The Back Page: A Video Games Podcast

The Back Page: A Video Games Podcast

Samuel Roberts and Matthew Castle

1 hour 59 minutes

Episode 203: The Death and Life of Games Magazines (with Caspian Whistler)

In part one, hear us discuss what it's like to work on a games magazine when it's closing down, the rise of prestige games mags, and why crowdfunded independent media is so hard to get off the ground.

A Profound Waste of Time founder Caspian Whistler joins us for part two. Hear about the creation of this successful prestige print project – and check out APWOT issue 5's Kickstarter here, which ends in a couple of weeks.

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22 November 2024, 6:00 am
1 hour 25 minutes

What We've Been Playing (Dragon Age: The Veilguard, COD BLOPS 6, Batman: Arkham Shadow, Mario & Luigi: Brothership)

Beefy games chat this week on all of the above – plus The Rise of the Golden Idol, FF7 Rebirth and Apex Legends.

Thanks to Matthew 'Big Matty C' Castle for the edits this week.

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15 November 2024, 6:00 am
1 hour 18 minutes

Episode 201: Backlogeddon (with Jay Baylis)

We all have too many games to play. One of our favourite guests, Jay Baylis, joins us to discuss how we all gathered massive backlogs – and what can be done to cure it.

Matthew had a cold for this one. But he still went through and edited out all his coughs, bless him.

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8 November 2024, 6:00 am
2 hours 37 minutes

Episode 200: Behind The Back Page

Only Jeremy Peel can save The Back Page: A Video Games Podcast.
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1 November 2024, 6:00 am
2 hours 2 minutes

Two Giant Men Play Perfect Dark (Patreon Sampler)

We need an extra week to work on episode 200, so enjoy this great episode we made for our wonderful Patreon subscribers earlier this year.

Support us at Patreon.com/BackPagePod, and get more great episodes like this one.

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25 October 2024, 5:00 am
58 minutes 2 seconds

From Games Journalism to Blumhouse (with Louise Blain)

One of our favourite returning guests, Louise Blain (last on the pod in October 2021), discusses her current role as Creative Lead at Blumhouse Games. Their first published game, Fear the Spotlight, is out on October 22nd.

It's short but sweet! But next week probably won't be...

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18 October 2024, 5:00 am
1 hour 16 minutes

What We've Been Playing (Metaphor: ReFantazio, Silent Hill 2, The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom)

Matthew is zagging on the new Atlus RPG, is surprised at how much he's enjoying Silent Hill 2, and is at odds with Samuel on the merits of the newest Zelda game, Echoes of Wisdom.

You'll laugh when you get to our predictions of the critical response to Metaphor...

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11 October 2024, 5:00 am
2 hours 21 minutes

The PS4 Draft

Returning guest Dave Scarborough (who?) joins us for our next three-person draft, focused on the PlayStation 4. Vote for the winner in our pinned tweet.

This week's music is from the Persona 5: Royal soundtrack by Shoji Meguro. Thank you to Matthew 'Mr Basil Pesto' Castle for the edits.

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4 October 2024, 5:00 am
1 hour 31 minutes

What We've Been Playing (UFO 50, Astro Bot with spoilers, Tactical Breach Wizards)

A true mix of stuff this week, right up until the final minutes: UFO 50, Astro Bot (this time with spoiler chat), Tactical Breach Wizards, Peglin, Marvel Vs Capcom: Fighting Collection and Sumerian Six. Enjoy!
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27 September 2024, 5:00 am
2 hours 46 minutes

The PC Gaming Draft: 2010-2019 (with Jeremy Peel)

The draft is back, this time with unofficial third host and PC gaming expert Jeremy Peel! Listen to 30 competitive picks from an amazing decade for PC gaming, then vote on the winner in our pinned Twitter poll @BackPagePod.

This week's music is from the VVVVVV soundtrack by Magnus Pålsson.

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20 September 2024, 5:00 am
1 hour 20 minutes

What We've Been Playing: Astro Bot, Space Marine 2, Star Wars: Outlaws, Emio – The Smiling Man: Famicom Detective Club

So many good games to discuss this week! Astro Bot, Space Marine 2, Star Wars: Outlaws and the new Famicom Detective Club game. An array of treats, right up until the last few minutes of the episode...
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13 September 2024, 4:00 am
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