Podcasts

Here are our favourite games released in 2020, instant classics which will stand the test of time.

Jump back into the golden era of Group B rally with Dune Casu and Adrian Tosello

Head into the in-game past with Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity and actual past with Super Mario 3D All-Stars

Explore the meta social world of HoloVista with Meredith Hall from Aconite

Time to go a-viking in Assassin's Creed: Valhalla and *try* escape from the underworld in Hades

Josh Bush made a bee themed Real Time Strategy game called Hive Time and let players pay what they want... did it pay off?

Become a terrible lizard in dinosaur MMO Path of Titans by Australian modder and developer Matthew "deathlyrage" Cassells

Friend or foe? You soon shall find, the Ring of Pain has much to hide in this spooky tactical card game.

Brigitta Rena started her career wanting to be an illustrator, but making the games she wants to play has now become her passion.

Mitchell Clifford of Brisbane’s 5 Lives Studios shares the making of the nautical survival game Windbound

Grab your camera and document the end of world in Umurangi Generation

Helping lost souls in The Last Campfire and jumping rolling and striving for that crown in Fall Guys.

It's a food fight to the death in Boomerang Fu a local multiplayer brawler for six players on Switch, Xbox One and Steam.

And you can visit LIGO in Minecraft yourself to learn about the physics of gravitational waves.

Crossy Road Castle is the sequel to one of the biggest Australian games ever made and Lead Artist Ashleigh Starmer-Lee brought the colourful characters from the first game to the new multiplayer platformer.

Build, fight, farm and explore in Len's Island by Flow Studio

Spring stealthily from rooftops in Ghost of Tsushima, and make pals with heaps of cute dancing critters in Ooblets

Learning to externalise worries and seeking support is how you survive online according to YouTuber Daniel Harrison.

Matt Ditton on converting mobile "shoot em up" Shooty Skies into a VR experience in Shooty Skies Overdrive

Dan experiences the emotional and dark story in The Last of Us Part II and Gianni uses the power of rock to take down the Man in No Straight Roads.

Everything burns is a motto and a challenge to the player in Wildfire by Sneaky Bastards.

Seize the night by its throat in this modern vampire roleplaying game by Wadjet Eye Games.

Gianni defeats the Arch-Illager in Minecraft Dungeons, and Viv works her way through the reps in Ring Fit Adventure

Head into a a dark Victorian era battleground in Brimstone Brawlers by Ategig.

Get a new top down perspective on the beloved Gears of War series in Gears Tactics & XCOM: Chimera Squad mixes up the tactical experience in a surprising new take.

Get ready to spread your wings and take flight in the side-scrolling adventure Fledgling Heroes by Subtle Boom.

Put on your mask and fight for your freedom in Persona 5 Royal, and sometimes war actually does change in Fallout 76 Wastelanders.

Grab your mates and get ready to move in chaotic multiplayer game Moving Out by SMG Studio.

Do you want to play games professionally? Elfishguy and Raven can give you some pointers on how to make it in esports

Have the food fight of your life in the family friendly Butter Royale by Singapore's Mighty Bear Games.

Equip your materia and head into battle with Adam and chat to a banana with guns akimbo with Gianni in Mainstream Episode 11!

Take your very first steps into learning Japanese with Kana Quest!

Adam has been ripping and also tearing in Doom Eternal and Gianni has been chilling out in an island paradise in Animal Crossing New Horizons

Ron Curry CEO of Australian games industry peak body IGEA shares why they've merged with Game developer organisation GDAA

Sarah is picking the right operator for the job in Rainbow Six Siege, and Gianni is climbing higher and higher in Crossy Road Castle

"Hey have your seen a sandwich that could take a bite out of you?"

Viv is trying to keep at least some patients alive in Two Point Hospital, and Mitch keeps missing those frames in Super Smash Bros Ultimate.

Callum Harrington talks about meeting player expectation in a franchise with a lot of history in Warhammer Underworlds: Online

Sarah is pushing the generators in Dirty Bomb and Daniel has a keen ear out for witches in Left 4 Dead 2.

Sit down, put the kettle on, as Kris Antoni of Indonesia's Toge Productions shares how narrative visual novel Coffee Talk was made.

Gianni journeys into a new world of monster collecting in Temtem, and Adam is watching the patterns to take down giant beasts in Monster Hunter World: Iceborne

Michael and Nick from Melbourne's Digital Lode share the challenges and victories of making VR spy game Espire 1: VR Operative.

Scott is following the Witcher around like Jaskier, and Mitch commands a cute little tank in Pico Tanks

Adam visits a galaxy far far away in Star Wars: Jedi Fallen Order, and Gianni finishes the fight in Halo: Reach.

Battle your way through the sky then reel in your loot in BattleSky Brigade: Harpooner!

Daniel heads to Russia in the newly shiny Metro 2033 Redux & Mitch finally gets round to trying Borderlands 3.

Dan Golding knows a lot about the craft of making music for video games, such as his work on Untitled Goose Game and how we identify personally as players of games.

What has been happening in the world of triple A games, blockbusters and those cheeky indie smash hits? Join us for our brand new podcast, Mainstream.

Gianni tries to catch them all again in Pokémon Shield, and Adam heads out in search of adventure in The Outer Worlds

Wrestling, Vollyball and Fencing in Wrestledunk Sports, their first game after smash hit Hacknet from Adelaide's Team Fractal Alligator!

Daniel has dug back into LA Noire, and Gianni has been playing Sayonara Wild Hearts!

Rhythm, Platforming and One Small Birb in Songbird Symphony by Singapore's Joysteak Studios

Pins, lines and heaps of amazing video games, this is Party Sift 3 our Western Australian collaborative episode with Party Loaded.

Hurtle through space in as you work with your cosmonaut partner to solve problems on you spacecraft in Heavenly Bodies

A story set in a floating hospital ship in 1970s rural victoria, Wayward Strand is a game that's all about empathy.

Thomas Janson shares his PAX AUS indie showcase winning game Death Hall. I feel like this might be dangerous...

MASOCORE! That's the genre for Massive Monster's new game Never Give Up!

How do you write a narrative when your audience can change the way they experience it? Recorded live at XR:WA 2019

Team up with friends and battle it out in the cute Pico Tanks by Melbourne's Panda Arcade.

Ellie Balson designs games from an artist's perspective, making quirky and charming adventure games.

Recorded live at Supanova Perth 2019, how do some of your favourite creators keep creating?

What happens if you try to make the perfect 90s shooter with modern technology? Leon & Simon from Indefatigable tried to do just that with their game Amid Evil

Western Australia gets its very on interactive media festival with XR:WA, Kate Raynes-Goldie & Sof Mather are here to break it down.

It's stylish, its tactical, it feels like you're inside a very dangerous comic book, it's Void Bastards by Canberra's Blue Manchu!

Feel the thrills of tearing through the waves and sea without ever leaving the shore in VR Regatta by Melbourne's MarineVerse.

Head back to a past that never was in Double Shot, an 1980s inspired neon cyberpunk VR bartending shooter.

Jump inside the gameboard with Tin Man Games' Table of Tales: The Crooked Crown a Playstation VR tabletop game.

How do you turn the ship from marketing & consulting company to full time game developer? Katie Stegs and the team at Lumi Interactive know how.

What do you get when you combine Earthbound, Monkey Island and Groundhog Day? Mars Underground, a timelooping retro adventure.

Can you survive in this multiplayer brawler, where every part of your body can be knocked off?

It's fast, frantic and a little bit hypnotic, join us as we learn how Ian MacLarty developed his new space action game JUMPGRID!

Fight fires and more in a town where EVERYTHING burns in Paperville Panic!

Tactical strategy game Guile & Glory: Firstborn is the first project for Melbourne based Elston Studios and it's built on a love of tactical and tabletop games.

She and the Light Bearer is a storybook tale filled with Indonesian plants, history and culture from Surabaya based Mojiken Studio

Ellen Jurik of Sydney's Blowfish Studios shares their adaptation of the classic children's novel Storm Boy.

Clinton McCleary's first game Infliction isn't for the faint of heart, but it's definitely a powerful piece of horror storytelling.

STONE: Is this the first Ozploitation game? Greg Louden of Convict Games thinks so.

We're teaming up with Party Loaded once again to share some of our favourite parts from PAXAUS 2018!

A mobile Diablo style game? It works better than you think according to Zamfir Dimitru who is working on Dawnlade, a game that is just that.

John Robertson, comedian and performer joins us this episode as we learn about the Dark Room, his video game adaptation of the YouTube & stage show of the same name, a collaboration with Stirfire Studios.

Jeff and Locky from Grease Monkey Games take us on a ride with Torque Drift, their mobile competitive drift game.

Daniel & James from Melbourne's Pixel Engineers join us to share Hunt 'N Sneak their asymetric local multiplayer game of light and shadow.

Chomp your way to the top in Eatvolve by Melbourne's Aladar Apponyi, and how hard games with an audience are better than hard games on their own.

What if snake was a turn based puzzle game with time travel? Well now it is with Those Six Faces AKA Sean Simon's Snake Time!

Climb into your giant robot for a normal game of basketball just like humans always do in "Regular Human Basketball" by Melbourne's Powerhoof!

Tim Colwill joins us to talk about how writing satire for his comedy games site Point &Clickbait, and working as a union organiser for Game Workers Unite Australia, both aim to get us to demand a better games industry.

Take to the skies with Abi Rahmani as your co-pilot, as we jump into the cockpit of Project Wingman made in Perth, Western Australia.

The president is mad about something and he's gone for the nuclear option, luckily Matt Kelly is here from Mokomoto to talk us through it.

What you can't see might just kill you, Justin Ng of Singaporean developer Gattai Games is our guest this week as we learn about his echolocation style first person games Muffled Warfare and Stifled.

Ian MacLarty makes small fascinating experiential games, and he's here this week to share his puzzle game Dissembler.

A gun in every hand, bullets for any and all situations. Nick McDonnell of Samurai Punk takes us on a journey to "The American Dream"

It's described as Grand Theft Cthulhu by its creator and we're digging it. Come for a cruise down the highway with our guest Mike Blackney and keep an eye out for monsters.

Jump through a geometric world at breakneck speed in Nova Flow a speedrunning platformer from Melbourne's Wrecked Angle Studios.

It all started with a Witch, Tim Bermanseder of Cardboard Keep shares with us his upcoming magical bullet (spell?) hell game Witch Thief!

Lovable robots of the near future just trying to find a place in this world. Listen to our conversation with Ally McLean of Robot House as we discuss RUMU and "The Working Lunch"

Build a beautiful underwater garden and learn more about our precious reefs in Rainbow Reef by Chaos Theory Games.

Take a journey with Arina and Frendt as the explore surreal nostalgic worlds in The Gardens Between!

Strap into your DeLorean we're heading to the neo soaked retro eighties inspired streets of Hyper Jam with Roman Maksymyschyn of Melbourne's Bit Dragon.

Combining RPG, Tabletop and action elements Hand of Fate 2 builds on what Morgan Jaffit and the team at Defiant Development achieved when creating the original game.