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Ben Abraham

Ben Abraham has written 125 posts for Critical Distance
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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 [...]

January 23rd

By Ben Abraham ⋅ January 23, 2011 ⋅ Post a comment

Another busy week for videogame blogging (when is it ever not?) so we’ve got a nice haul here for your reading pleasure.
First up, Jaime Griesemer of Bungie has started writing about design, and largely multiplayer design: initially its drafts for larger arguments, but they’re still well worth reading. Here’s a definition of “affordance” that borrows [...]

January 16th

By Ben Abraham ⋅ January 16, 2011 ⋅ Post a comment

Ashelia writing for her new tumblr muses on why she works in the game industry, and about why games leave such an important mark on the player:
It’s about the experience, not the game. Your favorite game may not be mine, but it probably affected you in the same way. You played it. You loved it. [...]

January 9th

By Ben Abraham ⋅ January 9, 2011 ⋅ Post a comment

Time to play catch-up. Since Christmas there’s been no shortage of worthwhile reading so let’s take a walk around the blogosphere and see some of what’s worth your time.
Jorge Albor at the Experience Points blog returns his critical eyes to Civilization V, taking his early comments on the how barbarism and civilization are depicted in [...]

December 26th

By Ben Abraham ⋅ December 26, 2010 ⋅ Post a comment

It’s the holiday season, and as such I have a healthy dose of links for us to gorge on! No context for these ones, author and titles only – consider it an end-of-year clearing house post. We’ll be back in January sometime. Thanks to everyone for reading, and thanks to all the great bloggers and [...]

December 19th

By Ben Abraham ⋅ December 19, 2010 ⋅ Post a comment

I’m writing this week’s TWIVGB in Notepad, a couple days early, on my housemates laptop, as it’s the only one with an internet connection. This can only be only of the last TWIVGB’s for the year. Straight into it!
Let’s start with Rob Zachny’s piece for Gamers Wth Jobs about the downside to cover mechanics:
Cover produces [...]

November 28th

By Ben Abraham ⋅ November 28, 2010 ⋅ Post a comment

This the final week of November sees perhaps the strongest cohort of posts in a long time – great posts, one and all. It’s This Week In Videogame Blogging.
From a couple weeks back, Jonathan Stickles at Preparing for the Apocalypse talks Splinter Cell: Conviction, feeling that the latest entry in the series lacks its titular [...]

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