Gamers with Glasses Podcast

Roger Whitson and Christian Haines (editors at Gamers with Glasses) discuss Spider-Man: Miles Morales with TreaAndrea Russworm (professor at U-Mass Amherst) and Julian Chambliss (Michigan State University). We discuss the history of Miles Morales as a character in comics, movies, and animation; telling stories in a multiverse and across different media; the relationship between Peter Parker and Mi...

Join us for our games of the year episode , in which we discuss the games that helped us get through the pandemic, explored new possibilities for what a game can do, and, more generally, excelled at creating opportunities for play! We’re joined by special guest Anastasia Salter (professor at UCF, author of a number of books on adventure games and fan culture), along with the usual crew: Roger Whit...

Roger Whitson and Christian Haines, managing editors of Gamers with Glasses, interview Alenda Chang , professor of film and media studies at UC - Santa Barbara, author of Playing Nature: Ecology in Video Games . We discuss what games teach us about nature, playing outside versus playing video games, using games to understand climate change, Chang’s design work, playing as plants and non-human anim...

How do we experience videogames through the body? Join us in this interview with Brendan Keogh, author of A Play of Bodies: How We Perceive Videogames (The MIT Press, 2018), to explore gaming as an embodied act. Topics include what philosophy has to say about games, games as texts we can read, game studies as a field, Grand Theft Auto IV, and much more!

In this episode, Christian Haines, Roger Whitson, Nate Schmidt, and Ed Chang discuss the games we’re playing , why we abandon or fall of games, and our non-game recommendations (including books, television, and comics). Games we discuss include Animal Crossing, Spider-Man: Miles Morales, the games of Might and Delight (Meadow, Shelter, Tiny Echo), Before I Forget, Iris and the Giant, Haven, and Mo...

We interview Patrick Jagoda, a professor at University of Chicago, about his new book Experimental Games: Critique, Play, and Design in the Age of Gamification. For a video version, check out our YouTube channel . You can purchase Patrick’s book from University of Chicago Press, here .

It’s Episode 2 of the Gamers with Glasses Show , featuring fun and thoughtful conversation from Christian Haines, Roger Whitson, Nate Schmidt, and Christopher Breu. We discuss the games we’re playing ( Spider-Man: Miles Morales , Outer Worlds , Extreme Meatpunks Forever , Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel , Samorost 2 , ScourgeBringer , Wasteland 3 , Umurangi Generation ). Then, we move on to our topic...

It’s the first episode of the Gamers with Glasses Show , featuring fun and thoughtful conversation from Christian Haines, Roger Whitson, Nate Schmidt, and John Ferrari! We discuss the games we’re playing (Wasteland 3, Hades, Zelter, Watch Dogs: Legion, Super Mario Odyssey, Tenderfoot Tactics, The Rapture Is Here and You Will Be Forcibly Removed from Your Homes). We debate the merits of new console...

Gamers with Glasses editors Christian Haines and Don Everhart interview Oli Clarke Smith and Phil Crabtree of Kaizen Game Works (check out our review of the game, here: https://www.gamerswithglasses.com/reviews/paradise-killer). Oli and Phil are behind the smash indie title Paradise Killer (PC, Switch), a game in which you play an "investigation freak" (detective) trying to solve a murder case inv...

Listen to Gamers with Glasses ( Brian Rejack, Roger Whitson, and Christian Haines) discuss the story, art style, combat, and open world of Sucker Punch’s 2020 game Ghost of Tsushima. We discuss everything from how the combat compares to From Software games to the conservative turn in Japanese politics. For the video version, check out our YouTube channel .

Jake Elliott from Cardboard Computer joins Gamers with Glasses' Christian Haines to discuss the making and reception of Kentucky Route Zero. We discuss the politics of debt, the game's exploration of media technologies, ghosts, the games industry, indie development, and more.