Additional Reading: Expository Cutscene Where the Narrator Infodumps Out of Hyperfixation
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ANMLY issue 37: A Soft Reset: Queer Writers of Color on Video Games (2023) edited by Summer Farah
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I’m partial to JS Wu’s “Untitled” and Gyasi Hall’s “The Earth Dies Twice: Death and Difficulty in The End is Nigh”
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“Boss Fight” (2023) by Sarah Khatry
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If you love artmaking of any kind, might I suggest an essay on the psychological road rash induced by “soulsborne” games?
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Anything off Jacob Geller’s Youtube channel
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“The Future of Writing about Video Games” is a banger, of course, but so are “Bad Graphics” and “I Want to Tell You About My Favorite Fight Scene”
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White Magic (2021) by Elissa Washuta
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The book isn’t about games. That won’t stop me from recommending “In Him We Have Redemption through His Blood” and “Oregon Trail II for Windows 95/98/ME & Macintosh: Challenge the Unpredictable Frontier”
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“Playing Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain” (2019) by Jamil Jan Kochai
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Another brilliant piece if you enjoyed Kochai’s “Cathartic Warfare”
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“The Field of Dreams Approach: On Writing About Video Games: An Interview with Tony Tulathimutte” (2017) by Graham Oliver
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“Clash Rules Everything around Me” electric boogaloo
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Critical Hits (2016) edited by Zoë Jellicoe
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Duh
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“On Playing Video Games, Productivity, and Right Livelihood” (2016) by Janet Frishberg
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“A Harvest of Ice” (2016) by Joseph Spece
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Video Games for Humans: Twine Authors in Conversation (2015) edited by merritt kopas
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The State of Play (2015) edited by Daniel Goldberg and Linus Larsson
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Extra Lives: Why Video Games Matter (2010) by Tom Bissell
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And so, so much coming out of the Cleveland Review of Books. Like this one, and that one, and this other one, and more.