Stay ConnectedThe VICE Gaming Podcast is no more. Since we moved over to our own website proper, the one you’re looking at now, we thought we’d best rename what we’re doing over here. So here we are: the debut Waypoint UK Podcast. Makes sense, right?
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Hey, you. Welcome to a bonus Waypoint UK Podcast, recorded live at London’s Rezzed show—a wonderful place where a plethora of indie video games, and their makers, come together with players to have three days of sharing, caring and, hopefully, just a little raving.
On this podcast, James Brown of Boneloaf, makers of mirth-filled multiplayer beat ‘em up Gang Beasts, and Rex Crowle and Moo Yu from Foam Sword, who are producing the wonderfully cute Knights and Bikes, join us—“us” being Mike Diver and Waypoint regular Kate Gray—to talk about all manner of stuff. Stuff like: getting your game out there, dealing with publishers, the indie community, Brexit’s potential impact, and the sacrificing of family pets.
As we chat a little about Brexit, expect a swear word or two. Sorry about that. It's almost entirely Mike's fault.
Do also listen out for terrible regional accents and just the occasional pop and fizz in terms of audio quality, as...
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Note! There are spoilers for Horizon Zero Dawn's story in this episode. Mute it between 1:08 and 1:12 if you want to avoid that.
On this episode, Mike (me, hi) is joined by Waypoint’s On the Level columnist Ed Smith—also a regular writer for Edge, and editor at Bullet Points Monthly—and Sam Loveridge, gaming editor at Fandom in the UK.
Sam’s been playing a decent chunk of Mass Effect: Andromeda—although, it’s worth noting that this podcast was recorded before the game was released, so she’s coming at it mostly from a preview perspective. Ed, meanwhile, gives us his thoughts on Ubisoft’s latest open-worlder (without towers!), Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon: Wildlands. Spoiler: he didn’t like it very much.
Also up for discussion: Nier: Automata, a little Breath of the Wild, Stories Untold, Night in the Woods and Persona 5. We also find time to have a look at the UK’s forthcoming BAFTA Games Awards, and what does, or...
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You might have noticed that a new video games console launched earlier this month. We certainly did, at VICE’s London office. So I invited a couple of Nintendo experts from the games media world over, and had a good chinwag about Switch, The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, and much more besides.
Lending their voices to and articulating their opinions on this podcast are Simon Miller, freelancer extraordinaire and a returning guest, and newcomer to the ‘cast Rob Leedham, UK editor of Stuff magazine.
Don’t fret, Zelda players—we don’t get super spoilery or anything. If we had, Simon would have pounded us. We definitely do mention DOOM, though. In March 2017. Because we’re at the very vanguard of video game releases.
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It's February. And February means Valentine's. Which for some people is a Very Good Thing. For others, Not So Much. But what it definitely means is that we can talk about love and snogs and honks and bonks in video games, over the years, in episode five of the Waypoint UK Podcast.
Waypoint senior editor Mike Diver is joined by regular contributor around these parts Kate Gray, beside radio presenter, gaming enthusiast, The Football Ramble host and Monkey-Island-tattoo-haver Pete Donaldson.
Up for discussion: Kate's new column for Waypoint, Kiss and Tell. Bagpiping (don't Google it). Ladykiller in a Bind. To shag or not to shag when offered the chance to shag in role-playing games. The greatest love affairs of gaming past and present. What Master Chief looks like under all that armor. And games that are actually out on February 14th, none of which seem to have a lot to do with copping off (more blowing things off, things like ballsacks).
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The latest episode of the Waypoint UK Podcast—as always hosted by the site’s senior editor Mike Diver (who is me, hello)—welcomes Laura Kate Dale of Let’s Play Video Games and several freelance gigs and Julian Benson of Kotaku UK to go over what it takes to break news in the gaming industry, when publishers and PRs are doing whatever they can to keep information under wraps.
Is reporting on new console—the Nintendo Switch, for example—and software leaks a legitimate public service, or does it comprise a kind of spoiler for gaming fans who like to be surprised at high-profile system launches? What boundaries do gaming journalists forever fear crossing—and which do they stride across without concern for “blacklisting” or any other professional relationship fallout? What happens when a developer shows you something off the record, but it’s just too good to keep quiet about? When is breaking an NDA okay? What do you do when you have a console in your house, boxed, but...
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On this bonus episode of the Waypoint UK Podcast, senior editor Mike Diver is joined at VICE’s London office by Alice Bell of Videogamer, Chris Bratt of Eurogamer, and Alysia Judge of IGN to discuss some of 2016’s most impressive video games.
You can absolutely expect to hear conversations about Overwatch, Watch Dogs 2, Dishonored 2, XCOM 2, other games that aren’t sequels, Final Fantasy XV, The Last Guardian, Inside, Event[0], Uncharted 2 (not a typo) and The Flame and the Flood. And more! It lasts for an hour and 20 minutes! It’s a lot of podcast!
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It’s not often you get to sit down for a full hour with someone who’s not only seen the games industry grow and blossom over the past four decades, but who’s actively influenced and directed its course. But here we are: the new Waypoint UK Podcast is 60 minutes in the company of Ian Livingstone.
Ian’s career began in the mid-1970s, when he founded Games Workshop. Working initially from a London flat, he helped popularize Dungeons & Dragons in the UK and Europe, with Games Workshop the sole licensed importer of the game at the time. To me, personally, he’s most loved as the co-creator of Fighting Fantasy, a series of game books that spearheaded the choose-your-own-adventure genre in the 1980s and ‘90s. (How I devoured those books as a kid.)
Ian’s worked extensively in video games, too—it was under his guidance at Eidos Interactive that the Tomb Raider and Hitman franchises took their first steps. With 2016 representing the 20th anniversary of Tomb Raider, we discuss...
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The VICE Gaming Podcast is no more. Since we moved over to our own website proper, the one you’re looking at now, we thought we’d best rename what we’re doing over here. So here we are: the debut Waypoint UK Podcast. Makes sense, right?
This episode of the UK podcast—a monthly affair for the time being, although we’d love to make it more regular if you guys want it more often—focuses on the newly released Football Manager 2017, the latest entry in the hugely successful boss sim franchise from London-based Sports Interactive.
On the podcast this month, beside Waypoint senior editor Mike Diver, is Grant Appleyard, senior producer on Football Manager 2017 and a Sports Interactive veteran having joined the studio in 2001. Also joining us is VICE Sports UK editor Jim Weeks. We talk about our own Football Manager memories, the game’s amazing depth, and just how recent political events—Brexit, the election of Trump—could be simulated in this and future...
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VICE Gaming's UK editor Mike Diver is joined by Steve Burns, deputy editor at Videogamer.com, and VICE's own Joel Golby to talk about PES vs FIFA and all things virtual kicking, No Man's Sky and whether or not we're quite ready for it - we recorded this just before it came out - and also if we're into the Amazon-thrashing Nintendo Classic Mini. (We are, a bit.) Expect some swearing because sometimes grown men do that sort of thing (sorry).
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VICE's Mike Diver and Digital Spy Gaming Editor Sam Loveridge discuss the best and worst bits of E3 2016. The food: junk. The toilets: OK if you weren't a guy. The games: there were several, like Horizon Zero Dawn, God of War, The Last Guardian, Forza Horizon 3, Sea of Thieves, the new Zelda. Expect us to be talking about this, and more. Follow Sam on Twitter at apacherose3, Mike at MikeDiver, and VICE Gaming at VICEGaming.
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