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Tag: gameplay

Podcast

Podcast: The Moral, Immersive, and Esoteric of Video Games

What's the best way to marry "big questions" of morality and player involvement in games with our actual passion for those games?

By Dan Hughes, 11 months ago July 15, 2024
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, 11 months ago July 4, 2024
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Why You Must Play Tales of Hearts R 389 Times

Tales of Hearts R's fairy tale is an activity that bonds all real and fictional entities of the Tales of Series with one source of value.

By Aaron Suduiko, 12 months ago June 5, 2024
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, 2 years ago November 21, 2023
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Tales of Symphonia: What Regal Bryant Taught Me

A case study of Regal Bryant casts Kratos Aurion in a new light and shows how Tales of Symphonia's relationship system informs its story.

By Aaron Suduiko, 2 years ago August 11, 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
Podcast

Pokémon Rose Episode 6: “The Partner Pokémon”

As the number of Pokémon grew in Pokémon Gold and Silver, the trainer's chosen bond with one particular, special Pokémon only deepened.

By Dan Hughes, 2 years ago April 10, 2023
Noah and his Blade
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Forms of Life: Reading Xenoblade Chronicles 3 through Wittgenstein

Only through the lens of a philosopher at war with himself can we understand a game at war with itself.

By Aaron Suduiko, 2 years ago January 16, 2023
Podcast

With a Terrible Fate Podcast Episode 5: Duties to the Self and Avatars

Join us for a conversation with Daniel Muñoz and our founder on the intersection of self-directed ethics and gamers' duties to avatars.

By Stefan Heinrich Simond, 4 years ago May 30, 2021

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