This Week in Videogame Blogging

November 20th

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Welcome back readers. With so much of social media in flux at the moment–if it’s not sites in danger of crashing entirely it’s gruelling rounds of layoffs–this feels like a timely moment to highlight that Critical Distance maintains its own community Discord…

November 13th

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Welcome back readers. Before we dig into this week’s issue, Friends-of-the-Site No Escape are doing a fundraiser to finance new projects and expansions for 2023. The plural subject isn’t rhetoriacal: they’re expanding the crew! Anyways, while the grim focus is on tech…

November 6th

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Welcome back readers. Halloween the calendar holiday may nominally be over for the year, but like any enthusiastic spooky month reveller keen to get their money’s worth out of all the costume pieces they gleaned from the Value Village racks, we see…

October 30th

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Welcome back readers. I promise you that I did not pull a Bilbo Baggins this week by deliberately making sure there were precisely 13 selections for our closest issue to Halloween; it really just did happen that way by chance. But now…

October 23rd

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Welcome back readers. This week I’m going to take a moment to plug friends-of-the-site Unwinnable, who are currently running their annual Halloween subscription drive. This is a great way to gain access to a wellspring of quality independent games, media, and culture…

October 16th

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Welcome back readers. We’re running a slightly shorter issue this week, with a conspicuous density of horror games represented in the selections. As it should be. This Week in Videogame Blogging is a roundup highlighting the most important critical writing on games…

October 9th

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Welcome back readers. Before we get into today’s textual business, can I interest anyone in some new TMIVGV? This Week in Videogame Blogging is a roundup highlighting the most important critical writing on games from the past seven days. Parser Tricks This…

October 2nd

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Welcome back readers. One bit of site news to catch up on before we dig in: Keywords is back! Get it while it’s hot. This Week in Videogame Blogging is a roundup highlighting the most important critical writing on games from the…

September 25th

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Welcome back readers. Thanks for coming out, as always! Stay a while, pull up a chair, and tuck in with twelve new selections. This Week in Videogame Blogging is a roundup highlighting the most important critical writing on games from the past…

September 18th

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Welcome back readers. There was less to read this week. And that really is, I want to stress, a loss for everyone. This Week in Videogame Blogging is a roundup highlighting the most important critical writing on games from the past seven…