Game Studies Study Buddies

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97 – McDonald – Run and Jump

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

Sep 1
1 h 53 min

96 – Barthes – Camera Lucida

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!

Aug 3
2 h 20 min

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

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 Boo

Jun 30
2 h 02 min

94 – Taylor – The Grounds of Gaming

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 ou

Jun 1
1 h 57 min

93 – Sutton-Smith – The Ambiguity of Play

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!

Apr 29
2 h 52 min

92 – War Game

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

Apr 2
1 h 26 min

91 – Game Studies vol. 1, issue 1

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 Boo

Mar 2
1 h 38 min

90 – Crawford – The Art of Computer Game Design

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 boo

Jan 31
1 h 03 min

89 – Get Lamp

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

Dec 31 2025
1 h 53 min

88 – Bowling For Columbine

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 o

Nov 30 2025
2 h 10 min

87 – Fisher – Capitalist Realism

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

Nov 1 2025
2 h 58 min

86 – Jacob Geller

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

Sep 30 2025
1 h 20 min

85 – American Truck Simulator

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

Aug 28 2025
1 h 05 min

84 – Baudrillard – Simulacra and Simulation

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!

Jul 31 2025
2 h 33 min

83 – Raser – Simulation and Society

We talk about John R. Raser’s Simulation and Society. Preorder CMRN’s book! Preorder here as well! Buy the shirt! Support this show on Patreon! Buy books from our Booksho

Jul 1 2025
1 h 49 min

82 – Gunkel – Gaming the System

We talk about David J. Gunkel’s Gaming the System. Buy the shirt! Support this show on Patreon! Buy books from our Bookshop.org page! Chris Hunt created the theme song fo

May 31 2025
2 h 34 min

81 – Jørgensen – Gameworld Interfaces

We talk about Kristine Jørgensen’s Gameworld Interfaces. Buy the shirt! Support this show on Patreon! Buy books from our Bookshop.org page! Chris Hunt created the theme s

May 1 2025
1 h 33 min

80 – Grand Theft Hamlet

We talk about the film Grand Theft Hamlet. Buy the shirt! Support this show on Patreon! Buy books from our Bookshop.org page! Chris Hunt created the theme song for this s

Mar 31 2025
2 h 03 min

79 – Humphreys – Manifest Destiny 2.0

We talk about Sara Humphreys’ Manifest Destiny 2.0: Genre Trouble in Game Worlds. Buy the shirt! Support this show on Patreon! Buy books from our Bookshop.org page! Follo

Feb 27 2025
1 h 44 min

78 – Dibbell – My Tiny Life

We talk about Julian Dibbell’s My Tiny Life. Buy the shirt! Support this show on Patreon! Buy books from our Bookshop.org page! Follow Ranged Touch on Twitter. Follow CMR

Feb 1 2025
2 h 07 min

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What listeners say

A curated, balanced selection of Apple Podcasts reviews.

The only complaint is that when you read from a book or a text, you read it way too fast; the content is usually dense so I’d appreciate it if you’d slow down to match the pacing of the rest of the show’s cadence. You’re both funny and clearly love nerding out in the best ways possible. I shall join the $5 Patreon soon!

JESLA84 · Mar 2025

Michael and Cameron are reading the massive tomes of game studies so you don’t have to. If I hear about a book that may help in my research, but am on the fence about, I check to see if Michael and Cameron have done an episode on it. This has led me both to great time savings, but also some indispensable additions to my library. Also 10/10 cathartic dunking on the ever-tiring Huizinga and on Flow - worth listening just for that. Thanks for the great show!

Totter87 · Dec 2024

As the title implies, I work a very long, grueling job and these podcasts help me learn about game studies and philosophies I would never had crossed paths with otherwise. Thanks Ranged Touch! As an added bonus, I sound like a genius next to my Fox News educated parents. ;)

SwagMaster Snazzy · Mar 2024

Definitely sub to the Patreon…the notes are worth it and sometimes they too are funny. Horizon-expanding. Will be going in my dissertation acknowledgements if I get there.

multidisciplinary mollusk · Sep 2023

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