Not Your Mama's Gamer

About Not Your Mama's Gamer

NYMGamer’s podcast hosts and guests past and present include scholars, writers, and professionals from a variety of industries, but the focus is always the same: unpacking games from a feminist perspective, and having a good time while we’re at it.

Publisher

Not Your Mama's Gamer

Category

leisure · leisure · leisure

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

21 Jan 2011

Latest episode

5 Jul 2026

Latest episodes

3 of 264 episodes have a transcript.

1. 

   5 Jul 2026TRANSCRIPT

   Episode 265: Gaming Slump or Burnout?

   Host [Host Name] interviews gaming expert [Guest Name] about navigating gaming slumps and preventing burnout.

2. 

   9 May 2026TRANSCRIPT

   Episode 264: Summer is Coming, What Are We Packing?

   Host [Host Name] discusses summer travel gaming and shares insights on popular games and books.

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   25 Feb 2026TRANSCRIPT

   Episode 263: Relooted: A Conversation with Nyamakop's Sithe Ncube

   This week we're talking with Sithe Ncube from Nyamakop about their new puzzle platformer, Relooted! Art Institute of Chicago Holds Stolen Sacred Nepali Artifacts: How Nepali antiquities got to Chicago museum (https://nepalitimes.com/here-now/how-nepali-antiquities-got-to-chicago-museum) English professor's discovery sounds international art alarm (https://news.vt.edu/articles/2023/04/clahs-necklace.html) 'Give us back our gods': Inside Nepal's Museum of Stolen Art (https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c5yj9v84wj5o) Black Voices in Gaming Interview with Relooted Team (https://www.youtube.com/live/Py9uL5eC208?si=Fxo7A7z5cnLFDucE&t=3170) (mentioned on podcast) What We're Playing Relooted South of Midnight Dispatch Star Wars Outlaws Abiotic Factor Indika What We're Reading 1984 by George Orwell Tailored Realities by Brandon Sanderson The Fifth Season by N. K. Jemisin The Awakening of Roku by Randy Ribay Dispatches from Planet 3 by Marcia Bartusiak When Trees Testify: Science, Wisdom, History, and America’s Black Botanical Legacy by Beronda L. Montgomery What We're Drinking Coffee Water Sparkling water *Cut us some slack it was early morning *Code received for streaming and review purposes

Inside a recent episode

Episode 265: Gaming Slump or Burnout?

Published 5 Jul 2026 · Transcript excerpt

[…] So going back and reading it is interesting. I knew it was different. but I didn't know in what ways and how. And I don't want to give too much away for people that haven't read it, because even if you've seen the movie, there's still a lot going on. But it starts off way more horror, creepy, and visceral than the movie I feel like kind of ever gets to. So we'll see what happens when the dinosaurs actually get loose. Um... And then some of the characters are, I don't want to say very different, but the mathematician Ian Malcolm is way more eccentric in the book. And not that he isn't eccentric in the movie, but it's dulled down a little bit, which I think works for the movie as opposed to the book. […]

Reach and audience

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YouTube views

25,793

Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025

Apple Podcasts (US)

4.8 / 5

49 ratings

Spotify

4.9 / 5

9 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 69 / 100

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

Quality

87

Social presence

0

YouTube

76

Engagement

51

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