Episode 137: A Turtle Named Shelly: Firewatch With Me (Right click and save as to download, or find us on iTunes, Stitcher, Google Play, or TuneIn). This week we come together to talk about turtles, bees, and mysteries in the Wyoming mountains. That’s right we’re talking about Campo Santo’s Firewatch which was (finally)released last […]
Samantha Blackmon
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In recent weeks and months social media and television media has given me a lot to think about in terms of the sexualization of the black body. From Lena Dunham’s ignorant comments about Odell Beckham Jr. on social media to my own experience watching a television show on Netflix to […]
Episode 136: Dangerous Depictions: A Conversation with Tommi Godwin (Right click and save as to download, or find us on iTunes, Stitcher, Google Play, or TuneIn). This week we are joined by guest, Tommi Godwin. Tommi is a veteran, she was an officer, a sentinel, and a woman deployed in Iraq in 2005-2006. She […]
On Saturday, October 8, 2016 we are hosting our fourth Gaming for Good event. This time we have chosen Stop Soldier Suicide as our charity (link to donation portal below). Every day an average of 20+ veterans and 1 active duty soldier take their own lives. Because of the stigma […]
This holiday weekend was one of the first times my daughter and I had to just relax and spend time alone since the beginning of the school year a month ago, so when she asked if we could stay home and write/plan/make a Minecraft machinima (like all good nerdlings), I […]
Episode 135: Just Too Canadian: A Conversation on Feminist Game Studies with Emma Vossen (Right click and save as to download, or find us on iTunes, Stitcher, Google Play, or TuneIn). This week we talk with outgoing Editor-in-Chief of First Person Scholar, Emma Vossen (University of Waterloo) about feminist game studies, “doing” game studies […]
There are lots of really cool board games available for children outside of the run of the mill Candy Land, Game of Life, and the like. In the last couple of years I have discovered more kid friendly versions of adult board games like Catan Junior, My First Carcassonne, and […]
This week has been a bit of a family gaming challenge. While I have wanted to do nothing more than play No Man’s Sky in my now limited, school-started-back-this-week, gaming time, my daughter has wanted to play Minecraft every chance she’s gotten. And it’s understandable in many ways, both games […]
Space travel has always been fascinating to me. Not fascinating enough to make me want to actually go to space, but definitely intriguing enough to watch it from afar. I blame this, in part, on my mother. When I was a child we watched Star Trek every Sunday. It was […]
Episode 134: Hauntings: A Conversation with The Deep End Games’ Amanda Gardner (Right click and save as to download, or find us on iTunes, Stitcher, Google Play, or TuneIn). This week we talk with writer, producer, and co-founder of The Deep End Games, Amanda Gardner about their upcoming horror game, Perception. We had a […]
It’s that time of year for academics. The time when we are frantically trying to finish our course planning for fall classes (done!) and do something…anything to make ourselves feel like we’ve made adequate progress on our research projects over the summer. Did we read enough articles or books, did […]
One of the things that my daughter and I have done since she was old enough to pick in a high chair at the table with me and wield a kid sized knife is cook together. When she was little more than a toddler “cooking” looked a lot like mushing […]
Episode 133: On Toxic Activism with Gil Almogi: Ignore the Trolls and Focus on the Systems (Right click and save as to download, or find us on iTunes, Stitcher, Google Play, or TuneIn). This week we talk with freelance games writer Gil Almogi (@gilmeansjoy) about games, social media, and the work of activism. Gil […]
In the recent weeks and months I have found myself asking the question over and over again, “Why would you shoot an unarmed or restrained person when they were not a threat?” and the answer has bounced back and forth between hatred and fear. Or perhaps more accurately the hatred […]
The Hunt for Red Panda ($2.99) is a new mobile game from Zagrava Games. The Hunt For Red Panda goes well beyond your typical hidden object game. We want to instill in players the idea that paintings need to be appreciated and preserved for future generations — and to teach them […]
Episode 132: Fade to White: Colorblind Racism in Games (Right click and save as to download, or find us on iTunes, Stitcher, Google Play, or TuneIn). This week we talk about what role race and racism play in representation and characterization in video games. Our conversation gets deep, we talk about the foundations of […]