June 4th
byWelcome back readers. This year’s edition of the Queer Games Bundle hosted on itch.io is live and runs through the duration of Pride Month, so let me open this week’s issue with a nice lil’ plug for that right here. Now, the…
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May 15th
byWelcome back readers. Thanks for bearing with me during my first ever “Zelda Mulligan” during my tenure here–first only, perhaps, because I joined Critical Distance the year after the last Zelda came out. While I can hardly say I’ve got a probably-two-hundred-hour…
February 12th
byWelcome back readers. This week our featured plug is for the Trans Witches Are Witches bundle on Itch organized by friend-of-the-site Nathalie. 69 independent games, stories, and artworks for 60 US dollars–the price of a AAA game, nice. That’s a lot of…
February 5th
byWelcome back readers. Last week I took some time at the top of the issue to plug our currently-in-progress First Foot Forward jam (which I am technically still plugging this week; you should totally submit). This week I’d like to draw your…
January 22nd
byWelcome back readers. There were a lot of layoffs this week in games and culture press, as well as the games and wider tech industries. “Support independent crit”, a drum we beat fairly regularly here, is pretty cold comfort when tens of…
December 18th
byWelcome back readers. We’ve got a few updates from around the site to go through. First, the latest Keywords is up, and this episode’s guest is Florenece Smith-Nicholls. Check it out! Next up, I just want to give a gentle heads-up that…
December 11th
byWelcome back readers. I want to thank the community once again for helping us reach our GoFundMe target so quickly. While we intend to keep the campaign up a little while longer, if you’re still looking to help us out, a more…
November 28th
byWelcome back readers. We have a bunch of announcements to pack in this week, so bear with me because there’s important and exciting stuff to discuss! Kotaku Interview with Ben Abraham First, Kotaku just published an interview with Critical Distance founder Ben…
November 20th
byWelcome back readers. With so much of social media in flux at the moment–if it’s not sites in danger of crashing entirely it’s gruelling rounds of layoffs–this feels like a timely moment to highlight that Critical Distance maintains its own community Discord…
November 13th
byWelcome back readers. Before we dig into this week’s issue, Friends-of-the-Site No Escape are doing a fundraiser to finance new projects and expansions for 2023. The plural subject isn’t rhetoriacal: they’re expanding the crew! Anyways, while the grim focus is on tech…