"Where is all the good writing about games?"
How are queer themes, issues, and identities represented in games? How are they omitted or excluded?
Welcome back readers. Thanks for stopping in. It’s pretty late in my local time zone, but we’ve got chill conversations running ’round the clock in the Critical Distance Discord. Come hang out! This Week in Videogame Blogging is a roundup highlighting the…
Welcome back readers. Today’s around-the-site news is that our monthly roundup of video crit is back! Kaile has served up a cool baker’s dozen picks for your audiovisual perusal, so go check it out! This Week in Videogame Blogging is a roundup…
Welcome back readers. Around the site, we’ve got a new Keywords for your listening pleasure. As a recap, Keywords in Play is running a mini-series over the next few issues highlighting Chinese-Australian collaborations in game studies scholarship. This issue’s guest is cultural…
Welcome back readers. Let me give my deep and heartfelt thanks to everyone who over the past week supported our GoFundMe, which hit its target within hours (hours!!) of launching. You have carried us through the emergency and sent us a very…
Welcome back readers. You’ve got just a few days left to pick up the Queer Games Bundle 2022! This Week in Videogame Blogging is a roundup highlighting the most important critical writing on games from the past seven days. Pride Year-Round Eurogamer…
Welcome back readers. It’s our biggest issue in a hearty while, and on top of that, we’ve got new Keywords for you! Our guest this episode is Gregory Whistance-Smith, and the topic is meaning-making in videogame spaces! This Week in Videogame Blogging…
Welcome back, readers. Let’s get right into it, shall we? We’ve read a bunch of cool stuff this week and I’m looking forward to sharing it! This Week in Videogame Blogging is a roundup highlighting the most important critical writing on games…
Welcome back, readers. It’s a good month, I think, when the first roundup of the month doesn’t, owing to a dire lack of editorial oversight (I am both writer and copy-editor of these roundups), make its debut wearing the title of the…
Welcome back, readers. We’re running a shorter issue this week, albeit one that ended up being fairly tightly themed around history and memory, be it via how games depict history, or how they constitute it! But before that. . . . New…
Welcome back, readers. We return this week, as always, with another issue of timely, valuable, offbeat, fun, difficult, and important criticism. There are no major site updates to discuss this time around, but I want to extend my thanks to the readers,…