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Press X to Continue is back! Join Steffan Powell, Inel Tomlinson and friends to talk all things games - the stuff you love and the stuff you don't. Join the eXy Beasts and the Continue Clubbers for news, reviews and conversation to help you make sense of the biggest entertainment industry in the world. Join our discord! https://discord.gg/TfQBdnbMda Visit the subreddit! reddit.com/r/pressxtocontinue
Go To (Buy) Armoured (Core) 6 ft. Luke Westaway and Shay Thompson
Luke and Shay are back on the pod as the shadow of GTA 6 begins to loom on the horizon, but not as much as the gargantuan battlemechs of Rubicon 3, which is where you may well be better spending your time while you wait for the sale prices to come in.
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The Man With The Golden Game ft. Amy Mallett
Amy Mallett's back to talk the living daylights out of a game for which the world is not enough. This episode is for your eyes only, so let's hope we die another day and have no immediate need for a doctor. No spectres here - you may have license to kill, but on her majesty's secret service, you only live twice - so keep those golden eyes peeled and that gold finger on the trigger because this is one casino royale you DON'T want to moonraker.
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Hot Games Summer ft. Amy Mallett
Dismantle late stage capitalism or put solar panels on the roof? Continue Clubber, Exy Beast or play both sides so you always come out on top? And which game from Summer Games Fest 2026 are we going to play first? These are just some of the dilemmas Amy Mallett brings to the table on her Press X debut!
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BRING BACK BLOCKBUSTER
What better way to cool down from Download weekend (for those who celebrate) with a lovely, relaxed Steff and Inel Discord episode, trawling through the community's burning questions and hotter takes - with a couple of unsung hero games along the way.
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THE GAMING QUIZ SPECIAL ft. Ali Plumb
You read that right! Radio 1 film critic Ali Plumb returns for the first time to the independent Press X (long-time listeners will recall some trivia from his last appearance on the BBC version coming in handy on this episode...) to delight Steffan, Inel and you the fans with the same quiz he recently levelled against many of the Press X-ers who attended the Gaming BAFTAs. Pick up a pen and paper and pit yourself against the Plumb. Can you beat Steffan and Inel's score?
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BIG LAD ft. Sam Cornforth
Sam Cornforth is back with us for an episode where the lads are plenty and the birds are big! Steff scours through unsung war games, Sam takes us back to the days of Gameboy gaming and Inel flexes his voice acting prowess. PLUS - a very special announcement of something coming very soon!
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The Muskiest Main Characters ft. Sam Cornforth
A brand new character is unlocked this week and he's maxxing the moustache meter - it's Sam Cornforth, whose life path has taken him from the villages of Devon to right here in the Continue Club. RPGs, coop games and the muskiest main characters in videogames simply aren't safe.
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Hell is Empty and All The Remakes Are Here ft. Barney Banks
ONE. HUNDRED. EPISODES @@@@@@@@
And Steff’s still ill. Typical.
Frankie’s back in the saddle with medium bear Barney and papa bear Inel for another episode where we’re chewing the cud about mobile games, remake fatigue and the game that walked so GTA and Red Dead Redemption could run.
Thank you so much to all of our community for being with us since the beginning! See you at 200!
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Rik Mayall's Nintendo Monopoly ft. Barney Banks
It's Press X like you've never heard it before - because the Queen of the eXy Beasts, Frankie Ward, is hosting in place of a sickly Steffan!
Frankie is joined by Inel and new clubber Barney Banks for an episode as crazy as the taxi you rode in on, fending off fairweather camera connections, debating Roblox regulation and measuring the monopoly of the one and only Rik Mayall (most known for voicing Hogs of War on the PS1 and little else of note...)
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Eddie Gordo VS Inel Tomlinson
Ready, Eddie, Go(rdo) - it's Press X again with Steff, Inel, Frankie and first timer Lewis Edridge aka MrLewisBlogsGaming!
Don your best capoeira shoes and learn how to spell capoeira for an episode that'll have you birthday-battling Bond or combating a combustible Cleese.
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THE RETRO GAMING SPECIAL ft. Sooz Kempner and RetroRevivalTom
It's all about retro games today on the one podcast that hasn't been corrupted by capitalism! On their Press X debut, Sooz Kempner and RetroRevivalTom (AKA Tom Rose) join Steff and Inel to reminisce over the best retro classics, what we can actually term as 'retro' and what arcade classics - and easy to complete for a crack shooter on a budget (and a Pier) - are tucked away on Tom's expansive collection.
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You NEED These Game Mechanics in Real Life
It's time to cast away from reality and take a boat road into a land of wonder unlike any other - Dickens World, Chatham 🤨
Imo and Krupes rejoin Steffan and Inel to talk about gaming theme parks, Slay the Spire II and the unusual legacy of Lemmings! And the Discord asks which game mechanics they'd like to see in real life.
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Lemmings (Amiga 500)
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Lost in Time, Like Tamagotchi Games in Rain
It's the return of Inel Tomlinson this week as Steffan is reunited with his co-host once again! Dan Krupa and Imogen Mellor posse up also to talk Tamagotchi games that set Imo up for life and the cost of gaming in this crazy world we live in. Lucy James also makes a surprise appearance to settle a mystery that's been eluding Steffan for months...
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The Impossible Super Mario 64 Speedrun
Luke Westaway and Cadaea are back on the pod this week to chat with Steffan about Inel's peculiar and downright suspicious absence from the pod...
Cadaea also comes with two unsung hero game offerings and Luke enters his mind palace to uncover the secret behind a one-in-a-trillion solar SM64 speedrun.
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THE MUSICAL EPISODE ft. Cadaea and Luke Westaway
It's not what it sounds like! Steffan is joined by Press X regular Luke Westaway and first-timer Sophie AKA Cadaea for a pod that spans both pizza and Pokopia. Warning: contains tambourines.
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THE TOP 5 WARHAMMER GAMES ft. Dave Jewitt
A brand new kind of episode from us as we explore something we've been looking forward to trying out for a while!
Dave Jewitt, AKA Irregular Dave, joins Steffan for a deep dive into the history of Warhammer video games to elect the official Press X Top 5.
What do you think of this new format? Got a better name for it? What Top 5 should we choose next? Let us know!
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How Mike Bithell discovered Indie Game Development
From humble beginnings on the Steam store to the creation of games for IPs like John Wick and TRON, Steffan is joined by Mike Bithell of Bithell Games (and the second Play, Watch, Listen host to jump on the pod!) to talk all about indie game development, how the landscape has changed since his start, and a chilling speculation of what it's going to take before games are viewed as an art form.
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One Night, at the Gaming BAFTAs...
An author, an esports presenter and a Time Crisis II crackshot walk into a secret afterparty...
Keza and Frankie join Steffan this week to talk about shared experiences at the Gaming BAFTAs (what actually... IS Vampire Survivors?), when AI in games isn't so bad and who in the gaming industry is getting a well-deserved knighthood.
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No Laras Left Behind with Alix Wilton Regan
The one and only Alix Wilton Regan (AKA the new Lara Croft!) joins the Continue Club this week to sit down with Steffan and recount her career in acting, discovering performance capture, Perfect Dark's shocking sudden cancellation and how she became the Tomb Raider herself.
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How The Traitors' Jade Scott Learned Social Deception 👀
"We'd pull out our axes and it's like, 'it's game over mate!'"
From the Round Table to the Continue Club - it's The Traitors S4 finalist Jade Scott! Steffan and Jade chat about the games she loves, being understood as 'a gamer' and how social deception games came in handy when stepping into the castle.
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Pikemen Wanted
Another Shay and Steffan special as the fort is held both literally in Inel's Horrible Historical acting absence and figuratively on Steffan's train journeys. Shay shares an unsung hero game, Inel checks in over voicenote and Steff agonises over his hiring processes in Becastled.
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THE RUNESCAPE SPECIAL: How To Make An MMO That Lasts 25 Years
300,000,000 accounts across a franchise that's 25 years old. A company that's doubled down on giving the fans what they want. A dev team that's completely beholden to community democracy.
This January, Steffan was invited to Jagex's headquarters in Cambridge for their 25 Years of Runescape creator event (alongside the biggest names in its thriving YouTube community) to speak with Senior VP of Product James Dobrowski about what it means to make an MMO that stands the test of time.
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Shay and Steffan: Nunchuk Crimestoppers
Fable! Nunchuks! Competitive rates! Shay Thompson joins aspiring voice actor Steffan Powell to kick off the new year of Press X to Continue, where we'll be roleplaying STRICTLY low-honour mode from start to finish - and introducing a brand new feature: Unsung Hero Games.
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Press X to Continyule 🎄
A festive episode of Press X to Continue with all our best tips on surviving Christmas! Tips on surviving the record might have been handier though...
Wishing a very merry Christmas to all our listeners!
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Storytelling, game design and performance capture with Abubakar Salim
A special Press X this week as Steffan sits down with Bayek of Siwa, Alyn of Hull, and the founder of Surgent Studios, the one and only Abubakar Salim!
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Being Keith: The Steffan Powell Story
Luke and Cassie are back on the pod once more to talk huge filesizes, the meaning of 'gamer' and review the hit superhero adventure game Dispatch.
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Truth Is... The Game Was Rigged from the Start
Has AI been lurking in games from the very beginning? Cyborg Angel makes her first appearance on Press X to Continue alongside Steff, Inel and Shay for the first episode of the second year of your favourite games podcast!
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Press X to Continue's First Birthday!
Put on your stomping shoes and light your candles because it's nothing but memory lane in this very special, very happy birthday episode of Press X to Continue! Inel and Steff reminisce over the best moments of the last loop around that warm orb of plasma. Warning: contains mirth.
Thanks so much to the eXy community who's been with us all this way. It's only with your support that Steffan will beat the Aberystwyth Pier 10p allegations.
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The Last Night in London
It's all jazz this week as Steffan's boxed up and ready for the big house move - meaning a Press X that's low-stress and no mess. Frankie and Inel come along to talk secret achievements, PS2 nostalgia and Pro Evo stalemates.
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Could You Say That Again?
Glenn and Frankie join us for another episode to slam in-game dog-petting across the board. Find new ways to bring your game to life, developers, and then tell us what just happened in that last cutscene because we weren't paying attention.
Inel also has a reviöoo for Öoo and Steffan stands behind his narrative of what went down on Aberystwyth Pier.
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Create Your Character
In today's episode of Press X to Continue, Frankie Ward joins Steff and Inel to talk the end of the console wars and Outer Worlds 2. But before you get stuck in, we're going to have to spend a good hour or so creating a character we'll never see.
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In this house, scary games means lights ON 💪😎
The pod's panicking over scary games this week - whose big idea was it to do a Hallowe'en episode hosted by people who are afraid of scary games? Keza and Joey join us again for more lights-on laughs and a Big Question that's (optionally) VERY revealing.
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Passing on the Game Pass
A newcomer joins the party in the form of Joe Grind AKA Joey's Funhouse, to talk Ghost of Yōtei and Game Pass grief with Steff, Inel and Press X regular Keza MacDonald.
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The Ghost of Aberystwyth Pier
Steff and Inel catch us up on all the news of the Press X discord this week, deep diving on game-changing mechanics, heart-breaking betrayals, and a glimpse into Steffan's past as a gunslinger on a budget.
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Wolverine State VS Gotham University
Steff and Inel address a hot take on save-scumming, speculate on the upcoming Wolverine title from Insomnia and get deep into the US college football scene!
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A Very Soulslike Episode
Another Steff-Shay-Gav trifecta brings a vicious offensive on the term Soulslike and a sobering reminder from three seasoned console owners that the days of demo discs and puffing into cartridges have long since passed.
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Press X Fixes the Games Industry!
The eternally room-temperature Shay Thompson and 'dark trainspotter' Gav Murphy join Steffan on the podcast this week to talk about saying Ninten-no to nostalgia, an unhinged take on the trolley problem and innovate a brand new financial model for the gaming industry of tomorrow. Content warning: this episode is not safe for jury members of the 2023 Gaming BAFTAs.
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What in the World is an Immersive Sim???
This week we're asking the real questions: what does immersive sim actually mean, what persistent Twitter question is making devs patch their games, and how would a Morris Traveller fare when James Bond is behind the wheel? Keza MacDonald and Imogen Mellor join the team again to get to the bottom of gaming's smallest and most forgettable mysteries.
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Super Mario's 40th Birthday Bash
Another fun-filled episode this week joined by guests old and new, as Keza MacDonald returns to the pod to tease her upcoming book about the history of Nintendo and Imogen Mellor joins with an axe to grind about Dan Krupa's take on stealth games. There's Welsh assassins, legendary weapons and a birthday party for a very special plumber indeed.
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"It's Just Frogger"
RKG's Dan Krupa and the one and only Lucy James join the pod this week for a podcast that enters the ring swinging when it comes to Krup's perspective on stealth games. Long-word-sensitive listeners be warned: this episode contains mentions of Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch.
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