"Where is all the good writing about games?"
This month we are joined by game historian, University of Lancaster PhD candidate and editor-in-chief of Silverstring Media’s Critical Publishing arm, Zoya Street. Zoya has written two seminal books on games, Dreamcast Worlds and Delay, and is the founder of the wonderful…
Critical Distance is proud to present this Critical Compilation of cult classic Deadly Premonition by Robert Hughes, which represents the first in our new series of commissioned features. Since its staggered transcontinental release in 2010, Deadly Premonition has been a source of…
Hello, readers! If you’re anything like me, you’re choking down a boatload of antihistamines to survive a brutal allergy season. And so, bleary-eyed, exhausted, and sniffling… I bid you welcome to another installment of This Week in Videogame Blogging. Worldbuilding If you’ve…
Good morning! To those who celebrate it, a Happy Easter! Let’s get right underway with This Week in Videogame Blogging! Systems and Beyond Systems On First Person Scholar, Gino Grieco has produced a stellar essay on the lenticular design of Nintendo games…
Hello hello, my friends! Didn’t I just post the February Let’s Plays? How is already April? I guess time flies when you’ve got your head down watching content. Speaking of, you are in for some good content here on this March edition…
Glad you could make it. I hope you enjoyed your March and the first of April’s showers have already started to wash away all of winter’s cigarette butts and dog poops. Come in, come in. We’ll play a game! Pick out the…
I want to make this clear from the get-go: there are no April Fool’s jokes to be found here. Just 100% undiluted Blogs of the Round Table. This month, we were discussing “Extended Play” “Have you ever been so immersed or so…
Welcome to the first Critical Distance Confab minisode! We’re trying something new with the podcast. There are so many games coming out at every level, everyday. So many of them fall through the cracks for one reason or another. Everybody has asked…
What’s up, fellow crit enthusiasts? If you’re looking for Easter candy, you’re a week too early, but we’ve got plenty of goodies from a slew of amazing writers to keep you content until then. So, welcome to This Week in Videogame Blogging!…
Continuing on with our theme of notable published video game books, we turn our eye to the other major work on 2012, Anna Anthropy‘s Rise of the Videogame Zinesters: How Freaks, Normals, Amateurs, Artists, Dreams, Drop-outs, Queers, Housewives, and People Like You…