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Returning guest Derrick Espino talks about his sound design work on The Last Guardian, his inspiration, hanging out accidentally with famous musicians and the excitement of deep Tokyo.

Mark Cooke of Shiny Shoe joins to talk about the DoubleFine remasters, gamedev archeology, mobile game design and marketing strategies and his time working in Japan.

Hawken King joins us again to talk about his new game Pirate Pop Plus, the Nintendo Switch and VR, initially into some nice microphones and eventually, due to technical issues, hunched over into my phone. Apologies for the sound quality on this one.

Seth and Jenny share with us their thoughts on Tokyo Gameshow 2016, pervy VR games, and games we're looking forward to playing.

Frederic Nouel from 3rd Kind joins the podcast to talk about publishing games in Japan, cultural differences and adapting to Japan, mobile games, Pokemon Go, and French comics.

Friend and Foe's Matt Smith returns for a chat about Vane, Dangerous Men, BitSummit and an in-depth discussion on game mechanics versus curated artistic experiences in game development.

Marc Heng joins, finally, for a chat about his background in French gamedev, his journey to Japan and we talk a little about E3 announcements and hype and game's we've played.

James, Paul, Seth and Jenny chat about the cherry blossoms, Dark Souls 3, Miitomo, Factorio, Neko Atsume's cat butts, Clash Royale, the Division, Grim Dawn, Ratchett and Clank and Playstation RemotePlay on PC.

Philip Kendall of RocketNews24 is back in town to chat with us about the Game On exhibit, Playstation VR, the differences between life in the UK and Japan and the games we've been playing.

Ozan Kocoglu, Asia Producer of Wargaming.net, talks about working in Japan, MMOs, Hearthstone, Everquest and his monthly game developer event Insert Coin Tokyo.

James,Jenny and Seth have a rambling chat about the games of 2015 and 2016, VR, Star Wars, SMAP and whatnot.

Per Micael Nyberg joins to chat about the Swedish, Australian and Japanese game industries, sporting activities around Tokyo, indigenous cultures, risk and failures and the lack of VC and meatballs!

Catching up with returning guest Derrick Espino about his life in Japan, Star Wars, Japanese language and, mostly parties and Halloween in Shibuya.

Hikaru Wada, 3D artist at From Software, returns to chat with us about Dark Souls 3, Tokyo Gameshow, pachinko, oppai pubs, host(ess) bars, Infinifactory, Lego Dimensions and Halloween! Extremely explicit!

Hawken King of Dadako joins to chat about indie game development in Japan, Pixel Pirate in Bits of Eight, Tokyo Gameshow, Metal Gear Solid 5 and most crucially teabags and toastracks.

James, Paul, Seth, Jenny and secret lurker Sean discuss the heat, factory building, schoolgirl battling, aiming insecurities, animes and experience an earthquake.

Arun Mehta and Matthew Hope of Phoenix Studios join to discuss their SRPG title Historea: Embers of Fate, their influences, mobile strategies and being "indie" in Japan and Paul and James eat humble pie as they admit E3 was actually pretty damn cool.

A noisier than usual chat about games we're currently playing, some E3 chat and celebrating 6 years of Score Studios.

Returning guest Esteban Salazar joins for Seth's performance review and spirited discussion on Konami, pixel art and Kickstarter.

Guest Richie Casper, founder of Black Tower Studios, joins to talk about the trials and tribulations of starting an independent video game development studio in Tokyo.