All Episodes
podcast – NYMG — 256 episodes · page 1 of 3
Episode 265: Gaming Slump or Burnout?
Episode 264: Summer is Coming, What Are We Packing?
Episode 263: Relooted: A Conversation with Nyamakop’s Sithe Ncube
Episode 262: We Can’t Wait!: Things We’re Excited for in 2026
Episode 261: It’s Beginning to Look A Lot Like Giftmas: Gift Giving Ideas for 2025 and Beyond
Episode 260: It’s Like Deja Vu All Over Again: Games We Replay
Episode 259: We’ve Been Where?: Let’s Catch Up!
Episode 258: Don’t Answer That Phone: Atomfall Spoilercast
Episode 257: Music to My Ears? Videogame and Music Pairings
Episode 256: Does that Go With Red, White, or Paperback?: (Video)Game and Book Pairing
Episode 255: Games We’re Looking Forward to in 2025
Episode 254: The Truth is a Lie: Black Ops 6 Spoilercast
Episode 253: 2024 Gift Giving Guide: Giving the Gift of Self-Care?
Episode 252: The Game is a Lie: Call of Duty and Social Critique
Episode 251: In Defense of Short Games
Episode 250: We’re Baaaack! 2024 Has Been a Year!
Episode 249: Good Things to Come: Looking Forward to Games in 2024
Episode 248: Napping Unapologetically and Our Favorite Games of 2023
Episode 247: Starfield: Now With More Cubes!
Episode 246: Your Cozy Games Are Problematic
Episode 245: But They Had Impact!: Games That Have Had the Biggest Impact on Us
Episode 244: It’s All About Art: A Conversation with Christian Vasquez and Leah Augustine
Episode 243: Hosting the Host: A Conversation with Sam
Episode 242: Love, But Make it Monstrous: A Conversation with Amanda Gardner About Romancelvania
Episode 241: To Love Queerly: Queer Characters & Games We Love
Episode 240: Black Games for BHM: Or; The Blackity Black Episode (Part 1?)
Episode 239: Our Most Anticipated Game Releases of 2023
Episode 238: Our 2022 Top Five Games
Episode 237: It’s Beginning to Look Like Giftmas!
Episode 236: “What We’re Playing” with TreaAndrea Russworm
Episode 235: Pspspspsps: Let’s Talk About Stray
Episode 234: Where Is This Year’s Summer Games Drought?
Episode 233: Black Girls of Eorzea: A Conversation with Stephanie Jones
Episode 232: Kirby, but Make It Dark and Gritty?: A Conversation About Kirby and the Forgotten Land
Episode 229: On Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion: A Conversation with Miranda Due
Episode 227: Play, Finish, Repeat?: Which Games Have We Played the Most and Why?
Episode 226: It’s All About the Cozy Post-Apocalyptic Games
Episode 225: Our Top 5 Most Looked Forward to Games for 2022
Episode 224: 20 Years of Xbox
Episode 222: Directly Nintendo: Let’s Talk the Nintendo Direct
Episode 221: Let’s Talk Gamescom 2021
Episode 220: Can I Play That?: A Conversation on Games and Accessibility with Courtney Craven
Episode 219: E3 Had Us Feeling Some Kind Of Ways
Episode 218: What Are We Playing?
Episode 216: It’s Been 10 Years: NYMG Reunion
Episode 215: Let Us Have Nice Things: 2020 Gift Giving Guide
Episode 214: Oh Ye of Little Hope: Let’s Talk About The Dark Pictures Anthology: Little Hope
Episode 210: Gamer Trouble, A Conversation with Amanda Phillips
Episode 209: How Big Is Your Experience?: The Future of “Next Gen” Gaming
Episode 208: It Started with a Cup: On BLM, Sexual Harassment, and the Closing of Mixer
Episode 207: Summer Games to Look Forward To
Episode 204: You Want Me to Pay For What? Games and Microtransactions
Episode 203: To Walkthrough or Not to Walkthrough…Is That the Question?
Episode 202: A Decade in Review: Our Individual Top 10 Games From the Last 10 years
Episode 201: Holiday Shopping Lists and Accessibility is Not an Achievement
Episode 199: Do They Even Want Us Here?: On That Game Studies Grind
Episode 198: On Mental Health and Monsters: A Conversation About Sea of Solitude
Episode 197: The Bounty of Fall: What We’re Looking Forward To
Episode 196: The Games and Sh*t Episode: Talking #30Games90Days and the Struggle of Game Studies
Episode 194: Queerly Gaming: A Conversation with Bo Ruberg
Episode 193: 2019 E3: The Good, the Bad, and the Horrendous
Episode 192: Popcorn and Nightmare Fuel: Our E3 Hopes, Dreams, and Predictions
Episode 191: Bendy and the Blue Solo Cup
Episode 190: It’s Dangerous to Go Alone: Co-Op Gaming in the Age of Online Gaming
Episode 189: New Dawn, Old Problems: A Conversation About Far Cry: New Dawn
Episode 188: You’re The Real MVP: Let’s Chat About the Xbox MVP Award
Episode 187: Whatcha’ Reading (About Video Games)?
Episode 186: Ask Your Black Friend: On Using Other People’s Lives in Video Games
Episode 185: It Was the Best of Times, It Was the Worst of Times (2018 Edition)
Episode 184: “I See You”: On Thoughtful Gift Giving (For Holidays or Just Because)
Episode 183: On Forgotton Anne and Thrownness: A Conversation with Valdemar Andreasen
Episode 182: Just Watch Me!: A Conversation With T.L. Taylor
Episode 181: Would You Ever and Other Questions From the Community
Episode 180: Magic Colonizer Fingers: Let’s Chat About Lara Croft
Episode 161: Podcast, Please!: On Podcasts and the Problem of “Cool” Scholarship
Episode 158: The Two Jaakko Problem: The Problem of Representation in Game Studies
Episode 156: Pizza Party is the Best Party…Oh, and Our Video Game Summer Run Down
Episode 155: Rebooting Boyhood and Playing Games For Girls: A Conversation with Carly Kocurek
Episode 154: 2017 E3 Wrap Up: What We Loved and What We Didn’t
Episode 149: Now You See Me: On Streaming Games and Representation
Episode 148: It’s All Fun and Games: On Childhood, Play, and Video Games
Episode 147: On Streams and Things: A Chat With Girl Tribe Gaming’s Jen (@MotoOnXbox)
Episode 146: Sometimes We Play Games…on Boards
Episode 145: Sometimes You Have to Kill Things: On Games and Self-Care
Episode 144: The F*ck You Line: Games and Emotion
Episode 143: Best, Worst, and Everything In Between: GOTY 2016
Episode 142: 2016: A Podcast Year in Relief
Episode 141: All I Want for Giftmas (2016 Edition)
Episode 140: Racism and Worldbuilding in Mafia III: A Conversation with Joshara Edwards
Episode 139: When Horror Gets Real: The Halloween Episode
Episode 138: “Her Name is Moon-Moon!”: Remasters, Sequels, and a Tale of Games to Come
Episode 137: A Turtle Named Shelly: Firewatch With Me
Episode 136: Dangerous Depictions: A Conversation with Tommi Godwin
Episode 135: Just Too Canadian: A Conversation on Feminist Game Studies with Emma Vossen
Episode 134: Hauntings: A Conversation with The Deep End Games’ Amanda Gardner
Episode 133: On Toxic Activism with Gil Almogi: Ignoring Trolls and Focusing on Systems
Episode 132: Fade to White: Colorblind Racism in Games
Episode 131: Gamer Classes and Gamer Personalities: What Kind of Gamer Are You?
Episode 130: The Games We Need: A Conversation with Evan Narcisse
Episode 129: Gay Farming; On Digging, Dating, and Identity Politics in Stardew Valley