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Post Games

Post Games is a listener-supported podcast about how and why we love video games. Each week, host Chris Plante reports on a new, overlooked, or underappreciated topic in gaming culture. Where did all the new porn games come from? What’s it like to be the AI that destroys the world? 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

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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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54:46

The rarest video game podcast returns

Post Games ·

2025/09/08

Get full episode notes at post.gamesGet bonus segments and episodes for $5 at patreon.com/postgamesThis week on Post Games:Act 1: The story of a video game studio in 2025Act 2: Behind-the-scenes of A Life Well WastedPatreon Bonus: Games and pervertsAct 3: The news of the WeekFind episode notes and more at www.post.games. Subscribe to the Patreon for early access to episodes, additional segments, and bonus materials at patreon.com/postgames. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more

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The True Story Behind Street Fighter: The Movie...

Post Games ·

2025/09/05

Listen to the full audiobook at patreon.com/postgames.Find episode notes and more at www.post.games. Subscribe to the Patreon for early access to episodes, additional segments, and bonus materials at patreon.com/postgames. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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50:04

Can you fit cable TV into a video game?

Post Games ·

2025/09/01

Subscribe for $5 to get bonus segments and episodes at Patreon.com/postgamesGet the newsletter with full show notes and links for free at www.post.gamesThis September, following a successful run on the experimental gaming handheld Playdate, Blippo+ will release on Nintendo Switch and Steam. The game, created in collaboration with an iconic indie band, attempts to reproduce the feeling of channel surfing in the early days of cable television.Its graphics aren’t graphics at all, but full-motion video

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1:01:30

How video game movies got good

Post Games ·

2025/08/25

Get full episode notes at www.patreon.com/postgames and www.post.gamesVideo game adaptations threaten to replace superhero movies as Hollywood's favorite fad. How did Mario and friends evolve from box office poison into some of the most valuable IPS in movie history? Today on Post Games: an extended interview with filmmaker and video essayist Patrick H. Willems, in which we make sense of 30 years and five distinct eras of video game adaptations.Act 1: The Doomed DecadesAct 2: The Hollywood HitsA

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56:05

A Broadway musician’s double life as a murder mystery...

Post Games ·

2025/08/18

Get full show notes at www.post.gamesSubscribe for bonus segments and episodes, plus everything is ad-free! www.patreon.com/postgamesHeads up! You can now watch Post Games shorts on Instagram, YouTube, and TikTok.Today's guest is musical composer, orchestrator, lyricist, conductor, and musician Mike Pettry, who climbed the rungs of the theater world and now performs in the orchestras of award-winning Broadway shows. His performances have accompanied artists like Ben Platt and Idina Menzel.But as his

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56:53

Big predictions for the future of games

Post Games ·

2025/08/11

Get full episode notes for free at www.post.gamesGet bonus content, early episodes, and extended episode notes for $5 a month at www.patreon.com/postgamesThis week on Post Games, I'm answering your questions about the future of games. Plus, an extended conversation with video game podcaster, YouTuber, and content creator Brendon Bigley about his long-running series Into the Aether and his new gaming news publication, Wavelengths. Act 1: A Q&A about the future of video gamesBonus for Patreon: The

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54:51

Games about death improve our lives

Post Games ·

2025/08/04

Two options for full show notes, including links to stories, games, and related topics!Subscribe to the Patreon at www.patreon.com/postgamesSubscribe to the free newsletter at www.post.gamesNext week: For the mailbag, send voice notes to postgamesmailbag (at) gmail. Please keep them under 90 seconds and include your name and pronouns.This week on Post GamesCountless video games depict death, but few ask us to contemplate our mortality. Thank goodness. Mario wouldn’t be nearly as fun if we had to

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50:45

The forgotten history of Donkey Kong

Post Games ·

2025/07/28

Get the full episode notes at www.post.gamesSubscribe to the Patreon for bonus content and early releases at www.patreon.com/postgamesGaming historian Jeremy Parish joins me for the entire episode to tell the story of gaming’s most famous primate.Act 1: How Donkey Kong saved NintendoAct 2: Donkey Kong’s long journey back to the topPatreon Bonus: The Top 5 Donkey Kong games – and the #1 strangestAct 3: The news of the weekFind episode notes and more at www.post.games. Subscribe to the Patreon for

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1:09:26

How to make video games funny

Post Games ·

2025/07/21

Get the full episode notes with links at www.post.gamesSubscribe to the Patreon for early access, bonus segments, and a monthly video series at patreon.com/postgamesThis week on Post Game: Late-night comedy writer Mike Drucker and Tactical Breach Wizards director Tom Francis explain how they make video games funny and find the humor in loving video games.Patreon bonus prologue: What it's like to write jokes for NintendoAct 1: Adapting a life of video games into a comedic memoirAct 2: The cheats to

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49:54

The life, death, death, death, death, and rebirth of...

Post Games ·

2025/07/14

Get full show notes for free at https://postgame.substack.com/Get bonus segments, early and ad-free episodes, and a monthly video series at https://www.patreon.com/c/PostGamesThis week on Post Games, Atari CEO Wade Rosen joins me to discuss gaming’s ship of Theseus. While everyone remembers Atari at its height, most folks ignored the company's struggles following the games industry crash of 1983. Understandably! For forty years, Atari has been a brand in search of a purpose.Rosen is determined to

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1:08:26

Why video games feel better and worse than ever before

Post Games ·

2025/07/07

Get full episode notes, links, and related materials for free at www.post.gamesGet extra-long episodes, bonus content, monthly videos, and more (plus, no ads!) at patreon.com/postgamesWelcome to Post Game’s first annual physical, in which a special guest joins me to assess the health and stability of gaming, from the creators to the players, the industry to the culture. I’ve invited one of the smartest, analytical, and forward-thinking minds in video – writer, developer, publisher, critic, analyst,

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49:43

The case of Dunkey vs. Death Stranding

Post Games ·

2025/06/30

Get full episode notes at www.post.games and subscribe on Patreon at patreon.com/postgames.Before we get started...If you have a moment and don't mind, please leave a review of Post Games on Apple Podcasts. I know, it's silly, but it's also a humongous help in these early days.This week on Post GamesAct 1: Dunkey on his love/hate relationship with Death Stranding, life as YouTube game critic, and the power of changing your mindA bonus act for Patreon subscribers: Dunkey on video game critics and

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1:21:37

How to fight brilliant (and stupid) AI

Post Games ·

2025/06/23

Editor’s note: This week, I’m making all acts available to all listeners. The Patreon edition of the episode, however, is still early and ad-free. For context: My two guests participated on tight timelines and under special circumstances. And my essay was the conclusion of last week’s episode. As I finished the edit, I felt bad putting any of the acts behind the paywall. This won’t be the norm – frankly, I’ll need more paid subscribers before the end of the year if I want to keep this my full-time

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