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Ain't It Cool Announces Game Site
Remik writes "Harry and the folks over at Ain't It Cool News are looking to do for video games what they've already done for cinema. The announcement is not exactly well received by Gabe and Tycho at Penny Arcade. Great, another place to go complain about Duke Nukem not being out yet." AIC has been a neat site for movies, it'll be interesting to see how well their expertise extends to games.
I just love the fact that they don't plan on killing half their bandwidth in a cost-cutting move, like some websites I visit *cough*
Good quote, too many chars. Seriously, the slashdot 120 char limit sucks!
A site to "do for games" what AICN did for movies? so its going to be a terribly designed site with horrid fonts and colors, filled with wild speculation and fanboy style worshipping ? Thats exactly what the entire gaming community needs, more crap. I can't wait.
That's exactly what's been lacking in the industry, a video game site with 84 pt fonts.
Some competition for Fat Babies then...
Belief is the currency of delusion.
Or am I the only one who remembers the infamous "Meesa love [Jar Jar]" review?
Every year during my review, I just pray the words "slashdot.org" aren't mentioned.
I use Macs for work, Linux for education, and Windows for cardplaying.
People that review these games today never slam them as hard as they should. Hopefully the reviewers will be totally honest when they write about the games and just bash the living crap out of the stinkers. And hopefully when games make massive booboo's (Like Everquest devs telling their complaining fans to shut up and buy their expansion to fund their sports car payments..) it will get some MAJOR press and force these halfwits to watch what they're doing a bit more closely. There may be hundreds of gaming sites out there right now, but no one has ever had the press "pull" Harry gets. Kudos to the computer gaming industry having to get their act together or get blasted into oblivion through a major media outlet.
I wonder how his 102 point fonts will look in KDE, which is running on my hacked X-Box?
The movie industry is different from the video game industry. For one, video games bring in much more money. For another, a video game site needs different things than a movie site. Will there be codes? How about a forum for people to meet up who want to play? How 'bout a game-rating forum? This has the potential to be good, as long as it's not just a cut rate forum.
Ok so if I make a site devoted to movie reviews it then gets noticed, then I get invited to many advanced movie screenings and get to meet the stars...
Then I think I can do the same with a site devoted to video games so I can get all my games free without needing to download them from warez sites...
Somewhere along the lines I think they have lost thier original mission and are now out for themselves and not the fans. Besides do we really need ANOTHER website devoted to video games?
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Penny Arcade is the worst comic I ever read. Tycho and Gabe are stupid characters. A couple of stoners who spout dumb-ass catch-phrases like a third rate 'Cheech and Chong' or 'Bill and Ted'. Fuck Tycho and Gabe. Fuck them up their stupid asses.
P.S. Please, please let there be some Kevin Smith fans amoung the moderators.
I agree with the Penny Arcade comic. AICN comments attract the absolute lowest forms of Internet life in existance. We're talking lower in the chain than 14-year-old AOL girls here.
That, and the fact that it's perhaps the ugliest "popular" site on the Internet. From the lovely "baby poop brown" color scheme, to the 800 pt. Ariel font used whenever Harry speaks. It just screams "hype".
AICN is the movie industry equivilent of the game-review/preview genre: Sellouts with no journalistic intergrity, who are just looking to keep the free "exclusives" flowing by pumping out as many hyped-up positive reviews as possible. And now, what do you know! AICN is actually moving into the game-review/preview genre!
I guess I have to share Gabe & Tycho's reaction: no, it ain't cool.
Behold the Power of Cheese!
Geez, this is what passes for INFORMATION on Slashdot anymore?
What about Slammer?
What about Gates announcement today promising to do something about security... now... really...
What about Kasparov beating Big Blue 2?
What about Gates giving a paltry 200 million to "cure" diseases for the poor? (Don't look at that Slammer worm... lookee here)
I mean, c'mon... what's the purpose of forwarding an announcement that AICN is going to review games!? Trolling for advertising revenue again? Hoping to get the movie studios to advertise here? Why not start a movie review section on Slashdot?!?
Maybe now all the crappy games might get fans!
"GUESS WHAT? DAIKATANA 2 IS IN THE MAKING. I CHECKED IT OUT AND IT'S BAD-ASS!"
*shudder*
AICN nerds make Slashdot nerds look like Puff Daddy.
AICN can be useful but it's often to get the gold from the dross. Coming Attractions is also a good site. If you'd like a good site with excellent reviewers, message boards and informed folks from both sides of the screen, try http://www.chud.com. I've been going there for a couple years now and the folks never fail to provide insight into movies and trends. The message boards aren't nearly as shrill as AICN, so you can actually discuss movies without engaging in "You suck!" arguments with some fanboy.
Tycho compared this to the bottom of the internet barrel. It's a kind of slimy Drudge style of reporting that won't be able to provide 2 separate reliable sources for most of its reports, and yet I don't really mind. I can separate in my mind a rumor from news. We often criticize sites like this for lacking journalistic integrity, but they often make no bones about the fact that they're simply doing the best they can.
Moreover, I don't want to spoil movies before I see them. But when it comes to inside info on games, I do want to know some things ahead of time. With the way game development schedules are often stretched to infinity, with no word to the anxious public, it'll be nice to have developers tattling on their tight lipped bosses. I mean, when can I expect the sequel to my favorite game (H&D)? I may want to pick the right moment close to its release to purchase a new $1500 machine. That's not something I'll do for the movies, and I feel cheated everytime a company won't admit they're having problems.
Tribes 2 came out way before it was ready (stable, fast, fun). I guess the market taught them a lesson in the end, but had the discord among the developers been more public, management wouldn't have tried to ship a broken game.
...do for video games what they've already done for cinema
Does this mean I can expect reviews that are 90% about the reviewer's long melodramatic anticipation of a game, how he feels about his chair and how the controller he is using brings back memories of his childhood?
This comic made me start my own Harry Knowles is a stupid fucker jar. I think I have to put $1 in for this move!
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That AIC forum blows is that they haven't implemented a /. like moderation system.
All the First Post L337 d00dz messages don't sink like a stone like they do here.
It's Christmas everyday with BitTorrent.
Oh great... Now bad journalism... ellipses... and OTHER wierd Capitalizations, and speeeling mistakes will be further intagrated into the Internet Culture.
Oh, and not to mention selling out to promote a product.
Someone should do a parody site of AICN and call it Isn't it Cool. And run the same news Harry runs, but with corrected grammar, spelling, and a good design.
I'm sure it would be a hit.
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Someone's obviously upset that it wasn't a porn link..
Hokey statistics and ancient misconceptions are no match for a good thought in your head, kid!
Hired? I hope to god that their webdesigner isn't paid..
At least on AICN, you can tell how important a posting is by how many exclamation points follow it!! We should totally do the same thing on Slashdot!!!
The last thing I think of is Harry Knowles is a great gamer. Sure, he may get some fun insider stuff for movies, but his reviews are in like 90 pt fonts and rather worthless on most mainstream films.
Can't exactly see him getting people pumped up about the next big game like he does movies either. What's next, Butt numb-a-thon includes a lan party for 24 hrs locked in a room? please.
As a rock-in-roll Physicist once said, No matter where you go, there you are.
...media review site to move into game reviews on top of movies/TV.
Rottentomatos.com has been doing it for a little while now.
You be the judge.
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I thought Gamespy.com had already cornered the market in crappy masturbatory game reviews. Hell, they're even going in the opposite direction by getting into crappy ill-informed boring articles on movies! AICN will have to sink to new lows if it plans to top a group who admit to not seeing movies they review.
Fight!
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Hey there Tru Believers! Just got this missive from Underground_Troool about the latest going ons at EA. Seems they can't keep their grubby little hands off the sports games. Personally, I think it will suck, but read for yourself!
- Harry
Hey there Harry-poo! I just got back from my latest underground venture into the Mordor that is EA Games. Cleverly dressing as a pizza delivery guy, I made my way into the bowels of their Manhattan offices. Man, you should SEE the computers they got in this place! I was only able to get a glimps, but some of the code on this one guys screen made it look like Madden 2004 will be AWSOME! And lots of the programmers were wearing red shirts - real fans of EA will know what THAT means! Well, off to dress up as a phone repair man for next week. Over and out!
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The fact is that IGN is the best source of videogame news out there. Not only do they have an exceedingly well-designed (functional) site, but the editors are generally informed and objective.
It's worth the annual fee that IGN charges its "Insiders", in my opinion. Nowhere else on the web can you find such competent & comprehensive coverage of the video game world.
99% of the gaming sites out there are run by teenage fanboys who balk at competing systems & blindly praise the one they've chosen. While I welcome another gaming site, I'd be surprised if this brings anything new to the table.
If you could be anything you want, I'll bet you'd be disappointed.
Great, so now instead of just poorly written, contentless reviews about movies, we can also have poorly written, contentless reviews about games too?
Am I the only person here that thinks that Harry Knowles is a total raving fanboy with no journalistic integrity?
My eyes! My eyes! The goggles do nothing!
Dear goddess, please don't do the same thing for games, please?
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We're talking lower in the chain than 14-year-old AOL girls here.
They may be 14-year-old AOL girls, but they're GIRLS. That gives you bonus points in the "chain", if I recall correctly.
Freedom: "I won't!"
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[Insert boiler plate detailing pathetic life up until this point].
[Drop names of semi-famous person I once drooled over when I was swabbing floors at some store/theater/sex shop.]
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--- Ban humanity.
Why would anyone go to an AIC when there are hundreds of better sites ?
the byproduct of years of oppression by the white man
It's also the content... and the layout.
When they had their "Superman" script expose, did anyone notice how fast they got rid of their story and immediately became WB's bitch boy? Somebody said it earlier, the site is just a chance for their editors to get into the biz of writing scripts for major studios. One of their editors wrote a review, and in some supposedly 'scoop' another reviewer wrote how great the script will be (/is so far). Would you believe a guy who is reviewing movies from a movie studio, who is also trying to get in the business with that studio? Of course not... I don't think 1 thing will change.
I hope the gaming community ignores the new gaming site. We don't need a compromising fuck face who will back down at any sign of money being involved on a layout that will stay the same for 8 years (its called re-investing in your business, look into it).
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Your rant would be more credible if you gave any evidence you actually read Slashdot or were paying any attention at all.
This is good news.
Gamespot has bought up most good game sites and closed them with a redirect to their page and then locked most of their content so only subscribers can see it, even screenshots that are just given to them by publishers. It's high time they had some competition, any competition even from ain't it cool news.
This exists already, and it's awesome
They do metareviewing of games and movies, and in my opinion it's one of the most useful sites on the net.
they will take more care when designing that place, so that its actually readable if you don't have perfect vision (Notice how MSIE users can't change the font size because of bad stylesheet usage)
(Yes you might say its MSIE thats bad as well, but it is the standard)
If Google really cared they would fix Android Chrome to reflow text, instead of discriminating
They *do*.
http://www.rottentomatoes.com/games/