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Philosophy is like plumbing for ideas - it makes connections and keeps everything flowing. In this podcast, Graham and his guests are doing some philosophical plumbing for game studies. We'll be asking questions like: Why are philosophers always talking about games? Is philosophy itself a game? How can we use games to understand philosophy - and how can we use philosophy to understand games? This podcast will use philosophy to study games and games to study philosophy. Anyone interested in p ...
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This podcast is en excerpt of my devlog in which i talk about one ludological topic each week. I will try to deconstruct a mechanic or part of a game, see what its benefits and drawbacks are and try to come up with ideas on how to use it and what can be improved.
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The Game Dev Field Guide is a podcast series focused on teaching you how to make and launch your own video games. This podcast is aimed at the beginner to intermediate level of game developer. Learn things like how to make crisp movement controls, making eye catching sprites, and marketing your game for it's big release. Stay awhile and listen!
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Hi there, my name is Kendrick and I'm a college graduate student who is obsessed with learning, productivity, and creating entertainment. A lot of the show involves exploring my thought process for certain events and experiences that have helped me become the person I am today. My goal is to gamify life by discovering tools and hacks to help you make your best day everyday!
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Want to improve your Scrabble game? Listen (repeatedly) to our word learning and entertaining broadcast and eventually memorize more words than you thought you would ever learn. Two podcasts upload each week on Tuesdays and Fridays!
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Say It Like You Play It

Ibi Baxter-Webb & Joe Baxter-Webb

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The podcast about games, language and culture. With hosts Dr. Ibi and Dr. Joe. Dr. Ibi has a Ph.D. in Linguistics and likes to play games. Dr. Joe has a Ph.D. in Media & Cultural studies, and designs games for a living. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Meaningful Play Podcast

Sian Tomkinson and Heather Blakey

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Welcome to Meaningful Play, a podcast where we talk about video games, new or old, light or serious, controversial or inspiring, and everything in between with an academic flair. Meaningful Play is hosted by Sian Tomkinson and Heather Blakey, who are games studies scholars based in Perth, Western Australia.
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How do landmark Supreme Court decisions affect our lives? What does the 2nd Amendment really say? Why does the Senate have so much power? Civics 101 is the podcast about how our democracy works…or is supposed to work, anyway.
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Welcome to Active Reload! Hosted by James Timberlake & Grant Yuhre, this podcast is all about video games! From Microsoft to Nintendo to PC, each week the guys will dish their opinions on the biggest video game news and topics! As well as top five lists, recommendations, and what they're playing at the moment! Posted every week, this is your go-to show for all your gaming discussions!
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Hello, world! Check out SPARTIE-Cast, with Dr. Robby Ratan, Director of the Social and Psychological Approaches to Technology-Interaction Effects (SPARTIE) Lab at Michigan State University, with amazing support from Producer George McNeill and Technical Director, Connor Bird.
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Continuing Studies: for Higher Ed Podcasters

Hosts Jennifer-Lee Gunson & Neil McPhedran. A Podium Podcasts & HigherEdPods.com Production

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Join our community at HigherEdPods.com and follow the Continuing Studies Podcast, as we explore the intersection of higher education and podcasting. Each episode features insights from seasoned university podcasters who share tips, best practices, and stories from their podcasting journeys. Hosted by Jennifer-Lee Gunson and Neil McPhedran, this series covers everything from the technical aspects of podcasting to the art of storytelling and conducting interviews. Continuing Studies is more th ...
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Video Game History Hour

Video Game History Foundation

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Industry experts Frank Cifaldi and Kelsey Lewin, co-Directors of the Video Game History Foundation, bring on fellow content creators, game developers, video game historians, and storytellers to teach us a little bit about video game history. Our casual, “chatting over coffee” style interviews let us see the true life of a researcher: bang-your-head-against-a-wall dead-ends, “I can’t believe no one’s told this story before” moments, the thrill of sharing incredible history with the world, and ...
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Studying Pixels combines game studies and a joyful engagement with video game culture. Every Sunday, game studies scholar Stefan Heinrich Simond and Japanese scholar Dan Hughes cover anything from reviews of contemporary games to news stories and from academic deep-dives to controversial discussions—all wrapped up in a sincere appreciation of everything geeky. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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The Chess Angle

Long Island Chess Club

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The Chess Angle is the official podcast of the renowned Long Island Chess Club in NY. We discuss chess, tournament play, and improvement at the amateur and club level. Featured guests include titled players and dedicated amateurs. New episodes drop on Sundays. Web: www.thechessangle.com. Twitter (X): www.twitter.com/TheChessAngle. Email: info@thechessangle.com. Thank you for listening and we hope you win your next game!
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I am Hal Hammons, a citizen of heaven. I broadcast regular reports of what it is for a child of God to live in Satan's world. My reports typically break down into four segments:"What I've been preaching" -- a point I have made in a recent sermon."What I've been reading" -- A brief breakdown of a book of the Bible or other reading material that has helped me in my understanding or application of the Bible."What I've been hearing" -- news from the internet or other sources about what is going ...
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The Gaming Persona

Daniel Kaufmann Ph.D. | Dr. Gameology

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Welcome to The Gaming Persona, a unique podcast that traverses the exciting crossroads of gaming and mental health. With your host, Dr. Gameology, peel back the layers of the gaming world to discover its profound impact on our cognitive and emotional health. You'll understand how video games, far from being mere entertainment, can act as powerful tools for personal growth, stress relief, and mental resilience. Join fellow gamers and enthusiasts in thought-provoking discussions, unraveling th ...
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Overwhelmed at the thought of reading the Bible? New to the idea? Or looking to get more out of it? Spend time each day hearing from Nicky and Pippa Gumbel as they take you through the whole Bible in 365 days and help you to understand it better. Drawing out a theme for each day from the designated Bible readings, Nicky and Pippa’s thoughts on the Proverbs, Psalms and New and Old Testament excerpts are full of insight, wisdom and application.
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This Study Shows

Listen Entertainment & Wiley

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The only way for research to change the world is if the world knows and cares about it. In This Study Shows, a podcast from Wiley, we explore how to connect research with emotions and experiences and transform the way science is shared. Hosted by Danielle George and Mary-Ann Ochota, each of our six episodes asks the tough science communication questions: how? why? and so what?
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Only Wizards in the Dungeon Podcast

Only Wizards in the Dungeon Podcast

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Only Wizards in The Dungeon Podcast, otherwise known as OWDCast, is a TTRPG roleplaying podcast. We are producing both long-form and short-form TTRPG content audio content using a variety of tabletop RPG systems. We aim to create entertaining and interesting audio stories through the collaborative storytelling platform of tabletop roleplaying games. Patreon: patreon.com/OWDcast Twitter & Instagram: @OWDcast
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Student of the Game is a long form conversation podcast hosted by Music Manager and Entrepreneur Nolan Smith who is personally inspired to learn from his guests who are experts in their respective fields ranging from Music, Fashion, Film, Entertainment, Sports, Health & Fitness, Spiritual, etc.
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Character Study

Tirumari Jothi and Jacob Rubin

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Tirumari Jothi and Jacob Rubin will review one of the playable characters from the uber-popular Super Smash Bros series, in chronological order from when they were introduced to the series. Each episode covers: the character's history outside of the series, how they've played in the game's fifteen-year history, tournament play and personal opinions.
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Krewe of Japan

Japan Society of New Orleans

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Krewe of Japan is a weekly podcast that takes listeners on audio journeys through Japanese culture. With our hosts as your guide, and the help of guest experts, Japanese natives, and ex-pats, understanding Japan is now easier than ever before.
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A podcast by gamers for gamers but about politics. Byte Marx is a podcast about examining games from a political perspective and looking at how politics in video games affects its players and world around it.
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Crime is so commonplace that it takes something particularly shocking to be labelled the “crime of the century.” Even so, there are a lot of cases that have earned the distinction. In each episode of Crimes of the Centuries, award-winning journalist Amber Hunt will examine a case that’s lesser known today but was huge when it happened. The cases explored span the centuries and each left a mark. Some made history by changing laws. Others were so shocking they changed society.
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Each episode, about 15 minutes long, is packed with concise tips, strategies, research, methodologies, case studies, and ideas to help you safely and effectively grow your wealth. Stuart Wemyss, a qualified financial advisor, accountant, tax agent, and licensed mortgage broker, delivers holistic advice. With four authored books, including "Investopoly" and "Rules of the Lending Game," Stuart shares his insights through a weekly blog, which is replicated on this podcast.
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Made in Asia/America: Why Video Games Were Never (Really) about Us (Duke UP, 2024) explores the key role video games play within the race makings of Asia/America. Its fourteen critical essays on games, ranging from Death Stranding to Animal Crossing, and five roundtables with twenty Asian/American game makers examine the historical entanglements of…
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Aris Politpopoulos joins me to discuss David Graeber's essay "What's the Point if We Can't Have Fun?" We also discuss Aaron Trammel's recent book Repairing Play, which you can find here: https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262545273/repairing-play/ For more from Aris and to learn about his work at Leiden University, you can check out his appearance on my …
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Red Dead Redemption and Red Dead Redemption II, set in 1911 and 1899, are the most-played American history video games since The Oregon Trail. Beloved by millions, they’ve been widely acclaimed for their realism and attention to detail. But how do they fare as re-creations of history? In Red Dead's History: A Video Game, an Obsession, and America's…
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The intersection of gaming technologies with educational and social initiatives. Neil and Jen welcome Dr. Emma Vossen from the University of Waterloo's Games Institute on this episode of the Continuing Studies podcast. Dr. Vossen shares insights into her role as the Knowledge Mobilization and Research Impact Officer, detailing the interdisciplinary…
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Welcome to Active Reload! This week James and Grant open up the show talking about the official death of the Xbox 360 Marketplace. Grant has a top five list in remembrance of it's shutting down. They also talk about the Stalker 2 delay as well as the new Quidditch Champions trailer. Finally, the guys discuss the study that was put out by Activision…
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Made in Asia/America: Why Video Games Were Never (Really) about Us (Duke UP, 2024) explores the key role video games play within the race makings of Asia/America. Its fourteen critical essays on games, ranging from Death Stranding to Animal Crossing, and five roundtables with twenty Asian/American game makers examine the historical entanglements of…
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Since the mid-nineteenth century, public officials, reformers, journalists, and other elites have referred to “the labour question.” The labour question was rooted in the system of wage labour that spread throughout much of Europe and its colonies and produced contending classes as industrialization unfolded. Answers to the Labour Question explores…
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Made in Asia/America: Why Video Games Were Never (Really) about Us (Duke UP, 2024) explores the key role video games play within the race makings of Asia/America. Its fourteen critical essays on games, ranging from Death Stranding to Animal Crossing, and five roundtables with twenty Asian/American game makers examine the historical entanglements of…
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In 2003, in a ruling that bordered on poetic, Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy wrote in Lawrence v. Texas that sexual behavior between consenting adults was protected under the constitutional right to privacy. This was a landmark case in the course of LGBTQ+ rights in the Untied States, laying the groundwork for cases like 2015's Obergefell v.…
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(TIME STAMPS BELOW) Why I STILL LOVE No Man's Sky as of the 2024 "Worlds, Part 1" Update, and some thoughts about why Psalm 64 is great to read and pray through when you're being attacked online! AND MUCH MORE! 00:00:30 Intro 00:03:18 Why I STILL LOVE No Man's Sky In 2024! 00:24:21 CGC & Christian Geek News 00:29:06 Psalm 64 On Being Attacked Onlin…
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In the first two decades of the twentieth century, New York State was a hotbed of change. Cities grew as immigrants arrived from Europe and African Americans trekked up from the South. Corporations grew in power and women fought for the right to vote. In political speeches, muckraking journalism, and expert reports, New Yorkers argued out the issue…
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In Another Aesthetics Is Possible: Arts of Rebellion in the Fourth World War (Duke UP, 2021), Jennifer Ponce de León examines the roles that art can play in the collective labour of creating and defending another social reality. Focusing on artists and art collectives in Argentina, Mexico, and the United States, Ponce de León shows how experimental…
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In the early nineteenth century, as slavery gradually ended in the North, a village in New York State invented a new form of unfreedom: the profit-driven prison. Uniting incarceration and capitalism, the village of Auburn built a prison that enclosed industrial factories. There, "slaves of the state" were leased to private companies. The prisoners …
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First up this week on the show, uncounted kilometers of fences are strung across the globe. Researchers know they interfere with wildlife migrations and sometimes make finding food and safety difficult for animals. But they don’t know where all these fences are. Freelancer science journalist Christine Peterson joins host Sarah Crespi to discuss how…
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In The Enslaved and Their Enslavers: Power, Resistance, and Culture in South Carolina, 1670-1825 (U Pennsylvania Press, 2023), Edward Pearson offers a sweeping history of slavery in South Carolina, from British settlement in 1670 to the dawn of the Civil War. For enslaved peoples, the shape of their daily lives depended primarily on the particular …
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Welcome to Active Reload! This week on the show James and Grant get into everything Gamescom 2024! From very solid trailers (Kingdom Come Deliverance 2, Civilization 7) to big announcements (Borderlands 4, New Dying Light) the guys got you covered with everything shown on day one of the conference. There was also a very big announcement outside of …
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Joseph Heathcott discusses his latest book, Global Queens: An Urban Mosaic (Fordham University Press, 2023), an engaging hybrid of text and visual that features a trove of his personal photography of urban spaces throughout NYC's most diverse borough. Including: airports, overgrown yards, possibly the last living speakers of indigenous languages, t…
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DOWNLOAD our 97-point financial health checklist here. Read full blog here. In this episode, Stuart delves into why Australia’s share market often seems to underperform compared to global markets, despite occasional bright spots. He reflects on the recent 6% market drop followed by a modest recovery in Australia compared to the US. While historical…
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The Chevron Doctrine, or Chevron Deference, was an established judicial principle. When the law was ambiguous, the courts would let the agency experts interpret it. After a Supreme Court case called Loper Bright v Raimondo, that is no longer the case. So what does that mean? What exactly has gone away? What happens next? Our guides to the wonkiest …
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Register your feedback here. Always good to hear from you! Texans have a reputation for bragging. In reality, we’re just worried you may not know how much better than you we are. I’m joking. I’m mostly joking. This week we’ll cover Bible braggadocio and whether it’s warranted; the many stories of Texans chasing treasure and bragging about not findi…
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DOWNLOAD our 97-point financial health checklist here: https://prosolution.com.au/download-checklist/ In this case study episode, Stuart takes listeners through a fascinating client journey that showcases a 3.2x growth in investment assets over nine years. Starting with a net worth of $2.7 million in 2015, the clients have seen their wealth soar to…
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Happy Anniversary! Continuing Studies reflects on year one of the podcast. Neil and Jen celebrate one year of podcasting by sharing some of the lessons they've learned and the challenges they've overcome. They reflect on their conversations with higher education podcasters, sharing tips on consistency, flexibility, interview techniques, titling str…
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Cassie Chadwick of Cleveland wasn't who she said she was. Even she admitted that -- though in her version, she wasn't the con artist daughter of a Canadian farmer, but rather the illegitimate daughter of Andrew Carnegie, America's wealthiest man. She used that lie to bilk businessmen, bankers and entire institutions out of boatloads of money, earni…
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Your opponent has a better position or plays a move that catches you by surprise. Rather than keep your composure while patiently analyzing, you become frustrated, despondent, and convince yourself your position and/or your opponent's apparent threat is worse than it is. As a result, you bang out an unnecessary (and weakening) defensive move. Sound…
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Each year, thousands of youth endure harrowing unaccompanied and undocumented migrations across Central America and Mexico to the United States in pursuit of a better future. Drawing on the firsthand narratives of migrant youth in Los Angeles, California to produce Sin Padres, Ni Papeles: Unaccompanied Migrant Youth Coming of Age in the United Stat…
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Over two million Americans are currently in prison or jail. Another 4.5 million are on probation or parole. And nearly one in two Americans have a family member who is or has been incarcerated. Writing for those new to activism as well as seasoned organizers, celebrated criminal justice activist Raj Jayadev introduces readers to the groundbreaking …
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In the lead-up to every election cycle, pundits predict that Latino Americans will overwhelmingly vote in favor of the Democratic candidate. And it’s true—Latino voters do tilt Democratic. Hillary Clinton won the Latino vote in a “landslide,” Barack Obama “crushed” Mitt Romney among Latino voters in his reelection, and, four years earlier, the Demo…
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In Normporn: Queer Viewers and the TV That Soothes Us (NYU Press, 2023), Karen Tongson presents an irreverent look at the love-hate relationship between queer viewers and mainstream family TV shows like Gilmore Girls and This Is Us. After personal loss, political upheaval, and the devastation of the COVID-19 pandemic, many of us craved a return to …
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(TIME STAMPS BELOW) A review of Alien: Romulus, and a look at the idea of receiving wealth as a result of being generous in our continuing study of Proverbs. (And nope, this ain't the prosperity/"health and wealth" gospel we're talking about!) AND MUCH MORE! 00:00:30 Intro 00:03:14 Alien: Romulus Review 00:18:53 CGC & Christian Geek News (Paeter & …
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What's your Japan version of "Ain't Dere No More"? Between changes within the megalopolis of Tokyo to the struggles of keeping countryside communities alive & thriving, Azby Brown returns to the podcast to discuss urban migration, depopulation, revitalization projects, centuries-old feuds raging on today... AND SO MUCH MORE! ------ About the Krewe …
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This is part #2 of a the (ir)Rational Alaskans, a Cited Podcast series that re-examines the legacy of the Exxon Valdez oil spill. Last episode, the spill devastates Cordova, Alaska. In this second part, 12 Angry Alaskans, a jury of ordinary Alaskans picks up our story. They muddle through the most devastating, and most complicated, environmental di…
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Political Scientist Heath Brown’s new book, Roadblocked: Joe Biden's Rocky Transition to the Presidency (UP of Kansas, 2024), examines the presidential transition between the Trump Administration and the Biden Administration in late 2020 and into 2021. Presidential transitions are not all that frequent, since presidents who are re-elected do not ne…
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First up this week, Deputy News Editors Elizabeth Culotta and Shraddha Chakradhar join host Sarah Crespi to talk about the launch of a new series highlighting the latest in postcolonial science. They cover how researchers around the world, but especially in the Global South, are reckoning with colonial legacies and what is in store for the rest of …
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Welcome to Active Reload! On this week's episode, James and Grant talk a little bit about the Borderland movie, a perfect example on how to NOT make a movie based on a video game and why studios insist on taking big name video games and turn them into something that misses lots of aspects of the source material. After that, the guys discuss the rec…
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