criticality

July 26th

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Welcome back readers. If you haven’t already seen it, we’re bringing back Blogs of the Round Table on a semi-recurring, topic-oriented basis. The first topic is Friendslop. Check out Kaile’s announcement post for details on when, where, and how to participate! As…

July 19th

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Welcome back readers. We’re announcing an *event* tomorrow. Stay tuned. Patreon support is what makes *events* possible. Please take a look. This Week in Videogame Blogging is a roundup highlighting the most important critical writing on games from the past seven days….

June 21st

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Welcome back readers. Lots of good stuff to share this week–21 reads in all. A critical blackjack? No, no, not my best work. To support our best work–compiling and organizing a living timeline of critical games writing every week–please consider our Patreon….

May 31st

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Welcome back readers. We’ve got lots of interesting stuff to dig into this week, so I’m going to limit this opening preamble to briefly plugging our Patreon, which helps us keep laying down this record of critical conversations in games. Ok? Let’s…

May 17th

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Welcome back readers. There have been some good discussions over the past week about encouraging more longform blogging as a curative to short-form and often-hostile posting-driven discourse. Allow us to offer a contribution to building up some of that much-needed institutional memory…