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Scandalous Games
Scandalous Games is a video game history podcast that takes a closer look at video game related controversies. Every episode, historian Kevin Impellizeri shares a story about a scandalous event from gaming's past to his friends who offer commentary on moral panics, ill-advised advertising campaigns, unusual figures, and any and all topics related to video game scandals and how they shaped the medium. New episodes drop on the first and third Tuesdays of every month! Check out more info, including show notes and sources, at http://scandalousgamespodcast.wordpress.com.
Scandalous Games
2025: A Year in Controversies, Part 1: Notes from the Reddit regime
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Historian Kevin Impellizeri shares a story of a video game controversy to his friend, Andy Hunter. We take a look back at a controversy from the previous year, examining how the announcement of a remastered version of Halo: Combat Evolved inspired an AI-generated meme-off between GameStop and the Trump Administration. We also keep ourselves sane by sharing our favorite games of 2025.
Topics discussed include: people trading in taxidermy animals for $5 in store credit, GameStop's meme king CEO, Sony's representative at the Xbox-PlayStation peace meetings, Nintendo looks the other way, and a certain former Florida attorney makes an appearance in the Epstein files.
For more on that, check out: Jeffrey Epstein to Lily Ann Sanchez, January 3, 2015, www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet 9/EFTA00867548.pdf.
For more on the "GameStonks"/WallStreetBets affair, see:
Dan Olson, "This Is Financial Advice," Folding Ideas, September 30, 2023, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5pYeoZaoWrA.
James Jani, "The GameStop Cult: An Untold Story," James Jani, https://youtu.be/7LPuXowifJ4?si=jK_VqyvlmZI3QuOb.
More info, including show notes and sources at http://scandalousgamespodcast.wordpress.com.