Join me on Aftermath Hours
Suikoden, generative AI planes for billionaires, and, of course, my new book
Rounding out my recent podcast tour in support of my book announcement (Suikoden 1 & 2 coming from Boss Fight Books in 2026!), I joined one of my absolute favourite podcasts: Aftermath Hours. In typical AH fashion, we went deep on video games, and also covered everything from GDC and the ethics of holding large conferences/conventions in the United States to AI characters in games being the equivalence of power fantasy porn, discovered a legitimate use of generative AI, and even snuck in some Vagrant Story love.
Here's the episode and its official description.
This week Nathan and Chris are joined by freelance writer Aidan Moher to discuss his upcoming book about Suikoden I and II, a pair of sneakily influential JRPGs from the PS1 era that, yes, are very much worth writing an entire book about. Then we discuss news from the eye of the pre-GDC storm: Next week thousands of game developers will convene in San Francisco to network and exchange knowledge, but a growing number of non-US-based devs are dropping out due to Trump’s hostile policies and erratic governance. After that we talk about Sony and Microsoft both introducing new unwanted AI features in the same week. Whose is worse? We’ll let you decide. Lastly, we design the one product that should include generative AI: a fucked-up private jet for rich people that definitely works just fine.
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