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May 13th

By Kris Ligman ⋅ May 13, 2012 ⋅ Post a comment

What the heck– you’ve waited enough. Let’s get right to it with this week’s best and brightest of the Ludodecahedron. It’s time for This Week in Videogame Blogging!
Tumblr-er Flutiebear starts us off with this excellent two part series applying Victoria Lynn Schmidt’s Heroine’s Journey to Disney’s Tangled and Bioware’s Dragon Age 2. These analyses come [...]

May 6th

By Kris Ligman ⋅ May 6, 2012 ⋅ Post a comment

Muchas gracias are due to Ben for filling in on my curatorial role last week. He’s not getting this job back, though! Come hell or term papers, it’s time once again for This Week in Videogame Blogging!
To kick us off, Eurogamer’s Rich Stanton has a great retrospective up on the rise and fall of Free [...]

April 29th

By Ben Abraham ⋅ April 29, 2012 ⋅ Post a comment

Oh dear look who left the keys to TWIVGB on the kitchen table for me to find. Yes, in her distracted exam-cramming state, Kris left me in charge of TWIVGB once again. I’m sorry.
Look, here’s a little secret I’m going to share with you: sometimes writing about videogames is… how do I put this…. not [...]

April 22nd

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

Happy Sunday! It’s all highs and lows in This Week in Videogame Blogging, as we once again look to the best of the best in gaming critique and commentary from across the web. Whether you’re an optimist or a pessimist, a realist or absurdist, it’s all here! Let’s get started.
First, a bit of history. BulletMagnet [...]

April 15th

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

Achoo! It’s too cold for my liking over here. Let’s warm up by the fire with a nice fresh supply of game criticism, theory and commentary. It’s This Week in Videogame Blogging!
The man I usurped to get this gig, Ben Abraham, is back again this week with a compelling video essay in which he questions [...]

April 8th

By Kris Ligman ⋅ April 9, 2012 ⋅ Post a comment

The reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated. Welcome to another fantastic week of gaming commentary, criticism and insights! It’s This Week in Videogame Blogging!
We kick things off with an essay from Shay Pierce, the lone Omgpop employee holdout who made news this week by refusing to join his company’s merger with social game [...]

April 1st

By Kris Ligman ⋅ April 1, 2012 ⋅ Post a comment

Today we look at the oeuvre of one of game blogging’s greatest. He’s a feather in Kotaku’s snappy stetson, a man of nuance, complexity, and charisma. When he posts, the blogging world stops, and not just because his publishing block is at four in the morning. It’s This Week in Brian Ashcraft!
Taking to the streets [...]

March 25th

By Kris Ligman ⋅ March 25, 2012 ⋅ Post a comment

I’m all out of clever schticks this week, so let’s just get right to it. It’s time for the best and brightest of videogame commentary and criticism, This Week in Videogame Blogging!
We start off by checking in with our friend Sebastian Alvarado, who is onto the second installment of his Gamasutra blog series on nanotechnology [...]

March 18th

By Ben Abraham ⋅ March 18, 2012 ⋅ One comment

Guess who’s back! Back again. That’s right, Ben is back and in charge of this week’s entry in the neverending story that is This Week In Videogame Blogging. Okay so, here’s the skinny. My  week was eaten up first by jet-lag, then by the GDCflu, and then by a gig and a birthday party, so [...]

March 11th

By Kris Ligman ⋅ March 11, 2012 ⋅ Post a comment

In 2012, the greatest game developers and journalists in recent memory assembled in San Francisco for the Game Developers Conference. Meanwhile, those unfortunate few who did not attend explored the web, discovering the remains of an ancient spacefaring civilization known only as the ludodecahedron. In the decades that followed, these mysterious artifacts revealed startling new [...]

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