ABOUT THIS PODCAST 🔗
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).
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Average audio length:
118 minutes
Guest interviews
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We're off this week, but here's our MGS2 episode from August. Support us at patreon.com/backpagepod if you enjoy what we make!
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PREVIOUS EPISODES 🔗
Probably the least relevant and most tangent-heavy mailbag episode to date, and that's saying something.
Here's Samuel's piece on game names for PC Gamer.
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Our third and final attempt to tackle the big games of September reaches Sony's biggest release of the year and the latest Silent Hill entry.
The developer of Orbitals is Shapefarm, not Shapeform as Samuel incorrectly stated. Duh.
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Been quite a while since we did a 'games journalism craft' episode – this is one of those, as we're joined by former music journalist and Vice senior editor Mike Diver for a lively chat. Hear about the time Mike met Paul McCartney! Sadly, it wasn't about his terrible Destiny song that Matthew rathe…
Emergency Nintendo Direct chatter, powered by the reveal of sequels to two of our favourite Switch games (Metroid Dread and Kirby and the Forgotten Land), then another pile of games from the September 2026 mountain.
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The September release schedule avalanche begins. Games discussed: Onimusha: Way of the Sword, Star Wars: Zero Company, Guns of Eschaton and Super Mario Sunshine.
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From outlawing the L3 and R3 buttons to combat-oriented games with bad platforming sections, our listeners have submitted 12 more possible game design crimes for Room 101...sorry, Room 64 (double copyright infringement!). Our returning guest, actual game designer Jamie Smith, helps us judge the inn…
Four giant men select their favourite DS and 3DS games in our latest 3-hour draft episode. We hope you enjoy this deep dive into both consoles. Vote for the winner in the announcements channel of our Discord server.
These are the categories:
Game featuring Mario
Game featuring Link
90+ on Metacri…
More of the games we've been playing recently, before the September avalanche of big titles crashes into Back Page headquarters.
Samuel's games: Denshattack!, The Incident at Galley House, Big Walk, Motorslice (a tiny bit)
Matthew's games: Splatoon Raiders, The Message from Deep Space, Onimusha 2: …
Some thoughts on the Halo remake, then almost an hour of total nonsense that we will never, ever speak of again.
This week's music is from the Halo: Combat Evolved by Michael Salvatori and Martin O'Donnell.
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