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February 27th

By Eric Swain ⋅ February 27, 2011 ⋅ Post a comment

Last year I took over the reins of TWIVGB when Ben went gallivanting off to GDC; now a year later (holy shit it’s been a year), I’m doing the same. So here’s This Week in Videogame Blogging.
Before leaving us Ben Abraham wrote a post entitled “Cahiers du multijoueur,” a pun on the famous French film [...]

February 20th

By Ben Abraham ⋅ February 20, 2011 ⋅ Post a comment

It’s that time again – time to fight the urge to crawl under a rock to escape death rays from the sun while compiling a list of the more interesting pieces of writing, blogging and criticism from around the web. It could only ever be This Week In Videogame Blogging.
This calendar week, blogger Ashelia wrote [...]

February 13th

By Ben Abraham ⋅ February 13, 2011 ⋅ Post a comment

Another week, and another attempt at corralling the week’s most interesting and engaging writing, blogging and criticism of videogames into one place.
First up: Duncan Fyfe’s ‘Bad Dreams’ at Life Starts Here. In his latest short story, Fyfe touches on the perennial bug-bear topic of developer-journalist relationships, with the main thread of the story revolving around [...]

Episode 7 – A Post-Comment World

By Eric Swain ⋅ February 10, 2011 ⋅ 10 comments

It’s time for another episode of the Critical Distance Confab. Before we get into it, a little background information. Right around the last podcast a debate sprung up over Ben’s refusal to allow comments on his personal blog, finding them not worth worth the time and effort. This had been his policy since starting his [...]

February 6th

By Ben Abraham ⋅ February 6, 2011 ⋅ Post a comment

Another week, another agglomeration of the week’s best blogging, writing and criticism of videogame from around the blogosphere.
I’d be remiss if I didn’t mention the week’s big story, so I’ll get it out of the way first, and boy does it have legs – the Penny Arcade ‘Dickwolves’ saga seems to have spread its tendrils [...]

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