Let's Talk About Tech

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Let's Talk About Tech episodes

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
March 31, 2020 Game On - The Island Doom of the Wisps
Odee joins Adam to talk about the cancellation of the COD League's live events and then it's on to talking about not one, not two but three games! Animal Crossing NH, Doom and Ori and the Will of the Wisps.
Can you spot the deliberate mistake in this edition?
48 min
March 23, 2020 Game On – Help for Heroes goes gaming and travelling with The Traveller
Help for Heroes want games to use their skills for good and help them through @HeroUpGaming
Ryan Elser has been playing, and writing, about Destiny since the beginning. He joined Adam to talk about a game that’s almost 6 years into its life span.
And another magazine maker has designs on your wallet.
44 min
March 17, 2020 Game On - Keeping Track of it All
The Destiny we have is the Destiny we're keeping Bungie tells Adam and cult stationery company Field Notes have designs on - or should that be for - your Dungeons & Dragons character sheets.
31 min
March 10, 2020 Game On - Yorkshire Games Festival
At the Yorkshire Games Festival to talk about making games with Sabrina Carmona, Zi Peters and Mike Bithell.
Warning, this podcast may contain unexpected Jordan Erica Webbers.
32 min
February 20, 2020 Game On - William Gibson's Agency
William Gibson started out writing books that felt like they were set decades into a possible future.
Unusually for a writer of speculative fiction he's been creeping closer and closer to the now.
Adam met him to talk about 'Agency', what's now the second part of his fourth trilogy)
28 min
January 28, 2020 Game On - Excel next and Riot now
Excel Esport's new Chief Commercial Officer, Robin McCammon reflects on making the jump across the electronic divide from adidas and
Launcher’s Elise Favis catches us up about the Californian state government's intervention in the Riot Games class action law suit settlement.
25 min
January 21, 2020 Game On - Edge first
Zachary Smith is the CEO of Packet and he wants to change the way we use The Cloud. This is no longer about the centre; it's about The Edge.
25 min
January 14, 2020 Game On - A Stamp of Approval
Royal Mail's Philip Parker explains why the UK's games industry has made it into stamp form. And Jon Hare, one of the creators of Sensible Soccer (and new game Sociable Soccer) joins Adam to talk about the scene that's being celebrated in stamp form: the scene that's become the industry we have today.
39 min
January 09, 2020 Game On - Kim Bayley, Bruce Straley
2019's games sales figures may not be all bad according to Kim Bayley, the CEO of the Entertainment Retailers Association.
And Bruce Straley, formerly of Naughty Dog, gives us a sense of the Way of Bruce.
27 min