April 12th
Welcome 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...
View ArticleElizabeth LaPensée, Ph.D | Critical Distance: Keywords in Play, Episode 1
Download “Keywords in Play” is an interview series about game research supported by Critical Distance and the Digital Games Research Association. In this episode we speak to Elizabeth LaPensée,...
View ArticleMarch 2020
Hello again, readers. It’s true that there is much to be concerned about, wherever you are in the world. For my part, if you’d asked me a couple of months back about how I thought this year would...
View ArticleApril 19th
Welcome back, readers. Uppercut is cool. That is all. Some updates from around the site: Connor’s latest TMIVGV is live! Please keep sending cool games-related video content his way via the hashtag...
View ArticleApril 26th
Welcome back, readers. Hope everyone’s staying safe! I wasn’t sure if I was going to, but Final Fantasy VII Remake seems to be just weird and subversive enough (see Heather Alexandra’s article below)...
View ArticleNew Call for Critical Compilations!
Listen, 2020 might go down as a deeply terrible year for many reasons, but we’re still here, and if you’re reading this, we assume so are you. Critical Distance has always been about showcasing and...
View ArticleMay 3rd
Welcome back, readers. Some news from around the site. First off, we’ve opened a new call for Critical Compilations! As an alleged academic, I have long appreciated these features as invaluable...
View ArticleMay 10th
Welcome 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...
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Emilie Reed | Keywords in Play Podcast, Episode 2
Download “Keywords in Play” is an interview series about game research supported by Critical Distance and the Digital Games Research Association. In this episode we speak to Emilie Reed. Emilie is a...
View ArticleMay 17th
Welcome back, readers. Hope everyone’s keeping safe. A new episode of Keywords in Play is available now, featuring Dr. Emilie Reed! Don’t be shy; check it out! This Week in Videogame Blogging is a...
View ArticleApril 2020
Oh hello, readers! Thank you for your patience with this one – April blessed us with just so many videos to sift through. Thank you, also, for your recommendations and submissions. If you have a...
View ArticleMay 24th
Welcome 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...
View ArticleMay 31st
Welcome back, readers. I know it’s been a hard week for many folks in and approximate to the US. Those of us who enjoy the privilege of not having to constantly think about the murderously-racist...
View ArticleJune 7th
Welcome back, readers. I spent time last week and this week trying to think through how to draw a thread between critical games discourse and the now-worldwide protests against anti-Black police...
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Bo Ruberg | Keywords in Play, Episode 3
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View ArticleJune 14th
Welcome back, readers. So like I know coverage of worldwide anti-racist protests tapered off just a little for a hot minute, with mainstream news outlets eager to move on, but people are still out on...
View ArticleJune 21st
Welcome back, readers. As a few writers I follow are noticing, it feels weird in some ways to be writing about (or, umm, writing about writing about) games in Twenty-Twenty-Current-Date. There’s lots...
View ArticleMay 2020
Hey there, readers. I’ve mentioned this before, but perhaps it bears repeating now: the longer production cycles of video essays tends to put them a bit outside *the moment* of discourse, a factor that...
View ArticleJune 28th
Welcome back, readers. First off, police still haven’t been defunded yet, and most officers who have killed Black people behind the cover of a badge are still free, so here are some links to start your...
View ArticlePathologic
Critical Distance is proud to present the first in its 2020 series of Critical Compilations: Ice-Pick Lodge’s cult classic Pathologic and its sequel, Pathologic 2. This compilation is curated by Andrew...
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