My Perfect Console with Simon Parkin

Sports & Recreation Podcasts

In My Perfect Console, Simon Parkin, award-winning author video game critic for The Observer invites well-known guests from the worlds of gaming, film and television, music, comedy and more to pick the five video games they would like to immortalise...

Episodes

Sarah Maria Griffin, poet, author (Eat the Ones You Love; Strange is the Light)

Mike Diver, journalist, author (Aliens: The Video Games)

Soren Johnson, game designer (Civ III, Civ IV, Spore, Old World)

Glen Henry, gamemaker, co-founder Jamaica Game Developer Society.

Amelia Tait, journalist, children's author.

James Trickey, comedian.

Pierce Brown, science fiction novelist (Red Rising series).

John Robertson, comedian, creator The Dark Room.

Andreas Thorstensson, former Counter-Strike champion, founder GOALS AB.

Abigoliah Schamaun, comedian.

Luke Whittaker, gamemaker. (South of the Circle, Lumino City).

Rob Dubbin, comedy writer, game designer (The Colbert Report, Scripto).

George Osborn, strategist, author (Power Play: Video Games, Politics, and the Battle for Global Influence.)

Gabríel Ólafs, pianist, composer, founder Reykjavík Orkestra.

Elise Kova, romantic fantasy novelist.

Brendan Greene, game-maker (PUBG, Prologue: Go Wayback!)

Stephen Totilo, journalist, editor.

Jerk Gustafsson, studio director, MachineGames (Wolfenstein series; Indiana Jones and the Great Circle).

Chandana Ekanayake, founder Outerloop Games (Falcon Age, Thirsty Suitors, Dosa Divas).

Natasha Hodgson, writer, composer, performer, Operation Mincemeat.