This Week in Videogame Blogging

November 11th

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Welcome to Armistice Day. Or Remembrance Day, or Veterans’ Day, you may take your pick. Whichever suits you best, it’s time for This Week in Videogame Blogging. So let’s get right into it. Medal of Honor and the War Game Writing in…

November 4th

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I am Cameron Kunzelman. I don’t have any gimmick. I just have links to things that were written this week. Let me tell you, as an occasional person who does this, that curating this is a special kind of hell.  Imagine a…

October 28th

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Ahh, the most wonderful time of the year! Fall and/or spring is in the air, children are about to go door-to-door accosting their neighbors for sugary hand-outs, and the denizens of Twitter are trying to out-camp one another with (candy-)corny themed username…

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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…