The 16-bit era, honestly. So many good times. Good times that we’re both reviving and ruining on this episode of the Waypoint UK Podcast by putting Sega’s Mega Drive—Genesis, if we must—against the Super Nintendo in a points-based battle to the death. Only nothing actually dies. Save, perhaps, for the respect any listeners had for the people assembled to do this.   Why we’re doing this: because the SNES Mini is a thing, and it’s out in September at the same time as the Sega Genesis...

No messing about, straight to business. This episode of the Waypoint UK Podcast finds Mike (me, hi) chatting about some of the best games of 2017 so far in the company of two marvellous guests—VideoGamer.com’s content editor Colm Ahern and Fandom gaming editor Sam Loveridge. They’ve played a bunch of games. I’ve played a bunch of games. Let’s talk a bunch of games.   And we do.   Up for discussion: a range of titles both massive, bona-fide blockbuster of proportion, and a handful of...

Growing up. We all do it. And the games industry is doing it, too. Kids who lived and breathed games in the 1980s and ‘90s are now 30- and 40-somethings, perhaps with kids of their own. The time they once had to enjoy video games has been compromised, irreversibly altered. So: how do you, how do we, deal with that? And just what is the best way to nurture a future Mario Kart champion? Answers, people. We have some of them here.   Waypoint’s senior editor Mike, himself a father of two, is...

It’s almost time for E3—so that’s what we’re talking about on this episode of the fortnightly Waypoint UK Podcast.   On the show: regular host Mike Diver, alongside E3 veteran Steve Burns (back for a second show running, after our Max Payne 3 special) and bright-eyed newbie Tom Regan, who’ll be flying out to LA for the first time in 2017 to cover the terrific cacophony of New Video Game Stuff.   We talk about expectations for the Scorpio, where Nintendo goes with the Switch, Sony’s...

This episode of the Waypoint UK Podcast is (almost) entirely focused on Max Payne 3, as Rockstar’s 2012 instalment in the Remedy-created noir shooter series.   This podcast contains spoilers, obvs.   Waypoint’s Mike Diver is joined by Steve Burns and Ed Smith – two people with a lot to say on the state of Payne by his third run out, both positive and negative. We look at the character, the relationships he builds – and sees torn down – the settings of the game, how it actually plays, what...

Our guests on this fortnight’s Waypoint UK Podcast are games writers, critics, presenters, all-round games media renaissance types Kate Gray and Andi Hamilton. Both of whom do plenty of other things beyond send us the occasional article. But right now, we’ve got them locked in a room at VICE’s London HQ, microphones turned on and tea going tepid. There are biscuits, at least.   Prey, newly suited and rebooted by Dishonored developers Arkane, is almost out—and we’ve been playing it. Well, as...

Right. Persona 5’s been out a while, and Nier: Automata and Breath of the Wild, too. So for this episode of the UK podcast, Kate Gray and Sayem Ahmed are, alongside the regular nasal noise of Mike discussing as many pros and cons about those games as is possible in about an hour and a quarter.   There are so many spoilers in this podcast, seriously guys, so many spoilers. So if you don’t want spoilers, for any of the above games, go and listen to something else.    Sayem, alas, can’t join...

On this episode of the fortnightly Waypoint UK Podcast, senior ed sort Mike Diver and regular co-conspirator Kate Gray are joined by Paul Kilduff-Taylor of Oxford’s Mode 7 Games, to discuss the studio’s forthcoming releases: Frozen Synapse 2 and Tokyo 42.   The former is the sequel to Mode 7’s breakout hit of 2011, a simultaneous tactics strategy game that’s honestly easier to play than it is to properly explain, which earned massively celebratory reviews from the likes of Edge and...

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...

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...

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...

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. ...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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).

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.

VICE Gaming editor Mike Diver welcomes journalists and presenters Kate Gray and Steve Burns to VICE's London office to discuss some of the best video games of 2016 so far, plus some titles that we're looking forward to between now and Christmas. Expect chat about Hitman, Oxenfree, Pro Evolution Soccer, DOOM, Uncharted 4 and triangles, the scariest shape of them all.

For the fifth VICE Gaming Podcast, editor Mike is joined by another Mike, Bithell, the creative force behind Thomas Was Alone and Volume, and State of Play's Daniel Fountain, developer on the BATFA-winning Lumino City. Join us for indie games chat - on meeting expectations, on the race to embrace virtual reality, and what it takes to even get an indie game made and out there to buy.

It's a horror special, as VICE Gaming writers Jonathan Beach and Ian Dransfield join Mike Diver to discuss Resident Evil, Silent Hill, P.T., Dead Space and more things that go bump in the pit of your stomach.

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The first VICE Gaming Podcast is a year-end special, discussing the best games of 2015, including Until Dawn, Her Story, Undertale, The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt and Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain. We might also touch upon a couple of the year's grossest stinkers. Around the table are VICE's video games editor Mike Diver, freelance writer Emily Gera and Videogamer.com deputy editor Steve Burns. Find these fine people on Twitter, and follow VICE Gaming, too: www.twitter.com/VICEGaming...