"Where is all the good writing about games?"
It’s December once again, which means we are opening the floor to recommendations for our annual end of year feature, This Year In Video Game Blogging. In addition to my own efforts, sublimated this year by a select curators on staff, we…
Hello Everyone, this is Zolani taking over for Kris on This Week in Videogame Blogging. Let’s get to it! Big Box Aevee Bee wrote two stellar pieces of writing on Destiny this week, one of them is a series of mini-reviews on…
Another 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…
Here 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…
Welcome 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…
Once 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…
Hello, 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…
Concluding 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…
There 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…
Critical 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…