"Where is all the good writing about games?"
Welcome back, readers, and welcome to 2022. If you haven’t seen it already, Kris and Zoyander beat me to the punch this week with their outstandingly jam-packed and tenderly-articulated year-in-review. Dedicated readers may discover that one article from this week’s selections also…
Welcome back, readers. Connor’s back at it with another bursting TMIVGV. Give it a look if you haven’t already! Also from around the site, just a few days left to submit your recs to the annual This-Year-In-Videogame-Blogging end-of-year roundup! This Week in…
Welcome back, readers. Before we delve into this week’s textual selection of critical offerings, Connor has returned with this month’s audio-visual anthology for those who appreciate their crit served with a play button, and this month’s issue is a doozy, so be…
Welcome back, readers. New TMIVGV this week! Check out some of the goodest and coolest video crit to come out in the last while, courtesy of, as always, Connor. This Week in Videogame Blogging is a roundup highlighting the most important critical…
Welcome back, readers. If you read us regularly, you’re probably now familiar with reports of the legal proceedings filed against Activision Blizzard in response to a pervasive workplace culture of sexual abuse and harrassment. I don’t have anything new to add to…
Welcome back gaymers! Pride Month is a year-round affair here at Critical Distance–the same goes for Wrath Month–but all the same it feels timely in June to highlight some of the best damn queer-themed writing featured in our weekly roundups through the…
Welcome back, readers. So here’s a very cool thing that’s happening: a collected volume and archive of Black creators working in, on, and around games, with a call for submissions. Check it out! This Week in Videogame Blogging is a roundup highlighting…
Hello, Readers. It’s late August 2020, by which I obviously mean it’s time to think about videos from July 2020. Here’s where you can support protesters against police violence in North America. These columns seem to be getting larger every month, thanks…
Welcome back, readers. First things first, here’s a list of national and local bail funds supporting anti-racial-injustice protesters across the US. Local support is just as important as, if not more so than, national support! Around the site, we’ve got a new…
Welcome back, readers. First things first: our usual starting point. The media coverage of protests against anti-Black police brutality in America and elsewhere is diminishing, but the fascist effort to thwart them is intensifying. Around the site, we’ve got two new things…