Mar 30, 2021
Knowledge is power, and in the era of Big Data video game companies have a whole lot of information, which they can potentially use to manipulate players in order to cash in on them. We discuss how they might do this through dynamic reward schemes, how far this information asymmetry may go, and whether players have the...
Mar 20, 2021
Games are traditionally thought of as acting like magic circles. When we enter the game, we enter the magic circle and leave the real world behind. In our first podcast we explore how the magic circle idea can help us think about fairness and cheating in video games, how this way of thinking was challenged by a...
Mar 19, 2021
The Ethics and Video Games podcast is dedicated to investigating the intersection and relationships between video games and ethics.
We explore controversial ethical issues about video games (e.g. what should be censored), in video games (e.g. what counts as cheating), and in video game design (e.g. what works to make a...