Critical Distance: Keywords in Play
Leisure:Video Games
This month we bring you another interview from the unheard archives. A few years ago Kirk Battle, going under the pseudonym L.B. Jefferies, was one of the most prolific critics of the burgeoning amateur bloggers arising from the boom of 2007 and 2008. Now he is retired from the video game criticism game. We look back on his time as a critic and his view of criticism itself.
In addition to being a personal inspiration to podcast moderator Eric Swain, Kirk Battle was named Critical Distance's 2010 Blogger of the Year.
SHOW NOTES
Banana Peppers Martinis
PopMatters - L.B. Jefferies
Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess Review
Zarathusra Analysis
ZA Critique: The Darkness
ZA Critique: Okami
Lester Bangs rant
Pauline Kael - 1 - 2 - 3 - 4
Samuel Johnson and Video Games
Does Video Games Need a Lester Bangs?
The New YouTube Video Games Criticism: An Interview with "moviebob"
Does Video Games Need a Pauline Kael?
On Design Centric Criticism
Telling Tales in Gabriel Knight 2
Opening Theme: 'Close' by The Alpha Conspiracy
Closing Theme: 'Wishing Never' by The Alpha Conspiracy
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