In case you missed it, VGC is on Patreon providing you with extra podcasts, movies, and bonus content material from VGC.
Earlier this 12 months, we launched Patreon.com/VideoGamesChronicle.
We need to supply extra of what makes VGC nice, whereas on the identical time ensuring that we’re by no means pay-walling the content material that you just’ve come to anticipate from us.
By supporting VGC, you’re securing the way forward for fiercely unbiased recreation 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 to 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 get pleasure from it, and the way a lot they need extra, so on Patreon, that’s what we’ve provided. Two, model new month-to-month reveals, masking matters that VGC is the professional in: outdated video games, and off-topic chat.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 forged of our professional pals, 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 recollections and ideas on that month’s matter.
Our different present, VGC: Off Matter, is precisely what it appears like. In the event you’ve heard the primary couple of minutes of most episodes of VGC: The Video Sport Podcast, you’ll know that now and again, we are able to 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 Matter 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 to be at new video games (which presently contains among the final surviving Harmony footage on earth), seems to be at our intensive 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 offer you prolonged seems to be at video games exterior of the standard announcement, preview, and overview cycle.
Not solely this, in what we expect is a fairly 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 fashionable 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 closing 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 are able to present our day by day information, evaluations, and opinions that us for, utterly free.
We by no means need Patreon’s VGC providing to really feel like we’re gatekeeping issues that was free on the web site behind a paywall. That is an additive expertise and one we’re very pleased 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 traditional 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 need to develop, supply extra and listen to from our Patreon supporters about what they need from VGC.
Within the 12 months VGC turned 5, we need 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 unbiased publication, VGC has felt these market pressures greater than most, which is why we determined to launch a Patreon earlier this 12 months to construct a better relationship with our readers and create a extra sustainable path for the longer term.
By supporting VGC on Patreon, you’ll be able to assist us proceed to do what we do finest throughout breaking information, insightful evaluations and considerate opinions, whereas giving us the inspiration to create extra of the podcasts, movies, and neighborhood options you get pleasure from. And shortly, we’ll supply on-site advantages equivalent to commenting and ad-free looking, completely for Patreon members.
