IGN Unfiltered
66 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 1 year ago - ★★★★★ - 434 ratingsIGN Unfiltered goes in-depth with creators of your favorite video games, talking not just about the games themselves but about the fascinating lives of the people behind them. New episodes each month!
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Episodes
Episode 16: Mortal Kombat Co-Creator Ed Boon
February 23, 2017 20:43 - 52 minutesMortal Kombat co-creator Ed Boon discusses his career, including the origin and rise of the franchise, the still-beloved movie, Injustice, and more! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Episode 15: RPG Legend Feargus Urquhart
February 01, 2017 01:00 - 1 hourLongtime Black Isle Studios and Obsidian Entertainment CEO Feargus Urquhart shares stories about his career, including working with South Park creators Matt Stone and Trey Parker, getting burned by big publishers, building his own IP, and more! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Episode 14: Naughty Dog Co-Founder and Oculus Exec Jason Rubin
December 21, 2016 23:25 - 1 hourNaughty Dog co-founder Jason Rubin has been in the games business since he was 14. We interview him about building Naughty Dog, trying to save THQ, and making VR games at Oculus. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Episode 13: Inventor and Oculus Co-Founder Jack McCauley
December 01, 2016 20:40 - 1 hourOculus co-founder Jack McCauley's fascinating career not only includes VR, but also designing the Guitar Hero controllers, the scrolling mouse wheel, and USB! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Episode 12: Call of Duty and Titanfall Creator Vince Zampella
October 21, 2016 21:32 - 50 minutesOur 45-minute chat with industry legend Vince Zampella covers his entire career, from his early days at GameTek to Medal of Honor to Call of Duty to the Activision lawsuit and now to Respawn and Titanfall. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
IGN Unfiltered 11: Longtime PlayStation Boss Jack Tretton
September 30, 2016 17:49 - 48 minutesLongtime SCEA President and CEO Jack Tretton recounts his career at Sony, including his thoughts on the Vita, the PS3 launch, the PSN hack, the historic success of the PS2 and PS4, and much more! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Episode 10: EA Chief Competition Officer Peter Moore
August 31, 2016 23:50 - 1 hourEA boss Peter Moore shares Dreamcast stories from his days as a Sega executive, Xbox stories from his time at Microsoft, and what he's up to at EA now in an 80-minute interview. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Episode 09: Former Chief Xbox Officer Robbie Bach
July 28, 2016 18:49 - 49 minutesOriginal Chief Xbox Officer Robbie Bach discusses the challenges of the original Xbox and the triumphs of the Xbox 360 in a far-ranging 45-minute interview. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Episode 08: Xbox Co-Creator Ed Fries
June 30, 2016 23:52 - 1 hourXbox co-creator and former Microsoft Game Studios boss Ed Fries discusses growing up with video games, his early days at Microsoft on the Excel team, buying Bungie for the nascent Xbox, his respect for Phil Spencer, and much more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Unfiltered 07: Gears of War and Lawbreakers Creator Cliff Bleszinski
May 26, 2016 21:58 - 1 hourLegendary game designer Cliff Bleszinski joins us for over an hour to share Gears of War stories, how he developed his first game as a teenager, more about his new game Lawbreakers, and much more! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Episode 06: No Man's Sky Mastermind Sean Murray
May 04, 2016 00:44 - 1 hourNo Man's Sky programmer and mastermind Sean Murray sits down for over an hour to discuss his early days in the industry working on Burnout 3, the humble origins of No Man's Sky, how VR could be a good fit for No Man's Sky, what it was like to meet Elon Musk and Steven Spielberg during E3 last year but then turn down a meeting with Kanye West, and much more! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Episode 05: Halo and Destiny Composer Marty O'Donnell
April 09, 2016 00:22 - 2 hoursHalo and Destiny composer Marty O'Donnell shares incredible stories from his many years at Bungie, including a canceled game called 'Gypsum', how Halo 2 was originally supposed to end, meeting Paul McCartney, and much more! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Episode 04: Xbox Live Arcade Creator Greg Canessa
February 17, 2016 21:27 - 1 hourFormer Xbox exec and XBLA creator Greg Canessa sits down for a 70-minute interview about how XBLA almost didn't happen, Bill Gates's favorite XBLA game, and much more! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Episode 03: Aaron Greenberg
February 01, 2016 20:28 - 1 hourLongtime Xbox marketing executive Aaron Greenberg talks about the early Xbox days, his favorite Xbox moments, the 2016 Xbox lineup, his love for Xbox boss Phil Spencer, his early days working at Disney and Nestle, and much more! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Episode 02: Josh Holmes (Def Jam, NBA Street, Turok, Halo 4, Halo 5)
October 26, 2015 21:20 - 1 hour343 Industries studio head of internal development Josh Holmes has had quite an interesting career. We revisit all of it in a one-hour chat, from creating Def Jam Vendetta and NBA Street at EA to rebooting Turok to joining 343 to lead Halo to even his early days as an actor, auditioning to play Robin in the Joel Schumacher Batman films. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Episode 01: Tim Schafer
September 29, 2015 19:20 - 1 hourDouble Fine Productions founder and LucasArts design legend Tim Schafer sits down for a one-hour chat about everything ranging from his canceled games to how he feels about LucasArts' closure to his proudest career moment and more! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices