"Where is all the good writing about games?"
Hello again, Readers. Well, here it is, the twelfth and final TMIVGV for 2020. This December was typically light in terms of concentrated critical content, given all the end of year retrospectives that had to be made, holidays taken etc – but…
Welcome back, readers. You know how these intros go at this point. Please continue to seek out ways to support Black causes. Everyone benefits from the dismantling of systemic racism. Well, almost everyone. Perhaps not Jeff Bezos. But fuck him anyway. As…
Welcome back, readers. I don’t have much to say here about the events in the US over the past week other than this: if you’re white and this feeling that your country is no longer safe or stable is new to you,…
Before we get started, I want to briefly mention that this week we are running an essay jam on the topic of the pandemic and games – if this roundup brings up some thoughts about what 2020 was like for games, this…
Welcome back, and welcome to a new year, readers. We missed you last week, but we’re making up for lost time with a double-sized issue for your reading pleasure. A couple things to begin. First, Black Lives don’t cease to Matter when…
Our latest Critical Compilation spotlights CD Projekt Red’s 2015 hit, The Witcher 3, brought to us by Cian Maher. Cian is a journalist from Dublin, Ireland. Since its launch in 2015, The Witcher 3 has been heralded as a benchmark for contemporary…
Welcome back, readers. Last week I plugged this bundle of cyberpunk-themed games by queer and marginalized independant creators, as well as an upcoming analogue cyberpunk game jam for Asian creators. If you haven’t already checked them out, please do so! This week,…
Welcome back, readers. This week the thing I’m plugging before I get down to business is. . . this rad bundle of cyberpunk-themed games by independent creators! Get your punk on while supporting queer/marginalized creators! Oh, but that’s not all, dear reader….
Welcome again, readers. It is my last video column for the year, already, somehow – though of course not my last column about the year. This one’s going up a little early because I’m taking a holiday from tomorrow, unless something else…
Download “Keywords in Play” is an interview series about game research supported by Critical Distance and the Digital Games Research Association. This episode’s guest is Sonia Fizek, to discuss a forthcoming book on ‘delegated’ and ‘interpassive’ play. Sonia is a digital wanderer…