Gaming The System - The Feminist Gaming Podcast

Another in our series of iconic chsracter design. who has the finest threads in games? 📢 Support the Podcast! Let us know on B lueSky (@gamingthesystem.bsky.social), Instagram (@gamingthesystempodcast) or in the comments on YouTube! If you love Gaming The System , consider supporting us: 🔹 Patreon: patreon.com/gamingthesystem – get exclusive content! 🔹 PayPal Donations: gamingthesystem@gmail.co...

Special guest Anya took a break from a lifelong gaming habit and tells us how she rediscovered her love of games. 📢 Support the Podcast! Let us know on B lueSky (@gamingthesystem.bsky.social), Instagram (@gamingthesystempodcast) or in the comments on YouTube! If you love Gaming The System , consider supporting us: 🔹 Patreon: patreon.com/gamingthesystem – get exclusive content! 🔹 PayPal Donation...

We've been mulling over what makes for iconic characters and undoubtedly their hair is a vital component. 📢 Support the Podcast! Let us know on B lueSky (@gamingthesystem.bsky.social), Instagram (@gamingthesystempodcast) or in the comments on YouTube! If you love Gaming The System , consider supporting us: 🔹 Patreon: patreon.com/gamingthesystem – get exclusive content! 🔹 PayPal Donations:...

A treat this week, our guest is the inimitable Dr Hannah Barham Brown, all rounder in all things. However she is a sceptic of the gaming scene and the GTS team attempt to bring her to the dark side of gaming. 📢 Support the Podcast! Let us know on B lueSky (@gamingthesystem.bsky.social), Instagram (@gamingthesystempodcast) or in the comments on YouTube! If you love Gaming The System , consider sup...

From massive swords to flying livestock, what are our favourite mad weapons in games? 📢 Support the Podcast! Let us know on B lueSky (@gamingthesystem.bsky.social), Instagram (@gamingthesystempodcast) or in the comments on YouTube! If you love Gaming The System , consider supporting us: 🔹 Patreon: patreon.com/gamingthesystem – get exclusive content! 🔹 PayPal Donations: gamingthesystem@gmail.com...

We are talking about the ongoing mess that is the Activision Blizzard saga. Everything kicked off in late July when Activision Blizzard were sued by the state of California over widespread harassment of women. Headlines over it's "frat boy" culture have spawned into yet more terrible revelations for the company, with a few PR disasters thrown in for good measure.  We are here to tal...

Who needs to follow the story when you can kick back with a nice minigame? 📢 Support the Podcast! Let us know on B lueSky (@gamingthesystem.bsky.social), Instagram (@gamingthesystempodcast) or in the comments on YouTube! If you love Gaming The System , consider supporting us: 🔹 Patreon: patreon.com/gamingthesystem – get exclusive content! 🔹 PayPal Donations: gamingthesystem@gmail.com 🔹 Subscri...

If the patriarch had boss battles, who would the big bads be? 📢 Support the Podcast! Let us know on B lueSky (@gamingthesystem.bsky.social), Instagram (@gamingthesystempodcast) or in the comments on YouTube! If you love Gaming The System , consider supporting us: 🔹 Patreon: patreon.com/gamingthesystem – get exclusive content! 🔹 PayPal Donations: gamingthesystem@gmail.com 🔹 Subscribe & Revi...

Gaming the System bring their feminist lens to looking at the Gaming BAFTA awards ceremony held earlier in the year and talk about the glitz, the glamour but mostly the games.  📢 Support the Podcast! Let us know on B lueSky (@gamingthesystem.bsky.social), Instagram (@gamingthesystempodcast) or in the comments on YouTube! If you love Gaming The System , consider supporting us: 🔹 Patreon: patreon....

Who are the biggest baddest and bestest bosses in games? 📢 Support the Podcast! Let us know on B lueSky (@gamingthesystem.bsky.social), Instagram (@gamingthesystempodcast) or in the comments on YouTube! If you love Gaming The System , consider supporting us: 🔹 Patreon: patreon.com/gamingthesystem – get exclusive content! 🔹 PayPal Donations: gamingthesystem@gmail.com 🔹 Subscribe & Review: S...

Join us as we reflect on the first 6 konths of the podcast.  📢 Support the Podcast! Let us know on B lueSky (@gamingthesystem.bsky.social), Instagram (@gamingthesystempodcast) or in the comments on YouTube! If you love Gaming The System , consider supporting us: 🔹 Patreon: patreon.com/gamingthesystem – get exclusive content! 🔹 PayPal Donations: gamingthesystem@gmail.com 🔹 Subscribe & Revie...

A compilation of our best and brightest moments from our first 6 months. if you want to get womeone into the show just direct them to this video. Lovingly and arduously curated by our own Caroline Hunt. 📢 Support the Podcast! Let us know on B lueSky (@gamingthesystem.bsky.social), Instagram (@gamingthesystempodcast) or in the comments on YouTube! If you love Gaming The System , consider supportin...

This week we're reflecting on E3 2021 and all the announcements, news, trailers and "world exclusives" for upcoming video games. Was it good, bad or ugly? Did companies and execs shy away from addressing ongoing issues about sexual harassment in the industry? Come chat & discuss with us... 📢 Support the Podcast! Let us know on B lueSky (@gamingthesystem.bsky.social), Instagram...

Everyone has one of these stories. We share when board games brought out the worst in us. 📢 Support the Podcast! Let us know on B lueSky (@gamingthesystem.bsky.social), Instagram (@gamingthesystempodcast) or in the comments on YouTube! If you love Gaming The System , consider supporting us: 🔹 Patreon: patreon.com/gamingthesystem – get exclusive content! 🔹 PayPal Donations: gamingthesystem@gmail...

Kate, concept artist for Mediatonic, will be joining the team to talk about working in the gaming industry. We will also be looking at how welcoming the industry is or is not for women at this time. 📢 Support the Podcast! Let us know on B lueSky (@gamingthesystem.bsky.social), Instagram (@gamingthesystempodcast) or in the comments on YouTube! If you love Gaming The System , consider supporting us...

What games are we most tantalises by being released this year? 📢 Support the Podcast! Let us know on B lueSky (@gamingthesystem.bsky.social), Instagram (@gamingthesystempodcast) or in the comments on YouTube! If you love Gaming The System , consider supporting us: 🔹 Patreon: patreon.com/gamingthesystem – get exclusive content! 🔹 PayPal Donations: gamingthesystem@gmail.com 🔹 Subscribe & Rev...

Everything from Ludo to Caverna and in between.  Gaming the System goes Tabletop and talks about the appeal of non computerised gaming in a shock turn of events.  📢 Support the Podcast! Let us know on B lueSky (@gamingthesystem.bsky.social), Instagram (@gamingthesystempodcast) or in the comments on YouTube! If you love Gaming The System , consider supporting us: 🔹 Patreon: patreon.com/gamingthes...

Inspired by the Oscars recently, we rack our brains for the best female voice actors. 📢 Support the Podcast! Let us know on B lueSky (@gamingthesystem.bsky.social), Instagram (@gamingthesystempodcast) or in the comments on YouTube! If you love Gaming The System , consider supporting us: 🔹 Patreon: patreon.com/gamingthesystem – get exclusive content! 🔹 PayPal Donations: gamingthesystem@gmail.com...

PATREON ANNOUNCEMENT GTS now has a Patreon page! If you want to support us in our quest to create feminist gaming content, you can donate on this link. https://www.patreon.com/m/9741369/posts ----- What tropes stand out most to you? How do seeing these tropes make you feel? What pisses you off about seeing these tropes? What tropes have you internalised about women? Why does this failure of repres...

Who are the most kickass women in the world of gaming? who would you pick? 📢 Support the Podcast! Let us know on B lueSky (@gamingthesystem.bsky.social), Instagram (@gamingthesystempodcast) or in the comments on YouTube! If you love Gaming The System , consider supporting us: 🔹 Patreon: patreon.com/gamingthesystem – get exclusive content! 🔹 PayPal Donations: gamingthesystem@gmail.com 🔹 Subscri...

Our most controversial topic yet. What games beloved by millions just make us go "urrgh who cares"? 📢 Support the Podcast! Let us know on B lueSky (@gamingthesystem.bsky.social), Instagram (@gamingthesystempodcast) or in the comments on YouTube! If you love Gaming The System , consider supporting us: 🔹 Patreon: patreon.com/gamingthesystem – get exclusive content! 🔹 PayPal Donations: g...

The message society sends to people with disability is that they are not welcome and that they have no value. We want to expose how this message can be shared in gaming and then most importantly how it can be changed. What games get it right and how can more developers follow their lead? 📢 Support the Podcast! Let us know on B lueSky (@gamingthesystem.bsky.social), Instagram (@gamingthesystempodc...

Get your quizzing hats on for Quizzing The System. 📢 Support the Podcast! Let us know on B lueSky (@gamingthesystem.bsky.social), Instagram (@gamingthesystempodcast) or in the comments on YouTube! If you love Gaming The System , consider supporting us: 🔹 Patreon: patreon.com/gamingthesystem – get exclusive content! 🔹 PayPal Donations: gamingthesystem@gmail.com 🔹 Subscribe & Review: Share t...

Why is gaming such a feminist issue to us? Why are women excluded from gaming? Why are some women far more than others excluded from gaming? What needs to change and what is already changing? 📢 Support the Podcast! Let us know on B lueSky (@gamingthesystem.bsky.social), Instagram (@gamingthesystempodcast) or in the comments on YouTube! If you love Gaming The System , consider supporting us: 🔹 Pa...

Which games do we find ourselves lost in with the most clarity? How does a game set in a high fantasy environment make you feel like it is a home to you? what games hit that transcendant level of immersion? 📢 Support the Podcast! Let us know on B lueSky (@gamingthesystem.bsky.social), Instagram (@gamingthesystempodcast) or in the comments on YouTube! If you love Gaming The System , consider suppo...