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With a hangover from ninety June livestreams, Matthew and Samuel each deliver their ten favourites from the hype season.

Retro Gamer editor Darran Jones steps into the draft dojo to celebrate Sony’s first gaming handheld device.

Hear about James’ journey from comic book artist during Marvel’s bankruptcy to becoming a key editor on a host of important media outlets throughout the ’00s.

We each try and guess five mystery games based on snippets from their reviews in ’00s games magazines. Feel free to play along!

Two Giant Men, 20 categories, dubious rules! Time for another draft episode, this time on the subject of video game soundtracks.

Here’s what we’ve been playing lately: Stellar Blade, Animal Well, Octopath Traveler 2, Dark Forces Remaster and Pepper Grinder.

Matthew speaks to one of his favourite authors, Stuart Turton. Hear about his exhausting creative process, and what it takes to write a novel.

This week’s guest is Rachel Weber, who probably has the most varied and fascinating career in games media of anyone who’s appeared on the podcast so far.

The worst format in British podcasting returns.

The best games of 2003, and loads of bullshit about Matthew’s mini-fridge and Samuel’s week of work experience in the fire brigade.