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Get full show notes for free at post.games Get bonus and video episodes, extra segments, and more for $5 at patreon.com/postgames Welcome to The Inaugural Post Games Thanksgiving Special! I’ve invited 19 people from across video games to share what they’re thankful for. They could celebrate a game, a person, a place, a trend, an idea, or whatever else inspires them. Our guests come from across the...

Get extra segments, video episodes, bonus episodes, and early access at patreon.com/postgames Get full episode notes for free at post.games I was stunned when I first saw Cave Crave, a VR game in which the player squeezes through dark tunnels, the gaps so tight that the character must hold their breath, causing red light to pulse. As your virtual lungs empty, you see the blood vessels in your eyes...

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Get extra segments, video episodes, bonus episodes, and early access at patreon.com/postgames Get full episode notes for free at post.games Sure, spooky season is over. But listeners, the scary season has just begun at Post Games. To prepare you, I have invited one of my favorite horror critics, Ashley Bardhan, to explain the appeal of playing horror games – and how they might make your life less...

Get video episodes, extra segments, bonus episodes, and early access at www.patreon.com/postgames Get full show notes free at post.games Few video games achieve mainstream cultural relevance. Fewer still get labeled as "art." And only a handful of games that get through the culling manage to retain their relevance across decades. Shadow of the Colossus is the exception to the rules of video games....

Get weekly bonus segments, Patreon exclusive episodes, and early access at patreon.com/postgames Get the full show notes for free at www.post.games Last week, Bloomberg reporter Jason Schreier explained how the too many games problem came to be. This week, we hear how game creators are adapting to make sure the best games reach you – rather than get lost at the bottom of an ever-growing pile.&nbsp...

Get bonus segments and episodes, plus early access, at Patreon.com/postgames Get full show notes for free at www.post.games At an unknowable point in the past five years, gamers were granted three wishes: I want more games to play than I could ever have time for. I want them to be cheap, if not free. And I want to be able to play them whenever and however I want. The result has been great for fans...

Get video episodes, weekly bonus content, and early access at Patreon.com/postgames Get the full episode notes for free at www.post.games This week, you get two podcasts for the price of one. First: the Nintendo mailbag. Listeners sent in a U-Haul's worth of questions about Nintendo. What's up with the unusually "usual" approach to the Switch 2 release? Why can the publisher do whatever it likes w...

Subscribe to the Patreon for bonus content at patreon.com/postgames Subscribe to the free newsletter for full show notes at www.post.games A few months ago, NSFW games appeared to be thriving. Then came the censorship campaign. To help us understand what shifted in the culture over the summer, and where NSFW games go from here, I needed an expert on media censorship, video games, pornography, femi...

Get bonus segments and episodes for $5 at Patreon.com/postgames Get full show notes in the free newsletter at post.games This week on Post Games: How did Xbox get here? Former VP of Xbox Game Studios Shannon Loftis takes us on a guided tour of Microsoft's gaming ambitions, from the days before Windows 95 to Xbox's ambitious bet on the future of entertainment. Patreon bonus prologue: The case for h...

Get bonus content in every episode at patreon.com/postgames Get full show notes in the free newsletter at www.post.games What's it like to pursue a degree in video games? And what's life like as a video game professor? This week, my guest is Aaron Trammell, a professor at the University of California, Irvine, who teaches undergraduate and graduate students about games, ranging from video games to...

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Subscribe for $5 to get bonus segments and episodes at Patreon.com/postgames Get the newsletter with full show notes and links for free at www.post.games This September, following a successful run on the experimental gaming handheld Playdate, Blippo+ will release on Nintendo Switch and Steam. The game, created in collaboration with an iconic indie band, attempts to reproduce the feeling of channel...

Get full episode notes at www.patreon.com/postgames and www.post.games Video game adaptations threaten to replace superhero movies as Hollywood's favorite fad. How did Mario and friends evolve from box office poison into some of the most valuable IPS in movie history? Today on Post Games: an extended interview with filmmaker and video essayist Patrick H. Willems, in which we make sense of 30 years...

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Get full episode notes for free at www.post.games Get bonus content, early episodes, and extended episode notes for $5 a month at www.patreon.com/postgames This week on Post Games, I'm answering your questions about the future of games. Plus, an extended conversation with video game podcaster, YouTuber, and content creator Brendon Bigley about his long-running series Into the Aether and his new ga...

Two options for full show notes, including links to stories, games, and related topics! Subscribe to the Patreon at www.patreon.com/postgames Subscribe to the free newsletter at www.post.games Next week: For the mailbag, send voice notes to postgamesmailbag (at) gmail. Please keep them under 90 seconds and include your name and pronouns. This week on Post Games Countless video games depict death,...

Get the full episode notes at www.post.games Subscribe to the Patreon for bonus content and early releases at www.patreon.com/postgames Gaming historian Jeremy Parish joins me for the entire episode to tell the story of gaming’s most famous primate. Act 1: How Donkey Kong saved Nintendo Act 2: Donkey Kong’s long journey back to the top Patreon Bonus: The Top 5 Donkey Kong games – and the #1 strang...

Get the full episode notes with links at www.post.games Subscribe to the Patreon for early access, bonus segments, and a monthly video series at patreon.com/postgames This week on Post Game: Late-night comedy writer Mike Drucker and Tactical Breach Wizards director Tom Francis explain how they make video games funny and find the humor in loving video games. Patreon bonus prologue: What it's like t...

Get full show notes for free at https://postgame.substack.com/ Get bonus segments, early and ad-free episodes, and a monthly video series at https://www.patreon.com/c/PostGames This week on Post Games, Atari CEO Wade Rosen joins me to discuss gaming’s ship of Theseus. While everyone remembers Atari at its height, most folks ignored the company's struggles following the games industry crash of 1983...

Get full episode notes, links, and related materials for free at www.post.games Get extra-long episodes, bonus content, monthly videos, and more (plus, no ads!) at patreon.com/postgames Welcome to Post Game’s first annual physical, in which a special guest joins me to assess the health and stability of gaming, from the creators to the players, the industry to the culture. I’ve invited one of the s...

Get full episode notes at www.post.games and subscribe on Patreon at patreon.com/postgames. Before we get started... If you have a moment and don't mind, please leave a review of Post Games on Apple Podcasts . I know, it's silly, but it's also a humongous help in these early days. This week on Post Games Act 1: Dunkey on his love/hate relationship with Death Stranding, life as YouTube game critic,...

Editor’s note: This week, I’m making all acts available to all listeners. The Patreon edition of the episode, however, is still early and ad-free. For context: My two guests participated on tight timelines and under special circumstances. And my essay was the conclusion of last week’s episode. As I finished the edit, I felt bad putting any of the acts behind the paywall. This won’t be the norm – f...

This week on Post Games, “What we have in common with world-ending AI.” Act 1: Why every AI superfan and skeptic should play Universal Paperclips. A review conversation with AJ Fillari, co-host of dotzip and producer of Into the Aether For Patreon subscribers, an intermission : 5 "clicker" games to play after Universal Paperclips Act 2: An extended interview with Frank Lantz, the creator of Univer...