The Pocket Gamer Podcast

What Pokemon would make a great window scraper? We're back to kick off the new year in this week's (New and Improved!) Pocket Gamer Podcast - we hope you missed us as much as we missed you! We stretch, warm up, and dust off our mics as Iwan takes us into the upcoming launch of Order of Kings , where you can look forward to discovering more about why the Three Kingdoms period is such a big...

What's your favourite game of 2025? Any upcoming releases you're looking forward to in 2026? Let's end the year with a bang with a very special episode of the (New and Improved!) Pocket Gamer Podcast , where we take a quick look back on the greatest hits (and misses) over the past twelve months! It's actually been a big year for mobile with a lot more to come, including the upcomin...

How do you spend your holidays gaming-wise, and is Santa Claus at all safe? Grab some eggnog or cosy up with a cup of tea as we welcome you all to a very special episode of the (New and Improved!) Pocket Gamer Podcast ! After confirming exactly why this is the most wonderful time of the year (and expressing our genuine concern over Santa Claus' safety), we get right to it as Iwan recommends Th...

Are you a fan of waifu games and Metroidvanias, and what is the meaning of life? We tackle everything from the state of the world we live in to the overall plot of Star Wars in this week's (New and Improved!) Pocket Gamer Podcast . We kick things off with a quick game of "how many Christmas metaphors can Will blurt out in three seconds" before Iwan drops the big news on Umamusume: Pr...

How do you feel about the big Netflix x Warner Bros kerfuffle, and do you think you deserve a visit from three ghosts this Christmas? We tackle everything from Hello Kitty's supposedly dark past to really old lizard-looking sugar monsters in this week's (New and Improved!) Pocket Gamer Podcast . As we ponder the intricacies of a bearded stranger breaking into people's houses uninvited...

What's your take on AI in video games? What's your favourite Final Fantasy game, and would you like to try to handcraft a universe of your own making? We tackle everything from managing football careers to arguing about what a warframe actually is in this week's (New and Improved!) Pocket Gamer Podcast . After Iwan blows off some steam about mobile ads and what the heck they're act...

Have you voted for your pick for Game of the Year yet? Who's your fave Hunter from Solo Leveling, and what is the point of it all, according to Iwan? We tackle everything from racing careers to missing vegetables in the (New and Improved!) Pocket Gamer Podcast . Iwan's testing a new mic this week from Maono for a review that'll be up on the site soon, so if you think he's sounding...

How do you rage against a giant judgmental pillar, and how soon can you get your hands on some Pals on mobile? We tackle everything from bad voice acting to the power of pronunciation in the (New and Improved!) Pocket Gamer Podcast this week. After John Marston makes a brief cameo in this episode, Iwan brings us news of Red Dead Redemption's mobile port coming to iOS and Android courtesy of Ne...

What happened over the weekend in LA, and is this truly the Iwan and Friends show? The (New and Improved!) Pocket Gamer Podcast focuses on Arknights: Endfield and all the hype surrounding it, with a few bits of immersive candies and pig squeals thrown in for good measure. After a bit of a kerfuffle about fake tax records, Iwan dives right into the heart of the matter, which is Arknights: Endfield&...

Do you really need a Pal during the apocalypse (yes, you do), who is The Sassy JRPG Hater, and have we just irrevocably angered FF7 fans with our discussion on Healing Materia? The (New and Improved!) Pocket Gamer Podcast offers both fast news and chaotic insights in this week's episode with the three of us back in. Will very dramatically takes us into the 12th annual Pocket Gamer Awards nomin...

Alucard - er, Iwan - welcomes you all to a very special episode of the (New and Improved!) Pocket Gamer Podcast , where we talk about our favourite (and by "our", I mean Will and Iwan) horror and horror-adjacent games on mobile this Halloween.  After a twisted intro involving thunder and some chaotic Castlevania callbacks, we (almost) waste no time in diving right into the horror of it a...

What does a creepy cat and a creepy cafe have in common (hint: they're creepy), and why are we talking all things cursed in this episode?  The (New and Improved!) Pocket Gamer Podcast is a two-player back-and-forth this week as Will and I discuss everything from Cinderella's crops to a speedy hedgehog in a car. Will dives straight into Play Together's Halloween update , where said curs...

How can walking heal your soul, and how much time does Iwan have left on this week's episode? The (New and Improved!) Pocket Gamer Podcast tackles pay-to-win mechanics, stressful jobs, and free games this week. With Iwan back from a death-defying sabbatical from the park, he kicks things off with Dragon Ball: Gekishin Squadra , which is making welcome balance tweaks to its 4v4 Team Battles to...

Last week saw the Pocket Gamer Podcast keeping Will and Iwan in rotation, but I'm swapping in for our resident newshound this time around to talk zombies in card games and toxic gas in meeting rooms.  Will launches right into the spooky season with Marvel Contest of Champions , where the Founders’ War Saga is currently underway. Joining Isophyne, Lumatrix, and Solvarch is the ultimate Eidol Im...

It's all about the biggest news on Tokyo Game Show this week as the (New and Improved!) Pocket Gamer Podcast dives deep into deadly sins, anime GTAs, and why mobile should be more of a focus in these kinds of events. Will kicks things off with The Seven Deadly Sins: Origin , an upcoming open-world RPG with Closed Beta Test sign-ups now open. The Netmarble press conference also included appeara...

This week sees the (New and Improved!) Pocket Gamer Podcast gearing up for the spooky season and pondering the meaning of life when it comes to voice casts and cabbages. After Will proves that he's doing just fine, Iwan launches into a discussion on the latest updates on the new Angry Birds 3 movie cast, while we ponder the intricacies of voice acting and what it means to be a nice guy in Holl...

What are your fondest memories of Angry Birds, and have I somehow been transported to the Arctic without me knowing? The (New and Improved!) Pocket Gamer Podcast offers the latest news as Will and Iwan do a quick two-player episode this week. Iwan immediately starts off with the soft launch of Angry Birds Rush , which is an interesting new take on the classic franchise that many - Iwan included -...

*Note: It's a shorter one this week as Iwan's having electricity issues, while Will's audio quality isn't at its best. We'll still bring you what we can about this week's hottest news though, so hopefully you'll stick around! How will K-pop dominate the world, and is Will currently on a top-secret experiment involving this new technology called the telephone? The (New a...

Iwan is back with a vengeance on this week's (New and Improved!) Pocket Gamer Podcast , so Will and I alert everyone to stranger dangers before we move on to the magic of rubberhose animations. That's because Acecraft has officially launched on mobile with a delightfully apt Tom and Jerry collaboration, bringing more cartoon chaos to the skies just like Bearplane . The latter, as Iwan puts...

It's a shorter one as Iwan isn't with us on this week's (New and Improved!) Pocket Gamer Podcast , so Will and I basically gush about sabotaging other people's kingdoms with flying orcs and despicable dragons.  As we shake the dust off and try to get used to a new recording time in our super fancy studio, I get the ball rolling with the upcoming launch of Spooky Express , which is...

From flesh-eating viruses to friends in a pickle, the (New and Improved!) Pocket Gamer Podcast offers a slice of the latest news this week with the three of us doing our usual thing (and by that, I mean veering slightly off-course but managing to head back on track at the last second before everything derails). After a bit of ado about moustachioed men, Iwan kicks off the episode with a new traile...

Who are the Illiterati, and where exactly is Iwan from? The (New and Improved!) Pocket Gamer Podcast answers all that and more, as we dive into trading, timers, and triggers for this episode. Will eases us into the episode with the upcoming launch of Eco Power Towns , where you try to be as energy-efficient as possible in the least possible moves. More importantly, this is - as Will puts it - a ga...

What is a car if it doesn't have wheels? The (New and Improved!) Pocket Gamer Podcast tackles life's most meaningful questions this week, with plenty of focus on all things retro. I'm pretty pumped with Yu Yu Hakusho: Slugfest 's launch, especially since it's officially licensed and brings back a ton of 90s nostalgia for the popular anime. Will of course rains my parade for a l...

It's another two-player edition of the (New and Improved!) Pocket Gamer Podcast as Will and Iwan ponder the mysteries of deep underwater worlds and even deeper Cookie lore. Iwan kicks things off with the mobile launch of Subnautica , which is exciting even though most of us have a crippling fear of the deep blue sea. The dynamic duo talk truths about mobile controllers for a bit, before Will m...

What do sleeping Pokemon and backstabbing would-be conquerors have in common? Why, they're both hot topics in this week's (New and Improved!) Pocket Gamer Podcast , of course! Iwan channels all his pent-up energy into Zenless Zone Zero's Operation Yum event in London, where local food chain Butchies will be cooking up a storm in serving the aptly called ZZZing Burger combo to fans in t...