February 26th
byWe’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…
February 19th
byThe 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…
February 12th
byWhoa, 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…
Blogs of the Round Table: February
byWelcome 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…
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…