March 13th
byI’m back from San Francisco and the Game Developers Conference (where I had a blast and, incidentally, got to meet some of you fine readers. Thanks to everyone who came up and said hi!) so it must be time to catch up…
March 6th
byGDC is over and Ben is recovering from a hangover [Oh god I have no sense of balance – Ed.] so I’m picking this up for one more week. This is my actual one-year anniversary for starting to write TWIVGB. Since Dragon Age…
February 27th
byLast year I took over the reins of TWIVGB when Ben went gallivanting off to GDC; now a year later (holy shit it’s been a year), I’m doing the same. So here’s This Week in Videogame Blogging. Before leaving us Ben Abraham…
February 20th
byIt’s that time again – time to fight the urge to crawl under a rock to escape death rays from the sun while compiling a list of the more interesting pieces of writing, blogging and criticism from around the web. It could…
February 13th
byAnother week, and another attempt at corralling the week’s most interesting and engaging writing, blogging and criticism of videogames into one place. First up: Duncan Fyfe’s ‘Bad Dreams’ [mirror] at Life Starts Here. In his latest short story, Fyfe touches on the…
Episode 7 – A Post-Comment World
byIt’s time for another episode of the Critical Distance Confab. Before we get into it, a little background information. Right around the last podcast a debate sprung up over Ben’s refusal to allow comments on his personal blog, finding them not worth…
February 6th
byAnother week, another agglomeration of the week’s best blogging, writing and criticism of videogame from around the blogosphere. I’d be remiss if I didn’t mention the week’s big story, so I’ll get it out of the way first, and boy does it…
January 30th
byIt’s that time of the week again, which means that I’d better get in quick and rustle up another list of the week’s best writing, blogging and criticism of videogames. One of the more interesting pieces I read this week was Paul…
January 23rd
byAnother busy week for videogame blogging (when is it ever not?) so we’ve got a nice haul here for your reading pleasure. First up, Jaime Griesemer of Bungie has started writing about design [mirror], and largely multiplayer design: initially its drafts for…
January 16th
byAshelia writing for her new tumblr muses on why she works in the game industry, and about why games leave such an important mark on the player: It’s about the experience, not the game. Your favorite game may not be mine, but…