"Where is all the good writing about games?"
Welcome back readers. First, the most important stuff: Check out the ways in which you can support protests against anti-Black and Brown police violence in the US and abroad. Thread collating ways you can support Mi’kmaw fisheries. Legal Fund for organizers fighting…
The essay is a flexible format that allows its author to communicate, work through, and explore thoughts without traditional formal barriers. The content of essays can be personal, literary, historical, philosophical, aesthetic, and is often a combination of many topics, perspectives, and…
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 Mal Abbas, an independent game designer, artist and producer working on experimental and meaningful games. Malath…
Welcome back readers. In addition to my usual nudge to check out the ways in which you can support protests against anti-Black and Brown police violence in the US and abroad, I’d like to call attention to an issue specific to Canada….
Welcome back readers. I know there’s plenty of distracting news right now about buffoonish fascists who can’t seem to follow quarantine protocols during a pandemic, but it’s not the real news. I also know this opening section used to be a breezy…
Welcome back, readers. It’s been an eventful week in the news. Something I haven’t seen a lot of coverage on lately is the ongoing protests against state-sanctioned violence against Black and Brown people. Check out this resource to find out how you…
Welcome back, readers. There still hasn’t been any justice for Breonna Taylor. Protests go on, whether they’re in the news or not. Check out this resource on ways to organize, donate to, and support resistance efforts against state-sanctioned oppressors and murderers of…
Welcome back, readers. It’s been a week, huh. Anyways, in the face of enough constant societal and political upheavals to give anybody whiplash and then motion sickness, I’m once again this week going to plug BlackGameDevs, a website and resource that collects…
Welcome back, readers. I hope you’re all safe and well, or as safe and well as possible between all the pandemic, wildfires, hurricanes and ongoing police violence. Today I am trying to find the light at the end of the tunnel of…
Critical Distance is proud to present this Critical Compilation on Nintendo’s acclaimed 2017 The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, curated by Autumn Wright. Autumn is an essayist doing criticism on games and other media. Follow their work at @TheAutumnWright. In…