Critical but casual approaches to current, past, and future video games six times a week. In addition, guests will periodically share their own aesthetic and personal experiences with games in conversation! Subscribe to our Patreon at www.patreon.com/hegelbon if you'd like to hear special patron-only bonus episodes!
19-06-2017
Bleeding Green Nation's Dave Mangels joins us to talk No Man's Sky and the way the famously outre and disappointing game reflects, unexpectedly, the Trump campaign and election.
Filetype: MP3 - Size: 24.57MB - Duration: 46:40 m (74 kbps 16000 Hz)
12-06-2017
Part two of Scott Benson's deep conversation with us on life, punk, and the nature of the road in Kentucky Route Zero.
Filetype: MP3 - Size: 39.57MB - Duration: 50:17 m (110 kbps 44100 Hz)
09-06-2017
Scott Benson, one third of Infinite Fall, the studio that brought us Night in the Woods, returns to the podcast to talk about art, punk, video games, theory, and everything in-between in part 1 of this two part conversation.
Filetype: MP3 - Size: 79MB - Duration: 1:39:33 m (111 kbps 44100 Hz)
02-06-2017
We welcome Kara (@QaraKoyunlu) to the podcast to talk about baseball simulations, sabermetrics,and the particular value judgements of late capitalist sports.
Filetype: MP3 - Size: 31.37MB - Duration: 1:01:27 m (71 kbps 16000 Hz)
25-05-2017
Matt "Cushbomb" Christman comes on to meet me in the squared circle, where I will fight for the honor of gaming. Or, well, we'll chat animatedly anyway.
Filetype: MP3 - Size: 49.82MB - Duration: 42:24 m (164 kbps 44100 Hz)
20-05-2017
We invite Paul (@fender_splendor) on the podcast to talk VR in terms of his own experience in development, its future, its aesthetics, and how we can understand it as a conceptual apparatus.
Filetype: MP3 - Size: 23.78MB - Duration: 48:04 m (69 kbps 16000 Hz)
15-05-2017
We have Hazel Monforton (@hazelmonforton) on to talk about gaming and narrative, architecture, and the lovely What Remains of Edith Finch. By far our most academic conversation yet -- no don't leave, it's good!
Filetype: MP3 - Size: 54.61MB - Duration: 53:48 m (142 kbps 44100 Hz)
11-05-2017
Chapo Trap House's Felix Biederman joins us to talk about the aestheticization of war, the melancholy of the deep state, and the prescience of Hideo Kojima.
Filetype: MP3 - Size: 55.66MB - Duration: 50:48 m (153 kbps 44100 Hz)
09-05-2017
I talk with Matt Brady (@mattvbrady) about Fallout, gaming in your thirties, Australia, and why Skyrim's civil war was such a downer.
Filetype: MP3 - Size: 23.11MB - Duration: 46:43 m (69 kbps 16000 Hz)
01-05-2017
We welcome Roger Clark (@rogerclark) and Trent (@goodboytrent) on the podcast to talk rhythm games, their seemingly timeless appeal, immersion, abstraction, and more!
Filetype: MP3 - Size: 25.34MB - Duration: 51:36 m (69 kbps 16000 Hz)