Best Game Writers 2005 Recognized

GameDaily.biz has given the nod to some of the best game writers in the business for this year. From Seanbaby to Jerry Holkins, the best wordsmiths got some recognition. From the article: "Game Informer Crew - Yes, this is a cop out, but the GI staff received so many votes as a group (especially from game developers) that they earned a spot on this list. It seems a bit of a shame that they have to work so anonymously. If they are doing such a great job, the writers deserve some of the credit on an individual basis. Next year, no more group votes."

Comments

Left out

[ZephyrXero]

One of my favorite gaming writers is Stephen Tolito (sp?). He's a freelance writer, but you can find his stuff all over the place. He used to have the regular column "Cubism" over on IGN. I think I saw him writing an article for Wired or something recently...

Harsh Comments

[FlipmodePlaya]

'Matt Casamassina IGN Casamassina deserves a spot on this list if only for his ability to manage a surprisingly massive, usually angry and always poor-spelling audience of Nintendo fans. Plus, he does this on a system where big games are few and far between...' Wow, I can't believe that in a paragraph designed to award Casamassina an honor they managed to insult both what he writes about and who he writes it for. Was there really any need to do that? Especially since the insults they used where representative of brash stereotypes, something which has no place in a site for 'game industry *professionals*'.

Re:Harsh Comments

[Khuffie]

Matt and the rest of the IGN crew only serve to propagate rumours and false speculation. They regularly take short news snippets that should read "This and this happened. Period" to things like "Hmm. This and this happened. THis could mean this is happeneing then, or this. Or maybe even this. Of course we have absolutely no proof of any of this and it's all just wishful thinking on our part to keep the legions of Nintendo fanboys happy and armed with this speculations as if they're real. Which they're not."

And before I get modded down, I love Nintendo. I just hate IGN's constant and regular speculation on every piece of news they post that really shouldn't be there. That's not what news is about. If i wanted fanboy speculation I'd read some random online blogs.

Wait, _game_ writers?

[jonabbey]

This looks like a list of magazine, website, and TV writers. Where is the awards list for game script writers?

toasty frog

[zenintrude]

jeremy parish is by far my favorite game journalist/blogger, web or otherwise. when i was younger, seanbaby was it, but maturity and irony have forced my preferences in another direction (even though i can still appreciate a good lambasting in the end of good ol' egm)

Game Informer votes

[yoyhed]

..."the GI staff received so many votes as a group (especially from game developers)"...

The reason Game Informer got so many votes from developers is because they inflate their scores on a ridiculous level. A mediocre game will get an 8 with GI, great (but not the best) games will almost always get a 9.75 or 10. Their scale is essentially from 7 to 10, which doesn't really allow me to trust them. Don't get me wrong, I love reading GI, they're funny guys, I just won't go out and buy a game just because it got a 9 from them.

Re:Game Informer votes

[chrismcdirty]

The problem is, most people liken a 1-10 score to a school grade, with 100-90 being A, 89-80 B, 79-70 C, and so on. So the people rating the game cater to that. So, as school grading goes, C is mediocre, therefore, average games get a 7-ish score. Bad games get less than 7, and really bad ones get less than 6. I've seen some pretty bad scores on IGN, mostly from the PC channel, most from Ivan Sulic.