"Where is all the good writing about games?"
Welcome back, readers, and welcome to 2022. If you haven’t seen it already, Kris and Zoyander beat me to the punch this week with their outstandingly jam-packed and tenderly-articulated year-in-review. Dedicated readers may discover that one article from this week’s selections also…
An entire epoch of games criticism has come and gone in the time since this site first came into existence nearly 13 years ago. It’s difficult, now, to even access the emotional state we had back then, the optimism of unfettered possibilities…
Welcome back, readers. Connor’s back at it with another bursting TMIVGV. Give it a look if you haven’t already! Also from around the site, just a few days left to submit your recs to the annual This-Year-In-Videogame-Blogging end-of-year roundup! This Week in…
Hello readers, Yes, that time of the month has arbitrarily arrived: videodiscourserounduptime. For the final time in 2021, no less. I feel like I should say something grand here to mark the turning of pages, but I have nothing. It’s been a…
Welcome back, readers. You’ll never believe what happened to me today, reader, for this issue to be going out so late in the evening. Well. . . actually, you would believe it. It’s all entirely believable, and not entirely interesting. Long story…
None can resist the unrelenting march of time. Our political world may feel like a torturous kind of stasis but the natural world continues to go through its motions, hurtling through space at 792,000 km per hour, in a valiant but futile…
Welcome back, readers. It’s a good month, I think, when the first roundup of the month doesn’t, owing to a dire lack of editorial oversight (I am both writer and copy-editor of these roundups), make its debut wearing the title of the…
Welcome back, readers. This week I’m running a pared-down issue in a nonstandard format, as I seek out the narrative glue that binds all nine of this week’s new selections. This Week in Videogame Blogging is a roundup highlighting the most important…
Welcome back, readers. New Keywords this week! Our latest episode’s guest is Felan Parker. Check it out! This Week in Videogame Blogging is a roundup highlighting the most important critical writing on games from the past seven days. Cold Open This week’s…
Download “Keywords in Play” is an interview series about game research supported by Critical Distance and the Digital Games Research Association. This episode we speak with Felan Parker about his work on cultural intermediaries and indie games. Felan is Assistant Professor of…