Tommy's Video Game Ride Along
Take a seat in the passenger's seat of Tommy's car as he rambles to you about this weeks biggest games journalism news story or gives you an explainer about how games journalism really works!
Episode 20 - What does "Off the record" mean?
Grant Stoner wrote an excellent piece for IGN about the founder of AbleGamers, Mark Barnet, being accused of verbal abuse of employees and financial mismanagement of the company. Barnet replied to the...
Episode 19 - The Polygon and Giant Bomb Situations
surprise! I'm back because a lot of stuff happened! polygon was sold and most of the staff was laid off, and giant bomb was sold TO the staff and is independent. let's talk about why these things happ...
Episode 18 - This is the final episode of Tommy's Video Game Ride Along
All good things just come to an end! I had an absolute blast creating and making episodes for this dumb idea of a podcast, but I think it's time for the podcast to come to a close. Things have changed...
Episode 17 - NBC News ties playing video games to a the CEO shooter
A writer for NBC News wrote an article about how the CEO shooter played a video game where he was an assassin. That game? Among Us. How did this article happen? How can a national news outlet be so ou...
Episode 16 - Let's write a video game article together!
I've got a crazy idea! Have you ever wanted to write an actual video game article, complete with interviews and everything? Let's all work together to write one! In this episode I lay out my plan. To ...
Episode 15 - How to become a games journalist
Hey, how does one become a video game journalist anyways? in this LONGEST EPISODE EVER, Tommy gives you two potential paths to talk to become a games journalist! I hope you enjoy!