Leading critic Ian Bogost posits that gamecritique is both serious cultural currency and selfparody. Noting that the termgames criticism once struck him as preposterous, Bogost observes that the idea,taken too seriously, risks balkanizing games writing from the rest of culture.

Leading critic Ian Bogost posits that gamecritique is both serious cultural currency and selfparody. Noting that the termgames criticism once struck him as preposterous, Bogost observes that the idea,taken too seriously, risks balkanizing games writing from the rest of culture.