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Ethics and Video Games Podcast, 79 episodes.

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Episode 77 – THE BIG PICTURE!

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Episode 76 – Older Players in Video Games(with Bob De Schutter)

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Episode 75 – Fighting Extremism in Games (with Rachel Kowert)

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Episode 74 – When Games simulate Real World Cultures For Profit (With Andrei Zanescu)

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Episode 73 – How Gaming treats the Global South (with Aditya Deshbandhu)

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Episode 72 – Battle Passes (with Daniel Joseph)

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Episode 71 – Women in Esports (with Theresa Lee, Joseph Sarnoski, and Kelly Williams)

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Episode 70 – Ethical Advertising in Games (with Celia Pontin)

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Episode 69 – When Video Games Get Kinky (with Kate Gray)

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Episode 68 – Ethical Issues With Adult Games (With Fae Daunt)

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Episode 67 - Player sexuality and consent (With Fae Daunt + Zhia Zariko)

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Episode 66 – Video Game Design Lessons from Moral Psychology (with Paul Formosa and Malcolm Ryan)

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Episode 65 - Problems with Games and History (with Bram De Ridder)

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Episode 64 – Monster Ethics (with Dom Ford)

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Episode 63 - The challenges of making a game about domestic violence against children (with Mathew Staunton)

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Episode 62 - The challenges of using an AI to reduce toxicity in games (with Camille Guillemot)

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Episode 61 - The Ethics of Making Money on Twitch or YouTube (with Mark Johnson)

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Episode 60 – Which monetization tactics are truly predatory? (with Elena Petrovskaya)

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Episode 59 – 35 potentially predatory monetization tactics (with Elena Petrovskaya)

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Episode 58 - Politics Tyranny and Citizenship in Video Games (with James "Pigeon" Fielder)

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Episode 57 - The Ethics of Play to Earn -Part 2 (with Tom Rodgers)

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Episode 57 - The Ethics of Play to Earn (Part 1)

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Episode 56 - Loot Boxes and the Law (with Leon Xiao)

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Episode 55 – The Growing Gamblification of Video Games

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Episode 54 – How the Games and Online Harassment Hotline Can Help (with Jae Lin)

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Episode 53 - How Video games Depict Madness (with Stefan Simond)

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Episode 52 - How Video Games Represent Poverty (with Adam Crowley)

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Episode 50 – Trash Talk in Esports (with Sydney Irwin)

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Episode 51 – The challenge of Creative Collaboration in game development (with Casey O'Donnell)

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Episode 49 - When AIs Compete in real-Time Military Strategy Games (with David Churchill)

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Episode 48 – Gaming and the Environment (with Paula Escuadra)

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Episode 47 – Ethics in Pirating in Video Games (with the Studying Pixels Podcast)

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Episode 46 - What if Game Companies did good as B-Corps? (with Justin Michaels of ustwo games)

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Episode 45 - AI Ethics in Video Games (with Gillian Smith)

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Episode 44 – Why Video Game Companies Need Ethicists! (with Catherine Flick)

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Episode 43 – What the Research REALLY Says About the Connection Between Video Games + Violence, Addiction, and Sexism! (with Rachel Kowert)

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Episode 42 - How to be a good Video Game God (with Richard A. Bartle)

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Episode 41 – Religion, Ethics, & Video Games (with Benjamin J. Chicka)

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Episode 40 – The Ethics of Video Game Research with Ashley Guajarado and Ann Johnson

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Episode 39: When/how can microtransactions be exploitative? with Ellie Cohen

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Episode 38 – Backstabbing ,Scamming, & Treacherous Play (with Marcus Carter)

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Episode 37 - The Problem with Meritocracy in Video Games (with Chris Paul)

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Episode 36: Why video games need feminism and feminism needs video games (with Shira Chess)

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Episode 35 - Is it ever morally wrong to enjoy fantasizing about immoral things? (with Chris Bartel)

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Episode 34 – How Games Can Make Us More & Less Free (with C. Thi Nguyen)

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Episode 33: Knights of the Al-Aqsa Mosque' - An Ethics Review of A Palestinian Liberation Game

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Episode 32 - What can be done about problems of ethics in multiplayer online games (w/Lucy Sparrow)

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Episode 31: How Should Intellectual Property Apply To Video Games? (with Jose Zagal)

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Episode 30: Sexism and the Gamer Identity (with Amanda Cote)

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Episode 29: "Cancel Culture" in gaming [Ethics News & Bits]

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Episode 28: China's Kids & Content Warnings in Dating Games [Ethics News and Bits]

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Episode 27: Covid games & just how do you make a responsible ethical decision?

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Episode 26: Fairness in Esports with Matti Karhulhti

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Episode 25 – How Games Make Us Better People with Karen Schrier

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Episode 24: Video Games and Our Real Bodies with Rob Cover

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Episode 23: We Design a Game About Criminal Justice

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Episode 22: Dragon City – An Ethics-Oriented Game Review

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Episode #21: The Psychology of Moral Encounters in Video Games

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Episode #20: Teaching Ethics and Video Games

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Episode 19: The Ethics of Trolling in Games

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Episode 18: What are parents responsible for?

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Episode 17: What's the point of playing games?

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Episode 16: What are game companies actually responsible for?

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Episode 15: Implicit bias in hiring practices at game companies with Celia Hodent

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Episode 14: Is excessive gaming a personal or social problem?

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Episode 13: Morality Systems part 2 – Can we count the process?

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Episode 12: Morality Systems part 1 – Counting the good and the right

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Episode 11: Consent in Games

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Episode 10: Andy and Shlomo design a game!

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Episode 9: Only 25% racism for you + Steam bans again

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Episode 8: The NEW 6 Days in Fallujah

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Episode 7: But is it a morally bad game?

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Episode 6: The Gamer's Dilemma - Virtual Murder vs. Virtual Pedophilia

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Episode 5: Are video games like tobacco?

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Episode 4: To ban or not to ban: Steam's Censorship policies

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Episode 3: When Game Met Reality And The Result Was A Sh*tstorm

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Episode 2: Money, Knowledge, and Manipulation in Video Games

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Episode 1: The Magic Circle, Fairness, and Eve Online

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Episode 0: Ethics And Video Games Podcast Trailer