The Critical Distance Confab is an monthly podcast devoted to video game criticism featuring members of the Critical Distance website community. Mostly interviews with figures about video game criticism and occasional roundtable discussion.
This month on the Critical Distance Confab we welcome Alex Carlson from the YouTube channel PostMesmeric.
Alex Carlson is another relative newbie to the world of YouTube video game criticism. He had some experience with written criticism, most notabl...
This month on the Critical Distance Confab, all the way from New Zealand, is YouTuber Mitch Cramer.
Mitch Cramer, aka HeavyEyed, is a relatively new to the world of YouTube video game criticism. Starting off as a band manager, he moved away from that...
After a year long hiatus, the minisodes are back on the Critical Distance Confab.
In case you missed them the first time around, the idea behind these minisodes is for myself and a co-host to highlight some games that haven't gotten a lot of criticis...
Joining me for this month's interview is author of actual books and YouTube critic Joseph Anderson.
Starting from a desire to build up his online presence to attract a book agent, Joseph Anderson decided to create some YouTube videos to release himse...
I managed to snag critic, rhetorician and YouTube vaudevillian Harry Brewis, more commonly known as Hbomberguy for this month's interview.
Mr. Hbomberguy is a bit of an odd duck with regards to YouTube games criticism. He first came to internet promi...
Freshly back from E3, YouTuber Hamish Black, the man behind the Writing on Games channel, sat down with me for this month's interview. Nearly two years ago exactly, Hamish Black took the plunge and began making critical YouTube videos. He began by tyin...
With this interview, we move away from YouTube for the moment to talk with Philip Jones, the director of the 2015 documentary Gaming in Color. The documentary started with an intent to focus on the then new Gaymer X convention. But as the original crew...
This month I interview YouTuber Kevin Jones, also known as Cagey. Cagey is a small time YouTube essayist, a jolly old soul from Scotland. From writing at fan sites he struck out on his own with his own YouTube channel. His output is much shorter than m...
In this episode, I interview the newly crowned Critical Distance 2016 Journalist of the Year, Heather Alexandra. Each new interviewee seems to bring some new aspect to the video criticism form. Heather Alexandra instead of jumping straight into video e...
Our first interview of 2017 is with Great Levels in Gaming YouTube producer Max Barnyard. Like our previous interviewee, Max Barnyard focuses his criticism on specific elements of video games rather than a holistic look at them. As the show's title nam...
