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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. Outside of his work with us, he's also known as the co-founder of board games behemoth Shut Up & Sit Down and now, as of just a few weeks ago, he's started something brand new, exploring the world of T...
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 and 4 ounces in the early hours of that Saturday morning, thank...
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 over to Singapore in the hopes of finding a ga...
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 ever games reporter, nine years as Kotaku's Editor-in-Chief and until recently, he wrote a twice-weekly gaming newsletter ...
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 tiny Megazord in order to make this weird YouTube channel of ours happen and *hopefully* create some documentaries that you’re...
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 many ways, like playing a post-apocalyptic video game in real-life, with all its costu...
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 Games was nominated for "Content Creator of the Year" at next month's Game Awards.We won't be able to make the event itself, because it...
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 Aftermath, along with some other ex-Kotaku staff you'll recognise. As in, today, right now! Chris grabbed them for an interview a few days ago to talk about the challenges that come with starti...
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 wait to share it with you.However, after the eve...
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 there so late? What convinced me to ride something like ten hours worth...
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 just a few days ago. In today's episode we're going to be talking to her about what's happened and digging into the increasingly strained relationship between Kotaku's editorial team a...
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 thought I'd use today's newsletter to gush about its title screen a little bit. I've included a video above, if you've not seen it ...
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 out Patreon Show, despite the topics.Than...
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 his way into a full-time gig making videos on the in...
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 decide for yourself! Should Chris go to FarmCon?...
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. She's also just been on the ground at Summer Games Fest, the potential successor to the games industry's biggest,...
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 has been stolen from its original creators, we've j...
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 development of Broken Age and create the Double Fine Adventure series.However, it's their latest work that's absolutel...
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 months now and I’ll be totally honest with you: there...
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 on these stories ended in total failure. So please, indulge ...
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 this famously secretive company at the heart of the games industry.Having just published our own report on the reality of wor...
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 been a little quiet on PMG for a few months now. This w...
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 recent work and that means it'll need m...
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 been thinking a lot about some of the darkest, most isolating years of my own life. Thankfully, they were some time ago now, but I...
NEW EPISODE: Valve's Gambling Problem
Hey patrons!You might remember in 2016, a couple of YouTubers got into some real trouble for 'promoting' a CS:GO skin betting website to their extremely young and impressionable audiences. Unfortunately it turned out your boys Syndicate and TmarTn actually owned the site in question and hadn...
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 big ol' project so far, but we've just about finished...
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 Glass House Games and GamesMaster magazine. More recently, she worked with People Make Games (that's us!) on an incredible video ab...
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 to Gamescom in Cologne, Germany to take part in a session ab...
