"Where is all the good writing about games?"
Hallo und willkommen! Uh, I mean, hello and welcome to Critical Distance, where anybody remotely competent is apparently off doing something else. So Kommandantin Ligman has entrusted me, humble foreign correspondent, with today’s installment of This Week in Videogame Blogging. At least,…
After four years, it seemed time to give the ol’ baby a fresh coat of paint. We’re still tweaking things here or there, but we hope you like the new theme! One thing of note: our contact form is still out of…
Hungry for some tasty Sunday reading? Look no further. It’s This Week in Videogame Blogging, the web’s best source for prime cuts of games criticism, analysis and commentary! INFINITE BIOSHOCKS Set an afternoon aside for this one. Tim Rogers has finally finished…
Sorry this is late, but it is finally here. Back in March of 2011 I played Deirdra Kiai’s recently released Life Flashes By and wanted to talk to her about it. I asked for an interview and she graciously accepted. Through a…
It’s time to pay our dues. Pull up a chair, dig out last year’s receipts, and bust out the reading glasses. It’s This Week in Videogame Blogging! SHOOTY McGUNPANTS At Unwinnable, Brendan Keogh sits down with the Konrad to his Walker and…
Oh my glob, you guys. This is only going to be, like, the biggest This Week in Videogame Blogging ever. Aren’t you so totally floored? BIOSHOCK INFINITE (General content warning: most of these involve some manner of spoilers.) This game came out…
It’s April! Many videogame fans are on a post-PAX or GDC comedown: I’m recovering from watching the entire Indiana Jones saga over the Easter weekend. Will this be the month when Blogs of the Round Table nukes the fridge? It’s Critical Distance‘s…
I have taken a break from stuffing my face with Easter eggs to bring you this month’s Blogs of the Round Table roundup. Actually, that’s not true: I have a white chocolate Lindor hanging out of my mouth by the wrapper. Rather…
It happens sometimes. With Mattie Brice, Katie Williams and yours truly all tied up at the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco, and with Eric Swain busy working on those podcasts, things just fall through the cracks. In honor of Critical Distance’s…
I thought glasses only clinked in movies, but nothing made people get closer than $3 Sangrias and a mural of a woman lying across a pool table. Yes, it is the eve of the Game Developers Conference, or as the game industry calls it,…