This Week in Videogame Blogging

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October 21st

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WHO: You WHAT: Reading This Week in Videogame Blogging WHERE: At your computer, presumably WHEN: Right now! WHY: [OUTSIDE SYSTEM PARAMETERS] DISHONORED Joel Goodwin kicks off the week and this ginormous list by addressing Dishonored and the paradox of choice. Rab Florence…

October 14th

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I’m back from IndieCade! Let’s see what you all left me. It’s time once more for This Week in Videogame Blogging! First, some much-needed signal-boosting. I had the distinct pleasure of having dinner last Sunday with a certain Jim Munroe, writer of…

October 7th

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All of the party people are at Indiecade, so I am here to deliver some video game writing to you. My name is Cameron Kunzelman. I like video games. I like criticism. I like short, declarative sentences. I am not good at this….

September 30th

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Wake me up when September ends… Oh! Wait, that’s today! Well then, it must be time for This Week in Videogame Blogging! We’re starting out the gate with a couple tales on the theme of growing up gaming, and I warn you…

September 23rd

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Great. Who let the Ericbot out? Do you have any idea the kind of damage he does to the carpet? Ahem… Well, now that your TWIVGB overlord is again in the captain’s chair, let’s set off for parts unknown with the best…

September 16th

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Searching…searching…searching…file found. Accessing…now initiating TWIVGB #172. Begin. If you liked last week’s interview with our own Kris Ligman, L. Rhodes of Culture Ramp continues his series of interviews on the coming-of-age of video game journalism (also known as the Ludorenaissance) with Kill…

September 9th

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It’s a quiet Sunday morning here at Critical Distance HQ. Ian is snoring on the couch. Ben is hooking up another espresso machine. Katie is having a bowl of muesli. And Eric is… probably off playing Driver: San Francisco again, if I…

September 2nd

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I made you an elaborate intro, but the cat ate it. So, let’s just get right into it. It’s This Week in Videogame Blogging! On Gamasutra, Douglas Lynn draws a line between the “game” and the “game experience,” citing the latter as…

August 26th

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Just the facts today, ma’am. It’s time for This Week in Videogame Blogging. Let’s start at the scene of the crime– war crimes, that is, where Ken Hannahs muses at Gameranx about the ludonarrative dissonance of modern “counter-terrorism” games actually performing the…

August 19th

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Welcome back. Kris is on break this weekend so I’m here to fill your TWIVGB needs in the meantime. The Extra Credits crew finishes up a two-parter talking about mechanics as metaphor using the flash game Loneliness to weld to discussion together….