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The Moving Pixels Podcast Goes ‘Knee Deep’ in Swamp Noir

The Moving Pixels Podcast Goes ‘Knee Deep’ in Swamp Noir

This week the Moving Pixels podcast begins a three-part discussion of Knee Deep, a "swamp noir" we all agree has a great setting. However, we can't agree on much more than that.
Players Lose Control in ‘Tales from the Borderlands’

Players Lose Control in ‘Tales from the Borderlands’

This is an interactive story in which players don’t craft the characters, we just control them.
‘The Walking Dead: Michonne’ Confronts the Issues of Surviving Grief and Trauma

‘The Walking Dead: Michonne’ Confronts the Issues of Surviving Grief and Trauma

Grief and trauma always seems a side venture to The Walking Dead's plots, never the central focus. Michonne seems to want to put these concerns front and center.
A Mea Culpa for The Walking Dead’s Kenny

A Mea Culpa for The Walking Dead’s Kenny

Thanks to Kenny and Lee, when the two seasons of The Walking Dead video game are considered together, they become an argument between parents over how to survive.
Moving Pixels Podcast: Choose Your Own Clementine

Moving Pixels Podcast: Choose Your Own Clementine

This week we each discuss the Clementine that we have decided will resolve this season of The Walking Dead.
Moving Pixels Podcast: A House Dividing

Moving Pixels Podcast: A House Dividing

Set against the backdrop of a museum dedicated to the Civil War, Clementine and her companions experience their own house dividing.
Moving Pixels Podcast: Little Human, Big Apocalypse

Moving Pixels Podcast: Little Human, Big Apocalypse

This week we consider the position that this season of The Walking Dead puts us in as we step into the shoes of a most vulnerable survivor, a child.
Telltale’s Abuse of Nostalgia

Telltale’s Abuse of Nostalgia

The first episode of the second season of The Walking Dead felt like a statement that this season wasn’t beholden to the past. Episode 2 turns this season into one too afraid of change to properly move on.
Moving Pixels Podcast: The Seamier Side of Fairy Tales

Moving Pixels Podcast: The Seamier Side of Fairy Tales

On this episode of the Moving Pixels Podcast, we explore just how bad we can make the Big Bad Wolf in The Wolf Among Us.
Illusions, Interactivity, and ‘The Wolf Among Us’

Illusions, Interactivity, and ‘The Wolf Among Us’

Part of what makes a great game great is how well it fosters its own illusion.
I Am Clementine

I Am Clementine

At this point in The Walking Dead, both Clementine and I have been trained to work through problems using a frighteningly similar thought process.

Moving Pixels Podcast: Neon Noir Fairy Tales