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A Winner is You Podcast
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A video game podcast from the UK featuring games writers Alex Aldridge and David Smillie. We offer deep dives into the best games; yearly themes including Summer of Resi, MAYtroidvania, Spooktoberfest, March Movie Madness; and The Video Game Draft!
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🚨NEW EPISODE ALERT!🚨 We've got 6 more randomly drawn #SNES and #MegaDrive games to chat about and lob in a tier list

Listen for what we think of Gunstar Heroes, MUSHA, Operation Logic Bomb, Spanky's Quest, Star Fox 2, Virtua Fighter 2?

#Sega #Nintendo #GameSky

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Episode 130: SNES/Mega Drive Roulette #3 (Gunstar Heroes, MUSHA, Operation Logic Bomb, Spanky's Quest, Star Fox 2, Virtua Fighter 2)
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February 6, 2026 at 8:25 PM
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Happy 26th birthday to #ResidentEvil CODE: Veronica! Sure, they missed a big milestone last year but this has to be the year for a remake, right?

Listen to our podcast from last summer where we celebrated this batshit classic

#Resi #Capcom #Sega #GameSky

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February 3, 2026 at 2:37 PM
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Behold, our hosts' picks in the categories we ran with for GOTY 2025 - whose do you prefer?

Check out all the debate and reasoning on podcast episode 129 - on all platforms now: open.spotify.com/episode/1gZi...

#GOTY #GameoftheYear #GameSky
January 22, 2026 at 7:58 PM
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🚨NEW EPISODE ALERT!🚨 It's the time of the year again! Join us for a three-hour extravaganza to celebrate and denigrate the best and worst of video games in 2025. In all pod places now!

#GOTY #Gaming #GameSky #GOTY2025 #SilentHillf #Expedition33 #NintendoSwitch

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Episode 129: Game of the Year Awards 2025
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January 22, 2026 at 8:50 AM
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🚨NEW EPISODE ALERT!🚨 It may be a new year, but there's still time for our forgotten episode from 2025 - our top 10 PlayStation 2 games of all time. Get it in all pod places now!

Warning: wall-to-wall bangers within.

#PS2 #PlayStation #retrogames #GameSky

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Episode 128: Our Top 10 PlayStation 2 Games of All Time (THE FORGOTTEN EPISODE!)
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January 12, 2026 at 3:36 PM
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🎄NEW EPISODE ALERT!🎄 Our Xmas Special this year is the inaugural Retro Game Anniversary Awards - 9 award categories to be filled by 3 games each from 1995, 2005 and 2015 (or swap 1 for a 1985 game).

In all pod places now!

#GOTY #Retro #GameSky #Nintendo #Sony

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Episode 127: The Retro Game Anniversary Awards 2025
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December 24, 2025 at 11:27 AM
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2012 was famously known as the year the world was going to end... but how was it for video games?... and with some spicy new rules, can I finally claim some draft points?

TUNE IN AND FIND OUT, YOU DRAFT FIENDS!
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returns again for the 2012 Video Game Draft, this time with some new and devilish rules for stealing and killing each other's picks. 10 games each from 2012, best total metacritic score wins. In all pod places now! open.spotify.com/episode/5lk3...
Episode 126: The 2012 Video Game Draft
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December 17, 2025 at 11:47 AM
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returns again for the 2012 Video Game Draft, this time with some new and devilish rules for stealing and killing each other's picks. 10 games each from 2012, best total metacritic score wins. In all pod places now! open.spotify.com/episode/5lk3...
Episode 126: The 2012 Video Game Draft
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December 17, 2025 at 9:54 AM
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🚨NEW EPISODE ALERT!🚨

This week marks the 25th anniversary of the PS2's release in Europe. To celebrate, we played and ranked all of the launch titles!

15 games to run the rule over. In all pod places now.

#PS2 #PlayStation #PS5  #SONY #GameSky

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Episode 125: Ranking the PS2 PAL Launch Games
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November 27, 2025 at 5:06 PM
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🚨NEW EPISODE ALERT!🚨

We got @kdb-innit.bsky.social back to celebrate a bunch of 30-year-old games in the 1995 Video Game Draft!

3 players, 10 picks, highest total metacritic score wins.

In all pod places now!

#RetroGames #GameSky #SNES #MegaDrive #PlayStation

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Episode 124: The 1995 Video Game Draft
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November 15, 2025 at 1:01 PM
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Did you turn 30 this year? Don't worry, old man, so did the video games we're going to be drafting in tonight's pod recording.

@kdb-innit.bsky.social joins us to pick 10 games each and fight it out for the best metacritic/gamerankings score. It's the Video Game Draft 1995!

Drops Monday 10th Nov.
November 4, 2025 at 10:21 AM
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👻BOO EPISODE ALERT!👻 Happy Halloween, guys and ghouls! Your treat is our deep dive into the PS2 horror classic, Fatal Frame II: Crimson Butterfly.

It’s in all pod places now!

#spooky #horrorgame #playstation #spooktober #spookymonth #GameSky

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Episode 123: SPOOKTOBERFEST '25 - Fatal Frame II: Crimson Butterfly
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October 31, 2025 at 7:59 AM
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Dropping on Halloween, the second part of our SPOOKTOBERFEST podcast season will be a deep dive into Tecmo's photographical, ghostly classic: Fatal Frame II: Crimson Butterfly.

Or Project Zero if you prefer worse names. Coming Friday...

#spookymonth #horrorgame #Halloween2025 #GameSky #horror
October 27, 2025 at 10:12 AM
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🎃NEW EPISODE ALERT!🎃 Part one of this year's Spooktoberfest is here to thrill and terrify, as we chat all about Konami's Silent Hill f.

Get it in all pod places now!

#silenthillf #silenthill #spookymonth #Spooktober #spooktober2025 #horrorgame #PS5 #GameSky

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Episode 122: SPOOKTOBERFEST '25 - Silent Hill f
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October 19, 2025 at 4:43 PM
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Spooktoberfest is upon us once again, and our first horror game pod this year is so nearly ready. Keep 'em peeled, it'll be here very soon...

#SilentHillf #SilentHill #Spooky #Horror #Konami #PS5 #GameSky
October 18, 2025 at 4:51 PM
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🚨NEW EPISODE ALERT!🚨

As the last vestiges of the summer get swept away in the wind and rain, so too do we sign off the season with part two of the 4th annual Summer of Resi with a deep dive into one of the series' greatest games: Resident Evil 4.

#ResidentEvil

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Episode 121: Summer of Resi ‘25 pt. 2 - Resident Evil 4
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September 11, 2025 at 9:05 PM
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Tonight, we record the second, and final, part of Summer of Resi '25. Got a lot of good things to discuss, stranger.
August 26, 2025 at 2:27 PM
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🚨NEW EPISODE ALERT!🚨 It's the 4th annual Summer of Resi!

Bust out your tank controls and your zombified dads, fill 'em full of SMG bulllets and have a little cry - it's time to play Resident Evil CODE: Veronica!

In all pod places now! #ResidentEvil #GameSky #Resi

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Episode 120: Summer of Resi ‘25 pt. 1 - Resident Evil CODE: Veronica
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August 16, 2025 at 6:42 AM
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August is upon us, and that means it’s time for our annual Summer of Resi!

We’re down to our final two mainline games in the series this year, and will be covering Resident Evil CODE: Veronica and Resident Evil 4.

Strap in, it’s going to be a hell of a ride. Coming soon…

#ResidentEvil #Capcom
August 1, 2025 at 8:11 AM
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@supersmillie.bsky.social presents his Top 25 Games of the Century on our latest podcast episode. Is he a man of impeccable taste, or nae?

In all pod places now: open.spotify.com/episode/2GZ2...

#GameSky #Nintendo #Sega #Xbox #RetroGame #Rockstar #ResidentEvil #Uncharted #Doom #Witcher
July 31, 2025 at 12:39 PM
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@thrillex.bsky.social presents his Top 25 Games of the Century in our latest podcast episode. Is he insane? Is he a man of culture? Listen and decide for yourself.

In all pod places now: open.spotify.com/episode/2GZ2...

#GameSky #Xbox #PlayStation #Nintendo #Sega #Zelda #Mario #ResidentEvil #Halo
July 30, 2025 at 8:26 AM
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🚨NEW EPISODE ALERT!🚨 We're a quarter of the way through the century, so we're celebrating with our Top 25 Games of the Century.

What's your favourite game since 2000?

In all pod places now!
#GameSky #RetroGaming #PlayStation #Xbox #Nintendo #Sega

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July 29, 2025 at 9:21 AM
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🚨NEW EPISODE ALERT! 🚨 We randomised more SNES and Mega Drive games from the Nintendo Switch Online catalog and forced ourselves to play 'em. Nothing can force us to enjoy 'em, though! In all pod places now.

#Sega #Nintendo #SegaGenesis #RetroGames #GameSky

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A Winner Is You
Podcast · A Winner Is You · A Winner Is You is a video game club podcast from the UK presented by Alex Aldridge and David Smillie. We specialise in deep diving into the biggest and best games, both ol...
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July 11, 2025 at 2:22 PM
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🚨NEW EPISODE ALERT!🚨 The 2011 Video Game Draft has finally dropped. @kdb-innit joins us again for another podcast full of fun, elation, surprises, dismay, a winner, two losers and a whole heap of rambling. In all pod places.

#GameSky #Gaming #RetroGames #Podcast

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June 20, 2025 at 4:53 PM
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We're giving you five as we welcome a radio station and four shows to Terra Player!

📻 Radio NEC'Stalgie
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We're giving you five as we welcome a radio station and four shows to Terra Player!
June 13, 2025 at 8:00 AM