Games
“The Best Games of 2025, Picked by NPR’s Staff” NPR
“In a Costume I am Cooler than You!” Gamers with Glasses
“Super Midlife Bothers: Thoughts on Mario at Forty” Games with Glasses
“New Gods, Old Enigmas” Bullet Points Monthly
“A Videogame Politics for A Burning World: An Interview with Ajay Singh Chaudhary” Unwinnable
“The Best Games of 2025 so Far, Picked by NPR’s Staff” NPR
“Nostalgia’s Lost Kingdoms of Childhood: An Ode to Hell” Gamers with Glasses
“Lost In Cult Builds a ‘Little Art Gallery of Gaming‘” SuperJump
“Desperate Times, Despelote Dreams” Gamers with Glasses
“To Have Fun in Spite of The Tragedy of It All: The Pertinence of Molly House” Unwinnable
“Scarity Is Stressed in Video Game Citizen Sleeper II: Starward Vector” PopMatters
“Stimulation Clicker Is Nauseating by Design” PopMatters
“Review: Japanese Role-Playing Games: Genre, Representation, and Liminality in the JRPG” Gamers with Glasses
“Take Video Games and Our Perilous Era Seriously” PopMatters
“The Playdate Represents the Best Future for Handheld Consoles” Unwinnable
“Pain 2 Glory at PAX Unplugged 2024” Unwinnable
“The Best Games of 2024, Picked by NPR’s Staff” NPR
“The Best Video Games of 2024” PopMatters
“Phoenix Springs’ Journey to Nowhere Is Worth It” PopMatters
“Neva’s Emotion-Engine Gameplay Is a Beautiful Crowd-Pleaser” PopMatters
“The Anthropocene Comes for Sham Hatwitch” Gamers with Glasses
“Baroque Pathology: Monkeys Shampooing While I Slowly Die & Play Final Fantasy VIII” Unwinnable (Issue 179)
“Is it A Profound Waste of Time to Like a Video Game Magazine?” First Person Scholar
“Zau and Sargon” Exploits Issue 78, An Unwinnable Publication
“Five Years Old Memories and Naïve Art in Video Games” PopMatters
“The 5 Best Video Game Hip-Hop Soundtracks” PopMatters
“Horror Puzzle Video Game The Exit 8 Is an Inescapable Meme” PopMatters
“The Best Games of 2024 So Far, Picked by the NPR Staff” NPR
“An Attempt Against Muscular Demonstrations of Power: Child of Light at Ten” Unwinnable (Issue 175)
“1000xRESIST’s Magnificent Operatic Heterotopia” PopMatters
“Cuban Video Game Saviorless Subverts The Revolution’s Narrative” PopMatters
“The New York Times Simulator Is Not About Understanding the Press, but Changing It” Gamers With Glasses
“Pain and Glory at PAX East 2024” Gamers With Glasses
“Kingdom Hearts II” Exploits Issue 72, An Unwinnable Publication
“Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown Represents” PopMatters
“Video Game History Preservation: It’s Not All Fun and Games” PopMatters
“Five Sci-fi Video Game Soundtracks for the End of the World” PopMatters
“Bahnsen Knights Revels in ’80s Pulp Fiction” PopMatters
“The Best Video Games of 2023” PopMatters
“50 of the RPGs” Deep-Hell
“The End is Only the Beginning in Literary Game Saltsea Chronicles” PopMatters
“An Impenetrable Cage of Bureaucracy” Game Informer, V. XXXII, N. 10, Issue 361, pp. 78-83
“Nostalgia in Lieu of Substance: A Handled History Plays it Safe” PopMatters
“Prepare To Get Slayed And Played By Vampire Survivors” PopMatters
“The ‘Roll’ Of Life In We Love Katamari ReRoll+ ROYAL REVERIE” PopMatters
“The Fun of ‘No-Fun’ in The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom” PopMatters
“How Pokémon and Japanese Media Created a Generation of Monster Kids” PopMatters
“Cultural Self-Aggrandizement has Us Playing Oppression” PopMatters
“Too Powerful to be Merely Entertainment: Video Games and the Work of Nicholas O’Brien” PopMatters
“Video Games Invade the Art World in MoMA’s Never Alone Exhibition” Ars Technica
“Nintendo Makes Binge Eating Fun in Kirby’s Dream Buffet” PopMatters
“How Moebius’ Psychedelic Fantasy/Surrealist Art Influenced Video Games” PopMatters
“Found in Translation: A Journey into Heaven’s Vault” PopMatters
“Chrono Trigger and Coping with Pandemic Trauma through Video Games” PopMatters
Technology, Music, & Literature
“Staring at Japan’s “Fantasy Industrial Complex” at Anime NYC 2025 with Matt Alt“
“A Record for Our Times: Jacob Geller has a Book” Unwinnable
“If You Stream It, They Will Come: On Nathan Grayson’s Stream Big” Unwinnable
“The Best Books of 2024” PopMatters
“Asian American Pop Culture Stands on the Shoulders of a Giant Robot” PopMatters
“Punk Troubadour Manu Chao Returns After 17 Years” PopMatters
“Heems’ Venna Communicates Across Boundaries” PopMatters
“Aminder Dhaliwal’s Latest Shows That Our Culture of Work Is a Malice Burning Us Alive” PopMatters
“No Such Thing As Failure: Nintendo’s Failed Virtual Boy” PopMatters
“Steve Reich’s Music Echoes In Jordan Mechner’s Graphic Memoir Replay” PopMatters
“Pedro Páramo is a Masterpiece that Resurrects and Welcomes the Dead” PopMatters
“Sundial Is Noname’s Contribution To The Current Golden Era Of Rap” PopMatters
“Sink: A Memoir Shuns Respectability Politics” PopMatters
“Glee and Melancholy in Drnaso’s Graphic Fiction Acting Class” PopMatters
“Open Mike Eagle on Capturing Hip-Hop’s Oral History via Podcast” PopMatters
“Black Sorcerers in the Trenches of David Diop’s At Night All Blood Is Black” PopMatters
“Coding While Black: Artificial Intelligence, Computing, and Data in a Racialized World” New York University
Other Writings
“Five Theses on Antifascist Game Criticism” Gamers with Glasses
“Consolidando el Poder en El Salvador: El Caso de Nayib Bukele” Ecuador Debate, Numero 142, Abril 2021, pp. 157-177
“Authoritarian Populism in the Americas: A Symptom of Democratic Crisis” Global Policy Journal
“Populism, Gender and Language: Lessons from Latin America and Beyond” New York University
“Democracy’s Ideal Form” New York University
“Discussing the Legacy of Jane Jacobs” New York University
“Michael Hardt Speaks on Assembly” New York University
Panels, Events, Videos & Conferences
“The Role Print Media Plays in Video Game Preservation” Long Island Retro Gaming Expo 2025
“Best Historical Boardgames of 2024 – Golden Luddite Award” Homo Ludens
“Sam Lake Legend Award Tribute Documentary” New York Videogame Critics Circle
“14th Annual New York Game Awards” New York Videogame Critics Circle
“Video game of the Year” Panel with Tim Rogers & Jordan Minor Long Island Retro Gaming Expo 2024
“Shaping the Future of Board Games: Geoff Engelstein on Unionizing Game Design with TTGDA” Homo Ludens
“13th Annual New York Game Awards” New York Videogame Critics Circle
“Reiner Knizia – A Board Game Designer’s Journey” Homo Ludens
“Julius Caesar (Columbia Games): Surprise Christmas Stream” Homo Ludens
“Gaming a Difficult History: Cross Bronx Expressway” New York University
“Are Wargames Propaganda?” Homo Ludens
“Pokémon Crystal’s Hybridizing Gender Style: A Source of Liberation & Social Trauma” MultiPlay Network
“Frontiers of Labor Organizing” New York University
“Playing Colonialism” Homo Ludens
Podcasts
Yoshi’s Story (With Luis Aguasvivas and Brian Riggsbee) Flashback64
LONG ISLAND RETRO GAMING EXPO 2025 RECAP ATTACK BONUS Pixels and Polygons
Indie Games w/Luis Aguasvivas Storymoders Podcast
RPG ANNIVERSARY I w/ Luis and Aidan Pixels and Polygons
Side Quests Episode 362: Dragon Quest III with Luis Aguasvivas “Fun” and Games Podcast
Episode 155: Shenmue Tales from the Backlog
Connecting Our Experiences with Games feat. Luis Aguasvivas Hot Pot Gaming Podcast
Pixels and Polygons – Gameplay or Narrative
Playing With Purpose Podcast Ep 7 – Luis Aguasvivas On Playing Games While Sick
The Gamers with Glasses Show, Episode 31: Yoshi, Take Me Away
Playing With Purpose Ep 6 – Remy Siu On Immersion, Building Sunset Visitor & 1000xRESIST
Pixels and Polygons – Least Favorite III
Pixels and Polygons – This or That II
The Gamers with Glasses Show, Episode 30: A Bloodthirsty Man with a Beautiful Mustache
Indiepocalypse Radio – Episode 0147
The Gamers with Glasses Show, Episode 28: Meta Gear Solid
Tetracast ~ The Episode with Four Titles ~ 4×4 ~ Title-omino
Beyond Solitaire: Luis Aguasvivas on Game Journalism
Homo Ludens Podcast: Supply Lines of the American Revolution & Monthly Debrief
Homo Ludens Podcast: Sekigahara Collective Review & Summer Debrief
Homo Ludens Podcast: Warriors of God Collective Review & Monthly Debrief
Homo Ludens Podcast: Monthly Debrief & Washington’s War Collective Review
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