"Where is all the good writing about games?"
Bah, Valentines Day. More like Valen-CRIMES Day, amirite? It took me thirty minutes to come up with that intro. Romance is great and all, but at a certain point isn’t it just better to have someone to have a coffee and shoot…
I think we can all agree that yesterday was a big day. Here at Critical-Distance, we had an amazing new guest curator (Jill Murray!) to present This Week in Video Game Blogging, and there was also a big thing with lots of…
Critical Distance is proud to present this special guest roundup by games writer and diversity advocate Jill Murray. Hello fine readers! I’m Jill Murray, a writer you might remember from such games as Assassin’s Creed Liberation, and Your Shape Fitness Evolved: 2012….
Greetings, Your Worship. I am Zachary J Alexander the First, and it is my humble pleasure to welcome you to the pages of This Week In Videogame Blogging in the Common Era Year of Twenty-Fifteen, on the Twenty-Fourth Day of January. I…
Friends, we are excited to announce that Critical-Distance is branching out into new curation territory: Let’s Plays. For some time now, we’ve included Let’s Plays that engage critically with game content in our This Week in Videogame Blogging feature. As Let’s Plays…
Hi! For the sake of avoiding that awkward conversation where you pretend to remember the stranger enthusiastically greeting you, it’s This Week in Videogame Blogging! GamerGate: Picking up the Pieces It’s 2015 and GamerGate is still in the conversation, so let’s start this…
In 2012, critic and Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology PhD candidate Brendan Keogh released his long form critical piece on Spec Ops: The Line in the form of an ebook. Killing is Harmless: A Critical Reading of Spec Ops: The Line was…
Since Eric’s monumental send-off to 2014 we’ve been taking it easy for a few weeks. You guys, on the other hand, have been set an excellent tone for 2015. So let’s roll up our sleeves and dig into This Week in Videogame…
Hello and Happy New Year. I hope you’ll join me in collectively wishing for a better 2015 than 2014. Given the new year, many people are naturally thinking about making resolutions. Of course, making a resolution is easy, but having the resolve…
Hello party people. If you’re like me than you’ve started the new year by gorging on leftovers, drinking spiked coffee and remaining in your pajamas until even the cat gives you that “you need a shower” look (You know the one). What?…