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Luke and Shay are back on the pod as the shadow of GTA 6 begins to loom on the horizon, but not as much as the gargantuan battlemechs of Rubicon 3, which is where you may well be better spending your time while you wait for the sale prices to come in. Listen to Press X to Continue on Spotify, Apple Podcasts and wherever else you like to listen. SUPPORT US ON PATREON: www.patreon.com/cw/PressXtoCon...

Amy Mallett's back to talk the living daylights out of a game for which the world is not enough. This episode is for your eyes only, so let's hope we die another day and have no immediate need for a doctor. No spectres here - you may have license to kill, but on her majesty's secret service, you only live twice - so keep those golden eyes peeled and that gold finger on the trigger because this is...

Dismantle late stage capitalism or put solar panels on the roof? Continue Clubber, Exy Beast or play both sides so you always come out on top? And which game from Summer Games Fest 2026 are we going to play first? These are just some of the dilemmas Amy Mallett brings to the table on her Press X debut! Listen to Press X to Continue on Spotify, Apple Podcasts and wherever else you like to listen. S...

What better way to cool down from Download weekend (for those who celebrate) with a lovely, relaxed Steff and Inel Discord episode, trawling through the community's burning questions and hotter takes - with a couple of unsung hero games along the way. Listen to Press X to Continue on Spotify, Apple Podcasts and wherever else you like to listen. SUPPORT US ON PATREON: www.patreon.com/cw/PressXtoCon...

You read that right! Radio 1 film critic Ali Plumb returns for the first time to the independent Press X (long-time listeners will recall some trivia from his last appearance on the BBC version coming in handy on this episode...) to delight Steffan, Inel and you the fans with the same quiz he recently levelled against many of the Press X-ers who attended the Gaming BAFTAs. Pick up a pen and paper...

Sam Cornforth is back with us for an episode where the lads are plenty and the birds are big! Steff scours through unsung war games, Sam takes us back to the days of Gameboy gaming and Inel flexes his voice acting prowess. PLUS - a very special announcement of something coming very soon! Listen to Press X to Continue on Spotify, Apple Podcasts and wherever else you like to listen. Join the Press X...

A brand new character is unlocked this week and he's maxxing the moustache meter - it's Sam Cornforth, whose life path has taken him from the villages of Devon to right here in the Continue Club. RPGs, coop games and the muskiest main characters in videogames simply aren't safe. Listen to Press X to Continue on Spotify, Apple Podcasts and wherever else you like to listen. Join the Press X Discord:...

ONE. HUNDRED. EPISODES @@@@@@@@ And Steff’s still ill. Typical. Frankie’s back in the saddle with medium bear Barney and papa bear Inel for another episode where we’re chewing the cud about mobile games, remake fatigue and the game that walked so GTA and Red Dead Redemption could run. Thank you so much to all of our community for being with us since the beginning! See you at 200! Listen to Press X...

It's Press X like you've never heard it before - because the Queen of the eXy Beasts, Frankie Ward, is hosting in place of a sickly Steffan! Frankie is joined by Inel and new clubber Barney Banks for an episode as crazy as the taxi you rode in on, fending off fairweather camera connections, debating Roblox regulation and measuring the monopoly of the one and only Rik Mayall (most known for voicing...

Ready, Eddie, Go(rdo) - it's Press X again with Steff, Inel, Frankie and first timer Lewis Edridge aka MrLewisBlogsGaming! Don your best capoeira shoes and learn how to spell capoeira for an episode that'll have you birthday-battling Bond or combating a combustible Cleese. Listen to Press X to Continue on Spotify, Apple Podcasts and wherever else you like to listen. Join the Press X Discord: disco...

It's all about retro games today on the one podcast that hasn't been corrupted by capitalism! On their Press X debut, Sooz Kempner and RetroRevivalTom (AKA Tom Rose) join Steff and Inel to reminisce over the best retro classics, what we can actually term as 'retro' and what arcade classics - and easy to complete for a crack shooter on a budget (and a Pier) - are tucked away on Tom's expansive coll...

It's time to cast away from reality and take a boat road into a land of wonder unlike any other - Dickens World, Chatham 🤨 Imo and Krupes rejoin Steffan and Inel to talk about gaming theme parks, Slay the Spire II and the unusual legacy of Lemmings! And the Discord asks which game mechanics they'd like to see in real life. Listen to Press X to Continue on Spotify, Apple Podcasts and wherever else...

It's the return of Inel Tomlinson this week as Steffan is reunited with his co-host once again! Dan Krupa and Imogen Mellor posse up also to talk Tamagotchi games that set Imo up for life and the cost of gaming in this crazy world we live in. Lucy James also makes a surprise appearance to settle a mystery that's been eluding Steffan for months... Listen to Press X to Continue on Spotify, Apple Pod...

Luke Westaway and Cadaea are back on the pod this week to chat with Steffan about Inel's peculiar and downright suspicious absence from the pod... Cadaea also comes with two unsung hero game offerings and Luke enters his mind palace to uncover the secret behind a one-in-a-trillion solar SM64 speedrun. Listen to Press X to Continue on Spotify, Apple Podcasts and wherever else you like to listen. Jo...

It's not what it sounds like! Steffan is joined by Press X regular Luke Westaway and first-timer Sophie AKA Cadaea for a pod that spans both pizza and Pokopia. Warning: contains tambourines. Listen to Press X to Continue on Spotify, Apple Podcasts and wherever else you like to listen. Join the Press X Discord: discord.gg/TfQBdnbMda Follow us on Instagram and TikTok: www.instagram.com/pressxpodcast...

A brand new kind of episode from us as we explore something we've been looking forward to trying out for a while! Dave Jewitt, AKA Irregular Dave, joins Steffan for a deep dive into the history of Warhammer video games to elect the official Press X Top 5. What do you think of this new format? Got a better name for it? What Top 5 should we choose next? Let us know! Listen to Press X to Continue on...

From humble beginnings on the Steam store to the creation of games for IPs like John Wick and TRON, Steffan is joined by Mike Bithell of Bithell Games (and the second Play, Watch, Listen host to jump on the pod!) to talk all about indie game development, how the landscape has changed since his start, and a chilling speculation of what it's going to take before games are viewed as an art form. Than...

An author, an esports presenter and a Time Crisis II crackshot walk into a secret afterparty... Keza and Frankie join Steffan this week to talk about shared experiences at the Gaming BAFTAs (what actually... IS Vampire Survivors?), when AI in games isn't so bad and who in the gaming industry is getting a well-deserved knighthood. Listen to Press X to Continue on Spotify, Apple Podcasts and whereve...

The one and only Alix Wilton Regan (AKA the new Lara Croft!) joins the Continue Club this week to sit down with Steffan and recount her career in acting, discovering performance capture, Perfect Dark's shocking sudden cancellation and how she became the Tomb Raider herself. Listen to Press X to Continue on Spotify, Apple Podcasts and wherever else you like to listen. Join the Press X Discord: disc...

"We'd pull out our axes and it's like, 'it's game over mate!'" From the Round Table to the Continue Club - it's The Traitors S4 finalist Jade Scott! Steffan and Jade chat about the games she loves, being understood as 'a gamer' and how social deception games came in handy when stepping into the castle. Listen to Press X to Continue on Spotify, Apple Podcasts and wherever else you like to listen. J...

Another Shay and Steffan special as the fort is held both literally in Inel's Horrible Historical acting absence and figuratively on Steffan's train journeys. Shay shares an unsung hero game, Inel checks in over voicenote and Steff agonises over his hiring processes in Becastled.  Listen to Press X to Continue on Spotify, Apple Podcasts and wherever else you like to listen. Join the Press X Discor...

300,000,000 accounts across a franchise that's 25 years old. A company that's doubled down on giving the fans what they want. A dev team that's completely beholden to community democracy. This January, Steffan was invited to Jagex's headquarters in Cambridge for their 25 Years of Runescape creator event (alongside the biggest names in its thriving YouTube community) to speak with Senior VP of Prod...

Fable! Nunchuks! Competitive rates! Shay Thompson joins aspiring voice actor Steffan Powell to kick off the new year of Press X to Continue, where we'll be roleplaying STRICTLY low-honour mode from start to finish - and introducing a brand new feature: Unsung Hero Games. Listen to Press X to Continue on Spotify, Apple Podcasts and wherever else you like to listen. Join the Press X Discord: discord...

A festive episode of Press X to Continue with all our best tips on surviving Christmas! Tips on surviving the record might have been handier though...  Wishing a very merry Christmas to all our listeners! Press X to Continue is proudly sponsored by PiCK UP! Listen to Press X to Continue on Spotify, Apple Podcasts and wherever else you like to listen. Join the Press X Discord: discord.gg/TfQBdnbMda...

A special Press X this week as Steffan sits down with Bayek of Siwa, Alyn of Hull, and the founder of Surgent Studios, the one and only Abubakar Salim! Press X to Continue is proudly sponsored by PiCK UP! Listen to Press X to Continue on Spotify, Apple Podcasts and wherever else you like to listen. Join the Press X Discord: discord.gg/a7qgyAb4 Follow us on Instagram and Tiktok: www.instagram.com/p...