Radio Times Gaming

Lloyd Coombes, Editor in Chief at GGRecon, joins Rob to celebrate the biggest and best games of 2023. Which game will come out on top in a stacked year that gave us such instant classics as Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom, Baldur’s Gate 3, Alan Wake 2, Diablo 4 and Final Fantasy 16?

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This week’s guest is Jason Kingsley OBE, CEO of Rebellion Developments (Sniper Elite, Judge Dredd), who shares the amazing journey that gaming has taken him on. Starting out as an avid player of arcade machines, Jason went on to found a company with his brother that would employ hundreds of people. He even received an OBE for his troubles, directly from King Charles (who was still Prince Charles at the time), in a fascinating story that he shares on the podcast.

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Tim Nguyen, Senior Producer on Pokémon Go, talks Rob through his journey from swim coach to game developer, and delves into all the weird rumours and surprising facts that surround those pocket monsters. Plus, find out which starter Pokémon he'd pick from the original three, and what it's like to work on such a massive live-service game.

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John Saavedra, Editor in Chief of Den of Geek, joins our host Rob Leane to geek out about Star Wars games and recap his life with gaming so far. Topics discussed include the greatest Star Wars games of all time, who would win in a fight between Cal Kestis and Starkiller, and upcoming titles including Ubisoft's Star Wars Outlaws and Quantic Dream's Star Wars Eclipse. A must-listen for Star Wars fans!

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Russ Harding is the Chief Creative Officer at Maze Theory, a British game developer that has worked on numerous Doctor Who games and a Peaky Blinders VR title. In the week that David Tennant returns to Doctor Who on our screens, it seemed like the perfect opportunity to chat with one of the developers that have already trodden that exact same path. As well as bringing Tennant back to Doctor Who before the show did, Russ has also worked with Jodie Whittaker on various projects and Cillian Murphy on Peaky Blinders: The King’s Ransom.

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This week’s guest is Lyndsay Pearson, the Vice President of Franchise Creative on The Sims 4 and its upcoming sequel Project Rene. Lyndsay’s life with gaming has taken her on the kind of journey that most fans can only dream of — she started out as an avid player of The Sims, and now she’s become one of its main creative talents. In this chat, Lyndsay discusses all the unusual things that people do with their Sims, and she teases what’s to come in The Sims' future with the addition of major new multiplayer experiences.

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Ant Farley, one of the key developers on Football Manager, joins Rob in the studio as the long-running soccer simulator franchise launches its 2024 edition. Ant was kind enough to share some insights about next year’s FM25 revamp, too! Football Manager - like Championship Manager before it - is a game that can really take over your life, as fans will know all too well, and Ant even addressed the topic of whether there’s such a thing as ‘too much’ time spent playing it. As well as telling us about his journey from Quality Assurance to Design Manager on FM24, Ant also shared his love of Final Fantasy and - of course - his gaming snack of choice.

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This week’s guest is Elle Osili-Wood, the new host of BBC Radio 3’s Sound of Gaming, a brilliant monthly show that celebrates video game music. Elle has been working as a host and presenter in the gaming world for years now, and you may have seen her hosting the BAFTA Games Awards on a number of occasions. In this interview, Elle shares her own gaming stories and explains what it’s like to take over a beloved institution like Sound of Gaming.

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With Sonic Superstars, Super Mario Bros Wonder and Metal Gear Solid: Master Collection Volume 1 all launching in the space of a week, plus Tomb Raider 1-3 Remastered coming early next year, we needed a retro gaming expert to come on the show. Enter journalist and author Daryl Baxter, the man who literally wrote the book on Lara Croft. By day, Daryl is the Features Editor at iMore, an outlet that covers all things Apple from iPhones to Macs and beyond. By night, he writes books about gaming, the first of which was published in 2021 and titled The Making of Tomb Raider. In this chat, Daryl spoke about the nostalgia around retro gaming, which is reaching a fever pitch right now, and he also shared some recommendations for players on Apple Arcade.

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This week’s guest is superhero superfan Will Preston, co-host of the Marvel Versus Marvel podcast. On Marvel Versus Marvel, Will represents the newer type of superhero fan that hasn’t read all the decades of comics. But when it comes to gaming, there’s no denying that Will is a proper expert. In today’s One More Life, Will joins Rob to talk about Insomniac’s Spider-Man 2, the hotly anticipated sequel to 2018’s Spider-Man and 2020’s Miles Morales, as well as some classic superhero games of yesteryear.

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