"Where is all the good writing about games?"
Once upon a time, in the magical land of Equestria… it’s This Week in Videogame Blogging! We start off with Brad Gallaway, who responds to recent opinion pieces (like those by John Walker) about working for free as a game journalist. Not…
Out with the old, in with the new. As we settle into 2012, the ludodecahedron keeps on a-turnin’. It’s time for This Week in Videogame Blogging! First up, a brief announcement: the folks over at Digital Love Child have put out a…
Welcome to the first This Week in Videogame Blogging of 2012! It’s been a long time since TWIVGB first came on the scene; I confess, I rather miss the tapestry pictures that graced the earliest episodes. This week’s host is David Carlton:…
Happy Saturnalia, gamers young and old! As you know, today is the day we celebrate the Sega Saturn, a game console too divine for mortal hands. On Saturnalia it is traditional to gather around the Sega fire pits in town squares all…
Ahh, Sunday. I have crossed oceans of work shifts to reach you. It’s time for This Week in Videogame Blogging! The big newsworthy moment of the week deserves some equally worthy coverage. The Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) has raised some legitimate…
It’s cold outside, but baby, it’s warm in here. It’s time for This Week in Videogame Blogging! Before we begin this week, please read our new Terms of Service agreement. Feel free to come back once you’ve signed. (What do you mean…
The internet… the final frontier. These are the roundups of This Week in Videogame Blogging. Its continuing mission: to explore strange new blogs; to seek out new writers and new forms of content. To boldly game where no one has gamed before!…
Never fear! This Week in Videogame Blogging is here! Let’s kick off this Sunday with a quick jaunt back to a piece we unfortunately overlooked from October, where SpecsandHeadphones turns those specs on the characterization of several women characters in videogames–that is,…
Do you believe in life after Ben Abraham? I hope you do, because it’s time for This Week in Videogame Blogging! As Ben wrote earlier in the week, I have taken on his role as the new senior editor of TWIVGB. Let’s…
Hello dearly devoted readers! I’ve taken the almost unprecedented step of posting a non-TWIVGB post to let you know about some changes that are happening here at Critical Distance. There’s one main thing to appraise you of, and that is that I…