Threat Detection - The Irish Videogame Podcast

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A smart, funny, live weekly chatshow about videogames. Broadcasting every Tuesday at 6PM GMT on Radiomade.ie

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Threat Detection – Episode 25 – Dancing with Bono

Another grab bag of topics this week as Gareth & James discuss early access games. The failures, the successes, and how they’re changing the industry. From Minecraft to Project Zomboid, Scale, Tangiers and the Forest, we examine how early access has changed the economics of indie game production, for good and ill. We also take […]

Threat Detection – Episode 24 – All Filler, No Killer

Gareth & James get together in the first Threat Detection for a while for a general chat about games. They talk about classic videogame publications like PC Gamer, C&VG and EGM, as well as the revival of classic games on sites like Good Old Games. Download: Episode 24 What is Threat Detection? Threat Detection is […]

Threat Detection – Episode 23 – A.I. in Games (Part 2)

What’s Threat Detection? Threat Detection is a lively, smart, frequently funny and always irreverent videogame chat show on Radiomade.ie. Each week, hosts Gareth Stack & James Van De Waal take an hour or two to tear apart a videogame topic, like character, horror, or sex. Download: Threat Detection – Episode 23 In the second part […]

Threat Detection – Episode 22 – Gaming A.I. (Part 1)

What’s Threat Detection? Threat Detection is a lively, smart, frequently funny and always irreverent videogame chat show on Radiomade.ie. Each week, hosts Gareth Stack & James Van De Waal take an hour or two to tear apart a videogame topic, like character, horror, or sex. Download: Threat Detection – Episode 22 Why is artificial intelligence […]

Threat Detection – Episode 21 – E3 Megashow

What’s Threat Detection? Threat Detection is a lively, smart, frequently funny and always irreverent videogame chat show on Radiomade.ie. Each week, hosts Gareth Stack & James Van De Waal take an hour or two to tear apart a videogame topic, like character, horror, or sex. This week – E3, the worlds largest videogame conference Started […]

Threat Detection – Episode 20 – Character in Videogames

Download: Threat Detection – Episode 20 Does character matter? A vessel for the player to travel through the story. An enigma in his/her self. Often times an empty receptacle for containing player projections. How can it be conveyed in interactive media? Characters can often be more than their general perspective of first and third person […]

Threat Detection – Episode 19 – Sex in Videogames (Part 2)

On this second part of our discussion of sex in videogames, we delve into gender, sexuality, and the auld ride in mainstream and indie videogames. How have videogames historically dealt with sex? Is it possible for such a mainstream medium to deal with sex in an adult way? Do we even want sex in our […]

Threat Detection – Episode 18 – Sex in Videogames (Part 1)

On this episode of our weekly videogame show Gareth & James discuss the steamy topic of sex in videogames. We delve into gender, sexuality, and the auld ride in mainstream and indie videogames. How have videogames historically dealt with sex? Is it possible for such a mainstream medium to deal with sex in an adult […]

Threat Detection – Episode 17 – Horror in Games (Part 2)

Download: Threat Detection – Episode 17 Continuing from last weeks show, we chat about horror in video games. How does video game horror differ from movie horror, and how we can be horrified, now that we are so jaded.

Threat Detection – Episode 16 – Horror (Part 1)

Download: Threat Detection – Episode 16 In this weeks ‘very special episode’ of Threat Detection, we discuss horror in videogames. We touch on the history of horror games from ‘Alone in the Dark’ to ‘Amnesia A Machine for Pigs’. We talk about how the mechanics of horror are evolving, and how they’ll change now that […]