Media
Select creators, podcasts, and books that cover the games industry.
Forty-three shows, from the weekly news desks to criticism, games history and consumer reviews. Sixteen are in English and the rest are not: Japanese, Spanish, German, Italian, Korean and Portuguese, each covering its own market rather than translating the English-language one.
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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 |