In this week’s episode, we will be discussing the mysterious game, Illimat.

On this week’s episode of Playing Yourself, we delve into an old best selling game, Plague Inc. This real time strategy simulation video game allows players to create and evolve a pathogen to infect humans, with the ultimate goal of wiping out the human race and watching countries’ governments fall. This game takes a lot of patience and focus as you continuously evolve your disease to make it more or less lethal, infectious, and severe. Plague Inc teaches its players about the importance of diseases and how they spread, while also raising public awareness about public health issues ascertaining to the very real threats that humans face every single day. Tune in to find out just exactly what makes this extremely realistic game so popular, and how it achieves its goal without scaring players off. 

Filipowicz, Luke. “Plague Inc.: Everything you need to know!: Have you ever wanted to wipe out the entire human race? Plague Inc. can make your dreams come true!” iMore. May 25, 2017.

Kastrenakes, Jacob. “‘Plague Inc.’ game creator to speak at the CDC about public health.” The Verge. March 9, 2013.

Khan, Ali S. “Plague Inc.” Public Health Matters Blog. Centers for Disease Control.

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In this episode of Playing Yourself, we discuss the similarities and differences between the classic board game Scrabble and the popular mobile game Words with Friends. We look at both the merits and deficiencies of each game and whether or not they can be considered substitutes. We also look at the differences in the convenience of playing the two games and how the leisure and mobility of Words with Friends may be worth sacrificing of the physical and traditional board game components of Scrabble. Ultimately, we find that both games have their merits and that even though they may be similar, they still both have their own value in the market. Listen in to hear more about how these two games might not be as similar as they may seem.

In this week’s episode we will be criticizing the game of FIFA about how it has become a money-making propaganda rather than solidifying soccer’s main value. We will be covering game modes such as Ultimate Team and The Journey to describe our point. We will also be touching upon different versions which FIFA comes out with every year, and explaining how it is a gimmick FIFA does to make more money. We will dive further into these claims and some more along with a peer interview.  Stay tuned!

Site Listing:  

• FIFA 19 Launch Edition Offers

• Who is the best British FIFA streamer?

• Fifa: the video game that changed football

Audio Listing:

• FIFA 18 Demo Gameplay [Manchester United Vs Chelsea] with English commentary
• EA SPORTS IT’S IN THE GAME (1993-2019)