Media
Select creators, podcasts, books, and newsletters that cover the games industry.
Pods ranging from the weekly news desks to criticism, games history and consumer reviews. Incomplete by necessity, you're welcome and encouraged to submit a source.
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| Cover | Name | What it lets you find out | Type of podcast | Language |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 | WhatCulture Gaming | Tracks what a high volume British games and pop culture publisher pushes into audio, useful for reading mainstream UK games coverage rather than enthusiast opinion. | News and roundup | English |
 | Button Boys | Shows how British comedy performers frame games for a general audience, useful for reading how games reach listeners who do not follow games media. | Consumer reviews and recommendations | English |
 | IGN UK Podcast | Gives the British editorial line of a large international games outlet, useful for separating UK specific framing from the same outlet's US output. | News and roundup | English |
 | The Computer Game Show | A long running independent British panel show, useful as a non outlet counterpoint to publisher owned UK podcasts. | News and roundup | English |
 | PlayStation Access | Shows how a platform holder's own UK team presents its slate, useful as a record of first party messaging rather than independent coverage. | News and roundup | English |
 | Kinda Funny Games Daily | A daily record of what the US games news cycle treated as important, useful for reconstructing the sequence and tone of a story week by week. | News and roundup | English |
 | Kinda Funny Gamescast | Longer form argument about specific games from the same creator owned group, useful for how a mainstream US audience reasons about quality. | Criticism and analysis | English |
 | GOONS | Personality led US games talk, useful for reading how games circulate through entertainment audiences rather than trade coverage. | Consumer reviews and recommendations | English |
 | Nintendo Voice Chat | A single platform beat covering Nintendo, useful for tracking one publisher's cadence and how coverage responds to its announcements. | News and roundup | English |
 | Castle Super Beast | Long form unstructured games talk from a streaming derived audience, useful for reading vocabulary and enthusiasm that does not appear in trade press. | Consumer reviews and recommendations | English |
 | The Jeff Gerstmann Show | A veteran US critic working solo, useful for tracing how an individual reviewer's judgement differs from outlet consensus. | Criticism and analysis | English |
 | Get Played | Comedy network treatment of games including deliberately poor ones, useful for reading games as general entertainment rather than as a specialist field. | Consumer reviews and recommendations | English |
 | Giant Bombcast | A long running US outlet podcast now under creator ownership, useful for watching an outlet's voice survive three changes of owner. | News and roundup | English |
 | Beyond | A PlayStation focused beat from a large outlet, useful alongside Nintendo Voice Chat for comparing how one publisher covers two platforms. | News and roundup | English |
 | ゲームなんとか (Gemu Nantoka) | The highest charting Japanese language games podcast, useful as the clearest available sample of domestic Japanese games discussion in audio. | Criticism and analysis | Japanese |
 | Bright Bit Brothers | Independent Japanese games conversation, useful as a second domestic sample against ゲームなんとか (Gemu Nantoka). | Criticism and analysis | Japanese |
 | ゲームの滝壺 (Gemu no Takitsubo) | Three host Japanese games discussion, useful for hearing how domestic listeners argue about releases without outlet framing. | Criticism and analysis | Japanese |
 | ゲームのスキマ (Gemu no Sukima) | Short form Japanese games talk, useful for sampling domestic reaction close to release dates. | Criticism and analysis | Japanese |
 | 週刊ゲームななめよみ (Shukan Gemu Nanameyomi) | A weekly Japanese games news read through, useful for tracking which stories the domestic audience heard about at all. | News and roundup | Japanese |
 | ゲームの話をさせてくれ (Gemu no Hanashi o Sasete Kure) | Single host Japanese games commentary, useful as an individual voice against the panel format that dominates the domestic chart. | Criticism and analysis | Japanese |
 | IGN JAPAN しゃべりすぎGAMER ポッドキャスト (Shaberisugi GAMER) | The Japanese arm of an international outlet in audio, useful for comparing how the same parent covers games in Japanese and in English. | News and roundup | Japanese |
 | 魔界GAME倶楽部 (Makai GAME Kurabu) | A commercial radio games programme released as a podcast, useful as evidence that Japanese games audio runs through broadcast rather than podcast native production. | News and roundup | Japanese |
 | のばラジ (Nobaraji) | A Japanese games YouTuber working in audio, useful for reading how creator audiences differ from outlet audiences. | Consumer reviews and recommendations | Japanese |
 | アントニーのALL-IN (Antony no ALL-IN) | Another commercial radio games programme in podcast form, useful as a second example of the broadcast route into Japanese games audio. | News and roundup | Japanese |
PLACEHOLDER cover | Stay Forever | Takes one 1980s or 1990s game per episode and researches its development history, useful for German language primary detail on older titles that English sources do not cover. | Games history and preservation | German |
PLACEHOLDER cover | Insert Moin | A very long running German games podcast positioning itself as independent games journalism, useful for German language argument about the industry over more than a decade. | Criticism and analysis | German |
 | Auf ein Bier von Gamespodcast.de | Argument about how games journalism is funded and how that shapes coverage, useful for a stated counter model to advertising financed games media. | Industry and business | German |
 | GameStar Podcast | The audio output of a large German games publisher, useful as the mainstream German baseline against the independent crowdfunded shows. | News and roundup | German |
 | Outcast - I podcast videoludici | Sustained Italian language games criticism across a large back catalogue, useful for Italian critical vocabulary and for arguments that do not reach English coverage. | Criticism and analysis | Italian |
 | Power Pizza | Italian pop culture conversation that treats games alongside comics and film, useful for seeing where games sit inside a broader Italian cultural audience. | Consumer reviews and recommendations | Italian |
 | Joypad | Games coverage produced by an Italian general news outlet, useful for how games are explained to a non specialist Italian readership. | Criticism and analysis | Italian |
 | 99Vidas - Nostalgia e Videogames | Weekly Brazilian retrospective on 1980s and 1990s games and the surrounding Brazilian media culture, useful for Brazilian specific memory that English retro coverage omits. | Games history and preservation | Portuguese |
 | Jogabilidade | Single subject Brazilian episodes on one game, franchise or developer at a time, useful for sustained Portuguese language analysis rather than news. | Criticism and analysis | Portuguese |
 | El Podcast de los 3 Gordos Bastardos | Long running Mexican games conversation, useful for Mexican and wider Latin American framing of releases that Spain focused shows treat differently. | News and roundup | Spanish |
 | Fuera Del Control | Mexican games and wider geek culture coverage from a team with long industry tenure, useful for Latin American coverage that spans games, film and anime together. | News and roundup | Spanish |
PLACEHOLDER cover | Podcast Reload | Spanish games criticism from an editorially distinct outlet, useful for Spanish critical argument and for developer interviews conducted in Spanish. | Criticism and analysis | Spanish |
PLACEHOLDER cover | Rejugando | Twice weekly Spanish show pairing classic game retrospectives with current news, useful for Spanish language retro coverage on a fast cadence. | Games history and preservation | Spanish |
 | Reconectados Videojuegos | Independent Spanish console discussion across PlayStation, Xbox and Nintendo, useful as a non outlet Spanish voice against publisher owned shows. | News and roundup | Spanish |
 | 게임발굴단 (Geim Balguldan) | One of very few sustained Korean language games podcasts, useful as a rare audio sample of Korean console discussion given that Korean games discourse sits mostly outside podcasting. | Consumer reviews and recommendations | Korean |
 | 종합콘솔게임방송 - 겜덕비상 (Jonghap Console Game Bangsong - Gemdeok Bisang) | Korean console games talk with roots in an independent media network, useful for how Korean games audio sits inside a broader independent broadcasting lineage. | Consumer reviews and recommendations | Korean |
 | RETRO PEOPLE :: 본격 고전게임 탐험방송 (Bongyeok Gojeon Geim Tamheom Bangsong) | Korean language classic games exploration, useful for Korean retro coverage and for how Korean listeners frame games history. | Games history and preservation | Korean |
 | Friends Per Second | Panel format US games conversation that also charts in the UK, useful as a second data point on which US shows travel to British listeners. | Consumer reviews and recommendations | English |
 | The Cane and Rinse videogame podcast | Episode length single game studies built from listener contributions, useful for deep criticism of one title at a time rather than release cycle coverage. | Criticism and analysis | English |
PLACEHOLDER cover | New Books in Game Studies | Hear the author of a newly published games monograph explain the argument, the sources and the method in their own words, usually within weeks of the book appearing. | Research and academic explanation | English |
PLACEHOLDER cover | Game Studies Study Buddies | Follow a chapter by chapter reading of a canonical game studies or critical theory text, which is the fastest way to judge whether a much cited book is worth buying. | Research and academic explanation | English |
PLACEHOLDER cover | Video Game History Hour | Learn how archivists, librarians and curators locate, verify and preserve primary sources on games, including what survives, what does not, and where the gaps are. | Research and academic explanation | English |
PLACEHOLDER cover | Handbuch Gameskultur: Der Podcast | Hear the authors of the Handbuch Gameskultur 2.0 explain their own chapters on preservation, AI, history teaching and media effects, the closest thing to a German games research primer in audio. | Research and academic explanation | German |
PLACEHOLDER cover | Psychology of Video Games Podcast | Work through an archive of 100 episodes in which a psychologist and a guest researcher unpack one study on player behaviour, covering toxicity, difficulty preference, values in design and social play. | Research and academic explanation | English |
PLACEHOLDER cover | MotherChip - Overloadr | Twice-weekly Portuguese games conversation from the Overloadr team: new releases and first impressions in MotherChip, and the week's industry news in its companion show Notícias da Nave Mãe, in the same feed. Opinion-led rather than reported, and episode notes carry affiliate links to Nuuvem and Amazon. | News and roundup | Portuguese |