June 13th
byWelcome back readers. Thanks for your patience while I took an extra day with this week’s issue to make sure I was happy with it. A weird spectral echo of E3 is still going on this past week, and if you’ve been…
June 5th
byWelcome back readers. I’d like to echo more than a few sites in my critical orbit by dropping a quick plug before we proceed for the Queer Games Bundle on Itch, which you have a whole month to pick up. If recent…
May 29th
byWelcome back readers. We’ve got a compact and varied issue of the good stuff ready to go for you–please enjoy! This Week in Videogame Blogging is a roundup highlighting the most important critical writing on games from the past seven days. Critical…
May 22nd
byWelcome back readers. We’ve got another smol issue lined up for you this week, as a treat, collecting work on queer masculinities, ruins, platforms, art trends, and more. This Week in Videogame Blogging is a roundup highlighting the most important critical writing…
May 15th
byWelcome back readers. We’re running a shorter issue this week, so I’m switching up our usual format again to take a more leisurely stroll through this week’s selections. This Week in Videogame Blogging is a roundup highlighting the most important critical writing…
Jaroslav Švelch | Keywords in Play, Episode 20
byDownload “Keywords in Play” is an interview series about game research supported by Critical Distance and the Digital Games Research Association. Jaroslav Švelch is an assistant professor at Charles University, Prague. He is the author of the recent monograph Gaming the Iron…
May 8th
byWelcome back readers, and happy Mother’s Day. . . .Look, if we’re being honest it’s been a pretty fucked up week for a lot of moms, or really anybody who likes having human rights but isn’t a white moneyed republican. Kaile reblogged…
May 1st
byWelcome back, readers, and happy International Workers’ Day as well. I have no major site updates this week, so I’ll keep the preamble short and hope you enjoy this week’s thirteen cool-and-interesting selections! This Week in Videogame Blogging is a roundup highlighting…
April 24th
byWelcome back, readers. This week’s around-the-site announcement is that the new Keywords is live! This episode’s guests are Regina Seiwald and Ed Vollans, speaking on the topic of paratexts. This Week in Videogame Blogging is a roundup highlighting the most important critical…
Regina Seiwald and Ed Vollans – Paratexts | Keywords in Play, Episode 19
byDownload “Keywords in Play” is an interview series about game research supported by Critical Distance and the Digital Games Research Association. In this episode we speak with Regina Seiwald and Ed Vollans on paratexts and their forthcoming collaboration “Not in the Game:…