We linked up with Disney's John G. Vignocchi a few weeks ago to cover Infinity's long road, what he thinks about the next Star Wars movie, some stuff about Tron, Metal Gear Solid V, and the weirdest thing that happened to him during the development of NBA
Our long-running Giant Spoiler Snakecast series returns with a top-to-bottom discussion about every inch of Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain. Spoilers.
Austin talks with Cloudhead Games Denny Unger about The Gallery: Call of the Starseed, competing virtual reality platforms, and the challenges and potentials of exploration and storytelling in VR.
Game Designer Nina Freeman explains how Star Maid Games' Cibele uses a virtual desktop and a faux-MMO to tell a story about the complicated (and sometimes hasty) relationships of the internet generation.
Austin had a chance to chat with Henrik Fåhraeus (Game Director at Paradox Development Studio) about the success of Crusader Kings II, the studio's upcoming sci-fi strategy game Stellaris, and the many ways that game rules can build stories.
Austin recently interviewed David L. Craddock, author of Dungeon Hacks, a new book chronicling the history of the roguelike genre. Listen to them chat about everything from procedural generation to mods to Dark Souls 2.
Brad sits down with the Fullbright co-founder to chat about life after Gone Home's success, making games in order, putting together puzzles in zero-g, and turtles in space.
After seeing the Adam Sandler nostalgia bomb Pixels, Alex and Austin needed to sit down, sigh, and work through a few things together.
Sam Barlow has developed a penchant for making games featuring intimate interviews about traumatic experiences. Austin sits down with Barlow to perform his own intimate interview, hoping to uncover some of the hidden influences on Barlow's latest game, He
Drew, Vinny, and Austin talk about robotic dinosaurs, post-post-apocalypses, and MYSTERIES.
Austin and Vinny investigated the offerings from Square-Enix's Western developers. They found detailed environments, interlocking systems, and lots and lots of explosions.
Brad saw a demo of Dark Souls 3 with Miyazaki-san. Austin asks about it!
Alex and Austin ascended a labyrinthine tower only to come face to face with a viking. Oh, also, they saw Assassin's Creed: Syndicate and For Honor.
Brad and Jeff ran off to a dark, dark room in Los Angeles to see The Division running on an Xbox One.
Where are we? When are we streaming? What's going on in Los Angeles next week? Get all the answers right here!
Renowned pro wrestling commentator Jim Ross joins Jeff, Giancarlo, and Dan via phone to discuss his WrestleMania-week live show and answer a handful of our questions about the world of professional wrestling.
Alex Rigopulos, Greg LoPiccolo, Eric Pope, and Ryan Lesser sit down with us to discuss the return of Rock Band, DLC and hardware backward compatibility, and the process of creating a crowd-funded game.
Here's the full interview with WWE Superstar Roman Reigns, as heard in episode 13 of the Powerbombcast.
The developer of celebrated adventure games Ben There, Dan That and Time Gentlemen, Please is building his own take on Spelunky. And living in the middle of nowhere.
Two co-founders of Vigil Games, including artist Joe Madureira, are starting from square one with a new studio.
Joe Fielder, formerly of both Irrational and GameSpot, joins me to discuss the weird and wild new game from a group of BioShock veterans.
It took more than 10 hours and 1,000 deaths for Primeguard to take down Bungie's Vault of Glass challenge. Here's how they did it.
Broforce developers Duncan and Shaz Greenwood traveled to PAX to show off their early access game. We chat about working on games with your significant other, figuring out what exactly is Broforce 1.0, and more.
Titan Souls designer Mark Foster explains how his project started as a demake of Shadow of the Colossus, and why players and bosses having one-hit deaths is so important.
Cards Against Humanity's Trin Garritano, Sentris developer Samantha Kalman, and Treachery in Beatdown City designer Shawn Allen joined me at PAX Prime to share stories about how to be a good person on the Internet. This feels...appropriate.
Darknet is a cyberpunk-influenced VR puzzle game that's been in development for over a year. Designer E McNeill has been messing with Samsung's Gear VR device for months, and spoke with us about VR's transition to mobile.
International Flipper Pinball Association president Josh Sharpe speaks with me about some crazy news from Oakland, California, and the state of pinball in 2014.
As competitive games become more popular, Chicago's Robert Morris University wants to attract the young talent dumping hundreds of hours into them.
While making The Room, Fireproof learned how toxic the mobile world has become. Porting the game to PC gave it a chance to look back on that journey, and it's not pretty.
Jeremy Snead, director of the documentary Video Games: The Movie, speaks with us about getting the chance to cover the history of his favorite medium.
