Moving Pixels Podcast

Welcome to the inaugural episode of the Moving Pixels Podcast. For the initial editions of this new feature at PopMatters, we will be hosting a mini-series of sorts. A number of regular contributors to our Multimedia Section and the Moving Pixels blog here at PopMatters, G. Christopher Williams, Rick Dakan, Nick Dinicola, and Thomas Cross, will be spending the next six weeks discussing the topic of storytelling in video games.   For our first episode, we decided to look at "The Role of Story in Video Games," focusing our discussion on the history of story in video games and how gaming has been transformed over the past few decades in light of narrative becoming an almost inseperable part of the game enthusiast's experience of the medium.   In the upcoming weeks, we will continue to look at storytelling, but we will be focusing on the types of stories that games tell and how they do so more or less successfully, including love stories, war stories, and stories involving mystery.   So, withou