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First Person Scholar: Academically-focused games criticism site that welcomes features, book reviews, series pitches. Contact: Steve Wilcox.

Press Start: Peer-reviewed scholarly journal devoted to game studies. Research papers, book reviews, and other work from current/recent academics of all levels and multiple disciplines. Contact: Samuel Poirier-Poulin.

Memory Insufficient: Online publication on game design history and digital material culture, founded by Critical Distance’s Third Senior Curator. Contact: Zoyander Street.

These are some outlets that have done a good job of nurturing people new to games writing.

Haywire Magazine: Games criticism site intended to help new writers. Contact:

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October 1st

…David O’Reilly’s Everything tell us about art | ZAM – The Largest Collection of Online Gaming Information Eron Rauch discusses art historical techniques for reading works that lack polish.

“Instead of focusing on how it was just a badly made webpage, I just kind of let 17776 be what it was. I let it wash over me and set up its own expectations. And instead of chaos, I found the presentation that made this oddball story come alive […]”

Coming to light

Giving thought to narrative structure, two critics both, in slightly different ways,

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November 5th

…addressing cultural appropriation in Mario games.

  • ‘Super Mario Odyssey’ Review: Nintendo’s Surreal, Candy-Colored Triumph | WIRED Julie Muncy highlights the disconnected mashup of cultural symbols, alongside the absurdist extension of a playful internal logic, to explain the artful ridiculousness of this title.

    • “Mario gains an eerie power: anything that is made to wear Mario’s cap becomes Mario. Throw it on a dinosaur’s head, for instance, and that dino is instantly fused with Mario—and you, the player, find yourself playing as a dinosaur. Take control of goombas, electric poles, whatever else suits your fancy. Mario‘s vision of…

    November 12th

    …videogames contributing to the lack of imagination regarding our possible futures? Darshana Jayemanne and Ben Abraham look for climate fiction.

  • Everything Is Dying and It’s All Our Fault | First Person Scholar Cat Goodfellow adds further texture to how we evaluate climate change narratives, and gives us a survey of necropastoral games.
  • The War of the Worlds, as told by videogames | ZAM – The Largest Collection of Online Gaming Information Matt Suckley’s history of videogame adaptations of War of the Worlds asks how a story so influential is not a more lucrative media franchise.

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    Episode 51 – Red Angel

    http://www.critical-distance.com/podcast/Critical-Distance-Confab-episode-51.mp3 Direct Download This month on the Critical Distance Confab, Angelina Bonilla — better known as Red Angel — was kind enough to join us.

    After working for some time as a writer for online publications, Red Angel decided to turn her efforts to video. While not yet familiar with the wider YouTube critical community, she dove right in and began her Late Night Ponderings series, as an extension of the editorials she wrote for Noobfeed and Game Skinny. Her videos evolved from there, moving beyond the constraints of editorial mandates and game journalism “style”, into something more personable;

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    December 3rd

    …can handle ambiguity.

    • How do you get bookworms into games? | ZAM – The Largest Collection of Online Gaming Information Matt Suckley explores the ambivalent cultural position of text-heavy games such as twines and visual novels.
    • “Not Like Other Girls” and Other Lies: Magical Diary’s Exploration of Romance Writing | ZEAL Vrai Kaiser praises a recent dating sim for challenging the problematic tropes common to the genre, respecting the desires that drive these fantasies while pushing characters to grapple with their own moral position in the story.
    • How ‘LA Noire’ Rewards You For Being a Bad

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    January 7th

    …Photo Modes – Waypoint Dia Lacina theorises player agency and power in the practice of video game photography.

  • Kinect was amazing – in a museum • Eurogamer.net Christian Donlan observes that some technologies are better suited to installation art than home consumer electronics – but it’s impossible for corporations to keep a product alive if it doesn’t have a mass audience.

    • “Video games have historically been rather solitary things, and when you stick them in a museum they just sort of sit there and get a bit sad. Kinect, though, is all about being seen.”

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    January 21st

    …lot of rather difficult-to-find data on how much games cost to make. I think this could be a useful reference resource.

  • Other roundups Our podcast pro Eric cam across another games writing curator producing weekly roundups – with a roundup of 2017 to boot!

    • Best Videos and Video Series of 2017 – Articles – Angry Army [AJSA]
    • Best Games Writing of 2017 – Articles – Angry Army [AJSA]
  • Watch: Inside the Museum of Pop Culture’s unique games exhibit | ZAM – The Largest Collection of Online Gaming Information The last entry in this…

    • February 4th

    …| ZAM – The Largest Collection of Online Gaming Information Dante Douglas addresses the political implications of portraying crowd dynamics as one of the challenges to protest movements.

    “At its best, it feels like a fantastical reimagining of protest dynamics, where players can act as an omniscient conductor of a torrential cascade of crowds, laying down waypoints and rally zones and directing the flow of movement.”

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    In more writing on the politics of games, two critics look at diversity and the kinds of bodies that are portrayed and played with.

    • How…

    This Year In Videogame Blogging: 2017

    …‘always be streaming’ into a career with zero balance | Polygon – Ben Bowman Ben Bowman explains how Twitch’s changes have created a system where the streamer needs to be online more and more, in order to gain success and maintain it.

  • Dying to stream. | Medium – Joe Marino Joe Marino tells his story of how streaming for a living put him in hospital for heart surgery, and how it cost the lives of other streamers far too young.
  • Black Streamers Are Here To Save The Gaming Community | Fan Bros – Andray Domise Andray Domise profiles…