July 3rd
This has been a big week for gaming in the U.S., with the Supreme Court ruling 7-2 to strike down the California law censoring the sale of violent video games to minors. You can read the opinions here. Michael “Brainy Gamer” Abbott…
June 5th
Seems everyone’s sick but me, so I will be taking control of Critical Distance this weekend to bring you TWIVGB. MWUHAHAHAHAHAHA. Kirk Hamilton has been on fire recently. We don’t often link to reviews, but Kirk’s piece on L.A. Noire at Kill…
Episode 8 – A Very GDC Podcast
So a podcast that was recorded in April about a conference in March, is finally released in May. Here we have our two part GDC podcast. We asked developers, journalists, academics and critics to join us in multiple round tables to discuss…
March 6th
GDC is over and Ben is recovering from a hangover [Oh god I have no sense of balance – Ed.] so I’m picking this up for one more week. This is my actual one-year anniversary for starting to write TWIVGB. Since Dragon Age…
February 27th
Last year I took over the reins of TWIVGB when Ben went gallivanting off to GDC; now a year later (holy shit it’s been a year), I’m doing the same. So here’s This Week in Videogame Blogging. Before leaving us Ben Abraham…
Episode 7 – A Post-Comment World
It’s time for another episode of the Critical Distance Confab. Before we get into it, a little background information. Right around the last podcast a debate sprung up over Ben’s refusal to allow comments on his personal blog, finding them not worth…
This Year In Video Game Blogging 2010
2010 has been one hell of a productive year for game criticism and writing. In our first full year of the TWIVGB feature, Ian and Eric decided to look through them all and cull from the 995 links the greatest written, most…
Episode 6 – 2010 in Review
And so comes to pass the resurrection of the Critical Distance Confab podcast. We’ve been away for almost a year and a half. We decided to return in a big way. We gathered our panelists to review the year 2010: the biggest…
December 12th
Another week, another This Week In Video Game Blogging, done by yours truly, the master of the shotgun style of aggregation. We begin at Popmatters Moving Pixel’s blog where early in the week Kris Ligman finishes the sites set of posts focusing…
November 14th
It’s that time of the week where we bring you the best of everything we could find from around the blogosphere. This is TWIGB. Gunthera1 on The Border House blog applauds Activision’s Call of Duty: Black Ops commercial for its diversity [mirror]…