Tony Nominees & Indie Videogames — Kurt Andersen talks with playwright Bruce Norris. His Tony-nominated play Clybourne Park tackles race, class, and gentrification — and it’s a comedy. Nina Arianda, nominated for her leading role in Venus in Fur, shares her mantra for success. And a group of videogame designers creates a pop-up arcade with games that are defining a new world of indie gaming.
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Studio 360 from PRI and WNYC
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Stuff You Should Know
Do Video Games produce Real-Life Violence? — The disturbing trend of school shootings around the world has dragged violence in video games into the hot seat. But are violent video games actually more capable of producing real violence in gamers or is it just the latest victim of societal hysteria?
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PRI: To the Best of Our Knowledge
Gaming — A lot of people love video games, but what can they teach us? Imagine a world in which whatever you want to know you can learn from a game.
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WNYC’s Radiolab
Shorts: Mapping Tic Tac Toe-dom — Writer Ian Frazier made a startling discovery several years ago in eastern Siberia: no one he met there had ever heard of tic tac toe. In this short, Jad and Robert wonder how a game that seems carved into childhood DNA could be completely unknown in some parts of the world.
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