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Emotive Pixels: The Year of AAA Videogames

A one-game-at-a-time deep dive show. We take a game, spoil its plot, and get deep into the weeds debating random aspects of it, just like you would with your book club friends. In Season 5 we are exploring AAA games and what that term means.

Podcast · By Nate, Craig, Pauly and Will · American English · Official site

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Sep 7, 2026
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  1. Episode · Sep 7, 2026

    Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth — The beauty of longevity (opens the original)

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    We decide to start a series with its eighth entry, and find surprising life circumstance relevance. Nate gameworms David Chapman's "Zainichi Korean Identity and Ethnicity".

  2. Episode · Aug 10, 2026

    Q-Up — Art Happened — What is a game? (opens the original)

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    We, as gamers, conflate labor and free time. But more importantly, we explore another chapter of Will. Wasting Time: Human Idleness and Durational Mechanics in Idle Games, Liam Kelly, Game Studies, volume 26 issue 1

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