This Week in Videogame Blogging

July 28th

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Hello all. Eric Swain, your friendly neighborhood background editor, here. I’m back at the helm of This Week in Videogame Blogging this week. We got a lot to swing through, so let’s get started. The Castle Doctrine Spawning out from the first…

July 21st

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Kris is taking a much-deserved break this weekend and recharging her cognitive faculties with sleep and Animal Crossing. So I’ll be hosting this weekend, bringing back some classic This Week in Videogame Blogging. I hope you’ve all been enjoying the Steam sales…

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July 14th

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I should probably start this off with a corny allusion to Pacific Rim, or the EVO tournament, or the Steam summer sale currently ruining everyone’s wallet. I ran through a bunch of permutations. But cheekiness just don’t seem like it should be…

July 7th

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This is the longest I’ve gone without playing Animal Crossing in weeks and reader, it’s approaching actual physical pain now. This game ought to be a controlled substance. But enough about me. Let’s get you your weekly hit before the itching and…

June 30th

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Get ready for the jingle-jangle of This Week in Videogame Blogging, the Internet’s top shelf stock of videogame criticism, analysis, deep reads, cultural critique, and more. TEXTUAL READINGS Who doesn’t love a good textual analysis? They may be out of vogue among…

June 23rd

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Hello, Mayor Reader! In Critical-Distance Land, it’s Sunday, June 23rd, 2013, and the current time is 3:35 a.m.. Well then, shall we get started? Yes, let’s. I need help first… >This Week in Videogame Blogging! Wonderful. Let me get you set up!…

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June 16th

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Since Kommandantin Ligman is off attending the Enormous Explosions Expo or some such, it has again fallen to me, humble foreign correspondent, to bring you the latest in quality games writing. Hold on to your fedoras, it’s This Week In Videogame Blogging….

June 9

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So this week Kris Ligman is off collecting every single one of the original 151 Pokemon. I’m Cameron Kunzelman and I am filling in for Kris and boom here we go. This Week in Videogame Blogging! Women in Games Craig Stern of…

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June 2nd

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What a week. I’d make a joke about secretly being cast as the Twelfth Doctor, but I imagine that would get me angry letters in my inbox. Let’s stick to what we know, shall we? And what we know is the very…

May 26th

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A short and sweet week for fans of excellent writing on games and culture. Let’s not waste time! It’s This Week in Videogame Blogging! AH, MEMORIES On Kambyero, Joseph Berida takes us through a retrospective on idiosyncratic JRPG outlier Vagrant Story. On…