Gesamtlänge aller Episoden: 87 days 12 hours 33 minutes
An interview with Alfie Bown
An interview with Brett Scott
An interview with Ann Blair and Anthony Grafton
We’ll save the Moby Dick puns for the episode itself, but suffice it to say that sinister game developers are on a whale hunt. This episode, originally published last fall, is about the sophisticated psychological tactics they use to hunt and capture their prey. Free to play mobile games as glorified slot machines, in-game purchases even for triple-A titles, game design that keep gamers hooked to their rigs...
You can learn much about a media and political culture by examining when it panics, and who it panics about. And we’ve always panicked about video games, from the early arcades until this very day. Whether you are a prudish Christian conservative, or a concerned liberal-minded paternalist, demonizing video games has long been good politics. On this episode: guest host and lead producer Jay Cockburn travels back to the 90s, and looks at the story of Mortal Kombat...
An interview with Autumn Womack
An interview with Adam Nocek
An interview with Eswar S. Prasad
An interview with Paris Marx