May 24th
byWelcome back, readers. Hey! We’ve got a new TMIVGV, courtesy of Connor which you should check out! I happen to be mired in the depths of a very, very grindy game right now, so having some thoughtful games writing to listen to…
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.
May 10th
byWelcome back, readers. No news around the site this week off the top of my head, but I would like to expend a special thanks to our community members on our public discord, who have been submitting recommendations and helping us to…
April 12th
byWelcome back readers. Sorry if I’ve kept anyone in suspense with the late-ish post; my schedule is getting progressively weirder the longer I’m stuck inside. But I’m still here, still reading and still sharing the best games crit on the web each…
March 15th
byWelcome back readers. If you missed it earlier this week, we announced our Blogger of the Year for 2019, so check that out if you haven’t already! Meanwhile, there’s a good chance you’re spending more time indoors this week. It seems doomsday…
February 23rd
byWelcome back, readers. I speak sometimes of the overarching themes and narratives that pull together each week’s selections over and above the explicitly delineated categories I come up with here. This week that theme might be games of the 2000s, which by…
January 5th
byWelcome back, readers, and welcome to a new year and a new decade. Things feel a little bleak right now, I know, but let’s do what we can to make the best of things, shall we? (Update Jan 6 2020: I have…
December 15th
byWelcome back, readers. While things were a bit forward-looking last week, this time retrospectives are the name of the game, with many authors looking back on games, practices, and critiques of the past. Speaking of retrospectives, don’t forget that we are receiving…
December 1st
byWelcome back, readers. This week there’s an emphasis on communities, and especially indie development communities and their relationship to larger-scale studio structures. I didn’t expect to be curating critical discourse on Half-Life: Alyx months before its release, but Trevor Hultner and Emily…
November 24th
byWelcome back, readers. Pokémon: how many ‘mons y’all got so far? I’m sitting around 30 because I’m a slow player with a lot of professional and not-so-professional commitments. A friend of mine is pushing 60, and neither of us has hit the…
November 10th
byWelcome 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….