So I happened to be perusing the video
game press sites this morning when I noticed a relevant post from our friends over at PCGamesN.
Russell Carroll, who heads up marketing for Wik & The Fable Of Souls creator Reflexive, and also founded key indie
game press site GameTunnel, discusses how to maximize your buzz and sales opportunities.
I never realized that after their mission was complete they became
a game press site.
For his most recent game project, Silent Hills, del Toro partnered with Hideo Kojima of Metal Gear Solid fame; the teaser demo for their game, which was called PT, received so much critical acclaim that it appeared on several «Best Of the Month» and «Year» lists by
games press sites.
Not exact matches
Of course, they need to be careful, too: one of Ultraviolet's emails included the line, «If we can get to 80,000 signatures today, we'll generate enough bad
press for the Republican Super PAC that they'll have to pull the
game off their
site and apologize.»
While we knew several characters would be getting updated designs, a piece of info that wasn't really highlighted in the western Directs appears on the
press site: «for the first time, the
game includes fully voiced characters.»
The
game is for the PC and may be available on STEAM and other download
sites; it was unclear at
press time if this was the case, though everything seems to point towards that for this surprisingly fun
game.
Sure, it bagged plenty of positive reviews but you'd be hard
pressed to ever hear the
game mentioned, even on dedicated gaming
sites such as our own.
GamesPress isn't where you get review copies of
games, it's simply a
site that gathers together
press releases and provides an index of the various companies and contacts so that you can get in touch with them.
Further, you can
press the Share button to steam video
games from
sites such as Twitch.
Our emails to
game sites and bloggers struck home, and we got some great initial
press coverage.
The release date for the
game only mentions 2017, and according to Finder the only
site that mentioned March 2017 release date for the
game was the Nintendo
press site, but removed it quickly after it was put up.
Here's one big reason: Thursday, June 13th, concurrent with this year's E3 expo, the
site will be partnering with MOCAtv, the video channel of Los Angeles's Museum of Contemporary Art, to present HORIZON, a
press conference that will highlight a lineup of beautiful
games as an alternative to what we've come to expect from standard E3 fare.
Dear Konami, We're a small
site and we can only do what we do here with the support of the large video
game publishers who send us review copies of
games early, provide us with
press resources and the like.
Previous to today we all had to rely on
press releases and Japanese
sites to tell us about Platinum
Games»
games.
- I just whined last week about how slow the
game press has been to experiment with iPads and other tablets, and now along comes Atomix, a new project that's a co-production between a large Mexican
game - media
site and Area 5, the video guys at 1UP before the 2008 layoffs.
Castlevania Lords of Shadow 2 is getting a PC release to coincide with it's console brethren in 2013, according to a recent
press release first spotted by German
games site JPGames.
Several
game publishers (often not the developers) like to send out a
press release to journalists and gaming news
sites with a handful of bullet points that describe key aspects of a
game; these are then regurgitated as a news post, sometimes verbatim.
For more on The
Game Awards, and E3, stay tuned to Mammoth
Gamers all week as we'll be live streaming the
press conferences from our
site and mobile apps which can be found at the top of our page.
# 10 Some reviewers for larger
sites dump and upload
press copy
games to 0day
sites for cracking groups and distro groups to post
SEGA's
press site has released a batch of new screenshots for the upcoming Xbox One, PC, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 3, and Xbox 360
game Alien Isolation, developed by The Creative Assembly.
Simply showing screenshots of a new
game is nothing more than putting unedited
press material on a
site, readers quickly realised, that they can get the
press releases directly from the publisher (e.g. the official
site of the
game) and that there is no need to rely on
press outlets to get PR material.
When James Therien, technical director of Assassin's Creed Unity, was asked at E3 2014 by video
game enthusiast
press site Videogamer.com whether there would be any female playable characters in the
game, he said:
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