Studying Pixels

Media & Entertainment Podcasts

Studying Pixels combines game studies and a joyful engagement with video game culture. Every Sunday, game studies scholar Stefan Heinrich Simond and Japanese scholar Dan Hughes cover anything from reviews of contemporary games to news stories and from...

Episodes

Studying Pixels is taking a hiatus

Close Playing (with Theresa Tanenbaum)

Replay: Do JRPGs Need to Be Made in Japan?

Final Fantasy I-III

Origins of publisher names (Square Enix, Sony, and others)

The Story of E3

Back to the Mainstream

Tips for Neurodiverse Students and Academics

Replay: Learning Japanese with Video Games (with Matt/Game Gengo)

Revisiting Ludo-Narrative Dissonance

Super Mario Movie, The Original

The Magic of Motion Capturing (with Jimmy Corvan)

Review Round-Up: Wo Long, Forspoken, Fire Emblem Engage, and more

Like a Dragon: Ishin!

Replay: Terrible Marketing Choices

Hogwarts Legacy

Bizarre Gaming Gadgets

Surprising Post-Games

Replay: Games in the Box (with Claudius Clüver)

Reading Schrape’s Gamification and Governmentality