"Where is all the good writing about games?"
Hello, my friends! I have missed you! With my PhD qualifying exams nearly over, I am clearing out my mental cobwebs and attempting to rejoin pleasant society. I want to take this moment to thank the entire Critical-Distance team for their support while I…
Hello my friends, another month has flown by, can you believe it? We’ve had an almost full month of rain here in Texas, which means there’s been every opportunity to hide away inside watching Let’s Plays. Thank you LPers for getting me…
Hello Friends! As it’s May 4th, I’ll go ahead and do the obligatory “May the fourth be with you” salute. Of course, if you prefer the dark side, you can wait till tomorrow when it’s Revenge of the Fifth. Ok, now that’s…
Hello hello, my friends! Didn’t I just post the February Let’s Plays? How is already April? I guess time flies when you’ve got your head down watching content. Speaking of, you are in for some good content here on this March edition…
I want to make this clear from the get-go: there are no April Fool’s jokes to be found here. Just 100% undiluted Blogs of the Round Table. This month, we were discussing “Extended Play” “Have you ever been so immersed or so…
Welcome one and all to This Month in Let’s Plays! Let’s see what February had in store for us. Proteus, Rougelikes, and Design Trends: Oh My! In February, both Brendan Keogh and Amy Dentata discuss Proteus. While both Keogh and Dentata analyze…
Hello, friends! March is here, and I, for one, hope Spring just gets on with it, already. While winter gives us the opportunity to hunker down, curl up, and stay under the covers just a little longer, this particular winter has also…
We announced our new venture into Let’s Play curation only 11 days ago, and in that time you submitted some excellent examples of Let’s Plays. I’ve spent a lot of time in the last 11 days watching Let’s Plays, and I’ve gotten…
I think we can all agree that yesterday was a big day. Here at Critical-Distance, we had an amazing new guest curator (Jill Murray!) to present This Week in Video Game Blogging, and there was also a big thing with lots of…
Friends, we are excited to announce that Critical-Distance is branching out into new curation territory: Let’s Plays. For some time now, we’ve included Let’s Plays that engage critically with game content in our This Week in Videogame Blogging feature. As Let’s Plays…