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Post Games

Post Games is an audio magazine about how and why we love video games. Each week, host Chris Plante reports on a new, overlooked, or underappreciated topic in gaming culture. Why do people play games that scare them? Why do great games sometimes flop? How has one award turned tiny indie game makers into big-name millionaires?With original interviews, writing, and a traditional audio-magazine structure, Plante keeps things entertaining, informative, and always under 90 minutes. Because Post

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01:02:20

Nintendo Gets the History Book It Deserves (Keza...

Post Games ·

2026/01/26

Want full show notes for free, including links to everything we mention? Visit www.post.gamesGet weekly bonus segments, video episodes, monthly exclusive episodes, and more at patreon.com/postgames for only $5 This week on Post Games:Act 1: How Nintendo Became a Game CompanyAct 2: Nintendo’s PresentPatreon Bonus: The Future of Nintendo After Its Icons DepartAct 3: News of the Week Guest: Keza MacDonald, journalist and author of Super Nintendo: The Game-Changing Company That Unlocked the Power

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00:49:53

Adapting Life into a Video Game (Meredith Gran)

Post Games ·

2026/01/19

Want full show notes for free, including links to everything we mention? Visit www.post.games Get weekly bonus segments, video episodes, monthly exclusive episodes, and more at patreon.com/postgames for only $5 This week on Post Games:Act 1: Turning Your Life into a GameAct 2: Recreating a Place and a MomentPatreon Bonus: The History of Memoir Games in 5 TitlesAct 3: News of the Week Guest: Meredith Gran, creator of Perfect Tides: Station to StationClosing Music: Perfect Tides: Station to

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01:02:48

Mothership and a History of Women in Games Media...

Post Games ·

2026/01/09

Want full show notes for free, including links to everything we mention? Visit www.post.gamesGet weekly bonus segments, video episodes, monthly exclusive episodes, and more at patreon.com/postgames for only $5This week on Post Games:Act 1: A History of Women in Games MediaAct 2: Mothership Lands on EarthPatreon Bonus: Imagining a Better Future for Video GamesAct 3: The News of the WeekPatreon Bonus Mini-Episode: A Century of Women’s Media in 15-MinutesGuests: Maddy Myers and Zoë Hannah, founders

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00:57:38

2026's Big Games, Trends, and Showdowns (Ash Parrish)

Post Games ·

2026/01/05

Want full show notes for free, including links to everything we mention? Visit www.post.games Get weekly bonus segments, video episodes, monthly exclusive episodes, and more at patreon.com/postgames for only $5 Guest: Ash Parrish, reporter and critic at The VergeAct 1: The IndustryAct 2: The Games and TrendsPatreon Bonus: The Best and Worst Case Scenarios for 2026Act 3: The News of the Week 2026 has only just begun, but already I’m certain it’ll be (at least for gaming culture)

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01:32:31

The Pokémon origin story

Post Games ·

2025/12/29

Editor's Note: Hey Post Games listeners. To give myself a lighter load this holiday, I’m posting one of the monthly Patreon-exclusive episodes. The patrons selected the origin story of Pokémon. They think you’ll enjoy it, and I do, too! If you like this episode and want access to a backlog of bonus episodes and future bonuses, subscribe to Patreon.com/PostGames for $5. Next Monday, I’ll be posting the latest exclusive, “1996: The Most Important Year in Games,” featuring the co-hosts of My Life in

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01:12:01

What 2025 taught us about games

Post Games ·

2025/12/22

Get weekly bonus segments, video episodes, monthly exclusive episodes, and more at patreon.com/postgames for only $5Want full show notes? Visit www.post.games This week on Post Games: the final listener mailbag of 2025!Act 1: Questions about video gamesAct 2: Questions about the industry and the culturePatreon bonus: Questions about the nitty-gritty of gamingAct 3: The news of the week This week, I emptied the Post Games mailbag and tried to answer as many questions as I could muster. The

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01:05:03

How games and anime became BFFs (Mother's Basement)

Post Games ·

2025/12/15

Visit patreon.com/postgames to get bonus segments, early access, and exclusive monthly episodes like "The birth of Pokémon: 30 years ago, a young game critic imagined the biggest franchise on the planet" for $5Visit post.games to get full episodes for free, including links to all games and stories referenced in today's show This week on Post Games: How video games and anime took over pop culture together.Act 1: Anime in your video gamesAct 2: Video games in your animePatreon bonus: The anime

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00:58:41

The history (and secrets) of The Game Awards (Oli Welsh)

Post Games ·

2025/12/08

Visit patreon.com/postgames to get bonus segments, early access, and exclusive monthly episodes like "The birth of Pokémon: 30 years ago, a young game critic imagined the biggest franchise on the planet" for $5Visit post.games to get full episodes for free, including links to all games and stories referenced in today's show UPDATES Before we get to this week’s episode, I have two important updates!Post Games mailbag returns: I’m collecting listener voice notes for my final mailbag episode of

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01:05:20

Two Blue Prince interviews, seven months apart (Tonda...

Post Games ·

2025/12/01

Get video versions of every episode, bonus segments, and monthly exclusives for $5 at patreon.com/postgamesGet free show notes at post.games This week on Post Games, “Life Before and After Releasing Blue Prince”:Act 1: The Days Before Blue PrincePatreon bonus: The Magic site that made Blue Prince possibleAct 2: The Days Before The Game AwardsPatreon bonus: Blue Prince: The Movie? Blue Prince 2?Act 3: News of the Week See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice

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01:13:05

18 reasons to be thankful for video games

Post Games ·

2025/11/24

Get full show notes for free at post.gamesGet bonus and video episodes, extra segments, and more for $5 at patreon.com/postgames Welcome to The Inaugural Post Games Thanksgiving Special! I’ve invited 19 people from across video games to share what they’re thankful for. They could celebrate a game, a person, a place, a trend, an idea, or whatever else inspires them. Our guests come from across the entertainment and media industries, including award-winning indie game designers, a former

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00:43:46

2025's scariest game recreates the site of a real...

Post Games ·

2025/11/17

Get extra segments, video episodes, bonus episodes, and early access at patreon.com/postgamesGet full episode notes for free at post.games I was stunned when I first saw Cave Crave, a VR game in which the player squeezes through dark tunnels, the gaps so tight that the character must hold their breath, causing red light to pulse. As your virtual lungs empty, you see the blood vessels in your eyes To my surprise, the dark, suffocating caves of Cave Crave were just the beginning of both its terror

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01:07:20

What it's actually like to release a game in 2025...

Post Games ·

2025/11/10

Post Games for $1!! - The Early Bird, Not-Quite-Black Friday SaleRather than compete with Black Friday and Cyber Monday, I’m running my holiday deal early. Subscribe to the Patreon before 11/14 and get your first month for $1. Yes, you read that right. A buck gets you...Video episodes!Weekly bonus segments!5 deep dives on storytelling, reviews, and media!1 oral history of Street Fighter: The Movie!25 incredible interviews with the most fascinating people in video games!Expanded newsletters:Free

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00:57:21

Why people play games that scare them (Ashley Bardhan)

Post Games ·

2025/11/03

Get extra segments, video episodes, bonus episodes, and early access at patreon.com/postgamesGet full episode notes for free at post.games Sure, spooky season is over. But listeners, the scary season has just begun at Post Games. To prepare you, I have invited one of my favorite horror critics, Ashley Bardhan, to explain the appeal of playing horror games – and how they might make your life less scary. This is one of my favorite (and most surprising) conversations yet!Act 1: The case for

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00:54:58

20 years later, Shadow of the Colossus still matters

Post Games ·

2025/10/27

Get video episodes, extra segments, bonus episodes, and early access at www.patreon.com/postgamesGet full show notes free at post.games Few video games achieve mainstream cultural relevance. Fewer still get labeled as "art." And only a handful of games that get through the culling manage to retain their relevance across decades. Shadow of the Colossus is the exception to the rules of video games. What makes it so unique? How has its place in gaming culture evolved? And why does it play a special

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00:51:06

Why Great Games Sometimes Flop (Simon Carless)

Post Games ·

2025/10/20

Get weekly bonus segments, Patreon exclusive episodes, and early access at patreon.com/postgamesGet the full show notes for free at www.post.games Last week, Bloomberg reporter Jason Schreier explained how the too many games problem came to be. This week, we hear how game creators are adapting to make sure the best games reach you – rather than get lost at the bottom of an ever-growing pile. Today’s guest, Simon Carless, is an expert in helping game creators strike this balance between the

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00:46:59

The "Too Many Games" Problem (Jason Schreier)

Post Games ·

2025/10/13

Get bonus segments and episodes, plus early access, at Patreon.com/postgamesGet full show notes for free at www.post.games At an unknowable point in the past five years, gamers were granted three wishes:I want more games to play than I could ever have time for.I want them to be cheap, if not free.And I want to be able to play them whenever and however I want. The result has been great for fans of the hobby, but a radiating headache for game creators. Over the next two episodes, we’ll learn

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01:00:07

Demystifying Nintendo (Plus: Life as an NSFW gaming...

Post Games ·

2025/10/06

Get video episodes, weekly bonus content, and early access at Patreon.com/postgamesGet the full episode notes for free at www.post.games This week, you get two podcasts for the price of one. First: the Nintendo mailbag. Listeners sent in a U-Haul's worth of questions about Nintendo. What's up with the unusually "usual" approach to the Switch 2 release? Why can the publisher do whatever it likes without the fandom going into revolt? Second: I complete our NSFW video game interviews. In previous

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00:49:33

The growing threat of video game censorship

Post Games ·

2025/09/29

How the push to censor sexy video games could lead to broader censorship.

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01:05:01

Microsoft before and after the Xbox

Post Games ·

2025/09/22

Get bonus segments and episodes for $5 at Patreon.com/postgamesGet full show notes in the free newsletter at post.games This week on Post Games: How did Xbox get here? Former VP of Xbox Game Studios Shannon Loftis takes us on a guided tour of Microsoft's gaming ambitions, from the days before Windows 95 to Xbox's ambitious bet on the future of entertainment.Patreon bonus prologue: The case for having funAct 1: Microsoft’s first tiny team of game makersAct 2: Xbox before the acquisitionsAct 3:

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00:54:52

Going to college for video games

Post Games ·

2025/09/15

Get bonus content in every episode at patreon.com/postgamesGet full show notes in the free newsletter at www.post.games What's it like to pursue a degree in video games? And what's life like as a video game professor? This week, my guest is Aaron Trammell, a professor at the University of California, Irvine, who teaches undergraduate and graduate students about games, ranging from video games to tabletop games, the craft of design to the critique of play. Act 1: Life as a video game

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