Ventin' Quarantinos

Jim talks to Louise Blain; writer, producer, true crime connoisseur, Assassin's Creed obsessive and all round murder enthusiast, about how she is on a mission to curate True Crime podcasts with her podcast about podcasts, Killt. Find out more about her work in this podcast about a podcast that's about podcasts.

Jim is joined by celebrated game developer Mike Bithell, creator of indie hits Thomas Was Alone, Volume, the Circular series of adventure games, and John Wick Hex which is out now on PS4.

This week we’re joined by presenter, writer, video producer and all-round games media personality Alysia Judge.

Jim chats to acclaimed indie game creator Xalavier Nelson Jr, while Burns and Dave wonder if it would be ethical to crowdfund the purchase of a Californian mansion with inadequate boat parking simply because it was featured in The Godfather part II.

We grew up loving TV shows like Babylon 5 and Deep Space 9: huge stories, told over multiple seasons. But has the small screen finally gotten too big?

From I, Claudius to Star Trek: Picard, we talk about why the binge era is a monkey's paw curse for fans of the Long Arc.

Ventin' Quarantinos, a podcast about Attempted Normalcy in the face of lockdown, returns with a very special guest: Simon Miller, face of WhatCulture, former VideoGamer, and future WWE Hall of Famer (probably).

Welcome to Ventin' Quarantinos, the "new" podcast from Jim and Burns (and Dave) about nothing, normalcy, and trying to make the best of it.

To keep sane, Burns has been playing PES, while Jim has been watching travelogues on Britbox and adding Live It Up by Mental As Anything to every one of Dave's Spotify playlists. Dave has been watching Tiger King on Netflix, and regretting the time he left his Spotify logged in on Jim's laptop.

This is a special episode where we chat to Dan, a communications officer for Sony PlayStation QA. Not about the PS5, though, which launches holiday 2020, despite us never mentioning it here.

In this episode, which we recorded a billion years ago, we try to think up a Terminator video game that would be good, but ultimately decide that Creative Assembly should just do one.

Jim and Burns love Wolfenstein, Dave loves being on holiday, and everyone loves real-world locations being depicted in videogames.

Also: Times David Cage has been right, more Tory sports, and how the best games often tell the smallest stories.