About

Death is a Whale features essays on games and culture. It’s published and maintained by James Tregonning.

Video games?

I have an MA in English Lit, and I play a bunch of games, and now I’m here talking about how game narratives are constructed. I think of the stuff I do as video game criticism – like literary criticism but for video games.

Culture?

‘Culture’ here is a bit of a cheat term for all the other arts. I kinda think if you’re writing about video games you should also be writing about everything else. There’s essays on films, books, TV, theatre, a couple art installations, and some other miscellaneous little bits.

At the same time?

In theory it’s alternating weeks, but ehh, you know, whatever.

what about the Religion stuff?

My Masters was in video games and religion, and I spent about ten years here researching and writing about different strands of Christianity. That wrapped up in 2024, and now the site focuses on video games, along with culture and the arts. The old religion archives are still active, if you’d like to poke around.

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