Who writes well about videogames?

[koganbot]

The guy in the next apartment wants to know: Who writes well about videogames? Or even not so well?

Define "about" however you wish. Reviews. Anthropology. Etc.

I know nothing about this subject, but by complete coincidence I just found — thanks to a Trevor reblog — a1reviews.tumblr.com, which at first glance may fit the bill.

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[skyecaptain.livejournal.com]

Left some of these on Tumblr, but:

For video game from a theoretical perspective, I like Ian Bogost. (The go-to in this genre/discipline is Jim Gee, particularly "What Video Games Have to Teach Us About Learning," but I like Bogost's from the hip style more.) My gaming friends would have even wonkier folks in mind.

Reviewers, I like Chris Dahlen over at Pitchfork, who also edits a review/blogging site called Kill Screen: http://killscreendaily.com/

I think I follow A1 Reviews, but I also follow a pretty good aggregator called Humane Games: http://humanegames.tumblr.com

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[askbask.livejournal.com]

Pitchfork presented one of the worst videogame essays I've read via the KillScreen label (not written by Dahlen) http://pitchfork.com/features/articles/7962-kill-screen/

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[skyecaptain.livejournal.com]

Haha, my old pal Nick Sylvester, doing what he does best -- trolling the target audience of [insert whatever subject he happens to be writing about] for inscrutable reasons.