Robbie is a studio head with one of the most unusual origin stories in the games industry. A former content creator and streamer, he fell in love with Paragon , the ambitious MOBA from Epic Games —so much so that when Epic closed the game in 2018, he refused to let it die. With no prior game development experience and no plans to enter the industry, he founded Omeda Studios and set out to rebuild and evolve the game alongside its passionate community. The result was Predecessor , a fresh take on...
Jun 10, 2025•1 hr 7 min•Ep. 121
In this special episode, five My Perfect Console supporters share the games they would like to put on their ideal, fictional games machine, and the reasons behind their choices. If you would like to share your console with the My Perfect Console audience, head to this post for more details. Become a My Perfect Console supporter and receive a range of benefits at www.patreon.com/myperfectconsole Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Jun 05, 2025•49 min
My guest today is a Ukrainian game developer, entrepreneur, and one of the most respected community-builders in the video games industry. After graduating from East Ukrainian Volodymyr Dahl National University with a Master's in Computer Science she began her career in mobile game development. She founded initiatives such as Achievers Hub and Global Games Pitch , platforms that connect indie developers with publishers, investors, and collaborators around the world. Since then, she’s become a tir...
Jun 03, 2025•1 hr 14 min•Ep. 120
Simon is joined by Glenn Moore for today's Game Club episode discussing the game we've been playing throughout May, former guest of the show Lucas Pope's Return of the Obra Dinn . Throughout the month, Glenn, Simon, and many of you, the listeners, have been playing through the modern classic puzzle game, as chosen by comedy writer Joel Morris on his episode of My Perfect Console. Glenn and Simon discuss their experiences with the game, why the board above Glenn's desk makes him look like a seria...
May 30, 2025•31 min
Bennett Foddy is a game designer, moral philosopher, and musician best known for creating challenging games that explore frustration, perseverance, and the nature of play. Originally from Australia, he played bass for the electronic group Cut Copy , then in 2008 came to global recognition with QWOP , a slapstick track-and-field simulation that became an internet sensation. He followed that success with the equally maddening Getting Over It with Bennett Foddy , which sparked viral streaming momen...
May 27, 2025•1 hr 20 min•Ep. 119
Tomm Hulett is a game designer and director who has spent his career championing bold, narrative-driven experiences. While at Konami, he worked on multiple Silent Hill titles, including Book of Memories , a critically acclaimed reimagining of the franchise. On the internet, however, his name became linked with the struggles of later Silent Hill games. This made him the target of intense online harassment—even though many of the series’ creative decisions were out of his hands. Since he left Kona...
May 20, 2025•1 hr 16 min•Ep. 118
Grentperez is a 23-year-old Filipino-Australian singer-songwriter who has captivated audiences worldwide with his soulful melodies and heartfelt lyrics. Born and raised in Sydney, he began sharing song covers on YouTube at the age of 13, soon amassing more than 100 million views. His 2021 debut single, Cherry Wine ” achieved gold certification and topped Spotify's Viral 50 chart in multiple countries. In 2024, he was honoured as Emerging Songwriter of the Year at the Australasian Performing Righ...
May 13, 2025•1 hr 7 min•Ep. 117
Alex Kealy is an English stand-up comedian. Born in Hampshire, he studied history at Oxford University , where he assumed the role of music editor on the student newspaper. After graduating, he worked as a researcher for The Institute of Art and Ideas . But the call of the stage proved strong, and in 2016 he debuted his first Edinburgh show, titled “ Alex Kealy Is An Idea Whose Time Has Come .” In the years that followed, my guest has taken five more shows to Edinburgh, one of which was describe...
May 06, 2025•1 hr 17 min•Ep. 116
Liam Wong is a Scottish photographer, art director, and game designer. Born in Edinburgh he began his career in the video game industry after graduating from Abertay University . After a stint at Crytek UK, he eventually join Ubisoft Montreal , and there became the youngest director at the company. His work on acclaimed titles like Far Cry 4 helped sharpen his visual storytelling skills, which later influenced his photographic style. While visiting in Tokyo, my gues...
Apr 29, 2025•1 hr 29 min•Ep. 115
Guillaume Provost is a game designer, creative director, studio founder and CEO, with a passion for building immersive, story-driven experiences. After working as a programmer for games companies such as Pseudo Interactive and Arkane , in 2009 he founded his own independent studio, Compulsion Games . Under his leadership, the studio gained worldwide attention with its distinctive psychological game We Happy Few , celebrated for its evocative storytelling,...
Apr 22, 2025•1 hr 23 min•Ep. 114
In this special correspondence edition, Simon reads out your correspondence and answers your questions. What's next for game coverage at The Observer newspaper following its sale to Tortoise? How can we invite fan-favourite guests back on the show? How should you respond when a dodgy man in a pub asks: "What's the damage?" All this and much more. Become a My Perfect Console supporter and receive a range of benefits at www.patreon.com/myperfectconsole Be attitude for gains. https://plus.aca...
Apr 17, 2025•33 min
Celia Hodent is a French author and former director of user experience at Epic Games . Born in France, she earned her doctorate in psychology in Paris, hoping to become a professional academic. Her childhood love of video games, however, drew her to the games industry, and in 2008 she joined Ubisoft to work on the editorial team. In 2010 she transferred to Ubisoft Montreal to work as user experience coordinator on Rainbow 6 series using her trainin...
Apr 15, 2025•1 hr 19 min•Ep. 113
Joel Morris is a multi-award winning comedy writer, and a contributor to the widely beloved Paddington films. One of the best regarded comedic talents in Britain, during the past two decades he has written for everyone from David Mitchell to Miranda Hart to Ronnie Corbett. A long-time collaborator with Charlie Brooker, he was a key part of the BAFTA-winning Wipe shows, and co-creator of the comedy character Philomena Cunk , whose dim-witted documentaries are beloved around the world. A busy auth...
Apr 08, 2025•1 hr 31 min•Ep. 112
Saraya is one of the biggest names in professional wrestling. Born into a successful wrestling family in Norwich, England, she left home at fifteen to forge her own path in the ring. Under the name Paige, she became the youngest WWE Divas Champion in history and was the subject of the hit 2019 film Fighting with My Family , written and directed by Stephen Merchant , in which she was portrayed by Florence Pugh . Now competing in All Elite Wrestling as Saraya, she has battled through injuries, per...
Apr 01, 2025•1 hr 13 min•Ep. 111
Seamus Blackle is a physicist, game designer, and technology visionary best known as the originator of the Xbox . After studying physics at Tufts University , he began his career in high-energy physics before pivoting to the video game industry. He worked on titles including System Shock and Flight Unlimited . In the late nineties, while an employee at Microsoft , he led the development of a bold new console project. The Xbox revolutionised the video game landscape, introducing hit s...
Mar 25, 2025•1 hr 19 min•Ep. 110
Keith Burns is an award-winning aviation artist and illustrator. As a student he dreamed of becoming a comic book artist but after his teachers at art college discouraged him from the career path, he dropped out and became a bus driver. Ten years later he received an email inviting him to submit a comic strip to a talent finding project. His submission led to a meeting with Dave Gibbons , co-creator of Watchmen . Gibbons encouraged my guest to pursue his gift, which eventually led to a long-stan...
Mar 19, 2025•1 hr 20 min•Ep. 109
Marjolein Robertson is a Scottish comedian, improviser, and storyteller. Born in Lerwick, on the Shetland Isles, she first started performing with Shetland Youth Theatre at the age of 13. After graduating from the University of Edinburgh , she was working as a town planner, saving for a mortgage, when she and her partner decided to move to Amsterdam on a whim. A series of catastrophes followed. Marjolein lost her home and her job, then landed in a Dutch improvisational comedy class, and began st...
Mar 11, 2025•1 hr 23 min•Ep. 108
Steffan Powell is a reporter, television and radio presenter. Born in the Amman Valley in South Wales he joined the BBC while in his twenties, soon working his way up to the position of senior broadcast journalist for Radio One’s Newsbeat . In 2021 he became BBC News’ first ever Gaming and Culture Correspondent , appearing across the broadcasters’ news programmes whenever a video game-related story hit the headlines. Currently, he hosts the behind-the-scenes programme, Doctor Who: Unleashed , as...
Mar 04, 2025•1 hr 27 min•Ep. 107
Greg Zeschuk is the co-founder of Bioware . While a medical student at the University of Alberta he told his future wife that, if he could, he’d make video games for a living. After he graduated, the dream came true when, in 1995, he and two friends founded Bioware in his basement. The following year the trio released Shattered Steel and, two years after that, Baldur’s Gate , which revolutionised the world of computer role-playing games. In the years that followed Bioware released a string of bl...
Feb 25, 2025•1 hr 26 min•Ep. 106
In this special episode, five My Perfect Console supporters share the games they would like to put on their ideal, fictional games machine, and the reasons behind their choices. If you would like to share your console with the My Perfect Console audience, head to this post for more details. Become a My Perfect Console supporter and receive a range of benefits at www.patreon.com/myperfectconsole Be attitude for gains. https://plus.acast.com/s/my-perfect-console . Hosted on Acast. See ...
Feb 19, 2025•54 min
Basia Bulat is a Canadian folk singer-songwriter. Born in Toronto into a family of Polish immigrants, music was always a close presence in the family home: her mother taught piano and guitar. After graduating with a degree in English literature from the University of Western Ontario , she began to pursue music as her own career path. Her debut album, Oh, My Darling was released by Rough Trade in 2007, and blended traditional folk with modern sensibilities. The record garnered critical acclaim an...
Feb 18, 2025•1 hr 21 min•Ep. 105
Adanna Nedd is a narrative designer and writer for video games. Born in the Chesapeake Bay State of Maryland, she studied Information Technology & English at Penn State University as a Millennium Scholar. While at Penn State, she started multiple research projects investigating how players represent themselves in video games through their choice of skins. After graduating, she began writing for games, specialising in character-driven stories focused on people of colour. My guest has written for ...
Feb 11, 2025•1 hr 20 min•Ep. 104
Daniel Pemberton is an Academy Award-nominated English composer and songwriter. In 1994, at the age of 16, he recorded an album in his bedroom using a multitrack cassette recorder. It caught the attention of the music producer Pete Namlook, who released it on his label, leading to a flurry of soundtrack commissions. In the years that followed, my guest wrote music for TV shows including Peep Show , The Dark Crystal , Enola Holmes , and Slow Horses . But it’s his feature film work for ...
Feb 04, 2025•1 hr 21 min•Ep. 103
Part #2 of a collection of some of our favourite clips from My Perfect Console episodes released in 2024. Become a My Perfect Console supporter and receive a range of benefits at www.patreon.com/myperfectconsole Be attitude for gains. https://plus.acast.com/s/my-perfect-console . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Jan 14, 2025•1 hr 6 min
Enjoy this collection of some of our favourite clips from My Perfect Console episodes released in 2024. Become a My Perfect Console supporter and receive a range of benefits at www.patreon.com/myperfectconsole Be attitude for gains. https://plus.acast.com/s/my-perfect-console . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Jan 07, 2025•1 hr 12 min
A special episode with the winner of the My Perfect Console of the Year award, as voted by the listeners to the show. Become a My Perfect Console supporter and receive a range of benefits at www.patreon.com/myperfectconsole Be attitude for gains. https://plus.acast.com/s/my-perfect-console . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Dec 31, 2024•14 min
Has 2024 been a good year for video games? Host Simon Parkin and comedian Glenn Moore each pick their five favourites of the year. Will any of their choices overlap? Will the game in the top spot start with a vowel? Become a My Perfect Console supporter and receive a range of benefits at www.patreon.com/myperfectconsole Be attitude for gains. https://plus.acast.com/s/my-perfect-console . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Dec 24, 2024•1 hr 25 min
My guest today is G. T. Karber, the innovative crime writer and creator of the Murdle series of puzzle books. The son of a judge and a civil rights attorney, he studied mathematics and English literature at the University of Arkansas , then took a Masters at the USC School of Cinematic Arts . It was while he was working on a project in a coffee shop that he scribbled down a crime-themed puzzle on a napkin for a friend. He later put the puzzle online, then added another. Two weeks later his now a...
Dec 17, 2024•1 hr 26 min•Ep. 102
Billy Basso is an American creator of video games. Born in Chicago, he studied film, then earned his masters in Computer Science at DePaul University . After a stint working as a video editor, he moved into game development, first making educational games for schools in Chicago, and later at NetherRealm Studios , where he worked on smartphone versions of Mortal Kombat and Injustice . In May this year, my guest published Animal Well , a game which he started to work on in his spare tim...
Dec 10, 2024•1 hr 21 min•Ep. 101
In this special correspondence edition, Simon reads out your correspondence and answers your questions. Which ten games have been picked in the first 100 episodes more than any others? What are the best Christmas-themed video games? What are the best video game sound effects of all time? Who are the video game industry's true founding fathers (or mothers)? And a special teaser for Simon's next book project. Become a My Perfect Console supporter and receive a range of benefits at www.patreon.com/...
Dec 05, 2024•36 min
