Chris Plante
@plante.bsky.social
host and founder, Post Games
co-host, The Besties
https://www.patreon.com/c/PostGames
https://postgame.substack.com/
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/post-games/id1815131711
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co-host, The Besties
https://www.patreon.com/c/PostGames
https://postgame.substack.com/
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/post-games/id1815131711
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Chris Plante
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Watch Post Games video shorts on your app of choice!
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Jesus, can you hear me? Good, the comms are working. Now, you're gonna need to run if you want to evade those Roman soldiers. Hold down A to sprint. Go ahead and try it. ... Good work! You just might be the savior yet. Now pick up that AR-15 and let's do some target practice.
December 24, 2025 at 3:32 AM
Jesus, can you hear me? Good, the comms are working. Now, you're gonna need to run if you want to evade those Roman soldiers. Hold down A to sprint. Go ahead and try it. ... Good work! You just might be the savior yet. Now pick up that AR-15 and let's do some target practice.
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Rereading this extraordinary piece, like watching the perfect film, is becoming an annual tradition.
Thanks to @coffeeeeee.bsky.social for this perfect essay about It’s a Wonderful Life. “It’s a Wonderful Life is, in part, the story of someone becoming, kicking and screaming, against all intentions and desires, a big man. Mary sees the big man in George from the first, because she is a big woman.”
There Is No Mary Problem in ‘It’s a Wonderful Life’
George’s vision of his wife without him is essential to the film, but critics continue to miss its true—and profound—meaning.
www.thebulwark.com
December 24, 2025 at 3:10 AM
Rereading this extraordinary piece, like watching the perfect film, is becoming an annual tradition.
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I had five fascinating conversations for this RPS piece, gathering perspectives on genAI chatbots in games, as seen in Where Winds Meet. Thanks to @meghna.bsky.social, @pyrofoux.bsky.social, @maxkreminski.bsky.social, and @chrisgardiner.bsky.social www.rockpapershotgun.com/horrible-bor...
"Horrible", "boring", and "cheap": Experts pan new chatbot NPCs, but some leave room for optimism
We speak to a collection of developers and AI experts about the potential impact of LLM-powered NPCs in videogames.
www.rockpapershotgun.com
December 23, 2025 at 4:22 PM
I had five fascinating conversations for this RPS piece, gathering perspectives on genAI chatbots in games, as seen in Where Winds Meet. Thanks to @meghna.bsky.social, @pyrofoux.bsky.social, @maxkreminski.bsky.social, and @chrisgardiner.bsky.social www.rockpapershotgun.com/horrible-bor...
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Hey, I was featured on @mariorivera.bsky.social's podcast, Only Special Features! Hear my hot takes about THINGS to close out the year. youtu.be/yBaqjniwupg?...
Why Do Gamers Hate Games Journalists? Isaiah D. Colbert (I09, Aftermath, IGN, GameSpot, Kotaku)
YouTube video by OnlySpecialFeatures
youtu.be
December 23, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Hey, I was featured on @mariorivera.bsky.social's podcast, Only Special Features! Hear my hot takes about THINGS to close out the year. youtu.be/yBaqjniwupg?...
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Slapstick and terror on the high seas | Fool Time, Part 3 of 4
YouTube video by Secret Base
www.youtube.com
December 23, 2025 at 5:27 PM
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Ninja Gaiden Shadow DX is out!
Enjoy this exclusive Game Boy game packed with pure ninja action... for the first time in color!
Download at: www.marcrobledo.com/game-boy/nin...
#YearOfTheNinja #NinjaGaiden #GameBoy #GameBoyColor #RomHacking
Enjoy this exclusive Game Boy game packed with pure ninja action... for the first time in color!
Download at: www.marcrobledo.com/game-boy/nin...
#YearOfTheNinja #NinjaGaiden #GameBoy #GameBoyColor #RomHacking
December 23, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Ninja Gaiden Shadow DX is out!
Enjoy this exclusive Game Boy game packed with pure ninja action... for the first time in color!
Download at: www.marcrobledo.com/game-boy/nin...
#YearOfTheNinja #NinjaGaiden #GameBoy #GameBoyColor #RomHacking
Enjoy this exclusive Game Boy game packed with pure ninja action... for the first time in color!
Download at: www.marcrobledo.com/game-boy/nin...
#YearOfTheNinja #NinjaGaiden #GameBoy #GameBoyColor #RomHacking
Ace Combat 7 is on sale for only $5?!
Save 92% on ACE COMBAT™ 7: SKIES UNKNOWN on Steam
Become an ace pilot and soar through photorealistic skies with full 360 degree movement; down enemy aircraft and experience the thrill of engaging in realistic sorties! Aerial combat has never looked ...
store.steampowered.com
December 23, 2025 at 1:10 AM
Ace Combat 7 is on sale for only $5?!
A very generous Post Games listener is giving away a free month of the Patreon to 10 people. If you're a student, overwhelmed with holiday spending, or just can't fit another subscription fee in your life right now, please feel free to claim one!
(Thank you, Chad!)
www.patreon.com/PostGames/re...
(Thank you, Chad!)
www.patreon.com/PostGames/re...
You have been gifted a membership to Post Games on Patreon!
Claim your gift to join Post Games's Post Pal tier
www.patreon.com
December 22, 2025 at 11:20 PM
A very generous Post Games listener is giving away a free month of the Patreon to 10 people. If you're a student, overwhelmed with holiday spending, or just can't fit another subscription fee in your life right now, please feel free to claim one!
(Thank you, Chad!)
www.patreon.com/PostGames/re...
(Thank you, Chad!)
www.patreon.com/PostGames/re...
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Wrote about the terrific casting in MARTY SUPREME.
"Today, we go behind the camera to pick some of the great craft of the year in film, including excellence in cinematography, editing, original score, casting, and more.” Read our writers’ picks:
The Great Craft of 2025 | Features | Roger Ebert
On some of our favorite filmmaking of 2025.
www.rogerebert.com
December 22, 2025 at 9:27 PM
Wrote about the terrific casting in MARTY SUPREME.
I missed this Toby Fox / @pokachee.bsky.social interview from earlier this year!
Amazing Game Informer article by @pokachee.bsky.social interviewing Toby Fox. These two are such a good comedic duo, I hope to read future convos between them.
gameinformer.com/2025/09/30/i...
gameinformer.com/2025/09/30/i...
Inefficient And Laborious – The Ongoing Path To Making Deltarune
We spoke with Toby Fox about his “stupid” way of making games and the big leap from Undertale to Deltarune.
gameinformer.com
December 22, 2025 at 8:41 PM
I missed this Toby Fox / @pokachee.bsky.social interview from earlier this year!
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🎅Ho ho ho! For @gqmagazine.bsky.social, I braved SantaCon with Seth Porges, the director of a new documentary that traces the boozy, much-hated NYC tradition back to its roots in a joyous ‘90s art scene.🎅
Surviving SantaCon in New York with a Scholar of Santarchy
A new documentary traces the boozy, much-hated NYC tradition back to its roots in a joyous ‘90s art scene. We dragged the director out to mingle with the Kringles.
www.gq.com
December 22, 2025 at 2:54 PM
🎅Ho ho ho! For @gqmagazine.bsky.social, I braved SantaCon with Seth Porges, the director of a new documentary that traces the boozy, much-hated NYC tradition back to its roots in a joyous ‘90s art scene.🎅
Much like when people said text was dead and video was the only option in the past, this "video or death" approach to podcasting will pass.
If we've learned anything from the past 20 years, it's the platform trends last as long as their investors' attention span.
If we've learned anything from the past 20 years, it's the platform trends last as long as their investors' attention span.
"Unfortunately, all this also means that a lot of the openness of podcasting is slowly going away and becoming more centralized on platforms like YouTube and Netflix."
Hill I'm willing to die on: podcasts becoming a video-forward medium is / was a huge mistake, and the space is worse off for it
Hill I'm willing to die on: podcasts becoming a video-forward medium is / was a huge mistake, and the space is worse off for it
Podcasts on Netflix? My thoughts here...
www.theverge.com/entertainmen...
www.theverge.com/entertainmen...
December 22, 2025 at 7:50 PM
Much like when people said text was dead and video was the only option in the past, this "video or death" approach to podcasting will pass.
If we've learned anything from the past 20 years, it's the platform trends last as long as their investors' attention span.
If we've learned anything from the past 20 years, it's the platform trends last as long as their investors' attention span.
What gamers are actually nostalgic for:
"[I miss] who I was with and where we were playing as much as any game. So it's not that I want to erase the memory of Tony Hawk's Pro Skater so that I can play it again. I want to be back in my parents' basement playing games with childhood friends."
"[I miss] who I was with and where we were playing as much as any game. So it's not that I want to erase the memory of Tony Hawk's Pro Skater so that I can play it again. I want to be back in my parents' basement playing games with childhood friends."
What 2025 taught us about games
The good, the bad, and the trendy
postgame.substack.com
December 22, 2025 at 7:31 PM
What gamers are actually nostalgic for:
"[I miss] who I was with and where we were playing as much as any game. So it's not that I want to erase the memory of Tony Hawk's Pro Skater so that I can play it again. I want to be back in my parents' basement playing games with childhood friends."
"[I miss] who I was with and where we were playing as much as any game. So it's not that I want to erase the memory of Tony Hawk's Pro Skater so that I can play it again. I want to be back in my parents' basement playing games with childhood friends."
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Listening to Post Games from @plante.bsky.social will make you a smarter and more well-rounded fan of the game industry. It's great to see somebody with so much experience give their all to a weekly, varied podcast. postgame.substack.com
December 22, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Listening to Post Games from @plante.bsky.social will make you a smarter and more well-rounded fan of the game industry. It's great to see somebody with so much experience give their all to a weekly, varied podcast. postgame.substack.com
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if you own a steam deck this is a great way to annihilate your productivity
Deep Rock Galactic: Survivor is $9.09 on Steam buff.ly/BRRYvI9
Deck verified
also on Game Pass Premium
Deck verified
also on Game Pass Premium
December 22, 2025 at 4:27 PM
if you own a steam deck this is a great way to annihilate your productivity
One month till we get a game for the elder Millennials who moved to New York City, read Pitchfork at night and Last Night's Party in the morning, and regularly had panic attacks on the subway because they would never make a dollar off their writing and shit shit shit what are they doing here?!
Perfect Tides: Station to Station on Steam
A point n' click sequel to Perfect Tides about the momentum and whiplash of young adulthood. Explore the big city through 18-year-old Mara's eyes. Collect items, nurture ideas, and experience complex ...
store.steampowered.com
December 22, 2025 at 5:18 AM
One month till we get a game for the elder Millennials who moved to New York City, read Pitchfork at night and Last Night's Party in the morning, and regularly had panic attacks on the subway because they would never make a dollar off their writing and shit shit shit what are they doing here?!
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Listening to @plante.bsky.social and @jacobgeller.com talk about one of my favorite games for an hour was such a nice way to spend my Sunday morning. Post Games always delivers (even if I'm months late to an episode)
open.spotify.com/episode/6JLV...
open.spotify.com/episode/6JLV...
20 years later, Shadow of the Colossus still matters (Jacob Geller)
open.spotify.com
December 21, 2025 at 8:23 PM
Listening to @plante.bsky.social and @jacobgeller.com talk about one of my favorite games for an hour was such a nice way to spend my Sunday morning. Post Games always delivers (even if I'm months late to an episode)
open.spotify.com/episode/6JLV...
open.spotify.com/episode/6JLV...
*Mariah Carey voice*
All I want for Christmassssssss…
is to never again hear someone tell me that I’m playing (insert trendy game) wrong and that I just don’t “get it“
All I want for Christmassssssss…
is to never again hear someone tell me that I’m playing (insert trendy game) wrong and that I just don’t “get it“
December 21, 2025 at 6:29 PM
*Mariah Carey voice*
All I want for Christmassssssss…
is to never again hear someone tell me that I’m playing (insert trendy game) wrong and that I just don’t “get it“
All I want for Christmassssssss…
is to never again hear someone tell me that I’m playing (insert trendy game) wrong and that I just don’t “get it“
People are calling it "the best last-minute gift of the season"
Give the gift of indie games journalism
A perfect gift for the Nier-ly everyone
postgame.substack.com
December 21, 2025 at 4:52 PM
People are calling it "the best last-minute gift of the season"
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HEY!
If you want 2026 to be THE year that labor gets the upperhand on corporations forcing AI culture, then you need to learn from the early wins.
Here's voice actor union rep @selmaleh.bsky.social explaining how gaming voice actors fought (for over a year!!) to guarantee protections from AI.
If you want 2026 to be THE year that labor gets the upperhand on corporations forcing AI culture, then you need to learn from the early wins.
Here's voice actor union rep @selmaleh.bsky.social explaining how gaming voice actors fought (for over a year!!) to guarantee protections from AI.
How to fight brilliant (and stupid) AI
Plus, an interview about gaming voice actors' year-long strike for AI protections
postgame.substack.com
December 21, 2025 at 3:10 AM
HEY!
If you want 2026 to be THE year that labor gets the upperhand on corporations forcing AI culture, then you need to learn from the early wins.
Here's voice actor union rep @selmaleh.bsky.social explaining how gaming voice actors fought (for over a year!!) to guarantee protections from AI.
If you want 2026 to be THE year that labor gets the upperhand on corporations forcing AI culture, then you need to learn from the early wins.
Here's voice actor union rep @selmaleh.bsky.social explaining how gaming voice actors fought (for over a year!!) to guarantee protections from AI.
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With Critical Reflex being such a major player in the indie space, these accusations of covered up sexual harassment and unfair labour practices are all deeply disappointing and distressing. I hope this all gets tackled quickly and decisively.
noisypixel.net/critical-ref...
noisypixel.net/critical-ref...
Former Critical Reflex Employee Alleges Harassment And Unfair Labor Practices
Ex-employee Evelina Zemljic accuses Critical Reflex of sexual harassment, unpaid labor, and poor working conditions in a revealing YouTube exposé.
noisypixel.net
December 20, 2025 at 2:52 PM
With Critical Reflex being such a major player in the indie space, these accusations of covered up sexual harassment and unfair labour practices are all deeply disappointing and distressing. I hope this all gets tackled quickly and decisively.
noisypixel.net/critical-ref...
noisypixel.net/critical-ref...
Nightmare blunt rotation
December 20, 2025 at 9:05 PM
Nightmare blunt rotation
holiday chores are a perfect opportunity to try a new podcast, so over the coming weeks i’ll be sharing some of my fave Post Games episode of the year.
if you enjoy the show, it would be a gift to me if you shared fave eps with friends and family!
if you enjoy the show, it would be a gift to me if you shared fave eps with friends and family!
December 20, 2025 at 6:42 PM
holiday chores are a perfect opportunity to try a new podcast, so over the coming weeks i’ll be sharing some of my fave Post Games episode of the year.
if you enjoy the show, it would be a gift to me if you shared fave eps with friends and family!
if you enjoy the show, it would be a gift to me if you shared fave eps with friends and family!