August 27th
byWelcome back readers. I am fully in my Armored Core VI era this weekend. Kind of relieved that it’s broken the Diablo IV spell I’ve been under, honestly! I’ll be keeping an eye out in the weeks to come for the kind…
temporality
Between vintage games collections, retro aesthetics, and the increasing interest in games from the museum sector, the position of games in their own time is a topic close to many people’s hearts. Games themselves are a medium that plays with time, inheriting questions of pacing and anticipation from cinema.
August 20th
byWelcome back readers. Five days until Armored Core 6 but who’s counting? No news around the site to report this week, but my heart goes out to anybody crunching to get an AC review in by the embargo date. Or Starfield for…
July 30th
byWelcome back readers. Around the site, we have not one, not two, but three new episodes of Keywords on Play for you to catch up on, featuring guests Felania Liu, Stephanie Harkin, and Xavier Ho. Phew! On to the written stuff! This…
July 23rd
byWelcome back readers. Started a new job this week, putting a hard reset on my work/sleep schedule and bringing you this week’s issue a conspicuous number of hours early. Can I keep it up? Only time will tell! This Week in Videogame…
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…
May 28th
byWelcome back readers. We’ve got a little bit of everything this week, with the highlights spanning DOOM WADs, interviews, viral hits and sleeper hits. Let’s tuck in. This Week in Videogame Blogging is a roundup highlighting the most important critical writing on…
May 21st
byWelcome back readers. We’re firmly and decisively on-time this week, Zelda or no Zelda. Just don’t ask me about my email turnaround. This Week in Videogame Blogging is a roundup highlighting the most important critical writing on games from the past seven…
February 26th
byWelcome back readers. I’ll keep the preamble short this week, but we did receive one submission put together by the folks at Deep-Hell that I wasn’t quite willing to include on account of my having contributed to it in very small part….
February 19th
byWelcome back readers. This week I want to once again shout out the Trans Witches Are Witches bundle on Itch, which runs for another five days as of publication. Around the site, we also have Connor’s latest TMIVGV available, so check that…
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…