"Where is all the good writing about games?"
Editors note: This is the first Critical Compilation we’ve hosted in a long while, and it comes to us from our newest contributor, John Kilhefner. It’s been called visually stunning, a revelation in character writing and the greatest movie ever played. Regardless,…
In 2012, the greatest game developers and journalists in recent memory assembled in San Francisco for the Game Developers Conference. Meanwhile, those unfortunate few who did not attend explored the web, discovering the remains of an ancient spacefaring civilization known only as…
Twas the night before GDC, and all through the net, not a blogger was stirring, not even Patrick Klepek… (Well, not really.) Welcome, welcome to This Week in Videogame Blogging! As things are beginning to kick off in San Francisco, your friendly…
Well I’ve managed to just sneak this post in before the end of the month – where the heck did it go?! No matter – let’s see what the blogosphere has cooked up in response to our theme of Love: How do…
We’ve been holding out for a hero, and we’re not gonna take it anymore. It’s time for This Week in Videogame Blogging! Love is a battlefield, and we keep paying for map packs. Paul Tassi, writing for Forbes says we create our…
The time has come, ladies and ladykins, for you to blog for your life! It’s RuPaul’s This Week in Videogame Blogging! We start off the week with a soft focus lens on the past, when the men were men and the games…
Whoa, but that’s a lot of words! Our Critical Distance update is full of good stuff today, people, so let’s get right into it. Firstly, The Mary Sue’s Becky Chambers discusses what she dubs the ‘Hey Sweetheart Scenario‘, using Dragon Age as…
Welcome to the second month of Blogs of the Round Table, and thanks again to everyone who participated in January’s great discussions. Don’t forget that you’re more than welcome to post a response or addition to someone else’s Round Table entry, and…
I can’t think of a clever intro. It’s This Week In Video Game Blogging. The recently released Katawa Shoujo has garnered a lot of attention for how it came into existence and for it being a quality experience, something no one could…
Welcome to the first Blogs of the Round Table round-up post for 2012, first let’s remind ourselves of the theme we’re talking about this month. Being Other: Games, like most media, have the ability to let us explore what it’s like to…