Emotive Pixels: Videogame Conversations

About Emotive Pixels: Videogame Conversations

A one-game-at-a-time deep dive podcast where we treat videogames like texts worth reading closely. Each episode, we pick a game, spoil its story, and dig into it the way you would with a book club—except we’re usually reading an academic book alongside it and using it as a lens for discussion. Season 5 focuses on AAA games and what that label actually means in practice. Friendly to listeners who haven’t played the games, but unapologetically spoil-heavy and discussion-driven.

Publisher

Nate, Craig, Will, and sometimes Pauly

Category

leisure

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

6 Jun 2014

Latest episode

7 Sept 2026

Latest episodes

108 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   7 Sept 2026

   Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth — The beauty of longevity

   We decide to start a series with its eighth entry, and find surprising life circumstance relevance. Nate gameworms David Chapman's "Zainichi Korean Identity and Ethnicity".

2. 

   10 Aug 2026

   Q-Up — Art Happened — What is a game?

   We, as gamers, conflate labor and free time. But more importantly, we explore another chapter of Will. Wasting Time: Human Idleness and Durational Mechanics in Idle Games, Liam Kelly, Game Studies, volume 26 issue 1 (https://gamestudies.org/2601/articles/mullally)

3. 

   7 Apr 2026

   Stellar Blade — K-Feminism 101 (AAA in 2026: First Studio Releases)

   We explore the empty procedural rhetoric of changing Eve's clothes, and probe if we have *feelings* about the matter. We also cover two books, Elise Hu's "Flawless" and "Practicing Feminism in South Korea: The women's movement against sexual violence" by Kyungja Jung.

Reach and audience

Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.

Apple Podcasts (US)

4.4 / 5

7 ratings

Spotify

4.5 / 5

6 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 47 / 100

A composite of feed quality, social presence, YouTube performance and engagement. Read the methodology.

Quality

64

Social presence

0

YouTube

0

Engagement

75

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