"Where is all the good writing about games?"
Welcome back, everyone! I am extremely pleased to present to you the entrants in the Blogs of the Round Table “Friendslop” Essay Jam—all twenty-four of them! This has been an incredible turnout for a jam that was really just meant to put out feelers…
Update: We’re extending the jam to August 31! Happy Monday, Readers (and Writers)! We’re practicing some necromancy today by bringing back a beloved and long-running feature to Critical Distance: the Blogs of the Round Table! Originally started by storyteller and game designer…
Welcome back, readers. This is a rather impromptu edition of the roundup. It’s not something any of us ever envisioned writing. Indeed, when games media has endured other layoffs and outlet closures we haven’t immediately rushed to memorialize them in this fashion…
Welcome back, readers. We have once again made it in our elliptical journey around the Sun. The Gregorian calendar changes tomorrow, bringing with it the promise of new beginnings and the allure of fresh possibilities. Anything is liable to happen in 2026;…
Another year has passed so quickly, and it’s already time to reflect on the work being done in games media. Over the last 48 weeks, our curators, with the help of the members of the Critical Distance Discord server, have read and…
Welcome back to Critical Distance‘s annual roundup of great videogame blogging! We’ve taken one more trip around the Sun in our ongoing mission to highlight and archive some of the best, most thought-provoking and poignant writing about games, whether that writing comes from…
Hello everyone, It’s December 1st, which means it’s time to start compiling Critical Distance’s annual This Year in Videogame Blogging roundup. Through the rest of this month, we’ll be looking out for the best examples of games criticism that came out in…
Welcome back, viewers. While the purpose of this roundup is to focus on good videos about games, the closure of storied videogame magazine Game Informer last week can’t go unremarked on. Game Informer was hugely influential, and until its ignominious death was…
Welcome back, viewers. There were a lot of videos to go through for this month’s roundup, but I still managed to pare them down to a manageable list: here we have 21 incredible video essays from across the discourse spectrum. I hope you…
Welcome back, viewers: I am a big Destiny 2 fan, and the game’s latest expansion, The Final Shape, is coming out on Tuesday. I know who I am, and I know what I’m like, so I knew I needed to get this roundup done…