"Where is all the good writing about games?"
New year, new games to discuss on the Critical Distance Confab. With the minisodes, every month, both I and a co-host, go back and forth listing off a game we think hasn’t gotten the critical attention it deserves until we’ve each done…
This is my first post as the new Senior Curator! It’s been an absolute delight to start the role on such a strong week. While a lot of the active discussion has been about The Witness, I’m going to start this roundup…
I could say this on a lot of Sundays but I’m going to say it on this one: I’m flabbergasted by the quality of writing featured in This Week in Videogame Blogging! Let’s dispense with the pleasantries and hop right to it!…
What’s up, Critical Distancers? DJ Melissa here, spinning the sickest new written beats in the gameosphere in This Week in Videogame Blogging! That Dragon, Cancer and Its Emotional Impact That Dragon, Cancer, an interactive look into a couple’s experience with their son’s…
Welcome to the new year of podcasts here at Critical Distance! Last year we went over publications, both books and magazines, in the critical video game sphere. Having, for the most part, run out of those we turn our eyes to different…
The turn of the calendar brings with it a new, shiny coat of life. New year, new goals, and new writers to Critical Distance! As one of these new writers, it’s my job to ferry my dear readers into the new year’s…
With 2015 nestling into our memories the time has come to look forward to a glorious future of development, upward mobility and technical innovation. Soon the troubles of yesteryear will settle into a cautionary tale, one that we tell only as a…
Happy New Year everybody! With 2015 lovingly tucked away let’s round up an ever so short-and-sweet Blogs of the Round Table looking at the theme of ‘Joy’: Are there any joyful memories of unwrapping a favourite new game over the holidays? What moments of…
Hello, my friends. The dawn of 2016 is upon us and it is with mixed feelings that I bring you my last contribution to Critical Distance. Critical Distance gave me a home and a place to establish myself in the (healthy!) community…
Welcome back to another Critical Distance Confab podcast, End of the Year edition! 2015 is almost behind us, so just lean back and listen as myself and a couple of colleagues skim over some of the major discussions that came up during…