Month: January 2016

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Moving Pixels Podcast: The Best Games of 2015

It’s that time of the year again, where those of us on the Moving Pixels Podcast list our top 5 games of the year. I’m a little disappointed that Chris didn’t makes one of those vertical slice composite images of our game choices like he did in previous years and instead went with a generic screengrab from one of the games. Ah well. I always like these look backs and celebrations of games we loved. | more

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Critical Distance Confab – Supplementary Grades

Last year I interviewed authors and editors of books and publications. The focus was criticism via the written word outside the medium of the internet. Now I’m moving on to other mediums, first up video. I cannot say how flabbergasted I am that I actually got James Portnow to come on the podcast to talk Extra Credits. I didn’t reach out to him; he reached out to me through Kris. This still astounds me some months later. I knew I would be moving on to video next and there were plenty of people I could easily contact to set up an interview with. | more

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Critical Distance Confab – Back to the 2015

On the last day of 2015 I released our end of the year podcast. No epic length to wade through. Just me, Kris Ligman, Alan Williamson and Riley MacLeod handing out on Skype chatting about some stuff that happened in the year. Not a whole lot to say about this one. No minisode this month, though we do talk about some of our favorite games/game related things of the year so there you go. Also, please tell me someone gets that title. I struggled to come up with anything and I’m not too sure how much of that title comes through. | more

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This Year In Video Game Blogging 2015 – Post-Mortem

January 7, 2016 | Filed under: External Sources, Recent Posts and tagged with: Critical Distance, End of Year, TYIVGB Year six of This Year In Video Game Blogging. There is a point every year in the December where I end up shouting at myself for having the stupid idea of doing the Critical Distance end of the year projects. This year was no different. While I didn’t break into tears this time, I was in no less full-on panic mode by the end. | more

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The Moving Pixels Goes Around the World in ’80 Days’

And we get around to playing and talking about one of my favorite games in 2014, 80 Days. I’ve said quite a bit on this game already and I bring that preparedness to the discussion. Really, it’s an hour of the three of us valorizing this game and all the various stories it has within it. We get into what it changes from the original book, what experience it gives us as its own work and all the various social mores it upends by presenting a different view of the late 19th century. | more