"Where is all the good writing about games?"
Welcome again, readers. On this edge of the world we’re entering the last warm days before torpor. My houseplant collection seems to be growing at an alarming rate, beyond my input or intention. Also, there were many fine video essays to watch…
Oh hello, readers! Thank you for your patience with this one – April blessed us with just so many videos to sift through. Thank you, also, for your recommendations and submissions. If you have a recommendation for a video you’d like us…
Welcome back, readers. First things first: If you haven’t already seen Kris’ post on the site, it’s time for our end-of-year review, and we’re looking for your submissions and recommendations as we put everything together. Remember that both works that have and…
Welcome back, readers. This week there’s an emphasis on communities, and especially indie development communities and their relationship to larger-scale studio structures. I didn’t expect to be curating critical discourse on Half-Life: Alyx months before its release, but Trevor Hultner and Emily…
Welcome back, readers. I’m thinking this week, as ever, about The Discourse, and specifically how narratives coalesce around games at an ever-more-careening pace, often before they’re even out and available. It feels increasingly difficult, in the early stages at least, to shut…
Welcome back, readers. I try not to take up too much space myself in these roundups from week-to-week but this week we’ve got to talk. You ever see those tweets about how 2019 feels like it’s been roughly a million years long?…