December 2015: ‘Joy’
byAnother year comes to a close and with it come a pause to celebrate the season appropriate to your hemisphere of the globe. For me, I’m looking forward to some time with loved ones to wax nostalgic for the old days and…
November Roundup: ‘Forgiveness’
byHere I am, a few days later than I’d like to be with the roundup, as usual. Given the theme, I’d ask for your forgiveness, but instead, I’ll ask that you indulge me in a brief aside: I picked the theme of…
Minisode 08 – Breaking the Mold and Cultural Musings
byWelcome to the last minisode of the year on the Critical Distance Confab. How this works is that each of us will go back and forth listing off three games each that we feel haven’t gotten the critical attention they deserve in…
November 29th
byOnce again, those of you who indulged in cooked fowl (or fowls within fowls) have hopefully enjoyed a long weekend with loved ones and have already begun making the next week’s worth of leftover sandwiches. As for the rest of us, hopefully…
November 22nd
byHello, readers! If you live in America, you might be in a small frenzy of making shopping lists and devising seating charts for your guests; if you don’t, you’re probably bored to tears hearing the rest of us worry about it. But…
Episode 30 – Everything’s Better Embed
byConcluding this year’s series of interviews of the authors and editors of video game criticism publications we turn our eyes to gonzo. Cara Ellison‘s Embed With Games: A Year on the Couch with Game Developers brings the long form, lifestyle gonzo journalism…
November 15th
byThere wasn’t a whole lot whirring out of the videogame criticism engine this week, but don’t call it getting by on scraps, these delectable morsels are more than satisfying enough. Contents within presented without filler. Welcome to This Week in Videogame Blogging! Rise…
Xenogears, Xenosaga, Xenoblade
byCritical Distance is proud to present this Critical Compilation of the Xeno games — Xenogears, Xenosaga and Xenoblade — curated by Brian Crimmins. The Xeno games, Tetsuya Takahashi’s pet project and meta-series, are remembered as dense video games. And I don’t just…
November 2015: ‘Forgiveness’
byHello, friends! The end of October was full of super Critical Distance material and big announcements! So busy was the end of October in fact, we decided it was prudent to release the new Blogs of the Round Table theme a little later than…
November 8th
byWhy hello there! Two, Three, Four… Did you know that Persona 4: Dancing All Night was finally released in my part of the world this weekend? Step, step, spin! Yet, ever your dutiful servant, my dear discerning reader, here I am taking…