"Where is all the good writing about games?"
Welcome back readers. Please enjoy a mini-issue of sorts this week, with seven new-and-cool highlights. Game Studies published their latest issue just as I was hitting publish here so I may yet have my reading work cut out for me in the…
Welcome back readers. We’ve got a fine selection of reads for you this week, including a number of new names to the site–something I’m always glad to see here. This Week in Videogame Blogging is a roundup highlighting the most important critical…
Welcome back readers. I’ll keep the preamble short this week, but we did receive one submission put together by the folks at Deep-Hell that I wasn’t quite willing to include on account of my having contributed to it in very small part….
Welcome back readers. This week I want to once again shout out the Trans Witches Are Witches bundle on Itch, which runs for another five days as of publication. Around the site, we also have Connor’s latest TMIVGV available, so check that…
Hey there, readers. How are you? It’s been a minute. This time, for a much delayed TMIVGV, we cast our gaze back to vods released between July and September 2022. That is to say, last year. Toot toot. Thank you to everyone…
Welcome back readers. This week our featured plug is for the Trans Witches Are Witches bundle on Itch organized by friend-of-the-site Nathalie. 69 independent games, stories, and artworks for 60 US dollars–the price of a AAA game, nice. That’s a lot of…
Welcome back readers. Last week I took some time at the top of the issue to plug our currently-in-progress First Foot Forward jam (which I am technically still plugging this week; you should totally submit). This week I’d like to draw your…
Welcome back readers. The first thing I want to talk about this week is that Critical Distance is hosting another writing/video essay jam! This time, we’re welcoming submissions in any medium with the theme of First Foot Forward: player agency as explored…
What would happen if you analysed games beginning with the question, ‘what is the first choice that the player makes?’ In First Foot Forward February, we’re collecting critical perspectives on games that focus on the earliest moment of player agency. In some…
Welcome back readers. There were a lot of layoffs this week in games and culture press, as well as the games and wider tech industries. “Support independent crit”, a drum we beat fairly regularly here, is pretty cold comfort when tens of…