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98 – Wing – Bounce

2026/09/30

We talk about Carlin Wing’s Bounce. Send stuff to the PO Box! Order CMRN’s book! Order here as well! Buy the shirt! Support this show on Patreon! Buy books from our Bookshop.org page! Chris Hunt created the theme song for this show.

97 – McDonald – Run and Jump

2026/09/01

We talk about Peter McDonald’s Run and Jump. Send stuff to the PO Box! Order CMRN’s book! Order here as well! Buy the shirt! Support this show on Patreon! Buy books from our Bookshop.org page! Chris Hunt created the theme song for this show.

96 – Barthes – Camera Lucida

2026/08/03

We talk about Barthes. Send stuff to the PO Box! Order CMRN’s book! Order here as well! Buy the shirt! Support this show on Patreon! Buy books from our Bookshop.org page! Chris Hunt created the theme song for this show.

95 – Nardo – The Ludic Self in Seventeenth-Century English Literature

2026/06/30

We talk about Anna Nardo’s 1991 book. Send stuff to the PO Box! Order CMRN’s book! Order here as well! Buy the shirt! Support this show on Patreon! Buy books from our Bookshop.org page! Chris Hunt created the theme song for this show.

94 – Taylor – The Grounds of Gaming

2026/06/01

We talk about Nicholas Taylor’s 2024 book. Send stuff to the PO Box! Order CMRN’s book! Order here as well! Buy the shirt! Support this show on Patreon! Buy books from our Bookshop.org page! Chris Hunt created the theme song for this show.

93 – Sutton-Smith – The Ambiguity of Play

2026/04/29

We talk about Brian Sutton-Smith’s 1997 book. We talk about the 2004 documentary War Game. Send stuff to the PO Box! Order CMRN’s book! Order here as well! Buy the shirt! Support this show on Patreon! Buy books from our Bookshop.org page! Chris Hunt created the theme song for this show.

92 – War Game

2026/04/02

We talk about the 2004 documentary War Game. Send stuff to the PO Box! Order CMRN’s book! Order here as well! Buy the shirt! Support this show on Patreon! Buy books from our Bookshop.org page! Chris Hunt created the theme song for this show.

91 – Game Studies vol. 1, issue 1

2026/03/02

We talk about the 2001 journal issue. Send stuff to the PO Box! Order CMRN’s book! Order here as well! Buy the shirt! Support this show on Patreon! Buy books from our Bookshop.org page! Chris Hunt created the theme song for this show.

90 – Crawford – The Art of Computer Game Design

2026/01/31

We talk about the 1984 book The Art of Computer Game Design by Chris Crawford. Order CMRN’s book! Order here as well! Buy the shirt! Support this show on Patreon! Buy books from our Bookshop.org page! Chris Hunt created the theme song for this show.

89 – Get Lamp

2025/12/31

We talk about the 2010 film Get Lamp. Order CMRN’s book! Order here as well! Buy the shirt! Support this show on Patreon! Buy books from our Bookshop.org page! Chris Hunt created the theme song for this show.

88 – Bowling For Columbine

2025/11/30

We talk about the 2002 film Bowling For Columbine. Content warning for school shooting footage and gun violence and death footage in the film itself (and our discussion of it). Order CMRN’s book! Order here as well! Buy the shirt! Support this show on Patreon! Buy books from our Bookshop.org page! Chris Hunt created the… Continue reading 88 – Bowling For Columbine

87 – Fisher – Capitalist Realism

2025/11/01

We talk about Mark Fisher’s Capitalist Realism. Preorder CMRN’s book! Preorder here as well! Buy the shirt! Support this show on Patreon! Buy books from our Bookshop.org page! Chris Hunt created the theme song for this show.

86 – Jacob Geller

2025/09/30

Michael is out on family leave, so Jacob Geller comes in for an interview about making YouTube videos. Preorder CMRN’s book! Preorder here as well! Buy the shirt! Support this show on Patreon! Buy books from our Bookshop.org page! Chris Hunt created the theme song for this show.

85 – American Truck Simulator

2025/08/28

The Summer of Simulation ends with an American Truck Simulator episode. You can watch the video version of this episode here: https://youtu.be/C1n8zfXSek0 Preorder CMRN’s book! Preorder here as well! Buy the shirt! Support this show on Patreon! Buy books from our Bookshop.org page! Chris Hunt created the theme song for this show.

84 – Baudrillard – Simulacra and Simulation

2025/07/31

We talk about Jean Baudrillard’s Simulacra and Simulation. You can find Historiographies of Game Studies here. Preorder CMRN’s book! Preorder here as well! Buy the shirt! Support this show on Patreon! Buy books from our Bookshop.org page! Chris Hunt created the theme song for this show.

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4.9 out of 5

287 reviews

★★★★★

LouisAlthuwhere? 2026/08/12

Good

If this doesn’t end with GSSB publishing Console Lucida, then what are we even doing

★★★★★

MossyToes 2026/07/16

Good show! Also,

I’ve listened to most of Ranged Touch’s podcast offerings, so rest assured that I quite enjoy listening to Michael and Cameron sagely skewer games stu...

★★★★★

akelley22 2026/07/01

BEWARE

only listen to this pod if you wanna be cursed to ponder the meaning of play for the rest of your life

★★★★★

Saffron HG 2026/06/03

A Podcast That Makes Me Want to Go to Grad School (/positive)

Every obscure fun fact or theoretical musings I bring up with my friends about our shared niche interests (roleplaying games as they relate to theatre...

★★★★★

Bardcraft2012 2026/06/01

#1 podcast to learn of weird communities

Yeah, learned about Lego influencers today. I cannot wait for the next podcast to learn about other weird niche communities.

★★★★★

tommo they/them 2026/05/06

Roll in the hay

The only podcast that’s ever made me want to go to the ren fair!

★★★★★

Bureaucrat@Play 2026/04/23

Invigorating, Scintillating, Empowering, and Liberating

I’m a 27 year old blue state bureaucrat with a BA in urban planning. I’m also autistic. For the past 5 years, my special interests have been a) Buddhi...

★★★★★

CoolBean1990 2025/11/02

Top tier theory pod

Hope y’all read the Parallax View soon! Thanks for keeping this going for so long.

★★★★★

meowth playing w a yarn ball 2025/11/02

good podcast

i listen to it and i Think. profound

★★★★★

FalconJustice 2025/09/17

Gradschool never seemed like a better bad idea

I know I shouldn’t go back and get a masters in Sociological Narratology. That said, these guys make the horrible agony of course work and the ever sh...

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