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This Year in Videogame Blogging: 2021

…Pride in Queer Thirst | Eurogamer.net Dr Lloyd (Meadhbh) Houston offers a disidentifying read of Resident Evil Village, contextualizing the queer desire that has catalyzed online around Lady D.

While this might seem like an open-and-shut case of lockdown lust finding a convenient outlet, before pre-emptively ruining this Pride Week take-over by consigning the world’s queer gamers to Horny Jail, I want to explore the possibility that there is something deeper at stake in their reaction, something intimately bound-up with the aesthetics and politics of both queerness and the Gothic as genre. In doing so, I want

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Far Cry 2

…you’re reading these blog posts, and you’re interested in the critical discussion of games in general, Shooter is worth reading.

Extra Lives by Tom Bissell (Chapter 8)

Like Shooter, Bissell’s book Extra Lives is not exclusively about Far Cry 2. Bissell discusses numerous games in the book, and each chapter is devoted largely to a different game. Bissell’s analysis is more personal and intimate that most other pieces written about the game, and the book as a whole reads almost as a travelogue of Bissell’s journey through the medium and his developing understanding of how games achieve their…

September 30th

Wake me up when September ends… Oh! Wait, that’s today! Well then, it must be time for This Week in Videogame Blogging!

We’re starting out the gate with a couple tales on the theme of growing up gaming, and I warn you in advance, they are both heavy hitters. The first comes to us from Unwinnable’s Jenn Frank, on grappling with the loss of a parent, and the games of spaceflight she grew up with. The second from The Rumpus’s Molly McArdle relates to us what it’s like growing up in and out of hospitals, and inside the

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August 9th

…between “revealing” information about an upcoming game in the magazine, and the major news blogs hearing about it.

When I found out that OXM was going to break the news about 360 players using their Avatars in Guitar Hero 5, I realized it was also the perfect time to pay attention to some details. This is exactly the kind of small-but-significant info that the daily blog sites love to report on, so I wanted to see how long it would take between the arrival of our magazines in subscribers’ mailboxes and the appearance of this news on Joystiq

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April 11th

Welcome back, readers.

First things first, if you haven’t already checked it out, this resource is here if you would like to find out more about how to support Asian-American communities near you in a time when anti-Asian violence is on the rise and the US isn’t helping things by manufacturing consent for a cold war with China.

No major updates from around the site over the last week, but we did just turn twelve years old (as of yesterday, to be precise). Here’s to another twelve and beyond, as we continue our project to find, collect,

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March 21st

Welcome back, readers.

No speech this week. Here’s an extensive and detailed resource if you’re looking for a way to support Asian-American communities near you.

I do have a couple of updates around the site to highlight. Connor’s latest video roundup is live, so go check that out if you haven’t already. Also, we’ve got a new episode of Keywords in Play, featuring Dr. C. Thi Nguyen!

This Week in Videogame Blogging is a roundup highlighting the most important critical writing on games from the past seven days.

Industry Histories

This week we’re opening

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January 28th

Welcome back readers.

I’m told it doesn’t hurt to ask now and then: are you interested in supporting our work on Patreon? We’re an entirely reader-funded operation, and it’s your support that has allowed us to compile and present timely, important, subversive, and interesting writing on games for nigh-on a decade and a half. Every little bit helps us do the things!

This Week in Videogame Blogging is a roundup highlighting the most important critical writing on games from the past seven days.

It’s Just Business

The main games news on the docket this week

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This Year in Videogame Blogging: 2022

…combed through a year’s worth of weekly roundups to bring you more than 80 works that run the gamut from historical deep dives to industry politics — and yes, quite a few new releases as well. No matter what you take away from 2022, there is something in here for everyone.

(One disclaimer: Due to a mixup with scheduling, we weren’t able to open submissions to readers as much as we have in past years. We did our best to include as many reader submissions as we could.)

Historical POVs

We begin in the past. 2022 saw…

This Year in Videogame Blogging: 2019

…day of their lives.

At Deorbital, Eme Flores used Heaven Will Be Mine as a metaphor for different approaches to activism. Writing for Vice, Natalie Watson praised the anti-colonial themes of Falcon Age, which she described as a great story in want of a better game. At News Maven, Adrian Jawort drew a spotlight on When Rivers Were Trails, “an Indigenous take on The Oregon Trail.” Unwinnable’s ever-prolific Jeremy Signor wrote of reclaiming camp sexual stereotypes in Cho Aniki, and in a two-part feature Rebind’s Emily Rose explored both the ways in which indie games predicate themselves on queer…

Duncan Fyfe & Hit Self-Destruct, Part 1

…in two flavors. Either you read something awful and think, “Hell, I could do better than that,” or you read something astonishing and are inspired to meet its standard. Hit Self-Destruct falls in the latter group for me. Each post is like a challenge: Can you top this? So far I can’t, but I’ve gotten better by trying.

Duncan Fyfe makes it look so easy. He doesn’t dazzle his readers with wordplay. His writing succeeds because he has the courage to communicate his ideas simply and clearly. Often, what he leaves out is as important as what he puts…