The Critical Moves team delivers their first internal retrospective, examining their breakthrough year through favourite guest interviews, debating whether they qualify as journalists, and confronting the misleading “gaming industry in decline” narrative while explaining why their independence from publishers enables brutal honesty about strategy games. https://criticalmovespodcast.com/listen This episode provides unfiltered team reflections on Critical Moves’ first full year, where Jack and Adam discuss how joining the podcast became career highlights while Al confronts the stress of managing a multinational volunteer team. The hosts dissect the false narrative that gaming is declining—revealing how big publishers struggle while indie developers thrive—and share favourite interview moments from guests like Luke Hughes, Brandon Castile, and Thomas Vandenberg. The conversation explores why their independence from publishers allows honest criticism without consequences, recalls the Brazilian Batman incident where a criticized developer joined their Discord, and issues...