The Back Page: A Video Games Podcast

By: Samuel Roberts and Matthew Castle
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  • Games media writers Matthew Castle (NGamer, Rock Paper Shotgun) and Samuel Roberts (PC Gamer, gamesTM, TechRadar) talk about video games and their years covering them professionally. Our logo is by John Strike, and our theme tune is by Barry 'Epoch' Topping (@nostoppingepoch on Twitter).

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  • 2025 Gaming Predictions

    2025 Gaming Predictions
    Jan 3 2025

    One hour of totally unfounded waffle and pointless commentary.


    This week's music is from the Super Mario Odyssey soundtrack by Naoto Kubo, Shiho Fujii and Koji Kondo.


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    1 hr and 20 mins
  • The Best Games of 2024

    The Best Games of 2024
    Dec 27 2024

    Two top 10 lists of our favourite games from 2024.


    This week's music is from the Balatro soundtrack by LouisF.


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    2 hrs and 50 mins
  • The Alternative GOTY Awards 2024

    The Alternative GOTY Awards 2024
    Dec 20 2024

    Silly awards from silly men, ahead of the real GOTY pod next week. Thanks to this year's guests, too, for providing insights on their favourite games of 2024.


    This week's music is from the FF7 Rebirth soundtrack by Mitsuto Suzuki and Masashi Hamauzu and the Helldivers 2 soundtrack by Wilbert Roget II.


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    2 hrs and 18 mins

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Fantastic.

This is a must listen podcast if you enjoy gaming. 2 veteran games journalists talking about games. Just joyous. Plenty of content to get stuck into.

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