November 22nd
byHello, readers! If you live in America, you might be in a small frenzy of making shopping lists and devising seating charts for your guests; if you don’t, you’re probably bored to tears hearing the rest of us worry about it. But…
Episode 30 – Everything’s Better Embed
byConcluding this year’s series of interviews of the authors and editors of video game criticism publications we turn our eyes to gonzo. Cara Ellison‘s Embed With Games: A Year on the Couch with Game Developers brings the long form, lifestyle gonzo journalism…
November 15th
byThere wasn’t a whole lot whirring out of the videogame criticism engine this week, but don’t call it getting by on scraps, these delectable morsels are more than satisfying enough. Contents within presented without filler. Welcome to This Week in Videogame Blogging! Rise…
Xenogears, Xenosaga, Xenoblade
byCritical Distance is proud to present this Critical Compilation of the Xeno games — Xenogears, Xenosaga and Xenoblade — curated by Brian Crimmins. The Xeno games, Tetsuya Takahashi’s pet project and meta-series, are remembered as dense video games. And I don’t just…
November 2015: ‘Forgiveness’
byHello, friends! The end of October was full of super Critical Distance material and big announcements! So busy was the end of October in fact, we decided it was prudent to release the new Blogs of the Round Table theme a little later than…
November 8th
byWhy hello there! Two, Three, Four… Did you know that Persona 4: Dancing All Night was finally released in my part of the world this weekend? Step, step, spin! Yet, ever your dutiful servant, my dear discerning reader, here I am taking…
We Are Hiring a New Senior Curator!
byHi everyone! Kris here. As many of you heard just moments ago via our Patreon newsletter, we are putting out an open call for a new Senior Curator. That’s right: my job. I am shifting my role here at Critical Distance to…
October 2015
byHello, my friends! I hope you had a festive Halloween and made use of the extra hour gained from Daylight Savings (if your region participates in such nonsense, that is). I used to the extra hour to dive into Let’s Plays, and…
October Roundup: ‘Leadership’
byHello once again and happy fall. Today I’ve got a short and sweet Blogs of the Round Table to share with you. Today I’ll be going over what you all thought about ‘Leadership’: How do videogames conceptualize leadership? Have you ever found yourself…
November 1st
byHello once again friends of games criticism. I hope that if you indulged in international cosplay-and-candy day that you had an extra special night with some extra special people, if your celebrations skewed less North American then I hope you enjoyed an…