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Moving Pixels Podcast: The Best Games of 2016

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Playing to Lose: The Tragedy of ‘This Is the Police’
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Playing to Lose: The Tragedy of ‘This Is the Police’

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Video gamers are not accustomed to playing to lose.
‘Beautiful Minecraft’ Sees ‘Minecraft’ As a Sculptural Tool, Not Just a Game
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‘Beautiful Minecraft’ Sees ‘Minecraft’ As a Sculptural Tool, Not Just a Game

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Beautiful Minecraft muses on the possibilities of using Minecraft itself as a medium for art.
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Mojang, Microsoft Studios, Sony Computer Entertainment

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The Moving Pixels Podcast Investigates ‘Gravity Bone’ and ‘Thirty Flights of Loving’

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‘Kingdom Death: Monster’ and the Allure of Knowing that “You Really Shouldn’t…”
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‘Kingdom Death: Monster’ and the Allure of Knowing that “You Really Shouldn’t…”

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 / 14 December 2016
In an age when I can I have nearly anything shipped to me in three to five days by Amazon, Kingdom Death: Monster's exclusivity is its chief lure.
The Moving Pixels Podcast Interrogates ‘Virginia’
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The Moving Pixels Podcast Interrogates ‘Virginia’

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 / 12 December 2016
This week we discuss how Virginia explores themes of power, corruption and identity through its cinematic gameplay.
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Emerging from My Hiatus from Big Budget Games

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 / 7 December 2016
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Best of the Moving Pixels Podcast: Storytelling in War Games

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The Moral Morass of Playing ‘Beholder’
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The Moral Morass of Playing ‘Beholder’

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 / 30 November 2016
Beholder shows the disasters that can come from, perhaps, being too compassionate within the context of a totalitarian state.
Moving Pixels Podcast: Exploring the Mind-Body Connection in ‘Soma’
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Moving Pixels Podcast: Exploring the Mind-Body Connection in ‘Soma’

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 / 28 November 2016

Following up on our discussions of Amnesia: The Dark Descent and Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs, we are now discussing the slow burn sci fi horror of Soma.

Soma considers philosophical questions concerning the relationship between the body and the mind, a topic we dive into head first this week.

This podcast is available via Soundcloud.

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Our podcast contributors:

G. Christopher Williams is the Multimedia Editor at PopMatters.com. You can find his weekly updates featured at his blog 8-bit confessional.

In addition to writing for PopMatters, Nick Dinicola is also a regular contributor to the Moving Pixels blog and appears regularly on the Game Hounds podcast.

Eric Swain is a frequent contributor to the Moving Pixels podcast and maintains his own blog on gaming, The Game Critique.

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‘Small Radios Big Televisions’: Small Game Short Review

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 / 22 November 2016