New Games Journalism

Kotaku has a piece up today mentioning a style of video game editorializing called The New Games Journalism. This piece links to several others. State Wiki has a piece from early this year on what New Games Journalism is, and an examination of its goals. An example of the style is available on the Eve Online site in the PC Gamer article All About Eve. (large pdf) A seminal work referenced when discussing the style is Bow, Nigger, a sharply written and gripping piece about a duel in Jedi Outcast. From the editorial: "For one thing, my screen name has nothing to do with my ethnicity and for another, it's only a game and the fascist doing the typing is probably hundreds of miles away and far beyond anything you could call an actual influence on my life. But still... It's not very nice is it?"

Comments

Re:People need to get over it.

[GeorgeWBorscht]

Dad??

A word in the story really offends me...

[Eric(b0mb)Dennis]

I consider myself to be one of the few real Jedi's on this earth, and using of such a sacred word in such a joking manner offends me greatly.

I will inform the proper authorities promptly

I sense a great disturbance in the force...

[Anonymous Coward]

...as if a 1000 freshman English majors decided they were great writers and started posting the first thing that streamed out of their bong-addled consciousness.

Re:People need to get over it.

[Reignking]

Well, we're all good then, since India is in Asia :)

You, sir...

[JNighthawk]

are a fucking idiot. Learn to type. He's not whining about anything you fucking moron. God, I don't even think there's enough insults to cover the bounds of your stupidity.

(Now, before you mod me a troll, remember, I'm only saying what everyone else was thinking.)

Re:America, where just mentioning the word "Nigger

[oberondarksoul]

This happened to the athlete, Kriss Akabusi. After winning a race in the USA, he was interviewed by a news reporter:

"So, Kriss, what does this mean to you as an African-American?"
"I'm not American, I'm British"
"Yes, but as a British African-American ..."
"I'm not African. I'm not American. I'm British."

Re:What isn't journalism?

[Capt'n Hector]

"Score:-1, Insightful"

I can only say, "WTF"? How does an insightful comment get a -1?

Heh. If I took this seriously, I might feel somewhat concerned by the logic behind that.

Overall, though, I find it more *amusing* that one person's "insightful" equals another's "flamebait" or "troll". I can understand reduntant, or overrated, but flamebait and troll seem mutually exclusive from any positive mods whatsoever.

Strange world we live in. Well... No, just strange people in it. ;-)

-- pla's Slashdot Journal

Oh, the irony.