The Nine Lives of Games Journalism
5/1/20261 hr 8 min
You now have access to my recent talk at NYU Game Center, previously only heard by 200 or so people in downtown Brooklyn. The lecture, given last Thursday, is titled “The Nine Lives of Video Games Journalism,” and in it, I suggest where the games media is heading by comparing the current trends to the past 50 years and the many publications that have come and gone.
[The talk moves fast. I crammed about 90 minutes of lecture into an hour. So I’m making the Google Slides deck available for folks who’d like to follow along. You can find them at www.post.games. I’ve also edited the audio to smooth the flow here and there. An unedited video version will be available on the NYU Game Center’s YouTube page in the coming weeks.]
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- Logo and Show Art: James Bareham
- Theme: Mark Sparling
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First 90 secondsSpeaker 00:00
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Speaker 10:14
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Charles Pratt· Guest0:43
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Chris Plante· Host0:44
Welcome to Post Games, a podcast about how and why we love video games. I am your host, Chris Plante, and I am so happy to have you here for a very special 50th episode of the show. I can't believe it. [laughs] This week's show, it's not representative of how things usually work, so if you're new here, be sure to check out the freshly published Post Games Starter Pack. It is available for free at post.games. There, I spotlight five episodes from the first 50 that will turn even the freshest faces into grizzled, hardened veterans. That said, today's episode, while very different, is no