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Kris Ligman

Kris Ligman has written 24 posts for Critical Distance
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February 19th

By Kris Ligman ⋅ February 19, 2012 ⋅ Post a comment

The time has come, ladies and ladykins, for you to blog for your life! It’s RuPaul’s This Week in Videogame Blogging!
We start off the week with a soft focus lens on the past, when the men were men and the games were ineffable. First, Jack McNamee at The Machination turns the spotlight on indie title [...]

January 29th

By Kris Ligman ⋅ January 29, 2012 ⋅ Post a comment

What time is it? … What year?
…
No… Then we don’t have much time left! We HAVE to release This Week in Videogame Blogging before it’s too late!
Let’s hit the ground running. We start with Jim Rossignol, interviewing Jim Rossignol, with such hard-hitting investigative journalism as:
RPS’s Jim Rossignol: How much are you charging for this [...]

January 22nd

By Kris Ligman ⋅ January 22, 2012 ⋅ Post a comment

Once upon a time, in the magical land of Equestria… it’s This Week in Videogame Blogging!
We start off with Brad Gallaway, who responds to recent opinion pieces (like those by John Walker) about working for free as a game journalist. Not only does Gallaway believe in unpaid writing positions for “sweat equity,” he also argues [...]

January 15th

By Kris Ligman ⋅ January 15, 2012 ⋅ Post a comment

Out with the old, in with the new. As we settle into 2012, the ludodecahedron keeps on a-turnin’. It’s time for This Week in Videogame Blogging!
First up, a brief announcement: the folks over at Digital Love Child have put out a Call for Articles. Do take a look.
Tom Chatfield sat down with Julian Gough, author [...]

December 25th

By Kris Ligman ⋅ December 25, 2011 ⋅ Post a comment

Happy Saturnalia, gamers young and old! As you know, today is the day we celebrate the Sega Saturn, a game console too divine for mortal hands. On Saturnalia it is traditional to gather around the Sega fire pits in town squares all over the world and warm our hands on the flames of crackling, melting [...]

December 18th

By Kris Ligman ⋅ December 18, 2011 ⋅ Post a comment

Ahh, Sunday. I have crossed oceans of work shifts to reach you. It’s time for This Week in Videogame Blogging!
The big newsworthy moment of the week deserves some equally worthy coverage. The Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) has raised some legitimate hackles across the web, including gaming communities. Kirk Hamilton has arranged your one-stop primer, [...]

December 11th

By Kris Ligman ⋅ December 12, 2011 ⋅ Post a comment

It’s cold outside, but baby, it’s warm in here. It’s time for This Week in Videogame Blogging!
Before we begin this week, please read our new Terms of Service agreement. Feel free to come back once you’ve signed. (What do you mean it’s just a Gamers With Jobs post? Quit bugging me, kid.)
There. First for the [...]

December 5th

By Kris Ligman ⋅ December 5, 2011 ⋅ Post a comment

The internet… the final frontier. These are the roundups of This Week in Videogame Blogging. Its continuing mission: to explore strange new blogs; to seek out new writers and new forms of content. To boldly game where no one has gamed before!
…Yeah, someone’s on a Next Generation kick. Ignore me.
We begin our retrospective tonight with [...]

November 27th

By Kris Ligman ⋅ November 27, 2011 ⋅ Post a comment

Never fear! This Week in Videogame Blogging is here!
Let’s kick off this Sunday with a quick jaunt back to a piece we unfortunately overlooked from October, where SpecsandHeadphones turns those specs on the characterization of several women characters in videogames–that is, not their appearances, but what is actually written into their backstories, revealed through their [...]

November 20th

By Kris Ligman ⋅ November 20, 2011 ⋅ Post a comment

Do you believe in life after Ben Abraham? I hope you do, because it’s time for This Week in Videogame Blogging!
As Ben wrote earlier in the week, I have taken on his role as the new senior editor of TWIVGB. Let’s all give Ben another hearty round of thanks for the 2.5 years he’s devoted [...]

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