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Unlimited Hyperbole is a short games podcast. Each episode profiles a single guest and discusses a topic set for a season of five episodes. At 15 minutes long, episodes are trimmed from much longer interviews to give a focused insight that respects your time and cuts out waffle. http://joemartinwords.com/podcast The show is produced by Joe Martin and Harriet Jones.
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Unlimited Hyperbole S4 - Episode Four
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These days, publishers and journalists love to talk about how big a business games are. Just a single big title can bring in billions of pounds and keep thousands of employed, for example, while even indie developers can succeed admirably. The less talked-about side effect of all this though is that when games do fail, they fail hard.Our guest this…
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Unlimited Hyperbole S4 - Episode Two
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They say there’s more than one way to skin a cat and, likewise, I say there’s more than one way things can get away from people too. They can slip away slowly and quietly, for example, or they can be taken in a sudden tragedy - and this episode covers a bit of both.This week journalist David Brown talks about the closure of PC Zone Magazine. Once h…
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Unlimited Hyperbole S3 - Episode Five
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It's not unusual for fans of any medium to have favourites, but in gaming we sometimes seem to take that idea a little bit further than most and can end up defining ourselves by our views on particular games or ideas. In this way, games can sometimes end up defining our own characters as we label ourselves based on the games we love and loathe.Darr…
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Unlimited Hyperbole S3 - Episode Three
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There are certain characters who loom large over the industry and are uniquely able to reveal how the medium has changed over the years. Duke Nukem is arguably the foremost of them all, having gone from being an unknown, silent hero to a first popular, then ostracised character known across the world. In order to understand how Duke's changed over …
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Unlimited Hyperbole S3 - Episode One
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As Season Three of Unlimited Hyperbole is focused on matters of character in videogames, talking to a writer such as James Swallow only makes sense; in addition to being a New York Times bestseller James has also worked on games such as Deus Ex: Human Revolution, Killzone 2 and Fable: The Journey.In this first episode for Season Three James talks a…
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Unlimited Hyperbole S2 - Episode Five
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As the Writer and Narrative Designer behind titles such as horror classic Penumbra, FTL and the recently announced The Swapper, you'd expect Tom Jubert to emphasise the importance of writing in scary games. In fact though, that couldn't be further from the truth.In the last episode of Season Two, Tom explains why he thinks interactivity and plausib…
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Unlimited Hyperbole S2 - Episode Three
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PC Gamer's Chris Thursten is a man fascinated by horror, having played nearly every scary game you can imagine and writing a dissertation on HP Lovecraft for his English Degree at Oxford University. So, it's a little surprising to hear him start this episode by admitting Sonic The Hedgehog 2 terrified him as a child. How could ever anyone be scared…
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Unlimited Hyperbole S2 - Episode Two
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When you're talking about fear in games then it's easy to get focused on specific topics, such as survival horror, but to do so is to ignore the wider context that fear has. If you're going to examine the topic properly then it isn't just a conversation about the fear we uncover within games, but also the fears we bring to the games we play. That's…
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Unlimited Hyperbole S2 - Episode One
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When discussing fear in games, it's almost impossible to ignore the shadow cast by The Shalebridge Cradle, the infamously chilling mission from 2004's Thief: Deadly Shadows. So, what better way to start Season Two than by talking to RPS co-founder and comics writer Kieron Gillen to tackle that topic directly?Discussing Shalebridge with Unlimited Hy…
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Unlimited Hyperbole S1 - Episode Five
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Ben Mansell is not anyone you know, but he's someone I know very well. In fact, one of my earliest memories is of him on the playground of our primary school, his eyes greedily devouring the manual for his favourite game, Doom. In the 20-something years since, very little has changed.In the final episode of Season One, Unlimited Hyperbole investiga…
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Joe Robinson is a freelance games journalist who's written for plenty of PC focused publications, including RPS and Strategy Informer, so it's not surprising that he considers himself a PC gamer at heart. Joe therefore struggles to reconcile this with the fact that his favourite game is a mainstream console-exclusive - Halo: Combat Evolved.This wee…
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Unlimited Hyperbole S1 - Episode Three
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This week Unlimited Hyperbole talks to Brendon Chung, the designer of Atom Zombie Smasher and Gravity Bone, about his favourite game and the very definite effect it had on him as both a fan and an independent game developer.Released in 1998 by Looking Glass Studios, Thief: The Dark Project has been repeatedly hailed as not just one of the first tru…
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Unlimited Hyperbole S1 - Episode One
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Unlimited Hyperbole is a weekly podcast about videogames and the stories we tell about them, with a new special guest every week.Using "My Favourite Game" as a topic for the first season of episodes, we talk to the creator of Dear Esther and Creative Director of The Chinese Room, Dan Pinchbeck.Dan explains why STALKER: The Shadow of Chernobyl is hi…
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