My Perfect Console

<p>Evan Narcisse is an American&nbsp;writer, journalist, and narrative designer whose work spans comics, criticism, and video games.&nbsp;After graduating from <strong>New York University</strong>, he&nbsp;began his career as a culture and technology journalist, writing for outlets including&nbsp;<strong><em>Time</em></strong>,&nbsp;<strong><em>Kotaku</em></strong>, and&nbsp;<strong><em>The Atlantic</em></strong>, where he explored the intersection of race, identity, and storytelling in popular

<p>Ed Atkins is a British contemporary artist known for his haunting, hyperreal digital videos—works that combine computer-generated bodies, poetic monologues, and a profound sense of longing, absurdity, and decay. Since the early 2010s, his art has been exhibited at major institutions around the world, including <strong>Tate Britain</strong> and <strong>MoMA</strong>, and he’s taken part in various festivals, including the<strong> Venice Biennale</strong>, the <strong>Holland Festival</strong>,

<p>Tom Keegan is one of the leading performance directors in video games,&nbsp;whose&nbsp;career spans&nbsp;theatre, film, animation, and interactive entertainment.&nbsp;After starting out in the New York theatre scene, he&nbsp;worked&nbsp;in animation on&nbsp;<strong><em>Johnny Bravo</em></strong>,&nbsp;<strong><em>The Powerpuff Girls</em></strong>, and&nbsp;<em>T</em><strong><em>he Woody Woodpecker Show</em></strong>,&nbsp;then&nbsp;moved into&nbsp;video&nbsp;games at a pivotal moment in the i

<p>Keza Macdonald is a Scottish journalist and editor who has spent more than two decades chronicling the culture and business of video games. She started early, as a junior staff writer for&nbsp;<strong>GamesTM</strong>&nbsp;while she was still a teenager. Then, after earning a degree in German and Japanese from the&nbsp;<strong>University of Edinburgh</strong>—including a year studying in Japan—she became UK Games Editor at&nbsp;<strong>IGN</strong>, helping shape the site’s global editorial s

<p>My guest today is a video game executive whose career spans the medium’s earliest home computers to the rise of the modern console business. He created his first games for the&nbsp;<strong>Atari 800</strong>&nbsp;in the early 1980s, before joining&nbsp;<strong>Microsoft</strong>&nbsp;in 1986, where he spent a decade as an early developer on&nbsp;<strong>Excel</strong>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<strong>Word</strong>.&nbsp;</p><br><p>In 1996, he left the Office team to pursue his passion for games, foundin

<p>Prokop Jirsa is a Czech game designer whose work has helped redefine what historical realism can look like in a modern role-playing game. After completing his Master’s degree at the&nbsp;<strong>Prague University of Economics and Business</strong>, he joined&nbsp;<strong>Warhorse Studios</strong>&nbsp;as a designer on&nbsp;<strong><em>Kingdom Come: Deliverance</em></strong>.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>There, he helped shape the game’s uncompromising approach to first-person immersion, historically gr

<p>Dr. Elin Festøy is a Norwegian creative producer, researcher, and storyteller whose work uses interactive media to illuminate some of the most painful and overlooked histories of the 20th century. After completing a&nbsp;Master’s&nbsp;degree in 1995, she began her career as a journalist&nbsp;covering tech&nbsp;during the early emergence of digital culture. She later founded the transmedia studio&nbsp;<strong>Teknopilot</strong>, and in 2013 began a long-running project about the Lebensborn,&n

<p>Jon Ingold is a British game designer and writer whose work has helped redefine how narrative, choice, and player agency function in interactive storytelling. He began making parser-based text adventures and releasing them free on the internet. After studying mathematics at <strong>Cambridge University</strong>, he moved into professional game development at <strong>Sony PlayStation</strong>, where he worked as a designer in the concept group on several unreleased titles. </p><br><p>In 2011,