October 7th
byAll of the party people are at Indiecade, so I am here to deliver some video game writing to you. My name is Cameron Kunzelman. I like video games. I like criticism. I like short, declarative sentences. I am not good at this….
October – ‘Fear and Loathing in Game Spaces’
bySeptember’s Blogs of the Round Table revival was a resounding success. Let’s do it all over again! I have a confession to make: the only thing I had written for this month’s BoRT before today was “Scary games. Discuss.” Although I could…
September Roundup
byI am delighted by the response to the BoRT revival. There were so many excellent submissions, and I hope you enjoyed writing them as much as I did reading them. If you caught our mid-September roundup, look after the horizontal line for…
September 30th
byWake me up when September ends… Oh! Wait, that’s today! Well then, it must be time for This Week in Videogame Blogging! We’re starting out the gate with a couple tales on the theme of growing up gaming, and I warn you…
September 23rd
byGreat. Who let the Ericbot out? Do you have any idea the kind of damage he does to the carpet? Ahem… Well, now that your TWIVGB overlord is again in the captain’s chair, let’s set off for parts unknown with the best…
September 16th
bySearching…searching…searching…file found. Accessing…now initiating TWIVGB #172. Begin. If you liked last week’s interview with our own Kris Ligman, L. Rhodes of Culture Ramp continues his series of interviews on the coming-of-age of video game journalism (also known as the Ludorenaissance) with Kill…
Mid-September Roundup
byOne hour. That’s how much time elapsed between the BoRT Returns post and the first submission. It took me two hours to write that introductory post! I’m getting too old for this. If you haven’t submitted an entry for BoRT yet, you’ve…
September 9th
byIt’s a quiet Sunday morning here at Critical Distance HQ. Ian is snoring on the couch. Ben is hooking up another espresso machine. Katie is having a bowl of muesli. And Eric is… probably off playing Driver: San Francisco again, if I…
September 2nd
byI made you an elaborate intro, but the cat ate it. So, let’s just get right into it. It’s This Week in Videogame Blogging! On Gamasutra, Douglas Lynn draws a line between the “game” and the “game experience,” citing the latter as…
Blogs of the Round Table Returns!
byHello Critically Distanced Fans, Blogs of the Round Table is back. “But wait!” I hear you cry. “You’re not Ben Abraham!” Despite many attempts to impersonate Ben over the years and frame him for various crimes, it is true: I am not….