"Where is all the good writing about games?"
Kris was a little off last week. Apparently Ben is off gallivanting at FreePlay conference in the wiles of Melbourne, Australia with other game critics and academics. So while he’s getting panda with all them I’m taking over for a week. Speaking…
Welcome back for another edition of This Week in Videogame Blogging, your #1 source for critical and theoretical discourse on games. You can tell Bogost has finished a book, because he’s writing regularly for the net again: In his short treatise On…
Hello world. It has been a strange and wonderful week, both within videogame writing and criticism and without. But we are only interested in the within because it’s time for This Week In Videogames Blogging. And here to lead the charge is…
Another week, another selection of the most interesting piece of games writing from around the blogipelago. Let’s see what the cat dragged in… First must-read (or must see, in this case) this week is Greg J. Smith at Serial Consign looking at…
Welcome to another instalment of This Week in Videogame Blogging with me, your host, and and all your favourite pieces of videogame blogging and criticism from around the web. Okay, so everyone’s read this piece by now, yeah? Jonah Weiner at the…
Hello dear readers! Did you miss me? The UK treated me just fine so I’m back and alive and raring to go. I got to meet at least one Critical Distance reader while in the UK too. Hey Dimitrios, always happy to…
Welcome once again to This Week in Video Game Blogging, the best of the best of games journalism, criticism, and commentary from across the web! Let’s get started. With the rerelease of Ocarina of Time for the 3DS, we start out tonight…
This has been a big week for gaming in the U.S., with the Supreme Court ruling 7-2 to strike down the California law censoring the sale of violent video games to minors. You can read the opinions here. Michael “Brainy Gamer” Abbott…
Hello and welcome to another instalment of This Week In Videogame Blogging, with the latest and greatest writing, blogging and criticism from the videogame blogosphere. But some news! I’m actually going to be away in the UK for the next fortnight (get…
Five hours sleep. That’s all I got last night before getting up to spend the day in the freezing chill at the top of a mountain. Needless to say, this one’s gonna be as short as possible. At Nightmare Mode, Lizz Quinlan…