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Let's Talk About Tech

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BBC Radio 5 live’s technology and gaming podcast, discussing the world of video games and games culture. Plus your questions answered in 5 live's tech phone-in.

Episodes

20 of 34 episodes

Game On - Back to The Borderlands

After a 6 year gap the Borderlands series returns with Borderlands 4. President of Gearbox Studios, Randy Pitchford joins Adam to talk about...

32:56Oct 10, 2025

Game On - It's Cumbria, but not as we know it. And it's BAFTA time again!

PC GamesN's Nat Smith joins Adam to talk about the upcoming BAFTA awards and Rebellion's action survival game, Atomfall. The game's creative...

53:18Apr 6, 2025

Game On - Returning to The Mothership and looking ahead to the London Soundtrack Festival 2025

The capital's first annual Festival dedicated to celebrating the music of film, TV and games will take place from 19–26 March 2025 and Adam'...

45:24Jul 10, 2024

Game On - Elric and Citadel of Forgotten Myths

Michael Moorcock - author, editor, musician - joins Adam to talk about Citadel of Forgotten Myths, the book that will be (he says) the last...

44:50Jan 18, 2023

Game On - BAFTA goes to Hades

With the 2021 BAFTA Games Awards moments away Adam speaks to two of the nominees from Supergiant Games. The writer, Greg Kasavin and the act...

16:49Mar 23, 2021

Game On - Safety online and a new era for Star Wars

Online safety discussed with Lorin LaFave and Andy Robertson. And New York Times bestselling author Charles Soule joins Adam to talk about T...

47:02Feb 2, 2021

Game On – Now with added Nolan North!

Talking about games with the Gaming Grandma, sidestepping The Discourse and Andy’s Xmas Crackers Has the Pandemic changed the way families g...

75:59Dec 21, 2020

Game On - Playstation versus Xbox. Seconds out, round 4!

Weeks away from the launch of Playstation and Xbox's latest machines the Washington Post's Gene Park joins Adam to look at what's on offer....

47:05Sep 29, 2020

Game On - It's cold, it's dangerous, it's Wasteland 3

Veteran games creator, Brian Fargo and Wasteland 3's music supervisor, Mary Ramos join Adam to talk about the way they're putting a soundtra...

44:01Sep 8, 2020

Game On - Of falling and falling and Fall Guys

No more steps, that's what Mediatonic's Megan Ralph promises Adam in this edition of Game On. Fall Guys has been this year's surprise summer...

22:53Aug 25, 2020

Game On - Of falling and falling and Fall Guys

No more steps, that's what Mediatonic's Megan Ralph promises Adam in this edition of Game On. Fall Guys has been this year's surprise summer...

22:15Aug 25, 2020

Game On - The Island Doom of the Wisps

Odee joins Adam to talk about the cancellation of the COD League's live events and then it's on to talking about not one, not two but three...

47:03Mar 31, 2020

Game On – Help for Heroes goes gaming and travelling with The Traveller

Help for Heroes want games to use their skills for good and help them through @HeroUpGaming Ryan Elser has been playing, and writing, about...

43:18Mar 23, 2020

Game On - Keeping Track of it All

The Destiny we have is the Destiny we're keeping Bungie tells Adam and cult stationery company Field Notes have designs on - or should that...

30:19Mar 17, 2020

Game On - Yorkshire Games Festival

At the Yorkshire Games Festival to talk about making games with Sabrina Carmona, Zi Peters and Mike Bithell. Warning, this podcast may conta...

31:29Mar 10, 2020

Game On - William Gibson's Agency

William Gibson started out writing books that felt like they were set decades into a possible future. Unusually for a writer of speculative...

27:55Feb 20, 2020

Game On - Excel next and Riot now

Excel Esport's new Chief Commercial Officer, Robin McCammon reflects on making the jump across the electronic divide from adidas and Launche...

24:19Jan 28, 2020

Game On - Edge first

Zachary Smith is the CEO of Packet and he wants to change the way we use The Cloud. This is no longer about the centre; it's about The Edge.

24:05Jan 21, 2020

Game On - A Stamp of Approval

Royal Mail's Philip Parker explains why the UK's games industry has made it into stamp form. And Jon Hare, one of the creators of Sensible S...

38:20Jan 14, 2020

Game On - Kim Bayley, Bruce Straley

2019's games sales figures may not be all bad according to Kim Bayley, the CEO of the Entertainment Retailers Association. And Bruce Straley...

26:04Jan 9, 2020