December 30, 2014 | Filed under: External Sources, Recent Posts and tagged with: Critical Distance, End of Year, TYIVGB This is my fifth This Year In Video Game Blogging feature. That means I have been a part […]
Reviews for October/November/December
These are the last few reviews I published at PopMatters for 2014. I do feel I’m getting better at the practice. I really did want to like Gods Will Be Watching. […]
NPC – Non Play Criticism: Everybody’s An Art Curator
December 19, 2014 | Filed under: External Sources, Recent Posts and tagged with: Curation, Non Play Criticism It is a truism in video game circles of serious thinkers that video games are a young medium […]
Critical Distance Confab – Actually, It’s About…2014
Released today was our annual end of year wrap-up podcast. This year I brought up regular Kris Ligman, semi-regular Alan Williamson and newbie to the podcast Lana Polansky. This year sucked. […]
Considering the Two Seasons of ‘The Walking Dead’ Video Game
My last PopMatters column of the year and I look back to compare Season One and Season Two of The Walking Dead. Everything seemed to be working in The Walking Dead‘s favor coming into Season Two. Everything […]
NPC – Non Play Criticism: Near Future Novels
December 12, 2014 | Filed under: External Sources, Recent Posts and tagged with: Literature, Non Play Criticism It is a truism in video game circles of serious thinkers that video games are a young medium […]
Following Fogg: Adapting ‘Around the World in Eighty Days’ into ’80 Days’
Jules Verne’s Around the World in Eighty Days is a Victorian era adventure novel following the exploits of Phileas Fogg and his valet Jean Passepartout in their attempt to win a wager. […]
Five of the Best Mobile Games of 2014
Given how huge they have become, mobile games don’t get enough space in the critical spheres devoted to them. I decided to rectify that a bit and take a short […]
TYIVGB Methodology
December 9, 2014 | Filed under: External Sources, Recent Posts and tagged with: Critical Distance, TYIVGB We have posted our methodology on how I do the This Year In Video Game Blogging feature over at Critical Distance. […]
Moving Pixels Podcast Steps Over ‘The Line’
Two years after its release, we get around to discussing Spec Ops: The Line on the podcast. I hadn’t played it before we decided to finally do Spec Ops. I owned it […]