box at videogamechoochoo.tumblr.com/ask. You can also join our Discord channel at thegamezone.zone! Our theme song is “Crush” by Melt Channel, from the album Magic is Real.

John and Maverick are back this week to go deep into Xenoblade Chronicles and Multiversus. In the news, Death Stranding is getting a sequel and Silent Hill is leaking a little bit. EA almost got sold to Universal, WATA Games is being sued by the government, and Blizzard released their "Diversity calculator" explaining how they go about designing characters or something? I don't know, it makes no sense. In the funny side of things, their is a bunch of stuff happening with Inafune and NFT's and we're trying to parse it all and can't stop laughing. As always, you can support us on our Patreon, and follow us on Twitter @VGChooChoo, @john_michonski, and @mavsplaniamania. Also, don’t forget to rate and review us on iTunes, and tell a friend about the show! If you want to send in questions send them to our ask box at videogamechoochoo.tumblr.com/ask. You can also join our Discord channel at thegamezone.zone! Our theme song is “Crush” by Melt Channel, from the album Magic is Real. Subscribe via iTunes, Hipcast,

It's another short one this week as John and Solon sit down to talk about Arknights, Ace Combat 0, We Heart Katamari, and what they are looking forward to trying with games like Loot River, Trek to Yomi and Citizen Sleeper. In the news, union reps visited the white house, Haden Blackman is leaving 2k and Mafia 4 is in the works. Ubisoft Montreal has taken over the Prince of Persia Remake, Microsoft is making a streaming-only console and Square Enix sold off a lot of it's western studios to focus on the blockchain. As always Activision is in the news for being terrible, this time being sued by New York. As always, you can support us on our Patreon, and follow us on Twitter @VGChooChoo, @john_michonski, and @mavsplaniamania. Also, don’t forget to rate and review us on iTunes, and tell a friend about the show! If you want to send in questions send them to our ask box at videogamechoochoo.tumblr.com/ask. You can also join our Discord channel at thegamezone.zone! Our theme song is “Crush” by Melt Channel, from

It's a short one this week as John and Maverick sit down to discuss the happenings in the world of video games. John's been playing a little bit of Xenoblade Chronicles and Arknights while Maverick has been digging into The Stanley Parable: Ultra Deluxe. In the news, the Mario Movie has been delayed and Twitch seems to be shaking up their partner program in some really bad ways. We also dive into the situation with Yuji Naka deciding to pick a Balan Bout against Square-Enix. As always, you can support us on our Patreon, and follow us on Twitter @VGChooChoo, @john_michonski, and @mavsplaniamania. Also, don’t forget to rate and review us on iTunes, and tell a friend about the show! If you want to send in questions send them to our ask box at videogamechoochoo.tumblr.com/ask. You can also join our Discord channel at thegamezone.zone! Our theme song is “Crush” by Melt Channel, from the album Magic is Real.

We're back and we've been gaming. Join John, Solon, Maverick, and Lorelai as they run down the week in games. Lorelai's become an Final Fantasy XIV raid teacher and playing Rune Factory 5 for what little time she manages to pull herself away from Vampire Survivors. Maverick is back in the Trails of Cold Steel IV hole along with the classic Gitaroo Man. Solon's played just about every Namco/Bandai game and Ghost Trick while John got himself an XBOXOne and 100%'d Kirby and the Forgotten Land In the news we talk about labor complaints against Nintendo as well as the Raven Software unionization news. Final Fantasy XIV is having a housing crisis, Digimon Survive actually has a release date and Xenoblade Chronicles 3 actually got moved up. As always, you can support us on our Patreon, and follow us on Twitter @VGChooChoo, @john_michonski, @mavsplaniamania, @JudgmentScythe and @ChorbySP Also, don’t forget to rate and review us on iTunes, and tell a friend about the show! If you want to send in questions send them

It's Sunday, which means we're back with another episode of the Video Game Choo Choo Podcast. Franny and Elvie join John to talk about the news of the week and all the games they've been playing. John's been digging into mobile games with Arknights and Shin Megami Tensei: Liberation Dx2 as well as Kirby and the Forgotten Land. When Franny hasn't been out shooting wrestling shows, she's been digging into Destiny and NORCO. And when Elvie hasn't been hanging out at Tim Heidecker shows with Maverick, she's been playing Gundam Evolution and Chinatown Detective Agency. In the news, Activision's got another Blizzard of news with just, so much happening that they had to show off a new Overwatch character to distract people. Bugsnax is getting more content and coming to all the consoles, No Man's Sky is getting even more free updates, and Cook Serve Forever is coming. Kingdom Hearts 4 is also on the way, along with fun furry Half-Life 2 mods. Hasbro also bought back D&D Beyond. As always, you can support us on

It's a relaxed downtempo episode this week with Solon, John and Maverick. This week we discuss games that change your walk like AI: The Somnium Files, which Maverick is working his way through trying desperately not to be spoilt by the rest of the crew. Solon has been playing the "bayoupunk" adventure game Norco with extremely prescient social commentary, and taking a big ol' bite of a Kirby pie! Remedy is remaking Max Payne 1 and 2, the Hypnospace Outlaw devs are working on a new game inspired by the 2000s internet, and an FPS, Monkey Island is back with its original crew, and Pac-Man's home life is falling apart! As always, you can support us on our Patreon, and follow us on Twitter @VGChooChoo, @john_michonski, @mavsplaniamania, and @ChorbySP Also, don’t forget to rate and review us on iTunes, and tell a friend about the show! If you want to send in questions send them to our ask box at videogamechoochoo.tumblr.com/ask. You can also join our Discord channel at thegamezone.zone! Our theme song is “Crus

Oh, it's a boyscast. Scott, Solon and Maverick are getting juiced up, wet, and wild on a late Saturday Live cast. Scott beat that Elden Ring, Mav's getting down and dirty with some Power Wash Simulator, and Solon's putting on his Tunic getting back on the boat with Sea of Thieves. Plus, our ongoing and neverending Activision Blizzard coverage, Cleo Draglalialost loses her job, Sony's Playpass (just kidding, they couldn't come up with that if they tried), Bloodborne Kart real, shaggy controllers real, Testament real and nb, and an in depth look into the themes of #GollumGame. As always, you can support us on our Patreon, and follow us on Twitter @VGChooChoo, @scottblah, @mavsplaniamania, and @ChorbySP. Also, don’t forget to rate and review us on iTunes, and tell a friend about the show! If you want to send in questions send them to our ask box at videogamechoochoo.tumblr.com/ask. You can also join our Discord channel at thegamezone.zone! Our theme song is “Crush” by Melt Channel, from the album Magic is Re

It's a full house tonight as John and Maverick are joined by the returning Solon and Lorelai to talk the week in games. John's been playing Persona 4 Arena Ultimax while Solon has marathoned the Hitman and Psychonauts series'. Meanwhile Maverick is still deep into Elden Ring while Lorelai is obsessed with killing Chaos in Stranger of Paradise: Final Fantasy Origin. In the news, Pokémon Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl got an update, Supermassive games is making a new star studded game called The Quarry, and Sony showed off the incredibly not good looking Hogwarts Legacy game. It also turns out that a lot of indie studios suck to work at with more stories of workplace abuse from companies like Ori and the Blind Forest developer Moon studios. Along with that we go over what happened over the last few weeks with Artesian Builds losing everything because their CEO is a nightmare person. As always, you can support us on our Patreon, and follow us on Twitter @VGChooChoo, @mavsplaniamania, @ChorbySP, @Judgement

John and Maverick are back at it again to talk the week in games. John's been digging back into AI the Somnium Files after a 2 year break and also jumped comfortably back into Pokémon Legends: Arceus while Maverick is still stuck deep in the Elden Ring hole, only popping his head out for a Chaos check-in with the Stranger of Paradise: Final Fantasy Origin demo. In the news we go over Ikumi Nakamura's new studio, the Dead Space remake getting a release date, Super Nintendo World coming to the US, Advance Wars getting delayed and Sony's Japan focused State of Play. We also dig into the sexual harassments lawsuit that's been brought against Sony. As always, you can support us on our Patreon, and follow us on Twitter @VGChooChoo, @mavsplaniamania and @john_michonski, Also, don’t forget to rate and review us on iTunes, and tell a friend about the show! If you want to send in questions send them to our ask box at videogamechoochoo.tumblr.com/ask. You can also join our Discord channel at thegamezone.zone! Our th

John and Maverick are back to talk all the games they've been playing this week. John finished up Xenoblade Chronicles 2: Torna The Golden Country and has been messing with a lot of different mobile games. Maverick spent himself a week in Seattle and had some arcade fun before he buried himself in Elden Ring. In the news, Bandcamp got picked up by Epic Games, Babylon's Fall launched  quieter than a mosquito, CD Projekt Red has cut off sales to Russia, and an NVIDIA leak suggests a new switch is coming. Itch.io also brought in a ton of money for trans rights in Texas with a TTRPG bundle. G/O Media is going on strike and corporate is doing some really scummy things to keep posting content while both Quantic Dream and Activision are having a lot of trouble hiring people for job openings. As always, you can support us on our Patreon, and follow us on Twitter @VGChooChoo, @mavsplaniamania and @john_michonski, Also, don’t forget to rate and review us on iTunes, and tell a friend about the show! If you want to se

That's Right, the Video Game Choo Choo Podcast is back and John and Maverick are here to go deep into Pokémon Legends: Arceus and all the news from the Nintendo Direct. John's also been continuing his newfound obsession with Shin Megami Tensei: Strange Journey Redux and going into the giant world of Xenoblade Chronicles 2: Torna. Maverick is still going hard into the Trails series with finishing Trails of Cold Steel 3 and starting up Cold Steel 4, along with that he's got some things to say about the MONARK demo and the weird personality quiz they have on their website. It wasn't all good in the Nintendo world as we go into the news with them thanking the feds for throwing a switch hacker in jail for 3 years, Microsoft bought Activision and Sony bought Bungie while Telltale is releasing the Wolf Among Us 2. We've also got some new info leaked on the Resident Evil 4: Remake. As always, you can support us on our Patreon, and follow us on Twitter @VGChooChoo, @mavsplaniamania and @john_michonski, Also, don’t

It's a new year of the VGCC and it's an all new episode of the podcast! This time John, Elvie, Maverick and Solon take us through a small retrospective of some highlights from last year like Loop Hero, Inscryption, The Artful Escape, Death's Door, Road 96, Cozy Grove and the new Yu-Gi-Oh Rush Duels Battle Royale. And we discuss terrible news like Square Enix being unreasonably hyped for NFT, Castlevania 35th Anniversary NFTs, and the pope bearing presence to Megalovania. As always, you can support us on our Patreon, and follow us on Twitter @VGChooChoo, and @mavsplaniamania, @john_michonski,  @lvmaeparian, @chorbysp Also, don’t forget to rate and review us on iTunes, and tell a friend about the show! If you want to send in questions send them to our ask box at videogamechoochoo.tumblr.com/ask. You can also join our Discord channel at thegamezone.zone! Our theme song is “Crush” by Melt Channel, from the album Magic is Real.

Scott and Elvie take their break from manning the bar to talk about some dang games. Elvie's making some embarrassing shopping mistakes, Scott is flabbergasted by Halo Infinite, our collective experience so far with VA-11 HALL-A, and we read a couple Essays of Empathy. Plus, the hottest news which we've poured into a glass and are lighting on fire, including: what's going on with FFXIV Endwalker, Kickstarter's tripping all over it's nuts for the blockchain, the Vodeo Games union, CD Projekt Red, Bungie, FF7R, more NFT bullshit, and more!

John is back on the pod to talk about his new job working at an arcade, going to CEO to play and watch fighting games, while Solon is here to give his perspective on Final Fantasy XIV: Endwalker now that he's finished it. The gang then talks about all the news of the week with Ubisoft diving into NFT's, Garfield garfin' up Nickelodeon All Star Brawl and Activision-Blizzard-King employees preparing to strike. They also dive deep into all the news and awards from The Game Awards before digging into your questions. As always, you can support us on our Patreon, and follow us on Twitter @VGChooChoo, @johnmichonski, and @chorbysp Also, don’t forget to rate and review us on iTunes, and tell a friend about the show! If you want to send in questions send them to our ask box at videogamechoochoo.tumblr.com/ask. You can also join our Discord channel at thegamezone.zone! Our theme song is “Crush” by Melt Channel, from the album Magic is Real.