Studying Pixels combines game studies and a joyful engagement with video game culture. Every Sunday, game studies scholar Stefan Heinrich Simond and Japanese scholar Dan Hughes cover anything from reviews of contemporary games to news stories and from academic deep-dives to controversial discussions—all wrapped up in a sincere appreciation of everything geeky. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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episode 8: Title Blunder
It's at the tip of my tongue! Have you ever forgotten the title of a video game and instead just given it a ridiculous description? Well, that is exactly what we do for this week. Enjoy our title blunders!
In our side quests, we share our initial impressions of Shin Megami Tensei V, give a dreary outlook on the availability of the PS5, and discuss the intricacies of caring in video games.
Shownotes- 00:02:52 Fatal Frame: Maiden of Black Water
- 00:12:50 Strange Localizations
- 00:19:41 Title Blunder
- 00:41:58 Shin Megami Tensei V
- 00:50:28 It's Going to Get Even Harder to Buy a PlayStation 5 (Takashi Mochizuki)
- 00:56:06 Making players care: The ambivalent cultural politics of care and video games (Bonnie Ruberg & Rainforest Scully-Blaker)
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