People Playing Games

We chat with the creator of PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds about the game's massive success, his gaming origins, and how he wants to find the next PlayerUnknown.

Highlights:

1:45 - Brendan's gaming history

2:25 - Getting into modding

3:35 - Major PUBG milestones

4:33 - Typical day of working on PUBG

6:06 - How Brendan spends his free time

7:00 - Thoughts on Twitch community & TwitchCon

7:45 - Current state of PUBG & what's coming next

8:30 - Photography and design work & how that influenced PUBG

9:15 - Brendan's inspirations

10:30 - Finding the next PlayerUnknown & advice for fans

EA Sports Creative Director Mike Young talks about his gaming inspirations, his photography career, and how he brought emotion and storytelling to Madden with the new Longshot mode.

Highlights:

4:30 - How Longshot came to be

9:05 - Working with actors and developing the characters

19:40 - Games that inspired Longshot

24:00 - The Future of Longshot and Madden story modes

27:00 - Mike's gaming career origins and inspirations

34:00 - Fun tidbit about an NBA Street story that never saw the light of day

35:00 - How Mike's photography influences his games

41:10 - Advice and closing thoughts

Games PR veteran Valerie Turpin talks about finding the cool stories behind games, writing a sci-fi novel and the challenges of balancing your career with your passion project.

Geek rapper extraordinaire Mega Ran talks about his gaming origins, how his teaching career made him a better artist, and his new album Extra Credit.

Esports photographer/reporter Chris Bahn walks us through his journey, from cutting his teeth at NYC arcades to capturing some of the biggest fighting game tournaments in the world.

Esports veteran Chris "Chhopsky" Pollock talks about his gaming career, the parallells between music and esports, and, most importantly, how a silly meme about sporks became an internet phenomenon.

Jake "Mustard" Neal talks about his passion for fighting games and how that led him to a career as a professional commentator at ESL.

Harold Goldberg is a veteran games journalist who's traveled the world, authored a book on the industry and founded the New York Video Game Critics circle. Here's his story.

Mike sits down with PCMag Senior Editor Jeffrey L. Wilson to discuss breaking into journalism, starting a website and the joys of fighting games.

Twitch PR manager Erin Fan stops by to talk about breaking into games PR, making video game parody songs on YouTube, and the surprising connection between the two.