VGC Patreon replace: Extra movies, extra podcasts

In case you missed it, VGC is on Patreon providing you with extra podcasts, movies, and bonus content material from VGC.

Earlier this yr, we launched Patreon.com/VideoGamesChronicle.

We wish to supply extra of what makes VGC nice, whereas on the similar time ensuring that we’re by no means pay-walling the content material that you simply’ve come to anticipate from us.

By supporting VGC, you’re securing the way forward for fiercely impartial sport media, and getting a ton of additional content material every month.

We’ve launched 2 new podcasts, posted hours of unique video content material, and extra. However what precisely do you get on your help?

Extra Podcasts

Recording VGC: The Video Sport Podcast is the spotlight of our week, and the suggestions since we launched the present with our companions at Stak has been unimaginable.

We all know how a lot our readers take pleasure in it, and the way a lot they need extra, so on Patreon, that’s what we’ve supplied. Two, model new month-to-month exhibits, overlaying matters that VGC is the skilled in: outdated video games, and off-topic chat.

Chatting Classic Video games, or CVG, is our month-to-month retro podcast. Every month, host Chris Scullion takes a subject, whether or not or not it’s a console within the case of September’s episode on the Dreamcast, or a style, like our deliberate horror-themed particular in October, and reminisces.

Joined by VGC employees and a rotating solid of our skilled mates, CVG is a podcast that’s constructed on VGC’s strengths: an enormous wealth of information and expertise.

CVG is accessible to Patreon members on the Supporter tier and above, in each video and audio codecs. Supporters can be a part of the present by contributing their reminiscences and ideas on that month’s matter.

Our different present, VGC: Off Subject, is precisely what it feels like. In case you’ve heard the primary jiffy of most episodes of VGC: The Video Sport Podcast, you’ll know that occasionally, we will stray off the trail of video games, down the mines of West Ham, Scotland, and vitality drinks. CVG is a whole month-to-month podcast of these conversations.

VGC: Off Subject is accessible to Patreon members in each video and audio codecs on the Insider tier and above.

Extra Movies

One other a part of our Patreon providing is our expanded video output. This contains longer seems at new video games (which at the moment contains among the final surviving Harmony footage on earth), seems at our in depth collections of gaming memorabilia, and even edited skits and IRL movies that includes the VGC crew.

Patreon provides us the chance to add frequent, off-the-cuff movies that provide you with prolonged seems at video games outdoors of the normal announcement, preview, and assessment cycle.

Not solely this, in what we expect is a reasonably distinctive providing for the house, we’re bringing you behind the scenes on press journeys, and what it’s actually prefer to work within the video games trade.

Content material on trendy video games is accessible to Patreon members on the Supporter tier and above, whereas our edited movies and appears at older titles can be found for the Insider tier and above.

Extra VGC

Our remaining supply on Patreon is our easiest: Extra VGC.

What this implies is by supporting us on Patreon, you make sure that VGC can proceed to be an independently-owned chief within the video games media house. It implies that we will present our each day information, critiques, and opinions that you understand us for, fully free.

We by no means need Patreon’s VGC providing to really feel like we’re gatekeeping issues that was once free on the web site behind a paywall. That is an additive expertise and one we’re very happy with.

We’ve not even talked about Chris Scullion’s weekly roundup of gaming information, which feels prefer it might have been plucked out of any basic gaming journal of the mid-2000s. That’s out there to all Patreon members, each week.

However our journey on Patreon doesn’t cease there, we’ve solely simply began. We wish to develop, supply extra and listen to from our Patreon supporters about what they need from VGC.

Within the yr VGC turned 5, we wish to thanks dearly for all of your help of the years, and we hope you include us as we take the subsequent steps.

It’s no secret that lately it’s been a troublesome time for journalism, particularly round video video games.

As a wholly impartial publication, VGC has felt these market pressures greater than most, which is why we determined to launch a Patreon earlier this yr to construct a more in-depth relationship with our readers and create a extra sustainable path for the longer term.

By supporting VGC on Patreon, you may assist us proceed to do what we do greatest throughout breaking information, insightful critiques and considerate opinions, whereas giving us the muse to create extra of the podcasts, movies, and group options you take pleasure in. And shortly, we are going to supply on-site advantages akin to commenting and ad-free searching, completely for Patreon members.