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Last week I was invited to take part in Gamescom Congress, a small conference bolted onto the absolutely gigantic games show that takes over Cologne, Germany each August.
2022-08-29 12:46:04 +0000 UTC View Post
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So this one's a little different to our usual videos!
We've wanted to do a video about classism in the games industry for a few years now, but both Quinns and I have never really felt like the right people to tackle that particular subject. We're both middle class men and...
2022-08-18 17:08:16 +0000 UTC View PostHey patrons!
I wrote this month's newsletter to you from a coach ride I was taking up to Manchester, which is a bit of a trek from Brighton, frankly. If you're from the UK, you'll know last week saw the largest railway strike in decades and so trains were firmly out of the question. However...
2022-06-28 15:55:45 +0000 UTC View Post
We meet some of the Ukrainian game developers living through the invasion of their home, from a refugee who escaped into Western Europe, to a fresh recruit in the Territorial Defence.
As I type this, the video has been hit with an unfortunate age-restriction, meaning that those of you under...
2022-06-16 17:41:06 +0000 UTC View Post
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This month's episode should now be available in all of your various podcast listening places. It's well worth listening to if you care about how a lot of your favourite games sites really work and who might be getting screwed over in the process.
Hey patrons,
Hopefully you’ve seen our latest video that went live earlier this week. It’s about VRChat and involves a lanky wine bottle interviewing a variety of different anime girls about our collective virtual future. I think it’s pretty great! I wanted to use this newsletter to r...
2022-05-20 12:52:04 +0000 UTC View Post
Mark Zuckerberg may have unconvincingly sold you his version of the Metaverse, but let us show you another one!
Join Quinns as he explores VRChat and tries to make sense of one of the most exciting, complicated frontiers in virtual reality. There's so much more to it than you may have heard...
2022-05-17 15:47:33 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey patrons!
New episode of our monthly games media podcast, The Games Press, ready for your ears and brains. Enjoy!
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I’m still planning on changing the name of this newsletter at some point soon, be warned! I just haven’t landed on the right replacement yet. I find naming things so incredibly difficult, honestly, and by now it feels like every single games reference has already b...
2022-04-18 15:07:11 +0000 UTC View Post
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Welcome back to our latest instalment of Bad Idea House, the show in which Quinns and I talk about some of our favourite video ideas we've needed to scrap.
For this episode, we went to film outside of Brighton Pavilion, which is actually where we first announced People Ma...
2022-04-11 15:05:27 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey patrons,
I was asked to do a workshop for a group of journalism students at York St John University this week and thought it might be fun to take you all with me for the journey.
The imposter syndrome is/was real!
2022-03-31 15:12:06 +0000 UTC View Post
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The Games Press took a little hiatus while we concentrated on getting our last investigation right, but we're back with a new episode as of today.
If you're not familiar with the show, this is a *ahem* monthly podcast in which I interview interesting people from across th...
2022-03-28 13:00:09 +0000 UTC View PostHi everyone!
It's been a pretty overwhelming few days since our investigation into indie games leadership went live on Friday afternoon. To be completely honest with you, much of our weekend has been spent reading YouTube comments, tweets, emails, DMs, news articles and Reddit threads...
2022-03-22 16:10:06 +0000 UTC View Post
What began as an investigation into the collapse of a single indie studio became something much bigger, as more and more developers came forwards to share their stories with PMG.
We're sorry this one's taken a long time to get to you! The reporting for this video has included around thirty ...
2022-03-18 16:12:34 +0000 UTC View PostHey patrons,
It's been a couple of months now since our last PMG story was published, so we thought we'd check in and let you know what we're up to!
In short, our next video is well underway and was in fact, originally scheduled to go live a few weeks ago. Chris and Anni have been wor...
2022-02-21 11:54:31 +0000 UTC View PostHello everyone and the warmest of welcomes to this very first edition of ‘What’s Up With Video Games?’, our brand new newsletter.
Once per month, this will land in your inbox like a lovely little parcel full of newspaper clippings, pointing you towards some of the biggest stories and ...
2022-02-11 17:37:34 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello everyone,
You might have already seen this on Twitter yesterday, but we're aware that not everybody subjects themselves to the Bad Website.
Anyway, we're absolutely delighted to an...
2022-02-09 18:03:23 +0000 UTC View Post
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Do you like the thumbnail I've designed for this video? I made it in Adobe Photoshop without any help from Anni whatsoever. You probably can't tell. It looks very professional.
Anyway, with the team at PMG preparing for our first meeting of the year in which we take a loo...
2022-01-08 16:23:07 +0000 UTC View Post
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Following Quinns' first video on Roblox, we were contacted by a spokesperson for the company who asked us if we'd consider editing or even taking down our work, based on a blog post he'd fo...
2021-12-13 14:04:31 +0000 UTC View Post
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This month's guest on The Games Press is Kotaku's Senior Reporter, Ethan Gach. He's been responsible for a lot of the site's reporting on the Activision-Blizzard lawsuit so far, in which the company has been ...
2021-12-07 15:48:05 +0000 UTC View Post
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Just a quick update to let you know that this year's Secret Santa is now open for signups, if you'd like to exchange gifts with somebody else from the People Make Games community.
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This month's guest on The Games Press is responsible for one of the largest games publications in the world. It's Tina Amini, the Editor-in-Chief of IGN and oh my gosh, her job is unlike almost any other in t...
2021-11-10 16:43:13 +0000 UTC View Post
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Those of you in our $20 tier will know that for the last three years, Anni has been creating a brand new, unique art print to be sent out to our supporters every single month. In fact, even if you're not in that tier, you've probably spotted them above my desk ...
2021-11-04 14:22:08 +0000 UTC View Post
Chris went to Northampton this month and now he's a bit cross.
2021-10-29 13:17:02 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey patrons,
Sorry this one took a little while to get up on the channel! It's been quite a bit of work.
Almost a decade on from its release, we spoke to nine former Bioware developers about their experiences following the launch of Mass Effect 3 and the gigantic backlash prompted by ...
2021-10-21 14:33:02 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey patrons,
Sorry it's been a little while since our last video! We've got two in the works at the moment and you should see the first of those within the next couple of weeks. I might have bitten off a little more than I could chew on my end — whoops!
Anyway, to tide you over unti...
2021-10-06 13:35:54 +0000 UTC View Post
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On this month's episode of The Games Press, I interview my former colleague and now Head of Video at Eurogamer, Aoife Wilson.
If you followed our work back then, you'll remember that we made a ton o...
2021-09-06 14:28:49 +0000 UTC View PostHey patrons!
If you're from the UK, you're going to be extremely familiar with Top Gear. It's a TV show about cars and it's everywhere, all of the time.
The BBC launched a spin-off Top Gear Gaming Show this year and well, surprising everybody, I was asked to be one of its first guests...
2021-09-03 11:26:14 +0000 UTC View Post
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We've had a really big month on PMG in August, thanks largely to Anni and Quinns having done such an amazing job with their investigation into Roblox and the realities of making money as a developer on that platform.
There's a couple of other updates here too, including a...
2021-08-31 16:04:13 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey patrons!
We've got a longer piece from Quinns today, as he investigates the relationship Roblox Corporation has created with its community of mostly younger game developers.
The company is now valued at more than $40 billion, after a phenomenally successful public listing earlier ...
2021-08-19 13:01:19 +0000 UTC View Post