The Games Press
Chris Bratt interviews interesting people from around the games media about how they do their work. Support this show on Patreon!
Episodes
22 episodes since 2021
Episode 22: Nicole Carpenter (Senior Reporter at Polygon)
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...
August 21, 2024
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50:28
Episode 21: Grant Stoner (Accessibility & Disability Reporter)
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...
July 18, 2024
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44:04
Episode 20: Sarah Parvini (LA Times)
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 publicat...
May 28, 2024
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35:07
Episode 19: Chelsea Reed Miller (IGN Creators Guild)
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...
April 19, 2024
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46:07
Episode 18: Quintin Smith (People Make Games)
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-...
March 06, 2024
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1:14:25
Episode 17: Stephen Totilo (Reporter at Game File)
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, n...
January 23, 2024
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1:14:17
Episode 16: Nathan Grayson & Riley MacLeod (Just launched Aftermath)
Nathan Grayson and Riley MacLeod have just launched a brand new, worker-owned games publication called Af...
November 07, 2023
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57:28
Episode 15: Patricia Hernandez (Former Editor-in-Chief at Kotaku)
Patricia Hernandez is now the former Editor-in-Chief of Kotaku, having been fired from the position just a few da...
August 23, 2023
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1:03:16
Episode 14: Rebekah Valentine (Senior Reporter at IGN)
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...
June 30, 2023
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1:01:51
Episode 13: Double Fine PsychOdyssey (2 Player Productions)
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 ...
March 28, 2023
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58:18
Episode 12: Tyler McVicker (Formerly Valve News Network)
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 c...
February 08, 2023
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1:08:38
Episode 11: Sam Greer (Just made a video for People Make Games!)
Sam Greer is a freelance games critic, having previously worked for Glass House Games and GamesMa...
September 05, 2022
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1:11:02
Episode 10: Hirun Cryer (Former Guides Editor at USGamer)
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 par...
May 26, 2022
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55:16
Episode 9: Danny O'Dwyer (Founder of Noclip)
Danny O'Dwyer creates video game documentaries for Noclip, a crowdfunded YouTube channel first launched in 2016. Known for their high production v...
April 29, 2022
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1:19:52
Episode 8: Lucy James (Senior Video Producer at GameSpot)
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
March 27, 2022
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1:03:22
Episode 7: Ethan Gach (Senior Reporter at Kotaku)
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 ...
December 07, 2021
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1:05:23
Episode 6: Tina Amini (Editor-in-Chief at IGN)
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...
November 10, 2021
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52:15
Episode 5: Jacob Geller (Video essayist)
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.
October 06, 2021
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1:02:03
Episode 4: Aoife Wilson (Head of Video at Eurogamer)
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...
September 06, 2021
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53:28
Episode 3: Mark Brown (Video essayist)
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 mill...
August 04, 2021
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51:24