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November 26th

Welcome back readers.

We’re running a shorter issue for this holiday (?) weekend, but don’t forget to submit your picks for our end-of-year review!

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

Modes of Production

This week we’re opening with a pair of large industry-scale pieces on culture and labour.

  • How Black Myth: Wukong Developer’s History of Sexism Is Complicating its Journey to the West | IGN Rebekah Valentine and Khee Hoon Chan situate a prominent AAA studio’s misogynistic rhetoric

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July 15

…the aftermath of the incident.

  • Why Are Gamers so Terrified of Women – Unwinnable Khee Hoon Chan contextualizes Price’s firing in a brief piece on the broader misogyny the games industry perpetuates.
  • Injured Sovereigns, Foucault, and Jessica Price – mssv Adrian Hon inserts some critical theory into the discussion and analyses the events between Price and ArenaNet as an instance of Michel Foucault’s definition of Punishment.
  • The New Vid Economy: Making A Living From Crowdfunded Game Analysis – Game Informer Jacob Geller doesn’t address the incident between ArenaNet and its former writers, but his…