Welcome back readers. It’s the last week for Queer Games Bundle over on Itch. Good cause, good games, good deal! I just checked the numbers and in my time with Critical Distance I have collected roughly 5475 articles in these weekly issues...| Critical Distance
Welcome back readers. Two more weeks for the Queer Games Bundle. This is one case of line-goes-up I’m always happy to see. Check out our Patreon if you like what we do and want to help us continue to do it in...| Critical Distance
Welcome back readers. The Queer Games Bundle just crossed another fundraising goal! You’ve got three more weeks to see how many more goals it can smash. Ultra-compact Patreon plug! On with the show. This Week in Videogame Blogging is a roundup highlighting...| Critical Distance
Greetings, Your Worship. I am Zachary J Alexander the First, and it is my humble pleasure to welcome you to the pages of This Week In Videogame Blogging in the Common Era Year of Twenty-Fifteen, on…| Critical Distance
Welcome back readers. This week I’m plugging this year’s Queer Games Bundle over on Itch, which recently went live. Right now is always the best time to support queer and trans game developers, and there’s some pretty great pulls in this year’s…| Critical Distance
Welcome back readers. This week I’m plugging the Queer Games Bundle again. Worth your time, worth your support. We also are always happy to have you check out our Patreon! This Week in Videogame Blogging is a roundup highlighting the most important...| Critical Distance
Welcome back readers. This week I’m plugging this year’s Queer Games Bundle over on Itch, which recently went live. Right now is always the best time to support queer and trans game dev…| Critical Distance
Welcome back readers. We’ve got a big issue for you this week. If you appreciate our weekly/monthly/annual work keeping abreast of important and interesting critical games writing, give our Patreon a look. We appreciate the support! This Week in Videogame Blogging is...| Critical Distance
Welcome back readers. First, I’m going to re-up this itch bundle. Good if you like TTRPGs. Also good if you don’t like ICE. Good all around. Next I’m going to plug our Patreon per…| Critical Distance
Welcome back readers. I have a few links for you before we begin the issue part of the issue. First up, Kaile’s monthly recap is out and it’s a banger, taking stock of the last two years of criticism and games media...| Critical Distance
Welcome back readers. Mondays (which, officially, are the day after this issue comes out each week) are when we talk about what old games we’ve been playing this week over on the Discord server. Come drop in, tell us what you’re playing,...| Critical Distance
Welcome back readers. This afternoon we’ve been figuring out, to some mild psychic damage, just low long our Discord server has been around (the answer is about five years!), so come and say …| Critical Distance
Welcome back readers. Fifteen fresh picks this week. Your readership and support keep this train running, so come hang out on our Discord, and consider taking a look at our Patreon. This Week in Vi…| Critical Distance
Welcome back readers. We’ve got 17 new-and-cool picks for you this week. Keep the recommendations coming by joining our Discord, and keep the whole operation going by supporting our Patreon! …| Critical Distance
Welcome back readers. Happy Nintendo Switch 2 week to those who celebrate? I got my thumb caught hard in the new joycon attachment mechanism within five minutes of opening the box. I did not get Ma…| Critical Distance
Welcome back readers. If you’ve been out of the loop on games writing for a month or two, Kaile’s got you covered with a hefty recap for April and May over on our Patreon! For as little…| Critical Distance
Welcome back readers. This Monday is a civic holiday where I am not, but all the same I still got you. Here’s another fifteen fresh picks on games old and new, topics recent and evergreen. If…| Critical Distance
Welcome back readers. This Monday is a civic holiday where I am but don’t worry, I still got you. Here’s fifteen fresh picks on games old and new, topics recent and evergreen. If you li…| Critical Distance
Welcome back readers. This issue is out pretty late for my local timezone, but it’s here! If you want to do the funniest thing ever you can join our Discord and submit really long pieces for …| Critical Distance
Welcome back readers. This week I’m very happy to plug a new game from narrative designer, writer, and one of my own mentors here at CD, Kris–You Are Generative AI. You might also check…| Critical Distance
Welcome back readers. Behold! A rare, even-later-than-Monday (It’s 2:30 AM local time) post! As I warned last week, contributing to our Patreon will not make posts happen on Sunday more often…| Critical Distance
Welcome back readers. Behold! A rare, on-time (as in, actually published on Sunday) post! By contributing to our Patreon you absolutely will not incresase the frequency of these rare, on-time Sunda…| Critical Distance
Welcome back readers. Kaile just posted our most recent Patreon newsletter update–another good reason to check our page out and maybe even give us some support if you have a few bucks per mon…| Critical Distance
Welcome back readers. This week the thing I want to plug is that Kaile is putting together a book bringing together both new material and previously-published hits. Don’t worry, I’ll be…| Critical Distance
Welcome back readers. I’ve received word from my colleagues that being ever-so-slightly irritating about making you aware on an ongoing basis that we have a Patreon, and that we would love yo…| Critical Distance
Welcome back readers. I’m not plugging the Patreon this week. I can only do so much when I have chosen to put together the issue when I haven’t had any dinner yet. This week, you’…| Critical Distance
Welcome back readers. Check out our Patreon to support CD–now (and always) with 100 percent less LLM-generated article curation than the leading brand. This Week in Videogame Blogging is a ro…| Critical Distance
Welcome back readers. This issue was published fifteen minutes later than it otherwise would have been because after a couple of months of sustained plugging I was a little stumped on coming up wit…| Critical Distance
Welcome back readers. We’re coming up on the submission deadline (December 22) to get your picks in for our end-of-year review! If you haven’t already done so, check out the announcemen…| Critical Distance
Hello everyone, It’s December 1st, which means it’s time to start compiling Critical Distance’s annual This Year in Videogame Blogging roundup. Through the rest of this month, we&…| Critical Distance
Welcome back readers. Follow us on Bluesky. This Week in Videogame Blogging is a roundup highlighting the most important critical writing on games from the past seven days. Stalking Ruins This week…| Critical Distance
Welcome back readers. As promised, after a week to take stock, we’re back at it. To close the gap, this week’s issue is correspondingly embiggened, but even this must be considered an a…| Critical Distance
Welcome back readers. This week we’re taking a one-week break from our usual practice of highlighting the most important critical writing on games from the past seven days. The writing will s…| Critical Distance
Welcome back readers. Kaile beat me to the punch this afternoon with our monthly Patreon-exclusive newsletter. If you like what we do and can spare a fiver, you should subscribe! This Week in Video…| Critical Distance
Welcome back readers. Another quiet week around the site update-wise, but as always, we’ve got fresh new reads to share. And hey, we could always use some extra stability, so if you’re …| Critical Distance
Welcome back readers. No big updates around the site this week, other than the ongoing fact that you, the readers, are the ones that pay our bills and allow us to keep our finger on the pulse of ga…| Critical Distance
Welcome back readers. Around the site, Kaile’s been cooking, serving up both fresh TMIVGV and our monthly Patreon-exclusive update. back-to-back. Check em out, and if you want to materially h…| Critical Distance
Welcome back, viewers. While the purpose of this roundup is to focus on good videos about games, the closure of storied videogame magazine Game Informer last week can’t go unremarked on. Game…| Critical Distance
Welcome back readers. It was very painful this week to hear of Game Informer’s sudden shuttering, layoff-ing, and off-lining, as such a long-running publication that has continued to publish …| Critical Distance
Welcome back readers. Thanks once again to Julián Ramírez for providing the fish pic this week! You’ve got about a week left to pick up the Palestinian Relief Bundle over on Itch. They’…| Critical Distance
Welcome back readers. This week the thing I’m plugging is the Palestinian Relief Bundle over on Itch. They’ve smashed their initial goals and I hope to see them smash a bunch more. Chec…| Critical Distance
Welcome back sickos. At the end of February something special caught our eye: Phil Salvador’s Final Fantasy VIII is the Best And If You Don’t Agree I Will Destroy You. A deliberate throwback …| Critical Distance