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October 30th

Hello there! I’m Katie, and I’m doing Critical Distance duty today. We have a great selection of reads this week, so get comfortable and make yourself a cup of hot chocolate. (Hot chocolate is an excellent accompaniment to games criticism, and I should know; I’ve had three cups of it while compiling this list.)

On to the latest edition of This Week in Videogame Blogging, then.

We’ll start with an intense interview piece, courtesy of Rock Paper Shotgun. In the first of a new series called ‘Level With Me, Dan Pinchbeck’, modder Robert Yang chats with the

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February 17th

…the nuances of difficulty, and knew I had to be patient to win my prize:

So frustration is not a universal commodity. It’s okay in some games, let’s say, but it’s not necessarily okay in all of them. Indeed, some studios have developed clever ways to sidestep frustration. The Easy mode is the obvious one, and it has become prevalent now that games are a mass entertainment medium. Most narrative adventures will offer an option for players, ‘who just want to experience the story’. However, I can’t help but wonder if this is a dereliction of duty on

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July 2013 – ‘Blogception’

…@critdistance Twitter account to post regular updates, so follow us!

Your duty as a writer is to leave a comment on a blog to which you respond with a link to the response piece, to give them a ‘right of reply’. Keep the conversation going.

At the end of the month, your humble curator will try and make sense of the whole thing.

So without further ado, this month’s theme is “Blogception”:

What is the future of videogame blogging? Has it been usurped by social media and YouTube pundits, or is it still thriving?…

August 2013 – ‘What’s the Story?’

…@critdistance Twitter account to post regular updates, so follow us!

Your duty as a knight of the round table is to leave a comment on a blog to which you respond with a link to the response piece, to give them a ‘right of reply’. Keep the conversation going.

Your blog does not have to be in English. If you submit a German piece I’ll try my best to read it; if it’s another language I’ll find someone else.

If your work contains potentially disturbing content, please include a suitable warning at the start. Use your common…

October 2013 – Game Changers

…as long as it’s connected to the topic and has been written specially for BoRT or up to one month prior.

This BoRT post is the home of the discussion: as I receive new submission blogs, I’ll update the ‘BoRT Linkomatic’ so new blogs are reflected on this page immediately. We’ll also use the @critdistance Twitter account to post regular updates, so follow us!

Your duty as a knight of the round table is to leave a comment on a blog to which you respond with a link to the response piece, to give them a ‘right of…

April-May 2014: ‘The Right Touch’

…as long as it’s connected to the topic and has been written specially for BoRT or for up to one month prior.

This BoRT post is the home of the discussion: as I receive new submission blogs, I’ll update the ‘BoRT Linkomatic’ so new blogs are reflected on this page immediately. We’ll also use the @critdistance Twitter account to post regular updates, so follow us!

Your duty as a knight of the round table is to leave a comment on a blog to which you respond with a link to the response piece, to give them a ‘right…

June – July 2014: ‘VINPCs’

…to post regular updates, so follow us!

Your duty as a knight of the round table is to leave a comment on a blog to which you respond with a link to the response piece, to give them a ‘right of reply’. Keep the conversation going.

Your blog does not have to be in English. If you submit a German piece I’ll try my best to read it; if it’s another language I’ll find someone else.

If your work contains potentially disturbing content, please include a suitable warning at the start. Use your common sense.

You…

August-September 2014: ‘Catharsis’

…of the Round Table is not curated. If you write it, we’ll publish it, as long as it’s connected to the topic and has been written specially for BoRT or up to one month prior.

Your duty as a knight of the round table is to leave a comment on a blog to which you…

October 2014: ‘Masks’

…This BoRT post is the home of the discussion: as I receive new submission blogs, I’ll update the ‘BoRT Linkomatic’ so new blogs are reflected on this page immediately. We’ll also use the @critdistance Twitter account to post regular updates, so follow us!

Your duty as a knight of the round table is to leave a comment on a blog to which you respond with a link to the response piece, to give them a ‘right of reply’. Keep the conversation going.

If your work contains potentially disturbing content, please include a suitable warning at the start. Use…

November 2014: ‘Home Sweet Home’

…this page immediately. We’ll also use the @critdistance Twitter account to post regular updates, so follow us!

Your duty as a knight of the round table is to leave a comment on a blog to which you respond with a link to the response piece, to give them a ‘right of reply’. Keep the conversation going.

If your work contains potentially disturbing content, please include a suitable warning at the start. Use your common sense.

You can submit as many articles as you like throughout the month, and it doesn’t matter if they are commercially published, paywalled…