Let's Talk About Tech

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Let's Talk About Tech episodes

October 10, 2025 Game On - Back to The Borderlands
After a 6 year gap the Borderlands series returns with Borderlands 4. President of Gearbox Studios, Randy Pitchford joins Adam to talk about the Joy of Loot and more.
33 min
April 06, 2025 Game On - It's Cumbria, but not as we know it. And it's BAFTA time again!
PC GamesN's Nat Smith joins Adam to talk about the upcoming BAFTA awards and Rebellion's action survival game, Atomfall. The game's creative director Ben Fisher talks about the game's creation and the Rebellion way to make a game.
54 min
July 10, 2024 Game On - Returning to The Mothership and looking ahead to the London Soundtrack Festival 2025
The capital's first annual Festival dedicated to celebrating the music of film, TV and games will take place from 19–26 March 2025 and Adam's spoken to festival director, Tommy Pearson and composer, Stephen Barton.
Find out more at londonsoundtrackfestival.com
And we've returned to the Homeworld galaxy for the third game in the series. Do you remember the Karos Graveyard and the Great Nebula of Kadesh? Adam and the game's writer, Martin Cirulis do.
46 min
January 18, 2023 Game On - Elric and Citadel of Forgotten Myths
Michael Moorcock - author, editor, musician - joins Adam to talk about Citadel of Forgotten Myths, the book that will be (he says) the last appearance of his doomed hero, Elric of Melniboné between the covers of a novel.
It's a wide-ranging conversation that barely touches the surface of Moorcock's long, incredibly productive career.
45 min
March 23, 2021 Game On - BAFTA goes to Hades
With the 2021 BAFTA Games Awards moments away Adam speaks to two of the nominees from Supergiant Games. The writer, Greg Kasavin and the actor, Logan Cunningham are both in the running for their work on Hades.
17 min
February 02, 2021 Game On - Safety online and a new era for Star Wars
Online safety discussed with Lorin LaFave and Andy Robertson. And New York Times bestselling author Charles Soule joins Adam to talk about The High Republic.
48 min
December 21, 2020 Game On – Now with added Nolan North!
Talking about games with the Gaming Grandma, sidestepping The Discourse and Andy’s Xmas Crackers
Has the Pandemic changed the way families game? The Gaming Grandma and Dr Lynn Love from Abertay University give Adam their view.
Ewan Moore from GAMINGbible and FamilyGamerTV’s Andy Robertson talk more about family gaming and much more besides.
And there’s oodles of Nolan North action as we talk about his work in Dirt5!
1 hr 16 min
September 29, 2020 Game On - Playstation versus Xbox. Seconds out, round 4!
Weeks away from the launch of Playstation and Xbox's latest machines the Washington Post's Gene Park joins Adam to look at what's on offer. Industry veteran, Mike Fisher has his own modest proposal and, if you're quick, you can still take part in the Leeds Digital Festival. The organiser and one of the city's tech companies explain more about Silicon Moor™(pending.)
48 min
September 08, 2020 Game On - It's cold, it's dangerous, it's Wasteland 3
Veteran games creator, Brian Fargo and Wasteland 3's music supervisor, Mary Ramos join Adam to talk about the way they're putting a soundtrack on a post-apocalyptic American adventure. PC Gamer's Jody Macgregor reviews the game in this edition.
45 min
August 25, 2020 Game On - Of falling and falling and Fall Guys
No more steps, that's what Mediatonic's Megan Ralph promises Adam in this edition of Game On.
Fall Guys has been this year's surprise summer hit but what's helped the game get to the top of the goop slide?
23 min