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GOTY Season Came Early
Jun 19, 2026
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Bummer Game Fest
Jun 12, 2026
1h 24m 26s
Lost In The Backrooms
Jun 5, 2026
1h 24m 54s
Zero Steam Decks: For People Who Aren’t Rich
May 29, 2026
1h 39m 42s
A New (Forza) Horizon
May 22, 2026
1h 46m 58s
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| 6/19/26 | ![]() GOTY Season Came Early | On this week’s episode, Nathan and Chris are joined by a second Chris, this one of the Plante variety, to discuss the latter’s Earliest Game Of The Year awards. Why now? Because games that release near the beginning of the year often get ignored or forgotten by the time GOTY season rolls around. Also, as of now, nearly 11,000 games have already come out this year. We ask Chris why, despite a glut of same-y industry award shows, he believes we need more—not less—and what the value of those shows could be if they focused more on specific types of games or just generally dared to be weirder. Then we move on to the latest grim tidings out of Microsoft, where multiple studios including Double Fine, Compulsion, and Ninja Theory are now on the chopping block. What’s the plan here? Is there one? Was there ever—at least in terms of building a coherent identity around Xbox? Lastly, Nathan gets to talk about the UFC’s White House card, to the surprise and delight of no one.Credits- Hosts: Nathan Grayson, Chris Person & special guest Chris Plante- Podcast Production & Ads: Multitude- Subscribe to Aftermath!About The ShowAftermath Hours is the flagship podcast of Aftermath, a worker-owned, subscription-based website covering video games, the internet, and everything that comes after from journalists who previously worked at Kotaku, Vice, and The Washington Post. Each week, games journalism veterans Luke Plunkett, Nathan Grayson, Chris Person, Riley MacLeod, and Gita Jackson – though not always all at once, because that’s too many people for a podcast – break down video game news, Remember Some Games, and learn about Chris’ frankly incredible number of special interests. Sometimes we even bring on guests from both inside and outside the video game industry! I don’t know what else to tell you; it’s a great time. Simply by reading this description, you’re already wasting time that you could be spending listening to the show. Head to aftermath.site for more info.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info. | — | ||||||
| 6/12/26 | ![]() Bummer Game Fest✨ | video game industryXbox layoffs+3 | Ethan Gach | KotakuMicrosoft+1 | — | XboxSummer Game Fest+3 | — | 1h 24m 26s | |
| 6/5/26 | ![]() Lost In The Backrooms✨ | video game showcasescounterprogramming+3 | Liz Ryerson | Summer Game FestGod Of War+2 | — | video gamesUnearthed Treasure Room+5 | — | 1h 24m 54s | |
| 5/29/26 | ![]() Zero Steam Decks: For People Who Aren’t Rich✨ | Steam Deck price increaseaffordable consumer hardware+3 | — | Steam DeckAftermath+4 | — | Steam DeckBoots Riley+6 | — | 1h 39m 42s | |
| 5/22/26 | ![]() A New (Forza) Horizon✨ | Forza Horizoncar culture+4 | Jordan Hoffstetter | Forza Horizon 6Gran Turismo+6 | — | Forza Horizon 6Destiny 2+4 | — | 1h 46m 58s | |
| 5/15/26 | ![]() Remembering Being A Teenager✨ | teen nostalgiavideo games+4 | — | MixtapeSaros | — | MixtapeSaros+4 | — | 1h 26m 49s | |
| 5/8/26 | ![]() Fantastic Mr Star Fox (With Alanah Pearce)✨ | video game adaptationsindie developers+4 | Alanah Pearce | Charred PicturesXbox | — | Alanah Pearcevideo game adaptations+5 | — | 1h 30m 52s | |
| 5/1/26 | ![]() Suddenly, Saudi (Investment Money Is Drying Up)✨ | Saudi Arabiavideo games+4 | — | LIV GolfUK trade body for the games industry+3 | — | Saudi ArabiaLIV Golf+3 | — | 1h 11m 03s | |
| 4/24/26 | ![]() Pragmata Is Uncle-Core (With Rebekah Valentine)✨ | games journalismvideo games+4 | Rebekah Valentine | PragmataIGN+3 | — | games journalismRebekah Valentine+5 | — | 1h 27m 42s | |
| 4/17/26 | ![]() Dosa Divas: Nightreign✨ | cookingvideo games+4 | Chandana Ekanayake | Dosa DivasMultitude | — | Dosa Divascooking+5 | — | 1h 09m 06s | |
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| 4/10/26 | ![]() Who’s Afraid Of The Big Bad Leftist Twitch Streamer (With Kat Abughazaleh)✨ | politicslivestreaming+4 | Kat Abughazaleh | DemocraticTwitch+2 | — | Kat AbughazalehTwitch+7 | — | 1h 26m 50s | |
| 3/27/26 | ![]() The Woke Week Special (With Michael Hobbes)✨ | Woke Weekvideo game speedruns+3 | Michael Hobbes | KirbyAftermath+2 | Bluesky | Woke WeekMichael Hobbes+3 | — | 1h 30m 54s | |
| 3/20/26 | ![]() WipeJoust✨ | game developmentfunding challenges+4 | Samantha Kalman | Apex LegendsVerses: Hyper-Kinetic Aerial Joust+1 | — | game developmentfunding+6 | — | 1h 37m 27s | |
| 3/13/26 | ![]() Pokopia Is A Viva Piñatalike✨ | job precaritygame development+3 | Stella Sacco | PokopiaViva Piñata+2 | — | job precaritygame development+3 | — | 1h 31m 40s | |
| 3/6/26 | ![]() The Sordid Saga Of Clickout✨ | investigative journalismvideo game websites+4 | Jack Ryan | ClickoutThe Escapist+4 | — | Clickoutvideo game websites+6 | Multitude | 1h 20m 28s | |
| 2/27/26 | ![]() Leon Kennedy Is Italian American✨ | Resident Evilvideo game criticism+3 | Giovanni ColantonioJoshua Rivera | PolygonResident Evil Requiem+1 | — | Resident EvilRequiem+6 | — | 1h 25m 23s | |
| 2/20/26 | ![]() Open AI-owa✨ | AI technologyprediction markets+4 | — | AftermathMultitude+4 | — | AItechnology+5 | — | 1h 33m 19s | |
| 2/13/26 | ![]() The Top Of The Jank Pile✨ | PC gamingvideo game reviews+3 | Brendan Caldwell | Cyberpunk 2077Car Service Together+2 | — | PC gamingvideo game reviews+3 | — | 1h 27m 42s | |
| 2/6/26 | ![]() No Ethical Consumption Under Jetpack Cat-pitalism | On this week’s episode, Nathan is joined by two very special guests – former (until, you guessed it, layoffs) Verge reporter Ash Parrish and prolific freelancer Joshua Rivera – for a special announcement: both will soon be regularly contributing to Aftermath! Ash will be blogging a day per week, and Joshua is the monthly columnist prophesied in our subscriber goals. We discuss our shared histories at Kotaku, as well as current beats and interests (ask Ash about monster fucking). Then we delve into the media landscape at large, where we can’t even go a week without, for example, The Washington Post laying off hundreds of people. Next our light and breezy conversation takes us to Epstein Island thanks to former Activision CEO Bobby Kotick’s involvement with the convicted sex criminal. Oh, we also talk about this week’s Nintendo Direct and Overwatch, which is no longer Overwatch 2, but is also not Overwatch 1.Credits- Hosts: Nathan Grayson, and special guests Ash Parrish & Joshua Rivera- Podcast Production & Ads: Multitude- Subscribe to Aftermath!About The ShowAftermath Hours is the flagship podcast of Aftermath, a worker-owned, subscription-based website covering video games, the internet, and everything that comes after from journalists who previously worked at Kotaku, Vice, and The Washington Post. Each week, games journalism veterans Luke Plunkett, Nathan Grayson, Chris Person, Riley MacLeod, and Gita Jackson – though not always all at once, because that’s too many people for a podcast – break down video game news, Remember Some Games, and learn about Chris’ frankly incredible number of special interests. Sometimes we even bring on guests from both inside and outside the video game industry! I don’t know what else to tell you; it’s a great time. Simply by reading this description, you’re already wasting time that you could be spending listening to the show. Head to aftermath.site for more info.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info. | — | ||||||
| 1/30/26 | ![]() ICE OUT (With Ben Hanson) | On this week’s episode, Nathan and Riley are joined by Ben Hanson of worker-owned media outlet MinnMax to talk about what it’s been like covering games – and just generally existing – amid ICE’s violent occupation of Minnesota. Ben tells us about the strange juxtaposition of tragedy (abandoned cars, large portions of the population terrified to leave their homes) and triumph (ordinary people working together to protect their neighbors on a previously unprecedented scale, the generally good vibes of any given protest) that characterizes Minnesotans’ daily existence. He also explains his decision to publish a video demonstrating what ICE is doing to people in Minnesota on the YouTube channel of MinnMax, which, again, typically focuses on video games. Keep politics out of games? Kinda hard to do when politics are literally banging down your door.Credits- Hosts: Nathan Grayson, Riley MacLeod, and special guest Ben Hanson- Podcast Production & Ads: Multitude- Subscribe to Aftermath!About The ShowAftermath Hours is the flagship podcast of Aftermath, a worker-owned, subscription-based website covering video games, the internet, and everything that comes after from journalists who previously worked at Kotaku, Vice, and The Washington Post. Each week, games journalism veterans Luke Plunkett, Nathan Grayson, Chris Person, Riley MacLeod, and Gita Jackson – though not always all at once, because that’s too many people for a podcast – break down video game news, Remember Some Games, and learn about Chris’ frankly incredible number of special interests. Sometimes we even bring on guests from both inside and outside the video game industry! I don’t know what else to tell you; it’s a great time. Simply by reading this description, you’re already wasting time that you could be spending listening to the show. Head to aftermath.site for more info.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info. | — | ||||||
| 1/23/26 | ![]() The Queen’s Golden Wii (With Keza MacDonald) | On this week’s episode, Nathan and Chris are joined by Keza MacDonald – currently of The Guardian and formerly of Kotaku UK way back in the day – to talk about her new book, Super Nintendo: The Game-Changing Company That Unlocked the Power of Play. We discuss Nintendo’s vast history, dating all the way back to 1889, as well as how its innovative past gave way to the Switch 2 era, perhaps its most iterative yet. Keza also tells us all sorts of stories about legendary figures like Mario creator Shigeru Miyamoto, who despite his sunny exterior, is actually a very intense boss. Also, that famous “a delayed game is eventually good, but a rushed game is forever bad” quote? He didn’t say it! Finally, we talk about our favorite journalism rabbit holes, of which we have many.Credits- Hosts: Nathan Grayson, Chris Person, and special guest Keza MacDonald- Podcast Production & Ads: Multitude- Subscribe to Aftermath!About The ShowAftermath Hours is the flagship podcast of Aftermath, a worker-owned, subscription-based website covering video games, the internet, and everything that comes after from journalists who previously worked at Kotaku, Vice, and The Washington Post. Each week, games journalism veterans Luke Plunkett, Nathan Grayson, Chris Person, Riley MacLeod, and Gita Jackson – though not always all at once, because that’s too many people for a podcast – break down video game news, Remember Some Games, and learn about Chris’ frankly incredible number of special interests. Sometimes we even bring on guests from both inside and outside the video game industry! I don’t know what else to tell you; it’s a great time. Simply by reading this description, you’re already wasting time that you could be spending listening to the show. Head to aftermath.site for more info.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info. | — | ||||||
| 1/16/26 | ![]() Board The Mothership (With Maddy Myers and Zoë Hannah) | On this week’s episode, Nathan and Gita are joined by Maddy Myers and Zoë Hannah, both formerly of Polygon – you know, before all the bad stuff happened – and now of the newly announced Mothership, a site at the intersection of gender and games. Maddy and Zoë tell us about their plans for the site and what it means to launch a publication like this in an era when feminist media has been gutted, and even venerable institutions like Teen Vogue – a primary inspiration for Mothership – have fallen. Then we talk about how much money $8 is (actually $10, but also possibly $5). We also imagine what might happen if Asmongold, fresh off being retweeted by JD Vance, travels to The White House and gives Donald Trump some kind of plague. Nothing too bad, of course!Credits- Hosts: Nathan Grayson, Gita Jackson, & special guests Maddy Myers and Zoë Hannah- Podcast Production & Ads: Multitude- Subscribe to Aftermath!About The ShowAftermath Hours is the flagship podcast of Aftermath, a worker-owned, subscription-based website covering video games, the internet, and everything that comes after from journalists who previously worked at Kotaku, Vice, and The Washington Post. Each week, games journalism veterans Luke Plunkett, Nathan Grayson, Chris Person, Riley MacLeod, and Gita Jackson – though not always all at once, because that’s too many people for a podcast – break down video game news, Remember Some Games, and learn about Chris’ frankly incredible number of special interests. Sometimes we even bring on guests from both inside and outside the video game industry! I don’t know what else to tell you; it’s a great time. Simply by reading this description, you’re already wasting time that you could be spending listening to the show. Head to aftermath.site for more info.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info. | — | ||||||
| 1/9/26 | ![]() Grand Theft Auto 2026 | On our first episode of 2026, Nathan, Chris, and Riley start the year off with a bang, or at least the next best thing: a discussion about video games. We begin by reflecting on Nathan’s time attending Awesome Games Done Quick, the annual speedrunning marathon that raises money for charity and just generally rules. Gaming communities can be forces for good – at least, when they don’t allow their ranks to be overwhelmed by shitheads. Who knew? Then we move on to less positive happenings: Ubisoft just shut down an entire studio mere weeks after its workers voted to unionize. Suspicious, to say the least. Finally, we close out the show by predicting the year ahead for video games with 100 percent, crystal-clear accuracy.Credits- Hosts: Nathan Grayson, Chris Person, and Riley MacLeod- Podcast Production & Ads: Multitude- Subscribe to Aftermath!About The ShowAftermath Hours is the flagship podcast of Aftermath, a worker-owned, subscription-based website covering video games, the internet, and everything that comes after from journalists who previously worked at Kotaku, Vice, and The Washington Post. Each week, games journalism veterans Luke Plunkett, Nathan Grayson, Chris Person, Riley MacLeod, and Gita Jackson – though not always all at once, because that’s too many people for a podcast – break down video game news, Remember Some Games, and learn about Chris’ frankly incredible number of special interests. Sometimes we even bring on guests from both inside and outside the video game industry! I don’t know what else to tell you; it’s a great time. Simply by reading this description, you’re already wasting time that you could be spending listening to the show. Head to aftermath.site for more info.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info. | — | ||||||
| 12/19/25 | ![]() Can’t Spell Larian Without A And I | On this week’s episode, Nathan, Chris, and Riley convene one last time to close out 2025, a notably horrible year for the world but a pretty solid one for Aftermath. We begin by talking about a controversy that was unexpected, to say the least: Larian, riding a wave of goodwill by making perhaps the ultimate example of a big game for people and by people in Baldur’s Gate 3, ran right off the road by openly embracing AI. The studio’s CEO, Swen Vincke, has spent the past several days both digging his heels in and doing damage control, but the furor continues. Will the studio change its ways? Or will those of us opposed to AI have a difficult decision to make when Larian’s next and apparently biggest game, Divinity, comes out in… probably still a lot of years? Then we hand out our first ever Stuff Of The Year awards to the games, trends, events, people, cats, nontroversies, and everything else that defined our 2025. Finally, we come up with a rock-solid concept for Aftermath Muppets.Credits- Hosts: Nathan Grayson, Chris Person, and Riley MacLeod- Podcast Production & Ads: Multitude- Subscribe to Aftermath!About The ShowAftermath Hours is the flagship podcast of Aftermath, a worker-owned, subscription-based website covering video games, the internet, and everything that comes after from journalists who previously worked at Kotaku, Vice, and The Washington Post. Each week, games journalism veterans Luke Plunkett, Nathan Grayson, Chris Person, Riley MacLeod, and Gita Jackson – though not always all at once, because that’s too many people for a podcast – break down video game news, Remember Some Games, and learn about Chris’ frankly incredible number of special interests. Sometimes we even bring on guests from both inside and outside the video game industry! I don’t know what else to tell you; it’s a great time. Simply by reading this description, you’re already wasting time that you could be spending listening to the show. Head to aftermath.site for more info.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info. | — | ||||||
| 12/12/25 | ![]() A Lot Of Great Games Will Never Win Game Awards | This week, Gita, Riley, and Chris talk about many games that came out recently that will never win a Game Award, and what our attitudes about the event are. First, the enigmatic Ys-alike Angeline Era, a beautiful game with thoughtful design. Second, the toe tapping Rhythm Doctor which feels like it takes cues from Rhythm Tengoku and iNIS games like Ouendan. Then we discuss Skate Story, Faustian Tony Hawk with an incredible soundtrack that reminds us of Arctic Eggs. We give a shoutout to Demonschool, which has surprisingly good combat. Finally we discuss Shadow Labyrinth, the Dark Pac-Man game (announced at The Game Awards) that came out over the summer and has shockingly deep roots in UGSF lore.Lastly, we shout out Nightreign as one of our favorite games of the year and talk about its freaky new characters. We also answer your questions about peppermint treats, the NY game dev scene, AI and more!Credits- Hosts: Chris Person, Gita Jackson, and Riley MacLeod- Podcast Production & Ads: Multitude- Subscribe to Aftermath!About The ShowAftermath Hours is the flagship podcast of Aftermath, a worker-owned, subscription-based website covering video games, the internet, and everything that comes after from journalists who previously worked at Kotaku, Vice, and The Washington Post. Each week, games journalism veterans Luke Plunkett, Nathan Grayson, Chris Person, Riley MacLeod, and Gita Jackson – though not always all at once, because that’s too many people for a podcast – break down video game news, Remember Some Games, and learn about Chris’ frankly incredible number of special interests. Sometimes we even bring on guests from both inside and outside the video game industry! I don’t know what else to tell you; it’s a great time. Simply by reading this description, you’re already wasting time that you could be spending listening to the show. Head to aftermath.site for more info. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info. | — | ||||||
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