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Podcast: INSCRYPTION, Game Mothers, and Gaming Rituals
Listen to a deep dissection of Inscryption, a celebration of motherhood in gaming, and a meditation on the rituals of single-player gaming!
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What Do We Do When We Talk About Games?
Join us in a podcast about gaming meta-discourse: what does it take to have productive conversations about our experiences with games?
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Podcast: Awards, Holiday Gaming, and Demos
Enjoy a podcast breaking in December with reflections on awards culture, holiday gaming, the semiotics of recommendation, demos, and more!
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Podcast: Ludic Gymnastics
From Persona 5 Tactica to Tales of Arise: Beyond the Dawn to the PS Portal, enjoy a podcast on the many ways in which gamers bounce around.
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Pokémon Rose Episode 11: “The Value of Effort”
How the innovation of Pokémon's modern metagame in Ruby and Sapphire unexpectedly enriched the heart of Pokémon's storytelling.
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Tales of Praxis: An Introduction
Announcing a new With a Terrible Fate series playing and analyzing the stories of Bandai Namco's Tales series of JRPGs.
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Pokémon Rose: A New Retrospective Audio Series (Intro)
Announcing a new audio series studying the artistic and nostalgic value of the Pokémon series from Red and Blue through Scarlet and Violet.
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“How Gaming Will Change Humanity as We Know It”: A Reply
A point-by-point rebuttal of Tyler Cowen's article criticizing the ability of video games to have cultural value within a literary canon.
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With a Terrible Fate Podcast Episode 10: Reading Circle — Homo Ludens
Listen in on a miniature book club discussing the first part of Johan Huizinga's Homo Ludens, along with Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart.
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With a Terrible Fate Podcast Episode 1: Pressing Start
In the first episode of WaTF's podcast, we introduce ourselves and the project and discuss Nier, Returnal, and "games as rent."