June 13th

Welcome back readers. Thanks for your patience while I took an extra day with this week’s issue to make sure I was happy with it. A weird spectral echo of E3 is still going on this past week, and if you’ve been…

June 5th

Welcome back readers. I’d like to echo more than a few sites in my critical orbit by dropping a quick plug before we proceed for the Queer Games Bundle on Itch, which you have a whole month to pick up. If recent…

May 29th

Welcome back readers. We’ve got a compact and varied issue of the good stuff ready to go for you–please enjoy! This Week in Videogame Blogging is a roundup highlighting the most important critical writing on games from the past seven days. Critical…

May 22nd

Welcome back readers. We’ve got another smol issue lined up for you this week, as a treat, collecting work on queer masculinities, ruins, platforms, art trends, and more. This Week in Videogame Blogging is a roundup highlighting the most important critical writing…

May 15th

Welcome back readers. We’re running a shorter issue this week, so I’m switching up our usual format again to take a more leisurely stroll through this week’s selections. This Week in Videogame Blogging is a roundup highlighting the most important critical writing…

May 8th

Welcome back readers, and happy Mother’s Day. . . .Look, if we’re being honest it’s been a pretty fucked up week for a lot of moms, or really anybody who likes having human rights but isn’t a white moneyed republican. Kaile reblogged…

May 1st

Welcome back, readers, and happy International Workers’ Day as well. I have no major site updates this week, so I’ll keep the preamble short and hope you enjoy this week’s thirteen cool-and-interesting selections! This Week in Videogame Blogging is a roundup highlighting…

April 24th

Welcome back, readers. This week’s around-the-site announcement is that the new Keywords is live! This episode’s guests are Regina Seiwald and Ed Vollans, speaking on the topic of paratexts. This Week in Videogame Blogging is a roundup highlighting the most important critical…

April 17th

Welcome back, readers. First things first, thank you this week to everyone who circulated our Patreon Update or became a backer! We’ve seen a boost in support that has helped pull us out of immediate peril, and we’re incredibly grateful for that….

Critical Distance Patreon Update

Hello readers! First, and I don’t say this often enough, I’d like to thank everybody here–readers, supporters, folks who point us in the direction of articles, who hang out on our Discord–everyone, for sticking with us over the last 13 years and…