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Post Games — 65 episodes

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1

The Blessing and Curse of Pokémon

2

Gaming’s Toughest Critic Wants You to Live a Happier Life

3

A Gaming Podcast Your Friends Will Love

4

What's the Point of Video Game Reviews?

5

What's Weird Nintendo (and Is It Still Alive?)

6

How the Games Industry Got to This Point

7

The Earliest Game of the Year Awards

8

How to Have a Persona Summer

9

What You Should Know about James Bond

10

How to See the Profound Beauty in Gaming's Tiniest Details

11

The History (and Future) of Bubsy

12

The History of The Legend of Zelda (1986)

13

The Nine Lives of Games Journalism

14

This Game Won’t Save the World*

15

He Won the Biggest Award in Indie Games. Then He Did It Again.

16

Where Do Video Games Go from Here?

17

Video Games Are Art. Are Museums Ready?

18

2026's Fantasy Masterpiece Took 8 Years, 4 Attempts, and 1 Disco Elysium

19

Why Pinball Moved from Bars to Basements

20

Games Can Save Us from the Hell of Silicon Valley Optimization

21

The ESA Saved Video Games Once. Can It Do It Again?

22

What Is Fictosexuality?

23

The Resident Evil Auteur in His Own Words

24

Edmund McMillen Wants You to Ask the Uncomfortable Questions

25

Robbing Museums? Sounds Like Fun

26

A History of Dragon Quest (and Why To Try It Now)

27

Nintendo Gets the History Book It Deserves

28

Adapting Life into a Video Game

29

Mothership and a History of Women in Games Media

30

2026's Big Games, Trends, and Showdowns

31

The Pokémon origin story

32

What 2025 taught us about games

33

How games and anime became BFFs

34

The history (and secrets) of The Game Awards

35

Two Blue Prince interviews, seven months apart

36

18 reasons to be thankful for video games

37

2025's scariest game recreates the site of a real tragedy

38

What it's actually like to release a game in 2025

39

Why people play games that scare them

40

20 years later, Shadow of the Colossus still matters

41

Why Great Games Sometimes Flop

42

The "Too Many Games" Problem

43

Demystifying Nintendo (Plus: Life as an NSFW gaming YouTuber)

44

The growing threat of video game censorship

45

Microsoft before and after the Xbox

46

Going to college for video games

47

The rarest video game podcast returns

48

The True Story Behind Street Fighter: The Movie (Patreon Bonus Sample)

49

Can you fit cable TV into a video game?

50

How video game movies got good

51

A Broadway musician’s double life as a murder mystery maker

52

Big predictions for the future of games

53

Games about death improve our lives

54

The forgotten history of Donkey Kong

55

How to make video games funny

56

The life, death, death, death, death, and rebirth of Atari

57

Why video games feel better and worse than ever before

58

The case of Dunkey vs. Death Stranding

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59

How to fight brilliant (and stupid) AI

60

What we have in common with world-ending AI

61

Why the Switch 2 launch felt different

62

Why you can't escape all of those sexy games

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63

The award that changes the lives of its winners

64

Post Games FAQ (w/ Casey Newton)

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