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Two of the biggest releases of 2012 dropped this week. Listen in as we break down the latest from Blizzard and Rockstar, and stick around for Minecraft 360 impressions. In the first segment, Adam Biessener and Matt Miller join host Matt Helgeson to discuss Diablo III's troubled launch and amazing... More

Game Informer's new podcast game show, Back Cover Blurb Trivia Challenge, returns with some new contestants. Host Matt Helgeson is back to defend his title, and is joined by judge Ben Hanson, Tim Turi, Ben Reeves, and a special appearance by GI bigwig Andy McNamara. The game doesn't quite go... More

343 Industries creative director Josh Holmes calls in to answer our readers' questions about Halo 4. That's really all you need to know. The show is hosted by GI editors Matt Miler (who wrote our Halo 4 cover story) and Bryan Vore. Click here to play this audio clip More

The Game Informer Show is back, and we're joined by Chair Entertainment creative director Donald Mustard who talks about Infinity Blade II's innovative ClashMob multiplayer events. Host Matt Helgeson and Bryan Vore ask Mustard about the iOS blockbuster's new worldwide multiplayer events.... More

This week's Game Informer podcast is something a little different: our first Back Cover Blurb Trivia Challenge game show! Our resident video auteur Ben Hanson came up with idea and takes the reins from host Matt Helgeson to referee this raucous contest. Here's how it works: Ben selected a random... More

This week, the Game Informer Show weighs in on two major game media events and a groundbreaking new platformer. First up is our reaction to Capcom's Captivate 2012 press event. The venerable Japanese publisher debuted Lost Planet 3, and showed some new footage of the Devil May Cry reboot and Resident... More

Two things make this a very special edition of Respec Radio: our guest, Guild Wars 2 designer Jonathan Sharp of ArenaNet, and the last appearance of Phil Kollar as an editor at Game Informer. You'll have to do without Andy McNamara's customary ranting this week, but we like to think that Sharp's... More

As part of our month-long coverage of Assassin's Creed III, our readers submitted questions for the game's creative director Alex Hutchinson. In this special edition podcast, cover story author Matt Miller and GI editor Matt Bertz pose the reader questions to Alex, giving listeners an in-depth... More

GI's Phil Kollar is leaving us (*sob*) and the Game Informer Show soothes your pain with a special "exit interview" reader Q&A with the man himself. It's all Matt Helgeson can do to stop from crying, but we got through this one. Pour out a little for Phil. We'll see you at the... More

It's not often that we revisit a recently released game on the GI Show, but with the furor over the ending to Mass Effect 3 raging throughout the Internet, we thought we should weigh in on fans' complaints about the game's ending, the recently filed FTC complaint, and BioWare's statement... More

Another week, another show, and we've got a good one. In our first segment, we've got one of the year's most critically acclaimed games -- thatgamecompany founder Jenova Chen's Journey. It's not like anything you've ever played before, and this dreamlike game is generating a deep... More

It's been Mass Effect 3 week around the Game Informer offices, and our podcast follows suit. Host Matt Helgeson is joined by Joe Juba, Matt Miller, and reviewer Andy Reiner for a lengthy discussion of BioWare's Mass Effect 3. What follows is a (mostly) spoiler-free discussion of the game's... More

As part of our month-long coverage of Naughty Dog's The Last of Us, we let our readers ask the designers behind the game questions about the company's gripping horror game. Our cover story writer Bryan Vore helms the podcast with help from Tim Turi, as game director Bruce Straley and creative... More

Veteran game editor Dan Amrich has written a book that tells you how to break into game journalism. We interviewed Amrich about his new book, Critical Path: How to Review Videogames for a Living and also break down Asura's Wrath and Syndicate. Reviewer Jeff Cork and Reiner stop by to talk about the... More

Well, we made it all the way to 100 episodes of the Game Informer Podcast. Thanks so much to all our listeners and those that have sent comments, emails, and tweets our way. In this episode, we start off with Dan Ryckert and Andy Reiner talking about Twisted Metal, the reboot of Sony's long-running... More

This week's podcast got a little hairy due to technical difficulties and me being out for part of the day with a family matter, but we got it done. First up, Phil Kollar and Adam Biessener save the day with a long, wide-ranging discussion about 38 Studio's much-discussed open-world RPG Kingdoms... More

Lead designer Jake Solomon and producer Garth DeAngelis from Firaxis join Adam Biessener and Ben Reeves to answer the GI community's questions about their upcoming strategy game. Your questions about everything from the smaller squad size in Firaxis' remake to the shape of the difficulty curve... More

The GI show is back, with discussion on two of the year's first big releases. First up is Final Fantasy XIII-2, the controversial followup to the already controversial Final Fantasy XIII. Host Matt Helgeson is joined by lifelong FF fantatics Phil Kollar, Joe Juba, and Andy Reiner. Joe and Phil have... More

Due to the high volume of questions we received for our Reader Mailbag segment last week, we decided to do another Q&A podcast this week. To get a wider variety of opinions, host Matt Helgeson rounded up a different batch of GI editors: Bryan Vore, Jeff Marchiafava, and best pals Joe Juba and Dan... More

At long last, our popular Reader Mailbag podcast returns. We haven't done one in a while, and we had so many questions submitted that we're going to do another one next week to get to as many as we can. This week, host Matt Helgeson is joined by Kyle Hilliard, Tim Turi, Ben Reeves, and Andy Reiner... More