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Eric Swain

Eric Swain has written 22 posts for Critical Distance
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February 5th

By Eric Swain ⋅ February 5, 2012 ⋅ Post a comment

I can’t think of a clever intro. It’s This Week In Video Game Blogging.
The recently released Katawa Shoujo has garnered a lot of attention for how it came into existence and for it being a quality experience, something no one could have seen coming. Our own Kris Ligman says that Katawa Shoujo could be accused [...]

Episode 9 – A Braid Companion

By Eric Swain ⋅ January 19, 2012 ⋅ One comment

Yes, only 6 months late Critical Distance is proud to bring you episode 9 of the CDC podcast.
This time we decided to focus on an actual game: Braid came out many years ago and sparked critics to write a megaton of criticism. 3 years after its initial release we bring you a panel of people with strong [...]

This Year In Video Game Blogging 2011

By Eric Swain ⋅ January 2, 2012 ⋅ Post a comment

Welcome to 2012! Here at Critical Distance, your regularly scheduled This Week In Video Game Blogging is taking a break to make way for our year-end retrospective. The editorial crew has been hard at work culling through the year’s 937 links plus reader suggestions to bring you the best written, the most memorable, most important [...]

Episode 10 – Winter Round-up, Winter Round-up

By Eric Swain ⋅ December 28, 2011 ⋅ Post a comment

No, you did not read that incorrectly. This is indeed episode 10. Episode 9 is in the works still. (It’s a little more evergreen of a topic.)
Another year has come to a close and with it another year-end podcast to try and catalog it all. This time around we got the whole Critical Distance crew [...]

Now Accepting Submissions for TYIVGB 2011 Edition

By Eric Swain ⋅ December 9, 2011 ⋅ Post a comment

Last year I pulled off, largely in secret, Critical-Distance’s first This Year In Video Game Blogging feature looking back at the best the year had to offer. I remember that time and the pain it caused. So I’m not doing that again this year, instead I’m telling you up front we’re going to be crowd [...]

September 25th

By Eric Swain ⋅ September 25, 2011 ⋅ Post a comment

Welcome one and all. It is my pleasure to be your guide today around the Gallery of Vidogame Blogging and Criticism from this week.  We have a bevy of word-pieces for you, so if you’ll just follow me through the gallery…
We start our tour at that weekly goldmine that is the PopMatters Moving Pixels blog. [...]

August 21st

By Eric Swain ⋅ August 21, 2011 ⋅ Post a comment

Kris was a little off last week. Apparently Ben is off gallivanting at FreePlay conference in the wiles of Melbourne, Australia with other game critics and academics. So while he’s getting panda with all them I’m taking over for a week.
Speaking of which, Ben sent me a piece by Ben Eltham at Crikey.com talking about [...]

July 3rd

By Eric Swain ⋅ July 4, 2011 ⋅ One comment

This has been a big week for gaming in the U.S., with the Supreme Court ruling 7-2 to strike down the California law censoring the sale of violent video games to minors. You can read the opinions here. Michael “Brainy Gamer” Abbott discusses both the good and bad of the ruling. Dan Apczynski at Gamer [...]

June 5th

By Eric Swain ⋅ June 5, 2011 ⋅ One comment

Seems everyone’s sick but me, so I will be taking control of Critical Distance this weekend to bring you TWIVGB. MWUHAHAHAHAHAHA.
Kirk Hamilton has been on fire recently. We don’t often link to reviews, but Kirk’s piece on L.A. Noire at Kill Screen isn’t the normal consumer review and goes the extra mile in expressing the [...]

Episode 8 – A Very GDC Podcast

By Eric Swain ⋅ May 13, 2011 ⋅ 3 comments

So a podcast that was recorded in April about a conference in March, is finally released in May. Here we have our two part GDC podcast. We asked developers, journalists, academics and critics to join us in multiple round tables to discuss the panels and the overall feel of GDC ‘11.
Hear us talk about the [...]

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