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This Game Changed My Life

Aoife Wilson and Julia Hardy find the most shocking, moving and inspiring true stories about how gaming changed people’s lives forever. New episodes every Thursday.

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Episodes

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Maroon: Tracking a Killer
How a terrible confession on a gaming server led to a nerve-shredding online manhunt.
28 Jan 2021,23 mins,
Laurie & Josh: Love and Warcraft
A love story, as told by World of Warcraft.
04 Jun 2020,21 mins
Jim: Fight, Flight or Freeze
Jim suffers from a terrifying form of psychosis, but gained confidence from a video game.
28 May 2020,27 mins
Fly & N0tail: Gaming's Biggest Grudge Match
A story of betrayal, a bitter rivalry and 11 million dollars.
21 May 2020,28 mins,
Alexander: King of Spies
What happens when you spy on other gamers? You become an emperor.
14 May 2020,36 mins,
Keith: The Cursed Game
Keith bought a creepy game in 1984, but is it cursed?
07 May 2020,23 mins
Mat: Space Buddies and Fuel Rats
How video games gave Mat and his nephew Michael hope in their darkest hour.
30 Apr 2020,34 mins
Ryan Hart: Champion of the World
The story of Ryan Hart, who beat homelessness and became a video game world champion.
23 Apr 2020,27 mins
Fatima Al Qadiri: Gulf War Vampires
The story of Fatima Al Qadiri, who escaped the horror of the Gulf War through Castlevania
16 Apr 2020,25 mins
Charlie Brooker: My Life in Video Games
Charlie Brooker talks about the video games that changed his life.
09 Apr 2020,20 mins,
Abdullah: Escape in an Oil Barrel
The astonishing true story of Abdullah, who fled civil war and made a video game about it
02 Apr 2020,37 mins
Arsenio: Rocketships and Wiimotes
Arsenio now works for NASA and has sent something into space, all because of a video game
26 Mar 2020,21 mins
Welcome to This Game Changed My Life
When one game changes everything.
20 Mar 2020,1 min