The Game Critique

So How Did I Do on TWIVGB

Well Ben Abraham was away from the internet last week, something to do with spelunking I think, and asked me to step in as writer of the This Week In Video Game Blogging feature again. I don’t know what it is, but every time I take up the task the internet decides that this is [...]

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My Stint at TWIVGB is Over

Well I did my two weeks at Critical Distance writing the This Week in Video Game Blogging feature. I can honestly say that I have even more respect for Mr. Ben Abraham. How he can keep that up week after week is beyond me. Maybe it had something to do with the fact I was [...]

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Working for the Weekend on Critical Distance

As some of you may know, or care, Ben Aberham will be gallivanting off to GDC thanks to the generous contributions from around the blogosphere, proving once more that some people have way too much free time on their hands. All kidding aside, I’m sure Ben will do a bang up job covering the event. [...]

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VGHVI Podcast Appearance

Last Thursday I played Bioshock during the simultaneous VGHVI playthrough, while talking on Skype with Denis Farr, Roger Travis, Micheal Abbot and several others. Roger took that conversation and made a podcast out of it. He was doing the recording and unfortunately Skype kept kicking him out so he didn’t get everything, probably for the [...]

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A Wondeful Comment in an Otherwise Shitty Season

Over at Kotaku, I know I know, hear me out. Over at Kotaku they sometimes highlight some of the more interesting comments from their comment sections by giving it their own post, which is better than articles dedicated to breast admiration, though their next post defeats that purpose, but I digress.

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Indie Game Spotlight – Today I Die

Over at the CreativeFluff design blog I spotlighted Today I Die, an indie game that came out around April of this year from designer/developer Daniel Benmergui. Go play it before reading anything below. It’s a short game and worth it. Today I Die is a game that firmly wears the arty badge and wears it proudly.  It’s [...]

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Indie Game Spotlight – Small Worlds

The game was made for Casual Gameplay’s design contest #6 with the parameters to incorporate the this content’s theme: Explore. Were I to judge in the contest I would look to how well it incorporated the theme, as a critic I am looking at what that means within the game. I recommend playing it here [...]

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Indie Game Spotlight – Norwegian Wood

Over at the Creative Fluff design blog I've started a new, hopefully weekly feature called, in case you couldn't guess, is Indie Game Spotlight. I've decided to highlight a different indie game each week. These games don't have the huge marketing push of the AAA titles so they can use any and all attention they can get. These aren't reviews or critiques, just bringing attention to a title I think deserves some attention.

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Three Appearances on the CDC Podcast

Over a month ago I appeared on a podcast newly minted over at critical-distance.com. The next week I appeared again and then once more to make it three in a row. At the moment the podcast is on hiatus pending some behind the scenes work like hosting, icon, music, etc. At first I was going [...]

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March’s ‘09 Round Table Entry – Fumito Ueda

About the Author: This month’s topic turns the literary focus from the medium, to the author. If you submitted a post to either the January or February topics, feel free to write about the process you underwent in converting literary themes into gameplay. Did you struggle with anything in particular? Are you satisfied that your [...]

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