January 9th
byWelcome back, readers. I haven’t got much in the way of updates today, but before we get into the swing of things this week, let me take a moment to re-plug our annual year-in-review. There’s lots of great work in here, so…
January 2nd
byWelcome 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…
This Year in Videogame Blogging: 2021
byAn 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…
December 19th
byWelcome 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…
November 2021
byHello 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…
December 12th
byWelcome 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…
Now Accepting Submissions for TYIVGB 2021
byNone 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…
December 5th
byWelcome 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…
November 28th
byWelcome 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…
November 21st
byWelcome 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…