June 4th
byWelcome back readers. This year’s edition of the Queer Games Bundle hosted on itch.io is live and runs through the duration of Pride Month, so let me open this week’s issue with a nice lil’ plug for that right here. Now, the…
temporality
Between vintage games collections, retro aesthetics, and the increasing interest in games from the museum sector, the position of games in their own time is a topic close to many people’s hearts. Games themselves are a medium that plays with time, inheriting questions of pacing and anticipation from cinema.
May 28th
byWelcome back readers. We’ve got a little bit of everything this week, with the highlights spanning DOOM WADs, interviews, viral hits and sleeper hits. Let’s tuck in. This Week in Videogame Blogging is a roundup highlighting the most important critical writing on…
May 21st
byWelcome back readers. We’re firmly and decisively on-time this week, Zelda or no Zelda. Just don’t ask me about my email turnaround. This Week in Videogame Blogging is a roundup highlighting the most important critical writing on games from the past seven…
February 26th
byWelcome back readers. I’ll keep the preamble short this week, but we did receive one submission put together by the folks at Deep-Hell that I wasn’t quite willing to include on account of my having contributed to it in very small part….
February 19th
byWelcome back readers. This week I want to once again shout out the Trans Witches Are Witches bundle on Itch, which runs for another five days as of publication. Around the site, we also have Connor’s latest TMIVGV available, so check that…
January 22nd
byWelcome back readers. There were a lot of layoffs this week in games and culture press, as well as the games and wider tech industries. “Support independent crit”, a drum we beat fairly regularly here, is pretty cold comfort when tens of…
January 8th
byWelcome back readers. We’re back from break, and ready to kick off a new year of outstanding crit with a double-wide issue to catch us up. Hope everyone found some kind of rest over the interregnum. This week’s around-the-site update: our Year-In-Review…
November 28th
byWelcome back readers. We have a bunch of announcements to pack in this week, so bear with me because there’s important and exciting stuff to discuss! Kotaku Interview with Ben Abraham First, Kotaku just published an interview with Critical Distance founder Ben…
November 20th
byWelcome back readers. With so much of social media in flux at the moment–if it’s not sites in danger of crashing entirely it’s gruelling rounds of layoffs–this feels like a timely moment to highlight that Critical Distance maintains its own community Discord…
November 13th
byWelcome back readers. Before we dig into this week’s issue, Friends-of-the-Site No Escape are doing a fundraiser to finance new projects and expansions for 2023. The plural subject isn’t rhetoriacal: they’re expanding the crew! Anyways, while the grim focus is on tech…