Not exact matches
While this is the
game journalism equivalent of «my dad works for Nintendo», similar leaks have turned
out to be legit in the past, so while this should hardly be taken as confirmation, it shouldn't be dismissed off - hand either.
While several companies are still pursuing the subscription model in some format — whether it's full - length works, long - form
journalism, or e-shorts — two players in the
game have actually made a viable model
out of it and been able to attract both readers and publishers with content.
Rio Pesino, host of the show The Reboot, decided to actually go
out and ask some major players what they thought about the future of
game journalism.
Stephen Colbert merely had to utter the words
out loud to elicit a laugh from his studio audience, before quickly comparing
games journalism to TMZ's gossip - level nonsense.
We go over some of the ins and
outs of the anti-capitalist critique of
games journalism with pieces from Lana Polansky and Ian Williams, as well as more coverage of the on - going gaming culture schisms.
But the bigger issue here is that
games journalism is simply missing
out.
A young guy starting
out in the world of video
game journalism hoping to learn a thing or two and to see where this path leads me.
But on social media and other non-shill
games media sites (something like gamesnosh or techraptor perhaps), there are developers coming
out in support of gamergate, saying there IS something rotten in mainstream
games journalism and how they use their sites to push their agendas.
Because in the past,
games journalism kind of had an important role in getting the word
out.
A few weeks back an acquaintance of mine who used to work for Edge dropped
out of
games journalism.
You may have to even find
out their intentions prior to reviewing the
game — actual
journalism!
Major
games journalism outlets are scrambling to re-issue their review scores in line with the new guidelines put
out by the International
Gamer Council today.
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The need to fulfil the other side of the developer / press bargain while maintaining a healthy, objective balance and ensuring our video
game journalism industry doesn't just turn into a series of toys being thrown
out of player carriages just for journalists to throw them further away.
I wanted to find
out, figuring Electron Dance readers might be interested too, so I utilised modern
games journalism techniques such as phone hacking and the hiring of private investigators.
Yes, there's bad
journalism and there are bad books, but there are also excellent examples of both and if we can't trust the general public to figure
out what's trustworthy, then it's
game over for democracy regardless what we do for the environment.