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Unbiased Game Reviews Through Micropayments
a reader writes:"Fed up of games reviewers giving in to advertiser pressure to go easy on high-budget turkeys?
A group of distinguished British videogames journalists has set up an independent site called Digiworld. It's funded by an interesting micropayment system: you pay 50 pence (about 80 cents US) a week for full access, although new content is available for free on weekdays (details here).
For extra geek appeal, the look of the site imitates the 8-bit Mode 7 graphics of Teletext, a British system that uses spare TV signal bandwidth to transmit pages of textual information (some of the staff previously worked on a Teletext gaming page called Digitiser). Even if you're not a gamer, the bizarre humor and characters make the site worth checking out."
Here are 2 tips on how to spot a Slashvertisement:
1. The submitter's name is "a reader"
2. The article praises the site's design, when the site's design looks like it was done by a five year old.
I just went there and was attempting to check out their site when I received this error,
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Digi-me-don't: Unsuper Mess-up 500
Mrrrrrr rrrrrr brrrr nrrrrrrr. Brrrrr nrrrrgh grrrrrr nrr rrrr.
Man, you've managed to bust us up good. That was no ordinary error, it was a 500 server thing, which means the Digi SCIENCE has coughed up its lungs. A report is on the way to famous technician Coleman Tillman so he can unbung the rubbishness. If you think you might know what went wrong, you can contact him: here: 500-me-do@digiworld.tv.
In the meantime, poke listlessly at your browser's Back button or restart Digi. (The latter'll log you out, mind.)
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Now, I agree about the teletext, but the error is just clever as hell...
Site design like that does NOT qualify as "professional journalism" by any stretch of the imagination.
Hell, it makes the evil purple of Slashdot Games look positively well-designed.