"Where is all the good writing about games?"
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…
Once again, it’s time to check in on the finances for Critical Distance. Last year, I said the finances were on the brink of stability. We never actually achieved that stability: we are unlikely to survive another year without some negative…
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…
I last gave an update on Critical Distance’s finances at the beginning of 2024. Now that it’s a new year, it seems like a good time to check in again. We are just on the brink of financial stability. Some months we…
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…
Howdy folks! We were recently (see: in the last day or so) very tickled by the debut of Phil Salvador’s new fansite Final Fantasy VIII is the Best And If You Don’t Agree I Will Destroy You. It’s a project that hearkens…
I’m here to provide a look at the financial side of Critical Distance. In 2022 we needed to run an emergency GoFundMe to fix our tax status, and that’s not a place I want us to be again. After fixing our tax…
Hello! This is a post to announce that Critical Distance is already compiling its annual This Year in Videogame Blogging roundup! We’ve decided, due to the shaky and fractured social media landscape we now inhabit, to push our usual call for submissions…
What would happen if you analysed games beginning with the question, ‘what is the first choice that the player makes?’ In First Foot Forward February, we’re collecting critical perspectives on games that focus on the earliest moment of player agency. In some…
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…