Five Nights at Freddy’s
A Very Special Halloween Gaming Podcast
Celebrate video-game horror storytelling on Halloween with a podcast conversation ranging from Pokémon to FNaF to Silent Hill to JRPGs!
With a Terrible Fate’s weekly podcast discusses and analyzes video-game storytelling from all angles. Find all episodes here.
Celebrate video-game horror storytelling on Halloween with a podcast conversation ranging from Pokémon to FNaF to Silent Hill to JRPGs!
On an especially spooky Friday the 13th, explore the origin stories of Ghost Pokémon, corruptive glitches, and early internet creepypastas.
Pokémon Generation 4 showcases not only how mythopoeia illuminates Pokémon, but also how Pokémon satisfies the human need for mythopoeia.
A study in how the same games that turn you off of a series in childhood can call you back to it as an adult—featuring Pokémon Gen 4.
Within the DNA of Pokémon Alpha Sapphire and Omega Ruby's storytelling dwells an invitation to reinterpret yourself as a player—and a person.
Pokémon Ruby and Sapphire pushed the series' storytelling in a new direction by inviting its player to reconsider the meaning of rivalry.
What can Pokémon villains teach us about the value—and limits—of dreams?
How the innovation of Pokémon's modern metagame in Ruby and Sapphire unexpectedly enriched the heart of Pokémon's storytelling.
What happens to our relationships with our favorite childhood video-game series as we grow up and new games continue to be added to those series?
A reflection on an early moment in Pokémon history when a new legendary Pokémon blurred the lines between time travel in real and fictional worlds.