In our fourth episode of the CH Ludens podcast, Eugen Pfister talks with his colleague Pierre-Yves Hurel from UNIL. Hurel is a postdoctoral researcher in media studies on our team who wrote his thesis on amateur video games, approached through an ethnographic study of online communities of practice. In our project, he is using his expertise to unearth the forgotten history of digital games in French-speaking Switzerland through extensive media research and over 60 oral history interviews. Together with Yannick Rochat and Eugen Pfister, he has channelled his experience and expertise in researching local gaming history into a methodology: REGHEX – The REgional Game History EXcavation method. 

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