Game Studies Study Buddies
Ranged Touch
A Game Studies Podcast
- 1 hour 46 minutes79 – Humphreys – Manifest Destiny 2.0
We talk about Sara Humphreys’ Manifest Destiny 2.0: Genre Trouble in Game Worlds.
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27 February 2025, 1:00 pm - 2 hours 7 minutes78 – Dibbell – My Tiny Life
We talk about Julian Dibbell’s My Tiny Life.
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1 February 2025, 3:37 am - 2 hours 13 minutes77 – Flanagan and Jakobsson – Playing Oppression
We talk about Mary Flanagan and Mikael Jakobsson’s Playing Oppression.
You can read the book open access on The MIT Press website: https://direct.mit.edu/books/oa-monograph/5547/Playing-OppressionThe-Legacy-of-Conquest-and
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31 December 2024, 3:00 pm - 1 hour 45 minutes76 – Trammell – Repairing Play
We talk about Aaron Trammell’s Repairing Play. It is open access on The MIT Press’s website: https://direct.mit.edu/books/oa-monograph/5530/Repairing-PlayA-Black-Phenomenology
Note: Did one last final check — Riven did eventually release for the Sega Saturn.
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1 December 2024, 3:25 am - 2 hours 30 minutes75 – Jameson – Postmodernism
We talk about Fredric Jameson’s “Postmodernism, or The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism” which was originally published in New Left Review in 1984.
Note: Checked one more time — Riven did eventually release for the Sega Saturn.
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31 October 2024, 9:00 am - 1 hour 33 minutes74 – Guerra – Slantwise Moves
We talk about Douglas Guerra’s Slantwise Moves: Games, Literature, and Social Invention in Nineteenth-Century America.
Note: Checked again — Riven did eventually release for the Sega Saturn.
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30 September 2024, 9:00 am - 2 hours 22 minutes73 – Wardrip-Fruin – How Pac-Man Eats
We talk about Noah Wardrip-Fruin’s How Pac-Man Eats.
Note: Still confirming that Riven eventually released for the Sega Saturn.
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31 August 2024, 9:00 am - 2 hours 8 seconds72 – Myst: Masterpiece Edition
We talk about Cyan’s Myst.
Note: Riven did eventually come out for the Sega Saturn.
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30 July 2024, 9:00 am - 1 hour 26 minutes71 – Pinchbeck – Doom: Scarydarkfast
We talk about Dan Pinchbeck’s Doom: Scarydarkfast.
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1 July 2024, 3:03 am - 70 – De Koven – The Well-Played Game
We talk about Bernard De Koven’s The Well-Played Game.
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31 May 2024, 9:00 am - 1 hour 58 minutes69 – Hunter – Playing Real
We talk about Lindsay Brandon Hunter’s Playing Real: Mimesis, Media, and Mischief.
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