February 5th
byI 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…
UPDATED: Blogs of the Round Table: January ’12 Roundup
byWelcome 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…
Help send Mattie Brice to GDC
bySo you may remember a certain campaign run about this time two years ago to fly me all the way from the other side of the world to GDC in San Francisco. Well, this year David Carlton & co. have teamed up…
January 29th
byWhat time is it? … What year? … No… Then we don’t have much time left! We HAVE to release This Week in Videogame Blogging before it’s too late! Let’s hit the ground running. We start with Jim Rossignol, interviewing Jim Rossignol,…
January 22nd
byOnce upon a time, in the magical land of Equestria… it’s This Week in Videogame Blogging! We start off with Brad Gallaway, who responds to recent opinion pieces (like those by John Walker) about working for free as a game journalist. Not…
Episode 9 – A Braid Companion
byYes, only 6 months late Critical Distance is proud to bring you episode 9 of the CDC podcast. This time we decided to focus on an actual game: Braid came out many years ago and sparked critics to write a megaton of…
January 15th
byOut with the old, in with the new. As we settle into 2012, the ludodecahedron keeps on a-turnin’. It’s time for This Week in Videogame Blogging! First up, a brief announcement: the folks over at Digital Love Child have put out a…
Announcing the return of The Blogs of the Round Table
byHello Dearly Devoted Critical-Distance Readers! So the most attentive amongst you may remember that I teased a ‘new thing’ that would be starting in January here at Critical Distance – well, it’s January and I can now announce that we are officially…
January 8th
byWelcome to the first This Week in Videogame Blogging of 2012! It’s been a long time since TWIVGB first came on the scene; I confess, I rather miss the tapestry pictures that graced the earliest episodes. This week’s host is David Carlton:…
This Year In Video Game Blogging 2011
byWelcome to 2012! Here at Critical Distance, your regularly scheduled This Week In Video Game Blogging is taking a break to make way for our year-end retrospective. The editorial crew has been hard at work culling through the year’s 937 links plus…