This month's Patreon Show (fit with a new thumbnail design, thanks Anni!), comes direct from Lyon, France, where I've been interviewing some Arkane devs in a pretty, erm, specific fashion? You'll see what I mean...
We're also announcing our next documentary here as well, one that should be...
Hi everyone,
I know many of you will be reading this in your email inbox, but if you head over to our Patreon page itself, you'll notice that things are looking a little different.
Following on from our Escape Room documentary, here's the full playthrough of Loot the Lanes (including some brilliant commentary from the staff watching us in real-time).
Thanks to Pier Pressure in Brighto...
Behind-the-scenes with Anni as she attempts to defeat a tarot-wielding villain with a sleepy dog in a mecha suit.
Watch our original documentary on the War for Rayuba here!
After telling the story of a game prototype that had to be banned from the very studio that created it, Chris embarked on his own journey of diplomacy, deception and mental damage.
2025-09-04 11:44:36 +0000 UTC View Post
Following our documentary on the inside story of how Mass Effect 3's endings were made, Chris has uncovered a video he made about this same subject more than a decade prior. It's, erm, illuminating.
2025-09-04 11:42:12 +0000 UTC View Post
The boys explore the very furthest limits of virtual entertainment.
Watch our full VRChat documentary here!
Thanks to New Holland for being such lovely lads.
Watch our full Farming Simulator esports documentary here!
2025-09-04 11:31:38 +0000 UTC View Post
E3 may be dead, but at least we still have LAMMA Show.
Watch the full Farming Simulator esports documentary here!
2025-09-04 11:28:17 +0000 UTC View Post
After our Bridge Command playthrough, Quinns had a nosy around the set and talked with the crew about how it all worked. We thought you might like to join him.
2025-09-04 11:24:41 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey, at least this one isn't two and a half hours!
I really can't believe we're back here for a second time, but as you'll hear, we really felt we had to return to Disco Elysium and settle some unfinished business. This is largely driven by just how much has now happened in the years since ...
2025-08-15 13:35:20 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey patrons,
We've been quiet for a little while, which given our past history can mean one of two things:
1) Anni and Chris have had another baby.
2) PMG is working on a big story and we're buried under so much work that we've almost ceased to exist as normal, functioning mem...
Hello everyone,
I was invited to be a guest speaker at an indie games festival in Baltimore this weekend and if you'd like to, you can watch the talk right here. I asked Jake Solomon, the ex-Firaxis Creative Director...
2025-06-08 18:26:47 +0000 UTC View PostOn the off chance that you are, I'm going to be at the Enoch Pratt Free Library on the 7th June interviewing Jake Solomon (of XCOM and Midnight Suns fame) about what it's like trying to launch a new video games studio amidst... all of this.
If you've been following my work since Eurogamer,...
Continuing a trend of Quinns and myself being sent to explore lavishly-designed roleplaying experiences together, we this time ventured into the world of Bridge Command, a "highly interactive theatre experience" set aboard a sta...
2025-05-08 13:00:10 +0000 UTC View PostHey patrons,
Inspired by our upcoming documentary following the WoWGG union as it bargains with Blizzard Entertainment for better working conditions, I've dipped my toes back into the comfortin...
2025-03-13 12:33:51 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey everyone,
This Patreon Show was recorded during a recent trip to Irvine, California where I was filming the very first parts of a documentary that could take upwards of a year to complete! That's because this story is still ongoing and we intend to cover the whole thing.
Anyway, ...
Wesley Yin-Poole is in charge of the news desk over at IGN and has been reporting on the games industry for almost two decades at this point.
He's also been a mentor of mine ever since our days working to...
Hi patrons,
Thanks for bearing with us on this one. It probably won't take long for you to realize why we were a little concerned about publishing this during the middle of the holiday break.
To give you some context for what you're about to watch, this is a follow-up to a story we ...
Hey everyone!
Just a quick update about our next documentary. It's pretty much ready to publish and we've been mulling over the idea of doing so this week, but in the end, we've decided against it.
This one's a big investigative piece and we're just not sure that the December holiday...
Hello everyone!
I've been feeling pretty weird about not being online enough recently. When you have a job like this one, it can feel like the ultimate crime, honestly.
Now this tends to happen whenever we're deep into reporting a big, complicated story. There's a sort of single-mind...
2024-11-11 15:59:40 +0000 UTC View Post
Jason Schreier is a games reporter for Bloomberg, best known for his extensive reporting on the volatile reality of AAA game development.
On today's episode we'll be talking about his latest book, Play Nice: The Rise,...
Another lighthearted documentary from your friends at People Make Games!
This time Quinns explores the disconcertingly-familiar world of government-funded, military wargaming and its relationship with the commercial games industry.
We go on a real journey with this one.
Also....
Nicole Carpenter has been reporting on the games industry at Polygon for the last five years, where she's perhaps best known for her coverage of unions and the increasingly vital role they're playing in shaping the future of...
2024-08-21 15:09:12 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey everyone,
Patreon are making some changes to how the platform operat...
2024-08-13 13:31:40 +0000 UTC View Post
Grant Stoner is a freelance reporter who specializes in covering accessibility and disability across the games industry in his work.
Among other work, he writes a monthly column for IGN where he recently examined how...
It's long overdue that People Make Games talks about the layoffs that have now ripped through the games industry over the last couple of years.
So when I was asked to speak at a recent IWGB Game Workers meeting, it...
Sarah Parvini was a games reporter at the LA Times until just a few months ago, having been among those who were hit by a staggering round of layoffs at the paper earlier this year. In fact, the publication is meant to have <...
2024-05-28 16:11:08 +0000 UTC View Post
Farming Simulator has a professional eSports scene with a prize pool of Є200,000! This seemed very strange to us and so earlier this year, we decided to find a team and follow them across Europe as they competed for a place in the World Championship.
Oh my gosh does it feel good to get a ...
Chelsea Reed Miller is a video editor for IGN and a spokesperson for the IGN Creators Guild, a brand spanking new union that's been officially recogn...
2024-04-19 13:39:02 +0000 UTC View Post