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| The Making of Street Fighter: The Movie (1994) | 05 oct. 2026 | 00:50:16 | |
This Week on Post Games: The behind-the-scenes story of the making of Street Fighter: The Movie, released in 1994. Patreon Bonus: A Golden Age for Nerdy Museum Hear this bonus mini-episode exclusively at Patreon.com/PostGames Bonus Episodes and Segments: Subscribe at Patreon.com/PostGames for only $5. Get bonus episodes, extra segments, and ad-free episodes. Works on every podcast app, so you can listen wherever you'd like! Show Notes: Want full show notes for free, including links to everything we mention? Visit www.post.games Sponsors: Factor Deal: Head to Factormeals.com/postgames50off and use code postgames50off to get 50% off and free daily greens per box, with a new subscription only, while supplies last until 09/27/2026. (See website for more details.) Quince Deal: Refresh your everyday with luxury you'll actually use. Head to quince.com/POSTGAMES for free shipping on your order and 365-day returns. Art & Music: Logo and Show Art: James Bareham Theme: Mark Sparling Additional Music: Epidemic Sound See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info. | |||
| Gamer Controls Corpse with A.I. from Hell | 28 sept. 2026 | 01:03:48 | |
This Week on Post Games: Act 1: A Horror Novel About a Gamer Act 2: Controlling a Corpse Like It's Mario Patreon Bonus: Resident Evil: A Spoiler-Chat with Film Critic Jordan Hoffman Act 3: A Life in Games Journalism Led to a Beautiful New Magazine Book Excerpt: Dead but Dreaming of Electric Sheep Guests: Paul Tremblay: author of Dead but Dreaming of Electric Sheep Jordan Hoffman: film critic and host of The Starlog Podcast Mark Serrels: co-founder of CONTINUE? Magazine Bonus Episodes and Segments: Subscribe at Patreon.com/PostGames for only $5. Get bonus episodes, extra segments, and ad-free episodes. Works on every podcast app, so you can listen wherever you'd like! Show Notes: Want full show notes for free, including links to everything we mention? Visit www.post.games Sponsors: Factor Deal: Head to Factormeals.com/postgames50off and use code postgames50off to get 50% off and free daily greens per box, with a new subscription only, while supplies last until 09/27/2026. (See website for more details.) Quince Deal: Refresh your everyday with luxury you'll actually use. Head to quince.com/POSTGAMES for free shipping on your order and 365-day returns. Art & Music: Logo and Show Art: James Bareham Theme: Mark Sparling Additional Music: Epidemic Sound Excerpt: Audiobook sample of Dead but Dreaming of Electric Sheep by Paul Tremblay published by HarperAudio and William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers. Used courtesy of HarperCollins Publishers. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info. | |||
| Video Games Are So Back / So Over | 21 sept. 2026 | 01:03:58 | |
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| Fire Emblem: The Rise, Fall, Rise, Fall, and Rise | 14 sept. 2026 | 00:58:21 | |
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| The History of Wolverine (And His Games) | 07 sept. 2026 | 01:13:10 | |
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| How Retro Handhelds Hijacked Your Algorithm | 31 août 2026 | 01:06:07 | |
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| The Perfect Game Review Doesn't Exist | 24 août 2026 | 00:55:47 | |
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| Everything You Should Know About Fighting Games | 17 août 2026 | 00:57:22 | |
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| The International Sexy Game Controversy | 10 août 2026 | 00:59:24 | |
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| Games Need You to Give a Sh*t and Pay Attention | 03 août 2026 | 00:57:31 | |
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| The Blessing and Curse of Pokémon | 27 juil. 2026 | 01:02:06 | |
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| Gaming’s Toughest Critic Wants You to Live a Happier Life | 20 juil. 2026 | 01:20:03 | |
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| A Gaming Podcast Your Friends Will Love | 13 juil. 2026 | 01:16:33 | |
Post Games is an NPR-style podcast about video games. Each week, games media veteran Chris Plante (co-founder of Polygon, co-host of The Besties) tackles a new topic with the help of guest experts. This episode is a tasting menu: four conversations with four very different experts. YouTuber AnyAustin reflects on growing old as a gaming YouTuber. Author Keza MacDonald gives us a hint of Nintendo's future. Philosopher C. Thi Nguyen explains how metrics and optimization have infected our favorite games. And critic and game designer Tim Rogers recommends the perfect starting point for Dragon Quest. This is the perfect entry point for newcomers and a taste of what's available for paid subscribers on the Patreon! Love the show? Please consider supporting Post Games (and getting tons of bonus segments and episodes) at Patreon.com.postgames This Week on Post Games:
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| What's the Point of Video Game Reviews? | 06 juil. 2026 | 00:44:12 | |
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| What's Weird Nintendo (and Is It Still Alive?) | 29 juin 2026 | 01:14:29 | |
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| How the Games Industry Got to This Point | 22 juin 2026 | 00:53:56 | |
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| The Earliest Game of the Year Awards | 15 juin 2026 | 02:46:11 | |
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| How to Have a Persona Summer | 08 juin 2026 | 01:40:58 | |
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| What You Should Know about James Bond | 01 juin 2026 | 01:04:27 | |
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| How to See the Profound Beauty in Gaming's Tiniest Details | 25 mai 2026 | 01:05:27 | |
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| The History (and Future) of Bubsy | 18 mai 2026 | 01:11:13 | |
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| The History of The Legend of Zelda (1986) | 11 mai 2026 | 01:13:20 | |
Editor's Note: Hey Post Games listeners! It's Post Games' first anniversary. To celebrate, and to give myself some time to prep the summer episodes, I'm sharing one of the monthly Patreon-exclusive episodes. This is the history of the original The Legend of Zelda, featuring one of the series' foremost experts and historians. If you like this episode, you'll enjoy the rest of Past Games. Each month, I talk with a different expert about a game or moment celebrating an anniversary this year. Previous episodes include L.A. Noire with Tim Rogers, along with histories of Dark Souls and Animal Crossing with people who wrote the books on each. Subscribe at Patreon.com/PostGames for $5 to get all that and more. This Week on Post Games:
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| The Nine Lives of Games Journalism | 01 mai 2026 | 01:08:27 | |
You now have access to my recent talk at NYU Game Center, previously only heard by 200 or so people in downtown Brooklyn. The lecture, given last Thursday, is titled “The Nine Lives of Video Games Journalism,” and in it, I suggest where the games media is heading by comparing the current trends to the past 50 years and the many publications that have come and gone. [The talk moves fast. I crammed about 90 minutes of lecture into an hour. So I’m making the Google Slides deck available for folks who’d like to follow along. You can find them at www.post.games. I’ve also edited the audio to smooth the flow here and there. An unedited video version will be available on the NYU Game Center’s YouTube page in the coming weeks.] Show Notes and Bonus Episodes:
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| This Game Won’t Save the World* | 28 avr. 2026 | 00:47:39 | |
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| He Won the Biggest Award in Indie Games. Then He Did It Again. | 20 avr. 2026 | 01:03:03 | |
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| Where Do Video Games Go from Here? | 13 avr. 2026 | 01:02:15 | |
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| Video Games Are Art. Are Museums Ready? | 06 avr. 2026 | 00:53:32 | |
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| 2026's Fantasy Masterpiece Took 8 Years, 4 Attempts, and 1 Disco Elysium | 30 mars 2026 | 01:21:52 | |
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| Why Pinball Moved from Bars to Basements | 23 mars 2026 | 01:06:31 | |
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| Games Can Save Us from the Hell of Silicon Valley Optimization | 16 mars 2026 | 01:25:42 | |
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| The ESA Saved Video Games Once. Can It Do It Again? | 09 mars 2026 | 01:14:56 | |
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| What Is Fictosexuality? | 02 mars 2026 | 01:04:07 | |
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| The Resident Evil Auteur in His Own Words | 23 févr. 2026 | 01:00:03 | |
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| Edmund McMillen Wants You to Ask the Uncomfortable Questions | 16 févr. 2026 | 01:09:41 | |
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| Robbing Museums? Sounds Like Fun | 09 févr. 2026 | 01:03:42 | |
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| A History of Dragon Quest (and Why To Try It Now) | 02 févr. 2026 | 00:50:46 | |
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| Nintendo Gets the History Book It Deserves | 26 janv. 2026 | 01:02:20 | |
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| Adapting Life into a Video Game | 19 janv. 2026 | 00:49:53 | |
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| Mothership and a History of Women in Games Media | 09 janv. 2026 | 01:02:48 | |
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| 2026's Big Games, Trends, and Showdowns | 05 janv. 2026 | 00:57:38 | |
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2026 has only just begun, but already I’m certain it’ll be (at least for gaming culture) historic. Yes, it’s the year of GTA 6. It’s also the year of no fewer than ten thousand other games. Barring a cataclysmic event, more games will be released in 2026 than in any year prior. This avalanche of competition will continue to be bad news for game makers, who must not only will they battle for attention with their contemporaries, but also the tens of thousands of “new” and now steeply discounted games released since the pandemic, the free-to-play time drains, and the entirety of retro gaming playable on ever cheaper handheld emulators. Inversely, in 2026, this abundance will be a boon for most of you listening, at least in the short term. Where the glut of games that nearly killed the game industry in the 1980s was garbage, we are not wonting for high quality games serving nearly every imaginable niche. Before 2025 ended, I had already played a dozen or so solid games that will be released in 2026. And two 2026 games would have made my 2025 Game of the Year list had they been released. Add in some acquisitions, some closures, an uptick in unionization, a delinquent government oversight, and a nauseating economy, and you will be overwhelmed with existential questions about the medium. Will video game players return to buying new games after years of gorging on forever games? Will Take Two and Grand Theft Auto deal the final blow to the once-powerful video game publishers? Will developers find new ways to get their games to their intended audience, or will more and more great games be commercial failures, leading some of the great game makers of our time to change careers? The answers to those questions could alter the lives and fortunes of tens of thousands of game makers. And could influence what you do and don’t make time to play. We’ll untangle those knots in today’s episode. Our guest is The Verge’s Ash Parrish, who has a uniquely broad and deep understanding of modern gaming, both in the industry as a reporter and the games as a critic. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info. | |||
| The Pokémon origin story | 29 déc. 2025 | 01:32:31 | |
Editor's Note: Hey Post Games listeners. To give myself a lighter load this holiday, I’m posting one of the monthly Patreon-exclusive episodes. The patrons selected the origin story of Pokémon. They think you’ll enjoy it, and I do, too! If you like this episode and want access to a backlog of bonus episodes and future bonuses, subscribe to Patreon.com/PostGames for $5. Next Monday, I’ll be posting the latest exclusive, “1996: The Most Important Year in Games,” featuring the co-hosts of My Life in Gaming! Get full show notes for free at www.post.games Before Game Freak created Pokémon, it was a hand-stapled video game zine written by a crew of arcade-loving teenagers. Welcome to the debut episode of Past Games, the new Patreon-exclusive series dedicated to revisiting the stories behind classic games and gaming moments. Over the next few months, we’ll be flipping through dusty periodicals and dog-eared history books to learn more about 2026’s big gaming anniversaries. For this episode, I invited my buddy Brendon Bigley (Wavelengths, Into the Aether) to talk pocket monsters. I share the history of the biggest children’s entertainment icon since Mickey Mouse, and Brendon shares his experience of growing up alongside the rise of Pokémania. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info. | |||
| What 2025 taught us about games | 22 déc. 2025 | 01:12:01 | |
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This week, I emptied the Post Games mailbag and tried to answer as many questions as I could muster. The result is one of the longest episodes to date, with the AMA spanning three acts and over 60 minutes! Plus, a very special extended news of the week: I chatted with Phil Salvador from the Video Game History Foundation. The VGHF has preserved the Sega Channel, the 1990s predecessor to PlayStation Now and Xbox Game Pass. How the hell do archivists preserve such a thing? Listen to find out! Now, I’d say this is the final episode of 2025, but that’s not entirely true. Next week, I’ll be sharing a special Patreon-exclusive mini-episode, reflecting on my personal favorite games of the year, along with a few small surprises. But I’m getting ahead of myself! See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info. | |||
| How games and anime became BFFs | 15 déc. 2025 | 01:05:03 | |
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Last year, I helped oversee the first major national survey of anime consumption in the United States. Before the survey, I knew anime had achieved pop culture status, with characters from Dragon Ball appearing in Fortnite and musicians like Megan Thee Stallion wearing over a dozen anime cosplays. Even still, the numbers surprised me. Nearly half of Gen Z watches anime once a week. And a quarter of millennials. 44% of anime viewers have had a crush on an anime character. And 65% of anime viewers find the form more emotionally compelling than other forms of media. Anime fans claimed to watch for escape and comfort. But also for strength, a tool to prepare them for a big test or a challenging day at work. We ran this survey at Polygon, a site broadly focused on video games, because while games and anime are two different mediums, they have for decades influenced and elevated one another. And the line between the two is blurrier and blurrier, with shows inspiring games that inspire more shows. How did we get here? To find out, I reached out to Geoff Thew, the founder and host of the hit anime YouTube channel, Mother’s Basement. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info. | |||
| The history (and secrets) of The Game Awards | 08 déc. 2025 | 00:58:41 | |
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THIS WEEK ON POST GAMES The Game Awards isn’t the Oscars. It’s not the Tonys. If we’re being generous, it shares the same pop cultural status as the modern MTV Music Video Awards. But even if the show is a bit embarrassing and largely serves as an advertisement for future games, it matters. It matters to big game publishers and tiny developers alike. All nominees stand to not only get a healthy dose of public praise, but a burst of press and a spike in sales. Especially if they win. With more games released in 2025 than in any other year, awareness is invaluable. The Game Awards claimed a 2024 audience of 154 million streams, which would mean more people watched it than the Super Bowl. Even if the audience is actually half that number, then The Game Awards remains one of the most widely seen annual broadcasts in the world. So this week on Post Games, we take The Game Awards seriously. My guest is the only year-round Game Awards beat reporter and analyst, Polyon’s Oli Welsh. Act 1: The history of The Game Awards Act 2: How The Game Awards actually work Patreon bonus: What The Game Awards got right… and very wrong Act 3: The news of the week See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info. | |||
| Two Blue Prince interviews, seven months apart | 01 déc. 2025 | 01:05:20 | |
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| 18 reasons to be thankful for video games | 24 nov. 2025 | 01:13:05 | |
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 entertainment and media industries, including award-winning indie game designers, a former executive from a AAA publisher, brilliant text-based critics, beloved audio-only hosts, a contract-securing union leader, and a good ol' fashioned movie star. Here's the party's guest list!
Because this episode is a holiday special, and because we have so many guests, there are no acts and no news of the week. Instead, what follows are nearly twenty notes of gratitude from our brilliant guests. And Patreon subscribers get an extra-long personal note from me, in which I talk about what I’m grateful for this year: the games, the movies, the books, the music, the people, and most importantly, the opportunity to do this show. We have so many delicious dishes to plop on your plate, so let’s work our way around the buffet! This week on Post Games: The Thanksgiving Special
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| 2025's scariest game recreates the site of a real tragedy | 17 nov. 2025 | 00:43:46 | |
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 To my surprise, the dark, suffocating caves of Cave Crave were just the beginning of both its terror and its depth. This week on Post Games: A trip into a real cave that became a tomb
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| What it's actually like to release a game in 2025 | 10 nov. 2025 | 01:07:20 | |
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This episode is a bit unusual. I’m chatting with a talented game developer who also happens to be a friend. I’ve known Joel Burgess for many years, dating back to his time helping to design open-world RPGs for AAA studios. He currently serves as the Studio Head of the indie studio Soft Rains, which has been busy preparing the debut of its first game. Ambrosia Sky is a sci-fi immersive sim in which you play as a death cleaner. Picture Powerwash Simulator spliced with BioShock, and then add the NYTimes obituaries, and you’re not far off. This week, Ambrosia Sky: Act 1 hits Steam. What does it feel like to launch a video game, particularly as the head of a studio, responsible for not just the success of the game but the business? The stress. The joy. The mixed sense of finishing one race, and in the current age of DLC, updates, and additional acts, starting another marathon. This week on Post Games: what it’s actually like to release a video game in 2025.
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| Why people play games that scare them | 03 nov. 2025 | 00:57:21 | |
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| 20 years later, Shadow of the Colossus still matters | 27 oct. 2025 | 00:54:58 | |
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. What makes it so unique? How has its place in gaming culture evolved? And why does it play a special part in the life of today's guest, video essayist and author Jacob Geller?
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