"Where is all the good writing about games?"
Event Details Date: March 26, 2022 1pm – 2pm Eastern time Location: Discord Join Critical Distance and Arizona State University’s Center for Science and the Imagination for the launch of our new, free ebook, Sickness, Systems, Solidarity, which explores the tangled relationships between pandemics and…
Welcome back, readers. There’s another large Ukraine charity bundle running since last we published, this time running through Humble Bundle. Check it out! This Week in Videogame Blogging is a roundup highlighting the most important critical writing on games from the past…
Welcome back, readers. There a few things I’d like to give mention to this week before starting. First, I’d like to highlight two charity bundles on Itch right now. It’s likely you’ve already seen this one bringing together an enourmous number of…
Download “Keywords in Play” is an interview series about game research supported by Critical Distance and the Digital Games Research Association. Esther Wright is Lecturer in Digital History at Cardiff University. Her work is situated within the field of Historical Game Studies,…
Welcome back, readers. Apologies in advance–there is some material I didn’t read this week, which I promise is on my list for next. A lot of people went long this week! Elden Ring looms large in my reading this week, even in…
Welcome back, readers. You probably don’t need me to tell you that it hasn’t been a great week for a lot of people on several different fronts. Before we get on with our usual curation business, consider starting your reading week here…
Welcome back, readers. Connor’s latest video roundup is live for your viewing pleasure, and there’s something slightly fishy afoot. I feel like the last TMIVG was, like, a week ago, which I can only assume speaks to my, shall we say, interprative…
Hello readers, I hope you’re well. Here are January’s vods and odds. This Month In Videogame Vlogging highlights the most compelling critical videos about videogames from the previous calendar month. In Defence of Maligned 3D Platformers A couple of essayists go in…
Welcome back, readers. I’ve got a couple of updates from around the site before we get going this week. First, there’s a new Keywords in Play! This episode’s guest is April Tyack, and the topic is the research around different kinds of…
Download “Keywords in Play” is an interview series about game research supported by Critical Distance and the Digital Games Research Association. April Tyack is a postdoctoral researcher at Aalto University and vice-president of DiGRA Australia. April researches player experience and how games…