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July 29th

…have to prove themselves to you or anyone.

We run a lot of epic takedowns of other writers’ gaffs here on TWIVGB, but Marcotte’s definitely sets a new standard. A highly recommended read.

Because we started with an ultimatum, let’s end with a question. PBS’s Mike Rugnetta, whose Idea Channel vlog series has previously covered Bronies as a sign of changing notions of masculinity and famous fanfiction from the era of Sherlock Holmes to 50 Shades of Grey, poses in his latest video the following bit of futurism: can we read Minecraft‘s Create Mode as a window…

August 19th

Welcome back. Kris is on break this weekend so I’m here to fill your TWIVGB needs in the meantime.

The Extra Credits crew finishes up a two-parter talking about mechanics as metaphor using the flash game Loneliness to weld to discussion together.

CNN has done a number of in-depth articles on several subjects with how games are intersecting with real life in interesting ways; from South Korea’s Pro Gaming/Game Addiction dichotomy to gamifying the prison system to great success.

This week the community blew up in response to Borderlands 2 lead developer calling a skill tree

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Minisode 08 – Breaking the Mold and Cultural Musings

Welcome to the last minisode of the year on the Critical Distance Confab.

How this works is that each of us will go back and forth listing off three games each that we feel haven’t gotten the critical attention they deserve in the hopes one of your will take it as a challenge. These games can be anything from Ich.io art games to prestige level indie games to AAA games that fell through the cracks for whatever reason.

On co-hosting duties with me this month on this chilly November day is GiantBomb writer and critic, Austin Walker.

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Kotaku UK archive

…Dicks Games Investigative Report 2014/11/22 Two Hours Warlords Draenor Spawn Camping Six Minutes 2014/11/24 Capture Legendary Pokemon Omega Ruby Alpha Sapphire 2014/11/24 Day Final Fantasy 14S Devoted Fans 2014/11/24 Game Industry Layoff Didnt Suck Four 2014/11/25 Pokemon X Y Vs Pokemon Omega Ruby Alpha Sapphire Buy 2014/11/26 Think Pokemon Omega Ruby Alpha Sapphire Easy Try 2014/11/28 Blast Pit Best Level Half Life 2014/11/28 Human Existence Big Sad Video Game William Gibsons New Novel 2014/12/01 Cheating Fiasco Leads Incredible Counter Strike Final Match 2014/12/01 Happen Humans Gone Illustrated Last Us 2014/12/01 Three Mysteries New Pokemon Games Nobody Can Explain 2014/12/03 14…

This Year in Videogame Blogging: 2023

…double duty of remembering the games and the contexts they released in.

  • Final Fantasy’s love of Shakespeare is its secret to success | Inverse Willa Rowe does an all-bard run of the Final Fantasy series.
  • 30 Years Ago Myst Introduced Us to an Unforgettable Abandoned World | Paste Magazine Cameron Kunzelman marks 30 years of Myst less interested in its historical acheivements and more interested in what it remains today: a whole vibe.
  • The Eerie, Influential Afterlife of ‘Ecco the Dolphin’ | The Ringer M.D. Rodrigues chats with designer Ed Annunziata about Ecco the Dolphin‘s

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November 1st

…character has increased exponentially from the 8-belt characters of yesteryear. Today‘s big-budget blockbusters commonly feature 64-belt or even 128-belt graphics.

Mr Wasteland also wrote on his own blog about 3 games that do in-game food sensually, experientially, in other words, interestingly.

Bonnie Ruberg talks about ‘The Beatles Rock Band and the female gaze’, discussing who the player is positioned as a game of The Beatles: Rock Band. A nice counterpart to last week’s piece on the game as ‘non-fiction’, and I think the two support each others argument quite nicely. Ruberg asks,

Where does this…

January 28th

Welcome back readers.

I’m told it doesn’t hurt to ask now and then: are you interested in supporting our work on Patreon? We’re an entirely reader-funded operation, and it’s your support that has allowed us to compile and present timely, important, subversive, and interesting writing on games for nigh-on a decade and a half. Every little bit helps us do the things!

This Week in Videogame Blogging is a roundup highlighting the most important critical writing on games from the past seven days.

It’s Just Business

The main games news on the docket this week

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August 9th

…between “revealing” information about an upcoming game in the magazine, and the major news blogs hearing about it.

When I found out that OXM was going to break the news about 360 players using their Avatars in Guitar Hero 5, I realized it was also the perfect time to pay attention to some details. This is exactly the kind of small-but-significant info that the daily blog sites love to report on, so I wanted to see how long it would take between the arrival of our magazines in subscribers’ mailboxes and the appearance of this news on Joystiq

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Everyone should have access to critical education

…“fake news” on Facebook is a mistake. It’s not just about the fact that people cannot tell the difference between real news and fake news. People do not get practice at thinking about how news stories connect to one another. They lack tools for making sense of their place in it all, and turn instead to simple narratives that make them feel good about themselves.

Those of us who write about videogames are familiar with media experiences that are engineered to trigger shallow emotions such as pride, anger, disgust, comfort. Videogames, movies, and politics, are all routinely made…

Elizabeth LaPensée, Ph.D | Critical Distance: Keywords in Play, Episode 1

…interview that they had never actually played the games. So their argumentation was undone, but that was only thanks to the fact that there were people who knew about games who were able to come forward and became sort this like media fighting media. Ah, you had Fox News saying “this trains eco-terrorists”. And that went out across national news and then that bigger story broke into smaller stories which hit all of the state television news shows, right.

Darshana: Sure

Elizabeth: And so there was just sort of this smattering that happened. And then you had the…