July 10th
Hello there! Zolani Stewart here. While Zoya is away, I’ll be taking over this week in videogame blogging, and listing some of the great writing that’s published this first full week of July. Looking...
View ArticleMay-June Roundup: ‘Childhood-Parenthood’
It’s been a season of growth for Blogs of the Round Table this spring with our shared topics of ‘childhood’ and ‘parenthood’. Although the topics were called on separate occasions they wound up merging...
View ArticleJuly 2016: ‘Spectacle’
Would you look at this! Come one and all and behold the majesty of another Blogs of the Round Table! In a month of Games Done Quick, the annual Evolution fighting game tournament and the rapid influx...
View ArticleEpisode 37 – Noah’s Crit
Welcome back for another interview on the Critical Distance Confab! This month our guest is Noah Caldwell-Gervais, a video maker who is skilled at creating richly layered arguments. He started making...
View ArticleJuly 19th
Kept you waiting, huh? Much like how Kiefer Sutherland replaced David Hayter, I’ll be filling in for Zoya this week, so welcome to This Week in Videogame Blogging! Let’s get started: Pokemon Go The...
View ArticleJuly 24th
Many have said this week that all public discourse seems to be about one of two topics: on the one hand, viral anger, collective outrage, and bigotry; and on the other hand, Pokémon Go. No man’s land...
View ArticleJuly 31st
This week in our roundup of games writing from around the web, we go on a little meditative journey about our place in the world and how we act within it. The digital is not flat We start by asking who...
View ArticleJuly Roundup: ‘Spectacle’
The lights dim and the crowd roars and I shuffle to the edge of my seat for another thrilling edition of Blogs of the Round Table! This past month we asked you to share your thoughts on the subject of...
View ArticleAugust 7th
Hope you’re keeping well and having an exciting Summer! I got to meet some of our regular readers this week at games academia’s big annual get-together. It was a great reminder of how insightful our...
View ArticleAugust2016: ‘Bugs’
Happy August, people of Earth. I hope that the dog days of your summer have been filled with trips to the beach, ice cream, and weather more tolerable than the purgatory soup oozing across southwestern...
View ArticleAugust 14th
This week is all about those big, open spaces: the endless expanse of a procedurally-generated universe, the mysterious depths of the ocean, and the reimagined streets of a Pokemon-enriched city....
View ArticleAugust 21st
Whew! There was a LOT of great writing on No Man’s Sky to get through this weekend. Pretty soon the number of pieces of writing on that game will rival the number of planets it contains. Nobody can...
View ArticleEpisode 38 – The Spawn of History
We are back with another interview on the Critical Distance Confab! This month we are joined by Bob Whitaker, associate professor in Modern History at Louisiana Tech University and founder of History...
View ArticleAugust 28th
This week’s blogging has me thinking about how developers manage the expectations of others, the roots of protagonists’ personal ethics, and how players’ morality is shaped by the expectations of...
View ArticleSeptember 4th
After a week of taco trucks, it’s time to settle down and digest the meaty issues in games criticism. A quick note before we continue: Critical Distance is just $40 away from the Patreon goal that...
View ArticleAugust Roundup: ‘Bugs’
Hello again readers, it’s once again my pleasure to bring you another edition of Blogs of the Round Table! Throughout August we asked you to discuss all things ‘Bugs’. This month we want you to talk to...
View ArticleSeptember 2016: Globetrotting
At last the dog days of summer have arrived in the good ol’ northern hemisphere. I’ve never understood that phrase but I do like dogs, so it gets a pass as far as I’m concerned. With a new month we...
View ArticleSeptember 11th
Welcome to this week’s late summer feast of writing on games, semiotics, and dogs. Morality First we address the moral questions explored in interactive fiction, as two critics play the politics of...
View ArticleSeptember 18th
I don’t look at the weekend the same way as I used to. It’s always had something of a rejuvenatory aspect, a magical means to reset the struggles and stresses of the previous week, enough to make the...
View ArticleSeptember 25th
I’m blown away by the volume of high-quality writing this week. All the great stuff seems to be coming out at once! It’s overwhelming. To make it all a little easier to digest, I’ve broken this week’s...
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