May 9th
byDespite packing up and moving all my possessions to a new house, This Week In Videogame Blogging is here with some of the best blogging about games from the week leading up to May 9th. Chris Dahlen this week sends us a…
May 2nd
byThis Week in Videogame Blogging we take a trip around the critical games blogosphere to pick up some of the most interesting reading from the past week. We start our journey with Eric Swain’s comprehensive and ongoing efforts to collate the majority…
April 25th
byWelcome to another hefty instalment of This Week in Videogame Blogging. First up, Daniel Floyd, he of the funny voice filter, presents part 8 of his video lecture series on games. This one is about ‘Video Games and Moral Choices’ apparently and…
Jesse Schell, ‘Design outside the Box’
byAt the 2010 D.I.C.E. Summit [mirror], Jesse Schell gave a talk entitled ‘Design outside the Box’ that set the gaming blog world on fire. Now that the pace of resulting conversation has slowed, we’d like to take the time to gather links…
April 18th
byToday’s This Week in Videogame Blogging contains slightly less than the usual crop of links to the best videogame criticism and writing of the week. I think it’s partly because we’ve reached the first real lull of the year in terms of…
April 11th
byExtra! Extra! Read the late edition of eminently readable links known as TWIVGB. This week Michael Abbott reveals the secret of Pokémon’s success – and you’ll never guess – it’s chocolate ice cream. That’s what he’s saying here, right? The latest Pokémon…
April 4th
byPAX was the big thing to be at and be seen at this week, but it doesn’t seem to have slowed the critical game blogosphere. Neither has the onset of April and its attendant silly April fool’s day posts which we seem…
March 28th
byAnother week, another Week In Videogame Blogging. This week, Tim Rogers published a multi-part Gonzo style documentary of GDC wherein he spends a week with Bob of ‘Bobs Game’ fame. Your mileage may vary, but there were some interesting sections and it’s…
March 21st
byWell, I’m back from my GDC sojourn and I know Eric’s kept you in good stead while I was away. What has the critical games blogosphere been writing about this week? Alec Meer writes about playing games as a lefty in ‘Southpaw…
March 13th
byAs GDC wraps up and Ben heads on home, the reigns of TWIVGB will return to their rightful hands next week. Of course despite most of the big guns focus being firmly on GDC, there was still plenty to go around. But,…