Episode #81 – “Ass Effect”
Jan 27Our eighty-first episode features us talking to returning guest Kaleri. We look talk about what games we’ve been enjoying, as well as discussing representation for black nerds in video games, the lack of good boob physics as well as games about butts. Lots and lots of butts. Don’t get “behind” on listening to this episode.
- Cute Witches
- Monument Valley
- Saint’s Row IV: Gat Out of Hell
- Dragon Age: Inquisition
- Don’t Read the Comments
- Seeking Racial Justice in Real Life and in Games
- The Sex Games That Steam Censors
- Let me get something off my chest about boob physics in video games
- Inspired by best character on Bob’s Burgers, here’s a game about butts
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Episode #80 – “It All Happened in England”
Jan 20Our eightieth episode features us talking to Alan Langridge, the lead designer of Wonderstruck Games! In the special interview segment, we talk about his studio’s game Marvelous Miss Take and how they came up with the game’s fun and unique sensibilities. We also talk later about why aesthetic does not equal nostalgia, why rape in video games is horrible, and many other topics.
Content warning: discussion of rape in video games occurs from 1:21:00 to 1:31:00.
- Prom King
- Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego?
- Analogue: A Hate Story
- The Oregon Trail, Deluxe
- Video Games and the Curse of the Retro
- Playing the Part: Choice and Meaning in Dragon Age: Inquisition
- Hotline Miami 2 Effectively Banned in Australia
- Splatoon
- 5 Places in Games That You’re in No Rush to Leave
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Episode #79 – “The Aesthetic”
Jan 13Our seventy-ninth episode features us talking to Gita Jackson again! On this episode, we look at why fashion and aesthetic is important in games, failure states and what high resolution graphics really mean.
- Gita’s work on Paste Games
- Hate Plus
- Transistor
- 80 Days
- Crossy Road
- Intel Allocates $300 Million for Workplace Diversity
- Mass Effect‘s Commander Shepard was created as a woman
- Transistor Earns 90+ Industry Accolades, Sells More than 600K Copies
- Think Gaming Content is Niche? Think Again
- Archive.org Releases Huge Software Library of MS-DOS Games
- Teen Time Travel: Life is Strange
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Episode #78 – “A Whole New Year”
Jan 06Our seventy-eighth episode is our first episode of 2015! On this episode, we look at some of our own writing from the past week, as well as some of the news. We talk about being marginalized creators and what that means, Polygon including Hatred on their 100 Games To Look Forward To list, as well as what it means to not care about being “hardcore” anymore.
- Night in the Woods (You can get Longest Night here.)
- Lost Constellation
- take my hand
- A Mile In His Shoes: Playing Shadow of Mordor as Lithariel as Talion
- On Being a Marginalized Content Creator
- This Year in Video Game Blogging 2014
- I’m No Longer Interested About Whether Other Gamers Think I’m Sufficiently Hardcore
- Polygon’s Top 100 List to Look Forward To
- “No Qualified Women Applied” AKA Go Fuck Yourself
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Episode #77 – “The 2014 Justies Awards”
Dec 30Our seventy-seventh episode is our year-end special and award ceremony, where we look at the negatives and positives from the last 12 months of being a part of the video game community, as both participants and podcast hosts. Stay tuned afterwards for us giving our totally real awards, The Justies, to the most deserving people in the video game community for a variety of very serious categories.
Editor’s note: The sound quality on this week’s episode is unfortunately a little worse than usual, we apologize for the inconvenience. Someone recorded the show with her webcam mic by accident.
Justies Award Categories:
- Favorite Games Editorial Piece of the Year
- Best Overall Writing This Year
- Best Woman Character
- Most Repeated Host VIP Award
- Whitebread and Mayo Reserve Award for Blandest Video Game Protagonist
- Special Studio Award for Excellence in Service
- Favorite Text-Based Game
- Favorite Music in a Game
- Game Dev We Spent Too Much Time Talking About on G-Chat
- Favorite Indie Game
- Favorite AAA Game
- Get Hyped Award for Game We Are Most Anticipating in 2015
- The Game of the Year
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Episode #76 – “A Little Positivity”
Dec 23Our seventy-sixth episode features Tzufit and Apple Cider talking again to Pam of Cannot Be Tamed. We talk to her about what she’s been playing in video games, as well as the news of the week. We cover Hatred being pulled and re-instated on Steam Greenlight, Minecraft: Telltale Edition, Steve Gaynor’s writing about horror and Sortingh.at.
- Pam’s earlier appearance on Justice Points talking about Tomb Raider
- Pam’s review of Cat Lady
- Cinders
- The Marvelous Miss Take
- Hatred is Back on Steam Greenlight
- Hatred, free Speech, and one developer’s connections with Poland’s far right
- Minecraft to get episodic, story-based game from Telltale Games
- Check out Final Fantasy XIV’s New Race, Raid and Jobs
- Don’t Look Behind You
- Sortingh.at
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Episode #75 – “Pieces of You”
Dec 16Our seventy-fifth episode features Tzufit and Apple Cider talking to Daniel Starkey, games journalist and critic. We talk to him about what it’s like to write about games from an early age, the importance of the personal in games writing (and writing in general) as well as his experiences with being an American Indian in the games industry. We also tackle news from the week including YouPorn sponsoring a DoTA 2 team, a shut-down charity stream for AbleGamers as well as looking at Adrian Chmielarz of The Vanishing of Ethan Carter.
- Daniel’s Contently
- My Mother Commander Shepard
- Dawn of a New Day
- Dote Night: The Problem With YouPorn Sponsorship
- AbleGamer’s weird weekend of porn stars, charity, and worries over a DDoS attack
- The next time someone doesn’t understand systemic prejudice, send them this game
- Marketing is the Lifeblood of Our Industry
- Adrian Chmielarz Interview – #Gamergate, Vitriol, and Saying Enough is Enough
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Episode #74 – “The Best Ending”
Dec 09Our seventy-fourth episode features Tzufit and Apple Cider talking to Javy Gwaltney, writer and game developer. We talk to him about some of his games, including Terror Aboard the Speedwell as well as his thoughts on paid writing. We also tackle the news of the week including the new Assassin’s Creed, the Game Awards and Grand Theft Auto V being pulled from Target in Australia.
Content warning in this episode around 1:20:00 for discussion about violence against sex workers.
- Javy’s Itch.io page
- Javy’s writing on Paste Games
- Fallout: New Vegas Doctor Who Run
- Next Year’s Big Assassin’s Creed is Set in Victorian London
- Wardrobe Theory: Vivienne from Dragon Age: Inquisition
- 25 Invisible Benefits of Gaming While Male
- Here Are the Winners for the Game Awards
- Tacoma
- Sex Workers Petition to Pull GTAV from Shelves, Target Australia Agrees
- OutsideIn.org
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