Shall We Play a Game?

Shall We Play a Game?

By Chris Suellentrop and JJ SutherlandVideo Games
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Shall We Play a Game? episodes

  • ‘Super Mario Run’ & ‘Rogue One: A Star Wars Story’ - Shall We Play a Game?
    Is Mario’s first iPhone game–and JJ’s first Mario game (!!!)–brilliant, despicable, or both? Plus, our apparently annual review of a new “Star Wars” movie.
    NEXT WEEK, WE HOPE:
    Oculus Touch and “I Expect You To Die”
    SHOW NOTES:
    “Why I Hacked ‘Donkey Kong’ For My Daughter” by Mike Mika
    Anita Sarkeesian’s “Damsels in Distress” video, Part One of “Tropes vs. Women in Video Games”
    Chris’s Slate essay on whether the golden age of “Star Wars” video games is gone forever
     
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    50 min
  • ‘The Last Guardian’ - Shall We Play a Game?
    “Confounding and transcendent” or infuriating?
    NEXT WEEK, WE HOPE:
    “Super Mario Run”
    SHOW NOTES:
    The Ringer’s “Last Guardian” review
    Chris talks “The Last Guardian” on The Ringer’s “Achievement Oriented” podcast
    Chris’s essay on dogwalking and video games in The New York Times
     
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    21 min
  • ‘Kentucky Route Zero: Act IV’ - Shall We Play a Game?
    Finally.
    NEXT WEEK, WE HOPE:
    “The Last Guardian”
    SHOW NOTES:
    Chris’s Glixel interview with “Dishonored 2” creative director Harvey Smith
     
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    24 min
  • ‘Skyrim’ lead programmer Brett Douville: What I Play - Shall We Play a Game?
    Brett Douville, a former lead programmer at Bethesda Game Studios on games like “Skyrim” and “Fallout 4,” talks about why he sees himself in the kill animations for “Skyrim,” why he loves “Rez,” and what he’s doing for “Tacoma,” the next game from Fullbright.
    NEXT WEEK, WE HOPE:
    “Kentucky Route Zero: Act IV”
    SHOW NOTES:
    Dev Game Club, a podcast hosted by Brett Douville and Tim Longo
    “‘Fallout 4’ Is Full of Bugs, But Fixing Them Could Ruin It,” by Double Fine’s Zak McClendon, in Wired
    Chris’ Glixel interview with Bethesda’s Todd Howard
     
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    44 min
  • ‘Dishonored 2’ - Shall We Play a Game?
    Emily or Corvo? High chaos or low chaos? Xbox One S or PlayStation 4 Pro? Unmentioned in the podcast: You can sing “Corvo Attano” to the tune of “Hakuna Matata” from “The Lion King.”
    NEXT WEEK, WE HOPE:
    “Kentucky Route Zero: Act IV”
    SHOW NOTES:
    Chris’ review of the first “Dishonored” in the New York Times
    Rob Zacny’s Glixel review of “Dishonored 2”
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    40 min
  • The Ringer’s Jason Concepcion: What I Play - Shall We Play a Game?
    Jason Concepcion, a staff writer for The Ringer, talks about why JJ and Chris misunderstood “Overwatch,” taking a cathode-ray tube TV to a friend’s house to play multiplayer “Halo,” and the muddy frisson of “Battlefield 1.”
    NEXT WEEK, WE HOPE:
    ‘Dishonored 2’
    SHOW NOTES:
    The Ringer’s Channel 33 podcasts, including “Achievement Oriented” hostee by Jason Concepcion and Ben Lindbergh
    Jason Concepcion on “Halo 5” in Grantland
    Vanity Fair on Vince Zampella, Jason West, “Call of Duty” and Activision
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    47 min
  • ‘Titanfall 2’ - Shall We Play a Game?
    The sequel to Respawn’s multiplayer-only shooter has a single-player campaign with puzzle-platformer levels that are reminiscent of “Half-Life” and “Portal.”
    NEXT WEEK, WE HOPE:
    Act IV of “Kentucky Route Zero” & the “Dishonored” story DLC
    SHOW NOTES:
    Geoff Keighley’s The Final Hours of Titanfall
     
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    33 min
  • ‘Skyrim,’ ‘Gears of War 4’ & ‘Civilization VI’ - Shall We Play a Game?
    Spending 300 hours of your life on “The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim,” staying awake until 3 a.m. playing “Civilization VI” and reliving the release of the Xbox 360 through the Xbox One’s “Gears of War 4.”
    NEXT WEEK, WE HOPE:
    “Titanfall 2”
    SHOW NOTES:
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    40 min
  • Former Obama and Clinton speechwriter Jon Lovett: What I Play - Shall We Play a Game?
    Screenwriter and former political speechwriter Jon Lovett, who created the NBC sitcom “1600 Penn,” talks about whether Hillary Clinton or Barack Obama plays video games, why he loves “Portal” and “Portal 2,” and what HBO’s “Westworld” has to say about our interactive fantasies.
    NEXT WEEK, WE HOPE:
    “Gears of War 4”
    SHOW NOTES:
    “Keepin’ It 1600,” a Ringer podcast with Jon Lovett
    “Westworld” story editor Charles Yu, writing for the Slate “Gaming Club” in 2011
    Chris talks about “Westworld” in Glixel
     
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    39 min
  • ’Thumper’ & ‘Westworld’ - Shall We Play a Game?
    The “rhythm violence” of “Thumper” is one of the best experiences for PlayStation VR. Does it hold up on a two-dimensional screen? Then, why HBO’s new series “Westworld” is the most video-gamey TV show ever made. And did Chris quit “Clash Royale”?
    NEXT WEEK, WE HOPE:
    Former Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton speechwriter Jon Lovett: What I Play
    SHOW NOTES:
    Chris talks about “Westworld” in Glixel
    “Who Would Actually Go to Westworld?”: Jason Concepcion on “Westworld” in The Ringer
     
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    37 min

About Shall We Play a Game?

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A short (honest!) podcast about video games. Hosted by New York Times contributing critic Chris Suellentrop and former NPR Baghdad bureau chief JJ Sutherland.