Podcast appearances and mentions of chris bratt

Wesley Yin-Poole is in charge of the news desk over at IGN and has been reporting on the games industry for almost two decades at this point.He's also been a mentor of mine ever since our days working together at Eurogamer where he helped shape some of my very first stories, while he himself published some incredible work on the rise and fall of Lionhead Studios and its notorious co-founder, Peter Molyneux.Wes is one of the best games reporters in the business and I'm so happy to finally have him on the show.Support the show

On a recent episode of Remap Radio, we talked about a horrifying story of abuse, manipulation, and exploitation at an outsourcing studio used by a number of high-profile video game companies. That video was produced by People Make Games, a terrific YouTube channel that specializes in video games reporting. Recently, Patrick had a chance to chat with People Make Games co-founder Chris Bratt about outsourcing, video game journalism, and much more.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

This week Nathan and Gita are joined by Chris Bratt of People Make Games – one of the best investigative outlets in all of video games – to discuss his new video about workplace abuse at outsourcing studios in southeast Asia. We try to get to the bottom of why big video game companies turn a blind eye to these sorts of incidents, which in this case include a manager convincing a subordinate to slap herself in the face 100 times as an act of penance. Yeah, it's bad! Then we talk about how the wildfires currently raging in California – which are displacing video game studios, among many, many other things – are happening right next door to CES in Las Vegas, where tech titans are trumpeting the latest environmentally destructive fad, generative AI. After that, we move on to slightly more lighthearted fare in our predictions for the year in gaming. Only one of us predicts a major industry-related crash, so that's gotta count for something. Also, Half-Life 3 is getting announced this year. Mark my words.      Credits - Hosts: Nathan Grayson, Chris Person, and Riley MacLeod - Podcast Production & Ads: Multitude - Subscribe to Aftermath! About The Show Aftermath Hours is the flagship podcast of Aftermath, a worker-owned, subscription-based website covering video games, the internet, and everything that comes after from journalists who previously worked at Kotaku, Vice, and The Washington Post. Each week, games journalism veterans Luke Plunkett, Nathan Grayson, Chris Person, Riley MacLeod, and Gita Jackson – though not always all at once, because that's too many people for a podcast – break down video game news, Remember Some Games, and learn about Chris' frankly incredible number of special interests. Sometimes we even bring on guests from both inside and outside the video game industry! I don't know what else to tell you; it's a great time. Simply by reading this description, you're already wasting time that you could be spending listening to the show. Head to aftermath.site for more info.

Jason Schreier is a games reporter for Bloomberg, best known for his extensive reporting on the volatile reality of AAA game development.On today's episode we'll be talking about his latest book, Play Nice: The Rise, Fall, And Future of Blizzard Entertainment and the frankly horrifying number of interviews he needed to complete over the course of his reporting.Despite having a young baby to look after and exactly two and a half hours of free time each day (when said baby is soundly asleep upstairs), I devoured Jason's book in less than a week. It's very, very good. Let's talk about it!Support the show

Nicole Carpenter has been reporting on the games industry at Polygon for the last five years, where she's perhaps best known for her coverage of unions and the increasingly vital role they're playing in shaping the future of video game development.In fact, not only has she reported on this subject diligently over the last few years, she also wrote what is perhaps the defining piece of journalism on the subject: The Rise of the Video Game Union."....the type of journalism we're doing impacts people's lives in really tangible ways. And, you know, whether that's somebody we're writing about who did something bad, or people who are unionizing, or people who have been laid off. And that is a huge responsibility. And so it needs a certain level of investment and dedication and sometimes sacrifice to make sure you're doing your job, treating the work you're putting out, with the respect and care and responsibility it needs."Support the Show.

Grant Stoner is a freelance reporter who specializes in covering accessibility and disability across the games industry in his work.Among other work, he writes a monthly column for IGN where he recently examined how the mass layoffs ripping through the games industry have affected disabled game workers, in particular. This is a great example of why Grant's perspective is so necessary in the games media right now, shining a spotlight on an often overlooked area of games and the people who play and make them."They can't afford their medications, they've had to stop procedures, some person can't afford life-saving medication that they were only able to afford because of their insurance... So often, with accessibility, we see that 'oh, these studios are great, they really care about us', but this is the reality of being disabled, especially if you're in this industry."Support the Show.

Sarah Parvini was a games reporter at the LA Times until just a few months ago, having been among those who were hit by a staggering round of layoffs at the paper earlier this year. In fact, the publication is meant to have shed around 20% of its newsroom in one fell swoop. Journalism is in a rough state, folks.In this episode you'll hear guest host Nicole Carpenter talk with Sarah about what it's like reporting on the games industry for such an established publication and how she managed to approach her stories through the lens of California and Los Angeles in order to appeal to a regional audience."So, the video game industry layoffs, that's not something that is unique to California, but given the nature of California's importance to the video game industry it's something that I felt like we should be covering. And, it wasn't hard to find companies, unfortunately, that had laid people off here in California. And it's only getting easier everyday, right?"Support the Show.

Chelsea Reed Miller is a video editor for IGN and a spokesperson for the IGN Creators Guild, a brand spanking new union that's been officially recognized by IGN's parent company just a couple of months ago.In today's episode, you'll hear guest host Nicole Carpenter talk to Chelsea about what that means for people working at one of the biggest publications in the games media and why it's important to think about collective action before things start falling apart, if possible."The best time to unionize is when things are good. You want to unionize when you love your job, so you can make sure that those things that you really love about your job are codified. So that you can make sure that those things that you love are going to stay."Support the show

Quintin Smith is one third of People Make Games, although hopefully you already knew that. Outside of his work with us, he's also known as the co-founder of board games behemoth Shut Up & Sit Down and now, as of just a few weeks ago, he's started something brand new, exploring the world of TTRPGs. It's called Quinns Quest and it's extremely weird and good, just like Quinns."If you just go into a community going 'hey, I wanna understand why this is fun for you', people will tell you! People are able to explain their passions and once you know their passions, you can ask about those passions in more detail and once you've got that, you're able to understand the community. There are no weirdos."Support the show

Stephen Totilo has been a games journalist for two decades now, making him one of the most experienced people in the field. His career spans a stint at MTV News as its first ever games reporter, nine years as Kotaku's Editor-in-Chief and until recently, he wrote a twice-weekly gaming newsletter for Axios.Today, Stephen is looking to strike out on his own with Game File, an independent newsletter published on Substack and funded directly by his audience."I have concerns about a younger generation of reporters finding a footing, coming up, because we are seeing in the elimination of a lot of these jobs, lesser opportunity for people who are still trying to make a name for themselves and do it in a way that is sustainable. But, what I see in aggregate is more outlets, right now, committed to covering games than I saw several years ago."Support the show

Nathan Grayson and Riley MacLeod have just launched a brand new, worker-owned games publication called Aftermath, along with some other ex-Kotaku staff you'll recognise. As in, today, right now! Chris grabbed them for an interview a few days ago to talk about the challenges that come with starting something fresh, crowdfunding and what being "worker-owned" really means in this context."You know — and everyone knows — that 2022 and 2023 have been nightmarish for games journalism, and for journalism broadly, and also for games studios. And like, what else are you going to do? Where else are you going to go? When I panic and I'm like: is this a ridiculous idea? Should I just go and get a real job where somebody else understands how the taxes work? I'm like... what is it? Where is it? It's exciting to think about, you know, now we're the job! We'll make the job."Support the show

Patricia Hernandez is now the former Editor-in-Chief of Kotaku, having been fired from the position just a few days ago. In today's episode we're going to be talking to her about what's happened and digging into the increasingly strained relationship between Kotaku's editorial team and the company which owns the site itself, G/O Media."I can't really go into specifics about the reason because it does involve other staffers and their personal information, so I just want to be sensitive to that. But I will say it was a deeply G/O Media reason. It's all been pretty disappointing.I feel like, in some ways, maybe it was for the best. I was opening my notes app and kind of scrolling through it and came across a resignation letter that I wrote literally a year ago."Support the show

Rebekah Valentine is a Senior Reporter at IGN and an instrumental figure in the site's latest ambitions to establish itself as a true home for longform video games reporting.  She's also just been on the ground at Summer Games Fest, the potential successor to the games industry's biggest, flashiest trade show, E3.How do the two shows compare from a reporter's perspective and will E3 ever manage a revival? We'll be asking Rebekah all about it."I am now two and a half years in and I'm still doing reporting! I'm kind of blown away by it. I'll freely admit that I sort of had an idea in my head of what IGN is... and it was grounded in the way that IGN had actually been. But especially if you're somebody listening to this and hasn't read IGN in several years, I would really encourage you to dip back in and look at some of the stuff we've been doing the last couple of years, because Tina really did set up a legacy of good journalism and good reporting."Support the show

2 Player Productions is a documentary crew that's been embedded with Double Fine Productions for more than a decade now, having first come onboard in order to follow the development of Broken Age and create the Double Fine Adventure series.However, it's their latest work that's absolutely knocked my socks off. Double Fine PsychOdyssey is, quite simply, the best video games documentary work I've ever seen. It follows the much longer development of Psychonauts 2 and is just the most vulnerable, revealing look into what it really means to create a video game. I cannot recommend it enough. Gosh. It's so good."There's a lot of concern about that meeting, rightfully so. It was the most intense thing we've had on camera and everybody was upset, we were upset. I thought that if we cut it out, it would do a disservice to the evolution of the studio and the way that mindsets at the studio were shaped, the way that the culture was shaped... I'd like to think it shaped the way everybody thought about crunch and what that meant, what that word even means."Support the show

It's a PS VR2 special, and this week we're joined by Chris Bratt from People Make Games! There's an absolute shed-ton of PS VR2 impressions to get through; including the headset, the overall experience, and the games. Games such as Horizon Call of the Mountain, Kayak VR: Mirage, GT7, NMS VR, and more. We also discuss Nintendo not going to E3, new Mario games being worked on, Mikami leaving Tango Gameworks, everything announced at least week's PlayStation State of Play, The Double Fine doc, the controversy surrounding Atomic Heart, and more. Games discussed: PSVR 2, Horizon Call of the Mountain, Kayak VR: Mirage, Drums Rock, Zombieland: Headshot Fever Reloaded, No Man's Sky, Resident Evil Village, Gran Turismo 7, Humanity, Atomic Heart, The Pale Beyond, Kirby's Return to Dreamland Deluxe, Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice.   Contact tcgs.co Contact form Discord Twitter Instagram Facebook Follow @davidturners @CaptainToss @matmurray @jcafarley Watch Twitch YouTube Listen Spotify Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Pocket Casts Overcast acast Stitcher Credits Music by Nick Parton Art by Dave Chong

Tyler McVicker has been utterly obsessed with Valve for more than a decade now, having reported on almost every scrap of news, speculation and datamined morsel to come out of this famously secretive company at the heart of the games industry.Having just published our own report on the reality of working at Valve, with its "flat" structure, no managers and no job titles, I wanted to talk to Tyler about the challenges that come with trying to understand such an unusual business. And one of those challenges, unfortunately, is dealing with the more toxic parts of Valve's community. PMG has faced its own share of that over the last couple of weeks."Because of the opaqueness, because there is a vacuum of information, misinformation becomes gospel. So what you're dealing with is a lot of individuals effectively treating Valve as if they are Gordan Freeman; a blank slate that you put your own personality onto. And when somebody else betrays that self-perceived personality, it almost feels like a parasocial relationship being destroyed."Support the show

Sam Greer is a freelance games critic, having previously worked for Glass House Games and GamesMaster magazine. More recently, she worked with People Make Games (that's us!) on an incredible video about the lack of working class people employed in the games industry. That's what we'll be talking about in today's episode."I think when we talked about it before my worry was that the video would just be one of those things that people would retweet and go 'oh this is so important', you know?' and that would be it... But actually what's kind of happened, that I've seen a lot of, is just a lot of discussion and it sparking loads of specific conversations off the back of it. And that's more than I'd hoped for. I was so worried about people getting that this mattered, but not really caring."Support the show

Hirun Cryer first got his break in the games media writing guides over at USGamer. And guides content, dear listeners, is perhaps one of the most overlooked part of this entire job. Frequently responsible for the lion's share of a publication's traffic, despite rarely appearing on the homepage itself, video game guides are hugely important to the overall success of some of your favourite games sites. So why are guides writers so often underpaid and overworked?"You know how people say there are no old games media workers? Because they all move out of the industry because of pay and all that? I don't think I really know any old guides writers, because they're all gone now, they've all moved on to other things. It's churned and burned them and the machine has dumped them and got in the latest worker, because there are always very young, keen, eager writers raring to go. That's not their fault. That's just how the world operates and how this machine treats people."Support the show

Danny O'Dwyer creates video game documentaries for Noclip, a crowdfunded YouTube channel first launched in 2016. Known for their high production value and behind-the-scenes access to some of the most successful game developers in the world, Noclip has had a huge influence on PMG's work over the years. Prior to starting his own company, Danny is perhaps best known for his work at GameSpot, where he hosted shows like The Point and The Lobby."The reason I wanted to do the Bethesda stuff is that there's a couple of studios that if you cover, people just want to dunk on them so bad. And I loved the idea of doing a big retrospective on Bethesda because Bethesda's not cool to people! There's a whole generation of gamers who've all they've ever done is Todd Howard memes and take the piss out of some of the most successful and most beloved games ever made."Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/peoplemakegames)

Lucy James is the head of GameSpot's video team, managing a team of hosts around the world. Having moved from London to San Francisco, you'll have likely seen her face on all sorts of GameSpot video stuff, as well as her more recent appearances on Giant Bomb's The Very Online Show. In this episode we talk about the differences between the UK and US games media, the effect COVID has had on GameSpot's flagship shows and I get to quiz Lucy about the brilliant Audio Logs series."Typically game development is not this shiny process. It's not 'oh I have an idea, I'm going to make the game'.  It's iterative. It's killing your darlings. It's hard. So we wanted to break down those stories and discover what game development is really like."Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/peoplemakegames)

In the lead-up to our 100th episode in a couple weeks, Logan and Trevor are reflecting on some of their all-time favorites lists. This week, they discuss their favorite video game characters. Shoutouts: "Investigating Three Indie Superstars Accused of Emotional Abuse" by Chris Bratt, People Make Games https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xDPzZkx0cPs "Despite its beautiful Ori games, Moon Studios is called an 'oppressive' place to work" by Dean Takahashi, GamesBeat https://venturebeat.com/2022/03/18/despite-its-beautiful-ori-games-moon-studio-is-called-an-oppressive-place-to-work/ "JK Rowling's Anti-Transgender Stance And Hogwarts Legacy" by Jessie Earl, Gamespot https://www.gamespot.com/articles/jk-rowlings-anti-transgender-stance-and-hogwarts-legacy/1100-6501632/ "Why Sander Cohen is one of BioShock's most memorable elements" by Ashley Oh, Polygon, highlighting "Why We Remember Bioshock's Fort Frolic" YouTube video by Mark Brown, Game Maker's Toolkit https://www.polygon.com/2016/10/10/13228630/why-sander-cohen-is-one-of-bioshock-s-most-memorable-elements Follow the Nerds: Logan: @LeftyLoggy Trevor: @TrevorJStarkey That Nerdy Site: @thatnerdysite

Ethan Gach is a senior reporter at Kotaku and has been responsible for a lot of the site's coverage of the Activision-Blizzard lawsuit, in which the company has been accused of a staggering number of gender discrimination and sexual harassment charges. Back in July, Ethan's reporting revealed details and photographs of the "Cosby Suite", a Blizzcon hotel room described by the lawsuit as a place for one high profile Blizzard developer to hit on and harass female employees while at the show."The screenshot spoke for itself in a way. This is the top level allegation that's being made against this studio, that all of these different behaviours, misconduct, mistreatment fall under this larger umbrella that people who have any conception of frat culture will understand to be often white male dominated, aggressive and sexually predatory. And here was this suite and this screenshot that are showing that exact behaviour."Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/peoplemakegames)

Tina Amini is the Editor-in-Chief at IGN, one of the largest video game publications in the world. With over one hundred staff making up the content team she's responsible for, Tina finds herself in a position unlike almost any other in the games media business."We're not just encyclopaedic. We're not just churning through the news everyday in an unreflective way. We're not just using our access to bring you First Looks and exclusives. We're also thinking about the larger, deeper stories that you're interested in. And we're putting in the work to do these investigations because we think there's an inherent, informative value to them."Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/peoplemakegames)

Jacob Geller is a video essayist and critic who draws upon modern art, architecture and politics in order to reframe how we think about the games we play. He's also really into Beat Saber."I think people haven't been shown why they should care about this history yet. And that is partly our job to say, like, it's important that you know this term, not just because you can throw it around, but because by knowing this and by knowing the conversations that have happened previously about it, you can expand your knowledge of games. You can make these things more meaningful for yourself if you engage in a little study."Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/peoplemakegames)

Aoife Wilson is the head of Eurogamer's video team, as well as an established freelancer working with the likes of BAFTA, the BBC and Wizards of the Coast. She also used to be a colleague of Chris' before he started People Make Games!"It's lessened now because I'm a bit more established in the industry, but I think when I started, I really… I felt there was a bit of classism especially where my accent was concerned. I still get a little bit prickly when people take apart the accent because there's just an underlying current of ‘oh, that's cute' and everything. And I'm like, no, I know my shit. I know what I'm talking about."Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/peoplemakegames)

Mark Brown is the creator of Game Maker's Toolkit, an enormously popular YouTube channel that's home to a wide range of video essays about game design."Reaching the goal of a million subscribers, I knew that was going to feel weird because I'd done a lot of reading about goals and how we set them for ourselves and how it can feel strange when we reach a goal, because we spend so much mental energy thinking about what we're going to do when we get there and that sort of stuff. And then you get there and you're like, well, what am I going to do next? So I kind of pre-empted that that was going to be strange. And then it just kept feeling strange for months."Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/peoplemakegames)

Patricia Hernandez is the new Editor-in-Chief of Kotaku, having now returned to the site after beginning her career there some ten years ago."I think, in some senses, it's not just an ambitious idea, it's how do I make this hard, ambitious idea happen while also giving my writers a realistic workload that does not have video games just completely taking over their life? And I think it's especially a concern of mine, because early on in my career I feel I was able to get ahead as much as I did because I basically gave away my life to games and it's worked out for me, but I don't want to see that for other people."Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/peoplemakegames)

Ben and Tao take a deep dive into the awe-inspiring underworld of Subnautica: Below Zero. Is everything as it seems or is something fishy going on? Nah, it's as it seems, I just really wanted to use that pun. They talk breathtaking moments, the exciting and troubling possibilities of VR, the magic of sound design, vocal protagonists, photorealism, and why horror works best when it's unintentional. Big story spoilers from around 45 minute mark. Warnings given in advance. Content Warning: PEGI 12. Playful and exasperated swearing, and longer than usual - sorry not sorry. Clarifications: There are four difficulty levels, Survival (survive alone on 4546B while investigating the death of your sister), Freedom (like Survival, without hunger or thirst), Hardcore (Survival mode with only one life. No O2 alerts) and Creative (build anything with no constrains. Oxygen, food, story and death disabled). Here's a link to the People Make Games piece by Chris Bratt that Tao mentioned: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zVnOcmiEdIE The overview of Amazon's growing dominance over the supply chain that Ben mentioned: https://logisticsviewpoints.com/2021/03/24/amazon-supply-chain/  Audio extracts: Star Wars: The Phantom Menace (1999) Memories - Elvis Presley Good Morning, Vietnam! - feat. Robin Williams RIP Foreigner - Cold As Ice Black Mesa - Xen Homeworld - Transcendent OST Chris Rea - It's All Gone (1986) A Bug's Life (1998) - Francis The Ladybug Under The Sea - The Little Mermaid (1989) Eye in the Sky (2015) drone scene The Lion King ‘Circle of Life' (1994) Ready Player One (2018) The Forest title theme by Gabe Castro Spock and Captain Kirk, Star Trek The New Secretary. Hancock's Half Hour Series 4 feat. Kenneth Williams Heat (1995) feat. Al Pacino Gimlet's Homecoming podcast Episode 1 Diamonds Are Forever (1971) theme Faster Than Light OST by Ben Prunty Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/pixelvisionpod  Twitter: @pixelviz Email: pixelvisionpod@gmail.com

Austin Walker is the host of Waypoint Radio and Friends at the Table, having previously launched Waypoint back in 2016 and having been a part of Giant Bomb's New York office before then."You have to reset your goals. Your goals cannot be 'I'm going to change the conversation'. It has to be 'I'm going to have a good conversation'. I'm going to build a space that is comfortable, and warm, and critical, that I get to be in and that helps me pay my bills, but also, helps me bring joy to some amount of people."Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/peoplemakegames)

An archeologist and expert in Greek myth tells us what Hades the game gets right (and wrong) about the Gods...

Thanks so much to Chris Bratt for showing up! Check out his new gaming mini-doc channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZB6V9fUov0Mx_us3MWWILg Download or subscribe via RSS feed: https://feeds.soundcloud.com/users/soundcloud:users:365723144/sounds.rss YouTube versions: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC58jKMTseTHniEJBQLPdTdg 00:05:32 Chris Bratt on quitting Eurogamer and going to Patreon/self-employment 00:14:10ish Chris Bratt on Stardew Valley 00:19:55 ish Liam on Moonlighter, then the Switch version of Ikaruga 00:29:42 George on A Way Out 00:35:57 Matt on Dauntless, the RC Cola Monster Hunter 01:09:07 Returning from break with news of Pokemon Let's Go, Pikachu 01:24:41 Fallout: 76 01:33:13 https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2018-05-31-assassins-creed-odyssey-leaked-via-a-keyring 01:44:01 Listener questions Don't forget to send questions to: dadandsonspodcast@gmail.com Art by Strekks: https://twitter.com/Strekks Music by Ace Waters: https://soundcloud.com/motive-makes-a-man

On this week's episode, the former video producer at Eurogamer and VideoGamer, the host and creator of Here's a Thing, and now his own boss at People Make Games, Chris Bratt, joins host Josiah Renaudin to discuss long-form games media. Chris details the value of People Make Games, what it's like to launch a big Patreon, how major websites handle news, how much you can change your own concept after people pledge money to it, and crazy stories surrounding game dev.

The podgang love videogames so much they met up in *real life* to talk about them in a room. Pip likes the new teen angst drama Life Is Strange: Before the Storm, in which she's been talking back like a brat. Speaking of which, special guest Chris Bratt from Eurogamer joins us to talk about XCOM 2: War of the Chosen, because we're sick of Adam's face. Meanwhile, Brendan is getting slap-happy in brutal facepuncher Absolver. Links: XCOM 2: War of the Chosen review: https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2017/08/24/xcom-2-war-of-the-chosen-review/ Chris plays 80 minutes of XCOM 2: War of the Chosen with developer Jake Solomon: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o-ik5hH9gGU Adam is an Ironman idiot and XCOM proves it: https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2017/09/04/xcom-2-ironman-2/ Life Is Strange: Before the Storm review: https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2017/08/31/life-is-strange-before-the-storm-episode-1-review/ 9 minutes of Life Is Strange: Before the Storm: https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2017/08/04/life-is-strange-before-the-storm-video/ Absolver review: https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2017/09/05/absolver-review/ Absolver's insulting slap move: https://www.reddit.com/r/absolver/comments/6xln95/i_finally_did_it_i_got_the_slap_kill/

Joining Liam this week is “The Strategy King” himself, Eurogamer’s Chris Bratt. A video producer and writer at the popular UK-based video game website. As his nickname (which he swears he didn’t give to himself ;D) suggests, this week there’s a lot of talk about strategy games of all kinds! Including a few other perfect (for a)deserted island, gaming choices! Please enjoy :) Don't forget to follow on Soundcloud and leave a comment about what you thought of Chris' choices! We'd love to hear what you the listeners think of the guest's choices and let's have a lovely discussion :) You can also download this show on iTunes as well, just search for "Final Games". Please rate and review the show! apple.co/1QP0ciS Chris Bratt: @bratterz www.eurogamer.com Please go check out Craig's excellent music on Soundcloud! Thank you to him for his excellent intro! @windmills-at-dawn @craigedycraig If you'd like to contact the show or Liam, or if you have any feedback please check out: @LiamBME @FinalGamesShow finalgamespodcast@gmail.com Final Games is hosted on Soundcloud at: @finalgamespodcast But is also available on iTunes, aCast and Stitcher!

On this bonus episode of the Waypoint UK Podcast, senior editor Mike Diver is joined at VICE's London office by Alice Bell of Videogamer, Chris Bratt of Eurogamer, and Alysia Judge of IGN to discuss some of 2016's most impressive video games.   You can absolutely expect to hear conversations about Overwatch, Watch Dogs 2, Dishonored 2, XCOM 2, other games that aren't sequels, Final Fantasy XV, The Last Guardian, Inside, Event[0], Uncharted 2 (not a typo) and The Flame and the Flood. And more! It lasts for an hour and 20 minutes! It's a lot of podcast! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

On this bonus episode of the Waypoint UK Podcast, senior editor Mike Diver is joined at VICE's London office by Alice Bell of Videogamer, Chris Bratt of Eurogamer, and Alysia Judge of IGN to discuss some of 2016's most impressive video games.   You can absolutely expect to hear conversations about Overwatch, Watch Dogs 2, Dishonored 2, XCOM 2, other games that aren't sequels, Final Fantasy XV, The Last Guardian, Inside, Event[0], Uncharted 2 (not a typo) and The Flame and the Flood. And more! It lasts for an hour and 20 minutes! It's a lot of podcast! Our GDPR privacy policy was updated on August 8, 2022. Visit acast.com/privacy for more information.

Sean is busy moving house so Chris Bratt steps in to talk about VR Porn and Sonic before everyone talks about the games they've played. Mat goes into spoiler territory after completing Life is Strange and the questions section gets overshadowed by Chris' ego. Listen Apple Podcasts Pocket Casts Overcast acast Stitcher SPOnG   Watch Twitch YouTube   Contact thecomputergameshow@gmail.com Twitter Instagram Facebook Discord   Follow @davidturners @jcafarley @matmurray @CaptainToss Artwork by BigShimmeryWall Music by Nick Parton

Chris, Pip, Tom F and John Roberts gather to chat about our favourite Overwatch heroes now that it’s out, Warhammer: Total War, Duskers, Fallout 4: Far Harbour, XCOM 2: Alien Hunters, and Imbroglio. Here’s Eurogamer’s Chris Bratt showing off some of what Blizzard revealed about Overwatch’s sound design trickery. Here’s Chris baiting a Reinhardt into [...]

This week Matt is joined by two guests: Chris Bratt and Gav Murphy, both of whom remain sober and sensible while Matt glugs his way through the dregs of a cold. We chat about Unravel (and whether or not Yarny deserved to horribly die in a fire), Overwatch, briefly chat about XCOM 2 - obviously - and then Matt reveals that he's playing Cookie Clicker. Again. Finally, we answer a couple of interesting questions - leading to Chris Bratt offering the shocking revelation: "I don't know a lot about developing lunchboxes".

Matt is joined by Chris Bratt for a bumper edition of Daft Souls that's entirely about XCOM 2. Spoilers are kept to an absolute minimum as we're a pair of respectful chaps, but obviously it IS two people talking about a game for over an hour, so if you're precious about not knowing anything at all - avoid! Everyone else? ENJOY.

Matt and Joe are joined by Chris Bratt, who's been playing a lot of Overwatch. It sounds exciting, but the other chaps have real reservations about the online team-shooty genre - can stuff like this and Rainbow Six: Siege avoid the horrible fate of Evolve? Matt's been playing Starcraft 2, and Joe's been dipping into Code Name S.T.E.A.M and thinking about stressful games. Special thanks again to Mr Joe Skrebels for standing in for Quinns over the last few months, and thanks to those of you who fund Cool Ghosts for allowing us to pay him for his brilliant services! If you love Joe then don't despair, we're planning to get him doing a little bit of video stuff for us at some point in the new year. For subscription links, Daft Souls info, and a place to ask questions - head on over to the Daft Souls page. If you love the podcast, please consider writing us an iTunes review!

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Matt is joined by Chris Bratt (https://twitter.com/thebratterz) and Quintin Smith (https://twitter.com/quinns108).

Matt is reunited with Chris Bratt for a lengthy chat about Dota 2, XCOM, and a bunch of your questions.(https://twitter.com/thebratterz)