"Where is all the good writing about games?"
How do people involved in interactive media interact with each other? What kind of social structures are we designing when we design games? This is a topic of interest to sociologists, community managers, and anyone with a stake in multiplayer gaming.
Welcome back, readers. Hope you’re taking care of yourselves as best as you can. Before we begin, check out this list of national and local bail funds supporting anti-racial-injustice protesters across the US. Yes this is still really important! This Week in…
Welcome back, readers. Some news from around the site. First off, we’ve opened a new call for Critical Compilations! As an alleged academic, I have long appreciated these features as invaluable research resources, so if you’re interested in pitching one on a…
Welcome back, readers. Uppercut is cool. That is all. Some updates from around the site: Connor’s latest TMIVGV is live! Please keep sending cool games-related video content his way via the hashtag #TMIVGV. Also, if you missed it last week, the first…
Happy International Women’s Day, readers. Oh, and welcome back. 🙂 Some news on the docket: this Wednesday (March 11) we’ll be announcing our 2019 Blogger of the Year–the writer we feel has made the most important contribution to critical games writing over…
Welcome back, readers. There’s a lot going on this week! I should have come to expect that by now, given how the big releases tend to pick up around this time of year, but it’s hard to keep track of it all….
Welcome back, readers. As far as topical stuff goes, well, the Blizzard mess keeps trundling along, and I have no doubt that words on this matter will feature in future roundups. Not just yet though–the story still presents a moving target and…
Welcome back readers. If you’re even casually interested in reading a weekly collection of critical discourse on games, there’s a non-trivial chance that you’re also aware by now that Blizzard did something notable this week not in thinking of its bottom line…
Welcome back, readers. Hey! Just in case you missed it, a few days ago we published a killer Critical Compilation on Kentucky Route Zero by Nicholas O’Brien. Check it out! I’m now simultaneously exploring Koholint, Azeroth, and Erdrea. I’ve never stopped to…
Welcome back, readers. Despite presently being shipwrecked on Koholint Island and simultaneously stranded in Azeroth I had the pleasure of reading a bunch of cool games crit this week. Also, apropros of absolutely nothing specific happening in games news this week, have…
Welcome back, readers. I find I’ve been short on words the last couple of weeks. Maybe it’s end-of-summer blues, maybe it’s just the usual ebb and flow of my energy as a grad student who wears too many hats. But there’s still…