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Before GDC, academics skewer the games criticism industry

The annual Game Developers Conference already enjoys an insider reputation, contrasting the lights and bombast of PAXes and E3s by taking a more intellectual route. Before developers and technical superheroes swarmed the Moscone Center’s conference rooms this morning, GDC hosted a tone-setting pre-conference panel on Sunday from a different set of gaming diehards: the academics.

Critical Distance, a games-criticism blog, took to the conference’s largest ballroom space to host a cheekily named event dubbed Critical Proximity. A crowd of writers, researchers, and coders gathered to dissect their work, mostly with criticism as the central theme.

Read more at: ArsTechnica.com

Mathew Anderson
Mathew Andersonhttps://www.eventsforgamers.com
Mathew Anderson is the CEO / Founder and Editor-in-Chief of Events for Gamers, the only exclusive event calendar for B2B Conferences and B2C Conventions in the computer game industry.
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