"Where is all the good writing about games?"
Going through the archives of the past year, if I had to boil all this writing down into a single word, it would be “resist.” As far back as day one of this year I found lots of emotive and thought-provoking work in…
We’ve made it to the end of 2015. Another year has set itself into the history books. We have gone through the archives of the past year in out endeavor to put forth a creative snapshot, our thesis, if you will, of…
So comes to a close the year 2014. It is a time for reflection and consideration. We at Critical Distance have gone back over the last year and put together a compilation of what we feel best represents what has passed year….
Here we are at the end of 2013, on the cusp of a new year, we at Critical Distance look back at all of the great criticism of the year. We trudged through the 1265 links we featured in the 2013 entries…
As part of our ongoing efforts to enrich and diversify the curation of critical games writing, Critical Distance is proud to present this new Spotlight feature bringing together a selection of top-tier level design analyses by guest contributor Hamish Todd. Level designers…
As 2012 comes to a close and we look forward to 2013, we at Critical Distance look back at all the great writing from this year. We dug deep through the 1080 links from all the 2012 entries of TWIVGB, narrowing it…
Welcome to 2012! Here at Critical Distance, your regularly scheduled This Week In Video Game Blogging is taking a break to make way for our year-end retrospective. The editorial crew has been hard at work culling through the year’s 937 links plus…
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…
Compiling a tribute compilation of the past ten years of Penny Arcade is not an exact science. My first impulse was to organize everything by chronological order, but because so many of the comics are topical that format rapidly falls apart. How…
Like the Hollywood of Who Framed Roger Rabbit, the PixelVixen707 blog is a place where the fictional and real co-exist. Rachael Webster is a native of the Domestic City; she is a character who might have once been the teenage indie-game-hipster Emily’s…