Tag: End of Year

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This Year In Video Game Blogging 2017 – Post-Mortem

This Year In Video Game Blogging 2017. I have done so many of these post-mortems it’s getting to the point I feel like I may just be repeating myself. Yet, at the same time, I can’t help but look back at the project this year and think of how far I’ve come over the past 8 years. Eight years. Damn. A lot has changed over that time. I was still in college when I started doing this. In 2010, I had an idea. Critical Distance does roundups for the best criticism featured during the week. | more

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TGC Game of the Year 2016 Addendum

I struggled a bit with my game of the year list, mainly because I was trying to squeeze more games than would fit. 15 games into 10 slots at final count. I debated whether I should increase the list to 15 to accommodate all the games I wanted to mention. I also did think about forgoing the top 10 format entirely. With an alphabetical list I could put as many as I wanted onto the list without getting wonky with the numbering system. | more

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TGC Game of the Year 2016

July 5, 2017 | Filed under: Game Issues, Recent Posts and tagged with: End of Year, Game of the Year Time got away from me. I could have passed on doing this altogether, never published it and nobody would have cared, but I’d know. I’d know and that would gnaw at me. This is a wrap up to 2016. In a way, this is an exercising of the last remnants of that year. Things haven’t improved overall, but carrying on any psychic baggage that could otherwise be compartmentalized away from the present is something I don’t want to do and cannot afford myself. | more

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Moving Pixels Podcast: The Best Games of 2016

This week on the Moving Pixels Podcast we list our top 5 games of 2016. As I say at the beginning of the podcast, this isn’t my final list. They’ll all most likely appear on my final list, that should be coming soon. But my goal here was to talk up games that we hadn’t done podcasts on and wouldn’t really get talked about. I succeeded in part. My compatriots on the podcast might have cheated a little with their choices, but ehh. | more

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This Year In Video Game Blogging 2016 – Post-Mortem

Has it really been seven years of me doing This Year In Video Game Blogging. Good lord. I hate myself for doing this. Without a doubt, every time I do this project, I hate myself and promise myself outrageous things like, “I’m never doing it again.” It’s painful, exhausting and I usually end up miserable for the entire duration of December. Skipping both birthday and Christmas in my efforts to get this shit done. But, before we go any further, I must link the methodology post for how we do the year end roundup. | more

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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 on the whole video game critic thing for about 4 solid months last year really cut into my being able to present anything. To my satisfaction at least. Last year, from around the middle to end of July through the end of November I just did not care to take any significant part of the video game critical community. | more

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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 – 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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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 played, I want to talk about the concept of list itself. It may seem unnecessary. All that may seem necessary is a bare bones ten line list of the titles and be done with it. That wouldn’t be acceptable in my case. I’ve kind of painted myself into a corner regarding the issue and now have to put my money where my mouth is. | more