Where is all the good game criticism? Once again, someone asked the question earnestly just a few days ago.
The piece attracted the ire of parts of the Twitter-sphere: Yes, there is, in fact, a lot of good video game criticism on the web. But, according to the overall consensus I’ve seen online, it might only be hard to find it. Since we have Web 2.0, blogs and other small websites which feature independent writers are all but drowned in an ever-flowing torrent of content.
Projects like Critical Distance do a tremendous job at featuring new and interesting articles, making them easier to find for a dedicated audience. But I believe they are not enough.
If we want game criticism to thrive, we need to engage with it. More than posting links on Twitter, we need to respond to each other and share wild new ideas with the world. As Chris Lawrence wrote last week: we need, more than ever, to keep on writing.
This is where this small blog comes in. Adding my voice to the discourse might not diversify it much: I appear to the world, after all, as a white heterosexual cis-male (although I’m never entirely these last two) and I have enough disposable income to afford enjoying a variety of video games. But I care for this medium, and I care for others. That should take us somewhere.
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