"Where is all the good writing about games?"
This week’s This Week in Videogame Blogging is presented by Zach ‘@IcePotato‘ Alexander. Thanks a lot, Zach! Hello and welcome to another week in videogame blogging! What’s the happs this week? Zack Hiwiller googled for an old ZZT order form and mails…
Ah, October. That time of year when you realise you’re never going to finish all of those resolutions you made in January. The month when you open long-forgotten lists of unfinished work and see articles with a deadline of ‘December 2012’ on…
For our last theme, “What’s the Story?”, we ran a little competition. Kris and I have read the BoRT submissions and made our decision, but until the end of this blog post… here’s a roundup you might be tempted to scroll straight…
Happy BoRTday to you, Happy BoRTday to you, Happy Birthday Blogs of the Round Table, Happy BoRTday to you! On the 28th of August last year we relaunched Blogs of the Round Table. Since then, we’ve had 76 articles submitted – believe…
Sorry this month’s Blogs of the Round Table is running a little late. Don’t worry though, I was pardoned by the official @critdistance Twitter account – and it wasn’t even me tweeting from it this time. The accidental Shenmue jokes are always…
July’s Blogs of the Round Table topic was the somewhat-experimental ‘Blogception’: your goal was to blog about blogging, but we also wanted to start up a conversation between writers rather than just a big blog dump. We succeeded! We had some excellent…
May-June’s topic for Blogs of the Round Table was ‘One With Nature’: "Where videogames once had ‘levels’ like jungles, an ice world, lava world etc. their environments increasingly resemble real-life: players can now explore whole islands or peninsulas and even make their…
Before we get onto July’s topic for Blogs of the Round Table, this seemed a good time to look at the format for BoRT and see if we could run things better. I’ve been in charge of this now for… almost a…
There’s a slight change to the format for Blogs of the Round Table: this month, we’ll be extending the submission process over May and June as I’ll be on holiday in June. Somewhat appropriately since I’ll be sunning it up in the…
Every month, I read the old BoRT roundup before I write the new one – partly to use the same template, partly so I don’t use the same jokes. Last month I wrote about Easter eggs, but I am still eating those…