UPDATED: Blogs of the Round Table: January ‘12 Roundup

Welcome to the first Blogs of the Round Table round-up post for 2012, first let’s remind ourselves of the theme we’re talking about this month.
Being Other:
Games, like most media, have the ability to let us explore what it’s like to be someone other than ourselves. While this experience may only encompass a character’s external circumstances–exploring [...]

Help send Mattie Brice to GDC

So you may remember a certain campaign run about this time two years ago to fly me all the way from the other side of the world to GDC in San Francisco. Well, this year David Carlton & co. have teamed up to send rising star Mattie Brice to GDC and I can’t think of [...]

Announcing the return of The Blogs of the Round Table

Hello Dearly Devoted Critical-Distance Readers!
So the most attentive amongst you may remember that I teased a ‘new thing’ that would be starting in January here at Critical Distance – well, it’s January and I can now announce that we are officially re-launching ‘The Blogs of the Round Table’.
For those who might not have been around [...]

An Announcement

Hello dearly devoted readers!
I’ve taken the almost unprecedented step of posting a non-TWIVGB post to let you know about some changes that are happening here at Critical Distance. There’s one main thing to appraise you of, and that is that I am handing over weekly TWIVGB duties to the extremely talented and accomplished Kris Ligman, [...]

November 13th

A Nordic tundra. A distant figure is spotted running with great haste, all arms flailing and apparently trying to shout over the sound of the howling wind. As the figure approaches you make out “The dragon is coming! The dragon is coming!”

As the figure approaches you see it is none other than your trusty [...]

November 6th

Hello loyal readers, welcome to another This Week In Videogame Blogging!  Let’s jump right into another digest of the week’s best offerings from around the blogosphere:
Straight from the New Yorker’s Culture Desk we have Chris Suellentrop’s piece on ‘The Video Game Art of Fumito Ueda’. It’s a little bit purple in places (what writing about [...]

October 16th

Hello and welcome to #OccupyTWIVGB, where we’re interested in the best and brightest alternatives to the videogame review hegemony! Down with the 100 point scale! Up with rich description and analysis! Onward to an imaginative and constructively critical videogame future!
Beginning our week of occupation and reclamation we start with the incredible engineering-and-technology informed criticism of [...]

October 9th

Good evening ladies and gentlemen and welcome to another instalment of This Week In Videogame Blogging. We’ve got some cool pieces this week, so let’s jump in the deep end.
At the Vorpal Bunny Ranch blog, Denis Farr has been playing the first Metal Gear Solid for the first time. Here’s what has to say about [...]

September 18th

Welcome to another instalment of This Week In Videogame Blogging, and what a week it’s been. I can’t remember the last time we’ve had so many great pieces all crammed into the one week. Where do we begin?
Our last entry went out before September 11 really kicked off the remembrance of that fateful day, so [...]

August 28th

Hello! Welcome to another episode of This Week In Videogame Blogging, it’s been a busy week for the blogosphere, which has seen some heated but reasonably productive discussion. But we’ll get to that.
First, the loveliest thing I’ve read all week (indeed, the loveliest for some time longer) is ‘Games Saved My Life’ which is a collection [...]