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Onion AV Club To Cover Video Games
An anonymous reader writes "The Onion AV Club, the entertainment section of the satirical periodical The Onion, has expanded its coverage of movies, music and books to include reviews of video games. Also, they will host a game history column by Wil Wheaton: "Each week, [Wheaton] will take a look back to games past with his Games Of Our Lives column, reaching beyond Pac-Man and Donkey Kong to find the dusty arcade games and worn-out cartridges that paved the way for the games of today." The first expanded issue posted yesterday, featuring an interview with industry legends Will Wright (The Sims, SimCity) and Howard Scott Warshaw (Atari)."
I like to think of him as Wil Wheaton the Author, not Wil Wheaton the 15 year old kid who played a character on Star Trek. Although this is how he got his start, that was ages ago. Let it go and embrace the here and now. Pick up Just a Geek and your view of him will change...hopefully for the better.
-Dipster
Good idea, but too short; if he's going to lift the lid on some forgotten but important games, I'd like more detail, and perhaps a screenshot or three. Right now it's more like a clip than a full review, and I imagine that a lot of the games he'll be covering deserve more than a few comments and a picture of the cartridge.
That's not a soda... it's a caffeine delivery device!
The weekly features are generally interviews with people important to various bits of an assortment of subcultures, media subgenres, and so on. The rest tends to be reviews of new movies, DVDs, books, and music, with one or two recurring humorous columns (e.g. "Commentary Tracks of the Damned" and now Wheaton's new column), but even those are just cynical treatments of actual media.
Just thought I'd try to clear that up, as the name "The Onion" is generally linked to satire/parody.
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Not really. I just read the two reviews up so far (Resident Evil 4 and Alien Hominid), and they're very short and not at all deep. It's impossible to say how honest they are until they review more games, but it doesn't look like the kid gloves are going to come off. On the other hand, I thoroughly enjoyed the interviews with Will Wright and Scott Warshaw. It looks like their features will be well worth reading, but their target audience isn't really "gamers," just twenty-somethings with an interest in gaming.