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Hello new followers! We are an organization dedicated to highlighting and preserving a record of the best writing about videogames. We post weekly roundups roughly every Sunday at our website:
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This week: Immersion, Quake mods, To a T, and a whole lot more:
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January 4, 2026 at 5:52 PM
This week: Immersion, Quake mods, To a T, and a whole lot more:
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Thank you all for your patience! Without further ado, it's This Year In Videogame Blogging 2025, complete with a bonus This Week In Videogame Blogging, December 28, 2025!
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January 1, 2026 at 6:28 PM
Thank you all for your patience! Without further ado, it's This Year In Videogame Blogging 2025, complete with a bonus This Week In Videogame Blogging, December 28, 2025!
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Postmortem from Kaile: This year was maybe the most difficult roundup I've had to write out of the three I've been in charge of. Between the weekly roundups and the submissions y'all sent us earlier this month we had almost a THOUSAND articles to choose from.
January 1, 2026 at 8:41 PM
Postmortem from Kaile: This year was maybe the most difficult roundup I've had to write out of the three I've been in charge of. Between the weekly roundups and the submissions y'all sent us earlier this month we had almost a THOUSAND articles to choose from.
Thank you all for your patience! Without further ado, it's This Year In Videogame Blogging 2025, complete with a bonus This Week In Videogame Blogging, December 28, 2025!
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January 1, 2026 at 6:28 PM
Thank you all for your patience! Without further ado, it's This Year In Videogame Blogging 2025, complete with a bonus This Week In Videogame Blogging, December 28, 2025!
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This Year In Videogame Blogging 2025 is coming! I thought I could finish it before midnight on 1/1 but that has not proven to be the case, so I am going to take a little nap and then wake up kinda early and finish it so y'all can have it with coffee in the morning (US/CA times).
January 1, 2026 at 8:05 AM
This Year In Videogame Blogging 2025 is coming! I thought I could finish it before midnight on 1/1 but that has not proven to be the case, so I am going to take a little nap and then wake up kinda early and finish it so y'all can have it with coffee in the morning (US/CA times).
This week: We're taking a one-week break! But not this week. That's next week. This week we have 15 new reads to share. Please enjoy:
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December 21, 2025 at 6:55 PM
This week: We're taking a one-week break! But not this week. That's next week. This week we have 15 new reads to share. Please enjoy:
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Alright, that's gonna do it! Thank you all for the submissions. Stay tuned for the roundup!
December 16, 2025 at 8:01 AM
Alright, that's gonna do it! Thank you all for the submissions. Stay tuned for the roundup!
This week: 25 new-and-interesting selections on the western construction of the JRPG, Chris Roberts, Hades II, and Keoff Geighley:
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December 15, 2025 at 6:18 AM
This week: 25 new-and-interesting selections on the western construction of the JRPG, Chris Roberts, Hades II, and Keoff Geighley:
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Friends, the final hours of the #TYIVGB25 submission period are upon us! If there's anything you've been holding back, submit it now! www.critical-distance.com/2025/12/01/c...
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December 15, 2025 at 6:13 AM
Friends, the final hours of the #TYIVGB25 submission period are upon us! If there's anything you've been holding back, submit it now! www.critical-distance.com/2025/12/01/c...
Thank you all for the submissions to #TYIVGB25 so far! We've got one week left; keep em coming!!
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December 8, 2025 at 9:05 PM
Thank you all for the submissions to #TYIVGB25 so far! We've got one week left; keep em coming!!
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On top of the weekly roundup yesterday, we've also got a new edition of the monthly Patreon roundup!
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December 1, 2025 at 2:33 PM
On top of the weekly roundup yesterday, we've also got a new edition of the monthly Patreon roundup!
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This week: genre talk, gay Dragonball, Zelda Musou musings, and more:
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November 23, 2025 at 8:37 PM
This week: genre talk, gay Dragonball, Zelda Musou musings, and more:
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November 18, 2025 at 1:12 PM
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This week: 25 picks on Ball x Pit, 1000x, Hades II, Bloodlines 2, and much more:
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November 16, 2025 at 7:46 PM
This week: 25 picks on Ball x Pit, 1000x, Hades II, Bloodlines 2, and much more:
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Hey friends! If you've been having trouble accessing the site today, we've pinpointed the likely cause. The issue is currently resolved, though you may have to verify that you're human first before accessing the site now. Sorry for the inconvenience! #saynotoAIscrapers
November 15, 2025 at 3:31 AM
Hey friends! If you've been having trouble accessing the site today, we've pinpointed the likely cause. The issue is currently resolved, though you may have to verify that you're human first before accessing the site now. Sorry for the inconvenience! #saynotoAIscrapers
This week: community and continuity form a thematic throughline for seventeen new picks:
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November 9th
Welcome back readers. Okay, I lied a small lie last week. I’m not going to plug our money stuff this week. Instead keep your focus on The Jamaican government’s official portal for Hurri…
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November 9, 2025 at 8:43 PM
This week: community and continuity form a thematic throughline for seventeen new picks:
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As the fall sets in, here's our monthly Patreon supporter roundup for October!
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November 4, 2025 at 6:14 AM
As the fall sets in, here's our monthly Patreon supporter roundup for October!
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This week: 31 terrifying picks on haunted houses, costumes, Blue Prince, cozy games, friction, media literacy, and much, much more:
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October 26th
Welcome back readers. We’ve got an absolutely stacked issue this week at 31 new-and-cool picks. If you like what we do here, please do check out the Patreon! I’m going to go lie down fo…
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October 27, 2025 at 12:23 AM
This week: 31 terrifying picks on haunted houses, costumes, Blue Prince, cozy games, friction, media literacy, and much, much more:
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