"Where is all the good writing about games?"
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…
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!…
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,…
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…
Hello dearly devoted readers! I’ve taken the almost unprecedented step of posting a non-TWIVGB post to let you know about some changes that are happening here at Critical Distance. There’s one main thing to appraise you of, and that is that I…
A Nordic tundra. A distant figure is spotted running with great haste, all arms flailing and apparently trying to shout over the sound of the howling wind. As the figure approaches you make out “The dragon is coming! The dragon is coming!”…
Hello loyal readers, welcome to another This Week In Videogame Blogging! Let’s jump right into another digest of the week’s best offerings from around the blogosphere: Straight from the New Yorker’s Culture Desk we have Chris Suellentrop’s piece on ‘The Video Game…
Hello there! I’m Katie, and I’m doing Critical Distance duty today. We have a great selection of reads this week, so get comfortable and make yourself a cup of hot chocolate. (Hot chocolate is an excellent accompaniment to games criticism, and I…
Critical Distance is an attempt to curate the best videogame articles available on the web, to give you reading material that’s well worth your time. We hope to arrest your attention with what we’ve compiled in this edition of This Week in…
Hello and welcome to #OccupyTWIVGB, where we’re interested in the best and brightest alternatives to the videogame review hegemony! Down with the 100 point scale! Up with rich description and analysis! Onward to an imaginative and constructively critical videogame future! Beginning our…