September 2020

Welcome back, readers. My apologies about the lateness of September’s gaming youtube directory. I had it basically ready two weeks back, at the ‘normal time’, but then formatting and posting it became, for some reason or another – like everything else in…

August 2020

Welcome back, readers. I hope you’re all safe and well, or as safe and well as possible between all the pandemic, wildfires, hurricanes and ongoing police violence. Today I am trying to find the light at the end of the tunnel of…

July 2020

Hello, Readers. It’s late August 2020, by which I obviously mean it’s time to think about videos from July 2020. Here’s where you can support protesters against police violence in North America. These columns seem to be getting larger every month, thanks…

June 2020

Hello again, readers. It’s another month. Thank you for all your submissions, which continue to make my job easier and this column, better. Once more I am at a loss as to how to summarise, respond to or otherwise introduce TMIVGV against…

May 2020

Hey there, readers. I’ve mentioned this before, but perhaps it bears repeating now: the longer production cycles of video essays tends to put them a bit outside *the moment* of discourse, a factor that has certain advantages and disadvantages, but one which,…

April 2020

Oh hello, readers! Thank you for your patience with this one – April blessed us with just so many videos to sift through. Thank you, also, for your recommendations and submissions. If you have a recommendation for a video you’d like us…

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March 2020

Hello again, readers. It’s true that there is much to be concerned about, wherever you are in the world. For my part, if you’d asked me a couple of months back about how I thought this year would progress, one thing I…

February 2020

Welcome back, readers. It seemed at some point – I don’t know when, several decades ago, when last month was taking place – that February’s TMIVGV would be a brief one. But then in the last two or three days of February…

January 2020

Hey there, readers. We’ve had a whole month of 2020, and I am here to tell you that, indeed, people are still making interesting videos about videogames. In this aspect, at least, there is no cataclysm; this decade has begun much as…

December 2019

Hey there, readers. Or should that be viewers? Viewers who read? Readers who view? Let us shelve this line of inquiry for now. It’s a new year and we’re all caught up, ready for this column to click into gear. Speaking of…