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You know when Naked Snake has to painstakingly dig bullets out of his flesh at the specific direction of the medic in his earpiece? You ever...think about it?
Introducing VGBees, a new video games and culture website launching soon.
Run by ex-Fanbyte head
@FloppyAdult
and featuring freelance writing from the best in the biz.
Rates & pitch guidelines to be published soon, but inquiries can be made now to john
@vgbees
.com.
In
@merrittk
's second launch week piece for us, she contemplates the loss of local multiplayer and what it means for the generation that grew up after it was lost.
Some notes:
- prompt paid work for all contributors
- no generative AI ever
- completely ad-free
- 95% of all content completely open for the public
- tip & sub supported
- subs get content pilots & exclusive pieces
- hope you like bees
accessibility and disability reporting are going to get frequent play on the site, so we decided to kick it off with how the third party peripheral bans have affected disabled console gamers with this piece by
@Super_Crip1994
The Souls Difficulty Discourse is not only exhausting, but it also fails disabled gamers by focusing way too much on the underlying, often brilliant design philosophies of Hidetaka Miyazaki, writes
@Super_Crip1994
so what's on VGBees? glad you asked!
this
@letominor
piece about Pentiment & mass misinformation adds some interesting color to one of our favorite games of the last few years.
I have received the first VGBees freelancer piece. I am continuing to accept pitches (very selectively to start) in preparation for our launch in the new couple of months.
john
@vgbees
.com
Rates begin at $200.
Hello if anyone has a pitch specifically about Vivi Ornitier please email me at john
@vgbees
.com okay thanks.
Needs to be more than "he's great" but from there it's your call.
our podcast has been going on for a few weeks with
@FloppyAdult
&
@godsewa
hosting. we had
@chuckduck365
on this past week to discuss SGF. make sure you sub to the podcast and sub to & to get notified of when we go live!
please tell your friends and anyone else who might be interested in the site! we'd love to get a steady drip of freelancer content on the site forever!
Astro Bot is simultaneously a brilliant and inventive platformer and a cynical gateway to other Sony properties.
@FloppyAdult
@godsewa
@chuckduck365
The VGBees Podcast posts new episodes every Friday.
We have
@itsVanAken
on today's podcast! Come hang out at 1pm CT where we'll catch you up with this week's games news and have a nice little moment about the life and times of Game Informer.
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The pitches I've received so far are personal essays, so here's what I'm telling them:
Go beyond personal essay! Draw from your experiences, of course, but go broad across the canon or deep into the character. Don't focus on you! Flex a little. Get weird with it.
Hello if anyone has a pitch specifically about Vivi Ornitier please email me at john
@vgbees
.com okay thanks.
Needs to be more than "he's great" but from there it's your call.
site runner
@FloppyAdult
liked Blumhouse's first game, Fear the Spotlight, quite a bit. read his impressions from SGF 2024 and why it might be a good starter game for folks who are normally too scared for modern horror.
VGBees is 100% listener and reader supported. you can join by going to and there you can see what you get at each tier of membership.
VGBees is 99% fully accessible to the public and ad-free. your support is the only thing paying for great content!
Thank Goodness You're Here! is bursting with personality, filling its short runtime with countless moments eliciting delight. One of the year's best. Our review:
hey now that you're here and we're live i'll remind you that
@FloppyAdult
has a Tuesday morning show called Wake Up Honey, It's Tuesday over on our Twitch and tomorrow's will cover the Nintendo Direct
~tomorrow~ we are back with a live episode of The VGBees Podcast with
@FloppyAdult
and
@godsewa
!
Our special guest this week is none other than
@adashtra
! Come for the video games and stay for the Aperol hate party!
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1pm CT every Thursday
Fear the Spotlight's demo at SGF 2024 made us feel good about
@cozygamepals
' design sensibilities and
@BlumhouseGames
' taste level as a new publisher.
We're recording today's podcast live at 1pm CT with special guest
@imranzomg
so get over to our Twitch right at the start time because he's with us the whole show.
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We're sorry that
@FloppyAdult
has chosen to play Kingdom Hearts on stream. He is a valued member of the team and will be greatly pitied. We all hope he will stop playing it. As a member of a small, reader-supported website, he has to know this will not end well.
Modern misinformation campaigns are top of mind in today's political climate. Pentiment paints a familiar picture all the way back in the 16th century.
"Millennials who grew up with the internet and watched it transform and zoomers who have only ever known it in its current, centralized and corporatized mode are beginning to reevaluate their relationships to personal technologies."
Despite some nagging visual crowding and camera issues, Kunitsu-Gami: Path of the Goddess is the year's biggest surprise. A self-contained, throwback, homerun swing from a major publisher.
Hello! It is the first annual Vivi Celebration Day here at VGBees!
First,
@ChrisWGates
on how the beloved FFIX character allowed the series to properly eulogize its past.
Thinking about joining The Hive? Episode 0 of our podcast is a pretty good reason to check it out! Exclusive bonus episode where
@godsewa
&
@FloppyAdult
dissect the end of Fanbyte and the beginning of VGBees.
"We are doing a commission, dutifully performing our research until, of course, we find it, somewhere in history’s ruins, a monument relaying a message the Thread Puller was desperate to hide."
"Easy Mode" is not the panacea some hope for when it comes to FromSoft games and accessibility, often because it would undermine the brilliant design therein.
@Super_Crip1994
with another great piece for us.
This week's pod touched on the Deadlock coverage backlash and
@FloppyAdult
is here to remind you that journalists and marketers do not do the same job.
@godsewa
is here to remind you not to hold water for the pipes!
Audio:
Video:
If you can believe it, we're going live in 20 minutes with Episode 7 of The VGBees Podcast!
We'll chat with
@adashtra
on the back half, but on the front half, you'll hear us on today's biggest topic: parkour battle royales.
See you then!
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@VGBees
Congratulations! Is there an url that will take me to an "all stories" type page? Would love to make your site part of my daily routine, but as an old person (ie: desktop browser user), the tile design of the front page doesn't really work for that use case
Our first two official reviews went up today!
First, the riotously funny Thank Goodness You're Here!
Then, the return of early aughts mid-size originals from huge studios in the form of Kunitsu-Gami: Path of the Goddess
The VGBees Podcast is back at 1pm CT!
@godsewa
and
@FloppyAdult
will hit Kunitsu-Gami, the news of the week, and much more!
We're joined by
@Kofie
at 2pm CT to dive giant mascot head first into College Football 25!
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"Easy Mode" is not the panacea some hope for when it comes to FromSoft games and accessibility, often because it would undermine the confident design therein.
@Super_Crip1994
with another great piece for us.
We're recording today's podcast live at 1pm CT with special guest
@imranzomg
so get over to our Twitch right at the start time because he's with us the whole show.
twitch | vgbees