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5 days ago | 
listennotes.com | Chris Plante
ABOUT THIS EPISODE Find all links and referenced materials at www.post.gamesThis week on Post Games, “Why you can’t escape porn, sex, and lewd games.”Act 1: How NSFW games went from the backrooms to the front pageAct 2: An interview with Hot Pink, a successful lewd game developerAct 3: The news of the week, including the definitive answer to the most important question in America in this troubling moment: Is parrying in games good or bad?
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1 week ago | 
listennotes.com | Chris Plante
See the full episode notes and links at www.post.gamesThis week on Post Games, “You won the biggest award in indie games.
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2 weeks ago | 
listennotes.com | Chris Plante
Post Games is a listener-supported podcast about how and why we love video games. Each week, host Chris Plante reports on a new, overlooked, or underappreciated topic in gaming culture. Where did all the new porn games come from? What’s it like to be the AI that destroys the world? How has one award turned tiny indie game makers into big-name millionaires?
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2 weeks ago | 
listennotes.com | Chris Plante
ABOUT THIS EPISODE Want to know more about what’s happening behind the scenes at Post Games? Curious where the show is heading in its first year? Post Games: Episode 0 serves as an audio FAQ. Structured like a traditional episode, this prequel features an interview with Platformer founder and Hard Fork co-host Casey Newton about independent journalism's history, function, and value. Find episode notes and more at www.post.games.
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1 month ago | 
polygon.com | Chris Plante
Predator: Badlands lets us walk a mile in an alien hunter’s shoesIf you buy something from a Polygon link, Vox Media may earn a commission. See our ethics statement. Chris Plante co-founded Polygon in 2012 and is now editor-in-chief. He co-hosts The Besties, is a board member of the Frida Cinema, and created NYU’s first games journalism course.
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1 month ago | 
polygon.com | Chris Plante
Chris Plante co-founded Polygon in 2012 and is now editor-in-chief. He co-hosts The Besties, is a board member of the Frida Cinema, and created NYU’s first games journalism course. I enjoyed the critical darling of the moment, Blue Prince, as much as the next elder millennial video game critic. But after weeks of filling countless notebook pages with indecipherable notes — at one point even seeing puzzle solutions in my dreams — I began to crave a game that would carry the bulk of the mental load.
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1 month ago | 
polygon.com | Chris Plante
Image: Radical Entertainment/ActivisionChris Plante co-founded Polygon in 2012 and is now editor-in-chief. He co-hosts The Besties, is a board member of the Frida Cinema, and created NYU’s first games journalism course. One of the gnarliest games ever published by a AAA studio is available at a steep discount on Steam. That’s great news… if you can get past the game-breaking bugs. When Activision published Prototype 2 in 2012, the big-budget video game scene was stuck in a creative rut.
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2 months ago | 
msn.com | Chris Plante
Microsoft Cares About Your PrivacyMicrosoft and our third-party vendors use cookies to store and access information such as unique IDs to deliver, maintain and improve our services and ads. If you agree, MSN and Microsoft Bing will personalise the content and ads that you see. You can select ‘I Accept’ to consent to these uses or click on ‘Manage preferences’ to review your options and exercise your right to object to Legitimate Interest where used.
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2 months ago | 
polygon.com | Chris Plante
Chris Plante co-founded Polygon in 2012 and is now editor-in-chief. He co-hosts The Besties, is a board member of the Frida Cinema, and created NYU’s first games journalism course. Nintendo took an unusual approach to the past two decades of video game console wars. It stayed out of them. But with today’s Nintendo Switch 2 info dump — packed with big-name third-party games rarely seen on Nintendo hardware — the House that Mario Built appears ready to rejoin the fray. Why now?
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2 months ago | 
polygon.com | Chris Plante
The trailers for Assassin’s Creed Shadows teased elder millennial fans (read: me) who’ve stuck with the franchise for decades, yearning for a return to the original recipe. Ninja. Sharp blades. Stealth kills. Would our patience finally be rewarded? Fifteen hours in, I’ve been granted a wish from a cursed monkey’s paw. Yes, Shadows revives the iconic assassination simulator of 2007.
