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June 18th

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Welcome back readers. Let’s start this issue off with some news from around the site. First up, new Keywords! This edition’s guest, Dr. Gejun Huang, is our first in a miniseries highlighting intersections between Chinese and Australian games scholarship. Check it out…

May 15th

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Welcome back readers. Thanks for bearing with me during my first ever “Zelda Mulligan” during my tenure here–first only, perhaps, because I joined Critical Distance the year after the last Zelda came out. While I can hardly say I’ve got a probably-two-hundred-hour…

May 7th

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Welcome back readers. We’ve got a diverse slate of cool-and-neat picks for you this week, so let’s tuck right in! This Week in Videogame Blogging is a roundup highlighting the most important critical writing on games from the past seven days. Soulless…

April 30th

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Welcome back readers. Layoffs in tech and culture writing have become so ubiquitous of late as to invite desensitization, but to echo Kaile’s sentiment this week, Vice’s choice to wind down Waypoint hits different, worse, more personal, and I suspect that’s the…

April 23rd

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Welcome back readers. We’ve got some good stuff earmarked for you this week, with writing spanning time periods, game genres, and industry trends. Let’s dive right in. This Week in Videogame Blogging is a roundup highlighting the most important critical writing on…

April 9th

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Welcome back readers. Whether you happen to be recovering from a holiday weekend or just business-as-usual, thanks for stopping by! We’ve got eleven new picks for your reading pleasure, so let’s dig right in. This Week in Videogame Blogging is a roundup…

April 2nd

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Welcome back readers. After a few weeks of shorter issues, we’re back with seven new-and-cool selections for you to tuck into. Let’s get it started! This Week in Videogame Blogging is a roundup highlighting the most important critical writing on games from…