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Curated by: Jacob Geller (122 videos)

Currently Playing: Five Things You Can Only Get In My Book

How a Game Lives, my first book, is available now from all major online retailers. https://www.harpercollins.com/products/how-a-game-lives-jacob-geller?variant=44008639135778

Tracks in this Playlist

Reality is a Camera Trick
all the pixels in new york are freezing
Why Does Everyone Think "1984" Agrees With Them?
More Games That Save the Best for Last
"I am Jesus Christ" and Other Games About Jews
The Future is an Empty Room
Five Things You Can Only Get In My Book
The Ten Best Games of 2025
Silksong and the Biblical Apocalypse
3 Games / 3 Hours / 3 Cursed Computers
They let me write another book
How Well Can You Really Know a Game?
Fantasies of Nuremberg
Clair Obscur is an Endless Canvas of Grief
A Video About Digging A Hole
Indiana Jones and the Objective Existence of God
Humans are Bags of Meat (in Games)
Donating $1 for every demon I kill in DOOM to protect immigrant rights
Fear of Dark
11 of the Best Games From a Staggeringly Good Year of Games
Games That Hide Their Own Sequels
What We Don't Talk About in "Spec Ops The Line"
"The Best Looking Game Ever"
Nothing Ever Stops Existing
Analyzing Every Torture Scene in Call of Duty — All 46 of Them
Gaming through the end of my book campaign
Games that Won't Leave the Dark
Art for No One
JACOB GELLER BOOK ANNOUNCEMENT
I Want to Tell You About My Favorite Fight Scene
Pinocchio is a Story About Art and God
Experiencing Metal Gear Solid for the FIRST TIME
The Best Ten Games of 2023
Playing Anatomy, the Scariest Game Ever Made (and Iron Lung too)
Three Specific Kinds of Terror
Something Rotten takes a trip to Silent Hill
How Can We Bear to Throw Anything Away?
Art in the Pre-Apocalypse
I'm going to talk about The Last of Us 2 for over 8 hours (on a podcast)
Staring into the Sun, and Other Ways of Capturing Transcendence
It's Suda51 Season on Something Rotten
Games that Don't Fake the Space
Games that Aren't Games
From DMC to Hellblade: A New Miniseries
We're Not Remaking Horror Games, We're Chasing Nightmares
The Foundations of Call of Duty: A New Miniseries
The False Evolution of Execution Methods
The Darkness: A New Miniseries
The Strangest Game of 2023
Why God of War Challenged Fate, Then Did It Again
MANHUNT: A New Miniseries
The Conceptual Failure of Orbital Lasers
The Top Ten Games of 2022
The Single Best Gaming Moment of 2022
Sekiro's Parry and Other Pursuits of Perfection
Fear of Big Things Underwater
Fixing My Brain with Automated Therapy
Gross Games about Flesh and Stuff
Every Zelda is the Darkest Zelda
The Real Villain of Resident Evil 4 VR is Meta
What's the Point of Taking Apart a Body?
Why Does Metal Gear Rising Keep Getting More Popular?
Head Transplants and the Non-Existence of the Soul
Perfect Moments in "Bad" Movies
Returnal is a Hell of Our Own Creation
Fear of Cold
The Top Ten (and a Half) Best Games of 2021
Time Loop Nihilism
I Do Not Understand Hotline Miami 2
After a City is Buried
Tetris Effect and Other Games with Immaculate Vibes
The Men Who Couldn't Stop Crying, and Other Unbearable Realities
Dead Space 2 Still Feels Like A New Game
The Game That Won’t Let You See All Of It
The Best Simpsons Intro Is About Losing Everything You Love
Games That Save the Best for Last
The Golem and the Jewish Superhero
Dark Souls 3 is Thinking of Ending Things
A Thousand Ways of Seeing a Forest
Searching for Disco Elysium
The Best Games of 2020, As Decided By One Man With Imperfect Information
Four Short Games About Pain
The Shape of Infinity
Art Restoration (and the Biggest Mod in Resident Evil History)
Jacob Geller Live Stream
Cities Without People
The Future of Writing About Games
The Intimacy of Everyday Objects
Max Payne, Kane & Lynch, and the Meaning of Ugly Games
The Strange Reality of Roller Coaster Tycoon
The Politics of Final Fantasy 7's Architecture
Why Do Horror Games Sound So Beautiful?
Fear of Depths
"Bad Graphics"
The Emotional Peak of The Last Guardian
The Soul of a Library
An Uncanny Reality
Does Call of Duty Believe in Anything?
Artificial Loneliness
Museum Theft