Ep37: Kate Edwards talks video game culture, cartography & culturalization!

Hosts David & Joe chat with Kate Edwards, a pioneering thinker in understanding cultures when designing video games for maximum global reach. We find out about Kate's feelings around game culture, and discover her wild career has taken her from a prominent position at Microsoft, to being the executive director of the International Game Developers Association, to headed up the culturalization consultancy firm Geogrify.

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