"Where is all the good writing about games?"
Welcome back, readers. First things first, here’s a list of national and local bail funds supporting anti-racial-injustice protesters across the US. Local support is just as important as, if not more so than, national support! Around the site, we’ve got a new…
Critical Distance is proud to present the latest in its new series of Critical Compilations, focusing on Sega’s iconic Sonic the Hedgehog series, brought to us by Waverly. Waverly (she/they) is a game artist and freelance writer who studies alternative game histories…
Welcome back, readers. This week I’d like to start by directing your attention to The Okra Project, which supports Black Trans people with home-cooked meals and resources! Check them out. Around the web, Heterotopias has a new issue, with a theme of…
Welcome back, readers. I’ll direct you again to begin with our usual starting point. Keep active resistance to anti-Black fascism going by supporting those on the front lines. Also, the Itch bundle supporting Black trans artists is still live! Go get it…
Hello again, readers. It’s another month. Thank you for all your submissions, which continue to make my job easier and this column, better. Once more I am at a loss as to how to summarise, respond to or otherwise introduce TMIVGV against…
Welcome back, readers. First things first: our usual starting point. The media coverage of protests against anti-Black police brutality in America and elsewhere is diminishing, but the fascist effort to thwart them is intensifying. Around the site, we’ve got two new things…
Download “Keywords in Play” is an interview series about game research supported by Critical Distance and the Digital Games Research Association. In this episode we speak with Rob Gallagher about “digital subjectivity”. Rob was recently a postdoctoral researcher with the European…
This Critical Compilation of Capcom’s 1998 Resident Evil 2 and its 2019 remake comes to us via Emma Kostopolus. Emma is a Ph.D student of Rhetoric and Composition at the University of Kansas, where her work focuses on the intersections of rhetoric…
Welcome back, readers. As you have perhaps come to expect by now, we begin with our usual starting point. The push for systematic reforms that will meaningfully oppose and resist racial injustice must carry on beyond the window of topical trendiness. On…
Welcome back, readers. First, our usual starting point. You may not be reading about the protests against anti-Black police brutality in the headlines as often these days, but they go on. No justice, no peace. Second, did you see our new Critical…