When MachineGames’ studio director Jerk Gustafsson won $500 in a sports bet he had to decide how to spend his winnings: on a new computer or an exotic pet.
The choice he made eventually gave us Indiana Jones and the Great Circle.
New episode, out Monday for Patreon supporters, Tuesday for everyone else.
Following a near death drug experience, game development was a lifeline for next week’s guest.
Listen ad-free on Monday if you’re a Patreon member (or Tuesday if you’re not) for our new episode with Outerloop Games co-founder, Chandana Ekanayake.
Listen early by joining our Patreon: https://bit.ly/3HPvNSM
Tash Hodgson, co-creator and performer of the hit broadway musical Operation Mincemeat on how Crash Bandicoot showed her, for the first time, that video games were for girls too.
New My Perfect Console episode out Tuesday.
Fateless Games founder Simon Lockerby on the unique pain of playing multiplayer games on a dial-up internet connection in the early 2000s.
Episode out next week.
Are there videogames you love despite being terrible at them? For philosopher C. Thi. Nguyen, Hyper Light Drifter is a masterpiece, even if it’s a game he will likely never finish…
New episode, out next week.
I really enjoyed the opportunity to do some photography and filming of one of the nights of the fabulous show The Audience Versus, put on by the lovely Mr Simon Parkin at the fabulous Pleasance theatre in London.
Comedians are pitted against audience members in twisted and daft versions of video games. Let me tell you, the DRAMA that kicks off every single show - brother. It's really good fun.
There's one show left on the 28th of April featuring PHIL WANG and IAIN STERLING. It should be very good indeed. Not sure if there's tickets left but there might be a couple. GO GO GO. I'm gonna be there so you get to hang out with me, which is the real prize here let's be REAL.
Hope to see you there x
This week on My Perfecf Console, @evnarc , writer for Spider-Man, Black Panther, and Wu-Tang: Rise of the Deceiver, picks the five games he’d put on his ideal fictional videogame console.
How a 2013 Assassin’s Creed DLC restored Wu-Tang: Rise of the Deceiver writer Evan Narcisse’s hope in the capacity for video games to tell powerful, historically significant stories.
POV: it’s 1999 and you have one demo disc and infinite patience.
In our upcoming episode, contemporary artist Ed Atkins reminisces on the forgotten joy of demo discs.
Out next week.
Did any of your favourites make it onto Tom Keegan’s perfect console?
1. Journey - 2012
2. The Last of Us - 2013
3. Battlefield 1 - 2016
4. Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus - 2017
5. Indiana Jones and the Great Circle - 2024
Find out why Tom picked these titles, wherever you get your podcasts.
