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.


"Thoroughly modern and ahead of its time...a gift." - NEW YORK'S VULTURE

"Charming, insightful." -- THE GUARDIAN

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Natasha Hodgson, writer, composer, performer, Operation Mincemeat.

Natasha Hodgson, writer, composer, performer, Operation Mincemeat.

Natasha Hodgson is a British writer, performer, and composer for theatre, television, and audio. As a co-founder of the theatre company Spit-Lip, she co-created, co-wrote, and co-composed Operation Mi...

28 Apr 1h 42min

Simon Lockerby, streamer, founder Fateless Games.

Simon Lockerby, streamer, founder Fateless Games.

Simon Lockerby is a game creator and studio co-founder whose path into development didn’t follow a traditional games pipeline, but instead grew out of everyday play and community building. While worki...

21 Apr 1h 21min

C. Thi. Nguyen, author, philosopher.

C. Thi. Nguyen, author, philosopher.

C. Thi. Nguyen is an American philosopher whose work explores what games reveal about agency, and the ways in which metrics can shape our desires. After graduating from Harvard, he enrolled in a Ph.D....

14 Apr 1h 36min

Michael French MBE, founder, London Games Festival.

Michael French MBE, founder, London Games Festival.

My guest today is a games industry leader whose career has spanned journalism, publishing, public policy, and cultural advocacy. He began in 2002 as an editorial assistant at trade paper MCV, quickly ...

7 Apr 1h 26min

Felicia Day, actor, screenwriter (Buffy the Vampire Slayer, The Guild).

Felicia Day, actor, screenwriter (Buffy the Vampire Slayer, The Guild).

Felicia Day is an actress, writer, producer, and entrepreneur whose work has helped define internet-era geek culture. After studying mathematics and music performance at the University of Texas at Aus...

31 Mars 1h 27min

Evan Narcisse, writer (Rise of the Black Panther, Spider-Man, Wu-Tang: Ruse of the Deceiver) - Live @ University of Chicago

Evan Narcisse, writer (Rise of the Black Panther, Spider-Man, Wu-Tang: Ruse of the Deceiver) - Live @ University of Chicago

Evan Narcisse is an American writer, journalist, and narrative designer whose work spans comics, criticism, and video games. After graduating from New York University, he began his career as a culture...

24 Mars 1h 39min

Ed Atkins, artist.

Ed Atkins, artist.

Ed Atkins is a British contemporary artist known for his haunting, hyperreal digital videos—works that combine computer-generated bodies, poetic monologues, and a profound sense of longing, absurdity,...

17 Mars 1h 24min

Tom Keegan, performance director (Indiana Jones and the Great Circle, Battlefield, Resident Evil 2 Remake).

Tom Keegan, performance director (Indiana Jones and the Great Circle, Battlefield, Resident Evil 2 Remake).

Tom Keegan is one of the leading performance directors in video games, whose career spans theatre, film, animation, and interactive entertainment. After starting out in the New York theatre scene, he ...

10 Mars 1h 24min

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