Episode 23: Quitting
In which we discuss how, when, where, and why we might quit a game. It turns out we’ve both quit a lot of games for lots of different reasons! Tyr spi...
Not Just A Game
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The dynamic duo behind PAX East’s most popular talk about chickens ever brings you Not Just A Game! Dr. Catherine Flick, a gamer and video games and social impact researcher, and Dr. Tyr Fothergill, a paleopathologist and archaeogamer, talk about the video games they’ve been playing. Sometimes there are special guests!
Episode 22: Antiquarianism
In which Tyr, an archaeologist, discusses the Antiquarians Guild in Elder Scrolls Online with Catherine, who is not an archaeologist. Also: Baldur’s G...
Episode 21: Black Lives Matter
Black Lives Matter. So You Want to Talk About Race – Ijeoma Oluo Black Game Developers. Hire them. Buy their stuff. Never Alone. Games by Black creato...
Episode 20: Travel
We’re back! No I can’t quite believe it either! Anyway, we are talking about travel in this episode. It’s very exciting. Also, I’ve had a baby (he’s n...
Episode 19 Capital O Opinions
In this episode, Tyr and Catherine have opinions. No, we have Opinions. Capital O Opinions. Some of them are probably unpopular. Some of them we would...
Episode 18: Obra Dinn
We’re back! In this episode, Tyr and Catherine play The Return of the Obra Dinn, and talk about it! Spoilers: It’s a very good game. Like our stuff? P...
Episode 17: It’s beginning to look a lot like Saturnalia!
In this episode we talk holidays! Why do we have certain holidays in games, and not others? Why is Christmas in games not quite Christmas, but a weird...
Episode 16: Let’s Talk about Pets!
In this episode we talk about pets! Particularly Fortnite Pets, being both dragon experts and not Fortnite players at all. We may or may not sing sill...
Episode 15: Augmented Reality and social norms – with Andrew Adams
In which Catherine and Tyr wrangle another fascinating victim special guest at ETHICOMP 2018, Prof. Andrew Adams, to talk about Pokémon Go and augment...
Episode 14: Twinkle Ponies – with Erica Neely on Ethics of Lootboxes
Hello! In this episode I have to apologise for the sound quality; we were recording at ETHICOMP 2018 in Sopot, Poland and the room was a bit more echo...