"Where is all the good writing about games?"
First 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…
This 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…
Another week, another fresh crop of some of the best videogame blogging the web has to offer. Game Locker on YouTube brings a new instalment of his ‘Games Worth Remembering’ series, finishing up the two-part analysis of Ico and Shadow of the…
Despite packing up and moving all my possessions to a new house, This Week In Videogame Blogging is here with some of the best blogging about games from the week leading up to May 9th. Chris Dahlen this week sends us a…
This Week in Videogame Blogging we take a trip around the critical games blogosphere to pick up some of the most interesting reading from the past week. We start our journey with Eric Swain’s comprehensive and ongoing efforts to collate the majority…
Welcome to another hefty instalment of This Week in Videogame Blogging. First up, Daniel Floyd, he of the funny voice filter, presents part 8 of his video lecture series on games. This one is about ‘Video Games and Moral Choices’ apparently and…
At the 2010 D.I.C.E. Summit [mirror], Jesse Schell gave a talk entitled ‘Design outside the Box’ that set the gaming blog world on fire. Now that the pace of resulting conversation has slowed, we’d like to take the time to gather links…
Today’s This Week in Videogame Blogging contains slightly less than the usual crop of links to the best videogame criticism and writing of the week. I think it’s partly because we’ve reached the first real lull of the year in terms of…
Extra! Extra! Read the late edition of eminently readable links known as TWIVGB. This week Michael Abbott reveals the secret of Pokémon’s success – and you’ll never guess – it’s chocolate ice cream. That’s what he’s saying here, right? The latest Pokémon…
PAX was the big thing to be at and be seen at this week, but it doesn’t seem to have slowed the critical game blogosphere. Neither has the onset of April and its attendant silly April fool’s day posts which we seem…