Kiwi Talkz

01/02/2025

🎮 PODCAST OUT NOW🎮 with the legendary shawn layden
We talk about why Sony is amazing at marketing, why Astro Bot is his GOTY 2024, PS6 not being discless, the PS Vita's struggles, Microsoft's multiplatform strategy, and more....

Links below

03/01/2025

🎮FIRST PODCAST OF 2025 OUT NOW🎮 with former designer at Bethesda Will Shen we talk about his early design days on Skyrim, the design of Starfield, games being too long, his relationship with Todd Howard and more....

20/12/2024

Starting from next year, all podcasts will debut with a new introduction.

17/11/2024

🎮 HAPPY ANNIVERSARY TO METROID PRIME 2🎮
To celebrate, I spoke to the producer of Metroid Prime 2 Bryan Walker, he talks about Prime 2's production pipeline, the marketing of it, his favourite parts of the game and more.....
⬇️ LINKS IN THE COMMENTS ⬇️

10/11/2024

🎮 HAPPY ANNIVERSARY TO METROID PRIME 2 🎮
The celebration continues as this time I spoke to 2 engineers who worked on Metroid Prime 2, Zoid Kirsch and Jack Mathews

We talk about the multiplayer, the ammo system, a prime 2 remastered and more....
⬇️ LINKS ARE BELOW⬇️

03/11/2024

🎮 HAPPY 20TH ANNIVERSARY METROID PRIME 2 🎮
To celebrate, I did an interview with a designer on the game Kynan Pearson
we talk about the design of Prime 2 from the world to the morph ball puzzles, the cut content, favorite moments and more....

⬇️ LINKS ARE BELOW ⬇️

15/10/2024

🎮 Here is the panel I did with Joshua Weier at PAX Australia for anyone who missed it. This took a year of planning with Josh and PAX to make it happen

We discussed his work on Half-Life 2 & Portal 2, the early days of Steam, the Source Engine, the culture of Valve and more....

Links are below ⬇️

13/10/2024

I had an absolute blast at hosting panels with .coronado.c and .josh and I met some real cool people at the event. As always thanks to for making it all happen and being a beast of an organiser behind the scenes.

Thank you to .music and for the photos

Until next time people!

07/10/2024

🎮 NEW PODCAST OUT NOW🎮
With Jason Schreier as we talk about his new book PLAY NICE all about the history of Blizzard Entertainment

⬇️ Podcast links are below ⬇️

03/10/2024

One country where my Youtube Channel has grown exponentially is Australia. I am not sure if its attributed to PAX Australia or not but either way I feel like fate is pushing me more and more to just move to Aus lol.
SEE YOU NEXT WEEK MELBOURNE!!😃

29/09/2024

🎮 NEW PODCAST OUT NOW🎮
With Joel Mason to talk about the work on Dredge.
We discuss the early prototypes, the film adaptation, the endings, it's design and more....

17/09/2024

I recently got to attend a secret event at Google HQ for Youtube Creators. I met some great people and learned a lot about Youtube's algorithm and how it all works.

08/09/2024

A month from now I will be in Melbourne hosting 2 panels at PAX Australia

One related to Sony with Sonia Coronado who worked on God Of War: Ragnarok & Last Of Us Part II and the other with Josh Weier who worked on Half-Life 2 & Portal 2

It's a once in a lifetime to meet 2 legends in the flesh! Come on through all my Melbourne fam.

06/09/2024

I am happy to announce the Kiwi Talkz Youtube Membership. This will give you access to all videos AT LEAST 2 weeks before they are made public on the channel. I will also prioritise any guest requests you make, questions during podcasts, ideas for shorts etc.

This channel takes up a lot of time, so this membership helps support me in continuing to make this happen. It also means I can invest money back into the channel to make it higher quality as well as supporting with hosting platforms e.g Zoom.

The first video that is NOW AVAILABLE to members exclusively is a Metroid Prime 2, 20th anniversary interview with Kynan Pearson, where he goes into depth about why Prime 2's design is Zelda esque, Boost Balling off spider balls tracks, Sanctuary Fortress's design, Prime 2's key hunt as well as many other things.

You can join here.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC9jtZN92eGHA9Hxh-jYGqBw/join

26/08/2024

If you are a Valve fan make sure you come along. This is a chance to meet the legend behind Portal 2

Josh Weier, Project Lead on Half-Life 2 and Portal 2 is coming to !

To celebrate, join Josh Weier for a fireside chat with Kiwi Talkz in the Quokka Theatre on the Saturday of PAX at 5pm.

Saturday badges are 90% sold out, so don’t miss out!
https://aus.paxsite.com/en-us/registration/attendee-registration.html

23/08/2024

Looking forward to returning to PAX Aus!!

18/08/2024

🚨Podcast out now🚨
With Bruce Nesmith who was a designer on Skyrim, Fallout 3, 4, 76 and Starfield! We cover his extensive career, cut content, Todd Howard and more....

Links in comments

14/08/2024

I am happy to announce that I am returning to PaxAustralia to host a special panel with Josh Weier. Josh was a developer for a number of years at Valve and worked on Half-Life 2, Portal, Left 4 Dead and was the project lead on Portal 2.

If you are a Valve fan, this is a once in a lifetime opportunity to meet one of the former legends at Valve and hear some behind the scenes stories.

See you at PAX AUS in October!!!!