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Patreon Show October 2025: From Arkane, anonymously
This month's Patreon Show (fit with a new thumbnail design, thanks Anni!), comes direct from Lyon, France, where I've been interviewing some Arkane devs in a pretty, erm, specific fashion? You'll see what I mean...We're also announcing our next documentary here as well, one that shou...
We've given the Patreon page a bit of a tidy
Hi everyone,I know many of you will be reading this in your email inbox, but if you head over to our Patreon page itself, you'll notice that things are looking a little different.This is part of a new change that Patreon has just rolled out, designed to make it easier to find the best bits you m...
People Make Crimes: The Full Playthrough!
Following on from our Escape Room documentary, here's the full playthrough of Loot the Lanes (including some brilliant commentary from the staff watching us in real-time).Thanks to Pier Pressure in Brighton!
War for Rayuba: Anni's video diary
Behind-the-scenes with Anni as she attempts to defeat a tarot-wielding villain with a sleepy dog in a mecha suit.Watch our original documentary on the War for Rayuba here!
Chris plays Neptune's Pride (FOR MORE THAN THREE WEEKS!)
After telling the story of a game prototype that had to be banned from the very studio that created it, Chris embarked on his own journey of diplomacy, deception and mental damage.
Chris Bratt from 2012 has some opinions about Mass Effect 3
Following our documentary on the inside story of how Mass Effect 3's endings were made, Chris has uncovered a video he made about this same subject more than a decade prior. It's, erm, illuminating.
Chris and Quinns have a nose around in VRChat
The boys explore the very furthest limits of virtual entertainment.Watch our full VRChat documentary here!
Chris trains to be a Farming Sim Pro
Thanks to New Holland for being such lovely lads.Watch our full Farming Simulator esports documentary here!
Chris & Quinns explore a farming expo
E3 may be dead, but at least we still have LAMMA Show.Watch the full Farming Simulator esports documentary here!
Behind the scenes at Bridge Command
After our Bridge Command playthrough, Quinns had a nosy around the set and talked with the crew about how it all worked. We thought you might like to join him.
It's Time We Talked about Disco Elysium, Again
Hey, at least this one isn't two and a half hours!I really can't believe we're back here for a second time, but as you'll hear, we really felt we had to return to Disco Elysium and settle some unfinished business. This is largely driven by just how much has now happened in the years ...
Patreon Show July 2025 - I suppose we'd better announce this one as well...
Hey patrons,We've been quiet for a little while, which given our past history can mean one of two things:1) Anni and Chris have had another baby.2) PMG is working on a big story and we're buried under so much work that we've almost ceased to exist as normal, functioning members of societ...
Watch Chris interview Jake Solomon (Firaxis Games/Midsummer Studios) about launching a new games studio in 2025
Hello everyone,I was invited to be a guest speaker at an indie games festival in Baltimore this weekend and if you'd like to, you can watch the talk right here. I asked Jake Solomon, the ex-Firaxis Creative Director to join me on stage and we discussed his work on the XCOM series, Midnight Suns,...
Are you a PMG patron that lives near Baltimore?
On the off chance that you are, I'm going to be at the Enoch Pratt Free Library on the 7th June interviewing Jake Solomon (of XCOM and Midnight Suns fame) about what it's like trying to launch a new video games studio amidst... all of this.If you've been following my work since Eurogamer...
NEW EPISODE: I Captained a £4,000,000 Starship Filled with Actors
Continuing a trend of Quinns and myself being sent to explore lavishly-designed roleplaying experiences together, we this time ventured into the world of Bridge Command, a "highly interactive theatre experience" set aboard a starship in London (and also in space).Along with a couple of our f...
Christopher Bratt's Online Newsletter: World of Warcraft, but not as I knew it
Hey patrons,Inspired by our upcoming documentary following the WoWGG unionas it bargains with Blizzard Entertainment for better working conditions, I've dipped my toes back into the comforting waters of World of Warcraft just a touch. Except, actually, this time around I've made everything f...
Patreon Show February 2025 - Embedding with a video games union
Hey everyone,This Patreon Show was recorded during a recent trip to Irvine, California where I was filming the very first parts of a documentary that could take upwards of a year to complete! That's because this story is still ongoing and we intend to cover the whole thing.Anyway, if you could p...
The Games Press Episode 24: Wesley Yin-Poole (Director of News at IGN)
Wesley Yin-Pooleis in charge of the news desk over at IGN and has been reporting on the games industry for almost two decades at this point.He's also been a mentor of mine ever since our days working together at Eurogamer where he helped shape some of my very first stories, while he himself publ...
100 Slaps: The Breaking News The Games Industry Ignored in 2024
Hi patrons,Thanks for bearing with us on this one. It probably won't take long for you to realize why we were a little concerned about publishing this during the middle of the holiday break.To give you some context for what you're about to watch, this is a follow-up to a story we first publi...
Our next video is good to go, but...
Hey everyone!Just a quick update about our next documentary. It's pretty much ready to publish and we've been mulling over the idea of doing so this week, but in the end, we've decided against it.This one's a big investigative piece and we're just not sure that the December holid...
Christopher Bratt's Online Newsletter: It's been too quiet!
Hello everyone!I've been feeling pretty weird about not being online enough recently. When you have a job like this one, it can feel like the ultimate crime, honestly.Now this tends to happen whenever we're deep into reporting a big, complicated story. There's a sort of single-minded foc...
The Games Press Episode 23: Jason Schreier (Author of Play Nice)
Jason Schreieris a games reporter for Bloomberg, best known for his extensive reporting on the volatile reality of AAA game development.On today's episode we'll be talking about his latest book, Play Nice: The Rise, Fall, And Future of Blizzard Entertainment and the frankly horrifying number...
NEW EPISODE: The Games Behind Your Government's Next War
Another lighthearted documentary from your friends at People Make Games!This time Quinns explores the disconcertingly-familiar world of government-funded, military wargaming and its relationship with the commercial games industry.We go on a real journey with this one.Also... I know we say this a lot...
The Games Press Episode 22: Nicole Carpenter (Senior Reporter at Polygon)
Nicole Carpenterhas been reporting on the games industry at Polygon for the last five years, where she's perhaps best known for her coverage of unions and the increasingly vital role they're playing in shaping the future of video game development.In fact, not only has she reported on this su...
Patreon, Apple & PMG
Hey everyone,Patreon are making some changesto how the platform operates on iOS devices going forward and I wanted to quickly explain what that means for you, as well as a couple of knock-on effects it’ll now have for People Make Games as well.And then finally, I want to end the post with a little...
The Games Press Episode 21: Grant Stoner (Accessibility & Disability Reporter)
Grant Stoneris a freelance reporter who specializes in covering accessibility and disability across the games industry in his work.Among other work, he writes a monthly column for IGN where he recently examined how the mass layoffs ripping through the games industry have affected disabled game worke...
PMG Responds to the Games Industry Layoffs
It's long overdue that People Make Games talks about the layoffs that have now ripped through the games industry over the last couple of years.So when I was asked to speak at a recent IWGB Game Workersmeeting, it seemed like the perfect moment to do exactly that.This video blurs the line between...
The Games Press Episode 20: Sarah Parvini (LA Times)
Sarah Parviniwas a games reporter at the LA Times until just a few months ago, having been among those who were hit by a staggering round of layoffs at the paper earlier this year. In fact, the publication is meant to have shed around 20% of its newsroomin one fell swoop. Journalism is in a rough st...
NEW EPISODE: Inside the World of Farming Simulator eSports (No, Really)
Farming Simulator has a professional eSports scene with a prize pool of Є200,000! This seemed very strange to us and so earlier this year, we decided to find a team and follow them across Europe as they competed for a place in the World Championship.Oh my gosh does it feel good to get a video finis...
The Games Press Episode 19: Chelsea Reed Miller (IGN Creators Guild)
Chelsea Reed Milleris a video editor for IGN and a spokesperson for the IGN Creators Guild, a brand spanking new union that's been officially recognized by IGN's parent company just a couple of months ago.In today's episode, you'll hear guest host Nicole Carpentertalk to Chelsea abou...
