"Where is all the good writing about games?"
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.
Welcome back readers. We’re on Wizard Time (Critical Distance is never late, etc., etc.) this week, but thanks for waiting! This Week in Videogame Blogging is a roundup highlighting the most important critical writing on games from the past seven days. The…
Welcome back readers. No major news from around the site today, though I have realized it may be a good idea to occasionally bump our own Patreon up top here, as opposed to just quietly linking it at the bottom every week….
Welcome back readers. Abortion should be safe, legal, and accessible everywhere, no reasons, no qualifiers. That’s it! Anyways. This Week in Videogame Blogging is a roundup highlighting the most important critical writing on games from the past seven days. Yeah We’re Still…
Welcome back, readers. This week’s around-the-site announcement is that the new Keywords is live! This episode’s guests are Regina Seiwald and Ed Vollans, speaking on the topic of paratexts. This Week in Videogame Blogging is a roundup highlighting the most important critical…
Welcome back, readers. First things first, thank you this week to everyone who circulated our Patreon Update or became a backer! We’ve seen a boost in support that has helped pull us out of immediate peril, and we’re incredibly grateful for that….
Welcome back, readers. It’s taken me until the wee hours of the morning local time to do so, but we’re here with the latest crit, and we’re calling it Sunday gods darn it! Around the site, Connor’s latest TMIVGV is live and…
Welcome back, readers. Some great writing this week–worth, as always, fending off the ever-encroaching brain fog to read, collate, and present. Hope it helps you start your week off with the ol’ neurons firing away in a. . . good way? (Note…
Welcome back, readers. I’m tired. There’s a point to that remark. Which is to say: I don’t know how these writers do it, week-to-week, article-to-article. Seriously! Even so, I’m grateful for it, because it keeps our own work fulfilling, no matter how…
Welcome back, readers. You’ll never believe what happened to me today, reader, for this issue to be going out so late in the evening. Well. . . actually, you would believe it. It’s all entirely believable, and not entirely interesting. Long story…
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…