This Week in Videogame Blogging

January 12th

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Welcome back readers. First order of business today–I’m plugging the Patreon, and will be doing so more regularly going forward. We are a directly reader-supported operation. That support is what allows us to highlight cool and interesting games writing year-round, produce monthly…

January 5th

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Welcome back readers. I’ve been away for a couple of weeks! While I always take one week off around the holidays, this year I was persuaded (by myself) to extend that holiday to two weeks on account of catching COVID (Curator’s note:…

This Year in Videogame Blogging: 2024

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Welcome back to Critical Distance‘s annual roundup of great videogame blogging! We’ve taken one more trip around the Sun in our ongoing mission to highlight and archive some of the best, most thought-provoking and poignant writing about games, whether that writing comes from…

December 15th

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Welcome back readers. We’re coming up on the submission deadline (December 22) to get your picks in for our end-of-year review! If you haven’t already done so, check out the announcement post for details, and if you’d like, join our Discord and submit…

December 8th

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Welcome back readers. We’ve got a shorter issue for you this week, with nine picks from (mostly) the past week. If you’re looking forward to a very, very long issue, the submission window for our end-of-year review is currently open. See the…

December 1st

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Welcome back readers. Some announcements before we get started this week! First things first, we’ve opened our submission window for our year-in-review. Check this announcement post for details, and if you’d like, join our Discord–it’s the most direct way to put your…

November 24th

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Welcome back readers. Follow us on Bluesky. This Week in Videogame Blogging is a roundup highlighting the most important critical writing on games from the past seven days. Stalking Ruins This week we’re opening with a spread of selections that span digital…

November 17th

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Welcome back readers. As promised, after a week to take stock, we’re back at it. To close the gap, this week’s issue is correspondingly embiggened, but even this must be considered an abridged list. Let’s get to it. This Week in Videogame…

November 10th

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Welcome back readers. This week we’re taking a one-week break from our usual practice of highlighting the most important critical writing on games from the past seven days. The writing will still be there when we come back to it. Instead, we’ve…

November 3rd

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Welcome back readers. Kaile beat me to the punch this afternoon with our monthly Patreon-exclusive newsletter. If you like what we do and can spare a fiver, you should subscribe! This Week in Videogame Blogging is a roundup highlighting the most important…