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Ben Abraham

Ben Abraham has written 121 posts for Critical Distance
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May 1st

By Ben Abraham ⋅ May 1, 2011 ⋅ Post a comment

Two weeks away and I feel like it’s been a month! Thanks again to our fantastic contributors Kris and Ian, who both did a fantastic job. Also, thanks to everyone sending in recommendations via twitter and email, keep ‘em coming.
Let’s get a couple of older pieces out of the way first: For the more theory [...]

April 10th

By Ben Abraham ⋅ April 10, 2011 ⋅ Post a comment

Oh dear, I’d better stop daydreaming about the gig I’m about to go to and make a start to this instead. It’s This Week In Videogame Blogging and there’s no shortage of good reads to go round. And hey, Critical Distance is exactly two years old to the day! Let’s celebrate by raising a glass [...]

April 3rd

By Ben Abraham ⋅ April 3, 2011 ⋅ Post a comment

Good things come to those who wait, and we’ve been waiting all week: It’s time for This Week In Videogame Blogging.
Good things also seem to come in bunches. Rich Clark pens a pair of posts, the first of which, at Christ and Pop Culture, looks at ‘The Beautifully Dark Side of Videogames’. In the other, [...]

March 27th

By Ben Abraham ⋅ March 27, 2011 ⋅ Post a comment

It’s This Week In Videogame Blogging. Short and sweet this week as I have videogames I need to get back to playing. Straight into it then.
At the intriguing new blog Gamamoto, Pietro Polsinelli looks at Dinner Date, and has a nice wine to wash it down with it:
This is a game where living the story [...]

March 20th

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

Sunday is for pulling oneself together and pretending to be a genuine chronicler of the latest and greatest pieces of videogame writing, blogging and criticism. It’s also for celebrating the 50th Birthday of the woman who mysteriously decided that giving birth to me would be something akin to a good idea. Happy Birthday Mum, and [...]

March 13th

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

I’m back from San Francisco and the Game Developers Conference (where I had a blast and, incidentally, got to meet some of you fine readers. Thanks to everyone who came up and said hi!) so it must be time to catch up on some reading. First a thing or two I missed while away, then [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

January 30th

By Ben Abraham ⋅ January 30, 2011 ⋅ Post a comment

It’s that time of the week again, which means that I’d better get in quick and rustle up another list of the week’s best writing, blogging and criticism of videogames.
One of the more interesting pieces I read this week was Paul Mason at the BBC’s Idle Scrawl blog (courtesy RPS’ Sunday Papers) who finds strategy [...]

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