"Where is all the good writing about games?"
Download “Keywords in Play” is an interview series about game research supported by Critical Distance and the Digital Games Research Association. This epsiode we speak with Florence Smith-Nicholls about the paper “The Dark Souls of Archaeology: Recording Elden Ring” (https://arxiv.org/abs/2204.10949). Florence is…
Welcome back readers. I want to thank the community once again for helping us reach our GoFundMe target so quickly. While we intend to keep the campaign up a little while longer, if you’re still looking to help us out, a more…
Welcome back readers. Let me give my deep and heartfelt thanks to everyone who over the past week supported our GoFundMe, which hit its target within hours (hours!!) of launching. You have carried us through the emergency and sent us a very…
Welcome back readers. We have a bunch of announcements to pack in this week, so bear with me because there’s important and exciting stuff to discuss! Kotaku Interview with Ben Abraham First, Kotaku just published an interview with Critical Distance founder Ben…
Welcome back readers. With so much of social media in flux at the moment–if it’s not sites in danger of crashing entirely it’s gruelling rounds of layoffs–this feels like a timely moment to highlight that Critical Distance maintains its own community Discord…
Welcome back readers. Before we dig into this week’s issue, Friends-of-the-Site No Escape are doing a fundraiser to finance new projects and expansions for 2023. The plural subject isn’t rhetoriacal: they’re expanding the crew! Anyways, while the grim focus is on tech…
Welcome back readers. Halloween the calendar holiday may nominally be over for the year, but like any enthusiastic spooky month reveller keen to get their money’s worth out of all the costume pieces they gleaned from the Value Village racks, we see…
Welcome back readers. I promise you that I did not pull a Bilbo Baggins this week by deliberately making sure there were precisely 13 selections for our closest issue to Halloween; it really just did happen that way by chance. But now…
Welcome back readers. This week I’m going to take a moment to plug friends-of-the-site Unwinnable, who are currently running their annual Halloween subscription drive. This is a great way to gain access to a wellspring of quality independent games, media, and culture…
Welcome back readers. We’re running a slightly shorter issue this week, with a conspicuous density of horror games represented in the selections. As it should be. This Week in Videogame Blogging is a roundup highlighting the most important critical writing on games…