Playtest

It's the gamer one! With Charlie Brooker's background as a video games journalist, it was only a matter of time before we got the horror gaming episode.Wyatt Russell plays Cooper Redfield, a name that'll sound eerily familiar to old-school gamers.To do the episode justice, we've got Daily Mirror gaming experts JC Suttun (@HandleMaverick) and James Ide (@Jymography) in the studio to chase all the many, many gaming references in the episode, look at the how horror games have been covered in the media and unpick the Inception-like layers of *that* ending. You'll have heard James on The Entire History of You and Men Against Fire podcasts for good reason - they're all about technology that changes our perceptions.Scariest episode of Black Mirror? Player One, you decide. --Welcome to Black Mirror Cracked - the podcast for all your Black Mirror needs.We alternate between episode analysis and interviews with Black Mirror cast and crew, with a new podcast released every week.For more Black Mirror stuff, join the conversation in the Facebook group,

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This episode is 46:40 long.

This episode was published on May 2, 2018.

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