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TGC Game of the Year 2015
Game Issues Posted on: May 17, 2016May 10, 2025

TGC Game of the Year 2015

May 17, 2016 | Filed under: Game Issues, Recent Posts and tagged with: End of Year, Game of the Year This is late. Way later than I ever wanted it to be. Though, giving up […]

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TGC Game of the Year 2014
Game Issues Posted on: January 31, 2015May 9, 2025

TGC Game of the Year 2014

January 31, 2015 | Filed under: Game Issues, Recent Posts and tagged with: End of Year, Game of the Year Before I get into what I felt were the best games of 2014, that I […]

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Game Issues Posted on: October 16, 2014May 9, 2025

Virulent, Vociferous and Vocal

(Excuse this entire article. I wrote this a few weeks ago when I needed to do so. This ended up as my version of stream of consciousness writing and given how I […]

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Game Issues Posted on: July 23, 2014May 8, 2025

Hypothetical Moral Behaviors

Last week I concluded a series of posts on moral choice in games, the first three posts looking at the idea of making specific choices at specific moments and the last about the choices we make […]

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The Parable of The Runner
Game Issues Posted on: February 17, 2014May 11, 2025

The Parable of The Runner

February 17, 2014 | Filed under: Game Issues, Recent Posts and tagged with: Critical Distance, Mirror’s Edge, Preservation A few weeks back I was having a digital couch chat with Mark Filipowich. Eventually we got on to the topic […]

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TGC 2013 Game of the Year
Game Issues Posted on: January 31, 2014May 8, 2025

TGC 2013 Game of the Year

January 31, 2014 | Filed under: Game Issues, Recent Posts and tagged with: End of Year, Game of the Year A running theme in my life is that I’m always behind, always late, which is […]

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Game Issues Posted on: January 30, 2014May 8, 2025

Top 13 Most Talked About Games of 2013

January 30, 2014 | Filed under: Game Issues, Recent Posts and tagged with: End of Year In the run up to Critical Distance’s annual end of year podcast I was under instruction to shrink […]

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A Cultural History of Horror
Game Issues Posted on: November 1, 2013May 11, 2025

A Cultural History of Horror

Horror stories are meant to be dark reflections of ourselves or rather more importantly a dark reflection of what we fear most as a society at the time. This isn’t […]

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TGC 2012 Game of the Year
Game Issues Posted on: January 12, 2013May 6, 2025

TGC 2012 Game of the Year

January 12, 2013 | Filed under: Game Issues, Recent Posts and tagged with: End of Year, Game of the Year I wanted to get this done earlier. In fact, I like having my game of […]

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Game Issues Posted on: December 31, 2012May 6, 2025

State of the Blog ’12

December 31, 2012 | Filed under: Game Issues, Recent Posts and tagged with: End of Year Holy crap on a stick. I’ve been doing this for four full years. That is gratifying in some […]

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