Postgame.8: Lost Memories Dot Net

Postgame.8: Lost Memories Dot Net

Welcome back to Postgame, Sidequest’s monthly podcast, where the editors lay down hot takes on cold games. Spurred by our discussion of our first games, we took our focus to Neopets this month—and, more generally, the wide world of adolescent interaction. To help focus our discussion, we each played Nina Freeman’s Lost Memories Dot Net, which activated many, many memories. So many memories.

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Postgame.9: What Does It Mean to Play

Postgame.9: What Does It Mean to Play

Welcome back to Postgame, Sidequest’s monthly podcast, where the editors lay down hot takes on cold games. This month, we decided to compress an undergraduate semester’s worth of discussion into an hour and change with a look into what makes a game a game—and when that took about 30 seconds*, we moved on to discussing what “play” is and what the act of play means to us.

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Postgame.7: Gamer 4 Life

Postgame.7: Gamer 4 Life

Welcome back to Postgame, Sidequest’s monthly Patreon-exclusive podcast, where the editors lay down hot takes on cold games. In this episode, we take the polar plunge and talk about games that are no less than a decade old (maybe two!) as the editors walk down memory lane and explore how our first games* affected our relationship with the medium.

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Postgame.6: Every Woman in Greek Mythology is Justified (Hadescast!)

Postgame.6: Every Woman in Greek Mythology is Justified (Hadescast!)

Welcome back to Postgame, Sidequest’s monthly Patreon-exclusive podcast, where the editors lay down hot takes on cold games. In this episode, we manage to warm up for a second and talk about one relatively spicy game: Supergiant’s recent blockbuster, Hades!

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Postgame.4 – Anders Hot Though

Postgame.4 – Anders Hot Though

Welcome back to Postgame, Sidequest’s monthly podcast, where the editors lay down hot takes on cold games. In this episode, we talk about some of the ways we play games socially—not, you know, using multiplayer modes, but rather how we turn single-player or asynchronous games into co-op and community-oriented experiences.

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