February 8th
byI hope you’re hungry, because I have a banquet for you this time around. And no, I’m not letting you go until you clean your plate. It’s time for This Week in Videogame Blogging! Give Me That Old Time Country Formalism We…
January 2015
byWe announced our new venture into Let’s Play curation only 11 days ago, and in that time you submitted some excellent examples of Let’s Plays. I’ve spent a lot of time in the last 11 days watching Let’s Plays, and I’ve gotten…
February 2015: ‘Buddy Systems’
byBah, 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…
January Roundup: ‘Player’s Choice’
byI 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…
February 1st
byCritical 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….
January 25th
byGreetings, 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…
Introducing: This Month in Let’s Plays!
byFriends, 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…
January 18th
byHi! 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…
Episode 22 – On ‘Killing is Harmless’
byIn 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…
January 11th
bySince 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…