Shame Free Gaming

In today's episode I had a chance to sit down with someone who researches desire, attraction, and how that shapes how we interact with fiction. Dr. Ashley Guajardo is an Assistant Arts Professor at the NYU Game Center where she teaches people how to make videogames. She is also the current president of the Digital Games Research Association, the largest global research organization dedicated to advancing Game Studies as an academic discipline. She is the author of Sexuality in Roleplaying Games and one of four authors of the upcoming book Play Like A Fangirl.

In this episode we look at how gender, desire, and flavor preferences shape how we relate to the biological and psychological themes of pregnancy in fictional content.

In this episode of Shame Free Gaming we look at Mixtape, Dispatch, and the wave of Interactive Romance Simulations like Five Hearts Under One Roof that have exploded in popularity on Steam. Are these Visual Novels? To answer that, we look at the last 50 years of interactive fiction and the gameplay and themes that have evolved alongside changing technology.

The Corruption genre remains one of the most popular, yet most censored flavors in gaming. This time we look at 32 titles comprising a huge variety of flavors and gameplay styles.

It has been five years since I started SPG. What I have learned and what can we expect to see from the adult gaming industry in 2026.

2025 was a wild year for adult games. This episode we look back at how the year went and what it may mean for 2026.

This episode we talk about how I select winners for the Adult Game of the Year Awards. We also delve into the difficulties in deciding which flavor categories a game qualifies for.

Today we look at the 2025 Tokyo Game Show. We talk about the games I enjoyed and how adult game developers are adapting to changing censorship conditions.

This episode we talk about Comiket 107, Fancy Frontier 45, and the drastic new steps Steam is taking to restrict games. 

Today we look at the top contenders for Adult Game of the Year for 2025. Which games are in contention and how has the ongoing wave of censorship impacted the quality of games this year?