This week: Literary editions, punk rock, TikTok nostalgia bait--oh, and videogames, too, we promise: critical-distance.com/2025/09/21/s...

This week: Dev communities, pop VNs, Garfield Kart, and more: critical-distance.com/2025/09/16/s...

hello! new patreon post is out! blame silksong: www.patreon.com/posts/last-m...

This week: 23 reads on Silksong (discourse), King's Field (-likes), and political economy (no catch): critical-distance.com/2025/09/09/s...

This week: sustainable play, FMV games, outsider art, and more: critical-distance.com/2025/09/02/a...

This week: Sixteen new picks on Atari RPGs, spectacle and vastness, the eroticism of game overs, and more: critical-distance.com/2025/08/25/a...

This week: Nightmare Kart Arcade, guides writing, the Hylian language, and more: critical-distance.com/2025/08/18/a...

This week: Fifteen picks on porn censorship, BDS, Mega Drive shmups, and more: critical-distance.com/2025/08/11/a...

This week: Sixteen new picks on memory, porn, representation, culture, and much more: critical-distance.com/2025/08/04/a...

This week: Twenty five pieces spanning censorship, porn games, media artifacts, historical game studies, writing advice, and much more: critical-distance.com/2025/07/28/j...

This week: games-as-theatre, porn games, ghost games, and lots more: critical-distance.com/2025/07/21/j...

This week: Death Stranding, critical practices, tennis games, and more: critical-distance.com/2025/07/14/j...

New Month in Videogame Blogging is out! www.patreon.com/posts/last-m...

This week: Death Stranding 2, Maddy Thorson's romhacks, SNES RPGs, and more: critical-distance.com/2025/07/07/j...

This week: Pride, and also some Wrath. Also lots of other good stuff! critical-distance.com/2025/06/30/j...

This week: Promise Mascot Agency, adult games, RESISTing choice-based design, and more: critical-distance.com/2025/06/23/j...

This week: the craft of video essays, RPG adaptations, the Pokémon nostalgia trap, and more: critical-distance.com/2025/06/16/j...

This week: Player archaeology, horror intersections, horse interventions, and more: critical-distance.com/2025/06/09/j...

This week: Wizardry, Shenmue, Dumpy Kong, and more: critical-distance.com/2025/06/03/j...

We've got a big issue of the Patreon roundup this month! www.patreon.com/posts/this-m...

This week: ecocritical adventure, rekooperative kaizo, criticism-as-cruelty, and more: critical-distance.com/2025/05/26/m...

This week: Despelote, time loops, parenthood, going out of bounds, and more: critical-distance.com/2025/05/13/m...

This week: Clair Obscur, Shadows of the Damned, 1000XResist, Despelote, and more: critical-distance.com/2025/05/06/m...

This week: Abundance, reprints, Blue Prince, and more: critical-distance.com/2025/04/29/a...

This week: Red Barrels, Blue Prince (and lots more): critical-distance.com/2025/04/20/a...

This week: Cortana and LLMs, Truth as sociopolitical reality, the "gamer saint", and more: critical-distance.com/2025/04/14/a...

New Patreon update! www.patreon.com/posts/this-m...

This week: Community, fandom, art, conlangs, puzzle design, and much more: critical-distance.com/2025/04/07/a...

This week: Historical simulation, pirate ships, Sega vibes, Dark Souls vibes, and more: critical-distance.com/2025/03/31/m...

This week: Interviews, ungames, ARGs, matchroidvanias, and more: critical-distance.com/2025/03/24/m...

This week: Secret Dragon Quest games, the Mew Glitch, Indigenous language preservation, and more: critical-distance.com/2025/03/17/m...

This week: LLMs, tank controls, trolley problems--oh, and videogames! critical-distance.com/2025/03/10/m...

This week: Disco LARPing, deduction games, Yoruba gods, addiction, and more: critical-distance.com/2025/03/04/m...

This week: Archive, abjection, art, audience, and lots more: critical-distance.com/2025/02/25/f...

This week: many cultures of making and playing: critical-distance.com/2025/02/17/f...

This week: 29 new picks in a colossal catch-up issue: critical-distance.com/2025/02/11/f...

oh hey our senior curator got sick this week and had to mulligan the first February roundup to next week. but we can still post lol as we said a little bit ago we're gonna start talking about our Patreon a lot more frequently and pushing it. it's how we keep going. patreon.com/critdistance

It's the January Patreon Update! www.patreon.com/posts/welcom...

This week: Balatro, the body, a book review, and more: critical-distance.com/2025/01/27/j...

A brief update from Director Zach Alexander: critical-distance.com/2025/01/21/2...

This week: indie dev, hobbyist crit, localization, joyful play, and more: critical-distance.com/2025/01/20/j...

This week: indie dev, retro, remakes, and more: critical-distance.com/2025/01/13/j...

hello! if you've enjoyed our latest roundups and want to support our mission to chronicle and archive the best writing about videogames, consider hitting up our patreon! patreon.com/critdistance

This week: Critical Distance rings in the new year with 21 new picks on industry histories, gacha, Metaphor, Legacy of Kain, and much, much more: critical-distance.com/2025/01/06/j...

A note on getting featured in roundups: If you have writing you want to share with us, never hesitate to link it to us on social media, join our Discord and submit it to our roundup submissions channel, or even shoot us an email. You can even do this w/ your own work!

fun behind the scenes stuff: this roundup was the result of a systematic whittling-down from something like 740 articles from the weekly roundups and then another like 200 articles from reader submissions, representing ~400 writers at about 250 outlets and blogs. there's a lot of games writing.

Friends, it's time once again! Check out our year in videogame blogging post to see what works excited and incited us to think differently about games last year! critical-distance.com/2025/01/01/t...

TWIVGB takes roughly one week off per year around the holidays, and this year that's this week! Weekly issues will resume January 29th (or the 30th, knowing me).

Only a few hours left on this! get your submissions now or forever hold your peace!

There’s still time to submit work you loved! Even (especially) your own work! Don’t be shy!