Quality Game Writing of 2004
Ludonauts.com has a short piece where several intelligent observers in the field of game writing give their picks for the best game writing of 2004. The authors offer links to several quality works, including the now infamous EA Spouse blog, and the always quality Game Over column at CNN. They also refer to the trend towards the New Games Journalism, covered previously on Slashdot.
2004 brought some of the buggiest games (on PC and PS2) I have ever seen. It's not just EA though, that's the sad part.
Specifically yhe graphics card industry ATI and Nvidia need to take some responsibility. Their video cards are never available in stores. It's like they still don't know how to manufacture. Buggy drivers one after another. Overheated cards.