October 8, 2009 Eric Swain Critical Responses, Recent Posts The Citizen Kane of Video Games For those of you who maybe groaning at the title of this post let me assure you I am not going to declare anything the "Citizen Kane of video games" and am instead going to explain the pointlessness of the debate in the first place. And for those of you now disappointed, I implore you to please continue reading anyway. | more
December 16, 2008 Eric Swain Critical Responses, Recent Posts The Gaming Critique Symposium For those of you not in the know, discussion on the nature of video game reviews has been taking place lately. So much so that Shawn Elliott has started a symposium to discuss the matter between about a dozen video game journalist, who I would more accurately describe as video game critics. He gathered a veritable who's who of gaming critics, that I'm sure most outside of this interest have never heard of, to embark on the project. | more
