Looking for Podcasts on Video Games
February 15, 2013 11:29 AM Subscribe
Looking for some podcasts that focus on video games. I already listen to the Giant Bombcast and The Indoor Kids. What am I missing?
Top Score is good for contemporary game music, and The Legacy Music Hour is good for 8/16bit music.
posted by Buckt at 11:39 AM on February 15, 2013
posted by Buckt at 11:39 AM on February 15, 2013
Idle Thumbs! It's run by some guys from Telltale and DoubleFine, so very informed w/r/t design.
posted by hellojed at 11:49 AM on February 15, 2013 [1 favorite]
posted by hellojed at 11:49 AM on February 15, 2013 [1 favorite]
Oh, and if you're into iOS gaming at all, there's the TouchArcade podcast.
Caveat: it's, uh, kind of really bro-y (so much so that I stopped listening to it after they spent a good five minutes ranting about fat people at a gaming con) but from what I can tell, they're doing the best actual coverage of the iOS gaming scene in podcast form.
posted by griphus at 11:53 AM on February 15, 2013
Caveat: it's, uh, kind of really bro-y (so much so that I stopped listening to it after they spent a good five minutes ranting about fat people at a gaming con) but from what I can tell, they're doing the best actual coverage of the iOS gaming scene in podcast form.
posted by griphus at 11:53 AM on February 15, 2013
Another Castle is great! It's an interview-based podcast focused on (but not limited to) the indie games development and games research scene in NYC. (Full disclosure: I was one of the interviewees in season one.)
Idle Thumbs is the only other video game podcast I listen to, and like hellojed I highly recommend it.
I don't listen to Retronauts any more (after Jeremy Parish stopped hosting, the episodes started to get a little less focused), but many of the earlier episodes in the archive have great research and interviews.
posted by aparrish at 12:05 PM on February 15, 2013 [1 favorite]
Idle Thumbs is the only other video game podcast I listen to, and like hellojed I highly recommend it.
I don't listen to Retronauts any more (after Jeremy Parish stopped hosting, the episodes started to get a little less focused), but many of the earlier episodes in the archive have great research and interviews.
posted by aparrish at 12:05 PM on February 15, 2013 [1 favorite]
Erberus beat me to it. Three Moves Ahead is great.
posted by Rustic Etruscan at 1:20 PM on February 15, 2013
posted by Rustic Etruscan at 1:20 PM on February 15, 2013
The Gamers With Jobs Conference Call has been a must listen for me for years. Great cast of regulars, frequent awesome guests, they do a Games You Can Play Right Now segment, a topic discussion and a Your Emails segment, all great. Highly recommended.
posted by Happy Dave at 3:19 PM on February 15, 2013 [1 favorite]
posted by Happy Dave at 3:19 PM on February 15, 2013 [1 favorite]
Video Games Hot Dog - started by some pretty sweet dudes (indie game developers) who missed Idle Thumbs when it was gone. General industry talk, humor, and an in-depth discussion of a per-podcast game "assignment" that they all commit (with varying degrees of success) to playing the previous week. And of course, n'thing Idle Thumbs, now that it is back.
Video gaaaaaaaaames!
posted by laeren at 7:30 PM on February 15, 2013
Video gaaaaaaaaames!
posted by laeren at 7:30 PM on February 15, 2013
ditto Idle Thumbs & Gamers with Jobs Conference Call.
posted by juv3nal at 11:35 PM on February 15, 2013
posted by juv3nal at 11:35 PM on February 15, 2013
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Weekend Confirmed.
Joystiq
RetroCollect
Games Dammit! (may be renamed soon)
Retronauts.
Rock, Paper, Shotcast (possibly dead)
A Life Well Wasted (long-dead but awesome)
Rougelike Radio (feat. Mefi's own JHarris!)
You may also be interested in this past question of mine, which is where I got all those from.
posted by griphus at 11:36 AM on February 15, 2013