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The Back Page: A Video Games Podcast

Samuel Roberts and Matthew Castle

Games media writers Matthew Castle (NGamer, Rock Paper Shotgun) and Samuel Roberts (PC Gamer, gamesTM, TechRadar) talk about video games and their years covering them professionally. Our logo is by John Strike, and our theme tune is by Barry "Epoch" Topping (@nostoppingepoch on Twitter). Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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1:52:28

How To Write A Feature About Games (with Jeremy Peel)

The Back Page: A Video Games Podcast ·

2024/02/09

Beloved guest Jeremy Peel drops by to discuss his new Patreon project, The Peel Perspective, as well as the art of writing a magazine or website feature about video games.Did we nail this episode? Ack, not *quite*. As Matthew put it after the edit, it's fine. We didn't entirely have the right energy for it this week, nor did we have a tight enough plan to conquer such a big subject in the second half. Always lovely to have Jeremy back on, though.This week's music is from the System Shock remake by

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2:54:40

The Best Games of 2002

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2024/02/02

Two top 10 lists of our favourite games from 2002 (based on UK releases)...and a slew of ridiculous anecdotes about working in Homebase and studying GCSE Drama.This week's music is from the Super Mario Sunshine soundtrack by Koji Kondo and Shinobu Tanaka, and the Ico soundtrack by Michiru Oshima, Koichi Yamazaki and Mitsukuni Murayama. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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2:20:42

Top 10 Sega Games (with Ashley Day)

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2024/01/26

Returning guest Ashley Day tells us about his love of the Sega Saturn, then gives us his ten favourite Sega developed (or published) games of all time. Spoiler alert: Football Manager 2009 doesn't make the cut. This week's music is from the Shining Force 3 soundtrack by Motoi Sakuraba. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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1:23:31

Episode 161: What We've Been Playing (Suicide Squad,...

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2024/01/19

We've been playing The Last of Us Part 2 Remastered, Marvel's Midnight Suns, Suicide Squad Kills The Justice League, Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown (just the demo, mind), Assassin's Creed Nexus and Foamstars in this far-reaching episode. Some nutritious games waffle to cancel out last week's nonsense mailbag episode.Enjoy! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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1:02:48

Episode 160: Dubious Mailbag

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2024/01/12

After several solid episodes in a row, The Back Page crashes down to Earth with a mailbag crammed with irrelevant questions about food. But you do get to hear about the famous person Matthew went to school with... Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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1:50:22

Episode 159: 24 Gaming Predictions About 2024

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2024/01/05

After last week's belting return with the GOTY episode, it's time for something with far less meat on the bones as we roll out some bullshit gaming predictions for 2024.This week's music is from the Persona 3 soundtrack by Shoji Meguro and the Nier: Automata soundtrack by Keiichi Okabe, Keigo Hoashi and Kuniyuki Takahashi. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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3:20:53

Episode 158: The Best Games of 2023

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2023/12/30

Our biggest episode of the year is here! Two top 10 lists of the best games of the year. More than three hours of pod, slightly later than planned (sorry about that). Thanks so much for your patience while we took a much-needed break – but now we're back! Expect a full plan of what we're making in January in the next few days, including the return of the XL and XXL episodes.This week's music is from the Cobalt Core soundtrack by Aaron Cherof. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more

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2:18:01

Episode 157: The Back Page Holiday Special

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2023/12/22

After a short break, we're back with a fun (allegedly) holiday special to see out the year – featuring special guests, our favourite Christmas-themed games and the Back Page alternative GOTY awards.This week's music is from Bayonetta Origins, Final Fantasy 16, Fable 2 and Bully. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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2:41:08

James Bond Movies Ranked (from the Patreon)

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2023/12/15

From the XL Tier on Patreon.com/backpagepod – it's our rundown of the best James Bond movies. Enjoy! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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2:55:08

The Best Metal Gear Solid Moments

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2023/12/08

The 25 best Metal Gear moments across the entire series, with listener favourite guest Rich Stanton! If you enjoy this episode, this is the sort of thing we cook up on Patreon.com/backpagepod. We'll be back with regular episodes in late December. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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2:07:49

Episode 156: Two Giant Men Play Final Fantasy 7 (Disc 1)

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2023/12/01

It's Matthew's first time through the original Final Fantasy 7. Ahead of the release of Rebirth in 2024, he explains what the hell is going on in disc one of this 26 year-old RPG, right up to the death of Aerith (and to a lesser extent, Cait Sith).This is our last new podcast for three weeks! Thanks for listening all year – we'll be back soon. Free feed listeners can look forward to a couple of Patreon samplers. This week's music is from the Final Fantasy 7 soundtrack by Nobuo Uematsu. Hosted on

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1:58:27

Episode 155: The Licensed Games Draft

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2023/11/24

Samuel and Matthew compete to pick the best selection of 10 licensed games, and discuss the wildly inconsistent history of games based on movies, TV shows, books and more. Matthew won this draft.This week's music is from the Blade Runner game soundtrack by Vangelis and Frank Klepacki. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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2:42:03

Episode 154: What We've Been Playing (Alan Wake 2,...

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2023/11/17

The latest on what we've been playing, featuring Alan Wake 2, Chants of Senaar, Super Mario Wonder, The Talos Principle 2, the PlayStation Portal and the Oculus Quest 3. Plus: the last mailbag of the year! Who knows how this one ended up being so bloody long. This week's music is from the Chants of Senaar soundtrack by Thomas Brunet. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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1:14:17

Episode 153: From Jak & Daxter to Eurogamer (with...

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2023/11/10

This week's guest is comedian, writer and streaming superstar Ellie Gibson, who talks us through her career at Eurogamer during the heyday of the PS3 and 360 era of games media. This week's music is from the Sky Odyssey soundtrack by Kow Otani. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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2:12:21

Episode 152: Three Giant Men Play Spider-Man 2 (with...

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2023/11/03

A deep dive on the year's biggest PlayStation game with Dave Scarborough, sometime features editor of gamesTM. This week's music is by John Paesano from the Marvel's Spider-Man 2 soundtrack. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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1:59:46

Episode 151: Alan Wake 2 and the Games of Remedy...

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2023/10/27

IGN's Simon Cardy joins us to celebrate the history of Remedy's games, including Max Payne, Alan Wake and even Quantum Break, as Alan Wake 2 finally becomes a reality. There's also a lot of fun chatter about Simon's work on IGN that you'll hopefully enjoy! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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2:10:55

Episode 150: The Art of PlayStation List Making (with...

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2023/10/20

Rob Pearson of PlayStation Access is our guest this week. Hear about Rob's unusual journey to YouTube fame via print media, and how Charlie Brooker and Jon Blyth inspired his hugely popular top 7 features. This week's music is from the Final Fantasy IX soundtrack by Nobuo Uematsu. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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2:50:02

Episode 149: The Best Games of 2001

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2023/10/13

From GTA 3 to Silent Hill 2, 2001 was one of the best years in the history of games. In this episode, we each construct top 10s while sharing pointless details of our mixed fortunes as teenagers. This week's music is from the Silent Hill 2 soundtrack by Akira Yamaoka. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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1:43:44

Episode 148: What We've Been Playing (Cyberpunk 2077:...

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2023/10/06

We've firmly entered silly season, and Matthew has finished Cyberpunk 2077: Phantom Liberty. Does it change his take on the CD Projekt RED FPS/RPG? Find out in this episode, along with his early thoughts on Assassin's Creed Mirage, Samuel's thoughts on Resi 4's Separate Ways DLC, and both our thoughts on indie sensation Cocoon. This week's music is from the Assassin's Creed Mirage soundtrack by Brendan Angelides. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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2:34:02

Episode 147: Things You Only Realise When You Make Games

The Back Page: A Video Games Podcast ·

2023/09/29

People Can Fly's Jamie Smith tells us about his career and things you only realise about games when you actually make them for a living. Then, in the last section, Jamie poses a series of impossible game design questions to both of us – see how we fare as backseat game designers! This week's music is from the Call of Duty: Vanguard soundtrack by Bear McCreary. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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