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Current Lecture Series: Final Fantasy X
Jul 4
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June 2025
Book Review: Norse Myths That Inspired Final Fantasy VII, by MJ Gallagher
Brought to you by immortal berserkr/cowboy Vincent Valentine
Jun 27
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Empty Stadium Summer
Empty stadiums, arcade blues, redemption songs
Jun 20
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Rituals of Play: A Side Quest to Manchester
In which Alex pre-games in Oxford
Jun 6
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May 2025
Video Games in The Haunted Wood
Support your local book critics
May 18
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April 2025
What Remains: From the Poems of Hannah Arendt to What Remains of Edith Finch
Illuminations and ruminations on what remains at the end of the week, the game, the century.
Apr 7
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March 2025
EarthBound Zero to Kentucky Route Zero: On "Music and the Video Game as Ritual Encounter," by Tim Summers, and some of Itoi's Influences
An imaginary video game, a Kentana Cold Snack
Mar 16
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EarthBound Zero to Kentucky Route Zero: On "Music and the Video Game as Ritual Encounter," by Tim Summers, and some of Itoi's Influences
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Powergaming the System: Don Quixote, The Idiot, and the Language of Play in Politics
"But he is good only because at the same time he is ridiculous"
Mar 9
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February 2025
The Tale of Genji (Gloves): Gilgamesh, Benkei, and Basho in Final Fantasy
"Enough expository banter! Now we fight like men! And ladies! And ladies who dress like men! For Gilgamesh...it is morphing time!"
Feb 17
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Remaking the RPG: Super Mario RPG and Paper Mario Series
In which we critique, riposte, and tentatively submit a novel thesis for the rise of console RPGs in the West
Feb 10
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All Myths are Myths of Creation: Devotional Language, by Johannes Sloek
"or the child learns by playing the game of language" (67)
Feb 1
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January 2025
Fight, Magic, Items, by Aidan Moher - Book Reviewing the Literature on RPGs
Et En Quete de JRPG par Jordan Mauger aussi. Oui!
Jan 26
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