Video Games Podcasts

The charts show only one corner of that range. In an October 2026 snapshot of Apple's US Video Games chart, reproduced by Podstatus, The Besties sat first and Kinda Funny Gamescast: Video Game Podcast second. That is a ranking, not a count of listeners. In July 2026, GamesRadar+ launched G+RLS, a fortnightly show aimed at women and others who feel underrepresented in gaming.

Giant Bombcast is the loosest of them. In 920: Chumbawumba Lifestyle, one panelist sits "in between a two and three out of five" on a game another gave a five. The conversation becomes useful because the gap has to be explained, down to their views on which boss fights work and which areas may be the strongest in the series. In Giant Bombcast 935: Dark Cloud 3, the crew plays a guessing game about an old ad shown on stream, and someone pauses to "describe it real quick for the audio listeners." That small courtesy matters if you listen rather than watch.

The Game Informer Show is tidier and closer to formal review. In Pragmata Review, Windrose, And Bloodborne Movie News, a reviewer explains how the upgrade system lets you feel near the cap early before revealing more room. He also gives his playtime: credits at about 13 or 14 hours, about 16 hours in total. The Journey To Bringing Game Informer Back | GI Show is a different kind of episode. The staff are back on mic after about eight months away, and Marcus Stewart describes freelancing through the gap.

The Time Killers Podcast, from Neil Rivera and Matthew Field, is more measured. In Crimson Desert, Screamer & The Division Resurgence, Field says he is about 15 hours into the game and qualifies his opinions accordingly. The talk then lands on specifics, such as how many menus it takes to switch a lantern on.

Filthy Casuals with Tommy Dassalo and Ben Vernel adds an argumentative edge. In Episode 541: Pokemon Pokopia, Project Helix, More Resident Evil Requiem, the hosts argue that ending exclusives helps players only in the short term, if one company ends up owning every studio.

Get Played, with comedians Heather Anne Campbell, Nick Wiger and Matt Apodaca, is the clearest case. Get Played Remastered: Contra: Rogue Corps with Colton Dunn begins near the top with a mock Konami pitch meeting in which someone insists the new Contra needs a bug. Near the end, the panel's scores run from "A flat zero" up to .2. The jokes sit on top of real attention: a clip of the game's intro narration deepens a short argument about why the panel thinks its tone misfires.

Guys Games and Beer and Retro Smashed Video Game Podcast are friend groups with drinks on the table, and neither is polished. In G2B Game on or Game Over: The Infinium Phantom, the panel works through the doomed console's history, from a lawsuit to an E3 showing of hardware that some reports said was never switched on. Retro Smashed's banter in Episode 106 - Soulcaliber gets crude well before the fighting game arrives, which tells you whether it is for you.

For listeners who want essays rather than headlines, Remap Radio is the strongest option here. It comes from the people behind Waypoint Radio. In "Who Cares About the Lore?" with Duncan Fyfe, the writer traces how he thinks Morrowind's developers designed the Elder Scrolls setting so that no objective truth about its history exists, even inside Bethesda. In The Story of Minishoot’ Adventures, developer Severin explains a design rule: after dying, a player should be able to get back to the same spot within 20 seconds, using boost, energy cells and unlocked shortcuts without crashing into a wall. Games Feel Doomed. We Tried to Find Hope at PAX East frames a run of interviews with the host's admission, "I can't get rid of AI with a podcast."

ReadyAimFire turns to the performers behind games. In David Menkin on FFXVI, Assassin's Creed Valhalla, and the Pressure of Voicing Luke in LEGO Star Wars, Menkin argues that "acting in games is seen as a part of post-production for the most part," and credits the directors who make actors part of the creative process.

Retronauts treats old games as engineering and as culture. In Shiny Entertainment, the panel notes that a game demanded a Pentium and threw an error on a 486. They also grumble about how many escort missions Wild 9 built from its energy-lasso mechanic. Sonic Fangames Pt. II revisits Stealth's 1999 level-editing tool SonED, and one host admits failing completely to make anything with it.

NLSC Podcast brings the same care to basketball games. In NLSC Podcast #626: An In-Depth Look At NBA Starting Five 2005, the hosts point out that every player on a 1960s squad was rated 40 on three-pointers, because there was no three-point line back then.

Some shows serve players who log into the same world every week. Blizzard Watch can be sharp about the business around those games. In Decor Duel, fishing, and transmog: The real World of Warcraft end game, the panel estimates that a cosmetic Deathwing from a Hearthstone random-reward system could cost about 160 dollars, and concludes that "the only way to win is by not playing."

Azeroth United - A World of Warcraft Podcast is gentler. In Let's Talk Player Housing ft. Ashlynne, the guest explains why a 40-day cap on house experience killed her incentive to help her neighbourhood. Two of its episodes here have the same reminder near the end: "That's a real person on the other side of that keyboard."