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Game Studies Review

With so many new articles coming out each month, who has time to read them all? Join Dr. Alex Layne and Dr. Cody Reimer as we cover one article in the academic field of Game Studies in 20 minutes or less on each episode (or at least we try!). Maybe you’re an academic looking for a way to stay current in the field while also spending time on the treadmill. Maybe you’re an avid gamer and theorycrafter working on expanding your knowledge of game studies. Either way, listen in and listen up.

Review of Keogh and Hardwick's "Creative, Technical, Entrepreneurial: Formative Tensions in Game Development Higher Education."

35 mins; June 24, 2023

Review of Fois's “But First, Let’s Jam: A New Materialist Twist on the Ontology of Play.”

27 mins; May 16, 2023

Review of Anderson and Cullen's "Failing to See a Difference: Closing a Gender Gap in a Challenging Video Game"

20 mins; May 02, 2023

Review of Eco by Strange Loop Games

39 mins; April 11, 2023

Review of Larreina-Morales's "How Accessible is this Video Game? An Analysis Tool in Two Steps"

21 mins; April 07, 2023

TBT: Review of "Perspectives of Computer Game Philology" by Julian Kucklich

36 mins; February 13, 2023

Review of Kelly, Easpaig, and Castillo's "You Game Like a Girl: Perceptions of Gender and Competence in Gamings"

22 mins; January 13, 2023

Review of "Platform-produced Heteronormativity: A Content Analysis of Adult Video Games on Patreon" by Lankoski, Apperley, and Harviainen

34 mins; December 20, 2022

Review of Fontolan, Malazita, and da Costa's "Language, Identity, and Games: Discussing the Role of Players in Videogame Localization"

23 mins; December 11, 2022

Review of Kelly Bergstrom's "Ignoring the Blood on the Tracks: Exits and Departures from Game Studies:"

29 mins; November 22, 2022

Review of Aaron Trammell's "Decolonizing Play"

22 mins; November 07, 2022

Review of Alexandrina Agloro's "Another World is Possible: Building Games for Just Futures"

29 mins; October 23, 2022

Review of "The Future of Media Studies is Game Studies" by Shira Chess and Mia Consalvo

24 mins; June 14, 2022

Review of Treacherous Play by Marcus Carter

31 mins; May 23, 2022

Review of "'Never Battle Alone': Egirls and the Gender(ed) War on Video Game Live Streaming as 'Real' Work" by Christine H. Tran

25 mins; April 04, 2022

Review of “There Is No Immersion: Critical Intervention through Hypermediacy in Metagames" by Sarah Thorne

20 mins; March 23, 2022

Review of "At a Glance: Teaching, Writing, Gaming" by Colby, Johnson, and Shultz Colby

11 mins; March 14, 2022

Review of "Trans Game Studies" by Bo Ruberg

18 mins; February 21, 2022

Review of "We Are the Champions? Performing whiteness in ASCENSION: DAMN OF CHAMPIONS" by Sabine Harrer

18 mins; February 07, 2022

Review of "Gamifying Contentious Politics: Gaming Capital and Playful Resistance" by Vincent Huang and Tingting Liu

22 mins; January 24, 2022

Review of "Open Video Game Development and Participatory Design" by Luke Thominet

32 mins; January 19, 2022

Review of "White Protagonism and Imperial Pleasures in Game Design" by Meghna Jayanth

23 mins; January 08, 2022

Review of "The Game of Video Game Objects: A Minimal Theory of when we see Pixels as Objects rather than Pictures" by Jesper Juul

31 mins; November 29, 2021

Review of "Exploring Hybrid Gaming Cultures through Black Cyberfeminism" by Kishonna L. Gray and Brigitte Perkins

9 mins; November 01, 2021

Review of "Gender Moderation and Moderating Gender: Sexual Content Policies in Twitch's Community Guidelines" by Andrew Zolides

21 mins; October 18, 2021

Review of "There and Back Again: Tolkein, Gamers, and the Remediation of Exclusion through Fantasy Media" by Emma Vossen

17 mins; October 03, 2021

Review of “Ludic Ethics: The Ethical Negotiations of Players in Online Multiplayer Games" by Sparrow, Gibbs, and Arnold

22 mins; September 20, 2021

"Designing for Disability: Evaluating the State of Accessibility Design in Video Games" by Mark Brown and Sky LaRell Anderson

19 mins; September 12, 2021

Interview with Kat Schrier

32 mins; August 11, 2021

"Extracting the Pedagogy: Using Games as Texts in the Language Classroom" by Alex Hogue

20 mins; August 08, 2021

“Grades on Games: Gaming Preferences and Weekly Studying on College GPAs” By Kelsey Prena and Andrew Weaver

21 mins; July 11, 2021

"Playthings" by Miguel Sicart

24 mins; June 27, 2021

"A Typology of Imperative Game Goals" by Debus Et. Al.

16 mins; May 12, 2021

"Esports Research: A Literature Review" by Retiman Et. Al.

14 mins; May 05, 2021

"Replaying Video Game History as a Mixtape of Black Feminist Thought" with Samantha Blackmon

27 mins; April 28, 2021

"Play Like a Feminist" by Shira Chess

36 mins; April 21, 2021

"The Right Way to Play a Game" by C. Thi Nguyen

15 mins; April 14, 2021

Episode Zero

5 mins; April 10, 2021

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