"Where is all the good writing about games?"
Sunday’s are for being at the snow – yes, it’s winter here and I’m at the snow. Thankfully, I’ve had the foresight to prepare this week’s instalment in advance. It’s almost like I’m speaking to you through time. Speaking of time, I’m not sure…
According to my working document naming convention this is the 70th TWIVGB I’ve assembled. That’s somewhat mind boggling, and so is the number of posts this week! Greg J. Smith at Serial Consign usually blogs about architecture, and occasionally, we are blessed…
It’s my own fault. Last week I suggested a summer lethargy may have overtaken the games blogosphere, so naturally this week we’re swamped with cogent posts about all manner of games. First is Dan Bruno at Cruise Elroy who has been playing…
A short post this week as a whimsy seems to have overtaken the blogosphere like a blanket. I’d blame the giant come-down period that is post-E3, if I had to guess. Michael Abbott at The Brainy Gamer argues that Final Fantasy XIII…
Coming to you slightly behind schedule this week thanks to a certain winter-time festival in my home town, It’s This Week in Videogame Blogging with only the best writing about videogames the internet had to offer this week. The first piece from…
Before we get into the meat of this week’s post, a big hello to our favourite Kotaku intern, Lauren, who we know is a huge fan. Hi Lauren! Denis Farr at the Vorpal Bunny Ranch wrote this week about an experience he…
Jim Rossignol began this week with a bang, asking at Rock Paper Shotgun “Where are the road games?” . You could ask this of just about any well defined film genre, but road films do seem particularly adaptable to games – as he…
First up, a quick pair of posts from the tail end of the week-before-last: Remember the new series from the LittleBoBeep blog “How Board Games Explain Everything”? Well between writing last week’s post and its publication the author Julian followed up with…
This week was the twentieth week of the year, and what pray tell has the critical videogame blogosophere been talking about? At the Ada Play blog Emily Bembenck writes about ‘social games and the pastoral’ which is an interesting aspect present in…
Another week, another fresh crop of some of the best videogame blogging the web has to offer. Game Locker on YouTube brings a new instalment of his ‘Games Worth Remembering’ series, finishing up the two-part analysis of Ico and Shadow of the…