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Real Time Strategy — 90 episodes

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The Game Awards 2024 Nominations and Predictions

2

Should Xbox Make a Handheld?

3

How to Succeed with Creative Game Marketing (Feat. Waypoint’s Sean Murrin)

4

Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown — Success or Failure?

5

What Is AA Gaming? Plus, Amazon’s God of War Show and Secret Level

6

What’s Happening at Annapurna Interactive?

7

PlayStation’s Rollercoaster Week of Concord, Astro Bot, and PS5 Pro

8

Game Informer’s Legacy and What’s Next for Brian Shea and Alex Van Aken

9

Borderlands vs. Deadpool & Wolverine: A Movie Adaptation Marketing Study

10

Game Informer Is Gone. What Does That Mean for Games Media?

11

Gaming Actors on Strike, Roblox’s Safety Problem, and San Diego Comic-Con

12

What Xbox’s Game Pass Changes Mean for the Service’s Future

13

Will The Nintendo Switch Finish Strong? (Ft. IGN’s Logan Plant)

14

SGF Play Days and What Makes a Good Game Preview With Jason Fanelli

15

We Review Summer Game Fest + Xbox Games Showcase 2024

16

How To Cook and Find Your Brand With Andy Lunique, Author of The Ultimate Gamers Cookbook

17

Call of Duty Coming Day One to Game Pass, IGN Acquires Gamer Network

18

Crash Course on the Games Business with Joost van Dreunen

19

Xbox Closes Four Studios, Nintendo Confirms Next Console, and Our Final Fallout Thoughts

20

TikTok Faces Ban, Escape from Tarkov Upsets Players, and Fallout 4’s Next-Gen Update

21

Embracer Splits in Three, Star Wars Outlaws’ Season Pass, and Fallout’s TV Renewal

22

Fallout Review with Trisha Hershberger

23

Behind the IGN Creators Guild with Chelsea Miller

24

No Baldur’s Gate 4? GTA6 Delayed? Microtransactions in Dragon's Dogma 2?

25

Rascal’s Independent Tabletop Journalism with Lin Codega and Chase Carter

26

Entering the World of Darkness with Jason Carl

27

Will Gaming Have Its Oscars Night?

28

Why Are Layoffs Dominating the Games Industry?

29

Lysfanga: The Time Shift Warrior Interview with Game Director Thibault Legouet

30

Nintendo Switch 2 in 2025 and Xbox’s Business Update

31

Disney Goes Big on Fortnite, Xbox Going Big on Other Platforms?

32

Spawn On Me’s Kahlief Adams on Making The Spawnies Award Show

33

How IGN Reviews Games in 2024 with Tom Marks

34

Xbox 2024 Preview with Kinda Funny’s Mike “SnowBikeMike” Howard

35

AI in Games, Switch 2 Rumors, and Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown

36

Second Wind’s Nick Calandra on Going Independent After The Escapist

37

2024 Predictions and Most-Anticipated Games

38

Picking 2023’s Best Games and 2024’s Most Wanted with PC Gamer’s Evan Lahti

39

The Game Awards 2023 Review

40

Grand Theft Auto 6’s Trailer, Fortnite’s Big Bang, and Fallout’s TV Show

41

The Game Awards 2023 Predictions and The Last of Us Part II Remastered

42

BlizzCon, Grand Theft Auto 6, and a Live-Action Zelda Movie

43

How Puzzmo Reinvents Puzzle Games with Game Designer Zach Gage

44

Why Are Games Beautiful? (with Frank Lantz, Author of “The Beauty of Games”)

45

TwitchCon 2023 Review and Spider-Man 2 Impressions

46

What’s Next for Microsoft After Acquiring Activision Blizzard?

47

Our Favorite Horror Games

48

Under The Waves Interview with Lead Game Designer Thomas Bardet

49

Starfield, Unity, and Showcases — Oh My! (with MMORPG’s Joseph Bradford)

50

Starfield’s Media Successes and Shortcomings

51

Parenting and Gaming with Remap’s Patrick Klepek

52

Gamertag Radio’s Danny Peña on Hosting and Community Building

53

iam8bit Founders on Championing Games as Art

54

Diversity, Recruitment, and the Geek Community with But Why Tho’s EiC Kate Sánchez

55

Writing Video Game of the Year with PCMag’s Jordan Minor

56

How Apple Can Change VR and AR with Owlchemy Labs’ Rob Alvarez

57

The Art of Game Reviews with GameSpot’s Tamoor Hussain

58

Why Are So Many Games Releasing in Spring 2023?

59

Designing Grand Strategy with Victoria 3 Game Director Mikael Andersson

60

From Games Journalist to Live-Service PR Expert with Doug Perry

61

IGN Co-Founder Doug Perry on Building a Gaming Media Giant

62

HBO’s The Last of Us Review with TV Critic Alison Herman

63

Voice Acting with Gabe Kunda (Hi-Fi Rush, Valorant, Apex Legends)

64

Bringing Your Voice to Games Writing with IGN’s Matt Kim

65

Zelda, Game Boy, and Shadow Drops - We Review 2023’s First Nintendo Direct

66

We Attended The Game Awards for the First Time

67

IGN’s Dan Stapleton on Game Reviews and Busy Review Seasons

68

Breaking Down The Game Awards’ 2022 Nominations

69

Publishing as a Service with Popagenda’s Nick Verge

70

The Future of VR with UploadVR’s Skeeva

71

Indie Game Discovery with IGN’s Rob Manuel

72

Leaks: From GTA6 and Assassin’s Creed to The Last of Us and Barbie

73

From Freelance to Full Time with Game Informer’s Wesley LeBlanc

74

Gamescom 2022 and The Different Forms of Gaming PR (ft. Nick Shepherd)

75

Climate Replay (and How the Games Industry Can Fight Climate Change)

76

2022 Summer Showcase Season

77

Video Games in Health Care (ft. NPR’s Keller Gordon)

78

We Enter the Metaverse (And Try Coca-Cola’s Metaverse Soda)

79

PAX East 2022 and In-Person Event Planning

80

Tales from GDC 2022

81

Fanbyte’s Natalie Flores on Games PR, Reviews, and Her Favorite Indies

82

2022’s Open Worlds and the Importance of Game Reviews

83

LAN Parties’ Lukas Eggen on Podcasting and the Steam Deck

84

A Guide to Freelance Games Journalism (ft. George Yang)

85

The Past, Present, and Future of E3

86

2022: The Year of Endless Games

87

The Game Awards and Our 2022 Predictions

88

PR in the Holiday Season

89

Introducing Real Time Strategy

90

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