"Where is all the good writing about games?"
How do games reflect or critique the relationship between labour, labourers, consumers, and products?
Welcome back readers. Hey! Kaile’s monthly recap is live. You, too can check out their excellent work by joining our Patreon! On the weekly side of things, we’ve got 23 new-and-cool picks on deck. Let’s get into it! This Week in Videogame…
Welcome back readers. Before I get into the weekly proper, I’ve got a couple important updates from around the site. First, Kaile has put together a special issue of choice picks from Paste Magazine over the years, in light of the recent…
Welcome back readers. I’m starting things off this week with a shout-out to long-time Critical Distance board member and my immediate curatorial predecessor, Zoyander, who is taking a step back from active board member stuff for their health. Zoyander offered incredible mentorship…
Welcome back readers. I don’t recall the exact date without looking, but I’m right around the four year mark of doing this whole senior curator thing. In that time I’ve read… a lot of cool pieces. So here’s twelve more! This Week…
Welcome back, readers. You’ll never believe what happened to me today, reader, for this issue to be going out so late in the evening. Well. . . actually, you would believe it. It’s all entirely believable, and not entirely interesting. Long story…
Welcome back, readers. Gosh, this is a very late video-content roundup. It’s been one of those months. Sometimes these things get away from you (in this case ‘things’ meaning ‘watching vods about videogames’, and ‘you’ meaning ‘me’). My apologies. Hopefully this has…
Welcome back, readers. First things first: If you haven’t already seen Kris’ post on the site, it’s time for our end-of-year review, and we’re looking for your submissions and recommendations as we put everything together. Remember that both works that have and…
Welcome back, readers. I try not to take up too much space myself in these roundups from week-to-week but this week we’ve got to talk. You ever see those tweets about how 2019 feels like it’s been roughly a million years long?…
Welcome back, readers. There’s lots of interesting writing on games this week, particularly from non-gaming-focused outlets. There’s also, it seems, a whole lot of big-name titles with really interesting writing coming out right now. Disco Elysium and The Outer Worlds come immediately…
Welcome back, readers. I can’t tell whether it’s more to do with the uptick in coverage on spooky games, the sudden drop in temperature in my area, or the flurry of seasonal Twitter handles in my timeline, but Fall feels like it’s…