Welcome back to Critical Distance‘s annual roundup of great videogame blogging! We’ve taken one more trip around the Sun in our ongoing mission to highlight and archive some of the best, most thought-provoking and poignant writing about games, whether that writing comes from the academic, professional or amateur realm. As always, some absolutely incredible work got published and sent our way in 2024, work that furthers our understanding of games as a medium and artform, pokes at various gaming practices, and brings “gamer culture” into conversation with the world writ large, and vice versa.
Senior Curator Chris Lawrence, with the help of the Critical Distance Discord community and various other supporters, put together 49 weeks’ worth of roundups, recording conversations on the myriad of games and “gamer discourses” that came out this year as they happened. Combined with monthly supporter updates at Patreon and a decent run at trying to bring the TMIVGV feature back, 2024 was truly a packed year for thoughts on videogames. A major thank you must go out to those who submitted pieces for consideration this past month as well. Without further ado, here’s our look back at the year in videogame blogging for 2024.