Uwe Boll, film director (House of the Dead, Alone in the Dark, Postal).
My guest today is the German filmmaker Uwe Boll. Born in Wermelskirchen he decided he wanted to direct films at the age of ten, after seeing Marlon Brando star in Mutiny on the Bounty. It wasn’t until...
23 Sep 20241h 13min
Derek Yu, gamemaker (Spelunky, UFO 50).
My guest today is the American video game artist and designer, Derek Yu. Born in Pasadena, California in the early eighties, he started mapping out games on graph paper when he was still a child. Afte...
16 Sep 20241h 11min
Correspondence Special #4: Clickbait?
In this special correspondence edition, host Simon Parkin reads out listeners' correspondence and answers your questions.Hear Simon discuss the recent, headline-making episode with former PlayStation ...
13 Sep 202435min
Chris Deering, former President of Sony Computer Entertainment Europe.
My guest today is an American businessman and the former and first president of Sony Computer Entertainment Europe, Chris Deering. Raised in Boston, Massachusetts to immigrant parents, my guest had a ...
9 Sep 20241h 14min
Eliot Higgins, founder of Bellingcat.
My guest today is Eliot Higgins, a British citizen journalist and founder of Bellingcat, a website that specialises in open-source intelligence. In 2012, while unemployed, he became involved in online...
2 Sep 20241h 12min
Bonus: Game Club vs. The Messenger
In this special episode, Simon is joined by comedian Glenn Moore to discuss the subject of July's My Perfect Console 'Game Club', The Messenger.Throughout July 2024, Glenn and Simon, along with many o...
29 Aug 202434min
Maddy Thorson, game-maker (Towerfall, Celeste).
My guest today is Maddy Thorson, a Canadian writer and designer for video games. At the age of 14, she obtained a copy of GameMaker, software on which she learned to make simple games. After studying ...
26 Aug 20241h 8min
Holly Gramazio, curator, novelist (The Husbands).
My guest today is Holly Gramazio, a writer, curator, and game designer. Born in Australia, she earned her PhD in Creative Writing at the University of Adelaide, then moved to London where she founded ...
19 Aug 20241h 18min
