"Where is all the good writing about games?"
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;…
Welcome back readers. Note to self: plug the Patreon! Ah, well met, fair traveller! Have you checked our fine Patreon? Every little bit helps! This Week in Videogame Blogging is a roundup highlighting the most important critical writing on games from the…
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 readers. It’s been a minute since I plugged the Patreon, so if you like the stuff we do here, that’s the best way to help us keep doing it! This Week in Videogame Blogging is a roundup highlighting the most…
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…
Welcome back, viewers. With this month’s video haul I aimed to put together a much smaller list for y’all, in part because last month’s roundup was so beefy and many of the selections were quite long, but also because watching tens of…
Welcome back, viewers. Thank you all for checking out the first two videogame video essay roundups! The response was quite nice and we got a little landslide of recommendations based on it. Also, it’s nice to be out of backlogs! We’re more…
Hello viewers, I wanted to get into an appropriate groove with this feature, so we’re doing this thing just a couple weeks after the last entry. From here on out, you can expect to see a post at roughly the start of…
The coolest part about games, in my opinion, is how entangled they are in the world. What I mean by this is, I hope, fairly simple: games provide us with springboards and points of departure to talk about other forms of media,…