My Perfect Console with Simon Parkin

My Perfect Console with Simon Parkin

In My Perfect Console, Simon Parkin, award-winning author video game critic for The Observer invites well-known guests from the worlds of gaming, film and television, music, comedy and more to pick the five video games they would like to immortalise on a fictional games machine. They discuss those five games in chronological order of release, interspersed with biographical chat about the guest’s life and career –– a lens that often leads to new and unexpected insights.


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G. T. Karber, crime writer, Murdle.

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Billy Basso, game-maker, Animal Well.

Billy Basso, game-maker, Animal Well.

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Correspondence Special #5: The Best Video Game SFX?

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Jordan Mechner, creator of Prince of Persia.

Jordan Mechner, creator of Prince of Persia.

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Andy McNamara, former editor-in-chief, Game Informer.

Andy McNamara, former editor-in-chief, Game Informer.

Andy Macnamars is the former editor-in-chief of Game Informer. He joined the bi-monthly magazine for its launch in 1991 as an editorial assistant. Within eighteen months he had been promoted to editor...

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Corinne Busche & John Epler, game directors, Dragon Age: The Veilguard.

Corinne Busche & John Epler, game directors, Dragon Age: The Veilguard.

Corrine and John are the director and creative director of Dragon Age: The Veilguard. Corinne Busche majored in digital animation at the University of Utah. In 2006 she joined the studio now known as ...

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Sarah Elmaleh, voice actor (Fortnite, Halo Infinite, Gears of War 5).

Sarah Elmaleh, voice actor (Fortnite, Halo Infinite, Gears of War 5).

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Matt Firor, founder of ZeniMax Online Studios (The Elder Scrolls Online).

Matt Firor, founder of ZeniMax Online Studios (The Elder Scrolls Online).

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