November 6th
byIt’s a new month and a time of shiny new treats for games writing. This week saw the launch of Waypoint, which seems to have allowed the Vice Gaming crew to grow a bit and build their own set of interests and…
October Roundup: Tricks and Treats
byAh Halloween, a day of cosplayers to threaten their neighbours with mischief in exchange for a sugary tribute. Yes, it’s a season for both ‘tricks and treats’, and our contributors for this month’s Blogs of the Round Table have brought us some especially…
October 30th
byHello, dear readers! It’s time for a special Halloween edition of TWIVGB. While the last time I covered the weekend roundup was Valentine’s Day, I assure you that I’m not just here for the chocolate. Tricks and treats from the game industry…
October 23rd
byWith just one week to go until All Hallow’s Eve, many games critics are considering the scariest thing of all: our Kafkaesque relationship with institutions of power. Mwahahahaha. Opponents by chance Starting this week’s roundup are three pieces on randomness, chance, and…
New Website! Part 2: Blogs of the Round Table
byAs part of the site redesign, we’ve been changing the way that our key posts look. One of the more recent features to get a makeover is Blogs of the Round Table (BoRT). You can see the redesign in action on September’s…
Episode 40 – Games literary studies on Youtube
byDirect Download Continuing on with our series of video in video game criticism, this month, I have Sam Gronseth, the Game Professor of the YouTube channel Games as Literature, on to talk. Sam Gronseth taught a class to teach literary analysis using…
October 16
byIt’s been quite a while since I’ve been called to round up This Week in Videogame Blogging and clearly I’ve forgotten how easy it is to let the time go by. We’ll call that a consequence of having so much great games…
What has been written about the first endless runners?
byReader question: I’m going to be giving a presentation on endless runners, and wanted to know if you had any documentation to get me started. I will basically be documenting the history and talking a little about innovations, exemplar titles, and differences between clones/reskins and innovation. I wondered if you’d identified the ‘original endless runner’? Canabalt is the earliest I can think of.
October 9th
byI’ve been thinking a lot this week about what the goals of criticism should be. I’ve been involved in this for years and yet I’m still not immune to these periodic internal crises of identity. Thankfully, some of the pieces that came…
October 2016: ‘Tricks and Treats’
byLet’s get down to brass tacks: it’s Halloween month. I can tell because I got the treat of another Caturday email featuring Critical Distance’s Cat-in-Residence, Jason, and her costumes over the years. It was the kind of thing that just made me…