Mike & Rami Are Still Here
by Mike Rose & Rami Ismail
Latest episode
Rami Made a Video Game! Australia Did It
Rami Made a Video Game! Australia Did It
About this podcast
Mike Rose and Rami Ismail are, somehow, still working in the video game industry after 15 years of huge highs, and crushing lows. Let's chat about that.
Episodes
The newest 20 of 24 episodes
- Rami Made a Video Game! Australia Did It · 45 min · Season 1 Episode 24Can you believe it? Mr. Rami Ismail has made a video game. It's called Australia Did It, and it launches later this month. In preparation, Mike played the game a bunch, and now…
- Is Making Games Even Worth It? · 38 min · Season 1 Episode 23Why bother? Between the layoffs, the poor sales, the threat of AI, it feels like making video games in 2026 has become a bit of a pointless endeavour. Mike Rose (No More Robots…
- The 20 Games That Shaped Our Careers · 57 min · Season 1 Episode 22Mike Rose and Rami Ismail have been around in video games for nearly 40 years combined, and have worked on a bunch of different games -- but what games inspired, directed and…
- What Are the Best Games Out Right Now? · 50 min · Season 1 Episode 21Mike and Rami have been playing loads of video games, and they decide to actually talk about video games for a change. They talk Blood of the Dawnwalker, Assassin's Creed, The…
- Simon Carless Does Actually Own a Car · 53 min · Season 1 Episode 20Bit of a misleading name. Simon Carless of GameDiscoverCo is on the poddy with us today, talking about analytics and video game history and dealing with Mike's usual bs. Rami…
- The Quest For The Publishing Deal! · 41 min · Season 1 Episode 19It's the first ever Mike & Rami LIVE, recorded at Develop Conference in Brighton! Huge thanks to Develop Conference for letting us do this ridiculous thing on their stage. Mike &…
- Mike and Rami Go Outside · 39 min · Season 1 Episode 18Time to touch sand. Mike Rose & Rami Ismail are at Develop Conference in Brighton this week, where they talk about the conference and their memories of it over the years; How…
- How Much Do Video Games Sell in 2026? · 51 min · Season 1 Episode 17Mike Rose of No More Robots has launched a bunch of video games this year. In this episode of Mike & Rami Are Still Here, Mike goes into details about these game launches with…
- Victoria Tran and Waluigi Sitting In a Tree · 39 min · Season 1 Episode 16K.I.S.S.I.N.G. Victoria Tran (Innersloth, Wholesome Games) joins Mike & Rami this week, and tries to understand what the point of this podcast is. In between, she shills her book…
- Was Starting A Podcast A Mistake? · 44 min · Season 1 Episode 15Six months ago, two old men from the video game industry started a podcast. Now Mike Rose and Rami Ismail talk through how it's all gone, giving numbers and statistics, and how…
- Game of the Year (So Far) · 48 min · Season 1 Episode 14Mike and Rami judge what the Game of the Year (so far) is Pragamata? Mewgenics? Titanium Court? Mixtape? Marathon? Slay the Spire II? Pokopia? Something else? Let's find out!
- Attack of the Gong · 56 min · Season 1 Episode 13The Saga Continues. Mike and Rami have collected 15 questions from our listeners, and now proceed to answer them as quickly as possible. They talk Golden Sun, text adventures…
- Who Wants to Be a Thousandaire? Part 2 · 50 min · Season 1 Episode 1215 questions. Three lifelines. $1,000. Part 2. Rami Ismail is back in the Thousandaire hotseat. Let's see if he can answer all of Mike Rose's 15 questions correctly, and become…
- Who Wants to Be a Thousandaire? · 42 min · Season 1 Episode 1115 questions. Three lifelines. $1,000. It's Rami Ismail in the Thousandaire hotseat this week, working his way through host Mike Rose's questions. Can he answer all 15 questions…
- The Problem with Bonk Scenes · 47 min · Season 1 Episode 9Very weird way to do filler episodes, excuse the pun.
- The Worst Cold Open · 49 min · Season 1 Episode 7I thought British people were supposed to be funny.
- Wanna See a Party Trick? · 58 min · Season 1 Episode 5Party tricks. Saudi Princes. Steam pricing. Somehow, Mike & Rami talk about all three of these topics on the same episode.
