December 20th
bySeasonal greetings, dear reader! It is my pleasure to welcome you to today’s game crit round up, the last of your regularly scheduled program before we close out the year with a series of delicious treats. So have a seat, have a…
December 13th
byI’m awake at a most unusual hour, chillstep flowing through my YouTubes and coffee flowing through my brain tubes. That can only mean one thing: I’m on deck for This Week in Videogame Blogging! Body Counting Kiva Bay explains the importance of seeing…
Now Accepting Submissions for TYIVGB 2015 Edition
byIt’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…
December 6th
byHello 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…
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…