A short (honest!) podcast about video games. Hosted by New York Times contributing critic Chris Suellentrop and former NPR Baghdad bureau chief JJ Sutherland.
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Welcome to Gay for Play! A podcast about all things queer in the world of video games, pop culture, and beyond.👾🏳️🌈🎮💖 ~ Hosted by Eric Solis & Laurence Turner-Cordova ~ In each episode we take a video game or gaming topic and look at it through a queer lens—discussing LGBTQ+ representation, queer themes, cultural significance, and what the games we love have to tell us about the LGBTQIA+ experience at large. Whether you're a lifelong gamer or have even just a passing interest in gaming, joi ...
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Tips, tricks, ideas and interviews to help YOU play a bigger game. How to achieve more, be more, do more and have more than you ever thought possible!
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Let's get drunk and play Nancy Drew games. Intro music composed by Jake LaVallee.
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You think you've seen a big actual play? You haven't seen anything like this! CalazCon is a mega game series featuring 30 players across 6 Beam Saber play groups. Each squad battles against the occupying nomadic media convention, CalazCon, while trying to win the hearts and minds of the locals on behalf of the Democratic Federated Systems. Their choices will affect each other through the course of their shared campaign. Can they liberate the city together, or will they be consumed by the con ...
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A Dungeons & Dragons Fifth Edition Actual Play Podcast
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CalazCon 016 - PizZA - One Of Your guys, Part Two
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CONTENT WARNINGS FOR THIS EPISODE: War Welcome back to CalazCon! This week we join Piz/ZA for their latest Downtime! CalazCon is a Beam Saber mega game series featuring 30 players across 6 play groups. Each squad battles against the occupying nomadic media convention, CalazCon, while trying to win the hearts and minds of the locals on behalf of the…
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Laurio and SonEric at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games
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Bonsoir! Bienvenue à PARIS! This week we set aside video games in favor of OLYMPIC games, as we are joined by the lovely Gerry Tonella (Olympic gold medalist in the sport of "being Eric's cutie-patootie boyfriend") to discuss the games of the 33rd Summer Olympiad in Paris, France! Collectively we found it to be our favorite Olympic games of recent …
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CalazCon 015 - PizZA - One Of Your guys, Part One
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CONTENT WARNINGS FOR THIS EPISODE: War Welcome back to CalazCon! This week we join Piz/ZA for their latest Downtime! CalazCon is a Beam Saber mega game series featuring 30 players across 6 play groups. Each squad battles against the occupying nomadic media convention, CalazCon, while trying to win the hearts and minds of the locals on behalf of the…
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CalazCon 014 - Terminal Company - Spiritually Scrunkly, Part Two
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CONTENT WARNINGS FOR THIS EPISODE: War Welcome back to CalazCon! This week we join Terminal Company for their latest Downtime! CalazCon is a Beam Saber mega game series featuring 30 players across 6 play groups. Each squad battles against the occupying nomadic media convention, CalazCon, while trying to win the hearts and minds of the locals on beh…
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CalazCon 013 - Terminal Company - Spiritually Scrunkly, Part One
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CONTENT WARNINGS FOR THIS EPISODE: War Welcome back to CalazCon! This week we join Terminal Company for their latest Downtime! CalazCon is a Beam Saber mega game series featuring 30 players across 6 play groups. Each squad battles against the occupying nomadic media convention, CalazCon, while trying to win the hearts and minds of the locals on beh…
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CalazCon 012 - The 86 - Thorn In The Flesh, Part Two
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CONTENT WARNINGS FOR THIS EPISODE: War, Blood, Physical Injury, Medical Procedures, Stalking, Psychic Manipulation, Terrorism Welcome back to CalazCon! This week we join The 86 for their latest Downtime! CalazCon is a Beam Saber mega game series featuring 30 players across 6 play groups. Each squad battles against the occupying nomadic media conven…
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CalazCon 011 - The 86 - Thorn In The Flesh, Part One
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CONTENT WARNINGS FOR THIS EPISODE: War, Blood, Physical Injury, Medical Procedures, Stalking, Psychic Manipulation, Terrorism Welcome back to CalazCon! This week we join The 86 for their latest Downtime! CalazCon is a Beam Saber mega game series featuring 30 players across 6 play groups. Each squad battles against the occupying nomadic media conven…
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CalazCon 010 - The Farm Upstate - Fun With 5G, Part Two
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CONTENT WARNINGS FOR THIS EPISODE: War, Blood, Human Experimentation Welcome back to CalazCon! This week we join The Farm Upstate for their latest Mission! CalazCon is a Beam Saber mega game series featuring 30 players across 6 play groups. Each squad battles against the occupying nomadic media convention, CalazCon, while trying to win the hearts a…
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CalazCon 009 - The Farm Upstate - Fun With 5G, Part One
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CONTENT WARNINGS FOR THIS EPISODE: War, Blood, Human Experimentation Welcome back to CalazCon! This week we join The Farm Upstate for their latest Mission! CalazCon is a Beam Saber mega game series featuring 30 players across 6 play groups. Each squad battles against the occupying nomadic media convention, CalazCon, while trying to win the hearts a…
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CalazCon 008 - Blue Sky Endowment - Bludgeon The Bastard, Part Two
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CONTENT WARNINGS FOR THIS EPISODE: War, bugs Welcome back to CalazCon! This week we join Blue Sky Endowment for their latest Mission! CalazCon is a Beam Saber mega game series featuring 30 players across 6 play groups. Each squad battles against the occupying nomadic media convention, CalazCon, while trying to win the hearts and minds of the locals…
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CalazCon 007 - Blue Sky Endowment - Bludgeon The Bastard, Part One
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CONTENT WARNINGS FOR THIS EPISODE: War, bugs Welcome back to CalazCon! This week we join Blue Sky Endowment for their latest Mission! CalazCon is a Beam Saber mega game series featuring 30 players across 6 play groups. Each squad battles against the occupying nomadic media convention, CalazCon, while trying to win the hearts and minds of the locals…
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CalazCon 006 - PizZA - Needs Must Must Die, Part Two
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CONTENT WARNINGS FOR THIS EPISODE: War, Assassination Welcome back to CalazCon! This week we join Piz/ZA for their latest Mission! CalazCon is a Beam Saber mega game series featuring 30 players across 6 play groups. Each squad battles against the occupying nomadic media convention, CalazCon, while trying to win the hearts and minds of the locals on…
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CalazCon 005 - PizZA - Needs Must Must Die, Part One
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CONTENT WARNINGS FOR THIS EPISODE: War, Assassination Welcome back to CalazCon! This week we join Piz/ZA for their latest Mission! CalazCon is a Beam Saber mega game series featuring 30 players across 6 play groups. Each squad battles against the occupying nomadic media convention, CalazCon, while trying to win the hearts and minds of the locals on…
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CalazCon 004 - Terminal Company - Operation Horatio, Part Two
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CONTENT WARNINGS FOR THIS EPISODE: War Welcome back to CalazCon! This week we join Terminal Company for their latest Mission! CalazCon is a Beam Saber mega game series featuring 30 players across 6 play groups. Each squad battles against the occupying nomadic media convention, CalazCon, while trying to win the hearts and minds of the locals on beha…
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CalazCon 003 - Terminal Company - Operation Horatio, Part One
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CONTENT WARNINGS FOR THIS EPISODE: War Welcome back to CalazCon! This week we join Terminal Company for their latest Mission! CalazCon is a Beam Saber mega game series featuring 30 players across 6 play groups. Each squad battles against the occupying nomadic media convention, CalazCon, while trying to win the hearts and minds of the locals on beha…
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CalazCon 002 - The 86 - Dash Into The BALLPIT, Part Two
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CONTENT WARNINGS FOR THIS EPISODE: War, intimate partner abuse, war trauma, direct physical injury, emotional distress, acts of terrorism Welcome back to CalazCon! This week we join The 86 for their latest Mission! CalazCon is a Beam Saber mega game series featuring 30 players across 6 play groups. Each squad battles against the occupying nomadic m…
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CalazCon 001 - The 86 - Dash Into The BALLPIT, Part One
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CONTENT WARNINGS FOR THIS EPISODE: War, intimate partner abuse, war trauma, direct physical injury, emotional distress, acts of terrorism Welcome back to CalazCon! This week we join The 86 for their latest Mission! CalazCon is a Beam Saber mega game series featuring 30 players across 6 play groups. Each squad battles against the occupying nomadic m…
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CalazCon 000 - Series Introduction
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Welcome to CalazCon! This is episode zero, our series introduction, where we explain what the show is, its structure, and the lore behind the world of CalazCon! CalazCon is a Beam Saber mega game series featuring 30 players across 6 play groups. Each squad battles against the occupying nomadic media convention, CalazCon, while trying to win the hea…
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Our BRAT Summer of Paper Mario and Relaxation
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Are we still a video game podcast? Well, sorta kinda! That, pop culture, and beyond as we say, (with an emphasis on the latter two lately...) But still, it's a question we find we are asking ourselves lately! tbh, We find it a little difficult to care as deeply about video games when we are so busy living through major current events and existing i…
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Challengers: Wii Sports Tennis if it Slayed
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We've been Nasty girls for sitting on this episode for a couple weeks, but we are back! This week we discuss Luca Guadagnino's bisexual fever dream smash hit CHALLENGERS, as well as Another Crab's Treasure - a cute undersea Souls-like where you play as a hermit crab trying to get his shell back, the Met Gala (which we kinda dgaf about but discuss a…
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Evangelion: 1.6 You Can (Not) Stardew (w/ Sara Brown)
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Get in the robot, listener, it's time for another Gay for Play! This week we're joined by bestie of the pod and G4P alum, Sara Brown! We get deep and philosophical about the re-release (and first North American release) of The End of Evangelion in theaters and discuss why this film and its anime is still one of the most beloved and mind-boggling se…
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Throwing Cards the House Down in "Balatro" and "Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth"
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It's all aces this week as Eric and Laurence chitchat about all the culture and games they've been playing this month. Final Fantasy VII: Rebirth, the hotly anticipated follow-up to 2020's FF7 Remake. Rebirth reunites us with our favorite PTSD-addled twink Cloud Strife, as he and his gang of gay friends and divas leave the city of Midgar and embark…
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"As a Trans Man with Dyscalculia..." (w/ Leo Grierson)
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Time marches ever onward, and here we are, with our first episode of 2024! Back in January (sorry for the delay, it's been a busy start to the year for us) we sat down with one of our OG G4P guests and dear dear friend Leo Grierson to discuss digital theatre and storytelling, A.I. and our complex and evolving opinions on the technology, the joys of…
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Eric, Laur, & The Great GOTYs of 2023
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"The GOTYs, said to portend... untold slayage, and the end of the *year*~" 2023 is over! And we find ourselves at the end of a truly landmark year for gaming. On this episode we discuss some of our favorite games of 2023. We each pick 5 games from our personal lists that we want to highlight, then culminate the show with 3 "joint slays": games that…
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Catching Up for our 3-Year Pod Anniversary
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We back y'all. This week Eric and Laurence hop back on the mics after a much needed break & discuss gaming ruts, our teacher-eras, the end of the actor's strike, AI, some light predictions for the Game Awards (we recorded this episode 2 days before the ceremony) and of course, gaaaaaames! Games discussed include: Cyberpunk 2077: Phantom Liberty (a …
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Gay For Role-Play: Fall 2023s Biggest RPGs
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Autumn has officially begun, and with it, massive Role-Playing Games have arisen as some of hottest games of the season. We're leaning into this genre trend this week and discussing 4 games we've been playing! -First we have the stellar new RPG Baldur's Gate 3, a colossal Dungeons & Dragons-based adventure where dialog choices & character interacti…
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Mutha Courage and Her Beyhive - Renaissance World Tour (w/ Eriel Brown)
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It's Virgo('s Groove) Season and we have been blessed by the queen! Beyoncé Knowles (female pop vocalist) Carter brought her record-breaking, epic, indelible Renaissance World Tour to Los Angeles, California earlier this month, and we were there to witness it! (well, 2/3rds of us were, but Eric has watched multiple YouTube recordings of the tour, s…
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Dungeons & Dragons! (w/ Steven Christie)
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You and your party stumble across a new episode of G4P! Go ahead and roll for initiative~ Baldur's Gate 3 is currently the hottest new RPG in the gaming world right now. Only problem is, none of us have played it yet! So on this week's episode we're joined by Steven Christie, our oomfie from down under* (*Australia, not the Underdark) to discuss th…
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Princess Mononoke & Studio Ghibli's Influence on Zelda
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This week, Eric and Laurence discuss the 1997 Studio Ghibli Classic, Princess Mononoke and discuss how it had so much more of an impact on the latest Zelda games than we had previously been aware of. We also get into some of our other favorite films from the beloved animation studio, Laurence converts Eric to a NewJeans stan, Eric extols the virtue…
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Pikmin 4: The Best Thing Since Fresh Basil (w/ Matthew Pezzulich)
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This week we are joined by our friend Matthew Pezzulich (he/him) to discuss PIKMIN 4: the latest entry in the beloved Nintendo franchise about little guys doing silly little tasks at the end of the world (and in that sense, aren't we all Pikmin when you think about it?) We talk about the history of franchise, its themes of environmentalism, collabo…
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Tiers of the Kingdom (LIVE SHOW with Super Dating Simulator!)
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This super special episode is a recording of our live show from this past June with SUPER DATING SIMULATOR @ the Alamo Drafthouse's Video Vortex in Downtown LA!!! It was such a blast to be a part of, and now that Hot Labor Summer (the WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes) has led us to shift our release schedule around, we're so glad to finally share this epi…
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Summer Gay Fest! (Our Favorite June Game Announcements)
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This week it's back to business after the incredible joy and success our first ever live show in LA last weekend! Eric and Laurence debrief on our show with Super Dating Simulator and the weekend at large before diving into our main topic: JUNE VIDEO GAME ANNOUNCEMENTS! E3 may be officially dead and gone, but the games are here to stay. We cover ou…
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The Legend of Zelda: Queers of the Kingdom
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It's Pride month once again, and what better way to kick off the celebrations than by diving paraglider-first into a hearty discussion on one of the biggest and best games of the year. It's Zelda time!!! Our favorite androgynous femmeboy girltwink swordsman is back and this time? He has a sexy goat-man's arm grafted onto him. The Legend of Zelda: T…
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