Stephen Totilo, journalist, editor.

Stephen Totilo is an American journalist whose career has helped redefine how video games are reported and understood. After studying at **Columbia’s Graduate School of Journalism**, he became **MTV News**’ first dedicated video game reporter in 2005, bringing serious coverage of the medium to a mainstream audience. Four years later he joined **Kotaku**, where he rose to become editor-in-chief and spent nearly a decade pushing the site toward deeper reporting, broader cultural coverage, and a more ambitious vision of what games journalism could be.  My guest later joined **Axios**, building its games coverage through a widely read newsletter before striking out on his own. Now, as the founder and author of the popular Substack **Game File**, he continues to pursue the stories he believes matter most—combining deep industry reporting with a conviction that games, and the journalism around them, should be taken seriously. Become a My Perfect Console supporter and receive a range of benefits at www.patreon.com/myperfectconsole Take the Acast listener survey to help shape the show: My Perfect Console with Simon Parkin Survey 2025 * * * Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.