Not Your Mama's Gamer

Episode 116: Submerged: An Interview with Ed Orman of Uppercut Games (Right click and save as to download, or find us on iTunes, Stitcher, or TuneIn). In this episode we talk to Ed Orman of Uppercut Games about their beautiful games, Submerged...

Episode 115: Life is…Weird: On Choice and Consequences in Life is Strange (Right click and save as to download, or find us on iTunes, Stitcher, or TuneIn). This episode we sit down and talk about DONTNOD’s episodic game, Life is Strange. All of...

Episode 114: No One Benefits From Exclusion: A Conversation with Lauren Warren (Right click and save as to download, or find us on iTunes, Stitcher, or TuneIn).   This episode, we sat down with Lauren Warren of Black Girl Nerds to talk first-person...

Episode 113: Scared Shitless and Loving It: What to Play, Watch, and Read This Halloween (Right click and save as to download, or find us on iTunes, Stitcher, or TuneIn). The episode where we talk about all of our favorite scary books, games,...

Episode 112: On LatinX Nerds and Hispanic Heritage Month: A Conversation with Sylvia Monreal (Right click and save as to download, or find us on iTunes, Stitcher, or TuneIn). We sat down with Sylvia Monreal of ¿Como Se Dice Nerd? to talk about her Hispanic Heritage Month Game Jam, Latinx identity in gaming spaces, and some contenders for […]

Episode 111: On Anita Sarkeesian: Ti**ies as Reward (Right click and save as to download, or find us on iTunes, Stitcher, or TuneIn). This show is definitely not for the easily offended. Tonight we talk about Anita Sarkeesian's latest mini-episode on women as reward in DLC and MGSV's Quiet…because photosynthesis…and titties. Games Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time […]

Episode 110: Back to School Special: Learning With, Through, and Around Games (Right click and save as to download, or find us on iTunes, Stitcher, or TuneIn). With school starting recently for all of us, we've been thinking a lot about games as educational spaces. In this episode we talk about lots of different ways (and things) […]

Episode 109: Games, Identification, and Culture: A Conversation with Adrienne Shaw (Right click and save as to download, or find us on iTunes, Stitcher, or TuneIn). Not a milestone episode numerically, but what a shift: we added contributor Bianca Batti to the podcast crew (finally!) and were joined by our dear friend Kishonna Gray and we talked to Adrienne Shaw […]

Episode 108: Love is a Battlefield: Games That We Love (Right click and save as to download, or find us on iTunes or Stitcher). Tonight we just sat down and talked about some of our favorite games and why they are our favorites. It was lighthearted and fun and we hope that you enjoy listening to it as […]

Episode 107: A Conversation with Dr. Kishonna Gray (Right click and save as to download, or find us on iTunes or Stitcher). We don't always get to sit down with other academics who care as much about games as we do, but when we do, we talk for hours… and that's what happened when Dr. Kishonna […]