July 25th
byBen kindly asked me to take over this week as he would be away from the internet and, as you can imagine, that makes it difficult to complete one’s duty of rounding up the best the blogosphere has to offer. To start…
July 18th
bySunday’s are for being at the snow – yes, it’s winter here and I’m at the snow. Thankfully, I’ve had the foresight to prepare this week’s instalment in advance. It’s almost like I’m speaking to you through time. Speaking of time, I’m not sure…
July 11th
byAccording to my working document naming convention this is the 70th TWIVGB I’ve assembled. That’s somewhat mind boggling, and so is the number of posts this week! Greg J. Smith at Serial Consign usually blogs about architecture, and occasionally, we are blessed…
July 4th
byIt’s my own fault. Last week I suggested a summer lethargy may have overtaken the games blogosphere, so naturally this week we’re swamped with cogent posts about all manner of games. First is Dan Bruno at Cruise Elroy who has been playing…
June 27th
byA short post this week as a whimsy seems to have overtaken the blogosphere like a blanket. I’d blame the giant come-down period that is post-E3, if I had to guess. Michael Abbott at The Brainy Gamer argues that Final Fantasy XIII…
June 20th
byComing to you slightly behind schedule this week thanks to a certain winter-time festival in my home town, It’s This Week in Videogame Blogging with only the best writing about videogames the internet had to offer this week. The first piece from…
June 13th
byBefore we get into the meat of this week’s post, a big hello to our favourite Kotaku intern, Lauren, who we know is a huge fan. Hi Lauren! Denis Farr at the Vorpal Bunny Ranch wrote this week about an experience he…
June 6th
byJim Rossignol began this week with a bang, asking at Rock Paper Shotgun “Where are the road games?” . You could ask this of just about any well defined film genre, but road films do seem particularly adaptable to games – as he…
May 30th
byFirst up, a quick pair of posts from the tail end of the week-before-last: Remember the new series from the LittleBoBeep blog “How Board Games Explain Everything”? Well between writing last week’s post and its publication the author Julian followed up with…
May 23rd
byThis week was the twentieth week of the year, and what pray tell has the critical videogame blogosophere been talking about? At the Ada Play blog Emily Bembenck writes about ‘social games and the pastoral’ which is an interesting aspect present in…