"Where is all the good writing about games?"
Welcome back, readers. I’ve got a couple of updates from around the site before we get going this week. First, there’s a new Keywords in Play! This episode’s guest is April Tyack, and the topic is the research around different kinds of…
Download “Keywords in Play” is an interview series about game research supported by Critical Distance and the Digital Games Research Association. April Tyack is a postdoctoral researcher at Aalto University and vice-president of DiGRA Australia. April researches player experience and how games…
Welcome back, readers. Anyone else at the “I’m just going to play videogames and meeet the functional minimum for my work commitments until something meaningfully changes for me” stage of pandemic living? Just me? Cool. I cleared Diddy Kong Racing last night…
Welcome back, readers. I’m sorry to say I goofed it a bit last week by neglecting to mention Connor’s latest TMIVGV! Check that out if you haven’t already, and remember to use the #TMIVGV tag on Twitter when nominating video content. This…
Welcome back, readers. Some great writing this week–worth, as always, fending off the ever-encroaching brain fog to read, collate, and present. Hope it helps you start your week off with the ol’ neurons firing away in a. . . good way? (Note…
Hello readers, December is traditionally a good month for “festivities” but a slow month for “discourse”, with many critics, essayists and content-makers opting to take a little break or put out some sort of top ten list. Meanwhile, others chose to upload…
Welcome back, readers. I’m tired. There’s a point to that remark. Which is to say: I don’t know how these writers do it, week-to-week, article-to-article. Seriously! Even so, I’m grateful for it, because it keeps our own work fulfilling, no matter how…
Welcome back, readers. I haven’t got much in the way of updates today, but before we get into the swing of things this week, let me take a moment to re-plug our annual year-in-review. There’s lots of great work in here, so…
Welcome back, readers, and welcome to 2022. If you haven’t seen it already, Kris and Zoyander beat me to the punch this week with their outstandingly jam-packed and tenderly-articulated year-in-review. Dedicated readers may discover that one article from this week’s selections also…
An entire epoch of games criticism has come and gone in the time since this site first came into existence nearly 13 years ago. It’s difficult, now, to even access the emotional state we had back then, the optimism of unfettered possibilities…