"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. C. Thi Nguyen is a former food writer, now a philosophy professor at University of Utah. He writes about trust, art,…
Welcome back, readers. To start, our usual PSA: police brutality is not new. Its victims are overwhelmingly Black and brown and reporting on the occurances is rarely widely circulated. If you’re pissed off this weekend (and rightfully so), remember that this is…
This February, the annual games writing jam took the theme of Lists! I chose it for two reasons, first of all that it’s obviously been a hell of a year since the last writing jam, and I wanted to choose a theme…
Welcome back, readers. Plugging these calls for submissions one more time this week: One more week to submit games and research to Black Game Makers. One more day to submit proposals to Decolonizing Queer Games and Play for First Person Scholar. Proposals for…
Welcome back, readers. Plugging these again this week in case you’ve missed them: Call for submissions to a volume and archive of Black creators working in, on, and around games. Call for a special issue themed around Decolonizing Queer Games and Play for…
Welcome back, readers. I hope this roundup finds you well, wherever you are. This Month In Videogame Vlogging is a roundup featuring the best videogame criticism to be made using a video format from the previous calendar month. Plague Time To…
Welcome back, readers. In case you’ve missed them: Call for submissions to a volume and archive of Black creators working in, on, and around games. Call for a special issue themed around Decolonizing Queer Games and Play for First Person Scholar. Call for…
Welcome back, readers. Over the last couple of weeks, I’ve highlighted this call for submissions to a collected volume and archive of Black creators working in, on, and around games, as well as Khee Hoon Chan and First Person Scholar’s call for…
Welcome back, readers. To begin, I’d like to bring your attention once more this week to this call for submissions to a collected volume and archive of Black creators working in, on, and around games. This call runs until mid-March! Over at…
An (incomplete) list of functions of lists, as a prelude to List Jam: I feel like “lists” are seen as a shallow or resented element of games criticism online, like the inevitable churn of year end lists that reinforce the need to…