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Tag: game studies

Podcast

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!

By Dan Hughes, 10 months ago July 4, 2024
Podcast

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?

By Dan Hughes, 1 year ago December 15, 2023
Podcast

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!

By Dan Hughes, 1 year ago December 5, 2023
Podcast

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.

By Dan Hughes, 1 year ago November 21, 2023
Podcast

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.

By Dan Hughes, 2 years ago June 14, 2023
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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.

By Aaron Suduiko, 2 years ago March 3, 2023
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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.

By Dan Hughes, 2 years ago February 27, 2023
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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.

By Aaron Suduiko, 4 years ago September 10, 2021
Podcast

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.

By Stefan Heinrich Simond, 4 years ago July 4, 2021
Podcast

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."

By Stefan Heinrich Simond, 4 years ago May 2, 2021
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