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Firezide Chat with Tom Keegan

A chat about one of the rarest jobs in video games, directing performance capture.

Aug 14, 2026

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24 min read

Firezide Chat with Harvey Smith

A chat about deaths of his parents, growing up in poverty, and how those things shaped his outlook on life.

Jul 31, 2026

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43 min read

Firezide Chat with Ben Starr

A chat about social anxieties, what it was like wanting to be an actor as a teenager, and why he’s been a bit angry with baristas lately.

Jul 17, 2026

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27 min read

Firezide Chat with Luke Dale

A chat about battling chronic acne as a teen and facing rejection as a young adult, the road to becoming an actor, about streamning and about starting a bar.

Jul 3, 2026

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22 min read

Firezide Chat with David Alpert

A chat about business, his ambitions to create an open world game in one of the company’s universes, Telltale’s The Walking Dead, and how airport urinals are the real video games.

Jun 19, 2026

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24 min read

Firezide Chat with Abubakar Salim

A chat about how game development is much harder than being an actor, what the industry can do to push back against toxicity and support diverse voices, and why he’d most like to be reincarnated as a cat.

Jun 5, 2026

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27 min read

Firezide Chat with Mitch Dyer

A chat about stoicism, what it was like to make that career jump, working with Disney and Lucasfilm, and why you shouldn’t make characters sip a drink when writing a scene for a video game.

May 22, 2026

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25 min read

Firezide Chat with Dave Oshry

A chat about what makes a New Blood game, what the company would look like without him (you might not like the answer), and knowing when to bow out before you become cringe.

May 8, 2026

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27 min read

Firezide Chat with Lucy James

A chat about social climbers, parasocial relationships, living with chronic illness, working as a cleaner, moving to the US, and why James probably would have gotten really into incels, if not for video games.

Apr 24, 2026

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26 min read

Firezide Chat with Pete Hines

Hines talks about Bethesda’s sale to Microsoft and its effect on his mental health, as well as all the tough jobs he worked before he got his big break.

Apr 10, 2026

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19 min read