The Craft of the Graft

Joe Markert writes "Gamehelper.com's Mike 'Vansau' Thompson takes a look at integrity and graft in the world of gaming journalism in his recent article, appropriately titled: Integrity: The Craft of the Graft From the article, '...it's easy to play the card of honesty, objectivity, and moral nobility when you have the financial backing of a major publisher like Ziff Davis or IDG. Without that support, though, the thought of advertisers threatening to take their business elsewhere creates valid concern.'" A follow up to Dan Hsu's editorial about pay-for-play in game reviews.

Comments

Magazines should come with game purchase

[garylian]

Considering that pretty much every gaming magazine is just a scream-sheet for the game manufacturers, they should just give you a 6 month subscription with each game you purchase.

The magazines won't bite the hand that feeds them. They only give an occasional poor review, and usually for some product that doesn't advertise with them. I think one issue of Computer Gaming World had one poor review... On a mouse made by some small company that doesn't advertise in them. Nothing else got less than 4 stars.