"Where is all the good writing about games?"
For our last theme, “What’s the Story?”, we ran a little competition. Kris and I have read the BoRT submissions and made our decision, but until the end of this blog post… here’s a roundup you might be tempted to scroll straight…
Happy BoRTday to you, Happy BoRTday to you, Happy Birthday Blogs of the Round Table, Happy BoRTday to you! On the 28th of August last year we relaunched Blogs of the Round Table. Since then, we’ve had 76 articles submitted – believe…
Sorry this month’s Blogs of the Round Table is running a little late. Don’t worry though, I was pardoned by the official @critdistance Twitter account – and it wasn’t even me tweeting from it this time. The accidental Shenmue jokes are always…
July’s Blogs of the Round Table topic was the somewhat-experimental ‘Blogception’: your goal was to blog about blogging, but we also wanted to start up a conversation between writers rather than just a big blog dump. We succeeded! We had some excellent…
May-June’s topic for Blogs of the Round Table was ‘One With Nature’: "Where videogames once had ‘levels’ like jungles, an ice world, lava world etc. their environments increasingly resemble real-life: players can now explore whole islands or peninsulas and even make their…
Before we get onto July’s topic for Blogs of the Round Table, this seemed a good time to look at the format for BoRT and see if we could run things better. I’ve been in charge of this now for… almost a…
There’s a slight change to the format for Blogs of the Round Table: this month, we’ll be extending the submission process over May and June as I’ll be on holiday in June. Somewhat appropriately since I’ll be sunning it up in the…
Every month, I read the old BoRT roundup before I write the new one – partly to use the same template, partly so I don’t use the same jokes. Last month I wrote about Easter eggs, but I am still eating those…
It’s April! Many videogame fans are on a post-PAX or GDC comedown: I’m recovering from watching the entire Indiana Jones saga over the Easter weekend. Will this be the month when Blogs of the Round Table nukes the fridge? It’s Critical Distance‘s…
I have taken a break from stuffing my face with Easter eggs to bring you this month’s Blogs of the Round Table roundup. Actually, that’s not true: I have a white chocolate Lindor hanging out of my mouth by the wrapper. Rather…