Welcome back, readers! Ooh, we are getting perilously close to the end of the year and the TYIVGB roundup! It's my favorite time of the yea

Welcome back, readers! Ooh, we are getting perilously close to the end of the year and the TYIVGB roundup! It's my favorite time of the yea

Welcome back readers. Bit of a late-in-the-evening post this week by my time zone and recent posting schedule. My work timetable is a kind of horrific jigsaw puzzle right now, except the pieces com…

Welcome back readers. As we move into the back quarter of the year, it’s time for us to start thinking about our annual Year In Videogames Blogging recap. This is always a major undertaking, …

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Welcome back readers. I’m going to keep opening our issues with mini Patreon updates for the next little bit, because as I’ve been talking about recently, we need a bit more wiggle room…

Welcome back readers. I’ll start with a Patreon update before getting into this week’s issue proper. As you might have seen, we shook the can pretty hard last week. We’re not quit…

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Welcome back readers. It’s a Critical Distance hat trick this Sunday! If you haven’t already seen, Kaile is working way harder than me this weekend. In addition to our regular weekly is…

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Hello Readers! This is going to be a short and sweet update this month, just a couple of things to note: first, we've finished the Blogs of

Welcome back, everyone! I am extremely pleased to present to you the entrants in the Blogs of the Round Table “Friendslop” Essay Jam—all twenty-four of them! This has been an incredible…

Welcome back readers. There’s just one day left to get your entry in for our Friendslop Jam! Stay tuned for the issue compiling the submissions. Even with all of that participation (we love t…

Welcome back readers. Just over a week left on the Friendslop Essay Jam. Get your article in today! Or tomorrow. Definitely by the 31st. No late submissions. Did I plug the Patreon yet this week? O…

Welcome back readers. If you’ve been procrastinating getting a submission together for our Friendslop Essay Jam, a predicament I have absolutely no stake or prior experience in, I have good (…

Welcome back readers. Hey! In case you needed a nudge, you’ve got a little over a week left if you’d like to participate in our Friendslop Essay Jam. A pretty big one-of-those came out …

There are two kinds of co-op games. The first is a game that can be played either single player or co-op and will have roughly equal experiences either way. This is where you see games like Elden R…

Friendslop is the Ghost of Play’s Past. It is the Ghost of Play’s Present. It is the Ghost of Play Never to Come. Only without any humanist intent.

Welcome back readers. Before we hop in, I just want to offer a quick reminder that the Friendslop Jam we’re hosting is underway, and you’ve got two weeks and change to get your writing …

Welcome back readers. If you haven’t already seen it, we’re bringing back Blogs of the Round Table on a semi-recurring, topic-oriented basis. The first topic is Friendslop. Check out Ka…

Welcome back readers. If you haven’t already seen it, we’re bringing back Blogs of the Round Table on a semi-recurring, topic-oriented basis. The first topic is Friendslop. Check out Ka…

I recently called a book series I was on book 7 of, “bad”. …

Happy Monday, Readers (and Writers)! We’re practicing some necromancy today by bringing back a beloved and long-running feature to Critical Distance: the Blogs of the Round Table! Originally …

Welcome back readers. We’re announcing an *event* tomorrow. Stay tuned. Patreon support is what makes *events* possible. Please take a look. This Week in Videogame Blogging is a roundup highl…

Welcome back readers. Hey! Kaile’s monthly recap is live. You, too can check out their excellent work by joining our Patreon! On the weekly side of things, we’ve got 23 new-and-cool pic…

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Welcome back readers. We’ve got tons of reading to share this week–22 articles to put a number on it–and that includes a lot of writers making their TWIVGB debut! Don’t forg…

Welcome back readers. We’ve got tons of reading to share this week–22 articles to put a number on it–and that includes a lot of writers making their TWIVGB debut! Don’t forg…

Welcome back readers. We’ve got eighteen cool-and-new picks for your this week. Around the web, Warp Point just launched a webring of independent sites. Delightful. I haven’t shouted ou…

Welcome back readers. Lots of good stuff to share this week–21 reads in all. A critical blackjack? No, no, not my best work. To support our best work–compiling and organizing a living t…

Welcome back readers. This was neat. Lots of interesting stuff for me to read through over the next few weeks. Over here on Critical Distance, we’ve got 19 picks for you this week, including …

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