Console of the Year Award (2025).
A special episode with the winner of the My Perfect Console of the Year award, crowning the most popular console designed by a guest on the show this year, as voted by the listeners to the show.Become...
29 Dec 202519min
Game of the Year 2025 (ft. Glenn Moore).
The year is winding down, inboxes are quietening (lol), time is about to lose all meaning, and the year’s great cultural arguments are finally ready to be settled. Perfect timing, then, for My Perfect...
23 Dec 20251h 48min
Harvey Smith, game director (Deus Ex, Dishonored, Redfall)
Harvey Smith is a game designer and writer whose work has helped shape some of the most atmospheric and influential games of the last two decades. After serving in the U.S. Air Force he began his care...
16 Dec 20252h 1min
Alex Seropian, co-founder of Bungie (Live @ University of Chicago).
Alex Seropian is a pioneering American video game developer whose work helped shape some of the most iconic series in the medium. After studying mathematics at the University of Chicago, he co-founded...
9 Dec 20251h 44min
Mark Cerny, lead system architect, PlayStation 4 & 5.
Mark Cerny is an American programmer, and game designer whose career has shaped not only how we play, but the systems we play on. A San Francisco native, he dropped out of UC Berkeley at 17 after rece...
2 Dec 20251h 30min
Brandon Adler, game director, The Outer Worlds 2.
Brandon Adler is an American game director and producer whose career has been defined by his work on some of Obsidian Entertainment’s most acclaimed role-playing games. After serving in Iraq with the ...
25 Nov 20251h 20min
Correspondence Special #8: Catching guests out, coding on ships, and best moments in games
In this special correspondence edition, Simon reads out your letters and answers your questions.Why are guests so often caught out when asked to name their console? What is the best moment in a video ...
21 Nov 202528min
Andy Davidson, creator of Worms.
My guest today is a British game designer whose ingenuity and persistence turned a bedroom project into one of the most iconic multiplayer series in video games. In 1991, he took the characters from t...
18 Nov 20251h 27min
