November 2019
Welcome, readers, to the follow-up instalment of This Month in Videogame Vlogging. If you missed what this is about, check out the October edition which, yes, admittedly we posted only last week. But...
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This Year in Videogame Blogging: 2019
What a year it’s been! Ordinarily Eric Swain would be leading our annual mega-roundup of the best of the best games criticism, analysis and commentary, but this year you have none other than Kris...
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Welcome 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...
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Welcome back readers. Okay, I’ve finally seen the Star War, and if nothing else, I can finally go back to doing this job without holding my breath every time I click on an article with a lightsaber in...
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Hey there, readers. Or should that be viewers? Viewers who read? Readers who view? Let us shelve this line of inquiry for now. It’s a new year and we’re all caught up, ready for this column to click...
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Welcome back readers. New monthly vlog roundup! Go on and check it out; I’ll wait here. This Week in Videogame Blogging is a roundup highlighting the most important critical writing on games from the...
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Welcome back, readers. Maybe I’m just particularly tired and vulnerable this weekend from the perpetual hustle of academic life, but a lot of this week’s selections really hit home for me. I’ve said...
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Welcome back, readers. I find myself at a mild loss for witty introductions this week, but that’s okay, because quality critical games writing never sleeps and there’s plenty of great stuff to be had...
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Welcome back readers. A non-negligible part of that work that goes into producing these weekly roundups is organizing the week’s selections by theme–studying each article and understanding the ways in...
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Hey there, readers. We’ve had a whole month of 2020, and I am here to tell you that, indeed, people are still making interesting videos about videogames. In this aspect, at least, there is no...
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Welcome back, readers. First off, new TMIVGV! Keep sending Connor your video recommendations as we continue our work rounding up cool, interesting, and noteworthy crit across media. This Week in...
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Welcome 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...
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Welcome back, readers. Lots of outstanding writing this week. I’m at a loss for the attendant clever metacommentary to string it all together this week, so just read on and see for yourself! Keep...
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March 8th
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...
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We interrupt our regularly scheduled roundups and compilations to announce our Blogger of the Year for 2019–the author who we feel wrote the best stuff, or had the biggest impact, or simply made the...
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Welcome 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...
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Welcome back, readers. It seemed at some point – I don’t know when, several decades ago, when last month was taking place – that February’s TMIVGV would be a brief one. But then in the last two or...
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Before I get going, I just want to stop and give a big shout-out to Connor, who has been working to deliver thorough and really valuable roundups on games crit on the video side of things on a monthly...
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Welcome back, readers. Hope everyone’s keeping safe. I’m spending a lot of time indoors out of necessity right now. I mean, as a Ph.D candidate studying games that may be a fairly unremarkable...
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Welcome back, readers. Hope everyone’s keeping safe. I’m currently a third (?) of the way to the supermassive black hole at the centre of our galaxy, but I can definitely still feel the four walls of...
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