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Chris hosted a session at Gamescom about game developers in Ukraine

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Last week I was invited to take part in Gamescom Congress, a small conference bolted onto the absolutely gigantic games show that takes over Cologne, Germany each August.

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NEW EPISODE: The Games Industry Is Failing The Working Class

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So this one's a little different to our usual videos!

We've wanted to do a video about classism in the games industry for a few years now, but both Quinns and I have never ...

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What's Up With Video Games? (June 2022)

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I wrote this month's newsletter to you from a coach ride I was taking up to Manchester, which is a bit of a trek from Brighton, frankly. If you're from the UK, you'll know last w...

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NEW EPISODE: The Ukrainian game devs trying to survive Russia’s invasion

We meet some of the Ukrainian game developers living through the invasion of their home, from a refugee who escaped into Western Europe, to a fresh recruit in the Territorial Defence.

As I ty...

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The Games Press #10: Hirun Cryer (Former Guides Editor at USGamer)

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This month's episode should now be available in all of your various podcast listening places. It's well worth listening to if you care about how a lot of your favourite games sit...

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What's Up With Video Games? (May 2022)

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Hopefully you’ve seen our latest video that went live earlier this week. It’s about VRChat and involves a lanky wine bottle interviewing a variety of different anime girls ab...

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NEW EPISODE: Making Sense of VRChat, the 'Metaverse' People Actually Like

Mark Zuckerberg may have unconvincingly sold you his version of the Metaverse, but let us show you another one!

Join Quinns as he explores VRChat and tries to make sense of one of the most ex...

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The Games Press #9: Danny O'Dwyer (Founder of Noclip)

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New episode of our monthly games media podcast, The Games Press, ready for your ears and brains. Enjoy!

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What's Up With Video Games? (April 2022)

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I’m still planning on changing the name of this newsletter at some point soon, be warned! I just haven’t landed on the right replacement yet. I find naming things so incredib...

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Quintin & Chris' Bad Idea House #4

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Welcome back to our latest instalment of Bad Idea House, the show in which Quinns and I talk about some of our favourite video ideas we've needed to scrap.

For this episode...

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Patreon Show March 2022 — Chris goes to university

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I was asked to do a workshop for a group of journalism students at York St John University this week and thought it might be fun to take you all with me for the journey.

Th...

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The Games Press #8: Lucy James (Senior Video Producer at GameSpot)

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The Games Press took a little hiatus while we concentrated on getting our last investigation right, but we're back with a new episode as of today.

If you're not familiar wi...

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What's Up With Video Games? (March 2022)

 Hi everyone!

It's been a pretty overwhelming few days since our investigation into indie games leadership went live on Friday afternoon. To be completely honest with you, much of our we...

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NEW EPISODE: Investigating Three Indie Superstars Accused of Emotional Abuse

What began as an investigation into the collapse of a single indie studio became something much bigger, as more and more developers came forwards to share their stories with PMG.

We're sorry ...

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A quick update on our next video

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It's been a couple of months now since our last PMG story was published, so we thought we'd check in and let you know what we're up to!

In short, our next video is well und...

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What's Up With Video Games? (Feb 2022)

Hello everyone and the warmest of welcomes to this very first edition of ‘What’s Up With Video Games?’, our brand new newsletter.

Once per month, this will land in your inbox like a lov...

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Introducing our next set of PMG Art Prints

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You might have already seen this on Twitter yesterday, but we're aware that ...

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Patreon Show January 2022 — Looking back at PMG's biggest year yet

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Do you like the thumbnail I've designed for this video? I made it in Adobe Photoshop without any help from Anni whatsoever. You probably can't tell. It looks very professional. View Post

NEW EPISODE: Roblox Pressured Us to Delete Our Video. So We Dug Deeper.

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Following Quinns' first video on Roblox, we were contacted by a spokesperson for the comp...

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The Games Press #7: Ethan Gach (Senior Reporter at Kotaku)

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This month's guest on The Games Press is Kotaku's Senior Reporter, Ethan Gach. He's been responsible for a l...

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People Mail Gifts 2021

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Just a quick update to let you know that this year's Secret Santa is now open for si...

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The Games Press #6: Tina Amini (Editor-in-Chief at IGN)

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This month's guest on The Games Press is responsible for one of the largest games publications in the world. It's 2021-11-10 16:43:13 +0000 UTC View Post

Announcing some big news for our PMG Art Prints!

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Those of you in our $20 tier will know that for the last three years, Anni has been creating a brand new, unique art print to be sent out to our supporters every...

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Patreon Show October 2021 — YouTube, Money & Ethics

Chris went to Northampton this month and now he's a bit cross.

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NEW EPISODE: The Inside Story of Mass Effect 3's Endings, Finally Told

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Sorry this one took a little while to get up on the channel! It's been quite a bit of work.

Almost a decade on from its release, we spoke to nine former Bioware developers ...

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The Games Press #5: Jacob Geller

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Sorry it's been a little while since our last video! We've got two in the works at the moment and you should see the first of those within the next couple of weeks. I might have ...

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The Games Press #4: Aoife Wilson

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On this month's episode of The Games Press, I interview my former colleague and now Head of Video at Eurogam...

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Watch Chris drive things badly on the Top Gear Gaming Show

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If you're from the UK, you're going to be extremely familiar with Top Gear. It's a TV show about cars and it's everywhere, all of the time.

The BBC launched a spin-off Top ...

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Patreon Show August 2021 - The Roblox Response

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We've had a really big month on PMG in August, thanks largely to Anni and Quinns having done such an amazing job with their investigation into Roblox and the realities of making ...

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NEW EPISODE: How Roblox Is Exploiting Young Game Developers

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We've got a longer piece from Quinns today, as he investigates the relationship Roblox Corporation has created with its community of mostly younger game developers.

The com...

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