September 26th
Welcome back, readers. Videogames? Videogames. I’ve looked up from a packed-but-gratifying semester of teaching queer Twine games just long enough to put together this week’s latest issue, which...
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Hello readers, Welcome to a rather delayed August vod roundup. It’s still a bit frosty here on the deep southern side of the planet, but it was a warm month for videogame video discourse, so I took my...
View ArticleOctober 17th
Welcome back, readers. New Keywords! This week’s guest is games academic, legal scholar, and loot box expert Leon Xiao. Check it out! This Week in Videogame Blogging is a roundup highlighting the most...
View ArticleSeptember 2021
Hello readers, In September, Grace Lee dropped an interesting piece titled What Isn’t a Video Essay? considering the notion of boundaries and semantics when it comes to format/genre/categorisation,...
View ArticleOctober 24th
Welcome back, readers. New TMIVGV this week! Check out some of the goodest and coolest video crit to come out in the last while, courtesy of, as always, Connor. This Week in Videogame Blogging is a...
View ArticleOctober 31st
Happy Halloween, readers. I find myself coming up short for stunning witicisms to introduce this issue with. Instead, from the bottom of my ((un)dead) heart, I hope you have the opportunity to gather...
View ArticleNovember 7th
Welcome back, readers. Today we bring you, as always, a varied and veritable selection of cool and interesting critical writings on games. And thank you–I do not say this quite often enough I think–for...
View ArticleOctober 2021
Hello readers, Another month has passed on the Gregorian calendar, sending with it another 31 days in which people continued to upload videos about videogames to the internet. Some of these videos have...
View ArticleNovember 14th
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...
View ArticleFelan Parker | Keywords in Play, Episode 16
https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/download/eqcq93/16-felan-parker-draft.mp3 Download “Keywords in Play” is an interview series about game research supported by Critical Distance and the Digital Games...
View ArticleNovember 21st
Welcome back, readers. New Keywords this week! Our latest episode’s guest is Felan Parker. Check it out! This Week in Videogame Blogging is a roundup highlighting the most important critical writing on...
View ArticleNovember 28th
Welcome back, readers. This week I’m running a pared-down issue in a nonstandard format, as I seek out the narrative glue that binds all nine of this week’s new selections. This Week in Videogame...
View ArticleDecember 5th
Welcome back, readers. It’s a good month, I think, when the first roundup of the month doesn’t, owing to a dire lack of editorial oversight (I am both writer and copy-editor of these roundups), make...
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Now Accepting Submissions for TYIVGB 2021
None can resist the unrelenting march of time. Our political world may feel like a torturous kind of stasis but the natural world continues to go through its motions, hurtling through space at 792,000...
View ArticleDecember 12th
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...
View ArticleNovember 2021
Hello readers, Yes, that time of the month has arbitrarily arrived: videodiscourserounduptime. For the final time in 2021, no less. I feel like I should say something grand here to mark the turning of...
View ArticleDecember 19th
Welcome back, readers. Connor’s back at it with another bursting TMIVGV. Give it a look if you haven’t already! Also from around the site, just a few days left to submit your recs to the annual...
View ArticleThis Year in Videogame Blogging: 2021
An entire epoch of games criticism has come and gone in the time since this site first came into existence nearly 13 years ago. It’s difficult, now, to even access the emotional state we had back then,...
View ArticleJanuary 2nd
Welcome back, readers, and welcome to 2022. If you haven’t seen it already, Kris and Zoyander beat me to the punch this week with their outstandingly jam-packed and tenderly-articulated year-in-review....
View ArticleJanuary 9th
Welcome back, readers. I haven’t got much in the way of updates today, but before we get into the swing of things this week, let me take a moment to re-plug our annual year-in-review. There’s lots of...
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