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September 24th

…Senua’s Sacrifice gets wrong about mental illness – Polygon (Content warning: mental illness) Dia Lacina takes issue with Hellblade’s portrayal of mental illness as a personal hero’s journey, rather than a state of being that is tightly entangled with social context.

“A person’s mental illness is inextricable from their social context. […] The closest we get to seeing Senua exist with other people is in flashbacks to conversations with Dillion or the trauma of her father’s extensive abuse. She never has to go to the store for milk.”

Less crystallized

These two pieces look

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Stephanie Harkin | Keywords in Play, Episode 29

…but mostly fictional, thinking about their own girlhood. They’re personal, they’re a little bit more intimate in that sense. One of them is free as well, so these aren’t commercial games necessarily. But it’s shifting between representation to self-representation, from both the developers’ perspectives, thematically the two girls in this final chapter are cultural producers expressing themselves through their desktop and their online websites. And then the player too can also contribute and part of the actu*]}*al gameplay is creating those websites or writing fanfictions or dressing up dolls. So, the creators – sorry the players, can also play around…

September 11th

…Makes: Some Thoughts on the Dogs of Fallout 4 and Fallout: New Vegas | for starters… Chris Waldron considers different ways of relating to virtu*]}*al pets in the Fallout universe.

Single Motherhood and Monstrosity: Some Final Thoughts on The Park and the Implications for Motherhood in Video Games – Not Your Mama’s Gamer Bianca Batti argues that the pains of motherhood undergird the fears of affection gone awry.

“… recent iterations of horror have the potential to explore motherhood in more complex ways, ways that do not necessarily perpetuate mother-blaming and mother-shaming. Such potential, though, seems

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June 25th

…Robert Yang presents an illuminating reading list and personal evaluation on cultural scamming, translation, and exchange.

“If I had to sum up all this conversation, I’d say it feels like talking about cultural appropriation is ultimately a bit of a trap, but at the same time, it is necessary for us to fall into it. The alternative is to fall into a much worse trap, full of unchallenged racism and ignored pain and hot molten lava. Compared to that trap, this one isn’t so bad, right? And then when we eventually figure out how to crawl out…

October 30th

…Theme and Imagery, and suddenly you’re crossing the Trump wall over the U.S.-Mexico border, or playing as the actu*]}*al missile that kills Iranian general Qasem Soleimani. But then there’s a reversal or a refraction, where everything you think you just experienced that may have been meaningful or thematic or pertaining to any kind of real-world image gets transfigured and undermined. It’s kind of genius.”

Space and Place

Next up, game worlds are unpacked along artistic and navigational axes.

Gotham Knights didn’t just kill Batman — it also killed Gotham | Polygon Tauriq Moosa proposes that

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Esther Wright | Keywords in Play, Episode 18

…studying different kinds of paratextu*]}*al material is so important to the way that we understand, and in the way that we think about historical digital games and the kinds of arguments that they are making about the past. So, I did that really through looking at different kinds of official communication. So, a range of different paratextu*]}*al promotional materials that were created and published by Rockstar and communicated then through their official channels. So, through the sort of official Rockstar website, and the kind of Newswire, somewhat sort of almost bulletin board, I guess, section of the, the Rockstar website,…

September 4th

…interesting that game reviewers tend to be modest about their own abilities. They might claim to know a lot about games. They are confident that they can write about games better than the average player. But, when it comes to skillz, it seems to me that most critics are happy to accept their limitations.”

Johannes Koski, blogging for Persona Matters, takes a look at the difference between ‘The Leading Man‘ and what he terms ‘The Second Man’, looking especially at the kinship between Final Fantasy XII‘s protagonist Vaan and secondary character Balthier:

All along while playing Final

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September 11th

…(some would say defunct) schools of game studies referred to in the blog’s name:

To approach videogames solely through the lenses evolved for the criticism of preceding narrative media is to embrace their evolution into content-delivery systems glossed with meaningless interactivity. Yet, to insist that all criticism focus on the cold whirr-click of code and mechanics is to accept — even encourage — the final triumph of commoditization and cultural irrelevance. Neither approach fully appreciates the medium’s unique capacity for creating meaningful individual and group experiences. The comforting warmth of a preferred orthodoxy is, perhaps, sufficient salve for

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February 10th

Sorry, what’s that? It’s time for This Week in Videogame Blogging already? You mean, only the best and most interesting games criticism, analysis and commentary on the web? Well all right then– let’s get started.

AROUND THE WORLD

We start rather unassumingly at Kotaku, where guest contributor Hussein M. Ibrahim, one of the writers behind At7addak.com, criticizes Western games’ depictions of Arabs in shooters: “A lot of shooters aim for realism using current real world conflicts or inspirations. Medal of Honor and its cooperation with actu*]}*al navy seal soldiers comes to mind. That’s fine, but a lot

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February 17th

The sun over the Critical Distance virtu*]}*al offices was blotted by clouds and naked branches scratched at the windows. I was alone in the room, listening to the howling wind that matched my intentions, full access to the site at my fingertips. When Kris Ligman is away, Mattie Brice gets to play. LiveJournal open, it’s time for This Week in Videogame Blogging.

05:28 PM February 8th, 2013

It’s the first day of the Mattie take-over, and I’m not quite sure what my first move should be to dethrone the powers that be and make Critical Distance mine.

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