January 2016
byWelcome to the new year, readers! I hope you’ve been the same fabulous you doing your usual great thing or making headway on being a new, even more fabulous you doing some new great things! Oh, me? I’ve been busy keeping up…
February 7th
byThe games blogs are coming in two by two this week. With great discussions of friendships, dualities and Street Fighter II, it felt fitting to arrange everything in pairs. We’re going head-to-head on discursive battlefields from psychology to politics. Power We’ll start…
Minisode 09 – Long Games and Short Games
byNew year, new games to discuss on the Critical Distance Confab. With the minisodes, every month, both I and a co-host, go back and forth listing off a game we think hasn’t gotten the critical attention it deserves until we’ve each done…
January 31st
byThis is my first post as the new Senior Curator! It’s been an absolute delight to start the role on such a strong week. While a lot of the active discussion has been about The Witness, I’m going to start this roundup…
January 24th
byI could say this on a lot of Sundays but I’m going to say it on this one: I’m flabbergasted by the quality of writing featured in This Week in Videogame Blogging! Let’s dispense with the pleasantries and hop right to it!…
January 17th
byWhat’s up, Critical Distancers? DJ Melissa here, spinning the sickest new written beats in the gameosphere in This Week in Videogame Blogging! That Dragon, Cancer and Its Emotional Impact That Dragon, Cancer, an interactive look into a couple’s experience with their son’s…
Episode 32 – Supplementary Grades
byWelcome to the new year of podcasts here at Critical Distance! Last year we went over publications, both books and magazines, in the critical video game sphere. Having, for the most part, run out of those we turn our eyes to different…
January 10th
byThe turn of the calendar brings with it a new, shiny coat of life. New year, new goals, and new writers to Critical Distance! As one of these new writers, it’s my job to ferry my dear readers into the new year’s…
January 2016: ‘Progress’
byWith 2015 nestling into our memories the time has come to look forward to a glorious future of development, upward mobility and technical innovation. Soon the troubles of yesteryear will settle into a cautionary tale, one that we tell only as a…
December Roundup: ‘Joy’
byHappy New Year everybody! With 2015 lovingly tucked away let’s round up an ever so short-and-sweet Blogs of the Round Table looking at the theme of ‘Joy’: Are there any joyful memories of unwrapping a favourite new game over the holidays? What moments of…