The Ludonist

The Ludonist


Latest Episodes

Episode 9: Dr. Dragonborn or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Thu’um
June 29, 2015

Making open worlds fun isn't easy. It took one of us nearly four years to appreciate Skyrim's sense of wanderlust.

Episode 8: The Ghosts of E3
June 22, 2015

Nick and Aaron riff on the highs and lows of E3 2015.

Episode 7: Ice-T Presents: Fallout, 4
June 15, 2015

E3 still isn’t officially underway for another day or so, but Bethesda sure wasn’t gonna wait around for other companies to break their news. The developer and publisher took to the stage last night to promote its upcoming games,

Episode 6: Gamer Knows Best
June 08, 2015

Video game fans are a notoriously opinionated bunch. Picture the acerbic, humorless affect of The Simpsons' Comic Book Guy and toss in a lot of strong opinions about player progression systems and you've got the makings of a gaming Subreddit.

Episode 5: Then and Now
May 25, 2015

In this episode we explore the concept of taste: Do we still choose the same games that we've always loved, or has the industry influenced what we play?

Episode 4: Franchise Opportunities Available
May 18, 2015

Some of yesterday's biggest franchises are coming back in 2015. Why now, and what's driving the reanimation of once-dead properties?

Episode 3: Mod Money
May 11, 2015

Here at The Ludonist, we do our best to bring you a fresh, topical episode every week. We think we've got a pretty good system down that accounts for unexpected changes to a story, but there's always the risk that a topic will become irrelevant within ...

Episode 2: Start Your Engines
May 04, 2015

It's been a couple months since the 2015 Game Developers Conference took place in San Francisco, and we're just beginning to feel the repercussions of some major changes in game-development tech that were announced at the show.

Episode 1: Hello World
April 27, 2015

In our first episode, we set out to do the impossible: define what the games industry looks like in 2015.