This Month in Videogame Vlogging

April 2021

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Welcome back, readers. April was a relatively quiet month for critical videos, which was frankly relieving after the madness of March. Still, there’s a lot here that I’m pleased to share with you. My boundless thanks, as always, for your many submissions…

March 2021

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Welcome back, readers. I hope this finds you well. Here’s a grouping of resources for supporting protests against racist police violence. Happy twelfth birthday to Critical Distance for earlier this month. March brought us more excellent and creative videos, many of them…

February 2021

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Welcome again, readers. On this edge of the world we’re entering the last warm days before torpor. My houseplant collection seems to be growing at an alarming rate, beyond my input or intention. Also, there were many fine video essays to watch…

January 2021

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Welcome back, readers. I hope this roundup finds you well, wherever you are. This Month In Videogame Vlogging is a roundup featuring the best videogame criticism to be made using a video format from the previous calendar month.   Plague Time To…

February 7th

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Welcome back, readers. To begin, I’d like to bring your attention once more this week to this call for submissions to a collected volume and archive of Black creators working in, on, and around games. This call runs until mid-March! Over at…

December 2020

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Hello again, Readers. Well, here it is, the twelfth and final TMIVGV for 2020. This December was typically light in terms of concentrated critical content, given all the end of year retrospectives that had to be made, holidays taken etc – but…

November 2020

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Welcome again, readers. It is my last video column for the year, already, somehow – though of course not my last column about the year. This one’s going up a little early because I’m taking a holiday from tomorrow, unless something else…

October 2020

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Welcome back, readers. Are we all still here? *Exhales* Okay, good. Between the annually mandated pivot-to-horror and a lot of people otherwise having something just dang interesting to say, October’s been a bountiful month for essays about videogames on youtube. I watched…

September 2020

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Welcome back, readers. My apologies about the lateness of September’s gaming youtube directory. I had it basically ready two weeks back, at the ‘normal time’, but then formatting and posting it became, for some reason or another – like everything else in…

August 2020

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Welcome back, readers. I hope you’re all safe and well, or as safe and well as possible between all the pandemic, wildfires, hurricanes and ongoing police violence. Today I am trying to find the light at the end of the tunnel of…