"Where is all the good writing about games?"
This week we find our hero in bed, laid up with a serious head cold. But This Week In Videogame Blogging goes on ahead regardless. Lyndon Warren finishes his 11-part pacifistic play-through of the original Fallout. Highly recommended game diary. Here's another…
When Valve started to put ‘director commentary’ into their games, it opened the conversation of game design to a wider audience. Personally, it allowed me to enjoy the game even more than my first playthrough. It’s a wonderful bonus, and I’m very…
Straight into This Week In Videogame Blogging with some links to stuff I missed last week. Peter Kirn of create digital music interviews indie game ‘Osmos’ creators. Michel McBride talks audio-visuals and the game Audiosurf: a sure-fire way to get this author’s…
Quick! It's that day of the week again, which means it's time for a decidedly laissez-faire overview of the game criticism blogosphere. And don't forget: you can always send links to Critical Distance's twitter account for inclusion in TWIVGB. After last week's…
By the time you’re reading this we brave few involved should have recorded a new CDC podcast for your listening pleasure (in six to eight weeks’ time). Until then, how would you feel about taking a stroll about the blogosphere with This…
Ay Carumba! The east coast of Australia is suffering through an early-spring heatwave. What does this have to do with This Week In Videogame Blogging? Nothing, but I wanted readers to know the torture I endure to provide you with fresh, tasty…
What a week it has been. From Langdell to PAX and everything in between: it's time for This Week In Videogame Blogging. Early this week David Carlton posted some thoughts about a game that has largely passed the critical blogosphere by: Puzzle…
Like the Hollywood of Who Framed Roger Rabbit, the PixelVixen707 blog is a place where the fictional and real co-exist. Rachael Webster is a native of the Domestic City; she is a character who might have once been the teenage indie-game-hipster Emily’s…
When PixelVixen707 was first getting started and sending out friendly e-mails to various bloggers, in the one I received she asked me why I used a pseudonym. The inspiration mostly came from one of my favorite periods of American literature where authors…
I was away for the meaty-middle section of this week, travelling west to my paternal grandmother’s working farm. I had thought that being away for so long I was going to miss all the good posts for This Week In Videogame Blogging;…