Game Studies Study Buddies

Game Studies Study Buddies


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78 – Dibbell – My Tiny Life
January 31, 2025

We talk about Julian Dibbell's My Tiny Life. Buy the shirt! Support this show on Patreon! Buy books from our Bookshop.org page! Follow Ranged Touch on Twitter. Follow CMRN on Twitter.

77 – Flanagan and Jakobsson – Playing Oppression
December 31, 2024

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-Oppression

76 – Trammell – Repairing Play
November 30, 2024

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 fi

75 – Jameson – Postmodernism
October 31, 2024

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 eventual

74 – Guerra – Slantwise Moves
September 30, 2024

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. Bu

73 – Wardrip-Fruin – How Pac-Man Eats
August 31, 2024

We talk about Noah Wardrip-Fruin's How Pac-Man Eats. Note: Still confirming that Riven eventually released for the Sega Saturn. Buy the shirt! Support this show on Patreon! Buy books from

72 – Myst: Masterpiece Edition
July 30, 2024

We talk about Cyan's Myst. Note: Riven did eventually come out for the Sega Saturn. Buy the shirt! Support this show on Patreon! Buy books from our Bookshop.org page! Follow Ranged Touc

71 – Pinchbeck – Doom: Scarydarkfast
June 30, 2024

We talk about Dan Pinchbeck's Doom: Scarydarkfast. - Buy the shirt! - Support this show on Patreon! - Buy books from our Bookshop.org page! - Follow Ranged Touch on Twitter. - Follow CMRN on Twitter.

70 – De Koven – The Well-Played Game
May 31, 2024

We talk about Bernard De Koven's The Well-Played Game. - Buy the shirt! - Support this show on Patreon! - Buy books from our Bookshop.org page! - Follow Ranged Touch on Twitter. - Follow CMRN on Twitt

69 – Hunter – Playing Real
April 30, 2024

We talk about Lindsay Brandon Hunter's Playing Real: Mimesis, Media, and Mischief. - Buy the shirt! - Support this show on Patreon! - Buy books from our Bookshop.org page! - Follow Ranged Touch on Twi