IGN Unfiltered

Mortal Kombat co-creator Ed Boon discusses his career, including the origin and rise of the franchise, the still-beloved movie, Injustice, and more! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Longtime Black Isle Studios and Obsidian Entertainment CEO Feargus Urquhart shares stories about his career, including working with South Park creators Matt Stone and Trey Parker, getting burned by big publishers, building his own IP, and more! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Naughty Dog co-founder Jason Rubin has been in the games business since he was 14. We interview him about building Naughty Dog, trying to save THQ, and making VR games at Oculus. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Oculus co-founder Jack McCauley's fascinating career not only includes VR, but also designing the Guitar Hero controllers, the scrolling mouse wheel, and USB! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Our 45-minute chat with industry legend Vince Zampella covers his entire career, from his early days at GameTek to Medal of Honor to Call of Duty to the Activision lawsuit and now to Respawn and Titanfall. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Longtime SCEA President and CEO Jack Tretton recounts his career at Sony, including his thoughts on the Vita, the PS3 launch, the PSN hack, the historic success of the PS2 and PS4, and much more! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

EA boss Peter Moore shares Dreamcast stories from his days as a Sega executive, Xbox stories from his time at Microsoft, and what he's up to at EA now in an 80-minute interview. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Original Chief Xbox Officer Robbie Bach discusses the challenges of the original Xbox and the triumphs of the Xbox 360 in a far-ranging 45-minute interview. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Xbox co-creator and former Microsoft Game Studios boss Ed Fries discusses growing up with video games, his early days at Microsoft on the Excel team, buying Bungie for the nascent Xbox, his respect for Phil Spencer, and much more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Legendary game designer Cliff Bleszinski joins us for over an hour to share Gears of War stories, how he developed his first game as a teenager, more about his new game Lawbreakers, and much more! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

No Man's Sky programmer and mastermind Sean Murray sits down for over an hour to discuss his early days in the industry working on Burnout 3, the humble origins of No Man's Sky, how VR could be a good fit for No Man's Sky, what it was like to meet Elon Musk and Steven Spielberg during E3 last year but then turn down a meeting with Kanye West, and much more! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Halo and Destiny composer Marty O'Donnell shares incredible stories from his many years at Bungie, including a canceled game called 'Gypsum', how Halo 2 was originally supposed to end, meeting Paul McCartney, and much more! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Former Xbox exec and XBLA creator Greg Canessa sits down for a 70-minute interview about how XBLA almost didn't happen, Bill Gates's favorite XBLA game, and much more! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Longtime Xbox marketing executive Aaron Greenberg talks about the early Xbox days, his favorite Xbox moments, the 2016 Xbox lineup, his love for Xbox boss Phil Spencer, his early days working at Disney and Nestle, and much more! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

343 Industries studio head of internal development Josh Holmes has had quite an interesting career. We revisit all of it in a one-hour chat, from creating Def Jam Vendetta and NBA Street at EA to rebooting Turok to joining 343 to lead Halo to even his early days as an actor, auditioning to play Robin in the Joel Schumacher Batman films. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Double Fine Productions founder and LucasArts design legend Tim Schafer sits down for a one-hour chat about everything ranging from his canceled games to how he feels about LucasArts' closure to his proudest career moment and more! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices