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The Games Press Episode 18: Quintin Smith (People Make Games)

Quintin Smith is one third of People Make Games, although hopefully you already knew that. Outsid...

Introducing Dylan Bratt-Sayers!

Hey everyone,

Just a little update here to let you know that Dylan was born on the 10th Feb and is doing really well. We're so in love with him and his tiny, often quite serious-looking facial expressions.

He arrived weighing 8 pounds...

NEW EPISODE: The Murder Game Revolution That Has Gripped China

China has a multi-billion dollar gaming scene that you may well know nothing about. It's time we all talked about Jubensha!

Join Quinns as he digs into the history of "script murder" and why China's Gen Z loves it so much, before he heads o...

The Games Press Episode 17: Stephen Totilo (Reporter at Game File)

Stephen Totilo has been a games journalist for two decades now, making him one of the most experienced people in the field. His career spans a stint at MTV News as its first...

Some of the people who make People Make Games are also making a person

Hey patrons!

As most of you will already know, People Make Games is made up of three different people: Anni, Chris (hi, that’s me) and Quinns. We all slot together like a 2023-12-01 14:00:14 +0000 UTC View Post

NEW EPISODE: Our Expedition to Wasteland Weekend, the Real-Life Videogame

And now for something totally different!

At the very end of September, Quinns and Chris traveled to the Mojave Desert to roleplay the end of the world with FOUR THOUSAND other people at Wasteland Weekend.

It was, in ...

PMG has been nominated for a Game Award!

So we're not exactly sure how this has happened, but last night we checked Twitter to find that Geoff Keighley had just announced People Make Game...

The Games Press Episode 16: Nathan Grayson & Riley MacLeod (Just launched Aftermath)

Nathan Grayson and Riley MacLeod have just launched a brand new, worker-owned games publication called 2023-11-07 17:31:31 +0000 UTC View Post

NEW EPISODE: The Games Industry Must Not Stay Silent on Palestine

Hey everyone,

Today's video is not a normal one for us. In fact, we had something else lined up for this week which we can't wait to show you. It's silly and fun and an exploration of an entirely different kind of games community. We cannot ...

Patreon Show August 2023 - Farming Simulator meets ESPORTS

Hey patrons!

I had an unusual Gamescom this year, having popped over for just the last couple of days of the show. In fact, by the time I arrived, almost everybody from the games media had already gone home it seemed.

So why was I the...

The Games Press Episode 15: Patricia Hernandez (Former Editor-in-Chief at Kotaku)

Patricia Hernandez is now the former Editor-in-Chief of Kotaku, having been fired from the position 2023-08-23 13:39:31 +0000 UTC View Post

Christopher Bratt's Online Newsletter: The Baldur's Gate 3 Title Screen

Much like the rest of the world, I've been playing Baldur's Gate 3 this weekend and although there's just so much to love about this game, I thoug...

Patreon Show July 2023 - Chris takes a tiny dog on a tiny walk

Hello patrons!

This month you're joining Chris on a leisurely stroll as he talks to you about such breezy topics as "burnout" and the "games industry's total unpreparedness for Artificial Intelligence".

It's actually quite a chilled ou...

Christopher Bratt's Online Newsletter: Losing VideoGamerTV

As I sit down to type this, I’ve just clocked the fact that I’ve now been a video games journalist for more than a decade. It’s been ten years and three months since a baby-faced (and honestly, not especially qualified) Chris Bratt weaselled...

Quintin and Chris' Bad Idea House #6

Team PMG are back again to tell you about some video ideas we've had which were, in fact, not very good.

Or at least that's the premise, anyway. To be honest, we've sort of talked ourselves round on at least one of these. You'll have to deci...

The Games Press Episode 14: Rebekah Valentine (Senior Reporter at IGN)

Rebekah Valentine is a Senior Reporter at IGN and an instrumental figure in the site's latest ambitions to establish itself as a true home for longform video games reporting...

Investigation: Who’s Telling the Truth about Disco Elysium?

Over the last three months, we've been looking into a story that we know a lot of you really, really care about. We do too.

Following a series of explosive allegations surrounding the games studio ZA/UM and the possibility that Disco Elysium...

Patreon Show May 2023 - Chris & Quinns go to an awards dinner

People Make Games gets invited to a fancy awards evening and are bringing you along with them, in Chris's pocket, like a little friend.

The Games Press Episode 13: Double Fine PsychOdyssey (2 Player Productions)

2 Player Productions is a documentary crew that's been embedded with Double Fine Productions for more than a decade now, having first come onboard in order to follow the dev...

NEW VIDEO: We Entered the World of Microsoft Excel eSports & Got Our Asses Beat

Microsoft Excel is an eSport now, so uhm, we hired a green screen for Quinns to muck around with.

Honestly, it's best if you just watch the video. I'm not really sure what's happened here.

Christopher Bratt's Online Newsletter: Double Fine PsychOdyssey

Hello everyone and welcome to what we’ll now be calling Christopher Bratt’s Online Newsletter. That's it. That's the name.

Listen, I’ve been trying to think of a newsletter title that could more directly reference video games for month...

Quintin & Chris' Bad Idea House #5

Hey patrons!

Quintin and Chris are back again to tell you about some video ideas they've had which just haven't worked out.

We like to do this from time to time, mostly so we can feel some kind of cathartic relief after our reporting o...

The Games Press Episode 12: Tyler McVicker (Formerly Valve News Network)

Tyler McVicker has been utterly obsessed with Valve for more than a decade now, having reported on almost every scrap of news, speculation and datamined morsel to come out of th...

NEW VIDEO — Working at Valve: 'A Fearless Adventure' or 'Lord of the Flies'?

Valve claims to have been "boss-free since 1996", but what does that really mean?

We've spoken to 16 current and former employees about the inner workings of one of gaming's most unusual companies.

You may have noticed things have bee...

Patreon Show December 2022 — It's been a minute

Hey patrons!

Here's a little insight into what we're working on right now (a massive video about Valve) and when to expect it (early January). We've actually filmed most of it already, but it's going to have a longer runtime than much of our...

My gambling problem

Hey patrons!

It's Chris here. Since we published yesterday's report on the gambling scene that's now embedded itself into Steam over the last decade, I've be...

NEW EPISODE: Valve's Gambling Problem

Hey patrons!

You might remember in 2016, a couple of YouTubers got into some real trouble for ...

Two-part series on the way!

Hey patrons,

Just a quick update here from your pals at People Make Games.

Anni, Quinns and I are busy working away on what will end up being a two-part video series about one of the industry's most intriguing companies. It's been a bi...

The Games Press #11: Sam Greer (Freelance critic)

After a couple of months away, The Games Press is now back in your podcast application of choice!

Sam Greer is a freelance games critic, having previously worked for 2022-09-05 15:48:37 +0000 UTC View Post

Patreon Show August 2022 - We're invited to Gamescom Congress

Hey everyone,

Sorry there's been a bit of a run of missed Patreon Shows recently, they sometimes get demoted further down the list of things I need to do when the rest of my PMG work is piling up.

But we're back this month, as I head t...